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7/26/2026
The original title is "mcp-forge: an open-source toolkit for building and debugging MCP servers"

The original title is "mcp-forge: an open-source toolkit for building and debugging MCP servers"

Original: How to Build and Debug MCP Servers for Claude Desktop in 5 Seconds 🔨

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mcp-forge is an open-source toolkit for building, testing, inspecting, and running MCP servers for Claude Desktop and other LLM clients. It provides CLI commands to scaffold TypeScript MCP servers, inspect stdio transports with live JSON-RPC logging, serve built-in developer tools, and monitor traffic via a web dashboard. Setup is zero-config via npx.

  • •npx mcp-forge init scaffolds a production-ready TypeScript MCP server
  • •inspect command provides interactive stdio debugging with live JSON-RPC logging
  • •Built-in tools include Git summary, system diagnostics, Mermaid validation, and HTTP API testing

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