Unraid MCP

Unraid

A monorepo of Unraid tooling: two MCP servers (Python and Rust) and three Unraid OS plugins, plus the Claude/Codex agent integrations that surface them.

Repo name. This repo was renamed unraid-mcp → unraid on 2026-07-27, and the former standalone runraid and incus-unraid repos were merged in here. The old GitHub name still redirects, so existing plugin install/update URLs keep working. The PyPI package, the container image, the Claude plugin, and the Unraid .plg are all still named unraid-mcp — only the repo changed.

Components

Path	What it is	Toolchain	Build / test
unraid-py/	unraid-mcp — Python MCP server (GraphQL), the flagship. Published to PyPI as unraid-mcp.	Python / uv / hatchling	cd unraid-py && uv run pytest && uv build --wheel
unraid-rs/	runraid — Rust MCP server + CLI (single static binary). Crate unraid-rmcp on crates.io, plus a legacy npm wrapper of the same name.	Rust / cargo	cd unraid-rs && cargo fmt --check && cargo clippy --all-targets --features test-support -- -D warnings && cargo test
plugins/mcp/	Unraid OS plugin that ships the Rust runraid MCP server onto an Unraid box.	shell .plg + Rust + Vue	bash plugins/mcp/scripts/build-txz.sh <ver> <runraid-binary>
plugins/incus/	Unraid OS plugin running Incus system containers ("dev containers") firewalled off the LAN. Includes a NestJS/GraphQL unraid-api backend.	shell .plg + NestJS/Vue	cd plugins/incus && ./scripts/verify-classic-package.sh && ./tests/classic-contract.sh
plugins/codex/	Unraid OS plugin embedding a Codex chathead app-server.	shell .plg + React	cd plugins/codex && ./tests/contract.sh
agents/unraid-py/	Claude Code / Codex plugin (name: unraid-mcp) for the Python server.	—	—
agents/unraid-rs/	Claude Code / Codex plugin (name: runraid) for the Rust server.	—	—

Install the agent plugins (one marketplace command, two manifests)

/plugin marketplace add dinglebear-ai/unraid
/plugin install unraid-mcp@unraid-mcp   # Python server
/plugin install runraid@unraid-mcp      # Rust server

The @unraid-mcp suffix is the marketplace name declared in .claude-plugin/marketplace.json, not the repo name — it stays unraid-mcp even though the repo is now dinglebear-ai/unraid.

Both plugins are published from a single repo. Claude reads .claude-plugin/marketplace.json; Codex reads .agents/plugins/marketplace.json. meta-ci.yml asserts the two list the same plugin set, so they cannot drift.

marketplace add accepts the owner/repo shorthand (or a full git URL / local path). After install, Claude Code prompts for the connection settings (the plugin's userConfig).

Plugin credentials need no manual step

The agent plugins ship no Claude Code hooks, and none are needed: both .mcp.json files map your plugin settings into the server environment directly via ${user_config.*}. agents/unraid-rs wires 10 keys (endpoint, API key, TLS skip, bearer token, four OAuth vars); agents/unraid-py wires UNRAID_API_URL and UNRAID_API_KEY. Set them in plugin settings and the server picks them up on next launch.

Optional, for non-plugin installs (systemd, Docker) that want ~/.unraid/.env written to disk:

runraid setup plugin-hook          # or: npx -y @dinglebear/unraid setup plugin-hook

unraid-py quickstart (Python MCP server)

The Python server is the flagship. Full documentation — installation, Claude Code / Codex / Gemini setup, configuration, authentication, guardrails, and the tool surface — lives in unraid-py/README.md and unraid-py/docs/. It publishes to PyPI as unraid-mcp (import package unraid_mcp) and launches with uvx unraid-mcp.

unraid-rs quickstart (Rust MCP server + CLI)

cd unraid-rs && cargo build --release      # → target/release/runraid
runraid setup plugin-hook                  # writes ~/.unraid/.env
runraid array                              # CLI
runraid serve mcp                          # MCP over HTTP on :40010

Env var	Purpose
UNRAID_API_URL	Unraid GraphQL endpoint (required)
UNRAID_API_KEY	x-api-key for the Unraid API (required)
UNRAID_API_SKIP_TLS_VERIFY	Accept a self-signed Unraid cert (default false)
UNRAID_RMCP_HOST / UNRAID_RMCP_PORT	MCP bind address (default 0.0.0.0:40010)
UNRAID_RMCP_TOKEN	Static bearer token for /mcp
UNRAID_RMCP_AUTH_MODE	bearer (default) or oauth

Full list and the OAuth variables: unraid-rs/CLAUDE.md.

Not read-only. The Rust server exposes both queries and mutations. Read actions need the unraid:read scope; mutating actions (VM and Docker lifecycle, array start/stop, notification writes) need unraid:admin.

Releases

There are two release lanes. release-please manages only unraid-py and unraid-rs — the Python server keeps unprefixed vX.Y.Z tags (the existing audience's scheme) and Rust uses unraid-rs-vX.Y.Z. The Incus and Codex plugins do not use release-please: they are versioned by .github/scripts/plugin_calver.py with fixed-width YYYYMMDD.NNN versions and incus-v* / codex-v* tags (Unraid compares plugin versions as raw strings, so the fixed width is mandatory).

The native MCP plugin is built from the matching unraid-rs-vX.Y.Z tag, and Community Applications reads its rolling manifest from the unraid-plugin-latest release. Plugin .txz payloads ship as GitHub release assets, never tracked in git.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.