What's Running MCP Server

Name: What's Running MCP Server
Author: io.github.stcmain

io.github.stcmain/whats-running-mcp

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What is the What's Running MCP server?

Live OS ground truth for agents: running agent sessions, listening ports, daemons, system load.

How to install What's Running

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

WR_AGENT_PATTERNS
Comma-separated process-name substrings treated as agent sessions. Default: claude,codex,aider,cursor-agent,copilot,goose

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whats-running-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "whats-running-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WR_AGENT_PATTERNS": "<YOUR_WR_AGENT_PATTERNS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whats-running-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "whats-running-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WR_AGENT_PATTERNS": "<YOUR_WR_AGENT_PATTERNS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "whats-running-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "whats-running-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WR_AGENT_PATTERNS": "<YOUR_WR_AGENT_PATTERNS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "whats-running-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "whats-running-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "WR_AGENT_PATTERNS": "<YOUR_WR_AGENT_PATTERNS>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add whats-running-mcp --env WR_AGENT_PATTERNS=<YOUR_WR_AGENT_PATTERNS> -- npx -y whats-running-mcp

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