arete-mcp 0.2.0

Manage MCP servers across agentic IDEs

mcp-manager

Discover, monitor, and manage MCP servers across agentic IDEs.

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The Problem

MCP servers are configured per-IDE in different JSON files with different schemas. If you use Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf, your servers are scattered across three configs with no unified view.

mcp-manager gives you one CLI to see, health-check, and manage all of them.

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Install

pip install mcp-manager

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Usage

# List all MCP servers across all IDEs
mcp-manager list

# Filter by IDE
mcp-manager list --tool cursor

# Health check all servers
mcp-manager health

# Show server-to-IDE mapping
mcp-manager map

# Export/import configs (portable YAML/JSON)
mcp-manager export servers.yaml
mcp-manager import servers.yaml

# Add/remove servers from the registry
mcp-manager add my-server --command "node server.js"
mcp-manager remove my-server

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Supported IDEs

IDE	Config Path
Claude Code	~/.claude.json
Claude Desktop	~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Cursor	~/.cursor/mcp.json
Windsurf	~/.windsurf/mcp_config.json
Project-level	.mcp.json (walks parent dirs)

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Transport Types

• stdio — local subprocess, JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout
• sse — Server-Sent Events over HTTP
• http — HTTP POST JSON-RPC

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Status

• Read-only config discovery across 5 IDE configs
• Async health checks with timeout
• JSON registry with add/remove
• YAML/JSON export/import
• Protocol handshake testing
• Config write-back (edit IDE configs directly)
• Server auto-restart on failure

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Part of the AreteDriver AI tooling ecosystem.