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Patches for the messiest parts
of building with AI.

Self-host one control plane for all your MCP servers. Install once, sync everywhere — never edit a config file again.

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🔓 AGPL-3.0 · 🏠 Self-host · 🔐 Secrets stay yours

The problem

Your MCP setup is a mess.

You're building with AI. You use Claude Desktop and Cursor and Cline. Every one speaks MCP. Every one has its own JSON config in its own weird location. Every server you install means editing all of them by hand, pasting API keys in plaintext, and praying.

When something breaks, there are no logs. When you upgrade, nothing tells you. When a teammate joins, you send them a Notion doc.

This is the patchbowl. The mess where patches go to die.

What Patchbowl does

One bowl. Every client. Yours.

🔁

Install once, sync everywhere

Pick a server from the catalog. Patchbowl writes the config into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline, Windsurf, and Zed.

🔐

Secrets that aren't plaintext

API keys live encrypted in Patchbowl. Injected at runtime. Never written into your client configs.

📡

Health you can see

Know which servers are running, which crashed, and why. Logs in one place.

📦

A catalog you can trust

Curated. Community-PR'd. Version-pinned. Not random GitHub repos.

🏠

Your machine, your rules

Single binary or Docker Compose. Runs on your laptop, your homelab, or a $6/mo droplet. No telemetry. No account required.

How it works

Patchbowl is the source of truth.
Your clients are read replicas.

                  ┌──────────────────┐
                  │    Patchbowl     │
                  │  (your droplet   │
                  │   or laptop)     │
                  └────────┬─────────┘
                           │ writes configs
          ┌────────────────┼────────────────┐
          ▼                ▼                ▼
 ┌───────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐
 │ Claude Desktop│ │    Cursor    │ │ Cline / Zed  │
 │   (config)    │ │   (config)   │ │  (configs)   │
 └───────────────┘ └──────────────┘ └──────────────┘

Roadmap

Beyond MCP.

v0.1MCP catalog, multi-client sync, encrypted secrets, self-host on DigitalOcean
v0.2Team mode — share a Patchbowl with your team, RBAC for secrets
v0.3Server audit — automated security scoring per catalog entry
v0.4Custom server builder — wrap any API as an MCP server from the UI
v1.0+More patches — prompt packs, agent skills, model configs

Patches for the messiest parts of building with AI.