A bridge that connects local LLM clients (such as Claude Desktop) to remote MCP-Compose servers running in Docker containers.
MCP-Compose-Proxy-Shim is an MCP project maintained in the phildougherty/mcp-compose-proxy-shim repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “A bridge that connects local LLM clients (such as Claude Desktop) to remote MCP-Compose servers running in Docker containers”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using /absolute/path/to/mcp-compose-proxy-shim/bin/npx. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"filesystem": {
"command": "/absolute/path/to/mcp-compose-proxy-shim/bin/npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
"/Users/phildougherty/Documents",
"/Users/phildougherty/Downloads"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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