netscli 0.3.3 download

Windows executables and the desktop installer are signed, so Windows no longer warns that the publisher is unknown. Connecting the MCP server to a client no longer means installing netscli first and writing the configuration by hand: npx netscli serve works, and each release carries a one-click bundle for clients that support them.
Added
- Windows executables and the desktop installer are signed. Both netscli
builds and the .msi now carry an Authenticode signature from a Certum
certificate, timestamped so it keeps verifying after the certificate
expires. Windows has been showing an unknown-publisher warning on every
download since the first release, and SmartScreen treats an unsigned
installer from a low-reputation domain as something to discourage rather
than merely flag.
Signing happens in one job, after the builds and before anything is
uploaded, so a release carries all three signed or none of them. Half a
signed release would be worse than none: nothing on the page would say
which artifacts were which.
- Two new ways to connect the MCP server, so it no longer has to be a
hand-written config file. Until now the only route was installing netscli,
finding where it landed, and writing the JSON yourself.
npx netscli serve now works: netscli is on npm as a small launcher plus
one prebuilt binary per platform, and npm fetches only the one that matches
your machine. This is the form every MCP client's documentation already uses.
There are also .mcpb bundles on each release, one per platform. A client
that supports MCP bundles installs one in a single action — the binary is
inside, so nothing else is needed. The install prompt carries a switch for
the local-network default described below, which is the first time that
choice has been visible to the person making it rather than buried in an
environment variable.
Anyone who already has netscli installed should keep pointing their client
at it. That copy is the version you chose, there is only one of it, and it
is the only one of the three that can capture packets — libpcap and Npcap
cannot be shipped inside an npm package or a bundle.
Documentation
- The MCP page now says what the local-network default is and why. The
server has refused targets outside your own networks since 0.3.1, and the
only description of that lived in a source comment, so the first anyone
heard of it was an error message naming a variable. It is now written down
next to the reason: this is the one surface where a scan can be requested by
something a model read rather than by the person at the keyboard.
Full changelog: v0.3.2...v0.3.3