CircusMCP - AI Agent DevServer Management Made Simple

What is CircusMCP?

CircusMCP is a process management tool for local development environments that integrates with AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It runs on any operating system with Python 3.10 or higher and is designed for developers who need simple, light-weight process management with built-in AI automation.

How to use CircusMCP?

Install with uv add circus-mcp or pip install circus-mcp. Start the daemon with uv run circus-mcp start-daemon, then add and start processes using commands like uv run circus-mcp add webapp "python app.py" and uv run circus-mcp start webapp. For AI agent integration, run uv run circus-mcp mcp and configure the agent with the recommended stdio transport settings.

Key features of CircusMCP

• Process management with add, start, stop, restart, and safe ensure-* commands
• Comprehensive monitoring: overview, status-all, log viewing with filtering
• Built-in MCP protocol support for AI agent integration
• Bulk operations: start-all, stop-all, restart-all, logs-all
• Lightweight, no containers needed; cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)

Use cases of CircusMCP

• Web application management with multiple workers (e.g., gunicorn + celery)
• Development environment: manage frontend, backend, and redis with one tool
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