---
title: "Terraform: setup for Claude, Cursor, Codex · DotsAgent"
description: "Looks up providers and modules in the Terraform Registry and, given a token, manages HCP Terraform workspaces. Set up Terraform in 13 MCP clients."
url: https://dotsagent.io/mcp/servers/terraform
---

Cloud · HashiCorp

# Set up Terraform

Looks up providers and modules in the Terraform Registry and, given a token, manages HCP Terraform workspaces.

- **Publisher**: HashiCorp Official
- **Run locally**: `docker run -i --rm -e TFE_TOKEN hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:1.3.0`
- **Transports**: stdio, streamable-http
- **Authentication**: None for registry lookups; an HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise token for workspaces.
- **Environment**: `TFE_TOKEN``TFE_ADDRESS`
- **What it can touch**: Read-only without a token; read and write with TFE_TOKEN.
- **Licence**: MPL-2.0
- **Source**: [github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server)
- **Status**: Active

## Install

This server runs on your machine as a child process of the client. You need the runtime its command uses, such as Node.js for npx, uv for uvx or Docker, plus any variables listed under Environment.

### Claude Code

`shell`

```
claude mcp add --scope project terraform -- docker run -i --rm -e TFE_TOKEN hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:1.3.0
```

### Cursor

`.cursor/mcp.json`

```
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "terraform": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "TFE_TOKEN",
        "hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:1.3.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

`~/.codex/config.toml`

```
[mcp_servers.terraform]
command = "docker"
args = ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "TFE_TOKEN", "hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:1.3.0"]
```

[Config for other clients →](https://dotsagent.io/mcp/config#add=terraform)

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## Sources

1. [github.com](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server)/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server

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