What is Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers?
Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers is a comprehensive command-line interface for interacting with Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It allows developers to discover, call, and manage tools, resources, and prompts from any MCP-compatible server, and supports multiple transport methods and output formats.
How to use Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers?
Install via Homebrew on macOS (brew tap f/mcptools && brew install mcp) or from source on Windows/Linux with go install github.com/f/mcptools/cmd/mcptools@latest. Use commands like mcp tools, mcp call, mcp shell, and mcp web to interact with MCP servers.
Key features of Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers
- List available tools, resources, and prompts from MCP servers.
- Call tools, read resources, and get prompts.
- Interactive shell and web interface for exploring servers.
- Create mock servers, proxy requests to shell scripts.
- Scaffold new MCP projects with TypeScript support.
- Guard and restrict access to specific tools and resources.
- Supports Stdio, HTTP SSE, and Streamable HTTP transports.
- Output formats: table, JSON, and pretty-printed JSON.
Use cases of Swiss Army Knife for MCP Servers
- Debugging an MCP server by listing its available tools and resources.
- Scripting tool calls in CI/CD pipelines or automation workflows.
- Testing client applications against a mock MCP server.
- Building a custom proxy that forwards tool calls to shell scripts.
- Scaffolding a new MCP server project with TypeScript.
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