Harbor MCP server

A Model Context Protocol server for Harbor, the open-source container registry. It lets AI assistants such as Claude, Cursor and VS Code answer questions about a running Harbor: projects and quotas, repositories and artifacts, vulnerability scan results, robot accounts, replication health and garbage collection.

This is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Harbor project or the CNCF; Harbor is a trademark of The Linux Foundation.

Status

Version 0.1.0 is the first release. The twelve read tools work over stdio and streamable HTTP, and are tested against a fake Harbor, Harbor 2.15 on every pull request and Harbor 2.12 to 2.15 nightly, as an administrator and as the read-only robot below. The design is in docs/DESIGN.md.

• Read-only: twelve tools covering projects, repositories, artifacts, vulnerabilities, robots, members, registries, replication, webhooks and garbage collection. Write tools (scan, start replication, add a label, create a project) will come later, only with an explicit opt-in. No tool deletes anything.

• Secrets stay out of the conversation: Harbor credentials, robot secrets and webhook authorization headers never appear in tool results, logs or errors.

• stdio for desktop clients, and streamable HTTP with a bearer token for running in a cluster.

• A signed multi-arch image, ghcr.io/oreondev/harbor-mcp, listed in the official MCP Registry as io.github.oreondev/harbor-mcp.

• Uses the Harbor client of harbor-resource-operator, the Kubernetes operator that manages Harbor projects, robot accounts and replication as code.

Related MCP server: Harbor MCP Server

Tools

Set up a read-only Harbor identity

Run the server as a system robot account that can only read. docs/read-only-robot.json is the request body for Harbor's API, with the permissions the tools need (the end-to-end tests use the same file):

curl -u admin -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d @docs/read-only-robot.json \
  https://harbor.example.com/api/v2.0/robots

Harbor shows the secret once, in the response; the user name is robot$harbor-mcp. An administrator account also works, but gives the assistant more than it needs.

Use it

Configuration comes from environment variables; each except HARBOR_CA_FILE can instead be read from a file named by <NAME>_FILE, for mounted secrets:

Claude Code, with the image (replace 0.1.0 with the latest release):

claude mcp add harbor -e HARBOR_URL=https://harbor.example.com -e 'HARBOR_USERNAME=robot$harbor-mcp' -e HARBOR_PASSWORD=... \
  -- docker run -i --rm -e HARBOR_URL -e HARBOR_USERNAME -e HARBOR_PASSWORD ghcr.io/oreondev/harbor-mcp:0.1.0

Claude Desktop, Cursor and other clients that read an mcpServers file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "harbor": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "HARBOR_URL", "-e", "HARBOR_USERNAME", "-e", "HARBOR_PASSWORD",
               "ghcr.io/oreondev/harbor-mcp:0.1.0"],
      "env": {
        "HARBOR_URL": "https://harbor.example.com",
        "HARBOR_USERNAME": "robot$harbor-mcp",
        "HARBOR_PASSWORD": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Without Docker, download a binary from the releases (or go install github.com/oreondev/harbor-mcp/cmd/harbor-mcp@latest) and use harbor-mcp as the command.

HTTP mode

For a shared server, for example a Deployment next to Harbor, start it with -http and a token:

docker run -d -p 8080:8080 -e HARBOR_URL -e HARBOR_USERNAME -e HARBOR_PASSWORD -e HARBOR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN \
  ghcr.io/oreondev/harbor-mcp:0.1.0 -http :8080
claude mcp add --transport http harbor https://harbor-mcp.example.com/mcp -H "Authorization: Bearer $HARBOR_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN"

MCP is served at /mcp and every request needs the token; GET /healthz is open for probes. Without a token the server only listens on a loopback address. Put TLS in front of it (an ingress or a mesh).

Verify the image

cosign verify ghcr.io/oreondev/harbor-mcp:0.1.0 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github.com/oreondev/harbor-mcp/\.github/workflows/release\.yml@' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

Maintainers

Maintained by Oreon IT. Issues and pull requests are welcome.

Security

Report vulnerabilities privately; see SECURITY.md.

Licence

Apache-2.0.