Gordon as an MCP server

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Gordon as an MCP server

In addition to functioning as an MCP client, Gordon can also act as an MCP server. This means that all the tools configured in the toolbox section of Gordon can be exposed to another MCP client like Claude Desktop, Cursor and others.

To use Gordon’s built-in tools in other MCP clients, configure your client of choice to use the docker ai mcpserver command. This allows Gordon to serve its built-in tools via the MCP protocol for various clients.

For example, to enable Gordon’s tools in Claude Desktop, add the following configuration to the Claude configuration file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gordon": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["ai", "mcpserver"]
    }
  }
}

This setup ensures that Claude Desktop can communicate with Gordon as an MCP server, leveraging its built-in tools. You can follow the Claude Desktop documentation to explore further.

Tool permissions and security

These tools operate with the same permissions as the user running the application.

Any potentially destructive tool call, changing files, deleting images or stopping containers will ask for your confirmation before proceeding.