Create MCP Server CLI

What it does

Create MCP Server CLI (create-ts-mcp-server) is a developer scaffolding tool that bootstraps new MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers written in TypeScript. Run a single npx command, answer a few interactive prompts, and you get a ready-to-build project with the right directory structure, package.json, and tsconfig.json already wired up.

It's the MCP equivalent of create-react-app — aimed at developers who want to ship an MCP server fast without hand-crafting boilerplate.

Tools

This is a scaffolding CLI, not a runtime MCP server, so it doesn't expose MCP tools directly. Instead, it generates a project that exposes whatever tools you define.

• project-generator — Interactively prompts for server name, description, API level (High/Low), and transport type, then writes the full project scaffold
• template-engine — Uses EJS templates for package.json, tsconfig.json, src/server/, and entry points

Installation

# No install needed — use npx:
npx create-ts-mcp-server your-server-name

# Or install globally:
npm install -g create-ts-mcp-server
create-mcp-server your-server-name

After scaffolding:

cd your-server-name
npm install
npm run build
npm run inspector   # debug stdio server

Supported hosts

This tool generates MCP servers compatible with any MCP client. No specific host is bundled or required — generated servers work with Claude Desktop, VS Code Copilot, Cursor, and others depending on the transport you choose.