# airflow-mcp-server MCP Server

An MCP server for Apache Airflow

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `airflow-mcp-server` on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as `airflow-mcp-server` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**14 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 11.

### Most discussed

### Dynamic tool load via Categories can show tools

I'm using Claude 0.13.64 (7d2335) 2025-10-07T18:18:41.000Z

After initially showing me all the available tool categories, I asked to select Version.  Here is my conversation, which never results in fetching the version number.

Me: `select Version`
I've selected the **Version** category. This category has 1 tool available. 

The Version category tools are now active and ready to use. Would you like to see what specific tool is available in this category, or would you like to use it to check the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/29) · 2025-10-09 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Not working, getting error

raise KeyError(msg)
KeyError: "Reference '#/$defs/ConnectionBody' not found."

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/27) · 2025-10-04 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Project scope

Split the project into 2 different streams:
- Adding Airflow to AI  (full access)
- Adding AI to Airflow (read-only access using Airflow Plugin)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/3) · 2025-02-15 · closed · 3 comments

### Unable to load tools in http mode

The current configuration in mcp.json via VSCOde is as follows:	
```
"airflow-mcp-server-http": {
			"command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "airflow-mcp-server",
                "--http",
                "--port",
                "3000",
                "--base-url",
                "http://localhost:8080",
                "--auth-token",
                "JWT_TOKEN",
				"--static-tools"
            ]
		}
```
```
 airflow-mcp-server   --http   --port 3000   --base-url http://loc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/31) · 2025-12-22 · open · external user · 2 comments

### Support both SSE and stdio

Currently it supports only stdio. There should also be an option to start an SSE server.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/23) · 2025-07-09 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Create Airflow plugin to use safe mode of MCP server to have a chat interface

Relates to #3

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/11) · 2025-02-23 · closed · 1 comment

### Remove Content-Type Header for Zero-Body Requests

DELETE pool operations fail with 400 Bad Request due to incorrectly including Content-Type header when no request body is needed. This violates RESTful principles and Airflow API expectations. The client needs modification to omit Content-Type headers for requests without bodies, ensuring compliance with HTTP specifications and Airflow's API requirements.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/8) · 2025-02-23 · closed · 0 comments

### Add a default YAML that points to latest stable Airflow Release of OpenAPI Spec

If user does not provides an OpenAPI Spec then it should default to latest Airflow Release of OpenAPI Spec which is embedded.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/5) · 2025-02-21 · closed · 0 comments

### test_connection tool no parameters parsed.

The tool fails to run as there are no parameters to provide

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/4) · 2025-02-16 · closed · 0 comments

### List Tools needs better description

OpenAPI spec has better description which needs to be extracted and add to Tools objects.

Large models like claude 3.5 sonnet has no issues understanding but smaller models might benefit from it.
This will increase context usage a bit. Perhaps should made it optional.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/2) · 2025-02-14 · closed · 0 comments

### Add a safe mode for read-only operations

Airflow is used for sensitive projects as well. Needs a read-only mode.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/abhishekbhakat/airflow-mcp-server/issues/1) · 2025-02-14 · closed · 0 comments

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