Install

Go (recommended)

go install github.com/standardbeagle/mcp-tui@latest

Always up to date. Single static binary. Works offline.

npm

npm install -g @standardbeagle/mcp-tui
# or run directly
npx @standardbeagle/mcp-tui

The npm package holds no binary. Its postinstall step downloads the release archive for your platform from GitHub Releases, checks its SHA-256 against the release’s checksums.txt, and unpacks it with the system tar. A mismatch, a missing checksum or an unsupported platform stops the install with an error. Supported: Linux, macOS and Windows 10+, each on x64 or arm64.

If you install with --ignore-scripts, run the installer yourself:

node "$(npm root -g)/@standardbeagle/mcp-tui/scripts/install.js"

Prebuilt binaries

Each GitHub release has one archive per platform, mcp-tui_<version>_<os>-<arch>.tar.gz for linux, darwin and windows on amd64 and arm64. The archive holds one binary, mcp-tui-<os>-<arch> (.exe on Windows); rename it to mcp-tui and put it on your PATH.

Verify a download before running it:

# Integrity: the archive matches the release's checksum list
sha256sum --ignore-missing -c checksums.txt
# (macOS: compare `shasum -a 256 <archive>` with its line in checksums.txt)

# Provenance: the archive was built by this repository's release workflow
gh attestation verify mcp-tui_0.10.0_linux-amd64.tar.gz --repo standardbeagle/mcp-tui

Each release also carries an SPDX SBOM per platform, mcp-tui_<version>_<os>-<arch>.spdx.json, listing the Go modules linked into that binary.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/standardbeagle/mcp-tui
cd mcp-tui
make install      # builds and copies to ~/.local/bin

Verify

mcp-tui --version
mcp-tui --help

Requirements

• Go 1.25+ if installing via go install or building from source.
• Node.js 18+ if installing via npm.
• A terminal with 256-color and Unicode support.