E2B announced a strategic collaboration with Docker to introduce native support for the open-source Model Context Protocol (“MCP”) within the E2B Sandbox. This partnership enables developers to access over 200 MCP tools from Docker’s official catalog in a secure, sandboxed development environment.
MCP is an open-source standard that enables AI agents to connect with external applications and use them as tools. Until now, integrating MCP tools into sandboxed environments required considerable manual setup and configuration. With this partnership, E2B and Docker deliver a streamlined solution whereby the MCP tools are pre-verified, type-safe, and accessible via a unified interface all within seconds.
“E2B has already been powering secure sandboxes for agent code paths, and Docker has already produced hundreds of trusted MCP servers,” explained Vasek Mlejnsky, CEO of E2B. “Together, we built a completely safe and trustworthy foundation for connecting AI agents with real-world tools.”
“The combination of Docker’s powerful MCP catalog, wide developer adoption, and our secured sandboxes make running MCP servers not only safer but also very easily accessible for all the AI developers building at the forefront of what’s possible with the state-of-the-art models,” said Mlejnsky.
Under the terms of the collaboration, E2B’s sandbox environment now supports MCP tools from Docker’s catalog such as Browserbase, Stripe, GitHub, Context7, Grafana, and Notion. Each MCP tool operates as a Docker container within the sandbox, and developers leveraging the E2B SDK gain features including autocomplete, type validation, and a unified configuration interface.
This development significantly reduces setup time: what previously could take tens of minutes or hours now takes mere seconds. The native MCP integration allows sandboxed agents to access tools either from inside the sandbox (via the MCP gateway on localhost) or externally through the sandbox URL enabling both local code and sandboxed agents to share tools securely.
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“We are bringing the MCP support to E2B sandboxes and partnering with Docker to give developers quick and easy access to hundreds of type-safe MCPs in a secure sandbox,” stated Tushar Jain, Head of Product & Engineering at Docker. “The MCPs have been verified and are safe to consume through a single unified interface.”
E2B and Docker’s partnership encompasses both the content collaboration and the open-source MCP gateway. This initiative not only fuels a growing ecosystem of open, secure, interoperable tools, but also sets the stage for introducing commercial extensions in the future.
Early access to the integrated MCP support has been provided to selected E2B users and partners including Genspark, Groq, Exa, and Browserbase. E2B thanks these partners for their valuable feedback and support of this launch.
“E2B MCP with code unlocks an exciting paradigm of MCP in code while keeping the dev experience simple and intuitive.” Benjamin Klieger, Compound AI Lead.
“Genspark uses E2B Sandbox with MCP integration to let users run 200+ MCPs from Docker’s official catalog with minimal setup, giving access to tools like Notion, Stripe, Browserbase, or Exa. E2B is an essential layer in our infrastructure, enabling us to securely run any MCP directly from GitHub inside isolated sandboxes.” Kay Zhu, Co-founder & CTO, Genspark.
E2B invites developers and AI teams to get started today by installing the latest version of the E2B SDK and consulting the documentation available at docs.e2b.dev.
