Install Avanan in Claude Code
What you need first
- Claude Code, installed.
- Docker, which
gives the
dockercommand the server starts with. - Your own values for
YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_ID,YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_SECRET.
Steps
- Run this in a terminal, in the project folder. It adds the server for you in that
project; put
--scope userafterclaude mcp addto have it in every project.
claude mcp add --env AVANAN_CLIENT_ID=YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_ID --env AVANAN_CLIENT_SECRET=YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_SECRET --transport stdio avanan-mcp -- docker run -i --rm -e AVANAN_CLIENT_ID -e AVANAN_CLIENT_SECRET ghcr.io/wyre-technology/avanan-mcp:v2.2.2 - Replace
YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_ID,YOUR_AVANAN_CLIENT_SECRETwith your own values. - Start Claude Code and type
/mcp: the server is listed with its state.
Check it worked
Ask Claude Code: List the tools of avanan-mcp.
If it does not start
- Cannot connect to the Docker daemon
- Docker is not running. Start it, then restart Claude Code.
- The server starts, but its tools fail
- A
YOUR_…placeholder is still in the config, or its value is wrong.