Show HN: We built an open source BYOK CLI that supports any model and any MCP

6 points by pzullo 11 hours ago

The latest CLI releases from google and anthropic are sweet, we wanted build one that can run any model.

mcp-use-cli lets you `/model` hop between providers instantly.

npm i -g @mcp-use/cli && you're done

What's cool:

- BYOK (your keys, encrypted locally) - Slash commands for everything - MCP protocol support for custom tools - Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, Groq, local Ollama...

The whole thing's TypeScript and open source.

Built this on top of our Python + TS mcp-use libs, so it speaks MCP out of the box. You can hook up filesystem tools, DB servers, whatever you want.

The "frontend" is written with "ink" https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink that lets you write react for your CLI, it's so cool!

There is soo much nice stuff to do here, here is the roadmap: - add server from prompt, basically you ask the model to add and configure servers for you - search MCPs from remote registries so you can pull configs more easily - auth support (wip)

Repo with demo video: https://github.com/your-org/mcp-use-cli

Please let me know how you find it, I am going to be around all day! :hugs :hugs