GNOME Wayland desktop automation via AT-SPI discovery and Mutter input.
GNOME UI MCP MCP server is a locally run integration for AI assistants that speak the Model Context Protocol. GNOME Wayland desktop automation via AT-SPI discovery and Mutter input.
It exposes GNOME desktop inspection and interaction through AT-SPI for discovery and Mutter RemoteDesktop for input. In practice that means element lookup, activation, typing, screenshots, and wait helpers for the current desktop session.
Installation goes through your MCP client rather than a global install: point it at ghcr.io/asattelmaier/gnome-ui-mcp on a container image and it is fetched when the client starts. The copy-paste blocks for Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor are further down this page.
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS, XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, WAYLAND_DISPLAY, DISPLAY, XDG_SESSION_TYPEThis sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by asattelmaier; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against GNOME UI MCP's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"gnome-ui": {
"command": "docker",
"args": [
"run",
"--rm",
"--security-opt",
"apparmor=unconfined",
"--network",
"host",
"--user",
"1000:1000",
"-e",
"DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus",
"-e",
"XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000",
"-e",
"WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-0",
"-e",
"DISPLAY=:0",
"-e",
"XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland",
"-v",
"/run/user/1000:/run/user/1000",
"-v",
"/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro",
"ghcr.io/asattelmaier/gnome-ui-mcp:latest"
]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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