mcpfold
Connect every MCP server w/o paying the context-window tax.
mcpfold launched on July 11, 2026 with 4 votes, #6,023 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
mcpfold is a local-first CLI + proxy that curates your MCP servers. Write config once, fold it out to every client (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf), load only the tools each agent needs, and resolve secret references instead of hardcoding keys.
Manage MCP servers from one config, folded out to every MCP client — Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed. Secret references, not hardcoded values.
mcpfold is a free, open-source CLI that manages your MCP servers from one canonical config and folds it out to all 18 supported MCP clients — Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, and more — each in its own format. Curate each server’s tools to skip the context-window tax — every server dumps its full tool schema into context, used or not. Curating the toolset cuts tool-schema tokens by ~ 80 % ( 7,476 → 1,497 ) , with secrets kept as $ {env:…} references, never hardcoded values. servers : github: { tools: [create_issue, get_pr] } supabase: { tools: [query, insert] } C Claude Code mcpServers : { github: {…} supabase: {…} } C Claude Desktop mcpServers : { github: {…} supabase: {…} } C…from mcpfold.com
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