Use MCP servers in Auggie CLI with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Auggie CLI toggle, and Auggie CLI 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 Auggie CLI on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Auggie CLI's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Auggie CLI. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Auggie CLI again.
Where Auggie CLI keeps its MCP config
Auggie CLI MCP config
Windows %USERPROFILE%\.augment\settings.json macOS ~/.augment/settings.json Linux ~/.augment/settings.json
JSONC with a top-level mcpServers object.
Good to know
- The same file holds Auggie's shell, theme and permission settings. Toolport rewrites only the mcpServers key and keeps comments and everything else as they are.
- Project and managed Auggie settings files are left alone.
Why a gateway instead of Auggie CLI's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Auggie CLI 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 Auggie CLI'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.
Free on this machine. Pro puts it on every machine. Team gives it to everyone.