# mcptools を Homebrew でインストール

mcptools のインストール経路、実行ファイル、メタデータ、AI エージェント向けセキュリティノートを確認します。

## インストール

```sh
sudo av install brew:mcptools
```

追加のインストールコマンド:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mcptools
```

  証拠: local Homebrew formula metadata

## パッケージ情報

- **パッケージキー:** brew:mcptools
- **パッケージマネージャ:** Homebrew
- **バージョン:** 0.7.1
- **ソース概要:** CLI for interacting with MCP servers using both stdio and HTTP transport
- **ホームページ:** <https://github.com/f/mcptools>
- **リポジトリ:** <https://github.com/f/mcptools>
- **最終更新:** 2026-07-29T17:04:52+02:00
- **生成日時:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## 実行可能ファイル

- mcptools (エイリアス)

## インストール挙動

- Bottle: 利用不可

## バージョンと鮮度

- ページ生成日: 2026-08-03
- マネージャ版: 0.7.1
## プロジェクトの歴史と使われ方

MCP Tools is a command-line interface for inspecting, calling, testing, mocking, and proxying Model Context Protocol servers. Its README describes it as a Swiss Army knife for MCP servers, with support for stdio and HTTP transports, multiple output formats, an interactive shell, a web interface, aliases, config management, mock servers, and project scaffolding.

### プロジェクトの歴史

The public GitHub repository was created in March 2025, during the first broad wave of standalone MCP utilities. The first GitHub release, v0.0.1, was published the same day as repository creation, and the project reached v0.7.1 by May 2025.

The README shows that the installed command may appear as `mcp`, `mcpt`, or `mcptools` depending on installation method and conflict avoidance. That naming detail is package-history relevant because `mcp` is a tempting but collision-prone binary name in the MCP ecosystem.

### 採用の歴史

By July 2026, GitHub metadata showed about 1.6k stars and more than 100 forks, indicating meaningful adoption among MCP developers and operators. Its feature set is targeted at people building or debugging MCP servers rather than end users chatting with models.

The README includes Homebrew installation instructions via the project's tap as well as `go install`, showing the usual Go CLI distribution path: source install for cross-platform users and a package-manager path for macOS users.

### 使われ方

Common usage is to connect to an MCP server and list tools, resources, or prompts, then call a specific tool with JSON parameters. The README examples show using a filesystem MCP server over stdio, calling `read_file`, opening an interactive shell, and switching output among table, compact JSON, and pretty JSON formats.

For server developers, MCP Tools also provides mock server, proxy, guard, web UI, and scaffolding modes. That makes it less of a single-purpose client and more of a debugging and interoperability tool for MCP implementations.

### パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

MCP Tools is significant because protocol ecosystems usually need practical inspection tools before they become comfortable to package and operate. For MCP, `mcptools` fills the role that `curl`, `grpcurl`, or `jq`-heavy scripts fill elsewhere: a small CLI you can install and use to prove what a server exposes.

Its binary-name story also captures a packaging problem in young ecosystems: the obvious command name `mcp` is valuable but can conflict, so formulas and installers need aliases or alternate executable names.

### タイムライン

- 2025-03: Public GitHub repository created.
- 2025-03: v0.0.1 release published.
- 2025-05: v0.7.1 release published.
- 2026-07: Repository metadata shows about 1.6k stars and 124 forks.

### Related projects

- MCP Tools is related to MCP server implementations, MCP Inspector-style workflows, and clients such as MCPHost. It complements MCPM by inspecting and exercising servers after they have been installed or configured.

### ソース

- <https://api.github.com/repos/f/mcptools>
- <https://api.github.com/repos/f/mcptools/releases>
- <https://github.com/f/mcptools>


## セキュリティノート

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger リスク:** blue / 中
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mcptools.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mcptools.yml)


## ソース

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
