adhikasp/mcp-client-cli

pip install mcp-client-cli
Create ~/.llm/config.json (or $PWD/.llm/config.json) with llm + mcpServers config

Usage

• •llm "What is the capital city of North Sumatra?" # or omit quotes / pipe input: echo ... | llm
• •llm p review / llm p commit / llm p yt url=... # prompt templates; llm --list-prompts
• •llm c ... # continue last conversation; llm cb # process clipboard text/image
• •llm --no-confirmations / llm --no-intermediates / llm --list-tools / llm --model gpt-4

Key features

• ✓Full MCP client: tool calls with per-tool requires_confirmation prompts, exclude_tools, enabled flags
• ✓Image input by piping files (cat image.jpg | llm "What do you see?") with multimodal LLMs
• ✓Clipboard support (cb) on Windows (PowerShell), macOS (pbpaste/pngpaste), Linux (xclip), and WSL
• ✓Prompt templates, continuation, no-tools mode, force-refresh, text-only output, --show-memories

Best for

Terminal users who want to run MCP servers without Claude Desktop and with a free choice of LLM provider (including local models).

Caveats

• ⚠Config lives in ~/.llm/config.json; LLM API key can also come from LLM_API_KEY or OPENAI_API_KEY env vars
• ⚠Clipboard support needs platform tools: xclip on Linux (sudo apt install xclip), optional pngpaste on macOS for images, powershell.exe accessible from WSL
• ⚠A terminal/CLI client, not a GUI