MCP Tools (mcptools)
A Swiss Army knife CLI for MCP servers: discover and call tools, open a shell, and run mock or proxy servers.
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About MCP Tools (mcptools)
MCP Tools is a command-line interface for any MCP server over stdio or HTTP. It discovers and calls tools, resources and prompts, offers an interactive shell and web interface, scaffolds projects, manages server aliases and LLM-app configs, and can run mock, proxy and guard servers for testing and access restriction.
MCP Tools (mcptools) is an open-source project written primarily in Go, with 1.6k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in December 2025.
go install github.com/f/mcptools/cmd/mcptools@latestMCP Tools (mcptools) vs. the alternatives
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| MCP Tools (mcptools)this listing | 1.6k | Go | MIT | Open source |
| MCP Reference Servers | 91k | TypeScript | MIT AND Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| context7 | 62k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| chrome-devtools-mcp | 53k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Playwright MCP | 37k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| github-mcp-server | 33k | Go | MIT | Open source |
