# Google Compute Engine — AI Connector Google Compute Engine publishes 29 MCP tools to Claude. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint. Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/google-compute-engine/ --- [AI Connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/) · [Developer Tools](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/) # Google Compute Engine VM, disk, and reservation operations for Google Compute Engine projects Listed in Claude · 29 published tools · Verified partner [Claude connector docs](https://cloud.google.com/docs) [cloud.google.com](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute) Overview ## What Google Compute Engine does Google Compute Engine is the virtual machine layer of Google Cloud. This connector, published by Google, puts instance lifecycle and inventory work in reach of a conversation: creating and deleting VMs, starting, stopping, and resetting them, changing the machine type of a stopped instance, and reading back the state of instances, managed instance groups, instance templates, disks, images, snapshots, reservations, and commitments. Zone operations can be inspected by id, which matters because most mutating calls in Compute Engine complete asynchronously. Every tool takes a project and, where relevant, a zone, so scope is explicit at each call. The endpoint listed its tools without credentials and the count matches the twenty-nine in the listing. ### Who it is for Cloud infrastructure engineers running workloads on Google Cloud. ### Tool surface Six of the twenty-nine tools change state (create\_instance, delete\_instance, start\_instance, stop\_instance, reset\_instance, set\_instance\_machine\_type); the other twenty-three are list\_ and get\_ reads across disks, templates, images, snapshots, reservations, and commitments. The weighting says this is built for inventory and cost inspection first, with a small lifecycle control surface attached. Availability ## Where Google Compute Engine is listed Google Compute Engine is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Google has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them. The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one. Claude listing ## In the Claude connectors directory Google Compute Engine publishes 29 tools to Claude, deeper than 80.3% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors. The median Claude-listed connector filed under Developer Tools publishes 13, so this one runs 16 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 24th of 95 by tool count. It falls in the 21-50 tools band, which holds 20% of the Claude directory. ### Measured against the live endpoint A direct call to the endpoint returned 29 tools, matching the 29 the listing publishes. Probed 2026-08-07. #### Tools the server actually returns - `create_instance` - `delete_instance` - `start_instance` - `stop_instance` - `reset_instance` - `get_instance_basic_info` - `set_instance_machine_type` - `list_instance_attached_disks` - `list_instances` - `get_instance_group_manager_basic_info` - `list_instance_group_managers` - `list_managed_instances` - `list_instance_templates` - `get_instance_template_basic_info` - `get_instance_template_properties` - `get_disk_basic_info` - `get_disk_performance_config` - `list_disks` - `list_accelerator_types` - `list_machine_types` - `list_images` - `get_zone_operation` - `get_reservation_basic_info` - `get_reservation_details` - `list_reservations` - `list_commitments` - `get_commitment_basic_info` - `list_commitment_reservations` - `list_snapshots` Google Compute Engine publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally. Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there. Publisher Google Verification Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory) Filed under Developer Tools Endpoint `https://compute.googleapis.com/mcp` Documentation [Publisher setup docs](https://cloud.google.com/docs) Published tools 29 · 21-50 tools band Depth rank in Developer Tools 24 of 95 Snapshot August 2026 Google Compute Engine carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server. In the publisher's words ## How Google describes it > Enables you to agentically manage your cloud compute infrastructure spanning deployment and operations. Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it. Same company ## More from Google ### [Gmail](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/communication/gmail/) Search, read and label Gmail threads, and draft replies Claude ### [Google Calendar](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/google-calendar/) Calendar reads, scheduling and invitation responses in Google Calendar Claude ### [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/data-analytics/google-cloud-bigquery/) BigQuery dataset discovery and SQL execution, published by Google Claude ### [Google Drive](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/productivity/google-drive/) File search, reading and upload against a Google Drive account Claude Nearby ## Other Developer Tools connectors ### [Cloudflare Developer Platform](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/cloudflare-developer-platform/) Deploy Workers and manage Cloudflare storage primitives Claude ### [GSC Wizard](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/gsc-wizard/) Google Search Console analysis inside ChatGPT ChatGPT ### [3Min API](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/3min-api/) REST API creation from a JSON schema ChatGPT ### [Three.js 3D Viewer](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/three-js-3d-viewer/) Demo viewer that renders Three.js scenes in the conversation Claude ### [Vantage](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/vantage/) Cost analysis for cloud, SaaS, and AI spend ChatGPT ### [Visily](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/visily/) Turn Visily design boards into application code ChatGPT [All 188 Developer Tools connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/developer-tools/) This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Google Compute Engine's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Google, and inclusion here is not an endorsement. ## Want your company reachable inside ChatGPT and Claude? Node8 builds MCP servers end to end: deciding which tools are worth exposing, the authentication and permission model, the review submissions, and the onboarding that gets them used. One server serves ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. [See how it works](https://node8.ai/mcp) Book a strategy session