This server wraps Apple's container CLI tool for macOS, letting Claude create and manage lightweight Linux containers natively on Apple Silicon. You get programmatic access to container operations like spinning up Ubuntu instances, running commands, and managing container lifecycles without leaving your MCP workflow. It requires macOS 26+, Xcode 26, and Apple's containerization framework installed. The author built it to highlight Apple's relatively new containerization efforts while providing a coderunner-style interface for LLM-driven container tasks. Fair warning from the docs: security is minimal and Claude might helpfully delete your data, so keep it local and test carefully before trusting it with anything important.
claude mcp add --transport stdio gattjoe-acms uvx acms