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Installer mcptools avec Homebrew
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installation
Commandes d'installation supplémentaires
aperçu
Résumé du paquet
CLI for interacting with MCP servers using both stdio and HTTP transport
Liens du projet
Commandes et alias
- mcptools
historique
Historique du projet et usages
MCP Tools is a command-line interface for inspecting, calling, testing, mocking, and proxying Model Context Protocol servers. Its README describes it as a Swiss Army knife for MCP servers, with support for stdio and HTTP transports, multiple output formats, an interactive shell, a web interface, aliases, config management, mock servers, and project scaffolding.
Historique du projet
The public GitHub repository was created in March 2025, during the first broad wave of standalone MCP utilities. The first GitHub release, v0.0.1, was published the same day as repository creation, and the project reached v0.7.1 by May 2025.
The README shows that the installed command may appear as `mcp`, `mcpt`, or `mcptools` depending on installation method and conflict avoidance. That naming detail is package-history relevant because `mcp` is a tempting but collision-prone binary name in the MCP ecosystem.
Historique d'adoption
By July 2026, GitHub metadata showed about 1.6k stars and more than 100 forks, indicating meaningful adoption among MCP developers and operators. Its feature set is targeted at people building or debugging MCP servers rather than end users chatting with models.
The README includes Homebrew installation instructions via the project's tap as well as `go install`, showing the usual Go CLI distribution path: source install for cross-platform users and a package-manager path for macOS users.
Modes d'utilisation
Common usage is to connect to an MCP server and list tools, resources, or prompts, then call a specific tool with JSON parameters. The README examples show using a filesystem MCP server over stdio, calling `read_file`, opening an interactive shell, and switching output among table, compact JSON, and pretty JSON formats.
For server developers, MCP Tools also provides mock server, proxy, guard, web UI, and scaffolding modes. That makes it less of a single-purpose client and more of a debugging and interoperability tool for MCP implementations.
Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent
MCP Tools is significant because protocol ecosystems usually need practical inspection tools before they become comfortable to package and operate. For MCP, `mcptools` fills the role that `curl`, `grpcurl`, or `jq`-heavy scripts fill elsewhere: a small CLI you can install and use to prove what a server exposes.
Its binary-name story also captures a packaging problem in young ecosystems: the obvious command name `mcp` is valuable but can conflict, so formulas and installers need aliases or alternate executable names.
Chronologie
- 2025-03: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2025-03: v0.0.1 release published.
- 2025-05: v0.7.1 release published.
- 2026-07: Repository metadata shows about 1.6k stars and 124 forks.
Related projects
- MCP Tools is related to MCP server implementations, MCP Inspector-style workflows, and clients such as MCPHost. It complements MCPM by inspecting and exercising servers after they have been installed or configured.
Sources
posture de sécurité
Niveau de risque : blue
broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.
Classificateur de risque
risque blue · confiance moyen · tool
Pourquoi
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
Signaux
- text:http,server
Comportement d'installation
- Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
- Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 6 plateformes.
- Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.
Revue recommandée
Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.
exécutables
Exécutables installés
| Commande | Type | Exposition | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
mcptools | cli | exécutable global |
fraîcheur
Version et fraîcheur
Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.
page générée2026-07-25
version du gestionnaire0.7.1
gestionnaire mis à jour
données localesOK
amontà jour
dernière version détectéev0.7.1
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible
métadonnées d'installation
Métadonnées du paquet
| Clé du paquet | brew:mcptools |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.7.1 |
| Gestionnaire de paquets | Homebrew |
| Page du gestionnaire de paquets | https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mcptools |
| Page d'accueil | https://github.com/f/mcptools |
| Dépôt | https://github.com/f/mcptools |
| Docs amont | https://github.com/f/mcptools#readme |
| Licence | MIT |
| Archive source | https://github.com/f/mcptools/archive/refs/tags/v0.7.1.tar.gz |
| Dépendances de compilation | go |
| Bouteille | disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux) |
| post-install Homebrew | non défini |
| Service | aucun déclaré |
faits du registre
Détails de la base source
| Source Database | Homebrew formula API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/core |
| Full Name | mcptools |
| Version Scheme | 0 |
| Revision | 0 |
| Head Version | HEAD |
| Bottle Stable Root URL | https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core |
| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
| Keg Only | no |
| URL Keys |
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piste source
Généré depuis les données du dépôt
Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.
Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Sources utilisées
- Geiger risk classifier
- Nucleus package database
- av.db category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- package relationship graph
- package version freshness
- package-page enrichment