Appcrane

The self-hosted home for the apps your AI builds and your AI deploys.

Vibe-code an app with Claude Code or Cursor, then have your AI agent deploy it — over MCP — to a server you own. AppCrane is a self-hosted, agent-first deployment platform with the enterprise guardrails the cloud PaaS crowd skips. A self-hosted alternative to Heroku, Vercel, and hosted agent-deploy services like AppDeploy.

What your agent can do

AppCrane exposes 35 appcrane_* MCP tools, so any MCP client runs the full deploy lifecycle — no curl, no shell:

• appcrane_create_app, appcrane_deploy (sandbox/production), appcrane_promote, appcrane_rollback
• appcrane_set_secret / appcrane_get_secret (AWS-aligned naming)
• appcrane_get_logs, appcrane_list_releases, appcrane_get_deploy_log
• appcrane_cp (push files to a container's /data), appcrane_list_apps, appcrane_get_guide

Every tool call is bound to a user and audit-logged.

Features

• 🔐 Secret hard-wall — the platform operator can't read encrypted env vars or app data (middleware-enforced). Your model API keys stay yours.
• 🏢 Enterprise SSO — SAML 2.0, OIDC, SCIM provisioning
• 👥 Four-role model — Platform Owner / App Owner / App Admin / App User, per-app configurable
• 🐳 Docker isolation per app · dual sandbox/prod environments · zero-downtime deploys · auto-HTTPS (Caddy)
• 📦 Managed apps — AppCrane can own the GitHub repo via a service account, so non-GitHub users ship too

Connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "appcrane": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://YOUR-SERVER/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "X-API-Key": "YOUR_APPCRANE_KEY" }
    }
  }
}