Paul Walker's Bespoke MCP Tools

What is Paul Walker's Bespoke MCP Tools?

A shifting collection of one‑off MCP tools built by Paul Walker. Currently includes tools to manage a task queue (push‑tasks, pop‑task) and to launch, monitor, and kill background shell processes (launch‑background‑process, get‑process‑output, kill‑process, wait).

How to use Paul Walker's Bespoke MCP Tools?

Install via Goose by using the provided goose:// link or by adding a Standard IO extension with the command npx -y github:pauldw/pwalker-mcp. For local development, run npm --prefix /path/to/local/copy run start.

Key features of Paul Walker's Bespoke MCP Tools

• Queue management: add tasks (push‑tasks) and retrieve the next task (pop‑task)
• Launch shell commands in the background (launch‑background‑process)
• Retrieve output of previously launched processes (get‑process‑output)
• Kill running background processes (kill‑process)
• Pause execution for a specified number of seconds (wait)

Use cases of Paul Walker's Bespoke MCP Tools

• Automate task queues by pushing items and popping them sequentially
• Run long‑running shell scripts without blocking the main MCP session
• Monitor and control background processes from within an MCP client
• Add artificial delays between steps in a workflow with the wait tool