Install Hostim in ECA
What you need first
- ECA, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with. - Your own value for
YOUR_HOSTIM_TOKEN.
Steps
- Open
~/.codex/config.toml, or create it. The Codex CLI, its IDE extension and the ChatGPT desktop app share this file. - Add this table at the end of the file.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hostim": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "HOSTIM_TOKEN", "ghcr.io/hostimdev/cli:v0.1.52", "mcp"],
"env": { "HOSTIM_TOKEN": "YOUR_HOSTIM_TOKEN" }
}
}
} - Replace
YOUR_HOSTIM_TOKENwith your own value. - Save the file and restart ECA.
Check it worked
Ask ECA: List the tools of hostim.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart ECA.
- The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong. - Nothing changes after a restart
- The file is not valid JSON any more. Look for a missing comma where the block was added.