Nido - VM Manager for AI Agents
Spin up QEMU/KVM virtual machines directly from Claude for testing, sandboxing, or running isolated workloads. Built specifically for AI agents to programmatically manage VMs without manual intervention. You can create throwaway Linux instances for one-off tasks or maintain persistent environments that survive between sessions. Useful when you need actual compute isolation beyond containers, want to test across different distros, or need to run something in a clean environment that you can snapshot and discard. The automation-first design means operations are exposed as tool calls rather than interactive commands.
- GitHub stars
- 2
- tools
- 5
- transport
- STDIO
- last updated
- Oct 28, 2026
Tools
5 toolsPublic tool metadata for what this MCP can expose to an agent.
nido_vmCreate, inspect, configure, connect and remove VMs; manage forwarded ports
Create, inspect, configure, connect and remove VMs; manage forwarded ports
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
nido_imageBrowse and refresh the catalog; pull and manage cached images
Browse and refresh the catalog; pull and manage cached images
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
nido_templateSave and manage reusable disk templates
Save and manage reusable disk templates
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
nido_blueprintInspect and build image recipes
Inspect and build image recipes
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
nido_systemDiagnostics, configuration, accelerators and installation operations
Diagnostics, configuration, accelerators and installation operations
No parameter schema in public metadata yet.
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Nido
Nido: a luminous egg in a retro workstation. Real VMs. Agent-ready.
Real virtual machines for AI agents. One local engine, three ways to drive it: CLI, TUI and MCP.
Give an agent a machine it can provision, use and delete. Nido runs QEMU locally, clones cached images with copy-on-write disks, and exposes the same VM lifecycle to your terminal and your MCP client. Each VM has its own guest kernel.
Details
- Repository
- github.com/josepavese/nido
- Website
- github.com/Josepavese/nido
- Package
nido-mcp- Transport
- STDIO
- Registry
- MCP registry, active