# py-exec-mcp

> Run Python from an MCP client with no shell quoting in the way

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## Observed
- status: unknown
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/py-exec-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: blurxy
- homepage: https://github.com/blurxy/py-exec-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/blurxy/py-exec-mcp
- version: 0.2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: claude, llm, mcp, model-context-protocol, python, tools
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:py-exec-mcp

### Description (declared)

# py-exec-mcp

**Run Python from an MCP client without a shell mangling your code.**

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## The problem

Ask an agent to run a one-liner and it reaches for `python -c "..."`. That code passes through
**three parsers** before Python ever sees it — the shell, argv splitting, then Python itself — each
with its own escaping rules.

```bash
python -c "print(f'he said \"hi {name}\"')"     # which layer eats which quote?
```

The failure mode is what makes this worth fixing: **you usually get a wrong answer, not an error.**
A backslash vanishes, a quote closes early, an f-string silently becomes a literal — and the output
looks plausible. So the agent retries with different escaping, or falls back to writing a temp file
and running it, every single time.

## The fix

Code arrives as a JSON string in the MCP tool call and is handed to the interpreter over **stdin**
(`python -`). No shell. No argv. Nothing re-parses it.

Write the code exactly as it would appear in a `.py` file — nested quotes, f-strings, backslashes,
regex, triple-quoted blocks — and it arrives verbatim.

## Install

```bash
uvx py-exec-mcp          # no install
pip install py-exec-mcp  # or the usual way
uvx --from git+https://github.com/blurxy/py-exec-mcp py-exec-mcp   # straight from main
```

Works on **both MCP SDK majors** — 2.x renamed `FastMCP` to `MCPServer`, and the server binds
whichever one your environment has, so you are not forced to pin the SDK to match it. Needs
`mcp>=1.19`.

## Configure

<details open>
<summary><b>Claude Code</b> — <code>.mcp.json</code> in your project root…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- content.writing (0.802, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/py-exec-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-06T13:23:43.503Z)

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