generated: '2026-07-25'
method: searched
source: npm registry search, PyPI, and the 3GPP forge tooling page
summary: >-
  3GPP publishes no client libraries. It ships specifications and machine readable OpenAPI, and leaves
  implementation to vendors and operators. The registry search below found only third party work built around
  3GPP specifications, none of it first party.
official_packages: []
first_party_tooling:
  - name: API Parser / Linter
    url: https://forge.3gpp.org/swagger/tools/parser.html
    description: >-
      3GPP hosted browser tool that parses the published OpenAPI documents with the APIDevTools Swagger
      Parser and runs 3GPP lint rules over them.
  - name: Data Type Finder
    url: https://forge.3gpp.org/swagger/tools/types.html
    description: finds which APIs are impacted by a change to a given data type
  - name: API Versions Overview
    url: https://forge.3gpp.org/swagger/tools/versions.html
    description: report of the versions of every API in the repository
  - name: Custom header ABNF checker
    url: https://forge.3gpp.org/swagger/tools/headers.html?abnf=TS29500_CustomHeaders.abnf
    description: checks 3GPP HTTP custom headers against the TS 29.500 ABNF
third_party_packages:
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: '3gpp'
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/3gpp
    publisher: learnwithexamples
    official: false
    description: community package for 3GPP specs focused on the 36 and 38 series
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: sms-3gpp
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/sms-3gpp
    publisher: latysheff
    official: false
    description: 3GPP SMS TPDU and RPDU library
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: milenage
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/milenage
    publisher: atesgoral
    official: false
    description: 3GPP MILENAGE authentication and key generation functions
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: 3gpp-mcp-server
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/3gpp-mcp-server
    publisher: narendralomada
    official: false
    description: community MCP server for querying 3GPP telecom protocol specifications
  - language: javascript
    registry: npm
    name: 3gpp-kb-mcp
    url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/3gpp-kb-mcp
    publisher: uvipatil
    official: false
    description: community MCP server over a local 3GPP knowledge base
notes:
  - PyPI has no package named 3gpp (404 on the JSON API).
  - There is no github.com/3gpp organisation; 3GPP runs its own GitLab at forge.3gpp.org.