Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to mcpgawk
Catch MCP servers that change after you approved them
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 2 we have checked on their own sites, 2 of them free or with a free tier.
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SineFrame M3▲63Test MCP servers and the agents that call them in pytest
14d ago · m3.sineframe.com · its alternatives →
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Relium▲59Catch risky dbt changes before they break business metrics
30d ago · relium.dev · its alternatives →
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I noticed the growing security concerns around MCP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43600192) and built an open source tool that can detect several patterns of tool poisoning attacks, exfiltration channels and cross-origin manipulations. MCP-Shield scans your installed servers (Cursor, Claude Desktop, etc.) and shows what each tool is trying to do at the instruction level, beyond just the API surface. It catches hidden instructions that try to read sensitive files, shadow other tools' behavior, or exfiltrate data. Example of what it detects: - Hidden instructions…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MCP Playground▲160MCP Playground is a Postman-style tool for MCP — inspect servers, execute tools live, test your client, all from the browser. Four things in one place: 1. Free hosted MCP servers — four public test servers anyone can point their client at: Echo (connectivity), Auth (Bearer token flow), Error (error handling), Complex (multi-tool schemas).No sign-up, just use the URL. 2. Server inspector — paste any remote MCP server URL, see all its tools/resources/prompts, execute them live, inspect the full JSON-RPC log. HTTP, SSE, and WebSocket all supported. 3. Registry — 10,000+ servers…
Nov 2025 · mcpplayground.io · its alternatives →
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Vibedock▲98Toggle Claude Code MCP servers from your menu bar
May 2026 · vibedock.dev · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I've wanted an easy way to control which mcp server tools are available to clients. So for example, I might want a gmail server to only expose the read tool (but not send, delete etc). I figured if I create a cli for spawning mcp servers, I could intercept the stdin, stdout, stderr etc and modify what the clients see when they are making calls to list tools, resources, and prompts. Well it worked! In the initial version you can easily add a server to claude with a safe list of tools: npx -y mcpgod add @modelcontextprotocol/server-everything --client claude --tools=echo,add…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Wireshark for MCP. A transparent proxy that shows every real tool call between your AI client and your MCP servers, live in your terminal. - kerlenton/mcpsnoop
Jul 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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https://github.com/mcp-shark/mcp-shark Site: https://mcpshark.sh/ I built MCPShark, a traffic inspector for the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It sits between your editor/LLM client and MCP servers so you can: • See all MCP traffic (requests, responses, tools, resources) in one place • Debug sessions when tools don’t behave as expected • Optionally run “Smart Scan” checks to flag risky tools / configs
Dec 2025 · its alternatives →
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2017 · dnsspy.io · its alternatives →
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2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Audit MCPs for security vulnerabilities.
May 2026 · mcpscanner.yxsh.in · its alternatives →
- 12DS
2014 · dogebark.nijotz.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Lighthouse for MCP — score any MCP server 0–100. Contribute to mcp-box/mcpscore development by creating an account on GitHub.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm Vlad. I've been building MCP servers and related tooling for a while now, and I kept hitting a class of bug that no unit test caught: someone on the team renames a tool parameter or tweaks a tool description, all the tests pass, but the AI agent that was calling that tool silently breaks. This happens because the model reads tool descriptions and parameter schemas to decide which tool to call and how, so a renamed parameter or a reworded description isn't just a cosmetic change — it directly affects the model's behavior. The MCP spec doesn't have tool versioning available yet, and…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scan any MCP server against emerging agent-readiness standards. A score across five dimensions plus a copy-paste fix for every gap. Free, no sign-up.
Jun 2026 · isyourmcpready.com · its alternatives →
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No more copy-pasting logs when troubleshooting issues—the vibes told me there had to be a better way. Now debugging flows like a conversation.
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I've been building MCPSpec, an open-source CLI for MCP server reliability. Record sessions, generate mock servers, catch Tool Poisoning, and fail your CI build when something's wrong — without writing test code. There are ways to validate MCP servers today — the MCP Inspector, ad-hoc SDK scripts, unit tests for server internals — but nothing that handles regression detection, security auditing, mock generation, and CI pass/fail checks in one tool. MCPSpec does that: 1. Record a session against your real server, replay it after changes to catch regressions 2. Generate a standalone…
Feb 2026 · light-handle.github.io · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! We've been working with several MCP server maintainers and we noticed some difficulties getting drop-in logging and identity attribution working out of the box with existing vendors. A couple of challenges we hoped to solve were: - Baseline piping of tool calls to traditional vendors - How to tie tool calls to a “user session” - Understanding the context behind tool calls made by agents So we built something. :) The MCPcat library is completely free to use, MIT licensed, and provides a one-line solution for adding logging and observability to any vendor that supports…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21TM
2025 · mail.synia.tech · its alternatives →
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mcpwhiz▲15MCP server builder - real-time browser testing & api plugin!
Nov 2025 · mcpwhiz.com · its alternatives →
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MCPSafe▲6We've been scanning MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to understand the security posture of the ecosystem. After 306 servers and 1,211 vulnerabilities, here's what we found: - 69 critical vulnerabilities - 32 servers using eval() on untrusted input - 31 SQL injection vulnerabilities - 32 servers with hardcoded API credentials 10.5% of servers have at least one critical vulnerability. MCP servers run with your permissions. AI agents trust them implicitly. A prompt injection can exploit them remotely. MCPSafe (https://mcpsafe.org) lets you scan before you connect. Free tier…
Feb 2026 · mcpsafe.org · its alternatives →
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2025 · instances-mcp.vantage.sh · its alternatives →
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