MCP Clients
The agent hosts - IDEs, chat apps, CLIs - that actually connect to MCP servers.
- CLI★ 4.4
Claude Code
Anthropic's terminal-first coding agent. Full MCP support, uses the same config format as Desktop. The fastest way to add MCPs to a coding workflow.
macOSLinuxWindows - CLI★ 4.3
OpenCode
Open-source terminal coding agent that ships with native MCP support. Self-hostable, BYO-model. The community alternative to Claude Code.
macOSLinuxWindows - CLI★ 4.3
Aider (CLI)
Open-source terminal pair programmer with full MCP support landed in 2025. The "Cursor for the terminal" with model-agnostic configuration.
macOSLinuxWindows