@strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli v1.4.1

mcp-cli

A CLI inspector for the Model Context Protocol

Usage

Run without config file

npx @strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli

This will use the config file of Claude Desktop.

Run with a config file

npx @strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli -c config.json

The config file has the same format as the Claude Desktop config file.

Run servers from NPM

npx @strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli npx <package-name> <args>

Run locally developed server

npx @strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli node path/to/server/index.js args...

Connect to a running server over SSE

npx @strawberryprotocol/mcp-cli --sse http://localhost:8000/sse

You need to first start an MCP server running over SSE transport.

Features

• Run MCP servers from various sources
• List Tools, Resources, Prompts
• Call Tools, Read Resources, Read Prompts

Related

• Forked from wong2
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