Pincer MCP Server

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Pincer runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 28 installs a week from npm. Last commit 18 Feb 2026.

Secure grip for your agent's secrets - security-hardened MCP gateway with proxy token architecture

Installs per day peak 25 · avg 7 · +57% w/w

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18 Feb 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

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License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Pincer every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add pincer -- npx -y pincer-mcp

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pincer": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pincer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.pincer]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "pincer-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pincer": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pincer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pincer": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "pincer-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PINCER_PROXY_TOKEN (Proxy token for agent authentication (generated via 'pincer agent add')), OPENWEBUI_URL (Optional: Base URL for OpenWebUI instance), OPENAI_COMPATIBLE_URL (Optional: Base URL for OpenAI-compatible instance), AUDIT_LOG_PATH (Optional: Custom path for audit logs (default: ~/.pincer/audit.jsonl)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Pincer — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Pincer?

Pincer runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package pincer-mcp was installed 28 times last week.

How do I connect Pincer?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls pincer-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Pincer?

The npm package pincer-mcp was installed 28 times in the last week. Week over week that is +57%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Pincer open source?

We cannot say either way: written in TypeScript and 6 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.