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MCP Nixos

MCP Nixos is an MCP server that adds cloud and DevOps tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP-NixOS - Model Context Protocol Server for NixOS resources. It has 864 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos.

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Install MCP Nixos

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Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-nixos": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport stdio mcp-nixos -- docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-nixos": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-nixos": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

About MCP Nixos

🚨 No Nix/NixOS Required! Works on any system - Windows, macOS, Linux. You're just querying APIs. Your AI now has access to real NixOS data instead of making things up. You're welcome.

  • ai-assistant
  • ai-integration
  • ai-tools
  • anthropic
  • claude
  • developer-tools
  • devops-tools
  • fastmcp
  • llm-tools
  • mcp

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How do I install the MCP Nixos MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/utensils/mcp-nixos to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is MCP Nixos free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It does not declare any required API key.

Is MCP Nixos actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 26, 2026. The latest release is v3.1.0, published Sep 5, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.