MCP endpoint in MaxKB that exposes a published MaxKB application as an authenticated tool, letting Claude send messages into a configured enterprise agent, RAG workflow, or knowledge-base-backed application.
by 1Panel-dev · submitted by oktofeesh1·added 2026-06-06·22,000 source repo stars·
MaxKB checks the Authorization bearer token against active application API keys and only exposes published applications., The MCP handler exposes one tool named from the published application id prefix and sends each tool call message into a new MaxKB chat session., The published MaxKB application may retrieve knowledge-base content, call configured workflows or functions, use connected model providers, and trigger any tools enabled for that application., Do not expose test applications, broad internal knowledge bases, high-privilege workflows, or unreviewed function tools to MCP clients., Use least-privilege application keys, rotate keys regularly, avoid default deployment credentials, and require human approval before workflows that can change external systems.
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Tool calls can expose user prompts, chat transcripts, application names, application descriptions, retrieved knowledge-base snippets, workflow outputs, and model-provider payloads., Knowledge bases may contain uploaded documents, crawled web pages, customer support material, internal runbooks, or other sensitive enterprise content., Application API keys, bearer headers, MCP URLs, request bodies, response text, logs, and MaxKB chat history should be treated as sensitive operational data., Redact prompts, retrieved passages, generated answers, application ids, API keys, and model-provider traces before sharing logs or screenshots.
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5 safety and 4 privacy notes across 4 risk areas. Review closely: credentials & tokens, network access, third-party handling.
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SafetyCredentials & tokensMaxKB checks the Authorization bearer token against active application API keys and only exposes published applications.
SafetyCredentials & tokensThe MCP handler exposes one tool named from the published application id prefix and sends each tool call message into a new MaxKB chat session.
SafetyThird-party handlingThe published MaxKB application may retrieve knowledge-base content, call configured workflows or functions, use connected model providers, and trigger any tools enabled for that application.
SafetyGeneralDo not expose test applications, broad internal knowledge bases, high-privilege workflows, or unreviewed function tools to MCP clients.
SafetyCredentials & tokensUse least-privilege application keys, rotate keys regularly, avoid default deployment credentials, and require human approval before workflows that can change external systems.
PrivacyThird-party handlingTool calls can expose user prompts, chat transcripts, application names, application descriptions, retrieved knowledge-base snippets, workflow outputs, and model-provider payloads.
PrivacyNetwork accessKnowledge bases may contain uploaded documents, crawled web pages, customer support material, internal runbooks, or other sensitive enterprise content.
PrivacyCredentials & tokensApplication API keys, bearer headers, MCP URLs, request bodies, response text, logs, and MaxKB chat history should be treated as sensitive operational data.
PrivacyCredentials & tokensRedact prompts, retrieved passages, generated answers, application ids, API keys, and model-provider traces before sharing logs or screenshots.
Disclosure: GPL-3.0-licensed open-source MaxKB project. The MCP endpoint is source-backed in the v2 branch; verify current MaxKB release notes and deployment settings before exposing production applications.
Safety notes
MaxKB checks the Authorization bearer token against active application API keys and only exposes published applications.
The MCP handler exposes one tool named from the published application id prefix and sends each tool call message into a new MaxKB chat session.
The published MaxKB application may retrieve knowledge-base content, call configured workflows or functions, use connected model providers, and trigger any tools enabled for that application.
Do not expose test applications, broad internal knowledge bases, high-privilege workflows, or unreviewed function tools to MCP clients.
Use least-privilege application keys, rotate keys regularly, avoid default deployment credentials, and require human approval before workflows that can change external systems.
Privacy notes
Tool calls can expose user prompts, chat transcripts, application names, application descriptions, retrieved knowledge-base snippets, workflow outputs, and model-provider payloads.
Knowledge bases may contain uploaded documents, crawled web pages, customer support material, internal runbooks, or other sensitive enterprise content.
Application API keys, bearer headers, MCP URLs, request bodies, response text, logs, and MaxKB chat history should be treated as sensitive operational data.
Redact prompts, retrieved passages, generated answers, application ids, API keys, and model-provider traces before sharing logs or screenshots.
Prerequisites
Running MaxKB v2 deployment with the web service reachable by the MCP client.
Published MaxKB application that is safe to expose as an MCP tool.
Active MaxKB application API key for that application.
Reviewed model provider, knowledge base, workflow, function, and MCP-tool settings inside the MaxKB application.
TLS, reverse proxy, access controls, and logging appropriate for the deployment environment.
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Disclosure
GPL-3.0-licensed open-source MaxKB project. The MCP endpoint is source-backed in the v2 branch; verify current MaxKB release notes and deployment settings before exposing production applications.
MaxKB MCP Server is the MCP endpoint built into MaxKB v2 for exposing a
published MaxKB application as a tool. The source-backed handler implements MCP
initialization, tool listing, and tool calls over the chat API path, then routes
each call into a MaxKB chat session for the application tied to the supplied API
key.
Use it when a team already runs MaxKB for enterprise agents, RAG workflows, or
knowledge-base-backed applications and wants Claude to call one reviewed,
published MaxKB application through an MCP client.
These sources were reviewed on 2026-06-06. Prefer the live repository, v2
README, license, URL routing, MCP view, MCP tool handler, and application API
key sources for current behavior.
Features
Expose a published MaxKB application as a single MCP tool.
Authenticate MCP calls with an active MaxKB application API key.
Return MCP server metadata with the maxkb-mcp server name.
List a generated agent_<application-prefix> tool using the application name
and description.
Accept a message input and send it into a new MaxKB chat session.
Stream the MaxKB response back to the MCP client as text.
Keep the MCP tool scoped to the published application associated with the API
key.
Follow the configured MaxKB chat path, with /chat/api/mcp as the default
route in the reviewed source.
Installation
Deploy MaxKB, review the application that should be callable by Claude, publish
that application, and create an active application API key for it. Then configure
the MCP client with the MaxKB MCP endpoint and bearer token:
If the deployment overrides MaxKB's CHAT_PATH, replace /chat with the
configured chat path before connecting the MCP client.
Use Cases
Let Claude query a reviewed MaxKB knowledge-base application.
Route support questions into a MaxKB customer-service agent.
Call a MaxKB workflow application from Claude while keeping the agent
configuration centralized in MaxKB.
Test a published MaxKB application from an MCP client before widening access.
Provide one scoped application tool instead of exposing the entire MaxKB admin
surface.
Use MaxKB as the RAG and workflow runtime while Claude handles conversation
planning.
Safety and Privacy
Treat the MaxKB MCP endpoint as access to the published application behind the
API key. The application can retrieve knowledge-base material, call configured
workflow steps, use model providers, and return tool output selected by the
MaxKB app design. Review the application, knowledge sources, function tools,
model providers, and workflow permissions before enabling MCP clients.
Protect application API keys like production credentials. MCP transcripts, chat
history, retrieved passages, model payloads, workflow outputs, application ids,
URLs, logs, and generated answers may contain sensitive business or personal
data. Use TLS, least-privilege applications, key rotation, audit logs, and
redaction before sharing prompts, screenshots, or debug traces.
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No 1Panel-dev/MaxKB, MaxKB MCP, maxkb-mcp, MaxKB agent tool, or matching
source URL entry was found in content/mcp or README.md. Existing RAG,
knowledge-base, and workflow MCP entries do not cover MaxKB's built-in source
MCP endpoint for published MaxKB applications.
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How it compares
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MCP endpoint in MaxKB that exposes a published MaxKB application as an authenticated tool, letting Claude send messages into a configured enterprise agent, RAG workflow, or knowledge-base-backed application.
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MCP server for the Graphlit platform, enabling Claude to ingest, search, retrieve, organize, and operate on files, web pages, feeds, collections, conversations, memory, connectors, crawls, and RAG-ready project knowledge.
Apache-licensed TypeScript MCP server for Obsidian vaults with stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, Local REST API access, note search, section-aware edits, tag/frontmatter management, path policies, and read-only controls.
✓MaxKB checks the Authorization bearer token against active application API keys and only exposes published applications.
The MCP handler exposes one tool named from the published application id prefix and sends each tool call message into a new MaxKB chat session.
The published MaxKB application may retrieve knowledge-base content, call configured workflows or functions, use connected model providers, and trigger any tools enabled for that application.
Do not expose test applications, broad internal knowledge bases, high-privilege workflows, or unreviewed function tools to MCP clients.
Use least-privilege application keys, rotate keys regularly, avoid default deployment credentials, and require human approval before workflows that can change external systems.
✓The MCP server sends Claude's retrieval queries to the Agentset API using the configured API key and namespace.
The `knowledge-base-retrieve` tool can return up to 100 results per call and can rerank results by relevance.
Namespace and tenant selection control which indexed documents are searchable; review them before connecting a shared agent.
API keys should be scoped, rotated, and stored only in the MCP server environment or a secret manager.
Custom tool descriptions can influence when the model calls the retrieval tool, so review them before use in production workflows.
✓Graphlit MCP Server can ingest files, web pages, messages, posts, emails, issues, text, memory, feeds, crawls, and connected SaaS data into a Graphlit project.
Tools can create or delete contents, feeds, collections, conversations, specifications, and workflows, and can configure project defaults when explicitly requested.
Web crawling, web search, screenshots, podcast search, feed scheduling, publishing, and connector operations may contact third-party services and process external content.
Generated audio and image publishing can call configured model/provider services and consume credits or quota.
Require confirmation before ingesting private repositories, emails, drive files, Slack/Teams/Discord data, customer documents, large crawls, generated media, deletion operations, or project configuration changes.
✓Cyanheads Obsidian MCP can read, list, search, create, append, patch, replace, delete, tag, and edit frontmatter in the configured vault through the Local REST API plugin.
The server defaults to full-vault access unless read paths, write paths, or read-only mode are configured.
Set `OBSIDIAN_READ_ONLY=true` for research-only workflows, then narrow writes with `OBSIDIAN_WRITE_PATHS` before allowing note edits.
Delete operations are permanent in the vault and should require human review even when the MCP host supports destructive-tool prompts.
Command-palette tools are disabled unless `OBSIDIAN_ENABLE_COMMANDS=true`; command execution can trigger opaque or destructive Obsidian plugin behavior.
Streamable HTTP deployments should use JWT or OAuth auth before being exposed beyond a trusted local machine.
Privacy notes
✓Tool calls can expose user prompts, chat transcripts, application names, application descriptions, retrieved knowledge-base snippets, workflow outputs, and model-provider payloads.
Knowledge bases may contain uploaded documents, crawled web pages, customer support material, internal runbooks, or other sensitive enterprise content.
Application API keys, bearer headers, MCP URLs, request bodies, response text, logs, and MaxKB chat history should be treated as sensitive operational data.
Redact prompts, retrieved passages, generated answers, application ids, API keys, and model-provider traces before sharing logs or screenshots.
✓Retrieved chunks can include private documents, product specs, policies, support content, internal procedures, historical project information, or customer-specific data.
Retrieval queries, namespace IDs, tenant IDs, document chunks, citations, and tool outputs may be visible to the MCP client, model provider, Agentset logs, and application telemetry.
Tenant IDs are useful for data segregation, but incorrect tenant or namespace configuration can expose the wrong knowledge base.
Do not paste API keys, namespace IDs, tenant IDs, or retrieved private chunks into shared issue reports, screenshots, or repository files.
✓Graphlit environment IDs, organization IDs, JWT secrets, project IDs, resource IDs, connector tokens, URLs, files, emails, messages, issues, transcripts, screenshots, memories, conversations, usage records, and retrieved sources can be exposed to the MCP client.
Ingested documents may be extracted to Markdown; audio and video may be transcribed; images and pages may be described or screenshot.
Connected services such as Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Microsoft 365, GitHub, Jira, Linear, Notion, Dropbox, Box, Reddit, and Twitter/X can expose private workspace content.
Usage records can include request, response, variables, token counts, bytes, units, and credit charges for project operations.
Keep Graphlit secrets in local MCP client configuration only, and review retention, deletion, and connector policies before ingesting regulated or customer data.
✓Vault notes, headings, block references, frontmatter, tags, file metadata, outgoing links, search queries, command names, plugin status, and edit history may be exposed to the MCP client and model provider.
API keys, local plugin endpoints, HTTP auth settings, path allowlists, logs, OpenTelemetry traces, and Docker environment variables can reveal private vault structure or credentials.
Tag listing is vault-wide in upstream behavior and can reveal tag names outside narrowed read paths.
Notes may contain personal journals, client work, credentials, meeting notes, research plans, health data, or other sensitive knowledge-base content.
Prerequisites
Running MaxKB v2 deployment with the web service reachable by the MCP client.
Published MaxKB application that is safe to expose as an MCP tool.
Active MaxKB application API key for that application.
Reviewed model provider, knowledge base, workflow, function, and MCP-tool settings inside the MaxKB application.
Agentset account or self-hosted Agentset deployment with a populated namespace.
Agentset API key with access to the namespace Claude should query.
Node.js 18.17 or newer for running the `@agentset/mcp` package.
Namespace ID selected with `--ns` or `AGENTSET_NAMESPACE_ID`.
Active Graphlit platform account and project access.
Graphlit organization ID, environment ID, and JWT secret from the Graphlit API settings dashboard.
Node.js 18 or newer for the npm stdio server.
Review of which files, URLs, feeds, SaaS connectors, memories, conversations, collections, and web crawls Claude may create or query.
Node.js 24 or newer, or Bun 1.3.11 or newer.
Obsidian vault with the Obsidian Local REST API community plugin enabled.
Local REST API key stored in the MCP client environment.
Stdio MCP client, or reviewed Streamable HTTP deployment with authentication.
Install
Publish a reviewed MaxKB application, create an active application API key, and configure an MCP client for the MaxKB chat MCP endpoint with the key as a bearer token.
Run `npx @agentset/mcp --ns <namespace-id>` with `AGENTSET_API_KEY` set in the MCP server environment.
npx -y graphlit-mcp-server
npx -y obsidian-mcp-server@latest
Config
Manual-only setup:
Default route:
- chat path: /chat
- chat API prefix: /chat/api/
- MCP route: /chat/api/mcp
If MaxKB is deployed with a custom CHAT_PATH, use that configured chat path instead.