Deployment¶

Deployment Options¶

rom-manager supports local stdio, a loopback-only development listener, a least-privilege stdio container, and a remote authenticated HTTPS boundary. Provider endpoint, credential, selector, identity, and trust material are supplied at runtime through AgentConfig; none is stored in this repository.

Installed stdio process¶

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rom-manager": {
      "command": "rom-manager-mcp",
      "args": [],
      "env": {"MCP_TOOL_MODE": "intent"}
    }
  }
}

Loopback development listener¶

rom-manager-mcp --transport streamable-http --host 127.0.0.1 --port 8000

Do not expose this listener beyond loopback. Network deployments require direct TLS or an explicitly trusted TLS-terminating ingress, configured authentication, exact MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS, and an exact trusted-proxy CIDR policy.

Least-privilege local container¶

docker run -i --rm \
  --read-only \
  --cap-drop=ALL \
  --security-opt=no-new-privileges \
  --pids-limit=256 \
  --tmpfs /tmp:rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=64m \
  -e TRANSPORT=stdio \
  registry.example.invalid/rom-manager@sha256:<digest> rom-manager-mcp

The operator projects the selected AgentConfig profile into the process at runtime; the image remains immutable and contains no environment connection profile.

Remote authenticated HTTPS endpoint¶

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rom-manager": {"url": "https://service.example.invalid/mcp"}
  }
}

Store the real remote URL, outbound identity reference, and TLS-profile reference in AgentConfig, not in MCP client JSON or documentation.

Console scripts¶

Script	Entrypoint	Purpose
`rom-manager`	`rom_manager.rom_manager:rom_manager`	Local CLI converter
`rom-manager-mcp`	`rom_manager.mcp_server:mcp_server`	MCP server
`rom-manager-agent`	`rom_manager.agent_server:agent_server`	A2A agent server

Transports¶

rom-manager-mcp                                              # stdio (default)
rom-manager-mcp --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000
rom-manager-mcp --transport sse --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

Docker¶

The prebuilt image example/rom-manager ships with chdman (mame-tools) and 7z (p7zip-full) so conversions work out of the box. Mount your ROM directory and set ROM_DIRECTORY.

docker run --rm -it \
  -v /games:/games -e ROM_DIRECTORY=/games \
  -p 8000:8000 -e TRANSPORT=streamable-http \
  example/rom-manager@sha256:<digest>

Docker Compose¶

docker compose -f docker/mcp.compose.yml up -d     # MCP only
docker compose -f docker/agent.compose.yml up -d   # MCP + agent

RVZ output

dolphin-tool is not packaged in the MCP-serving image. Install it into the container (or a derived image) if you need RVZ output.