Automox MCP Server MCP Server

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

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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 · 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). 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 · 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, 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 · 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 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 · 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 · 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:

{"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:

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Read the thread · 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 · 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 · 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.

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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 2026-06-08 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

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