# coolify MCP Server

44 optimized tools for managing Coolify infrastructure, diagnostics, and docs search

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@masonator/coolify-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**82 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

### Ability to connect with multiple servers

### Problem or motivation

Would love a settings screen where we could specify multiple coolify URL's and Api's

### Proposed solution

Menu that allows us to CRUD coolify URL's and Keys, then have the LLM auto select the current repo's assigned Coolify server details. 

### Alternatives considered

The ability to manually select the coolify server we are currently working with

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/164) · 2026-04-27 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### env_vars create/update should support is_buildtime and is_runtime flags

## Context

When creating or updating environment variables via the `env_vars` tool, there's no way to control the `is_buildtime` and `is_runtime` flags. All vars default to `is_buildtime: true, is_runtime: true`.

This causes a hard failure when setting multiline values (like PEM keys for `PASSPORT_PRIVATE_KEY`) because Coolify injects build-time vars as `ARG` directives in the Dockerfile, and multiline values break the Dockerfile parser:

```
Dockerfile:11
--------------------
 9 |     ARG DB_

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/135) · 2026-02-26 · closed · 3 comments

### bug: fqdn field not sent correctly to Coolify API (should be domains)

## Bug Description

When creating or updating applications with a custom domain using the `fqdn` field, the domain setting is silently ignored by the Coolify API.

## Root Cause

The Coolify API expects the field to be named `domains`, not `fqdn`. The following methods pass `fqdn` directly in the request body without mapping it:

- `createApplicationPublic`
- `createApplicationPrivateGH`
- `createApplicationPrivateKey`
- `updateApplication`

## Steps to Reproduce

```typescript
await client.crea

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/126) · 2026-02-23 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Failed to create client

Hi,
I added with my env 

`"coolify": {
    "command": "npx",
    "args": [
        "-y", "@masonator/coolify-mcp"
    ],
    "env": {
        "COOLIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN": "0|your-secret-token",
        "COOLIFY_BASE_URL": "https://your-coolify-instance.com"
    }
}`

to .cursor/mcp.json

However, I am not able to connect the server.

https://forum.cursor.com/t/mcp-add-persistent-memory-in-cursor/57497
<img width="571" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dffb5422-a974-469b-8d9

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/15) · 2025-03-13 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### V3: OAuth 2.1 + Streamable HTTP transport — run as a container inside Coolify

Part of the V3 epic (#259). This is the change that makes V3 a major rather than an internals refresh.

## Goal

Ship one codebase with **two transports**:

1. **stdio** — exactly what exists today. Unchanged behaviour, unchanged config, unchanged npm and MCPB artifacts. Nobody on stdio should notice V3 happened beyond a version number.
2. **Streamable HTTP + OAuth 2.1** — deployable as a container on the user's own Coolify instance, so remote MCP clients (claude.ai in particular) can manage inf

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/303) · 2026-07-29 · open · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Three Coolify API parameters not exposed: destination_uuid on service create, public port on existing databases, connect_to_docker_network

First, thanks for this server. I spent a full day driving a Coolify instance through it and the tool design held up well, `service`, `env_vars`, `deploy` and `scheduled_tasks run_once` in particular. I hit three gaps where the Coolify API supports a parameter that the MCP does not expose, and each one forced me out of the MCP and into the browser or the CLI.

Version tested: **2.19.3**, Coolify **4.3.9** self-hosted.

### 1. `service create` cannot set `destination_uuid`

On a server with more t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/351) · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Return canonical Coolify UI links instead of letting the model construct them

Several mature MCP servers ship a tool whose only job is to mint a correct link back into the product UI, and the stated reason is always the same: models retype identifiers into paths and get them wrong.

PostHog's `generate-app-url` says it outright:

> ALWAYS use this (or an existing `_posthogUrl` field) instead of writing PostHog links by hand: slugs and project/host prefixes are easy to get wrong (a person UUID lives at `/persons/<uuid>`, not `/person/...`) and IDs must never be retyped int

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/342) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### Migrate destructive confirmation from elicitation/create to MRTR

The destructive-confirmation guard is built on server-initiated `elicitation/create`. Under `2026-07-28` that pattern no longer exists.

## What replaced it

**Multi Round-Trip Requests** (SEP-2322). The server returns an `InputRequiredResult` (`resultType: "input_required"`) carrying an `inputRequests` map plus an opaque `requestState`; the **client retries the original request** with `inputResponses` and that state. Servers may only initiate a request while actively processing a client request

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/341) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### OAuth hardening for HTTP mode: CIMD over DCR, 401 shape, PRM paths, SSRF guards

Auth findings from a review of the current spec and Anthropic's connector docs, relevant to the OAuth AS built in #303.

## 1. DCR is deprecated — advertise CIMD

`2026-07-28` deprecates OAuth Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591) in favour of **Client ID Metadata Documents**. Anthropic explicitly recommends CIMD over DCR at directory scale, because DCR registers a brand-new client on every fresh connection — which for us also means unbounded growth in the OAuth state file.

Claude selects CIMD

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/340) · 2026-08-06 · open · 1 comment

### Set the server instructions field — it is what tool-search clients read first

We do not set the server `instructions` field at all. That is now the single highest-leverage string in the server.

## Why it changed

Claude Code enables tool-definition deferral by default (`ENABLE_TOOL_SEARCH`, on for Sonnet/Haiku/Opus 4.5+). At session start it loads **only tool names and the server's `instructions` field**; full definitions are fetched on demand. Claude Code also states it imposes no fixed per-server tool cap.

So on that client the ~6,600-token `tools/list` achievement is

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/339) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### Split tools by safety class: reads are currently annotated destructive

## The problem

24 tools in `TOOL_ANNOTATIONS` are annotated `DESTRUCTIVE`, with the comment "every one of these has a delete, stop, or replace": `application`, `database`, `service`, `projects`, `environments`, `env_vars`, `private_keys`, `github_apps`, `cloud_tokens`, `storages`, `tags`, `scheduled_tasks`, `database_backups`, `control`, `deploy`, `deployment`, `system` and the batch tools.

Every one of those also contains `list` and `get` actions. So **listing your applications currently carr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/338) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### Adopt protocol revision 2026-07-28 (stateless core, cacheable lists, server/discover)

Protocol revision **`2026-07-28`** shipped on 28 July 2026. It is the largest breaking change since MCP launched, and since #259 already moves us onto SDK v2 this is the natural release to absorb it.

No client has shipped it yet — Anthropic's connector docs still cap at `2025-11-25` and VS Code at `2025-06-18` — so the target is: **write against SDK v2, serve both eras on the wire** via `createMcpHandler` with the default `legacy: 'stateless'`. This is not a cutover, it is dual-era support.

##

[Read the thread](https://github.com/StuMason/coolify-mcp/issues/337) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for coolify](/mcp/coolify/issues) — of 82 qualified upstream.

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