philschmid/mcp-cli
Lighweight CLI to interact with MCP servers
Recommended between 2026-08-05 and 2026-08-05. Last pushed 2026-02-05.
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What hackers say
“have your agent use a CLI tool that calls MCP, like mcp-cli [1]”
— nextaccountic, 2026-08-05 · original comment on Hacker News ↗
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…rm / pipe data to other tools as input, without it ever reaching and polluting the context window. Sandbox limited by time & memory. Failing that, you can just disable native MCP in your harness and have your agent use a CLI tool that calls MCP, like mcp-cli [1], and then the agent can use regular unix pipes to filter or transform the output. Here, rather than raw grep or sed (which are line oriented), the agent would probably use things like jq. [0] https://github.com/tontinton/maki#context-efficiency [1] https://github.com/philschmid/mcp-cli
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