# portainer-mcp

> MCP server that gives AI assistants 53 tools to manage Portainer: deploy and update stacks, inspect and roll out Swarm services/tasks/nodes, manage containers, volumes, networks, exec commands, pull images, inspect endpoints, monitor resources, analyze logs

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/portainer-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/ginkida/portainer-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/ginkida/portainer-mcp
- version: 0.8.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-tools, containers, devops, docker, docker-swarm, llm-tools, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, portainer
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:portainer-mcp

### Description (declared)

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# Portainer MCP Server

[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](LICENSE)
[![Python 3.10+](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.10%2B-blue.svg)](https://python.org)
[![MCP](https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-compatible-green.svg)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io)
[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/portainer-mcp)](https://pypi.org/project/portainer-mcp/)

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that gives AI assistants — Claude, Copilot, Cursor, and others — **53 tools to manage Portainer container environments**: deploy and update stacks (Env preserved, re-pull on demand), inspect Swarm services/tasks/nodes, manage containers/images/volumes/networks, exec commands, analyze logs, and inspect endpoints — all through natural language. Two optional Laravel helpers bring the total to 55.

> **For LLM agents:** This server connects via stdio transport and ships server instructions (start with services on Swarm, inspect before update). Every tool returns JSON. All mutating operations are audit-logged. Credential-looking values are masked as `[REDACTED]` unless you ask for `reveal_env=true`. Credentials are passed via environment variables, never hardcoded.

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## Why Use This

- **Natural language DevOps** — Ask your AI assistant to deploy a stack, check container logs, or pull an image.
- **Swarm-native** — Services, tasks and nodes as first-class tools (`docker service ls/ps/logs/update` equivalents plus a per-stack health summary); stack deploys auto-detect Swarm vs standalone.
- **Safe by default** — Input validation, path traversal protection, sensitive field filtering, credential masking in stack/service inspect, `[REDACTED]` values can never be written back, and force-remove disabled by default.
- **Token auth** — Use a Portainer access token (`PORTAINER_API_KEY`) instead of an admin password.
- **…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.cloud (1, declared)
- automation.orchestration (0.997, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/portainer-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T10:23:33.379Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/portainer-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/portainer-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:portainer-mcp