Stdio MCP bridge for helmdeck. Connects Claude Code, Claude Desktop, OpenClaw, and Gemini CLI to a helmdeck control plane via the Model Context Protocol.

Quick start

# One-shot, no install
HELMDECK_URL=https://helmdeck.example HELMDECK_TOKEN=... npx @helmdeck/mcp-bridge

# Or install globally
npm install -g @helmdeck/mcp-bridge
helmdeck-mcp

Configuration

The bridge reads two environment variables:

Variable	Description
`HELMDECK_URL`	Base URL of the helmdeck control plane (e.g. `https://helmdeck.example`)
`HELMDECK_TOKEN`	Bearer JWT issued from the Management UI's API Tokens panel

Client snippets

The control plane exposes ready-to-paste configuration snippets at GET /api/v1/connect/{client} for each supported client. Example:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $HELMDECK_TOKEN" \
  "$HELMDECK_URL/api/v1/connect/claude-code"

Supported clients: claude-code, claude-desktop, openclaw, gemini-cli.

How it works

postinstall downloads the platform-matching helmdeck-mcp binary from the corresponding GitHub Release, verifies its SHA256 against checksums.txt, and places it in bin/. Set HELMDECK_MCP_SKIP_DOWNLOAD=1 to skip the download (useful in CI images that bake the binary in another way).