mcp-toolbox

Product/PM angle: A plug-and-play MCP tool server — add capabilities to any MCP-compatible agent (Claude Desktop, etc.) by registering pure-Python tools with zero boilerplate.

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server exposing a growing library of agent tools: file search, reliability scoring, and prompt injection detection.

Status — milestone roadmap

Related MCP server: production-grade-mcp-agentic-system

Installation

pip install -e ".[dev]"          # dev + tests
pip install -e ".[server]"       # includes mcp SDK + pyyaml

Usage

mcptb list          # list registered tools
mcptb dump          # JSON manifest of all tools
mcptb serve         # start MCP server (requires [server] extra)

Use from Claude Desktop

Requires the [server] extra — install it first:

pip install -e ".[server]"

This pulls in the mcp SDK (the stdio transport) and pyyaml.

Add to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-toolbox": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "mcp_toolbox.cli", "serve"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

The server uses stdio transport (as required by the MCP spec) and registers every tool in the registry automatically. The mcp package is lazy-imported inside serve(), so the rest of the CLI (mcptb list, mcptb dump) works without the [server] extra installed.

Tools

repo_search(directory, keyword, file_pattern="*.py")

Keyword search over a directory tree. Returns [{file, line_no, line}].

reliability_score(answer, context)

Heuristic faithfulness score (0-1) for an answer vs. its context. Returns {score, details}.

redteam_scan(text)

Detects prompt injection / jailbreak patterns. Returns {risk_level, flags, score}.