MCP server with 36 local developer utilities: hashing (MD5/SHA/bcrypt), encoding (Base64/hex/URL/HTML), UUID/password generation, JWT decode, JSON
MCP server with 36 local developer utilities: hashing (MD5/SHA/bcrypt), encoding (Base64/hex/URL/HTML), UUID/password generation, JWT decode, JSON formatting, timestamp conversion, CIDR/IP tools, and text utilities. That is what the devutils mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
Think of it as busybox for developer tools — small, essential, and always useful.
The server publishes 3 tools. What each one is for:
Smithery — Also available on SmitheryCursor — The Cursor tool exposed by this serverWindsurf — The Windsurf tool exposed by this serverThe server ships on npm as devutils-mcp-server, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Devutils's toolset — Smithery, Cursor, Windsurf — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by paladini; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against Devutils's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Smithery | Also available on [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/devutils-mcp-server). |
| Cursor | The Cursor tool exposed by this server. |
| Windsurf | The Windsurf tool exposed by this server. |
Or with Docker:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"devutils": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/paladini/devutils-mcp-server"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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