macOS
Homebrewverifiziert · 100%
brew install mcphostlocal Homebrew formula metadata
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mcphost mit Homebrew, zypper installieren
Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für mcphost in AI-Agent-Workflows.
Installation
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Linux
openSUSE zypperverifiziert · 92%
sudo zypper install mcphostopenSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata · mcphost · Quelle: download.opensuse.org
Überblick
Paketzusammenfassung
CLI host for LLMs to interact with tools via MCP
Projektlinks
Befehle und Aliase
- mcphost
Verlauf
Projektgeschichte und Nutzung
MCPHost is a command-line host application that lets large language models use external tools through the Model Context Protocol. In package terms it is a local, installable MCP client/host: the user configures MCP servers once, chooses a model provider, and interacts with tools from a terminal.
Projektgeschichte
The project was created publicly on GitHub in December 2024, soon after MCP became a common protocol for connecting tools to LLM clients. Its README describes MCPHost as a CLI that supports interactive chat, non-interactive prompts, YAML-based scripts, configurable MCP servers, hooks, multiple model providers, and multiple MCP transports.
MCPHost's configuration story evolved around home-directory YAML or JSON files. The current README says it prefers `.mcphost.yml` or `.mcphost.json`, while retaining `.mcp.yml` and `.mcp.json` for backwards compatibility, which reflects the fast-moving naming conventions of early MCP tooling.
Adoptionsgeschichte
By July 2026, GitHub metadata showed about 1.6k stars and more than 200 forks, enough to make it one of the better-known standalone terminal hosts for MCP workflows. Its release history on GitHub starts with v0.4.3 in January 2025 and reaches v0.34.0 by February 2026.
The project's adoption comes from users who want a model-and-tool terminal rather than a specific desktop app. The README documents providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Ollama, and OpenAI-compatible endpoints, which helped it fit mixed local and hosted model setups.
Wie es verwendet wird
A typical user installs `mcphost`, places MCP server definitions in `~/.mcphost.yml` or a compatible JSON/YAML file, and starts an interactive session with `mcphost`. The same binary can also run one-shot prompts with `-p`, choose models with `--model`, override provider URLs and API keys with flags, or execute script files with YAML front matter.
For MCP configuration, the README documents local, remote, and builtin server types mapped to stdio, streamable HTTP, and in-process transports. It also supports environment-variable substitution in config files, which is the documented way to keep API keys out of committed configuration.
Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren
MCPHost is package-nerd interesting because it packages the host side of MCP as a single CLI rather than requiring a GUI client. That makes it useful in shell scripts, CI jobs, demos, and reproducible examples where a Homebrew or Nix install is easier to explain than editor-specific setup.
Its backwards-compatible config filenames also show a common early-ecosystem pattern: tools stabilized around MCP names while retaining older generic `.mcp` files so existing users did not have to rewrite local setups.
Zeitleiste
- 2024-12: GitHub repository created.
- 2025-01: v0.4.3 release published.
- 2025: README documents preferred `.mcphost` config files plus backwards-compatible `.mcp` config files.
- 2026-02: v0.34.0 release published.
Related projects
- MCPHost is related to MCP server packages such as MCP Toolbox for Databases and to inspection/interaction tools such as mcptools. It also overlaps with MCP-aware coding clients and agent CLIs, but its niche is hosting model conversations and MCP servers directly from the terminal.
Quellen
Sicherheitslage
Risikostufe: grün
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risikoklassifikator
grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance
Warum
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signale
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Installationsverhalten
- Es wurden keine Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten erfasst.
Empfohlene Prüfung
Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.
local files
Configuration and credential file locations
These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.
Configuration files
Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.
- Unix
~/.mcphost.yml~/.mcphost.json~/.mcp.yml~/.mcp.json- Windows
%USERPROFILE%\.mcphost.yml%USERPROFILE%\.mcphost.json%USERPROFILE%\.mcp.yml%USERPROFILE%\.mcp.json
Executables
Installierte Executables
| Befehl | Art | Sichtbarkeit | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|---|
mcphost | Executable | indexiertes Executable | Aus dem lokalen Executable-Index erkannt. |
Aktualität
Version und Aktualität
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Seite generiert2026-08-03
Manager-Version0.34.0
Manager aktualisiert2026-07-29
lokale Datenunbekannt
Upstreamnicht verfügbar
neueste erkannte Versionnicht erkannt
- OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.
Installationsmetadaten
Paketmetadaten
| Paketschlüssel | brew:mcphost |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.34.0 |
| Paketmanager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost |
| Repository | https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost |
| Zuletzt aktualisiert | 2026-07-29T17:04:52+02:00 |
| Pulse | updated |
| Bottle | nicht erfasst |
| Dienst | keiner deklariert |
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zypper95%
mcphost 0.34.0-9.2
A CLI host application for the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: Unspecified
- Architecture: x86_64
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-bash-completion 0.34.0-9.2
Bash Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-bash-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 2 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-fish-completion 0.34.0-9.2
Fish Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-fish-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Mcphost
zypper95%
mcphost-zsh-completion 0.34.0-9.2
ZSH Completion for mcphost
https://github.com/mark3labs/mcphost
sudo zypper install mcphost-zsh-completion- License: MIT and Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause
- Category: System/Shells
- Architecture: noarch
- Source Package: mcphost
- 1 Abhängigkeiten
- 1 stellt bereit
- normalized package name match
- Abgeglichen nach: Mcphost
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Verwendete Quellen
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation