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dockhand-mcp

WARNING

Deprecated and no longer maintained. This project has been superseded by strausmann/mcp-dockhand — a more complete, actively maintained Dockhand MCP server (130+ tools covering the full API, modern Streamable HTTP transport). Please use that instead. This repository is archived for reference only.

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes the Dockhand Docker management REST API as tools for LLMs such as Claude.

Runs as a Docker-hosted SSE server — deploy it once, connect any MCP client over HTTP.

Features

  • Manage containers: list, inspect, create, start, stop, restart, remove, get logs

  • Manage compose stacks: list, create, start, stop, restart, remove

  • Manage Git stacks: list, create, deploy

  • Manage images: list, pull, push, remove, vulnerability scan

  • Manage volumes: list, create, remove

  • Manage networks: list, create, remove

  • Bulk operations: batch start/stop/restart/remove across containers, images, volumes, networks, or stacks

  • Activity log and schedules: inspect events and scheduled tasks

  • All long-running operations return synchronous JSON results (no job-polling needed)

Related MCP server: MCP Dockhand

Requirements

  • Docker + Docker Compose

  • A running Dockhand instance

Deployment

The image is published automatically to ghcr.io/markhaines/dockhand-mcp:latest on every push to main.

Remote server (recommended)

Copy docker-compose.yml to any machine with Docker and run:

DOCKHAND_URL=http://your-dockhand-host:3001 \
DOCKHAND_COOKIE="connect.sid=s%3A..." \
docker compose up -d

No build step — Docker pulls the pre-built image from the registry.

Local

git clone https://github.com/markhaines/dockhand-mcp
cd dockhand-mcp
DOCKHAND_URL=http://localhost:3000 docker compose up -d

Configuration

Variable

Default

Description

DOCKHAND_URL

http://localhost:3000

Base URL of your Dockhand instance

DOCKHAND_COOKIE

(empty)

Session cookie for authenticated instances (e.g. connect.sid=s%3A...)

PORT

8000

Port the MCP server listens on

ROOT_PATH

(empty)

Public path prefix when serving behind a reverse proxy sub-path (e.g. /dockhand)

To get your session cookie when authentication is enabled, log in to Dockhand in your browser and copy the connect.sid cookie value from DevTools > Application > Cookies.

Connecting to Claude

Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dockhand": {
      "url": "http://your-server:8000/sse"
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport sse dockhand http://your-server:8000/sse

Available Tools

Category

Tool

Description

Environments

list_environments

List all configured Docker environments

Environments

get_dashboard_stats

Get CPU/memory/container stats

Containers

list_containers

List all containers

Containers

get_container

Inspect a container

Containers

create_container

Create a new container

Containers

start_container

Start a stopped container

Containers

stop_container

Stop a running container

Containers

restart_container

Restart a container

Containers

remove_container

Delete a container

Containers

get_container_logs

Fetch container logs

Bulk

batch_operation

Bulk start/stop/restart/remove

Stacks

list_stacks

List compose stacks

Stacks

create_stack

Create and deploy a stack

Stacks

start_stack

Start a stack

Stacks

stop_stack

Stop a stack

Stacks

restart_stack

Restart a stack

Stacks

remove_stack

Remove a stack

Git Stacks

list_git_stacks

List Git-backed stacks

Git Stacks

create_git_stack

Create a Git-backed stack

Git Stacks

deploy_git_stack

Deploy a Git stack

Images

list_images

List images

Images

pull_image

Pull an image

Images

push_image

Push an image

Images

remove_image

Remove an image

Images

scan_image

Vulnerability scan

Volumes

list_volumes

List volumes

Volumes

create_volume

Create a volume

Volumes

remove_volume

Remove a volume

Networks

list_networks

List networks

Networks

create_network

Create a network

Networks

remove_network

Remove a network

Activity

get_activity

Get container event log

Schedules

list_schedules

List scheduled tasks

Multi-environment support

Every tool accepts an optional env parameter (integer environment ID). Omit it to use the default environment, or pass the ID returned by list_environments to target a specific remote host.

License

MIT

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