MCP Server: Terragrunt Docs Provider

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server built with Deno and TypeScript, designed to provide contextual information related to Terragrunt.

Overview

This server acts as an MCP provider, exposing tools and resources that allow AI agents or other MCP clients to query information about Terragrunt documentation and development information, such as GitHub issues.

• Watch a realistic demo 📺 on Claude Desktop here

Why?

When writing IaC configurations, mostly in terragrunt, the IDE support isn't that good, in VSCode the terraform plugin is good, but not for terragrunt; it does not recognize the terragrunt blocks and does not provide any autocompletion. When interacting with AI autocompletion, it's common to get incorrect results, or false-positive linting errors. With this MCP server, you can provide to your LLM/AI assistant the latest documentation and issues from the Terragrunt GitHub repository, so it can use that to provide you with the most accurate information.

Tools

> Note: All tools require a valid GitHub token set as an environment variable: `GITHUB_TOKEN`, `GH_TOKEN`, or `GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN`.

Setup

1. Install Deno:

2. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/Excoriate/mcp-terragrunt-docs.git
   cd mcp-terragrunt-docs

3. Set your GitHub token as an environment variable:

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx... # or GH_TOKEN or GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN

set GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx...

>Note: You can also set the token in the `.env` file.

4. Run the MCP server:

# directly using deno
   deno run -A main.ts

   # Using the justfile
   just run

   # You can also debug it, and inspect it locally
   just inspect

The most straightforward method is to use it directly from JSR (Javascript Registry ❤️)

# export your github token
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx...

# run it
deno run -A jsr:@excoriate/mcp-terragrunt-docs@0.1.0

Usage with Claude Desktop

To use this Deno-based MCP server with Claude Desktop, add the following to your `claude_desktop_config.json`:

Using Deno

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "terragrunt_docs": {
      "command": "deno",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-A",
        "main.ts"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": ""
      },
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "terragrunt_docs": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-e", "GITHUB_TOKEN=", "mcp-terragrunt-docs"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Using JSR

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "terragrunt_docs": {
      "command": "deno",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-A",
        "jsr:@excoriate/mcp-terragrunt-docs@0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "GITHUB_TOKEN": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Build the Docker image

docker build -t mcp-terragrunt-docs .

Run the MCP server in Docker

docker run -it --rm \
  -e GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx... \
  mcp-terragrunt-docs

• Replace `ghp_xxx...` with your GitHub Personal Access Token with appropriate permissions.
• You can also use `GH_TOKEN` or `GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN` as the environment variable name.
• If you want to use a local `.env` file, you can pass it with `--env-file .env`.

Contributing

See docs/CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed contribution guidelines, including setup, code style, PR process, and codebase structure reference.

Security

See SECURITY.md for the project's security policy, including how to report vulnerabilities and responsible disclosure guidelines.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.