288  mcp-inspector(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

288.1 mcp-inspector

mcp-inspector - MCP Inspector — visual testing tool for MCP servers (dogfood duty in CI; licence MIT→Apache-2.0 transition).

Layer OPS
Category o-07-agent-mcp-operability
Safety class safe
Licence Apache-2.0
Upstream github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector

288.1.1 NAME

mcp-inspector - MCP Inspector — visual testing tool for MCP servers (dogfood duty in CI; licence MIT→Apache-2.0 transition).

288.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector                   # web UI (default)
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector --cli             # CLI
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector --tui             # TUI
npx -p @modelcontextprotocol/inspector mcpdo --help   # mcpdo
npm install          # at the repo root; postinstall cascades into every client
npm run build        # web → cli → tui → launcher

288.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

A developer tool for inspecting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It ships as a single package, @modelcontextprotocol/inspector, that provides four ways to inspect a server: - Web — a Vite + React + Mantine single-page app with a Node backend. - CLI — a scriptable command-line client for automation, CI, and fast agent feedback loops. - TUI — an interactive terminal UI built with Ink. - mcpdo (experimental) — a connection CLI: connect once, then run many commands against the named connection through an implicit local daemon. See [clients/mcpdo](https://github.com/modelcon

288.1.4 CONFIGURATION (detected)

Config-surface markers detected in the upstream README (2 matches, e.g. --config, --config). A full config reference page for this tool is queued under the config-page policy — this line is the detection record, not the page.

288.1.5 SEE ALSO

ref: v2.10.1 - verified 2026-10-14