{"id":"mcpshim-mcpshim","name":"mcpshim","af_score":58.0,"security_score":52.8,"reliability_score":23.8,"what_it_does":"MCPShim provides a local daemon (mcpshimd) and CLI (mcpshim) that turn remote MCP server tools into standard command-line workflows. It manages MCP session/discovery, optionally OAuth login, and exposes tool calls via a JSON-over-UNIX-socket IPC protocol and mapped CLI flags, returning structured JSON output and maintaining local call history in SQLite.","best_when":"You want a language-agnostic way (shell/CLI) for agents/scripts to call many different MCP servers with consistent auth and JSON I/O on a single machine.","avoid_when":"You need direct network APIs, fine-grained cloud identity integration, or strict guarantees about idempotency/retries at the API-operation level without checking the daemon’s implementation.","last_evaluated":"2026-03-30T15:21:14.786886+00:00","has_mcp":false,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["Configured request headers per server (e.g., Authorization header)","OAuth login flow for OAuth-capable MCP servers (auto-initiated on 401 when configured appropriately)","Manual/cross-device OAuth completion"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Relies on a local daemon + Unix socket; agent environments must support running/connecting to mcpshimd","Retry behavior is mentioned at the lifecycle level, but idempotency semantics for repeated tool calls are not documented in the provided README","JSON output behavior depends on whether stdout is a terminal; agents may need to use --json for consistent parsing"],"error_quality":0.0}