procm-mcp

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for process management.

Supported features

• Secure and automatable process creation

• Cleanup created processes automatically on termination (e.g. exiting claude code)

• Common process management features supported, restarting, deleting, checking status or retreving stdout/stderr of processes

Using these features, LLMs start processes like development servers, docker-compose, or test watchers and check their outputs to fix bugs automatically.

Related MCP server: Terminal Controller for MCP

Installation

npm i -D procm-mcp

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "procm-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["./node_modules/procm-mcp/build/index.js"],
      "env": {}
    }
  }
}

Secure process creation

You can permit LLMs to use start-process tool without confirmation, because procm-mcp only allow whitelisted process creations.

LLMs will ask you to use allow-start-process tool to add specific process creation to the whitelist.

Once you allow a process creation, you don't have to confirming it anymore as long as the command and the working directory are the same.

I call it "allow-x pattern", which can balances security and usability in MCP.

Warning: Do not permit LLMs to use allow-start-process without confirmation.That means "Do anything you want to".

Tools

• allow-start-process Allow specific processes to be created

  • script (required): The script/command to allow

  • args (optional): Array of arguments

  • cwd (optional): Working directory

• start-process Start a new process with specified script and arguments

  • script (required): The script/command to execute

  • name (optional): A friendly name for the process

  • args (optional): Array of arguments to pass to the script

  • cwd (required): Working directory for the process

  • envs (optional): Environment variables to set for the process

• delete-process Stop and remove a process by ID.The default signal is SIGTERM, but SIGKILL(force killing) will be sent after 10 seconds unless the process exits.

  • id (required): The process ID

• restart-process Restart an existing process by ID

  • id (required): The process ID

• get-process-info Get detailed information about a process

  • id (required): The process ID

• list-processes List all currently managed processes

  • No parameters required

• get-process-stdout Retrieve stdout logs from a process

  • id (required): The process ID

  • chunkCount (optional): Number of recent log entries to retrieve (default: 10)

• get-process-stderr Retrieve stderr logs from a process

  • id (required): The process ID

  • chunkCount (optional): Number of recent log entries to retrieve (default: 10)

License

MIT