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shutup-mcp

Experimental MCP tool-list filtering proxy for large agent tool catalogs

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Our Take

Linoy Bar and yuqiang@JEP built something that basically says "hey, your AI agent doesn't need to see 300 tools—it just needs to see 3." shutput-mcp is a zero-config MCP proxy that filters out 99 percent of tools from large agent tool catalogs so your models stop getting overwhelmed and actually do what you tell them. It's experimental, it's alpha, and it's exactly the kind of boring-but-brilliant infrastructure tool that makes AI systems actually work.

The Model Context Protocol is exploding right now—every AI company is dumping hundreds of tools into their agents and wondering why everything breaks. shutup-mcp says "less is more" and gives you a filter layer that hides the noise. It's on GitHub, it's open source, and it's for developers who are tired of their AI getting lost in menus it was never meant to navigate.

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A filtering proxy that sits between an MCP client and MCP servers. It aggregates tool definitions from multiple upstream MCP servers and exposes only the top-k tools matching the current user intent, reducing tool-list overload in large agent tool catalogs.

Key Features
Reads Claude Desktop-style MCP configuration files, Discovers and connects to multiple configured MCP servers, Builds hybrid retrieval index over tool names and descriptions, Filters tools/list results via explicit CLI intent, Provides runtime shutup__set_intent tool for dynamic intent updates, Routes tools/call requests to correct upstream server, Supports multiple local embedding backends: sentence-transformers, ollama, fake, Fallback behavior when no intent is known, Runs as MCP stdio proxy
Problem It Solves
Solves the problem of overwhelming tool lists when connecting AI agents (like Claude Desktop) to multiple MCP servers with hundreds of tools. Provides intent-based filtering to show only relevant tools.
Target Customer
Developers building AI agent workflows using MCP (Model Context Protocol), particularly those using Claude Desktop or similar MCP clients with multiple server configurations.
Use Cases
Filtering tool catalogs for Claude Desktop MCP setup, Intent-based tool selection for AI agents, MCP gateway/proxy for tool-list compression, Local development with AI agent tool orchestration
Pricing Details
Open source (MIT license)
Differentiator
Alpha implementation specifically designed for tool-list filtering and compression in MCP ecosystems, with hybrid retrieval indexing over tool metadata.
Why Now
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is becoming the standard for AI agent tool integrations, creating need for tooling to manage increasingly large tool catalogs across multiple servers.
Traction
Notable Metrics: 6 GitHub stars, 32 commits

Key Facts

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Developer Tools / MCP Infrastructure / AI Agent Tooling
Stage
Alpha
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