Tangerine MCP Server

MCP server for Tangerine (Convo AI assistant backend): https://github.com/RedHatInsights/tangerine-backend

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What is the Tangerine MCP MCP server?

Tangerine MCP MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Tangerine MCP directly instead of describing what you should do. MCP server for Tangerine (Convo AI assistant backend): https://github.com/RedHatInsights/tangerine-backend.

Configuration and credentials

You will need 3 environment variables: TANGERINE_URL, TANGERINE_TOKEN, MCP_TRANSPORT. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.

Setting it up

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

Choosing this one

Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. It is maintained by redhat-ai-tools; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.

Before you rely on it

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the tangerine mcp mcp server does with a few real requests.

How to install the Tangerine MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tangerine": {
      "command": "podman",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e", "TANGERINE_URL",
        "-e", "TANGERINE_TOKEN",
        "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT",
        "quay.io/maorfr/tangerine-mcp:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TANGERINE_URL": "https://tangerine.example.com",
        "TANGERINE_TOKEN": "REDACTED",
        "MCP_TRANSPORT": "stdio"
      }
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
TANGERINE_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes
TANGERINE_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes
MCP_TRANSPORTConfiguration value read at startup.Optional

Frequently asked questions

It connects Tangerine MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Tangerine MCP directly.