Wrap any CLI as a Model Context Protocol server - schema auto-inferred from --help.
Connect Cli2mcp to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. Wrap any CLI as a Model Context Protocol server - schema auto-inferred from --help. The cli2mcp mcp server is what makes that connection.
Expose any command-line binary as a Model Context Protocol tool by parsing its --help output and synthesizing a JSON Schema at startup. One command, no boilerplate.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
GitHub — @RonieNeubauerBlog — ronieneubauer.commacOS — ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonWindows — %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.jsonLinux — ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.jsonClient — Config fileCursor — .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global)Cline — VS Code → Cline → MCP Settings → cline_mcp_settings.jsonWindsurf — ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.jsonContinue — ~/.continue/config.json → experimental.modelContextProtocolServersZed — ~/.config/zed/settings.json → context_serversApproach — LOC per CLIInstallation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at cli2mcp on npm and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Cli2mcp's toolset — GitHub, Blog, macOS and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by RonieNeubauer; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Cli2mcp's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| GitHub | [@RonieNeubauer](https://github.com/RonieNeubauer) |
| Blog | [ronieneubauer.com](https://ronieneubauer.com) |
| macOS | ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json |
| Windows | %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json |
| Linux | ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json |
| Client | Config file |
| Cursor | .cursor/mcp.json (project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global) |
| Cline | VS Code → Cline → MCP Settings → cline_mcp_settings.json |
| Windsurf | ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json |
| Continue | ~/.continue/config.json → experimental.modelContextProtocolServers |
| Zed | ~/.config/zed/settings.json → context_servers |
| Approach | LOC per CLI |
| CLI | Status |
| curl | ✅ fixture |
{
"mcpServers": {
"ripgrep": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cli2mcp", "rg", "--name", "ripgrep",
"--description", "Recursively search files with regex"]
},
"jq": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cli2mcp", "jq",
"--description", "Query and transform JSON via stdin"]
},
"pandoc": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cli2mcp", "pandoc",
"--description", "Convert documents between markup formats"]
},
"sqlite3": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cli2mcp", "sqlite3",
"--description", "Run SQL against a SQLite database file",
"--cwd", "/path/to/safe/dir"]
},
"yt-dlp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "cli2mcp", "yt-dlp",
"--description", "Download media from URLs",
"--cwd", "/path/to/downloads",
"--timeout", "300000"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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