Mcpx Cli

🔌 MCPX

> One config to rule them all. Configure your MCP servers once, deploy to every AI CLI automatically.

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😩 The Problem

Each AI CLI tool uses a different file format for configuring MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers:

| AI CLI | Config File | Format | |--------|------------|--------| | Claude Code | .mcp.json | JSON | | Gemini CLI | .gemini/settings.json | JSON | | Kimi CLI | ~/.kimi/mcp.json | JSON | | OpenAI Codex | .codex/config.toml | TOML | | OpenCode | opencode.json | JSON | | GitHub Copilot CLI | .copilot/mcp-config.json | JSON | | VS Code | .vscode/mcp.json | JSON | | IntelliJ IDEA | .idea/mcp.json | JSON |

If you use multiple AI tools (and you probably do), you need to manually maintain 8 different config files with different structures, field names, and quirks. For every single project.

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✨ The Solution

MCPX maintains a single canonical config file (.mcpx.json) per project and automatically generates the correct config file for each AI CLI provider you use.

.mcpx.json  ──────►  .mcp.json                     (Claude Code)
    │       ──────►  .gemini/settings.json          (Gemini CLI)
    │       ──────►  ~/.kimi/mcp.json               (Kimi CLI)
    │       ──────►  .codex/config.toml             (OpenAI Codex)
    │       ──────►  opencode.json                  (OpenCode)
    │       ──────►  .copilot/mcp-config.json       (Copilot CLI)
    │       ──────►  .vscode/mcp.json               (VS Code)
    └─────  ──────►  .idea/mcp.json                 (IntelliJ IDEA)

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🚀 Quick Start

📦 Installation

npm install -g mcpx-cli

⚡ First Setup

Navigate to your project directory and run:

mcpx

The interactive wizard will guide you through:

1. 🔍 Detection — Automatically detects existing MCP configs in your project
2. 📥 Import — Offers to import servers from detected configs
3. ➕ Add servers — Interactive wizard to configure new MCP servers
4. 🎯 Select providers — Choose which AI CLIs you want to generate configs for
5. ⚙️ Generate — Creates .mcpx.json and all provider config files

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📋 Commands

| Command | Description | |---------|-------------| | mcpx or mcpx init | 🧙 Interactive setup wizard | | mcpx add [name] | ➕ Add a new MCP server | | mcpx remove [name] | ➖ Remove an MCP server | | mcpx list | 📄 List configured MCP servers | | mcpx sync | 🔄 Regenerate all provider config files | | mcpx import [provider] | 📥 Import config from an existing provider | | mcpx status | 📊 Show sync status of all providers |

🏳️ Global Flags

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | --dir, -d | 📁 Project directory (defaults to current) | | --verbose | 🔊 Show detailed logs | | --version, -V | 🏷️ Show version | | --help, -h | ❓ Show help |

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📐 Canonical Format

MCPX uses a single .mcpx.json file as the source of truth:

{
  "version": 1,
  "providers": ["claude-code", "gemini-cli", "openai-codex", "copilot-cli"],
  "servers": {
    "jira": {
      "description": "Jira Atlassian",
      "transport": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-atlassian"],
      "env": {
        "JIRA_URL": "https://myorg.atlassian.net",
        "JIRA_USERNAME": "user@example.com",
        "JIRA_API_TOKEN": "your-token"
      }
    },
    "github": {
      "description": "GitHub MCP Server",
      "transport": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@anthropic-ai/mcp-github-server"],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "ghp_xxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

📝 Server Fields

| Field | Type | Required | Description | |-------|------|----------|-------------| | transport | "stdio" \| "http" | ✅ Yes | Transport protocol | | command | string | stdio | Executable command | | args | string[] | — | Command arguments | | env | Record | — | Environment variables | | cwd | string | — | Working directory | | url | string | http | Server URL | | headers | Record | — | HTTP headers | | description | string | — | Human-readable description | | enabled | boolean | — | Enable/disable (default: true) |

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🤖 Supported Providers

📁 Project-Scoped Providers

These providers generate config files inside your project directory. Each project has its own independent config.

🟣 Claude Code

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .mcp.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcpServers | | Requires type | Yes "stdio" |

🔵 Gemini CLI

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .gemini/settings.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcpServers | | Requires type | No |

🟢 OpenAI Codex

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .codex/config.toml | | Format | TOML | | Root key | mcp_servers | | Smart merge | Yes — Preserves existing Codex settings (model, approval_mode, etc.) |

🟠 OpenCode

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | opencode.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcp | | Quirks | command is an array (command + args merged), uses environment instead of env, type: "local" |

⚫ GitHub Copilot CLI

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .copilot/mcp-config.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcpServers | | Quirks | Requires tools: ["*"] field, needs shell alias for project-level config |

> 📌 Note: Copilot CLI does not natively auto-discover project-level MCP configs. MCPX automatically configures a shell alias (copilot='copilot --additional-mcp-config @.copilot/mcp-config.json') in your .zshrc, .bashrc, or config.fish so the project config is loaded automatically when you run copilot.

🔷 VS Code

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .vscode/mcp.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | servers | | Quirks | type field required ("stdio" or "sse"), HTTP mapped as "sse" |

🟧 IntelliJ IDEA

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | .idea/mcp.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcpServers | | Quirks | No type field, infers from command vs url |

🌍 Global Providers

These providers use a single global config file shared across all projects. Running mcpx sync overwrites the global file with the current project's servers.

🔴 Kimi CLI

| Aspect | Detail | |--------|--------| | File | ~/.kimi/mcp.json | | Format | JSON | | Root key | mcpServers | | Scope | Global — affects all projects |

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🔄 Sync & Provider Management

🔁 Syncing

After modifying .mcpx.json (manually or via commands), regenerate all provider configs:

mcpx sync

🔀 Changing Providers

Use the interactive wizard to add or remove providers:

mcpx init
# Select "Alterar providers"

When a provider is removed, MCPX deletes the corresponding config file. For global providers, legacy project-level files are also cleaned up.

📥 Importing from Existing Configs

Already have MCP servers configured in one of your AI tools? Import them:

mcpx import

MCPX detects existing project-level configs (.mcp.json, .gemini/settings.json, etc.) and lets you select which servers to import into .mcpx.json.

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🏗️ Architecture

src/
├── cli.ts                    # Commander setup & routing
├── types/
│   ├── canonical.ts          # McpConfigFile, McpServerConfig (Zod schemas)
│   ├── providers.ts          # Provider interface
│   └── common.ts             # CommandContext, SyncResult
├── commands/
│   ├── init.ts               # Interactive wizard
│   ├── add.ts / remove.ts    # Server management
│   ├── list.ts / status.ts   # Display info
│   ├── sync.ts               # Regenerate configs
│   └── import.ts             # Import from providers
├── providers/
│   ├── base.ts               # Provider interface
│   ├── registry.ts           # Provider registry (factory)
│   ├── claude-code.ts        # .mcp.json
│   ├── gemini-cli.ts         # .gemini/settings.json
│   ├── kimi-cli.ts           # ~/.kimi/mcp.json
│   ├── openai-codex.ts       # .codex/config.toml
│   ├── opencode.ts           # opencode.json
│   ├── copilot-cli.ts        # .copilot/mcp-config.json
│   ├── vscode.ts             # .vscode/mcp.json
│   └── intellij.ts           # .idea/mcp.json
├── core/
│   ├── config-store.ts       # .mcpx.json read/write
│   ├── detector.ts           # Detect existing configs
│   └── merger.ts             # Smart sync with merge support
├── wizard/
│   ├── main-wizard.ts        # Main interactive flow
│   ├── server-wizard.ts      # Server creation wizard
│   ├── provider-wizard.ts    # Provider selection
│   └── step-runner.ts        # Step navigation (back support)
└── utils/
    ├── fs.ts                 # File system helpers
    ├── logger.ts             # Logger with colors
    └── validation.ts         # Zod validation

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🧪 Testing

# Run all tests
npm test

# Run once (CI)
npm run test:run

# Type checking
npm run typecheck

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🛠️ Tech Stack

| Category | Library | |----------|---------| | 💻 Language | TypeScript 5.x (ESM) | | 📦 Build | tsup (esbuild) | | ⌨️ CLI Framework | commander | | 💬 Interactive Prompts | @clack/prompts | | 🎨 Colors | picocolors | | 📄 TOML | smol-toml | | ✅ Validation | zod | | 🧪 Tests | vitest | | 🟢 Min Node | >= 20 |

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📄 License

MIT

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Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: gustavodiasdev
• Source: gustavodiasdev/mcpx-cli
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.