Software product / application
MCP Inspector
Inspect MCP servers through a browser interface, a scriptable CLI or an interactive terminal client.
About this listing
MCP Inspector is a developer application for examining Model Context Protocol servers. The same package provides a browser interface, a command-line client for scripted checks and an interactive terminal interface. It is useful when developing a server or checking how it behaves from a client.
Choose the browser UI for interactive inspection or the CLI for repeatable checks. The project also documents an experimental connection CLI. Review its secret-storage settings before connecting authenticated servers: keychain availability affects how credentials are retained. Free refers to the available software code, not external services, server hosting or separately chosen model access.
Documentation reference: Model Context Protocol contributors, MCP Inspector README, https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector (CC BY 4.0). This is an independently written summary.