ServiceNow MCP Server MCP Server
19 tools + 5 resources for ServiceNow: CMDB, update sets, tables. OAuth 2.1. Tokyo+, PKCE SanDiego+
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Published as mcp-server-servicenow on pypi. Runs locally.
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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.
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FastMCP 4.0 stable: remove beta-pin workarounds
Tracking issue for when FastMCP 4.0 leaves beta (Renovate will propose the bump). Checklist from the v0.6.0 migration:
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pyproject.toml:fastmcp==4.0.0b2→ a normal range (e.g.>=4.0,<5) - Remove the direct
fastmcp-slim[client,server]==4.0.0b2dependency (only existed for uvx pre-release resolution) - Remove
[tool.uv] prerelease = "allow"from pyproject - Remove
--prerelease allowfrom every uvx example: README, docs/configuration.md, .mcp.json.example, .claude-plugi
Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 1 comment
Support for federated SSO / MFA-enforced ServiceNow instances (e.g. Okta)
Thanks for this project — it's a great fit for the incident/CMDB workflows we need.
We tried connecting to a ServiceNow instance (*.service-now.com) that uses Okta as its identity provider with MFA enforced. Both basic and oauth (ROPC via /oauth_token.do) auth types fail for federated user accounts, since:
- Users authenticated via Okta SSO typically have no local ServiceNow password to send in a Basic Auth header or password-grant POST.
- Even where a local credential existed, MFA e
Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · external user · 1 comment
feat: ITSM domain-specific tools (incident, change, catalog)
The current tool set provides excellent generic Table API access, but ITSM operations (incidents, changes, catalog requests) require users/agents to know ServiceNow's encoded query syntax and field names.
I'd like to propose 10 domain-specific tools that build encoded queries from human-friendly parameters:
ITSM (7 tools)
incident_search— filter by assigned_to, assignment_group, state, priority, CI, date, textincident_create— create with impact/urgency/category/CI/caller- `
Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · external user · 1 comment
AuthManager: token response without access_token yields a literal 'Bearer None' header
Surfaced during the mypy adoption review (#9): in AuthManager.get_headers() the OAuth branch formats f"{self.token_type} {self.token}" where both are Optional[str]. A 200 token response that omits access_token (malformed proxy, misconfigured provider) would send a literal Bearer None Authorization header downstream instead of raising a clear error at the token step.
Tiny hardening: after _store_token_response, raise ValueError when access_token is absent. Pre-existing behavior,
Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · open · 0 comments
Adopt mypy (package ships py.typed but nothing type-checks it)
The wheel ships py.typed and the codebase uses type hints throughout, but no CI step or config validates them — a stale .mypy_cache/ suggests it ran ad hoc once. Add mypy to the dev extra, a [tool.mypy] config, and a CI step. Expect a small pile of initial errors around the FastMCP decorator boundaries.
Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · 0 comments
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