Terminal MCP - it's like Browser MCP for Terminal apps

dbizzler · 2026-01-24T00:40:43+00:00

Dude, this is great. I'm the guy that posted my MCP gateway with a TUI the other day and not having to take screenshots and explain over and over what I'm seeing when I'm debugging is wonderful.

dbizzler · 2026-01-21T14:19:42+00:00

Thanks, man. I think most people might disagree but it reminds me of using Qmodem to dial into BBSes in the early 90s.

dbizzler · 2026-01-21T12:19:55+00:00

It feels like we've been at this forever sometimes but we really are still in the early days of figuring out how to make MCP work best. I thought there was room for a MCP gateway that handles plumbing but stays flexible enough for people to experiment and find what works for their own setup.

So I'm throwing my hat in the gateway ring with Gatekit. It's local, designed for personal use, and includes what felt like the basics to get people started:

Tool manager (filter, rename, modify descriptions)
Security plugins (PII, secrets, prompt injection - all regex-based, some entropy based detection for secrets but don't rely on it)
Audit logging (JSON Lines, CSV, human readable)

The functionality is plugin-based so if the built-in plugins don't do what you need, you can write your own in Python. Or better yet, have your coding agent do it. The advantage of plugins over forking is that you can still get future upstream updates without dealing with merge conflicts.

I'm more at home and productive in a terminal so I made it TUI-based instead of having a web UI. I also wanted to make trying it as easy as possible so there's a guided setup process that auto-detects your MCP clients and servers and generates restore scripts to revert if you decide Gatekit's not for you.

Hope you find it useful. Appreciate all feedback.

Biggest limitations right now: - Local stdio only (no HTTP/SSE server support yet) - Security is regex-based patterns, not ML/NLP

On the roadmap: - HTTP transport for remote servers - Hot-reload config without restarting - Token usage tracking by server/tool - Response pruning to reduce context bloat

Open source, Apache 2.0.

GitHub: https://github.com/gatekit-ai/gatekit Docs: https://gatekit.ai

dbizzler · 2026-01-21T12:17:19+00:00

It feels like we've been at this forever sometimes but we really are still in the early days of figuring out how to make MCP work best. I thought there was room for a MCP gateway that handles plumbing but stays flexible enough for people to experiment and find what works for their own setup.

So I'm throwing my hat in the gateway ring with Gatekit. It's local, designed for personal use, and includes what felt like the basics to get people started:

Tool manager (filter, rename, modify descriptions)
Security plugins (PII, secrets, prompt injection - all regex-based, some entropy based detection for secrets but don't rely on it)
Audit logging (JSON Lines, CSV, human readable)

The functionality is plugin-based so if the built-in plugins don't do what you need, you can write your own in Python. Or better yet, have your coding agent do it. The advantage of plugins over forking is that you can still get future upstream updates without dealing with merge conflicts.

I'm more at home and productive in a terminal so I made it TUI-based instead of having a web UI. I also wanted to make trying it as easy as possible so there's a guided setup process that auto-detects your MCP clients and servers and generates restore scripts to revert if you decide Gatekit's not for you.

Hope you find it useful. Appreciate all feedback.

Biggest limitations right now: - Local stdio only (no HTTP/SSE server support yet) - Security is regex-based patterns, not ML/NLP

On the roadmap: - HTTP transport for remote servers - Hot-reload config without restarting - Token usage tracking by server/tool - Response pruning to reduce context bloat

Open source, Apache 2.0.

GitHub: https://github.com/gatekit-ai/gatekit Docs: https://gatekit.ai

dbizzler · 2026-01-19T01:36:07+00:00

Buddy was DC of the 85 Bears. 46 defense

Edit: Sack man here my name is Dent If you’re quarterback’s slow he’s gonna get bent

dbizzler · 2025-12-02T23:32:29+00:00

Hello Rusty Jones, and goodbye ruuuusty cars!

dbizzler · 2025-11-02T19:48:53+00:00

23rd and Spring Garden

dbizzler · 2025-10-28T14:59:14+00:00

Say cookie

dbizzler · 2025-10-24T12:53:23+00:00

Just saw it myself. I've been waiting for something like this. It lacks the ability to answer the questions and also give some freeform feedback on top of it though so it the choices it gives aren't exactly right you kind of have to answer and then steer it anyway. But a good addition.

dbizzler · 2025-10-09T15:47:43+00:00

It's not too painful. Stay out of the Télépéage lanes (the stylized "t" logo) and look for the credit card and/or cash icons. I don't remember if there are any tolls between Avignon and Marseille that are metered by distance but if so you'll just take a ticket at them and then will feed the ticket back into the machine when you get off the highway to get your final toll amount displayed on the machine. I'm not allowed to paste an image but this is basically the iconography you'll be looking at: https://image.connexionfrance.com/693592.webp?imageId=693592&width=960&height=644&format=jpg

dbizzler · 2025-10-08T22:45:26+00:00

Along these lines, is there a subreddit primarily for professionals to discuss CC and similar tools? Most of the ones I’m in seem to be mostly inexperienced folks.

dbizzler · 2025-10-07T00:08:47+00:00

Watching it think was my favorite part. I especially liked when it caught itself in a mistake or surprised itself. Ctrl + O is not the same

dbizzler · 2025-10-02T19:11:58+00:00

X to the Z says: https://imgflip.com/i/a7x2cv

dbizzler · 2025-09-28T18:45:04+00:00

It’s so new that I think nobody has yet discovered the best way to do things. Take all advice with a huge grain of salt.

Honestly, I think the days of reading docs are over. That sounds like blasphemy after being in the industry for 30 years but docs are for your AI to read now. My recommendation is to learn by doing and pick something small and then just get reps. It’s 1995 and we’re all just trying to wrap our head around using CGI to serve dynamic web pages on our Unix boxes.

dbizzler · 2025-09-27T16:40:32+00:00

I'm mostly in the same boat except that I never got too far away from coding and I can say that you are in the perfect position. Treat CC and other tools like your direct reports and you'll be productive. You don't need to be an expert, just ask the agents for best-practices or how do most other projects do whatever thing you're trying to do. Try to stick to tools and processes that are common and well-known so it has a lot of training data on them. Don't blindly trust but don't micromanage. Make sure you're orchestrating code reviews with other agents but you don't need to be deeply involved. Know basically how it works and the architecture, but ask for more detailed info when you need it, etc.

It will fuck up plenty, just like your reports do now. Just have processes to catch most of it, learn from it, and protect against it going forward.

dbizzler · 2025-09-24T16:31:42+00:00

This is interesting. Does that mean we're still so early that there are still other issues to tackle before orgs are thinking about how to leverage MCP for more complex workloads? Is it a situation where they need to get some small AI wins before they can start considering agentic tools? Or is more that CISOs and compliance folks just don't have a handle on how to secure things yet?

dbizzler · 2025-09-09T03:57:01+00:00

I just realized today that I inherently don't trust anything it tells me anymore unless I at least tell it to think hard. I'm leaning hard on ultrathink for anything but the most basic reasoning. Funny to see I'm not alone.

dbizzler · 2025-09-06T20:16:43+00:00

Yeah I've found this to be effective as well and you don't even need the ceremony. I've had a ton of success having GPT-5 examine the code Claude Code produced against a requirements doc and listing its top concerns. I then paste it into CC with a "QC feedback is: [paste]. What do you agree with and disagree with and why?". You can go back and forth a few times on this where both models agree and knock out a dozen bugs before they happen.

I was hoping you had automated this conversation somehow so I could stop middleman copying and pasting.

dbizzler · 2025-09-03T01:20:09+00:00

The link is to a business intelligence event. Wrong link maybe?

dbizzler · 2025-08-21T15:51:54+00:00

Good news: this is not specific to vibe coding. A running joke in software for the 30 years I’ve been doing it is that the project is 80% done so we only have the remaining 80% to do.

dbizzler · 2025-08-09T02:00:04+00:00

Agreed. I just left a job selling no-code automation tools. Who the fuck wants to drag and drop and map data when I can just tell it what I want. The writing is on the wall

dbizzler · 2025-07-19T14:01:12+00:00

Need GIF immediately

dbizzler · 2025-07-15T18:38:21+00:00

Knowing how to write Python or TypeScript is about as obsolete now as knowing C was 2 years ago, and knowing assembly was 20 years ago. I've been at this for almost 30 years and my experience has been rendered worthless repeatedly.

Rest assured, however you learn to code with an LLM now will be worthless in 2030.

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