philschmid/mcp-cli

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1258 stars · 164 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A lightweight Bun-based command-line tool for interacting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers over stdio and HTTP. It lets users and AI coding agents discover, inspect, and call MCP tools from the shell with JSON output and connection pooling.

Use cases

• list tools available on MCP servers from the terminal
• call an MCP tool with JSON arguments from the command line
• inspect a tool's input schema before invoking it
• search MCP tools by glob pattern
• let AI coding agents like Claude Code or Gemini CLI invoke MCP tools via shell
• pipe MCP tool results into jq or other shell tools

When to choose

• you need a fast, single-binary CLI to exercise MCP servers
• you want shell-friendly JSON output for scripting or agent use
• you use both stdio and HTTP MCP servers and want one tool
• you want warm connection pooling instead of spawning servers per call

When to avoid

• you need a full MCP client library embedded in an application
• you want a GUI or interactive dashboard for MCP servers
• your environment cannot run Bun-compiled binaries

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

mcp cli developer-tools agent-framework developer-tools large-language-models cli cross-platform bun model-context-protocol mcp-client bun ai-coding-agents shell-friendly -output command-line ai-agents

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