Mcpscope MCP Server

A local-first workbench for developing, inspecting, and benchmarking MCP servers against local (LM Studio, Ollama) or remote (OpenRouter) models —

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What is the Mcpscope MCP Server?

A local-first workbench for developing, inspecting, and benchmarking MCP servers against local (LM Studio, Ollama) or remote (OpenRouter) models — Web UI, CLI, and

The short version

Building a good MCP server is empirical work, and you rarely do it alone anymore: a coding agent can run every benchmark and read every trace, but the numbers only get good when the developer stays in the loop — looking at the one run that failed, tightening a tool description or a rubric, deciding what to try next, and re-running. mcpscope is built for that partnership. It is not a benchmark harness an agent runs unattended, and not a GUI a developer drives by hand: every capability is exposed through a web UI shaped for a person and through a CLI and an MCP interface shaped for an agent, all over one shared

The tools it exposes

The server publishes 2 tools. What each one is for:

  • LLM — evaluate answer quality**: a separate judge model scores each run against a per-case rubric (see BENCHMARK.md)
  • Interfaces — The Interfaces tool exposed by this server

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How to install the Mcpscope MCP Server

claude mcp add mcpscope --env BACKEND_HOST=your-value -- npx -y mcpscope

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
BACKEND_HOSTEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Optional

Example prompts to try

  • “Use Mcpscope to LLM.”
  • “Use Mcpscope to Interfaces.”

Frequently asked questions

A local-first workbench for developing, inspecting, and benchmarking MCP servers against local (LM Studio, Ollama) or remote (OpenRouter) models — Web UI, CLI, and Confirm the tools offered by your installed version in the connected client. Tool availability and permissions depend on the server and account configuration.