Use MCP servers in Kilo Code with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Kilo Code toggle, and Kilo Code gets all of them through a single gateway entry, with lazy discovery loading a handful of meta-tools instead of every server's full tool list.
Setup
- Download Toolport for Windows, macOS or Linux, and add your MCP servers to it (or import the ones your other AI agents already have; secrets go to your OS keychain).
- Open the Clients tab and toggle Kilo Code on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Kilo Code's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Kilo Code. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Kilo Code again.
Where Kilo Code keeps its MCP config
- All platforms
~/.config/kilo/kilo.jsonc
JSONC with a top-level mcp object, so comments in the file survive an edit.
Good to know
- Kilo Code uses the literal ~/.config path on every OS, Windows included, rather than the usual per-OS application-config directory.
Why a gateway instead of Kilo Code's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Kilo Code and every other AI agent on your machine; add a server once and they all get it.
- Up to 91% fewer tool tokens. Instead of every server dumping its tool list into context, the agent loads a handful of meta-tools and searches on demand (measured).
- Secrets in the OS keychain. API keys are injected at runtime and never sit in Kilo Code's config file.
- Watched by default. Rug-pull and tool-poisoning detection on every tool, plus per-tool governance and a destructive-tool kill switch. How the security works.