Self-Hosted MCP Tool Platform MCPCloud
zelpai · reddit · 2026-07-16
Originally developing A2A protocol-based AI agent infrastructure, the author forked the codebase into a new open-source project, MCPCloud. It's a self-hosted MCP tool platform designed to let Claude, Cursor, or other MCP clients directly invoke Python functions.
Key highlights include:
- Drop a .py file into the skills/ directory for automatic discovery and deployment
- Write skills directly in the browser with instant availability upon saving
- Skills are fundamentally just async functions returning a dict
- Run locally via docker compose up
- Production deployment supports one-click launches to your own AWS account, ensuring data never touches the author's servers
- Built on Python + Docker Compose + AWS CloudFormation
- Apache 2.0 license, zero telemetry, and no mandatory account creation
The author also notes current limitations: the MCP / skill editor lacks pre-authentication, currently relying on network isolation and VPC deployment. They are actively seeking feedback on "authentication for self-hosted MCP gateways" and the "skills-as-files design."
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