Use MCP servers in Amp with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Amp toggle, and Amp gets all of them through a single gateway entry. Toolport picks a full tool list or search for each client, and you can change it in Clients.
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 Amp on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Amp's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Amp. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Amp again.
Where Amp keeps its MCP config
Amp MCP config
All platforms ~/.config/amp/settings.json
JSON with a dotted amp.mcpServers key rather than a nested object.
Good to know
- Set AMP_SETTINGS_FILE and Toolport writes that file instead of the default location.
Why a gateway instead of Amp's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Amp and every other AI agent on your machine; add a server once and they all get it.
- Secrets in the OS keychain. API keys are injected at runtime and never sit in Amp'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.
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