apify / mcpc
The most compatible MCP CLI client. Supports: tools, resources, prompts, completions, async tasks, skills, stdio and streamable HTTP (MCP 2026-07-28 and 2025-11-25), persistent sessions, OAuth 2.1 with DCR, CIMD, client credentials, and ID-JAG, OS keychain, --json for code mode, grep for tool discovery, proxy for AI sandboxes, x402, and more.
Why this job: name: mcp; topics: model-context-protocol, mcp-client, mcp
What it does
Use it to manually inspect and debug MCP servers, to script repeatable MCP workflows in plain shell, or to give AI agents the full MCP protocol through a single Bash() tool call, so they can interact with any MCP server and its latest capabilities using the most universal programming interface there is: the UNIX shell.
Get started
brew install mcpc- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 5 days ago
- Stars
- 1,094
- +11 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.8.0
- Released 6 days ago
- Built with
- TypeScript
- 79% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 14
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 73% closed
- 19 still open
- Pull requests
- 364 merged
- 13 waiting
- Releases
- 17
- 17 in the last year
- Contributing guide (opens in new tab)
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- TypeScript 79%
- Shell 18%
- JavaScript 3%
Topics
- ai-agents
- bash
- claude
- cli
- code-mode
- command-line
- mcp
- mcp-client
- model-context-protocol
- shell
Project record
- JobMCP servers
- StatusListed
- Commits824
- Forks108
- Watching8
- Stars in 28 days+65
- CreatedDec 9, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026