What's Running runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 58 installs a week from npm. Last commit 1 Oct 2026.
Live OS ground truth for agents: running agent sessions, listening ports, daemons, system load.
We read the source, 3 d ago · rules 995398eba69f
What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.
execFile(cmd, args, { timeout: 10_000, maxBuffer: 8 * 1024 * 1024 }, (err, stdout) => {
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We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.
This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.
claude mcp add whats-running-mcp -- npx -y whats-running-mcp
{
"mcpServers": {
"whats-running-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"whats-running-mcp"
]
}
}
}
[mcp_servers.whats-running-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "whats-running-mcp"]
{
"mcpServers": {
"whats-running-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"whats-running-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"servers": {
"whats-running-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"whats-running-mcp"
]
}
}
}
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
WR_AGENT_PATTERNS (Comma-separated process-name substrings treated as agent sessions. Default: claude,codex,aider,cursor-agent,copilot,goose).
Docs for agent-manager, the terminal UI that runs AI coding agents as live tmux sessions.
Docs for agent-manager, the terminal UI that runs AI coding agents as live tmux sessions.
Deterministic conduct verdicts for live tabletop sessions - CI for running a game.
Persistent memory graph for coding agents: hypotheses, evidence, and decisions survive sessions.
Live AI & Web3 hackathons, grants and programs from HackList, ranked for what's worth entering.
A live graph of your running system, code fused with OTel runtime, that your agent queries over MCP.
Session memory for AI coding agents: records decisions and dead ends, flags what went stale.
Dotenv parser, ports, system info for AI agents
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