{"slug": "mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update", "title": "MCP Inspector (official) shipped an update", "summary": "The MCP project released Version 2 of MCP Inspector, its official TypeScript tool for inspecting and testing MCP servers through a web UI, scriptable CLI and interactive terminal UI, with a migration guide from v1. The tool, installable via `npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector`, has 11k GitHub stars and was last updated in October 2026. The listing compares MCP Inspector against 165 alternatives, including MCP Reference Servers (91k stars), context7 (63k stars) and chrome-devtools-mcp (53k stars).", "body_md": "# MCP Inspector (official)\n\nThe official developer tool for inspecting and testing MCP servers from a web UI, CLI or terminal UI.\n\n## Sources and review\n\nChecked against public documentation on . Suitability guidance is our editorial judgment; this is not a performance benchmark or an endorsement.\n\nChecking what an MCP server exposes and how it responds while you build it.\n\n## About MCP Inspector (official)\n\nThe MCP Inspector is the MCP project's own tool for inspecting servers. One package provides a web interface, a scriptable CLI for automation, CI and agent feedback loops, and an interactive terminal UI. Version 2 is the current line, with a migration guide from v1.\n\nMCP Inspector (official) is a project written primarily in TypeScript, with 11k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in October 2026.\n\n```\nnpx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector\n```\n\n**Make your product part of the discovery.** Explore advertising\n## MCP Inspector (official) vs. the alternatives\n\n[All 165 alternatives →](https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/mcp-inspector)\n\n| Record | Stars | Pricing |  |  | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| MCP Inspector (official)this listing | 11k | TypeScript | — | Free | \n| [MCP Reference Servers](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/mcp-reference-servers) | 91k | TypeScript | MIT AND Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [context7](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/context7) | 63k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source | \n| [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/chrome-devtools-mcp) | 53k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [Playwright MCP](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/playwright-mcp) | 38k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source | \n| [github-mcp-server](https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/github-mcp-server) | 33k | Go | MIT | Open source | \n\n[See all 165 MCP Inspector (official) alternatives, compared →](https://agentsearchengine.app/alternatives/mcp-inspector)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update", "canonical_source": "https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/mcp-inspector", "published_at": "2026-10-05 07:52:55+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-05 09:22:27.988505+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["agent-protocols", "developer-tools", "ai-agents", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["MCP Inspector", "Model Context Protocol", "TypeScript", "GitHub", "MCP Reference Servers", "context7", "chrome-devtools-mcp", "Playwright MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/mcp-inspector-official-shipped-an-update.jsonld"}}