This MCP server is implemented using the RMCP (Rust Model Context Protocol) library to operate Containerd via the CRI interface. Built in Rust, it provides core MCP server capabilities with Runtime and Image service interfaces and supports the ctr interface. Prerequisites include a Rust development environment, a running Containerd instance, and Protobuf tooling. Building is performed with cargo build --release. The server can run with HTTP streaming by using -t http (streamhttp); mcp-containerd --help reveals available options. By default, the service connects to unix:///run/containerd/containerd.sock. The MCP server comprises three main components: version service for CRI version information; runtime service for container and Pod runtime operations; and image service for image operations. The runtime service supports Create/Stop/Delete Pod Sandbox; Create/Start/Stop/Delete containers; query Pod/container status; and executing commands in containers. The image service supports List images; Get image status; Pull images; Delete images; and Get image filesystem information. The project also provides a simple-chat-client example for interactive usage and documentation references its interaction patterns.