Mcp Cli

A command-line interface for interacting with MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers that lets Claude access external tools, APIs, and data sources. You'll use this when you need Claude to read files, query databases, hit APIs, or interact with services like GitHub through their MCP servers. It provides discovery commands to list available servers and tools, inspection commands to see JSON schemas, and execution commands to actually call the tools with arguments. The workflow is straightforward: discover what's available, explore tool parameters, then execute with JSON payloads. Includes search functionality and different output formats for scripting.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill mcp-cli --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

MCP-CLI

Access MCP servers through the command line. MCP enables interaction with external systems like GitHub, filesystems, databases, and APIs.

Commands

Command	Output
`mcp-cli`	List all servers and tool names
`mcp-cli <server>`	Show tools with parameters
`mcp-cli <server>/<tool>`	Get tool JSON schema
`mcp-cli <server>/<tool> '<json>'`	Call tool with arguments
`mcp-cli grep "<glob>"`	Search tools by name

Add -d to include descriptions (e.g., mcp-cli filesystem -d)

Workflow

Discover: mcp-cli → see available servers and tools
Explore: mcp-cli <server> → see tools with parameters
Inspect: mcp-cli <server>/<tool> → get full JSON input schema
Execute: mcp-cli <server>/<tool> '<json>' → run with arguments

Examples

# List all servers and tool names
mcp-cli

# See all tools with parameters
mcp-cli filesystem

# With descriptions (more verbose)
mcp-cli filesystem -d

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