使用 Homebrew 安装 mcptools

项目链接

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命令和别名

• mcptools

项目历史

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.

采用历史

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.

使用方式

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.

为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

时间线

• 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.

来源

• https://api.github.com/repos/f/mcptools
• https://api.github.com/repos/f/mcptools/releases
• https://github.com/f/mcptools