# mcp-tool-evals

> Behavioral evaluation and description linting for 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-tool-evals/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/yashshah9/mcp-evals#readme
- repository: https://github.com/yashshah9/mcp-evals#readme
- version: 0.8.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agents, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol, testing
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-tool-evals

### Description (declared)

# mcp-evals

Behavioral evaluation and description linting for [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) (MCP) servers.

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> **Status:** v0.8 — stdio/HTTP/SSE discovery, description lint, mock/OpenAI evals with **argument scoring**, GitHub Action PR comments.

## 60-second try

```bash
pip install mcp-tool-evals
mcp-evals health
mcp-evals run examples/eval-suite.yaml --catalog examples/tools.yaml --model mock
# or with Docker (no local Python):
docker compose run --rm run-example
```

## Why this vs alternatives

| Approach | Strength | Gap |
|----------|----------|-----|
| **mcp-evals** | Lint + YAML evals + mock CI runner | Not a full agent harness |
| MCP Inspector | Interactive debugging | No CI lint/eval suite |
| Protocol conformance tests | JSON-RPC correctness | Do not test tool selection |
| Hand-written LLM mocks | Full control | Drift from real descriptions |

## Problem

Protocol conformance tests verify JSON-RPC correctness. They do **not** verify whether an LLM agent selects the right tool, passes sensible arguments, or completes the task. Tool descriptions are now load-bearing API design, and there is no standard way to test them.

**mcp-evals** fills the behavioral layer: lint tool descriptions, define eval cases in YAML, and (next) measure tool-selection accuracy in CI.

## Key features (v0.8)

- **Description linter** — missing descriptions, undocumented required params, overlapping tools, ambiguous verbs, `name-description-mismatch`, `missing-examples`
- **Live discover** — handshake a stdio, HTTP JSON-RP…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- ai.evaluation (1, derived)
- code.testing (1, declared)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-tool-evals/ (first seen 2026-09-16T04:19:19.292Z)

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