Theo-Gkisis/dockhand

An MCP server that gives Claude hands-on control of Docker — containers, images, compose stacks, and volumes.

About dockhand

An MCP server that gives an LLM (Claude, etc.) direct control over your local Docker daemon — run and manage containers, images, volumes, networks, and Compose stacks through natural language.

Built with FastMCP and the Docker SDK for Python.

- Python = 3.14 - Docker installed and running locally (Docker Desktop, Docker Engine, etc.) - Docker Compose v2 CLI (docker compose) available on PATH — required for the stack/compose tools - uv for dependency management

This creates a .venv and installs the dependencies pinned in uv.lock.

The server communicates over stdio, so it's meant to be launched by an MCP client rather than run standalone in a terminal.

Connecting to Claude Desktop / Claude Code

Add an entry to your MCP client's configuration (e.g. claudedesktopconfig.json):

Restart the client and the tools below become available to the model.

Tool Description ------ runcontainer Runs a container from an image, mapping a container port to a host port stopcontainer Stops a running container containerstart Starts a stopped container containerrestart Restarts a container deletecontainer Force-removes a container (stops it first if needed) listcontainers Lists all containers and their status containerlogs Fetches the last N log lines from a container containerstats Reports live CPU % and memory usage containerinspect Shows env vars, mounts, network IPs, and health status containerexec Executes a shell command inside a running container

From the project README.

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