Dockerfile Security & Quality Audit

Hadolint-grade Dockerfile audit as an MCP server. 18+ checks across 5 categories, every finding ships with severity, line number, remediation text, and a copy-paste Dockerfile snippet.

Built by Unbearable Labs. Pay-per-event pricing — only billed when a tool is actually called.

Available on

• Apify Actor Store — primary, metered usage (PPE)

• MCPize — pending submission

• MCP.so — pending submission

• PulseMCP — pending submission

• Smithery — pending submission

• Glama — pending submission

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Related MCP server: docker-helper-ai-mcp

What it does

Point any MCP-capable client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, n8n, Make, Zapier, custom agents) at this server, hand it a Dockerfile, get back a structured report:

• Severity — high / medium / low / info

• Line number — exact location in the file

• Description — what's wrong and why it matters

• Remediation — what to do about it

• Fix snippet — Dockerfile syntax you can paste directly

Tools

Provide exactly one of dockerfile_content (paste the file) or dockerfile_url (HTTPS URL — e.g. GitHub raw).

Check catalog (v1: 18 checks across 5 categories)

Use list_checks to get the canonical, up-to-date catalog.

Pricing

Example response (truncated)

{
  "summary": {
    "total_findings": 6,
    "by_severity": {"high": 2, "medium": 2, "low": 2, "info": 0}
  },
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "DFA-021",
      "category": "security",
      "severity": "high",
      "instruction": "USER",
      "line_number": 3,
      "title": "USER root set explicitly",
      "description": "...",
      "remediation": "Switch to a non-root UID after any root-required RUN steps.",
      "fix_dockerfile_snippet": "USER 10001:10001",
      "references": ["CIS-Docker-4.1"]
    }
  ]
}

Connecting from Claude Desktop

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dockerfile-audit": {
      "transport": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://YOUR-ACTOR-URL.apify.actor/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Limits

• Dockerfile size: 200 KB cap per audit

• URL fetch: 5s timeout, max 3 redirects, HTTPS only

• Session timeout: 5 minutes of inactivity

What's NOT covered (yet)

• Live image vulnerability scanning (use Trivy / Grype for that)

• Multi-stage build optimization analysis (DFA-004 / DFA-005 — roadmapped)

• Compose-file audit (separate MCP: docker-compose-audit)

Sibling MCPs from Unbearable Labs

• docker-compose-audit — same pattern for docker-compose.yml

• hu-postcode-validator — Hungarian postcode lookup

Source / contact

Issues and ideas: unbearabledev@gmail.com or the GitHub org UnbearableDev.