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29th July 2026

Release mcp-explorer 0.3 — CLI tool for exploring an MCP server

mcp-explorer call $URL tool ... --json now returns just the JSON from the tool result. The new --raw option provides the more detailed MCP JSON that was previously returned by --json. #1

Posted 29th July 2026 at 2:14 am

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