npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "node your-server.js"

Everyone's shipping MCP servers. And the tool definitions are full of silent footguns the protocol won't catch for you:

• a tool name with a space or a dot — which breaks function-calling the moment a client maps it to an OpenAI-style function name,
• a description the model can't act on ("search") or a param with no description — so the model picks the wrong tool or fills the wrong args,
• an inputSchema that requireds a property it never defines,
• and the one nobody measures: how much of the model's context window your whole toolset eats on every single request.

oh-my-mcp reads your tool definitions — from a tools/list JSON or by speaking the protocol to a live server over stdio — and grades them. Local, deterministic, no API key.

$ npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "node weather-server.js"

  ● oh-my-mcp  ·  weather-server v1.0.0 (live, MCP 2025-06-18)

  Server-wide
  ✗ Duplicate tool name "list_items" (2 tools share it) — the model can't address them.
  · Your 6 tool definitions cost ~157 tokens of context on every single request.

  B  get weather   83/100 · ~28 tok
    ✗ Name "get weather" has characters that break function-calling.  → Use only [a-zA-Z0-9_-].
    ! Param "location" has no description — the model leans on these to fill arguments.
  B  search_database   83/100
    ✗ inputSchema problem at inputSchema.required: requires "query", which is not in properties
  …

  30/100 (F)  4 errors · 4 warnings · ~157 ctx tokens

Three ways to point it at your tools

# 1. a live server — spawn it and run the MCP handshake, then lint what it serves
npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "node server.js"
npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "npx -y @some/mcp-server"

# 2. every server in your MCP client config (claude_desktop_config.json / mcp.json)
npx oh-my-mcp --servers ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

# 3. a tools/list JSON you already have
npx oh-my-mcp tools.json
some-server | npx oh-my-mcp --stdin

In live mode it runs the real initialize → tools/list handshake and also checks the protocol itself (missing serverInfo, protocolVersion, malformed tools/list). Non-JSON log lines on stdout are ignored; a silent server times out instead of hanging.

What it checks

| Group | Examples | | ----- | -------- | | Breaks tool-calling | names outside [a-zA-Z0-9_-] or >64 chars, duplicate names, readOnlyHint on a tool whose name screams mutation | | The model can't use it well | missing/one-word descriptions, params with no description, mixed snake/camel naming | | Input schema | not a valid JSON Schema, required referencing a missing property, params with no type, non-object top level | | Wastes context | the total token cost of your toolset on every request; individual over-long descriptions | | Protocol (live) | missing serverInfo/protocolVersion, no tools capability, malformed tools/list |

Every finding rolls up into a per-tool and overall 0–100 score (A–F) you can gate in CI.

Install

npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "node server.js"   # no install
npm i -g oh-my-mcp                      # the bin is also `omm`

Node ≥ 18. The lint core is dependency-free and browser-safe.

Gate it in CI

oh-my-mcp exits non-zero on any error (or below --min-score), so a bad tool definition can't ship:

# .github/workflows/ci.yml
- run: npx oh-my-mcp --cmd "node dist/server.js" --min-score 80

oh-my-mcp tools.json --json report.json     # machine-readable
oh-my-mcp tools.json --md  report.md        # paste into a PR

Library API

The lint engine is pure (browser-safe), so you can lint a pasted tools/list:

import { extractTools, analyze, DEFAULT_CONFIG } from "oh-my-mcp";

const report = analyze(extractTools(toolsListResult), DEFAULT_CONFIG, { label: "my-server", mode: "file" });
console.log(report.score, report.tools[0].findings);

Roadmap

• 🌐 Web playground — paste a tools/list, see the report (the core already runs in a browser).
• Resources & prompts (not just tools), and tools/call smoke tests.
• A --fix that rewrites names/schemas where it safely can.
• More client configs auto-discovered (Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf).

💖 Sponsor

Free, MIT, built in spare time. If it caught a tool def before a model did:

• ⭐ Star the repo — so the next person building an MCP server finds it.
• 🍋 Sponsor via Lemon Squeezy — one-time or recurring.

License

MIT © oh-my-mcp contributors