Use MCP servers in Devin Local / CLI with Toolport
Toolport is a free, open source local MCP gateway. Add your servers to Toolport once, flip the Devin Local / CLI toggle, and Devin Local / 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 Devin Local / CLI on. Toolport writes its gateway entry into Devin Local / CLI's config, next to anything already there.
- Restart or reload Devin Local / CLI. Your full server set is available through Toolport, and any server you add later shows up without touching Devin Local / CLI again.
Where Devin Local / CLI keeps its MCP config
Devin Local / CLI MCP config
Windows %APPDATA%\devin\mcp_config.json macOS ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json Linux ~/.config/devin/mcp_config.json
JSON with a top-level mcpServers object.
Good to know
- Devin Local / CLI keeps its config under the standard config directory on macOS and Linux, and under %APPDATA% on Windows.
Why a gateway instead of Devin Local / CLI's own server list?
- One setup, every agent. The same servers work in Devin Local / 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 Devin Local / 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.
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