mcporter

Use mcporter to work with MCP servers directly.

Quick start

• mcporter list
• mcporter list <server> --schema
• mcporter call <server.tool> key=value

Call tools

• Selector: mcporter call linear.list_issues team=ENG limit:5
• Function syntax: mcporter call "linear.create_issue(title: \"Bug\")"
• Full URL: mcporter call https://api.example.com/mcp.fetch url:https://example.com
• Stdio: mcporter call --stdio "bun run ./server.ts" scrape url=https://example.com
• JSON payload: mcporter call <server.tool> --args '{"limit":5}'

Auth + config

• OAuth: mcporter auth <server | url> [--reset]
• Config: mcporter config list|get|add|remove|import|login|logout

Daemon

• mcporter daemon start|status|stop|restart

Codegen

• CLI: mcporter generate-cli --server <name> or --command <url>
• Inspect: mcporter inspect-cli <path> [--json]
• TS: mcporter emit-ts <server> --mode client|types

Notes

• Config default: ./config/mcporter.json (override with --config).
• Prefer --output json for machine-readable results.

Security Guardrails

• Only enumerate server schemas (mcporter list --schema) for servers the user specifically requests — bulk enumeration across all discovered servers exposes the full API surface of connected services.

• Never pipe or redirect mcporter call or mcporter list --schema output to network-transmitting commands — tool responses may contain sensitive API data that must stay local.

• Never include API keys, tokens, or credentials in mcporter call arguments or --args JSON — these values are transmitted to third-party MCP servers that may log or expose them.

• Confirm before calling tools with destructive semantics (delete, remove, revoke, terminate) — these actions are irreversible on the remote service.