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Tiger MCP

Tiger MCP is an MCP server that provides programmatic access to Tiger Cloud services, databases, and documentation. It has 120 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY -e TIGER_SECRET_KEY ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0.

github.com/timescale/tiger-cli (opens in a new tab)

  • Needs API key
  • Databases
  • Apache-2.0
  • Actively maintained
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Install Tiger MCP

Generated from the server's MCP registry entry. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tiger-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY",
        "ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY": "your-value",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY=your-value --env TIGER_SECRET_KEY=your-value --transport stdio tiger-mcp -- docker run -i --rm -e TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY -e TIGER_SECRET_KEY ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tiger-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY",
        "ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY": "your-value",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "tiger_secret_key",
      "description": "TIGER_SECRET_KEY",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "tiger-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY",
        "-e",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY",
        "ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY": "your-value",
        "TIGER_SECRET_KEY": "${input:tiger_secret_key}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
TIGER_PUBLIC_KEYYesTiger Cloud API public key for authentication
TIGER_SECRET_KEYsecretYesTiger Cloud API secret key for authentication

About Tiger MCP

Tiger CLI is the command-line interface for Tiger Cloud. It provides commands for managing and querying database services, as well as an integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for use with AI assistants.

  • cli
  • context-engineering
  • database
  • mcp
  • mcp-server

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What is Tiger MCP?

Tiger MCP is an MCP server that provides programmatic access to Tiger Cloud services, databases, and documentation. It has 120 GitHub stars, is released under the Apache-2.0 license and runs locally with docker run -i --rm -e TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY -e TIGER_SECRET_KEY ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0. The source code is at github.com/timescale/tiger-cli.

How do I install the Tiger MCP MCP server?

Add the command docker run -i --rm -e TIGER_PUBLIC_KEY -e TIGER_SECRET_KEY ghcr.io/timescale/tiger-cli:0.26.0 to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Tiger MCP free?

The server is open source under the Apache-2.0 license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (TIGER_SECRET_KEY) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Tiger MCP actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 1, 2026. The latest release is v0.26.0, published Oct 1, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months and re-checks every server daily.