MCP server for apps?

[ekevu123]

How about integrating MCP for apps? This way, I could use AI help, like Claude Code, for debugging or any other terminal access to any of my apps. It would need to be secured via SSH, but then it should be reasonably secure? And since this is only about app access, and not about full server access, there is little chance to break stuff on a bigger scale?

I suppose every app would need to have a separate MCP server, but I could just add the ones I really need.

[james]

Is this the same as

• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13739/mcp-proxy-server

?

[ekevu123]

@james No, the cited discussion focuses on Openwebui.

[james]

Hello @ekevu123
I understand that the discussion is about OpenWebUI, but the technology discussed MCP and MCPO / MCP Proxy Server are the same, or not?

@ekevu123 said in MCP server for apps?:

I suppose every app would need to have a separate MCP server, but I could just add the ones I really need.

If I understand it correctly MCP should be added as a https://docs.cloudron.io/packaging/addons/ like redis for certain apps.

Correct?

[fbartels]

Isn't the better place for a mcp server in Cloudron directly at the Cloudron Api? Via mcp your ai could talk to the Cloudron Api, and through this access files, logs, execute commands, install/update.

The api is described here: https://docs.cloudron.io/api.html

I would think since there is an openapi spec there is probably already some mcp server that could import it.

[joseph]

The openapi spec is here - https://git.cloudron.io/docs/docs/-/tree/master/api?ref_type=heads

[fbartels]

Here is a how-to https://earthkhan.medium.com/turn-your-openapi-in-mcp-server-in-5-minutes-e2859383d0dc

[ekevu123]

Using the Cloudron API is a good idea to solve this! That would enable MCP capabilities, I suppose. But I think the feature request still stands here, I understand I could code a workaround right now, but it could be convenient to activate the MCP where needed, perhaps by copy-pasting a snippet, which should be fine.