---
title: "toolport"
description: "Every tool. One port. Connects this agent to your local Toolport gateway: every MCP server you set up in Toolport, exposed through a handful of compact meta-tools instead of hundreds of tool definitions (~90% fewer token"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/toolport--btsouth
last-updated: 2026-09-25
---

# toolport
Every tool. One port. Connects this agent to your local Toolport gateway: every MCP server you set up in Toolport, exposed through a handful of compact meta-tools instead of hundreds of tool definitions (~90% fewer tokens, measured).
- Slug: toolport--btsouth
- Publisher: Toolport
- Repository: https://github.com/btsouth/toolport
- Manifest: packaging/agent-plugin/toolport/plugin.json
- Version: 1.21.2
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 1 (toolport)
- MCP servers: 1 (toolport)
- Stars: 221
- Repository created: 2026-06-19
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-25
- Publisher type: User
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/toolport--btsouth
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What toolport does, in the publisher's words

Connect any Agent Plugins 1.0 client (VS Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and other conformant agents), or Claude Code, to your local Toolport gateway with one install.

The plugin bundles:

- An MCP server entry (mcp.json /.mcp.json) that launches the toolport-gateway binary already installed on this machine, wherever the Toolport app put it (see bin/launch-gateway.mjs for the search order).
- A skill (skills/toolport/) teaching the agent Toolport's search → call workflow, code mode, shaped results, and the approval flow.

Both manifest layouts ship in this one folder (plugin.json + mcp.json at the root for Agent Plugins 1.0,.claude-plugin/plugin.json +.mcp.json for Claude Code), so the same directory installs into either ecosystem.

- The Toolport desktop app installed and opened at least once (it publishes the gateway binary the plugin launches).

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btsouth/toolport/HEAD/packaging/agent-plugin/toolport/README.md

## Skills

- toolport: Use when the user asks for any external action or data: email, payments, deployments, databases, repos, issues, files, web search, messaging, or any connected service. Toolport is the front door to every MCP server on this machine; search it before concluding a capability is unavailable.

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

## MCP servers

- toolport: transport: stdio; command: node ${PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/launch-gateway.mjs

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