Is Portainer Mcp safe to use?

Portainer Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Zlib.

How do I install Portainer Mcp?

Portainer Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can Portainer Mcp do?

Portainer Mcp provides 2 tools: Overview, Installation. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with Portainer Mcp?

Portainer Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Portainer Mcp actively maintained?

Portainer Mcp is recently maintained — last commit was 81 days ago. It has 155 GitHub stars.

Portainer Mcp

Name: Portainer Mcp
Author: portainer

Official

by portainer

Portainer MCP server

155 2 tools GitHub

No known CVEs

Zlib license

Maintained

Last commit 81d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

2 tools · ~198 tok

Grade A · 0.1% of 200K ctx

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DevOps

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "portainer": {
      "args": [
        "-server",
        "[IP]:[PORT]",
        "-token",
        "[TOKEN]",
        "-tools",
        "/tmp/tools.yaml"
      ],
      "command": "/path/to/portainer-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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~198 tokens total

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Portainer Mcp safe to use?: Portainer Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Zlib.
How do I install Portainer Mcp?: Portainer Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Portainer Mcp do?: Portainer Mcp provides 2 tools: Overview, Installation. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Portainer Mcp?: Portainer Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Portainer Mcp actively maintained?: Portainer Mcp is recently maintained — last commit was 81 days ago. It has 155 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "portainer": {
      "args": [
        "-server",
        "[IP]:[PORT]",
        "-token",
        "[TOKEN]",
        "-tools",
        "/tmp/tools.yaml"
      ],
      "command": "/path/to/portainer-mcp"
    }
  }
}

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What Portainer Mcp does

Ever wished you could just ask Portainer what's going on?

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README

Portainer MCP

Ever wished you could just ask Portainer what's going on?

Now you can! Portainer MCP connects your AI assistant directly to your Portainer environments. Manage Portainer resources such as users and environments, or dive deeper by executing any Docker or Kubernetes command directly through the AI.

Overview

Portainer MCP is a work in progress implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Portainer environments. This project aims to provide a standardized way to connect Portainer's container management capabilities with AI models and other services.

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open protocol that standardizes how applications provide context to LLMs (Large Language Models). Similar to how USB-C provides a standardized way to connect devices to peripherals, MCP provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools.

This implementation focuses on exposing Portainer environment data through the MCP protocol, allowing AI assistants and other tools to interact with your containerized infrastructure in a secure and standardized way.

[!NOTE] This tool is designed to work with specific Portainer versions. If your Portainer version doesn't match the supported version, you can use the --disable-version-check flag to attempt connection anyway. See Portainer Version Support for compatible versions and Disable Version Check for bypass instructions.

See the Supported Capabilities sections for more details on compatibility and available features.

Note: This project is currently under development.

It is currently designed to work with a Portainer administrator API token.

Installation

You can download pre-built binaries for Linux (amd64, arm64) and macOS (arm64) from the Latest Release Page. Find the appropriate archive for your operating system and architecture under the "Assets" section.

Download the archive: You can usually download this directly from the release page. Alternatively, you can use curl. Here's an example for macOS (ARM64) version v0.2.0:

# Example for macOS (ARM64) - adjust version and architecture as needed
curl -Lo portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz https://github.com/portainer/portainer-mcp/releases/download/v0.2.0/portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

(Linux AMD64 binaries are also available on the release page.)

(Optional but recommended) Verify the checksum: First, download the corresponding .md5 checksum file from the release page. Example for macOS (ARM64) v0.2.0:

# Download the checksum file (adjust version/arch)
curl -Lo portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.md5 https://github.com/portainer/portainer-mcp/releases/download/v0.2.0/portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.md5
# Now verify (output should match the content of the .md5 file)
if [ "$(md5 -q portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz)" = "$(cat portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz.md5)" ]; then echo "OK"; else echo "FAILED"; fi

(For Linux, you can use md5sum -c <checksum_file_name>.md5) If the verification command outputs "OK", the file is intact.

Extract the archive:

# Adjust the filename based on the downloaded version/OS/architecture
tar -xzf portainer-mcp-v0.2.0-darwin-arm64.tar.gz

This will extract the portainer-mcp executable.

Move the executable: Move the executable to a location in your $PATH (e.g., /usr/local/bin) or note its location for the configuration ste

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Scored, not listed

Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

70/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−30

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

No package registry to scan.

Inventory

Tools (2)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~198 tokens total

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Portainer Mcp safe to use?: Portainer Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Zlib.
How do I install Portainer Mcp?: Portainer Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can Portainer Mcp do?: Portainer Mcp provides 2 tools: Overview, Installation. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with Portainer Mcp?: Portainer Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Portainer Mcp actively maintained?: Portainer Mcp is recently maintained — last commit was 81 days ago. It has 155 GitHub stars.