# Nora MCP Server

Operate self-hosted OpenClaw and Hermes agent fleets on Docker or Kubernetes from MCP clients.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@noraai/mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### Provision locks stranded on idle Postgres sessions: deployments DLQ with "already being provisioned by another worker"; provider saves hang/504

### Summary

Session-level advisory provision locks get stranded on idle Postgres sessions: deployments retry with `Agent <id> is already being provisioned by another worker` until they exhaust retries and hit the DLQ, and provider saves (`POST /api/llm-providers`) hang past a reverse-proxy timeout and 504 — while nothing is actually provisioning the agent. Terminating the idle lock-holding sessions unblocks everything immediately.

### Steps to reproduce

1. Self-hosted Nora via docker compose 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/issues/406) · 2026-08-25 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Nora security hardening sprint

## Objective
Execute the first bounded security hardening pass for Nora's self-hosted MVP.

## Scope
- Lock down OAuth login flow
- Add centralized ownership/authorization checks for agent/workspace/channel/integration/log routes
- Remove or reduce insecure token/query-string auth patterns
- Enforce encrypted secret handling and redact secret-bearing config from API responses
- Remove insecure default bootstrap credential paths

## Acceptance criteria
- OAuth login cannot mint trusted sessions f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/issues/5) · 2026-04-01 · closed · 1 comment

### Tests: add unit tests for `backend-api/networkSafety.ts` (SSRF guards)

**Area:** `backend-api/` · **Difficulty:** easy

### Problem
`backend-api/networkSafety.ts` (~105 lines) holds the SSRF guards (`assertSafeUrl`, `assertSafeUrlAsync`, `PRIVATE_IP_RE`) used by integrations/channels, but has no dedicated test file — these security checks are unverified directly.

### Scope
Add `backend-api/__tests__/networkSafety.test.ts`: test `assertSafeUrl` (rejects non-HTTP protocols and RFC1918/loopback/link-local literals; accepts public URLs) and `assertSafeUrlAsync` with `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/issues/221) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments

### MCP: add a `get_agent_stats` tool (wrap /agents/:id/stats)

**Area:** `mcp-server/` · **Difficulty:** easy

### Problem
The backend exposes `GET /api/agents/:id/stats` (`backend-api/routes/agents.ts`) — live per-agent runtime stats — but there's no MCP tool for it. Clients only have the time-series `get_agent_metrics` and the aggregated summary.

### Scope
Add a read-only `get_agent_stats` tool in `mcp-server/src/tools/agents.js` taking `agentId` (UUID) as the only input, calling `GET /api/agents/{id}/stats`, registered with `readOnlyHint: true`. Reuse t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/issues/218) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments

### MCP: add a `get_fleet_status` tool (wrap /monitoring/fleet-status)

**Area:** `mcp-server/` · **Difficulty:** easy

### Problem
The backend exposes `GET /api/monitoring/fleet-status` (`backend-api/routes/monitoring.ts`) — the fleet "needs attention" roll-up — but no MCP tool surfaces it, so MCP clients only see coarse counts via `get_platform_metrics`.

### Scope
Add a read-only `get_fleet_status` tool in `mcp-server/src/tools/monitoring.js` that calls `GET /api/monitoring/fleet-status` (empty input schema), registered in `registerMonitoringTools()` with `readOn

[Read the thread](https://github.com/solomon2773/nora/issues/217) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 0 comments

## Firsthand observations

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