Quick Start w/ Claude Desktop

Install

Quick Start w/ Docker Desktop Extension

Install Docker Labs AI Tools for Devs
Click on the Claude button to add mcp_docker toolbox to your Claude Desktop.
Select any prompts you would like to add from the catalog to your toolbox.

or manually configure claude desktop to use the mcp/run Docker container.

Restart Claude Desktop

Restarting desktop should be a one-time activity. However, Claude Desktop does not support the tools/list_changed notification so we currently have to restart desktop more less continuously. Use alt + r to restart Claude Desktop.

Try a prompt

Type an instruction to Claude that will use one of the tools you’ve added. For example, if you’ve enabled the hello world tool, then you could type the following.

Use hello world to send a greeting and then respond to what comes back.

Claude Desktop has not yet implemented the notifications/tools/list_changed. This means that Claude doesn’t reload our tool definitions until it is restarted. It’s easier to develop prompts in VSCode where we can create a much more efficient inner loop.

Quick Start w/ VSCode