# Automox MCP Server MCP Server

Official MCP server for Automox. Manage devices, patches, and policies in natural language.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `automox-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**42 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Console API: spec corrections & missing docs found against a live tenant

Spec corrections and missing documentation found by exercising the Console API against a live production tenant (org `101934`). Each item below is the spec vs. the observed live behavior, followed by the change requested.

## Spec corrections (request/response doesn't match live)

### 1. `POST /orgs/{orgID}/remediations/action-sets/upload` — missing the required `source` query parameter

- **Observed live:** the upload requires a **`source` query parameter** (enum `generic | qualys | tenable | c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/131) · 2026-06-01 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Build: single-device update + action-set deletes (documented-surface coverage gaps)

Closes the remaining **build** items from the documented-surface coverage audit (see [`docs/api-coverage.md`](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/blob/main/docs/api-coverage.md)). These are the documented Console API operations we want wrapped; secrets and the intentional destructive omission (`DELETE /servers/{id}`) are recorded in that doc and are **out of scope** here.

Each tool's safety tier is pre-decided per the destructive policy.

## Tools to build

- [ ] **`PUT /servers/{id

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/111) · 2026-05-31 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Surface install_do_not_disturb_honored / reboot_do_not_disturb_honored in policy summary outputs (API change 2025-10-24)

## Context

Per the [Automox API Changelog entry of 2025-10-24](https://docs.automox.com/product/Developer/What_s_New.htm), policy response bodies now include two fields:

- `install_do_not_disturb_honored`
- `reboot_do_not_disturb_honored`

These signal whether a given policy run respected the device's Do Not Disturb setting (for install and reboot phases separately). They show up automatically in the raw response (since the MCP doesn't strip unknown fields from policy detail), but **none of th

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/90) · 2026-05-28 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Verify v1.0.35 assign_policies_to_saved_search path against live tenant — endpoint missing from canonical OpenAPI spec

## Context

Diffing the MCP server's path calls against the canonical [`AutomoxCommunity/openapi-defs/openapi/bundles/ax-console-bundle.yaml`](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/openapi-defs/blob/main/openapi/bundles/ax-console-bundle.yaml) surfaced **four MCP-only paths** — endpoints the MCP server calls that don't appear in the spec at all. Three are likely stable but undocumented; one is a recent v1.0.35 addition and is the most concerning.

## Critical: `assign_policies_to_saved_search` (v1

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/86) · 2026-05-28 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments

### get_noncompliant_report pagination uses summary["total"] as device-count terminator

## Context

Deferred from the Pass 1 bug-hunt of #65 (v1.0.28). The two non-compliant-style pagination loops in `src/automox_mcp/workflows/reports.py` disagree about whether `summary["total"]` is a device count.

**`get_prepatch_report` (lines 155-159):** explicit comment that `summary["total"]` is **not** safe as a pagination terminator:

\`\`\`python
# Note: summary["total"] reports pending-patch count, not device count,
# so it cannot be used to short-circuit pagination. Rely on the
# empty-p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/68) · 2026-05-27 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### execute_device_command patch_specific sends `args` as an array; live API requires a string (HTTP 400)

## Summary

`execute_device_command` with `command_type="patch_specific"` (`InstallUpdate`) can serialize the `args` field as a **JSON array**, but the live Automox device-queue endpoint requires `args` to be a **string**. An array is rejected upstream with:

```json
{"errors":["The args must be a string."]}
```
(HTTP 400)

## Endpoint

`POST /servers/{id}/queues?o={org}` with `command_type_name: "InstallUpdate"`.

## Reproduction

Queue `InstallUpdate` with `args` as an array of patch names:

`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/234) · 2026-06-30 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Bug: list_zone_users returns empty {} for all user objects (field name mismatch)

## Description

The `list_zone_users` tool returns the correct user *count* for a zone, but every user object in the results is empty `{}`. No user data (name, email, role, etc.) is returned.

## Root Cause

In `automox_mcp/workflows/account.py`, the `_ZONE_USER_FIELDS` constant uses camelCase-style field names (`firstname`, `lastname`), but the Automox `/accounts/{id}/zones/{zone_id}/users` API endpoint returns snake_case fields (`first_name`, `last_name`). The `_project()` function finds no ma

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/226) · 2026-06-18 · open · external user · 0 comments

### discover_capabilities: make discovery runtime-aware and self-checking (diverges from callable registry)

## Summary

A field reconciliation of `discover_capabilities` output (v2.2.1, Claude Desktop session: no-arg call + all 17 domains, script-validated against the session's exposed tool surface) confirmed the catalog is **arithmetically correct** — all 17 `tool_count` values match their list lengths, and the discovery set reconciles exactly to the registered set (133 = 132 catalog-unique + `discover_capabilities`; the session's 129-tool surface = 133 − 4 env-gated). But the exercise surfaced real 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/217) · 2026-06-10 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Sanitizer corrupts worklet code fields; patch policies created without filter_type (API 400)

## Summary
Two bugs in the MCP server break worklet/patch-policy workflows. They were found together while creating worklets and a "patch all" policy.

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### Bug 1 — Response sanitizer silently corrupts code fields (display)
`sanitize_for_llm` / `sanitize_dict` (`src/automox_mcp/utils/sanitize.py`), applied to every tool response via `as_tool_response` (`src/automox_mcp/utils/tooling.py`), runs a markdown-link strip `[text](url)` -> `text`. This matches PowerShell type-casts:

- `\$x = [bool]

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/206) · 2026-06-08 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Account-user UUID gap: UUID-keyed account tools have no sanctioned UUID-producing listing

## Problem / why

`get_account_user`, `remove_user_from_account`, and `list_zones_for_user` are keyed by an account-user UUID (`user_id: str`), but no sanctioned listing surfaces that UUID — `list_users` / `get_user` project a numeric `id` and deliberately omit `uuid` (`_USER_LIST_FIELDS`, `workflows/account.py`). So these three tools are effectively unreachable without an out-of-band UUID, which also blocks any "remove user from account" certification action (#182).

## Secondary finding — fixe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/193) · 2026-06-08 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP App (#182 follow-up): wire API-key revocation as the access-certification act lever

## Problem / why

#182 (access certification) shipped read-only — review of users/roles. The "act on a failed certification" half was deferred. Role *change* has no API tool (`update_user` is profile-only — firstname/lastname/email/tfa_type; role is set only at invite via `invite_user_to_account(account_rbac_role=...)`), and account membership-revoke is UUID-stranded (see the UUID-gap issue) — but **API-key revocation is fully available today and numeric-keyed**, so it's the one actionable revok

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/192) · 2026-06-08 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Epic: MCP Apps — approval/review surfaces

## Why

Ship interactive `ui://` **App** surfaces that fill gaps a static tool response (and the console GUI) don't cover — inline review/approval before consequential writes — with graceful degradation to structured output on non-Apps hosts. Sequenced **read-only → write** so the safe pilot establishes the pattern first.

## Constraint

`prefab_ui` is not installed → use the **dependency-free** `ui://` HTML resource + `AppConfig` path (no Prefab Component dependency).

## Sub-issues (sequenced)

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AutomoxCommunity/automox-mcp/issues/184) · 2026-06-08 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for Automox MCP Server](/mcp/automox-mcp-server/issues) — of 42 qualified upstream.

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