Tilt MCP server

This is a helper that connects your AI assistant to Tilt, the tool developers use to run and watch their apps while they build them. Once it is set up, you can ask your AI to look at a service, read its logs, or kick off a rebuild, and it will do it for you. It is most useful if you already work with Tilt every day.

What this MCP server does

You ask your AI something like "what is happening with my backend service?" The AI passes that request to this helper program. The helper talks to Tilt running on your computer, gathers the answer, and hands it back. Your AI then shows you the result in plain words, like a list of services, some log lines, or a short summary. If you ask it to rebuild or restart something, the helper tells Tilt to do that too.

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What you can do with it

• List all your running Tilt services and their status
• Read the recent logs from a specific service
• Filter logs to find errors or a specific request ID
• Get detailed information about one service
• Trigger a service to rebuild or update
• Turn services on or off
• Wait until a service is ready or up to date

Try asking your AI

• “List all my Tilt resources and tell me which ones are not healthy”
• “Show me the last 100 lines of logs from the backend-api service”
• “Find any errors in the frontend logs”
• “Rebuild the backend-tests service and tell me when it is ready”

What it gives back to you

You get answers in the chat, not files. That usually means a list of your services with their status, a chunk of log lines, or a short description of one service. If you asked for an action like a rebuild or a restart, it tells you whether it worked. Everything is shown as normal text you can read right away.

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Who it's for

Developers and DevOps engineers who already use Tilt to run their apps and want their AI assistant to help check, debug, and manage those services.