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Unable to run the web UI on Windows #1852

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@Tony10401

Describe the bug
After today's update I am unable to open the web UI for the MCP tester

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Just try to open the UI as documented on the wiki:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
Error running MCP Inspector: Cannot find native binding. npm has a bug related to optional dependencies (npm/cli#4828). Please try npm i again after removing both package-lock.json and node_modules directory.

node --version
v25.9.0

npm --version
11.12.1

Before today's update it was working good. Already tried multiple node versions and all of them fail.

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Should open the MCP tester web UI

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