From 6e27b5d5302cca7a149ff83525ab01d9afda75a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 13:23:33 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] In #544 a change to cli/src/index.ts was introduced that
 reads package.json from one level up. It works if the project is checked out
 locally, but not in the npm package, because the package.json of the
 workspace packages is not included in the inspector package. We can get that
 from one level up, the inpsector's own package, and so this change does that.

---
 cli/src/index.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cli/src/index.ts b/cli/src/index.ts
index a7c5896d..70c28656 100644
--- a/cli/src/index.ts
+++ b/cli/src/index.ts
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ type JsonValue =
   | JsonValue[]
   | { [key: string]: JsonValue };
 
-import packageJson from "../package.json" with { type: "json" };
+import packageJson from "../../package.json" with { type: "json" };
 
 type Args = {
   target: string[];

From 19a7d3752c1b2f644b984b3e57718eb7065f18da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 14:54:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Depending upon whether it is being invoked from the npm
 package @modelcontextprotocol/inspector or
 @modelcontextprotocol/inspector-cli the location of package.json will either
 be in ../ or ../../

* In cli/src/index.ts
  - load package.json from the parent folder or parent's parent depending on file existence in parent.
  - move the load of package.json into callMethod function, which is the only place it is used, and is closer to where it is referenced.
---
 cli/src/index.ts | 12 ++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cli/src/index.ts b/cli/src/index.ts
index 70c28656..90c9f5e6 100644
--- a/cli/src/index.ts
+++ b/cli/src/index.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env node
 
+import * as fs from "fs";
 import { Client } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/client/index.js";
 import { Command } from "commander";
 import {
@@ -31,8 +32,6 @@ type JsonValue =
   | JsonValue[]
   | { [key: string]: JsonValue };
 
-import packageJson from "../../package.json" with { type: "json" };
-
 type Args = {
   target: string[];
   method?: string;
@@ -101,6 +100,15 @@ function createTransportOptions(
 }
 
 async function callMethod(args: Args): Promise<void> {
+  // Read package.json to get name and version for client identity
+  const pathA = "../package.json"; // We're in package @modelcontextprotocol/inspector-cli
+  const pathB = "../../package.json"; // We're in package @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
+  let packageJson: { name: string; version: string };
+  let packageJsonData = await import(fs.existsSync(pathA) ? pathA : pathB, {
+    with: { type: "json" },
+  });
+  packageJson = packageJsonData.default;
+
   const transportOptions = createTransportOptions(
     args.target,
     args.transport,