# openinterp-mcp

> MCP server + Colab backend for mechanistic interpretability research. Bring-your-own-agent. Privacy-first.

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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/openinterp-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://openinterp.org/mcp
- repository: https://github.com/OpenInterpretability/openinterp-mcp/issues
- version: 0.2.0
- license: Apache-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mechanistic-interpretability, mcp, claude-code, probes, sae, agent-monitoring
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:openinterp-mcp

### Description (declared)

# openinterp-mcp

> **v0.1.0 beta · API may shift before v1.0**
>
> MCP server + Colab backend for mechanistic interpretability research.
> **Bring your own agent.** Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, OpenHands, Aider, or any harness that speaks MCP.
> **Privacy-first.** We do not host inference. We do not custody your keys. Your Colab session, your model, your data.

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## What this is

A research toolkit that turns probe-causality and SAE-feature experiments into agent-callable primitives. Researchers run the model on their own compute (Colab Pro recommended), expose an HTTPS endpoint over ngrok, and let an LLM agent drive experiments via **8 typed MCP tools**.

The 8 MCP primitives:

| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| `colab_attach` | Attach to a running Colab/vast.ai/runpod session via its public HTTPS URL. Validates `/health`, caches the endpoint locally. |
| `colab_status` | Health check — loaded model, probes in memory, captures held. |
| `list_probes` | List probes currently loaded in the backend (model_id, layer, position, source). |
| `capture_acts` | Run a forward pass with hooks, extract activations at specified layers/positions. Returns `capture_id`. |
| `probe_eval` | Apply a loaded probe to a stored capture, return AUROC + per-sample scores. |
| `steer` | Inject direction×α at layer L. Returns base + steered generation + control-token-normalized Δrel (paper-6 protocol). |
| `sae_lookup` | Decompose a stored activation into top-K SAE features with auto-interp descriptions. |
| `causality_protocol` | Run the three mandatory checks (rand…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.monitoring (0.713, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/openinterp-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:26:46.467Z)

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