MCP-tidy
How many MCPs in your Claude Code are you actually using?
Details
- External ID
- 46507815
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- MCP-tidy
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 10
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5006587615283268
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I built mcp-tidy to solve a problem I kept running into with Claude Code.As I tried different MCP servers over the past few months, my ~/.claude.json accumulated servers I'd forgotten about. Claude Code loads all tool descriptions (built-in + MCP) into context, so unused servers add overhead you don't need.The tool is simple: three commands.- `mcp-tidy list` - see what's configured (global + per-project) - `mcp-tidy stats` - check actual usage from transcript logs - `mcp-tidy remove --unused` - clean up with automatic backupIt parses the JSONL transcript logs in ~/.claude/projects/ to show which servers you actually use, grouped by scope.Install: `brew install nnnkkk7/tap/mcp-tidy` or `go install github.com/nnnkkk7/mcp-tidy/cmd/mcp-tidy@latest`Would love feedback, especially on: - Are there other MCP clients (Cursor, Desktop) you'd want supported? - Any stats/metrics you'd find useful?Source: https://github.com/nnnkkk7/mcp-tidy
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Observability & eval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- mcp usage analyzer
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a simple CLI utility that parses a local JSON config file (`~/.claude.json`), analyzes MCP server definitions, and manages or disables unused entries.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 61 days after the earliest competitor.
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- MCP Shrink · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Model Tools Protocol (MTP) · hn · 2026-02-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Claudy · ph · 2026-05-13 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- No other launches for this product.
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