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Proxmox VE for VS Code

io.github.mattoddie/proxmox-mcp

Monitor and manage Proxmox VE clusters: VMs, containers, storage and backups. Read-only by default.

client:VS Code transport:stdio runtime:oci

Install Proxmox VE in VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "mcp-transport",
      "description": "MCP_TRANSPORT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-url",
      "description": "PROXMOX_URL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-api-token",
      "description": "PROXMOX_API_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-username",
      "description": "PROXMOX_USERNAME",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-password",
      "description": "PROXMOX_PASSWORD",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-tls-fingerprint",
      "description": "PROXMOX_TLS_FINGERPRINT",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-verify-ssl",
      "description": "PROXMOX_VERIFY_SSL",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-default-node",
      "description": "PROXMOX_DEFAULT_NODE",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-allow-writes",
      "description": "PROXMOX_ALLOW_WRITES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-allow-deletes",
      "description": "PROXMOX_ALLOW_DELETES",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-allow-exec",
      "description": "PROXMOX_ALLOW_EXEC",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-toolsets",
      "description": "PROXMOX_TOOLSETS",
      "password": true
    },
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "proxmox-audit-log",
      "description": "PROXMOX_AUDIT_LOG",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "proxmox-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/mattoddie/proxmox-mcp:0.5.2"
      ],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "${input:mcp-transport}",
        "PROXMOX_URL": "${input:proxmox-url}",
        "PROXMOX_API_TOKEN": "${input:proxmox-api-token}",
        "PROXMOX_USERNAME": "${input:proxmox-username}",
        "PROXMOX_PASSWORD": "${input:proxmox-password}",
        "PROXMOX_TLS_FINGERPRINT": "${input:proxmox-tls-fingerprint}",
        "PROXMOX_VERIFY_SSL": "${input:proxmox-verify-ssl}",
        "PROXMOX_DEFAULT_NODE": "${input:proxmox-default-node}",
        "PROXMOX_ALLOW_WRITES": "${input:proxmox-allow-writes}",
        "PROXMOX_ALLOW_DELETES": "${input:proxmox-allow-deletes}",
        "PROXMOX_ALLOW_EXEC": "${input:proxmox-allow-exec}",
        "PROXMOX_TOOLSETS": "${input:proxmox-toolsets}",
        "PROXMOX_AUDIT_LOG": "${input:proxmox-audit-log}"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code prompts for each input the first time the server starts, so no secret is written to the file. VS Code docs

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