# remote-server-mcp

> Security-first MCP server for managing Docker services on a remote server or on the local host.

Record `remote-server-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/remote-server-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/remote-server-mcp
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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/remote-server-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/elmuz/server-mcp/tree/main/docs
- repository: https://github.com/elmuz/server-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.5.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, linux, server-management, docker, homelab, self-hosting
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:remote-server-mcp

### Description (declared)

# remote-server-mcp

Security-first MCP server for Docker service management over SSH or on the local host.

Part of the [Server MCP suite](../../README.md). It exposes a fixed catalog of 23 tools
(directory and container discovery, container and host-service logs, status and health,
start/stop/restart, scoped Compose operations, confined file reads, server health,
read-only InfluxDB/Prometheus queries and InfluxDB schema discovery). No generic command
execution.

The container CLI is configurable (`docker`, `podman` or `nerdctl`). `start_service`,
`restart_service`, `stop_service`, `compose_pull`, `compose_up` and `compose_down` require
`confirm=true` and are bounded by a per-process rate limit; `start_service` reports an
already-running container without calling `docker start`. Streamable HTTP is available with
`--transport streamable-http`: it binds to loopback by default and requires a bearer token
for any other address.

Host infrastructure services such as `telegraf`, `smartmontools` and `docker` are systemd
units, not containers. `get_host_service_status`, `get_host_service_logs` and
`search_host_service_logs` read them with `systemctl`/`journalctl` and only accept units
listed in `security.host_units`. Journal reads accept a `since` window and search matches
the exact literal pattern locally.

Container logs always include timestamps. A log request can add a `since`/`until` window
and target one container in a compose project; search matches the exact literal pattern.
Every tool publishes a structured `ToolResponse` next to the readable text. Composite and
listing responses receive a final `output.max_bytes` cap. When the audit log
is enabled, InfluxDB and Prometheus queries are recorded by length/SHA-256 fingerprint
rather than by query text.

Prometheus is optional. Its metric endpoints can be reached through an HTTPS reverse proxy
or a loopback-only `ssh_tunnel` created by the MCP; see
[configuration](../../docs/configuration.md#database-endpoints).

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## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.cloud (1, declared)
- dev.monitoring (0.802, derived)
- data.database (0.791, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/remote-server-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-22T19:25:33.084Z)

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