# Daytona MCP Vendor: Daytona Category: developer-tools Auth: API_KEY Composio slug: `daytona` Daytona is a development environment management platform that provides cloud-based development workspaces with API access for automation ## Verdict Daytona spins up ephemeral development environments — sandboxes with git repos, tooling, and runtime dependencies — that your team can create, inspect, and tear down from Switchy. @mention Daytona to clone a repo into a fresh sandbox, check out branches, create folders, manage API keys, or verify access permissions. Engineers debugging a flaky test or onboarding a contractor get the most value: they can provision a clean environment in seconds without touching local configs. The MCP exposes 50 tools, but some (like git checkout) are marked deprecated — stick to the current clone and filesystem operations. ## Tools - **Archive Sandbox** — Archives a sandbox in the Daytona platform. Use this action when you need to archive a sandbox that is no longer needed but should be preserved for future reference. The sandbox will be marked as archived and its state will change to reflec - **Cancel Organization Invitation** — Cancels a pending organization invitation. Use when you need to revoke an invitation that has been sent but not yet accepted by the recipient. This action is irreversible — once an invitation is cancelled, it cannot be reactivated and the r - **Checkout Git Branch** — [DEPRECATED] Checkout a branch or commit in a git repository within a sandbox. Use this action when you need to switch branches or checkout a specific commit in a git repository that exists within a sandbox toolbox. This operation modifies - **Check Sandbox Access** — Checks if the authenticated user has access to a specific sandbox. Use this action when you need to verify whether the current user has permission to access a particular sandbox before performing further operations on it. This is a read-onl - **Clone Repository** — Clones a Git repository into a sandbox toolbox. Use this action when you need to clone a public or private Git repository into a specific directory within a sandbox. Supports optional branch selection and commit checkout. This is commonly u - **Create API Key** — Creates a new API key for the organization. Use when you need to generate a new API key that can be used to authenticate API requests. The created API key value is only returned once in the response and cannot be retrieved again, so it must - **Create Docker Registry** — Creates a new Docker registry for the organization. Use when you need to register a new container registry (such as Docker Hub, GCR, ECR, or other Docker registries) so that Daytona can pull images from it. The registry credentials are stor - **Create Folder in Sandbox** — Creates a new folder inside a sandbox's filesystem. Use this action when you need to create a directory within a running sandbox's filesystem. This is useful for organizing files, preparing directory structures, or setting up paths for subs - **Create Organization** — Creates a new organization in Daytona. Use this action when you need to set up a new organization with a specific name and default region configuration. This action creates a top-level organization entity that can manage sandboxes, users, a - **Create Organization Invitation** — Creates an invitation to join an organization with specified roles and permissions. The invitation will be sent to the provided email address. Use this action when you need to invite a new member to an organization with specific role assign - **Create Organization Role** — Creates a new organization role with specified permissions. Use this action when you need to define custom roles for organization members, allowing fine-grained control over what resources they can access and what operations they can perfor - **Create Process Session** — Creates a new session in the sandbox for process management. Use this action when you need to establish a new process session within a running sandbox environment. This enables managing process execution and state within the Daytona platfor - **Create PTY Session** — Creates a new PTY (pseudo-terminal) session in a sandbox. Use this action when you need to establish an interactive terminal session within a running sandbox environment. This enables real-time command execution and terminal interaction thr - **Create Sandbox** — Creates a new sandbox environment for development or testing purposes. Use this action when you need to provision a new isolated environment with configurable compute resources (CPU, memory, GPU), networking options, and storage volumes. Th - **Create Sandbox Backup** — Initiates a backup operation for an existing sandbox environment. Use this action when you need to create a point-in-time snapshot of a sandbox that can be used for restoration or cloning purposes. The backup operation is asynchronous and t - **Create Snapshot** — Creates a new snapshot resource that can be used as a base image for sandboxes. Use this action when you need to create a new snapshot with specific compute resources (CPU, memory, GPU, disk) and a container image. Snapshots define the base - **Create SSH Access** — Creates SSH access credentials for a sandbox environment. Use this action when you need to establish an SSH connection to a sandbox for administrative tasks, file transfers, or development operations. The returned credentials include a toke - **Create Volume** — Creates a new volume for storing data that can be attached to sandboxes. Use this action when you need to provision persistent storage for your sandbox environments. Volumes persist data across sandbox restarts and can be mounted to sandbox - **Deactivate Snapshot** — Deactivates a snapshot in the Daytona platform. Use this action when you need to deactivate a snapshot that is currently active. This will stop the snapshot from being used for new sandbox creations. Note: Deactivating a snapshot does not d - **Delete API Key** — Deletes an API key by its name. Use when you need to revoke access for an API key that is no longer needed or has been compromised. This action is irreversible — once an API key is deleted, it cannot be recovered and any systems using that - **Delete API Key for User** — Deletes an API key for a specific user. Use when you need to remove an existing API key associated with a user account, such as when cleaning up unused credentials or revoking access. This action is irreversible — once the API key is delete - **Delete Docker Registry** — Deletes a Docker registry from the Daytona platform. Use when you need to remove an existing Docker registry configuration. This is an irreversible operation — once a registry is deleted, it cannot be recovered and any references to it in w - **Delete Git Branch** — Deletes a branch from a git repository inside a sandbox by its name. Use when you need to permanently remove a git branch that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a branch is deleted, it cannot be recovered unless it has - **Delete Organization** — Deletes an organization. Use when you need to permanently remove an organization from the system, including all associated data, members, and resources. This action is irreversible — once an organization is deleted, it cannot be recovered. - **Delete Organization OTEL Config** — Deletes the OpenTelemetry (OTEL) configuration for an organization. Use this action when you need to remove the OpenTelemetry settings that were previously configured for an organization's observability and tracing capabilities. This action - **Delete Organization Role** — Deletes an organization role. Use when you need to permanently remove a role from an organization, such as cleaning up unused custom roles or removing roles that are no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a role is deleted, it - **Delete PTY Session** — Deletes a PTY session and terminates the associated process. Use this action when you need to clean up an active PTY session that is no longer needed. This will terminate any process running in that session and release the associated resour - **Delete Recording** — Deletes a recording from the Daytona platform by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a recording that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a recording is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Any data associated wi - **Delete Sandbox** — Deletes a sandbox from the Daytona platform by its ID or name. Use when you need to permanently remove a sandbox that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a sandbox is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Any data, processes, - **Delete Sandbox File** — Deletes a file inside a sandbox by its path. Use when you need to permanently remove a file from a sandbox that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a file is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Ensure the file is not needed - **Delete Session** — Deletes a session from the Daytona platform by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a session that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a session is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Any ongoing processes or dat - **Delete Snapshot** — Deletes a snapshot from the Daytona platform by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a snapshot that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a snapshot is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Any data stored in the sn - **Delete Volume** — Deletes a volume from the Daytona platform by its ID. Use when you need to permanently remove a volume that is no longer needed. This action is irreversible — once a volume is deleted, it cannot be recovered. Ensure all important data has b - **Download File (Deprecated)** — [DEPRECATED] Downloads a file from a sandbox's toolbox filesystem. Use this action when you need to retrieve a file from the sandbox's toolbox. Note: This endpoint is deprecated. Consider using an alternative if available. This is a read-on - **Download Multiple Files** — Downloads multiple files from a sandbox as a multipart/form-data bundle. Use this action when you need to retrieve multiple files from a sandbox in a single operation. The files are returned as a streamed multipart response where each file - **Enroll in SMS MFA** — Enrolls the authenticated user in SMS-based multi-factor authentication. Use when you need to enable SMS-based MFA for the authenticated user account. This action initiates the enrollment process and returns a URL where the user can complet - **Execute Command** — Executes a shell command within a running sandbox via the toolbox proxy. Use this action when you need to run shell commands, scripts, or any executable commands inside a sandbox environment. This is useful for automation tasks, running bui - **Expire Signed Port Preview URL** — Expires a signed preview URL for a sandbox port. Use this action when you need to immediately invalidate a signed preview URL for a specific port on a sandbox, revoking access for anyone holding the token. This action is useful for security - **Find In Files (Deprecated)** — [DEPRECATED] Searches for text or patterns in files within a sandbox. Use this action when you need to find occurrences of a specific text or pattern across files in a sandbox. This is useful for code search, debugging, or locating specific - **Focus Accessibility Node** — Focuses an accessibility node in a sandbox's computer use system. Use this action when you need to programmatically set focus to a specific accessibility node within a sandbox's desktop environment. This is particularly useful for UI automa - **Get API Key** — Retrieves an API key by its name. Use when you need to retrieve details about a specific API key, including its creation date, expiration, permissions, and usage statistics. This is a read-only operation that does not modify any resources. - **Get Available Account Providers** — Retrieves all available account providers that can be used to authenticate and link accounts. Use when you need to discover which account providers (such as GitHub, GitLab, Google) are available for linking to the user's account. This is a - **Get Build Logs URL** — Retrieves the build logs URL for a specific sandbox by its ID or name. Use this action when you need to access build logs for a sandbox, such as during troubleshooting build failures, monitoring build progress, or retrieving historical buil - **Get Commit History** — Gets commit history from a repository in a sandbox toolbox. Use this action when you need to retrieve the commit history including: - Commit hash - Author name and email - Commit message - Timestamp This is a read-only operation that does n - **Get Computer Use Status** — Retrieves the status of all VNC desktop processes in a sandbox. Use this action when you need to check the current state of all VNC desktop processes running within a sandbox. The status can indicate whether services are fully operational ( - **Get Daytona Config** — Retrieves the Daytona platform configuration including URLs, OIDC settings, analytics, rate limits, and other platform-level settings. Use this action when you need to fetch the current Daytona configuration settings, such as the dashboard - **Get Display Info** — Retrieves information about displays connected to a sandbox. Use this action when you need to get information about all displays connected to a sandbox, including their dimensions, positions, and active status. This is a read-only operation - **Get Entrypoint Logs** — Retrieves entrypoint logs for a sandbox session. Use this action when you need to fetch the stdout, stderr, and combined output logs from an entrypoint process running within a sandbox. This is useful for debugging process initialization, m - **Get File Info (Deprecated)** — [DEPRECATED] Gets file info inside a sandbox toolbox. Use this action when you need to retrieve detailed information about a specific file or directory within a sandbox toolbox, including its size, permissions, ownership, and modification t - **Get Git History (Deprecated)** — [DEPRECATED] Get commit history from a git repository in a sandbox toolbox. Use this action when you need to retrieve the commit history of a git repository within a sandbox toolbox. This is a read-only operation that retrieves the commit l ## Setup 1. Create or open a Switchy Project. 2. Open Integrations and connect Daytona. 3. Authorise through api_key. 4. Teammates can now @-mention Daytona tools in chat. --- Last verified: 2026-07-07T02:00:04.146Z Canonical URL: https://switchy.build/directory/mcps/daytona