diff --git a/docs/ai-coder/mcp-server.md b/docs/ai-coder/mcp-server.md index 29d602030ab58..e4ce4c25d7501 100644 --- a/docs/ai-coder/mcp-server.md +++ b/docs/ai-coder/mcp-server.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # MCP Server -Power users can configure Claude Desktop, Cursor, or other external agents to interact with Coder in order to: +Power users can configure [claude.ai](https://claude.ai), Claude Desktop, Cursor, or other external agents to interact with Coder in order to: - List workspaces - Create/start/stop workspaces @@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Power users can configure Claude Desktop, Cursor, or other external agents to in In this model, any custom agent could interact with a remote Coder workspace, or Coder can be used in a remote pipeline or a larger workflow. +## Local MCP server + The Coder CLI has options to automatically configure MCP servers for you. On your local machine, run the following command: ```sh @@ -30,4 +32,27 @@ coder exp mcp server ``` > [!NOTE] -> The MCP server is authenticated with the same identity as your Coder CLI and can perform any action on the user's behalf. Fine-grained permissions and a remote MCP server are in development. [Contact us](https://coder.com/contact) if this use case is important to you. +> The MCP server is authenticated with the same identity as your Coder CLI and can perform any action on the user's behalf. Fine-grained permissions are in development. [Contact us](https://coder.com/contact) if this use case is important to you. + +## Remote MCP server + +Coder can expose an MCP server via HTTP. This is useful for connecting web-based agents, like https://claude.ai/, to Coder. This is an experimental feature and is subject to change. + +To enable this feature, activate the `oauth2` and `mcp-server-http` experiments using an environment variable or a CLI flag: + +```sh +CODER_EXPERIMENTS="oauth2,mcp-server-http" coder server +# or +coder server --experiments=oauth2,mcp-server-http +``` + +The Coder server will expose the MCP server at: + +```txt +https://coder.example.com/api/experimental/mcp/http +``` + +> [!NOTE] +> At this time, the remote MCP server is not compatible with web-based ChatGPT. + +Users can authenticate applications to use the remote MCP server with OAuth2. An authenticated application can perform any action on the user's behalf. Fine-grained permissions are in development.
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