How to configure Archon MCP to access Archon on another machine

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Hi, This is probably a newbee question…

I do my dev on my MBP and run Docker/Archon on my Mac Studio (MS).

How do I tell the Archon MCP to access Archon on the MS (192.168.1.103)?

Here is my Archon MCP config:

"archon": {
  "disabled": true,
  "timeout": 3600,
  "command": "docker",
  "args": [
    "run",
    "-i",
    "--rm",
    "--add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway",
    "-e",
    "GRAPH_SERVICE_URL",
    "archon-mcp:latest"
  ],
  "env": {
    "GRAPH_SERVICE_URL": "http://host.docker.internal:8100"
  },
  "transportType": "stdio"
},
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I was able to do this by configuring the MCP client (Claude Code, etc.) to execute the following script rather than the recommended MCP config.

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/ssh [username]@[IP] 'docker run -i --rm --add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway -e GRAPH_SERVICE_URL=http://host.docker.internal:8100 archon-mcp:latest'

So, save that so a .sh file, make it executable, then your MCP config would look something like:

    "archon": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "/path/to/script.sh",
      "args": [],
      "env": {}
    }

You have to have your connection to the archon machine configured via SSH key so as not to require a password. Once all that is set up, it seems to work great!

Hope this helps!

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