IBM Cloud Browser MCP

AI navigation of the IBM Cloud Console.

Example: Open a specific Sysdig monitoring dashboard directly via AI

Features

• Query resources
• Navigate to the right cloud logs view
• Quickly open the right sysdig dashboard
• Show details of a kubernetes cluster
• Monitor a database
• Search the catalog

Architecture

The MCP server acts as a bridge between an MCP enabled AI and IBM Cloud services:

• Browser Tools: Open specific IBM Cloud dashboards and consoles directly
• Resource Tools: List and query IBM Cloud resources via CLI integration

Connect to Claude Desktop

1. Open Claude Desktop configuration file:

   code ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
   

2. Add this MCP server to your configuration:

   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "ibm-cloud-browser": {
         "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/uv",
         "args": ["run", "python", "/Users/jon/Code/ai/chatbot-console4/main.py"],
         "cwd": "/Users/jon/Code/ai/chatbot-console4"
       }
     }
   }
   

3. Restart Claude Desktop

Pre-reqs

• logged in via cli
• open IBM Cloud console session in browser
• open sysdig session in browser

Debugging

run Locally

uv run python main.py

MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uv run python main.py

View logs

tail -f ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log