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mcp-probe MCP Server

Inspect and score any MCP server 0-100 on publishability, schema and protocol before publish.

Publisher claimed. No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

Status

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Published as @incultnitollc/mcp-probe on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

9 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 6.

Most discussed

[v1.1] Description-vs-runtime drift detection (heuristic pass)

Context

Motivated by community feedback (Thomas Landgraf, dev.to, on "Schema descriptions are load-bearing"): descriptions can be technically wrong, not just missing — and that failure mode is harder to catch. Example: a parameter described as "ISO 8601 date string" that silently accepts Unix epoch milliseconds at runtime due to server-side coercion. The description is fluent, the JSON Schema is valid, the call succeeds — and the LLM eventually starts passing epochs because that's what a

Read the thread · 2026-05-07 · open · 0 comments

Benchmark mode with latency stats

Add `mcp-doctor bench` to measure performance, not just correctness.

Metrics

  • p50/p95/p99 latency per tool
  • Concurrent tool calling (parallel requests)
  • Memory usage of server process (if stdio)
  • Throughput — tools per second
  • `--iterations N` flag to run multiple times
  • Compare against baseline (`--baseline results.json`)

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

MCP spec compliance checker

Go beyond basic health checks — verify the server follows the MCP specification correctly.

Checks

  • Server returns correct protocol version
  • Capabilities match what's actually available
  • Pagination works correctly (cursor handling)
  • Error responses follow JSON-RPC 2.0 spec
  • Content types match declared MIME types
  • Tool annotations are consistent with behavior (e.g. readOnlyHint tools don't mutate)

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

HTML report output

Generate a shareable HTML report that looks professional.

Tasks

  • `--html report.html` flag
  • Clean, dark-themed single-file HTML with inline CSS
  • Collapsible sections for tools/resources/prompts
  • Show full tool response content in expandable details
  • Score card at top with color-coded pass/fail
  • Shareable — no external dependencies

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

Watch mode for development

Add a `mcp-doctor watch` command that re-runs inspection whenever the server restarts or files change.

Useful during MCP server development — like `vitest --watch` but for your MCP server.

Tasks

  • Add `watch` command
  • Re-run on file change (configurable glob)
  • Clear terminal between runs
  • Show diff from last run (what changed)

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

Most recent

Support SSE and Streamable HTTP transports

Currently mcp-doctor only supports stdio transport (spawning a local process). Many MCP servers run over:

  • SSE (Server-Sent Events) — mcp-doctor test --sse http://localhost:3000/sse
  • Streamable HTTP — mcp-doctor test --http http://localhost:3000/mcp

Tasks

  • Add --sse <url> flag
  • Add --http <url> flag
  • Auto-detect transport from URL vs command string
  • Test against a real SSE server

Read the thread · 2026-04-04 · closed · 0 comments

See all 9 reports Pod holds for mcp-probe.

Firsthand observations

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For agents

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