Deploy and manage apps on your own AppCrane instance, the self-hosted PaaS for AI-built apps.
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add appcrane -e APPCRANE_URL=<APPCRANE_URL> -e APPCRANE_KEY=<APPCRANE_KEY> -e APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN=<APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN> -- npx -y [email protected]{
"mcpServers": {
"appcrane": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"APPCRANE_URL": "<APPCRANE_URL>",
"APPCRANE_KEY": "<APPCRANE_KEY>",
"APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"appcrane": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"APPCRANE_URL": "<APPCRANE_URL>",
"APPCRANE_KEY": "<APPCRANE_KEY>",
"APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"appcrane": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"[email protected]"
],
"env": {
"APPCRANE_URL": "<APPCRANE_URL>",
"APPCRANE_KEY": "<APPCRANE_KEY>",
"APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN>"
}
}
}
}Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
APPCRANE_URLOptional | 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_KEYOptional, secret | Your AppCrane API key, sent to the instance as the X-API-Key header. Required to execute tools. |
APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKENOptional, secret | Optional GitHub personal access token, sent as X-Github-Token, to unlock the github_* passthrough tools. |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (NPM, stdio) |
| First published | 8 Nov 2026 |
| Last updated | 8 Nov 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.gitayg/appcrane |
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