Synology NAS MCP Server

MCP server for Synology NAS — browse files, monitor health, and automate operations

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Published as mcp-synology on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

29 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

Wire ServerState load_state / save_state lifecycle in SharedClientManager

Summary

Surfaced as F2 on PR #73 (#37 fix) — one of two ACs from #37 that's deferred to a follow-up. Filing now so "Closes #37" on PR #73 is honest about scope.

src/mcp_synology/core/state.py defines ServerState with api_info_cache, negotiated_versions, recycle_bin_status, and a few connection metadata fields. The model exists, load_state(instance_id) / save_state(instance_id, state) are implemented and (since #69) write atomically. But:

src/mcp_synology/server.py:83 cons

Read the thread · 2026-05-01 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

Learn usage patterns from tool telemetry (downstream of #48)

Summary

Post-baggage feature opportunity, depends on #48 landing first.

Once write-operation events are flowing to awareness, a background aggregator (or just periodic human-driven review via the awareness search / get_knowledge tools) can spot patterns:

'User deletes *.tmp files in /video/Downloads every Sunday' → learn_pattern so cleanup suggestions are proactive.
'User copies from /photo/Camera to /photo/Sorted/YYYY-MM every weekend' → pattern matching for assistance.

Read the thread · 2026-04-16 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

New module: Storage + health tools that feed awareness alerts

Summary

Post-baggage feature opportunity surfaced during the 2026-04-16 review. The system module exposes get_system_info and get_resource_usage today — point-in-time queries the user has to remember to run. For a NAS, the interesting questions are anomaly-driven: 'is anything going wrong?' The right place to put that signal is the awareness briefing.

Proposal

New storage module (or expand system) with:

get_volume_status() — healthy / degraded / crashed / rebuilding, free

Read the thread · 2026-04-16 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

Awareness integration: emit add_context events after significant write operations

Summary

Opportunity surfaced during the 2026-04-16 review (post-baggage). Expanding the DSM tool surface creates a parallel opportunity: give the user durable, cross-platform memory of what actually happened on their NAS.

Claude Code on this workstation can see the operations it ran. Claude.ai on the couch, Claude Desktop on a phone, and future agents cannot — unless we write to awareness. When a user asks 'what did I do with my movies last month?' the answer today is 'grep my shell history

Read the thread · 2026-04-16 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

Tidy-up bundle: test duplication, setup input stripping, fallback truthiness, minor robustness

Summary

A batch of small, low-risk cleanups surfaced during the 2026-04-16 project-wide review. None are bugs on their own; grouped here to keep the baggage list short.

Items

BASE_URL duplicated across tests/conftest.py:16 and tests/core/test_client.py:18. Import the conftest value everywhere.
Test helpers duplicated — _make_client() / _default_cache() in tests/core/test_client.py and make_test_config() / make_api_cache() in tests/conftest.py overlap.

Read the thread · 2026-04-16 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Most recent

vdsm: add Download Station integration test coverage

Background

Phase 1 (#104) and Phase 2 (#105) of the Download Station module shipped with the design-doc note "vdsm integration tests — out of scope; vdsm doesn't ship the Download Station package." This issue tracks the work to add DS to the vdsm golden image so CI exercises DS tools against a real DSM instance.

Scope

Install Download Station into the vdsm golden image at bake time via Playwright through Package Center UI (matches the existing operator-driven Playwright pattern in `te

Read the thread · 2026-05-14 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Phase 2 (downloadstation): use negotiate_version(max_version=2) for Task.list / Task.getinfo

Background

Phase 1 of the Download Station module (Plan + spec at docs/superpowers/specs/2026-05-13-downloadstation-module-design.md) shipped list_downloads and get_download_info with version=1 hard-pinned on both calls.

The spec's Data Flow section says:

DS2 dip: `Task.list` and `Task.getinfo` try v2 first if available (richer `additional` fields), fall back to v1.

…but Phase 1 deliberately kept v=1 across the board because the spec also has an Open Questions section

Read the thread · 2026-05-13 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Operational test coverage gaps: re-auth retry on upload/download, get_dir_size edge cases, restore_from_recycle_bin integration

Motivation

Companion to #96. Where #96 systematizes coverage for the multipath/array-flattening regression class, this issue tracks operational error-path gaps in the File Station and core client that are unrelated to multipath — specifically session re-auth retries, async-task edge cases on get_dir_size, and the absence of any integration/vdsm exercise of restore_from_recycle_bin.

Verified against current code at 8b0d200 (post-#97 merge). One scope item from the original brain-du

Read the thread · 2026-05-04 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

create_folder silently mangles multi-path arrays (regression in v0.5.2)

Summary

create_folder with multiple paths in paths= does not create N folders. DSM receives the comma-joined name as a single literal name and the comma-joined folder_path as a single literal parent, so one folder with a mangled name is created (or an error surfaces — but not always). The tool reports "Created 1 folder(s):" regardless, so the failure is silent from the caller's perspective.

QA reproducer:

Call: `create_folder(paths=['//__cftest_a', '//__cftest_b'])

Read the thread · 2026-05-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Read-modify-write race on ~/.local/state/mcp-synology/global.yaml

Summary

atomic_write_text (PR #69) prevents torn writes via os.replace, so a single write is always all-or-nothing. But the read-modify-write sequence — load YAML → mutate dict → save — has no synchronization between processes. Three callers can interleave:

Main process startup writes running_version and previous_version.
Background update task writes last_version_check and latest_known_version.
Manual mcp-synology --check-update writes the same as #2.

If two of

Read the thread · 2026-05-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

bug: pr-labels-ci.yml is pre-hardening (shell-injection risk) and lacks the PR-#28 comment escape

Summary

.github/workflows/pr-labels-ci.yml on this repo has two related issues that have been fixed in sibling cmeans/* repos:

Shell-injection surface on fork PRs (pre-PR-#87 state). The current file inlines ${{ github.event.workflow_run.head_branch }} directly inside run: blocks. head_branch is contributor-controlled on fork PRs, and git refnames allow shell metacharacters ($, backtick, ;, &, |, etc.), so a malicious fork branch name renders as directly-executed sh

Read the thread · 2026-04-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

ADR needed: per-client DSM sessions (session_key parameter) and Streamable HTTP roadmap

Summary

docs/specs/architecture.md documents a future session_key parameter on AuthManager.get_session() to enable per-MCP-client DSM sessions under Streamable HTTP. The current implementation (src/mcp_synology/core/auth.py:196) is async def get_session(self) -> str: — the parameter is absent, and logout() (auth.py:177-194) hardcodes _session_name with no way to derive a per-client variant.

So long as the server runs under stdio (single MCP client per process), this is fine.

Read the thread · 2026-04-16 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

See all 16 reports Pod holds for Synology NAS — of 29 qualified upstream.

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