# mcp-servers-cli

> Inspect, call and drive any MCP server from the command line

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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-servers-cli/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/zerotropism/mcp-servers-cli
- repository: https://github.com/zerotropism/mcp-servers-cli
- version: 0.1.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, cli, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-servers-cli

### Description (declared)

# mcp-servers-cli

Inspect, call and drive any MCP server from the command line. Point it at a local process, a
remote HTTP endpoint, or an entry in a `claude_desktop_config.json`-style file, and it lists the
tools, resources and prompts the server exposes — then lets you exercise them.

## Installation

Run it without installing anything, with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):

```bash
uvx mcp-servers-cli inspect --stdio "uvx mcp-server-fetch"
```

Or install it once, with the Anthropic backend if you need it:

```bash
uv tool install mcp-servers-cli
uv tool install 'mcp-servers-cli[anthropic]'
```

From a clone, for development:

```bash
uv sync --all-groups
uv run mcp-servers-cli --help
```

## Commands

Every command takes exactly one target: `--stdio`, `--http` or `--config` with `--server`.

```bash
# What does this server expose?
mcp-servers-cli inspect --stdio "uv run server.py"
mcp-servers-cli inspect --http https://example.com/mcp
mcp-servers-cli inspect --config config.json --server fetch

# Call one tool
mcp-servers-cli call fetch '{"url": "https://example.com"}' --stdio "uvx mcp-server-fetch"

# Read one resource
mcp-servers-cli read "tasks://stats" --stdio "uv run server.py"

# Inspect, then stay interactive
mcp-servers-cli repl --stdio "uv run server.py"

# Let a model use the tools to answer
mcp-servers-cli agent "What is 2 + 3?" --model qwen3.5:4b --stdio "uv run server.py"
```

Inside the REPL: `call <tool> <json>`, `read <uri>`, `list`, `quit`.

Tool results are printed as JSON from their structured content when the tool declares one, so
a tool returning a list prints that list, not MCP's `{"result": ...}` wrapper. Resource
contents and text results that hold JSON are printed as that JSON, other text as plain text.
In a terminal, long JSON lines wrap; piped to a file or to `jq`, the JSON is written as is.
`inspect` lists resource templates such as `report://{path}` apart from fixed resources.

## Agent

`agent` hands the server's tools to a model…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-servers-cli/ (first seen 2026-10-06T13:23:19.014Z)

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