AppCrane MCP Server

io.github.gitayg/appcrane

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What is the AppCrane MCP server?

Deploy and manage apps on your own AppCrane instance, the self-hosted PaaS for AI-built apps.

How to install AppCrane

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

APPCRANE_URL
Base URL of your own AppCrane instance, e.g. https://crane.example.com. Without it the connector still starts and answers tools/list from the bundled catalog, but cannot execute tools.
APPCRANE_KEY
secret
Your AppCrane API key, sent to the instance as the X-API-Key header. Required to execute tools.
APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN
secret
Optional GitHub personal access token, sent as X-Github-Token, to unlock the github_* passthrough tools.

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "appcrane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "appcrane-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPCRANE_URL": "<YOUR_APPCRANE_URL>",
        "APPCRANE_KEY": "<YOUR_APPCRANE_KEY>",
        "APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<YOUR_APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN>"
      }
    }
  }
}