# Synology NAS MCP Server

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

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

## Status

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## Connect

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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/75) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/50) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/49) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/48) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/45) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/106) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/103) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/99) · 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=['/<share>/__cftest_a', '/<share>/__cftest_b'])

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/95) · 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:

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

If two of 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/93) · 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:

1. **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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/52) · 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](https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-synology/issues/47) · 2026-04-16 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 16 reports Pod holds for Synology NAS](/mcp/synology-nas/issues) — of 29 qualified upstream.

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