# mcp-rec

> Record and replay MCP servers — VCR for the Model Context Protocol.

Record `mcp-rec` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-rec/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-rec
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/mcp-rec/claim

## Declared
- publisher: yubinkim444
- homepage: https://github.com/yubinkim444/mcp-rec
- repository: https://github.com/yubinkim444/mcp-rec
- version: 0.1.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, cline, cursor, mcp, model-context-protocol, record, replay, testing, vcr
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-rec

### Description (declared)

# mcp-rec

> **VCR for the Model Context Protocol.** Record any MCP server's traffic to a
> JSONL file, then replay it deterministically — for tests, bug reports, or
> running your client offline.

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcp-rec)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-rec/)
[![Python](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue)]()
[![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-tooling-7c3aed)]()
[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green)]()

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## Why

MCP servers are great until they aren't:

- Your server passes locally but fails for someone else — and you have no way to share the exact session that broke.
- You want CI tests for your MCP server but you can't pin upstream API responses.
- You want to demo your agent offline.
- You want to bisect "when did this tool start returning empty results?" against a recording.

`mcp-rec` solves all four by acting as a transparent proxy: it sits between
your MCP client and any stdio MCP server, forwards every byte, and writes a
JSONL transcript. Later you can replay that transcript as if it were the
real server.

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## Install

```bash
pip install mcp-rec
# or
uvx mcp-rec --help
```

Zero dependencies. Pure Python ≥3.10.

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## Record

Point your MCP client at `mcp-rec record` instead of your usual server command:

```jsonc
// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "mcp-rec",
      "args": [
        "record",
        "-o", "/tmp/filesystem-session.jsonl",
        "--",
        "npx", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/some/path"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Use your client normally. Every JSON-RPC message in both directions is appended
to the JSONL file:

```json
{"ts": 1750000001.23, "dir": "client->server", "msg": {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}}
{"ts": 1750000001.45, "dir": "server->client", "msg": {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"tools":[...]}}}
```

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## Replay

Replace the real server with `mcp-rec replay <j…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- code.testing (1, declared)
- dev.filesystem (0.882, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-rec/ (first seen 2026-09-10T03:19:08.264Z)

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