MCP Inspector

Visual tool for testing and debugging MCP servers

★ Stars11.1k11,098 on GitHub
Last commit14 Oct 2026
LicenceApache-2.0 / MIT (MCP licence transition)Per the project
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From GitHub, fetched 19 Oct 2026.

The MCP project's browser-based inspector: connect to a server and try its tools, resources and prompts by hand.

At a glance

Runs asApp
TypeAgent tooling
Maintained byOfficial
Installnpx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector

Sources: github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector, checked 19 Oct 2026. “Runs as” is from this listing. Blank means we haven't found it in official docs yet, not that it's unsupported.

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