Agent Workspace Mcp

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A unified Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing a highly secure, containerized workspace for Large Language Models (LLMs). It acts as an isolated "agentic playground" where agents can autonomously code, test, and debug without risking the host machine.

✨ Features

🏗️ Full Project Lifecycle: Bootstrap projects with uv init, manage dependencies with uv add, and execute via uv run.
🐚 Secure Bash Access: Execute shell commands with mandatory timeouts and merged output streams.
🚀 Token-Optimized Output: Integrates RTK (Rust Token Killer) to automatically filter and compress run_bash outputs (like ls, git, and test runners), saving 60-90% of LLM context tokens.
📂 Robust Filesystem: Path-traversal protected operations for reading, writing, and searching the workspace.
🛡️ Multi-Layer Security: Non-root execution, dropped capabilities, resource limits, and a read-only root filesystem.
⚡ Precision Editing: Advanced search_and_replace with fuzzy whitespace matching, indentation preservation, dry-run support, and syntax validation for Python, JSON, JSONL, TOML, and YAML.
📊 Real-time Observability: Direct logging to MCP client UI and persistent rotating audit logs.

🏗️ Architecture

flowchart TD
    Client["MCP Client (Claude / Cursor)"] -- "stdio (JSON-RPC)" --> FastMCP["FastMCP Server"]

    subgraph Sandbox ["Docker Sandbox Container (mcpuser)"]
        direction TB
        
        FastMCP -. "Intercepts accidental prints" .-> StdioGuard["StdoutRedirector"]
        FastMCP -. "Application Logs" .-> Logger["Dual Logger (stderr & .mcp/server.log)"]
        
        FastMCP -- "Tool Calls" --> SecurityGuard["Security & Path Validator"]
        
        subgraph Toolset ["Tool Modules"]
            direction TB
            SecurityGuard --> FSTools["Filesystem (read, write, list, search)"]
            SecurityGuard --> EditTools["Editing (search_and_replace)"]
            SecurityGuard --> ExecTools["Execution (run_bash)"]
        end

        EditTools -- "AST Verification" --> Validator["Syntax Validations (Python, JSON, JSONL, TOML, YAML)"]
        ExecTools -- "Process Group (Timeout=60s)" --> Shell["/bin/sh Subprocess"]
        Shell -- "Package Mgt & Checks" --> UV["uv Environment / Ruff"]
        
        FSTools -- "Secure I/O" --> Workspace["/workspace Directory"]
        EditTools -- "Atomic Writes" --> Workspace
        Shell -- "Executes within" --> Workspace
    end

    Workspace <--"Volume Mount"--> HostFS["User Host Filesystem"]

📦 Quick Start

1. Pull or Build the Docker Image

# Pull from GHCR
docker pull ghcr.io/hrrodan/agent-workspace-mcp:latest

# OR: Build locally with your host's UID/GID for optimal permissions
docker build --build-arg UID=$(id -u) --build-arg GID=$(id -g) -t agent-workspace-mcp .

2. Programmatic Usage (OpenAI Agents SDK)

Here is a quick boilerplate showing how to use the containerized workspace programmatically using the standard openai-agents SDK:

import asyncio
from agents import Agent, Runner
from agents.mcp import MCPServerStdio