# ProxmoxMCP-Plus MCP Server

Proxmox VE MCP server for VMs, LXCs, snapshots, backups, storage, and cluster operations.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled ProxmoxMCP-Plus yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `proxmox-mcp-plus` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**10 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 7.

### Most discussed

### Feature request: optional bearer auth for the native Streamable HTTP /mcp endpoint

## Summary

When running in `PROXMOX_MCP_MODE=mcp-http`, the native Streamable HTTP endpoint on
`:8000/mcp` accepts **any** request. `PROXMOX_API_KEY` does not apply to it — that key
only guards the OpenAPI proxy on `:8811`, and the two modes are mutually exclusive
processes, so there is currently no configuration in which `/mcp` is authenticated.

Since that endpoint exposes the full tool surface (power management, backups, guest
creation/deletion within the token's ACL scope), the only availab

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/118) · 2026-08-11 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feature Request: Whitelist of exposed tools to reduce token spend on local LLM

TL:DR: you should add a whitelist.json or environment (or both) to ONLY expose the MCP tools I care about so they are not surfaced to MCP clients, thus reducing the precious tokens the dormant tools take up just by existing.

Last night I had an infuriating and token-wasting session only to find out this isn't even a thing; but it should be 🥲 

In an effort to reduce tokens on my LOCAL LLMs, I learned that JUST the fact of having MCP tools (enabled), not even USING them, but simply that they exi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/102) · 2026-07-01 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Add option to configure DNS rebinding protection for MCP transport

## Problem

When deploying ProxmoxMCP-Plus behind a reverse proxy or MCP gateway (e.g. agentgateway), the Python MCP SDK's DNS rebinding protection rejects requests with `421 Misdirected Request` because the incoming `Host` header doesn't match `localhost`.

There's currently no way to configure this without patching the SDK at runtime.

## Root Cause

In `src/proxmox_mcp/server.py`, the `FastMCP()` constructor is called without a `transport_security` parameter:

```python
self.mcp = FastMCP(
  

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/92) · 2026-05-18 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Compatibility: Home Assistant MCP client fails on nested payload schema ($ref/$defs) for get_containersArguments

## Summary
ProxmoxMCP-Plus appears to work with permissive MCP clients, but Home Assistant's MCP integration currently fails to load this server because at least one tool schema uses a nested `payload` object via `$ref`/`$defs`.

This causes HA to put the MCP config entry into `setup_retry`.

## Observed error in Home Assistant
```
Error converting schema Invalid schema, missing type: {'$defs': {'GetContainersPayload': {'properties': {'node': {'anyOf': [{'type': 'string'}, {'type': 'null'}], 'de

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/81) · 2026-04-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Missing container command execution setup

On previous version I managed to get this to work with your guide. I see now there's been a lot of changes and also this guide is no longer available. Can you help update it?

Great MCP btw!

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/75) · 2026-04-26 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### STDIO transport aborts with SIGABRT on every shutdown (_enter_buffered_busy at interpreter finalization)

Under the STDIO transport the server aborts with `SIGABRT` on **every** shutdown instead of exiting cleanly. On macOS this surfaces as a "Python quit unexpectedly" crash dialog each time the MCP client disconnects; on Linux it produces a core dump / exit code 134.

```
Fatal Python error: _enter_buffered_busy: could not acquire lock for
<_io.BufferedReader name='<stdin>'> at interpreter shutdown, possibly due to
daemon threads
```

## Environment

| | |
|---|---|
| proxmox-mcp-plus | 0.5.12 (als

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/112) · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Add HTTP Streamable MCP support

Currently when running in docker, it's not possible for an MCP client to connect due to the server only support STDIO. This prevent client on other host using the MCP server.

Would be great if we can support HTTP mode.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/RekklesNA/ProxmoxMCP-Plus/issues/84) · 2026-05-06 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 10 reports Pod holds for ProxmoxMCP-Plus](/mcp/proxmoxmcp-plus/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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