Introduce the inspector command
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peteski22
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Thanks @michalismeng for picking this up, looks good! I added some suggestions, it would be great if you could take a look please.
Just re-tag me afterwards and we can get this approved and merged. 🥳
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Introduce the 'inspector' command, which starts the MCP inspector tool via an npx process for interaction with 'try me out' style MCP servers. Also, add a note to the docs.
* Check canceled context with errors.Is * Pin @modelcontextprotocol/inspector to latest * Use fmt.Fprintf with cmd.OutOrStdOut * Other formatting / linting stuff
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@peteski22 I've pushed a fixup addressing your comments and also rebased over the latest |
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What's changed
Introduce the 'inspector' command, which starts the MCP inspector tool. Internally it launches the inspector with
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspectorand passes any addition arguments the user gives.Closes #51
(See the issue for some more details)
Notes
The issue mentions the following in the desired solution:
Currently,
mcpd inspectorprints to the terminal whatever the underlyingnpxprocess prints, so there will be dev-style details of the error:and in the UI we get a message from the inspector itself, for example:
Not sure if this is enough, glad to discuss if more is needed here.