---
title: "mcp-server-docker"
description: "MCP server for Docker: manage containers, images, logs, exec, and stats from your AI agent."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/mcp-server-docker
last-updated: 2026-10-05
---

# mcp-server-docker
MCP server for Docker: manage containers, images, logs, exec, and stats from your AI agent.
- Slug: mcp-server-docker
- Publisher: Ofer Shapira
- Repository: https://github.com/ofershap/mcp-server-docker
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.0.1
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): devops-cloud
- Skills: 1 (docker-management)
- MCP servers: 1 (docker)
- Stars: 3
- Repository created: 2026-02-19
- Repository last pushed: 2026-08-10
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/mcp-server-docker
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What mcp-server-docker does, in the publisher's words

Control Docker containers, images, and services from your AI coding assistant. List, start, stop, read logs, run commands inside containers, and check resource usage.

> Compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code Copilot, and any MCP-compatible client. No API keys needed. Connects to your local Docker socket automatically.

Demo built with remotion-readme-kit

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ofershap/mcp-server-docker/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- docker-management: Manage Docker containers and images via MCP. Use when the user asks to docker ps, tail container logs, restart a service, exec into a container, check CPU/memory stats, or clean up images on the local host.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.

## MCP servers

- docker: transport: stdio; command: npx -y mcp-docker-server

Read from the plugin's own mcp.json. Environment variable names only, never values.