MCPorter

Use it when

• A shell script or CI job needs to call a tool on an MCP server and you do not want to hand-write a JSON-RPC client or embed a full agent runtime
• You want to inspect what tools an MCP endpoint exposes, reuse servers already configured in Cursor, Claude Code, or VS Code, or ship a focused standalone CLI generated from one server

What it solves

Not the fit when

• clients on Node older than 24 for npm installs
• servers speaking protocols other than stdio, streamable HTTP, or legacy SSE
• interactive elicitation in headless runs (declined with a hint)
• building your own MCP server
• general REST API testing
• orchestrating multi-agent workflows

Install

npx mcporter --version to try without installing; brew install steipete/tap/mcporter or npm install -g mcporter (Node 24+); add mcporter as a dependency for the TypeScript runtime

Invoke

mcporter list https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --brief to inspect tools, then mcporter call https://mcp.context7.com/mcp.resolve-library-id query="..."; mcporter generate-cli builds a standalone CLI, createRuntime() for TypeScript

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