Harbor MCP Server

<h1 align="center" style="font-weight: bold;">Harbor MCP Server (Experimental 🧪)</h1>

This is an experimental, community-driven MCP server for Harbor. It is not an official Harbor project.
We welcome and rely on community contributions—join us to improve and expand this tool!

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What is this?

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Harbor, enabling AI models and tools to interact with a Harbor container registry in real time.

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Project Links

GitHub Repository

Harbor-MCP on NPM

Docker Hub Image

Official Harbor Project

Quick Start

1. Clone & Install:

   git clone https://github.com/bupd/harbor-mcp-server.git
   cd harbor-mcp-server
   bun install
   bun run build
   

2. Set Environment Variables:

   • export HARBOR_API_BASE=YOUR_HARBOR_URL (e.g. https://demo.goharbor.io/api/v2.0)
   • export HARBOR_AUTH_USER=YOUR_USERNAME
   • export HARBOR_AUTH_PASS=YOUR_PASSWORD (or token or secret or whatever you call it)

3. Run:

   node build/index.js
   

4. Integrate with your MCP client (e.g. Claude Desktop, Cursor) using the appropriate command and environment variables.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "harbor": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "harbor-mcp"
      ],  
      "env": {
        "HARBOR_API_BASE": "HARBOR_URL",
        "HARBOR_AUTH_USER": "HARBOR_USERNAME",
        "HARBOR_AUTH_PASS": "HARBOR_PASSWORD_OR_SECRET"
      }
    }
  }
}

If you have it locally use the below

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "harbor": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "YOUR_ABSOLUTE_PATH/harbor-mcp-server/build/index.js"
      ],
      "env": {
        "HARBOR_API_BASE": "HARBOR_URL",
        "HARBOR_AUTH_USER": "HARBOR_USERNAME",
        "HARBOR_AUTH_PASS": "HARBOR_PASSWORD_OR_SECRET"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run with Docker

"mcpServers": {
  "harbor-mcp": {
    "command": "docker",
    "args": [
      "run",
      "-i",
      "--rm",
      "-e", "HARBOR_API_BASE",
      "-e", "HARBOR_AUTH_USER",
      "-e", "HARBOR_AUTH_PASS",
      "bupd/harbor-mcp-server:latest"
    ],
    "env": {
      "HARBOR_API_BASE": "YOUR_HARBOR_URL",
      "HARBOR_AUTH_USER": "YOUR_HARBOR_USERNAME",
      "HARBOR_AUTH_PASS": "YOUR_HARBOR_PASSWORD_OR_SECRET"
    }
  }
}

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Features / Commands

The following Harbor operations are available as MCP tools:

• get-health: Check Harbor instance health.
• get-statistics: Get project and repository statistics.
• list-projects: List projects (with filters/pagination).
• get-project: Get details for a specific project.
• get-project-summary: Get a summary of a project.
• list-project-members: List members of a project.
• list-repositories-in-project: List repositories in a project.
• list-quotas: List storage quotas for projects.
• search: Search for projects and repositories by name.
• get-configurations: Get system configurations (admin only).
• update-configurations: Update system configurations (admin only, confirmation required).
• get-volumes: Get system volume info (total/free size).

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Contributing

• This project is maintained by the community, for the community.
• We are looking for contributors!
• Open an issue or PR to get involved.

For more details look at (CONTRIBUTING.md)[CONTRIBUTING.md]

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Disclaimer

This is not an official Harbor MCP server.
It is experimental and under active development by the community.

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