MCAP
- Software
- Middleware
- Library
MCAP is a logging library and file format widely used in robotics, built to handle varied workloads, resource limits, and durability needs.
Made by Foxglove.
Source on GitHub: github.com/foxglove/mcap (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit 4b0a12b (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit 4b0a12b (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Provides libraries for C++, Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Swift, and Rust.
- Serves as a serialization-agnostic log container file format.
- Includes a command line tool to inspect, merge, and split MCAP files.
- Has a published file format specification and a Kaitai Struct definition.
- Accepts contributions; build, test, and lint commands are described in AGENTS.md.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit 4b0a12b.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Intermediate
- How to start
- The project's website (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Active: a commit in the last 90 days
- Newest commit
- 16 Oct 2026 on main
- Latest release
- CLI v0.4.0 (16 Oct 2026)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots on Robotheca that use it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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