MCP Integration

sind includes a built-in Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes all CLI commands as tools for AI assistants. This lets tools like Claude, VS Code Copilot, or Cursor create clusters, check status, manage workers, and control node power states through natural language.

Quick setup

# Claude Desktop
sind mcp claude enable

# VS Code
sind mcp vscode enable

# Cursor
sind mcp cursor enable

To unregister:

sind mcp claude disable
sind mcp vscode disable
sind mcp cursor disable

Manual configuration

If you prefer to configure the MCP server manually, add the following to your editor’s MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sind": {
      "command": "sind",
      "args": ["mcp", "start"]
    }
  }
}

Available tools

All sind commands are automatically exposed as MCP tools. To see the full list:

sind mcp tools

This exports the tool definitions to mcp-tools.json. The tools follow the naming convention sind_<command>_<subcommand>, for example:

Tool	Description
`sind_create_cluster`	Create a new cluster
`sind_create_worker`	Add workers to a running cluster
`sind_delete_cluster`	Delete a cluster
`sind_status`	Show cluster status
`sind_get_nodes`	List cluster nodes
`sind_power_shutdown`	Shut down a node
`sind_power_reboot`	Reboot a node
`sind_ssh`	SSH into a node

HTTP mode

For remote or multi-client setups, sind can serve MCP over HTTP:

sind mcp stream --host localhost --port 8080