mcpshare

CLI tool to share MCP configuration between coding agents.

Synchronizes Model Context Protocol server definitions across VSCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, and OpenCode.

Quick start

# Install as a global CLI tool from GitHub
uv tool install git+https://github.com/eggboy/mcpshare.git

# Or install from a local clone of the repo
git clone https://github.com/eggboy/mcpshare.git
cd mcpshare
uv tool install .

# Then run from anywhere
mcpshare init
mcpshare pull
mcpshare sync
mcpshare status

# Upgrade to the latest version
uv tool upgrade mcpshare

Configuration

The config file lives at ~/.config/mcpshare/config.yaml:

source: /path/to/master          # directory for the canonical mcp.json
mode: merge                      # merge | overwrite
targets:
  claude:
    path: ~/.claude
  vscode:
    path: ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User  # macOS; see docs for other OS
  copilot:
    path: ~/.copilot
  codex:
    path: ~/.codex
  gemini:
    path: ~/.gemini
  antigravity:
    path: ~/.gemini/config
  opencode:
    path: ~/.config/opencode

Modes

Mode	Behaviour
merge	Collect servers from every target first, merge into master, then distribute
overwrite	Use the master as the single source of truth and overwrite all targets

How it works

1. mcpshare init – creates the config file and master directory.
2. mcpshare pull – pulls MCP server entries from every configured target and merges them into the master mcp.json (collect only, does not write back to targets).
3. mcpshare sync – distributes the master mcp.json to all configured targets, converting to each tool's native format.
4. mcpshare status – shows the master servers and whether each target config file exists.

Typical workflow: mcpshare pull → mcpshare sync.

Disabling servers

Disable state is tracked exclusively in mcp.disabled.yaml, colocated with the master mcp.json in your source directory. The master itself never carries a per-entry disabled flag — if you add one by hand, mcpshare strips it on the next pull / sync. The same applies to any IDE-native disable flag (Codex enabled = false, etc.) found in target files on read: it is stripped, and disable state is re-derived from mcp.disabled.yaml on the next sync.

This means the disabled list survives even when you delete and regenerate mcp.json, and there is exactly one place to look — mcp.disabled.yaml.

mcpshare disable --servers <server>                     # disable in all IDEs
mcpshare disable --servers <server> --ide claude        # disable in one IDE only
mcpshare enable --servers <server>                      # re-enable in every IDE
mcpshare enable --servers <server> --ide claude         # re-enable in one IDE only
mcpshare status                                         # shows disabled lists

mcp.disabled.yaml format (top-level flat mapping, colocated with mcp.json):

"*":                 # entries here are disabled in every configured IDE
  - workiq-mcp
claude:              # entries here are disabled only for Claude Code
  - filesystem
codex:
  - filesystem

If you previously used ~/.config/mcpshare/disabled.yaml, mcpshare moves it next to your master mcp.json automatically on the first load.

How disable is applied per IDE

sync writes every master server to every configured IDE. For disabled servers, mcpshare uses each IDE's native disable mechanism rather than omitting the entry (so the server stays visible and can be re-enabled in the tool's UI without round-tripping through mcpshare enable). Claude Code is the exception: it has no global disable list, so disabled servers are left out of its config.

IDE	Native disable mechanism	What sync writes
Codex	enabled = false in the server's TOML block	Server written with enabled = false
Claude Code	None global (/mcp toggles are stored per project in ~/.claude.json)	Server omitted from mcpServers in ~/.claude.json
Copilot CLI	disabledMcpServers: [...] in ~/.copilot/settings.json	Server in mcp-config.json plus name in settings.json array
Gemini CLI	mcp.excluded: [...] in ~/.gemini/settings.json (security-grade blocklist)	Server in mcpServers plus name in mcp.excluded (same file)
Antigravity	"disabled": true per entry in ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json	Server written with "disabled": true
OpenCode	"enabled": false per entry in opencode.json	Server written with "enabled": false
VSCode	None (UI-only per profile)	Server is always written enabled. disable --ide vscode is recorded but warns and is a no-op on sync.

Source of truth: mcpshare-owns. On each sync, mcpshare replaces the disabledMcpServers array in Copilot settings.json with its own view (other settings.json keys are preserved). If you previously ran /mcp disable foo natively inside Copilot, the next sync will re-enable foo and log a warning telling you the exact mcpshare disable command to run if you want to keep it disabled.

The same overwrite-with-mcpshare's-view rule applies to Gemini's mcp.excluded array and to Codex/OpenCode's per-entry enabled = false — all other keys in the target files are preserved.

Sync semantics

For MCP-dedicated target files (mcp.json, mcp-config.json), sync deletes the file and recreates it so removed servers cannot linger. For files shared with other IDE settings (.claude.json, config.toml, settings.json, mcp_config.json, opencode.json), only the MCP section is replaced — non-MCP content is preserved. For Copilot, the disabledMcpServers array in settings.json is also overwritten in place while preserving every other key.

Claude Code

Claude Code reads user-scope MCP servers only from the top-level mcpServers object in ~/.claude.json (the same place claude mcp add --scope user writes). The configured target stays ~/.claude, Claude's config dir; mcpshare resolves it the way Claude does, so ~/.claude maps to ~/.claude.json and any other directory (as with CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) maps to <dir>/.claude.json.

• Only mcpServers is replaced, atomically; the rest of ~/.claude.json is Claude's own state and is left alone.
• Each entry gets "type": "stdio" or "type": "http". Claude rejects a remote server without a type.
• Codex-only tools allow-lists are not written.
• Restart running Claude Code sessions after sync to pick up the change.

Versions before 0.17.1 wrote ~/.claude/mcp_servers.json and a disabledMcpServers array in ~/.claude/settings.json. Claude reads neither, so sync now deletes that file and removes that one key (other settings.json keys are kept).

Antigravity

The Antigravity app, IDE, and CLI (agy) share one global file, ~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json, so the target path is ~/.gemini/config. Older locations (~/.gemini/antigravity/ and ~/.gemini/antigravity-cli/) are not written.

• Remote servers are written with serverUrl, the only key Antigravity accepts (url fails only when a tool is first called).
• No type field is written; Codex-only tools allow-lists are dropped.
• Disabled servers stay listed with "disabled": true, so they can be toggled from Antigravity's UI.
• After sync, click Refresh under Installed MCP Servers in the app, or reload from /mcp in agy.

Conflict resolution on pull

When mcpshare pull finds the same server name in two IDEs with different commands/args/env, it prompts you to pick one. Identical configs are silently merged, and any per-entry disabled / enabled flag found in a target file is stripped before comparison — so a server that differs only in disable state never counts as a conflict (its disable state is owned by mcp.disabled.yaml, not by the master or any target file). Pass --non-interactive (or run without a TTY) to fall back to last-write-wins with a warning.

Supported formats

Tool	File	Top-level key	Notes
Claude Code	~/.claude.json	mcpServers	Shared with Claude's state; only mcpServers is replaced. Adds "type". Disabled servers omitted
VSCode	mcp.json	servers	MCP-dedicated; recreated on sync. Adds "type": "stdio". No native disable
Copilot CLI	mcp-config.json	mcpServers	MCP-dedicated; recreated on sync. Adds "type": "stdio". Disable via settings.json
Codex	config.toml	[mcp_servers.*]	TOML; preserves non-MCP sections. Native enabled = false
Gemini CLI	settings.json	mcpServers	Preserves non-MCP settings. Disable via mcp.excluded (same file)
Antigravity	~/.gemini/config/mcp_config.json	mcpServers	url written as serverUrl; no type; Codex tools not written. Native "disabled": true per entry
OpenCode	opencode.json	mcp	Uses command array, environment. Native "enabled": false per entry

Development

pip install -e .
pip install pytest
python -m pytest tests/ -v