modelcontextprotocol / modelcontextprotocol/inspector
CLI has no --quiet/--silent flag to suppress non-essential output
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Description
Which client?
CLI
The problem
Every CLI invocation prints banner/status lines in addition to the actual result. That gets in the way when the CLI is called from a script and only the result payload matters (e.g. piped to jq) -- right now the only way to isolate it is fragile text-processing of the full output.
Solution you have in mind (optional)
Add a --quiet/-q flag that suppresses everything except the result payload (or the error, on failure), consistent with common CLI conventions.
Alternatives or workarounds you have tried
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Already built it locally?
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Before you submit
- I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate.
- This is a request for the Inspector itself, not for the MCP specification or an SDK.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named. Start by locating the CLI entry point and tracing where banner and status output are emitted; check how command-line options are parsed. Done means a quiet or silent option suppresses non-essential output while preserving the result payload and errors, with coverage for the new behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100