Summary
This server wraps Apple's container CLI tool for macOS, letting Claude create and manage lightweight Linux containers natively on Apple Silicon. You get programmatic access to container operations like spinning up Ubuntu instances, running commands, and managing container lifecycles without leaving your MCP workflow. It requires macOS 26+, Xcode 26, and Apple's containerization framework installed. The author built it to highlight Apple's relatively new containerization efforts while providing a coderunner-style interface for LLM-driven container tasks. Fair warning from the docs: security is minimal and Claude might helpfully delete your data, so keep it local and test carefully before trusting it with anything important.
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ACMS (Apple Container MCP Server)
ACMS is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides programmatic access to Apple's container CLI tool on macOS. ACMS can be run locally or accessed remotely via HTTP/S.
The point of ACMS is to bring attention to the Containerization package and Container cli efforts. Inspiration for ACMS came from coderunner.
Prerequisites
- Mac with Apple Silicon
- macOS 26+ - It can run on Sequoia with limitations.
- Xcode 26 - required to compile containerization
- Apple Containerization Framework - (required for container functionality)
- Apple Container Cli - installed and in PATH
Quick Start
Install
Either clone the repository or pip install acms in a venv.
Start Apple Container Services
container system start
Start ACMS Server
# Recommended: Use the startup script
./start-acms.sh
# Or start directly with custom options
python3 acms/acms.py --port 8765 --host 127.0.0.1 > acms.log 2>&1 &
Configure MCP Client
Add to your MCP client configuration:
claude mcp add --transport http acms http://localhost:8765/mcp
Usage Examples
"acms create an ubuntu x64 container ..."
Testing
ACMS includes comprehensive end-to-end testing, just tell Claude to run the "ACMS CLAUDE TEST GUIDE".
Security Considerations
This is not secure, especially if you run it on a remote Mac OS endpoint on your home net. Also, you can lose your data when Claude tries to be helpful.
mcp-name: io.github.gattjoe/ACMS
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