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Box Admin Analytics MCP MCP Server

MCP server for Box admin-log analytics — external-sharing visibility, read-only

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Published as boxadm-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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 5.

Most discussed

get_user: split the permission hint so a 401 is not diagnosed as a missing scope

Follow-up to the advisory finding on #59 (ai-review R1F1).

_user_lookup_hint() fires on both HTTP 403 and HTTP 401, and since #59 its text asserts the verified 403 diagnosis (missing "Manage users" application scope, fix by granting + re-authorising). That diagnosis was verified for 403 specifically; a 401 can also mean a stale/revoked access token, where the right first step is simply re-authenticating, not touching scopes.

Possible refinement: split the hint — keep the scope diagnosis

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · open · 0 comments

Add a per-user lookup — account status is not reachable at all today

Problem

There is no way to ask about one user. All seven tools read admin_logs, so the closest thing to "what is this account's state?" is inferring it from events — which only works if an event happens to be in the window being queried.

The concrete case: a helpdesk ticket that says, in full, "my Box account is disabled". The submitter's address is known and verified. Answering it needs one lookup of that account's status. Today the server cannot do it, so the reply has to ask the

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

Add a live smoke test that exercises every registered tool

Motivation

Unit tests check logic against fixtures. They cannot tell you that a tool users actually call has stopped returning real data — a tool that exists but does not work is worse than no tool.

This happened for real in jquants-mcp: the earnings-calendar tools returned well-formed empty results for every query while the whole suite stayed green (shigechika/jquants-mcp#523). A live smoke test was built there to close the gap, and on its first production run it found three defects,

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

resilience: bound scan/request wall-clock under sustained throttle (scan-level deadline + per-request timeout)

Context

PR #12 (closing #11) added retry/backoff to the read path (_FolderReadMixin._get) and, crucially, a per-call wall-clock budget (_MAX_RETRY_ELAPSED) so a sustained 429/5xx or a hung endpoint fails fast instead of blocking long enough to hard-time-out the whole tool call.

Adversarial review of that fix surfaced two residuals that the per-call budget does not cover. Both were left out of PR #12 on purpose (documented in a code comment in client.py) because each is a large

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 0 comments

resilience: retry 429/transient errors with Retry-After + jittered backoff in the request path (client._get)

Problem

BoxClient._get / BoxOAuthClient._get (the shared read path behind every folder/collaboration/items call) retries only on 401 (token re-auth). Any other non-2xx — including 429 Too Many Requests and transient 5xx — is raised immediately as BoxError.

Since #7 parallelized _scan() (bounded ThreadPoolExecutor, BOX_SCAN_CONCURRENCY default 8, clamped 1..32), a 429 during a scan is caught per-folder and counted in fetch_errors — i.e. that folder's collaborators/l

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 0 comments

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