gateway.provision

MCP tool from Pmcp by Consiliency

Install and start MCP servers on-demand

How to use it

gateway.provision is exposed by the Pmcp MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the gateway.provision tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

Install Pmcp

$uvx pmcp

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Other tools in Pmcp (25)

gateway.auth_connect

Store API-key credentials or acknowledge URL-mode elicitation and retry provisioning

gateway.cancel

Cancel a pending tool invocation

gateway.catalog_search

Search available tools, returns compact capability cards with small metadata such as title, icons, execution hints, and schema dialect, plus additive compact CLI hints, registry candidates, and (with includeoffline=true) manifest provision candidates (manifestcandidates) carrying provisionable/provi

gateway.config_status

Read effective config and startup/auth status with source attribution

gateway.connect_server

Connect or start a known configured, manifest/provisioned, or registered discovered server

gateway.describe

Get detailed schema and richer metadata for a specific tool, including output schema, annotations, execution/task support, icons, and schema dialect

gateway.disconnect_server

Runtime-stop a server without editing .mcp.json or changing autoStart

gateway.get_startup_policy

Read persisted autoStart and legacy disableAutoStart entries by source

gateway.health

Get gateway and server health status

gateway.invoke

Call a downstream tool with argument validation, including task-augmented execution for task-capable tools

gateway.list_pending

List pending tool invocations with health status

gateway.provision_status

Check installation progress

gateway.refresh

Reload backend configs and reconnect; refuses while requests or active MCP tasks are pending unless force=true

gateway.register_discovered_server

gateway.request_capability

Natural language capability matching that can return direct CLI guidance or MCP server candidates

gateway.restart_server

Runtime-stop then reconnect a server without changing persistent config

gateway.search_registry

Search the cached public MCP Registry metadata for external servers

gateway.set_startup_policy

Preview or explicitly apply autoStart add/remove/set operations against one selected source

gateway.submit_feedback

Preview/submit technical PMCP feedback issues to GitHub

gateway.sync_environment

Detect platform and available CLIs

gateway.tasks_cancel

Cancel a downstream MCP task

gateway.tasks_get

Get current status for one downstream MCP task

gateway.tasks_list

List brokered downstream MCP tasks by opaque task ID

gateway.tasks_result

Fetch and process a downstream MCP task result

gateway.update_server

Update an MCP server package and reconnect it