Installation¶

ansible-tower-mcp is a standard Python package and a prebuilt container image. Pick the path that matches how you want to run it.

Requirements¶

Python 3.11 – 3.14.
A reachable Ansible Tower / AWX controller (Ansible Automation Platform) with API access — see the Backing Service note for connection guidance.

From PyPI (recommended)¶

pip install ansible-tower-mcp

Optional extras¶

The base install is intentionally minimal. Install the extra for what you need:

Extra	Install	Pulls in
`mcp`	`pip install "ansible-tower-mcp[mcp]"`	FastMCP MCP-server runtime (`agent-utilities[mcp]`)
`agent`	`pip install "ansible-tower-mcp[agent]"`	Pydantic-AI agent server + Logfire tracing
`all`	`pip install "ansible-tower-mcp[all]"`	Everything above (MCP + agent + Logfire)
`test`	`pip install "ansible-tower-mcp[test]"`	`pytest`, `pytest-asyncio`, `pytest-cov`, `pytest-xdist`

# Typical: run the MCP server and the A2A agent server
pip install "ansible-tower-mcp[all]"

From source¶

git clone https://github.com/Knuckles-Team/ansible-tower-mcp.git
cd ansible-tower-mcp
pip install -e ".[all]"          # editable install with every extra

With uv:

uv pip install -e ".[all]"
uv run ansible-tower-mcp

Prebuilt Docker image¶

A multi-stage, slim image is published on every release (entrypoint ansible-tower-mcp):

docker pull knucklessg1/ansible-tower-mcp:latest

docker run --rm -i \
  -e ANSIBLE_BASE_URL=https://your-tower.example.com \
  -e ANSIBLE_USERNAME=admin \
  -e ANSIBLE_PASSWORD=secret \
  knucklessg1/ansible-tower-mcp:latest        # stdio transport (default)

For an HTTP server with a published port and the agent server, see Deployment.

Verify the install¶

ansible-tower-mcp --help
python -c "import ansible_tower_mcp; print(ansible_tower_mcp.__version__)"

Next steps¶

Deployment — run it as a long-lived MCP / agent server behind Caddy + DNS.
Usage — call the tools, the Api client, and the CLI.
Configuration — every environment variable.