Install Universal DB (read-only) in Continue
What you need first
- Continue, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with.
Steps
- Open
~/.continue/config.yaml. On Windows it is%USERPROFILE%\.continue\config.yaml. - Add this entry. If the file already has
mcpServers, add only the item from- nameon.
mcpServers:
- name: "universal-db-mcp"
type: stdio
command: "docker"
args:
- "run"
- "-i"
- "--rm"
- "ghcr.io/alghanim/universal-db-mcp:0.2.0" - Save the file and restart Continue.
Check it worked
Ask Continue: List the tools of universal-db-mcp.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Continue.
- Nothing changes after a restart
- The file is not valid YAML any more. Check that the entry is indented like the lines around it.