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AppCrane MCP Server

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AppCrane runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 660 installs a week from npm. Last commit 22 Oct 2026.

Deploy and manage apps on your own AppCrane instance, the self-hosted PaaS for AI-built apps.

Installs per day peak 300 · avg 37 · -18% w/w
a month agotoday
660
Installs / week
npm · appcrane-mcp
0
Stars
0 open issues
22 Oct 2026
Last commit
16 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
JavaScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check AppCrane every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add appcrane -- npx -y appcrane-mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "appcrane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "appcrane-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.appcrane]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "appcrane-mcp"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "appcrane": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "appcrane-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "appcrane": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "appcrane-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: APPCRANE_URL (Base URL of your own AppCrane instance, e.g. https://crane.example.com. Without it the connector still starts and answers tools/list from the bundled catalog, but cannot execute tools), APPCRANE_KEY (Your AppCrane API key, sent to the instance as the X-API-Key header. Required to execute tools), APPCRANE_GITHUB_TOKEN (Optional GitHub personal access token, sent as X-Github-Token, to unlock the github_* passthrough tools).

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AppCrane — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for AppCrane?
AppCrane runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package appcrane-mcp was installed 660 times last week.
How do I connect AppCrane?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls appcrane-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use AppCrane?
The npm package appcrane-mcp was installed 660 times in the last week. Week over week that is -18%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is AppCrane open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in JavaScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.