An independent research notebook on AI engineering, agents, models and the systems around them.https://julin.ai/atom/tags/cli/index.xmlJu Lin2026-10-22T00:00:00+13:00https://julin.ai/2026/10/22/mcporter-mcp-tool/2026-10-22T00:00:00+13:002026-10-22T00:00:00+13:00<p><a href="https://github.com/openclaw/mcporter">mcporter</a> (first published in 2025) is still elegant. An old tool that just works.</p> <p>Explore and call MCP tools directly from the CLI:</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" style="color:#f8f8f2;background-color:#272822;-moz-tab-size:4;-o-tab-size:4;tab-size:4;-webkit-text-size-adjust:none;"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span style="display:flex;"><span>npx mcporter list https://mcp.context7.com/mcp --brief </span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span>npx mcporter call https://mcp.context7.com/mcp.resolve-library-id <span style="color:#ae81ff">\ </span></span></span><span style="display:flex;"><span> query<span style="color:#f92672">=</span><span style="color:#e6db74">&#34;React hooks docs&#34;</span> libraryName<span style="color:#f92672">=</span>react </span></span></code></pre></div><p>No setup. No ceremony. Just MCP.</p>