Unraid MCP MCP Server
MCP server for Unraid API — provides tools to interact with an Unraid server's GraphQL API.
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Published as unraid-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.
Known issues
20 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.
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Feature request: OAuth 2.1 support for claude.ai connector
Hey, love the project. Running it on my Unraid 7.3 box and it works great with Claude Code and Claude Desktop via Bearer token.
The problem is claude.ai's custom connector UI forces OAuth 2.1 with dynamic client registration — there's no way to provide a static Bearer token. So it's completely unusable from the web UI right now.
Home Assistant's MCP server is a good reference — they use HA's existing auth system as the OAuth provider and it works perfectly with claude.ai. Something simila
Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · external user · 1 comment
Schema drift detection mechanism
digging into mcp servers for my own home-lab stuff, curious how the schema drift detection actually works. scheduled diff against the live graphql schema? the workflow file names don't say.
Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · external user · 3 comments
Unraid GraphQL schema drift detected
The vendored docs/unraid/UNRAID-SCHEMA.graphql no longer matches
Unraid's published SDL at unraid/api@main.
Re-vendor the schema, then run the schema and dispatch contract tests to surface which queries, mutations, and mock responses need updates.
The complete schema.diff, schema-summary.md, and
upstream-schema.graphql are attached to this workflow run as
the `unraid-schema-drift-285017
Read the thread · 2026-06-30 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
Codex plugin manifest overrides UNRAID_VERIFY_SSL CA bundle path for self-signed certs
Summary
When using the Codex plugin with an Unraid API endpoint that uses a self-signed certificate, setting UNRAID_VERIFY_SSL to a CA-bundle path in ~/.unraid-mcp/.env is not sufficient. The installed Codex plugin manifest also sets UNRAID_VERIFY_SSL, and that manifest-provided environment value is passed directly to the MCP process.
Because the manifest currently hard-codes:
"UNRAID_VERIFY_SSL": "true"
it overrides the .env value. The MCP server then falls back to Py
Read the thread · 2026-06-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment
Unraid GraphQL schema drift detected
The vendored docs/unraid/UNRAID-SCHEMA.graphql no longer matches
Unraid's published SDL at unraid/api@main.
Re-vendor the schema, then run the schema and dispatch contract tests to surface which queries, mutations, and mock responses need updates.
The complete schema.diff, schema-summary.md, and
upstream-schema.graphql are attached to this workflow run as
the `unraid-schema-drift-283152
Read the thread · 2026-06-24 · closed · outside contributor · 31 comments
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Unraid GraphQL schema drift detected (unraid-rs)
The vendored unraid-rs/schema/unraid-schema.graphql no longer matches
Unraid's published SDL (unraid/api@main).
Re-vendor it (copy the upstream file, re-add the provenance header), then let the cargo schema-contract test surface which queries/fixtures need updating.
diff
--- vendored-body.graphql 2026-08-30 11:35:02.118720548 +0000
+++ ../unraid-py/upstream-schema.graphql 2026-08-30 11:34:54.604709675 +0000
@@ -1192,11 +1192,6 @@
"""Add new disk to a
[Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/unraid/issues/382) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Unraid GraphQL schema drift detected
<!-- upstream-schema-sha256: dd453b0652ac5261385a0ae49c3d4dcf8f53a40052c1fa4f1c555359c9f6ff23 -->
The vendored `docs/unraid/UNRAID-SCHEMA.graphql` no longer matches
Unraid's published SDL at `unraid/api@main`.
The compared blob was fetched from immutable commit
`97f639fc1dc7484d9f7c4ed0dd2f9e0cd345d38f`.
Re-vendor the schema, then run the schema and dispatch contract tests
to surface which queries, mutations, and mock responses need updates.
The complete `schema.diff`, `schema-summary.md`, an
[Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/unraid/issues/381) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Service fails to start on Unraid "exclusive share" setups: FATAL refusing symlinked appdata path /mnt/user/appdata
### Summary
`rc.unraid-mcp` refuses to start with:
`service start failed: rc.unraid-mcp: FATAL: refusing symlinked appdata path /mnt/user/appdata`
The symlink check in `prepare_appdata()` fires on a **legitimate, Unraid-created symlink** produced by the **exclusive share** feature (Primary storage = pool, Secondary storage = none). This is a standard, documented Unraid configuration, so the plugin currently cannot run on such systems at all.
### Environment
- Unraid version: 7.3.1 (exclusiv
[Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/unraid/issues/370) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 0 comments
### GraphQL validation errors on Unraid 7.3.2 — logs, check_updates, info overview broken
# GraphQL validation errors on Unraid 7.x — several tools broken (logs, check_updates, info overview)
**Version:** `ghcr.io/jmagar/unraid-mcp:latest` — image version `2.4.0`, revision `359ba7dddce9e324b4c1fdc2a816699ee8da069e`, built 2026-07-16
**Unraid version:** 7.3.2
**Deployment:** Docker on Unraid, bridge network, port 6970
## Summary
Several `unraid_docker` and `unraid_info` actions fail with `GRAPHQL_VALIDATION_FAILED` on Unraid 7.3.2. The queries appear to be written against an older
[Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/unraid/issues/312) · 2026-07-30 · closed · external user · 0 comments
### Duplicate hooks entry: manifest.hooks lists hooks/hooks.json which Claude Code auto-loads, breaking hook loading
### Summary
The plugin manifest redundantly declares `hooks/hooks.json`, which Claude Code already loads automatically. The duplicate causes hook loading to fail on every load.
### Error
Hook load failed: Duplicate hooks file detected: ./hooks/hooks.json resolves to already-loaded file /path/to/plugins/cache/unraid-mcp/unraid-mcp/2.3.5/hooks/hooks.json. The standard hooks/hooks.json is loaded automatically, so manifest.hooks should only reference additional hook files.
Surfaces as `1
[Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/unraid/issues/173) · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 0 comments
### Plugin manifest has no way to configure TLS for self-signed certs (stock Unraid install fails with FATAL)
### Summary
The plugin manifest provides no way to configure TLS behaviour, so the plugin cannot be used against a stock Unraid server (which ships a self-signed cert by default) without hand-editing files outside the plugin.
### Detail
In v2.3.5, `plugins/unraid/.mcp.json` passes only:
```json
"env": {
"UNRAID_MCP_TRANSPORT": "stdio",
"UNRAID_API_URL": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_UNRAID_API_URL}",
"UNRAID_API_KEY": "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_OPTION_UNRAID_API_KEY}"
}
and `plugins/unraid/.claud
Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 0 comments
Docker: Python version mismatch between builder (3.12) and runtime (3.14) breaks container
Bug description
The runtime stage in the Dockerfile uses a digest-pinned python base image that Dependabot recently bumped from Python 3.12 to Python 3.14. The builder stage correctly uses Python 3.12 (uv:python3.12-bookworm-slim), so the virtual environment is built for 3.12.
When the runtime container starts with Python 3.14, it cannot find any packages because:
- Site-packages are at
/app/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/ - Python 3.14 looks in `/app/.venv/lib/python3.14/site-pac
Read the thread · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments
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