# mcp-config-check

> Linter for MCP (Model Context Protocol) config files used by Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and Zed. CLI + library API.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
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## Verification
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## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/MukundaKatta/mcp-config-check
- repository: https://github.com/MukundaKatta/mcp-config-check
- version: 0.1.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, cli, cline, cursor, linter, mcp, model-context-protocol, validator, windsurf, zed
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-config-check

### Description (declared)

# mcp-config-check

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A small Python linter for [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) config files used by **Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and Zed**.

It catches common footguns before you start a broken MCP server:

- missing or conflicting transport (no `command` and no `url`, or both set)
- malformed `command` / `args` / `env` shapes
- hardcoded API keys in `env` or `args` (Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, GitHub, Stripe, Slack, Google, HuggingFace, and more)
- placeholder values left in (`"<your-api-key>"`, `"replace-me"`, etc.)
- URLs with embedded credentials (`https://user:pass@...`)
- auth headers sent over plain HTTP
- `autoApprove: ["*"]` / `alwaysAllow: ["*"]` wildcards that silently disable tool confirmation
- case-insensitive duplicate server names
- unknown fields in a server entry

Supports both the Claude/Cursor/Cline/Windsurf shape (`mcpServers`) and the Zed shape (`context_servers`).

## Install

```bash
pip install mcp-config-check
```

## Usage

```bash
mcp-config-check path/to/mcp.json
```

Multiple files:

```bash
mcp-config-check ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json ~/.cursor/mcp.json
```

Only show errors (no OK lines, no warnings):

```bash
mcp-config-check --quiet path/to/mcp.json
```

Exit status: `0` on no errors, `1` on any errors.

## Use as a library

```python
from mcp_config_check import validate_config_file

result = validate_config_file("path/to/mcp.json")
if not result.ok:
    for issue in result.errors:
        print(i…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- ai.model-access (0.905, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-config-check/ (first seen 2026-09-10T01:19:28.244Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-config-check/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/mcp-config-check · ARD identifier urn:air::server:mcp-config-check