# mcp-to-cli-kit

> Build a typed command-line interface for one or more remote MCP servers

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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-to-cli-kit/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/fprochazka/mcp-to-cli-kit
- repository: https://github.com/fprochazka/mcp-to-cli-kit
- version: 0.2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agent, cli, click, json-schema, mcp, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-to-cli-kit

### Description (declared)

# mcp-to-cli-kit

A small library for turning one or more remote MCP servers into a typed command-line tool. Each MCP tool becomes a subcommand with real options compiled from its JSON input schema, so a shell user or an AI coding agent can call it without hand-writing JSON-RPC.

The kit owns the parts every such CLI needs and tends to get wrong when it is copied from project to project: the mapping from JSON schema to options, the configuration loading, the schema cache, and output that stays valid JSON when piped. A consumer package only supplies its bin name and a default configuration.

## Installation

Add the kit to the consumer package:

```bash
uv add mcp-to-cli-kit
```

## Building a consumer package

A consumer is a small Python package with one console script. It names the bin, gives the default configuration, and hands both to the kit.

`pyproject.toml`:

```toml
[project]
name = "example-tool"
version = "0.1.0"
requires-python = ">=3.11"
dependencies = ["mcp-to-cli-kit"]

[project.scripts]
example-tool = "example_tool.cli:main"

[build-system]
requires = ["hatchling"]
build-backend = "hatchling.build"

[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
packages = ["src/example_tool"]
```

`src/example_tool/cli.py`:

```python
from typing import Any

from mcp_to_cli_kit.cli import main as kit_main

DEFAULT_CONFIG: dict[str, Any] = {
    "help": "Call the tools of the example MCP server.",
    "servers": {"example": {"url": "https://mcp.example.com/mcp"}},
}

def main() -> None:
    kit_main("example-tool", DEFAULT_CONFIG, distribution="example-tool")
```

`DEFAULT_CONFIG` has the same shape as the config file (see [Configuration](#configuration)), so a user's `~/.config/example-tool/config.yaml` can override any key of it.

`distribution` is the name of the consumer's own package. The kit reads its version from the package metadata and shows it in `--version`, in the `X-Mcp-Client: example-tool/<version> (mcp-to-cli-kit <version>)` header of every request, and in the `cl…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.859, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-to-cli-kit/ (first seen 2026-10-18T16:29:42.149Z)

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