CIPP

CIPP MCP Server

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for CIPP — the CyberDrain Improved Partner Portal. Provides AI assistants with structured access to CIPP's M365 multi-tenant management capabilities.

Features

• 37 tools across 11 categories
• Tenant, user, group, and mailbox management
• Security: Conditional Access policies, named locations
• Standards & compliance: BPA, domain health, drift detection
• License reporting (per-tenant and CSP-wide)
• Alerts, audit logs, and scheduled tasks
• GDAP role and invite management
• Stdio and HTTP transport modes
• MCP Gateway compatible

Prerequisites

• Node.js 18+
• A running CIPP deployment
• CIPP API Key (generated from CIPP Settings → API Client Management)

Installation

Via npm (once published)

npx cipp-mcp

From source

git clone https://github.com/WYRE-AI/cipp-mcp
cd cipp-mcp
npm install
npm run build

Configuration

Set these environment variables (or copy .env.example to .env):

Variable	Required	Description
CIPP_BASE_URL	Yes	Your CIPP Azure Function App URL (e.g. https://cippXXXXX.azurewebsites.net). Do not use the SWA / frontend URL — see Finding your Function App URL.
CIPP_API_KEY	One of	Static Bearer token. Use this or the OAuth trio below.
CIPP_TENANT_ID	One of	Entra tenant ID that owns the CIPP API-client app registration.
CIPP_CLIENT_ID	One of	OAuth client ID issued by CIPP's API Client Management page.
CIPP_CLIENT_SECRET	One of	OAuth client secret paired with CIPP_CLIENT_ID.
CIPP_TOKEN_SCOPE	No	Override OAuth scope (default: <clientId>/.default).
CIPP_TOKEN_URL	No	Override OAuth token endpoint (sovereign clouds only).
MCP_TRANSPORT	No	stdio (default) or http
MCP_HTTP_PORT	No	Port for HTTP mode (default: 8080)
LOG_LEVEL	No	error, warn, info (default), or debug

[!IMPORTANT] CIPP_BASE_URL must be the Azure Function App URL — the CIPP-API backend, https://<function-app-name>.azurewebsites.net — not the Static Web App / custom-domain UI URL (e.g. https://cipp.yourdomain.com). The SWA's built-in auth intercepts bearer tokens and redirects them to its interactive login page, so every API call fails. Find the Function App (named like cippXXXXX) in your CIPP resource group in the Azure Portal.

Usage with Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cipp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/cipp-mcp/dist/entry.js"],
      "env": {
        "CIPP_BASE_URL": "https://cippXXXXX.azurewebsites.net",
        "CIPP_TENANT_ID": "your-entra-tenant-id",
        "CIPP_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "CIPP_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret"
      }
    }
  }
}

Note: CIPP_BASE_URL must be the Azure Function App URL (.azurewebsites.net), not the frontend SWA URL (.azurestaticapps.net or your custom domain). The SWA enforces browser-based auth and will redirect all API requests to a Microsoft login page.

Tools

Category	Tools
Tenants	list_tenants, get_tenant_details
Users	list_users, create_user, edit_user, disable_user, reset_password, reset_mfa, revoke_sessions, offboard_user, bec_check, list_mfa_users, list_user_devices, list_user_groups
Groups	list_groups, create_group
Mailboxes	list_mailboxes, list_mailbox_permissions, set_out_of_office, set_email_forwarding
Security	list_conditional_access_policies, list_named_locations
Standards	list_standards, run_standards_check, list_bpa, list_domain_health
Licenses	list_licenses, list_csp_licenses
Alerts	list_audit_logs, list_alert_queue
GDAP	list_gdap_roles, list_gdap_invites
Scheduler	list_scheduled_items, add_scheduled_item
Core	ping, get_version, list_logs

CIPP version compatibility

Request bodies are shaped against CIPP's own Invoke-*.ps1 handlers and are written to satisfy both current and older CIPP builds — where the two differ, the server sends the form both accept. Three behaviours are worth knowing:

• offboard_user reports queued, not completed. CIPP's ExecOffboardUser returns HTTP 200 the instant the job is created; it never waits for or reports the offboarding result. Confirm the outcome in CIPP's Offboarding view before treating an account as offboarded. The tool refuses a call with no actions selected, since that would otherwise queue a job that succeeds while doing nothing.
• Some endpoints report failure under HTTP 200. EditUser, AddScheduledItem and ExecOffboardUser return error text in Results rather than an error status. These tools parse Results and return status: "failed"; do not treat a 200 as success.
• Two parameters need a recent CIPP. offboard_user's DisableOneDriveSharing and set_out_of_office's timezone are ignored by older builds rather than erroring — so an offboarding that selects only DisableOneDriveSharing will run no actions on an older CIPP.

Authentication Setup

CIPP's API Client Management page provisions an Entra ID app registration and returns an OAuth client ID + client secret (not a long-lived Bearer token). The server exchanges these for a short-lived access token on each request using the OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow, and caches the token until just before its expiry.

1. In CIPP, go to Settings → CIPP Settings → Integrations → CIPP-API
2. Create a new API client
3. Copy the Client ID and Client Secret — you will not be able to retrieve the secret later
4. Configure the server with the Function App URL (see below):

   CIPP_BASE_URL=https://cippXXXXX.azurewebsites.net
   CIPP_TENANT_ID=<your-entra-tenant-id>
   CIPP_CLIENT_ID=<client-id-from-cipp>
   CIPP_CLIENT_SECRET=<client-secret-from-cipp>
   

If you already have a static Bearer token (older CIPP deployments), set CIPP_API_KEY instead and leave the OAuth variables unset. When both are provided, CIPP_API_KEY wins.

Finding your Function App URL

CIPP runs as an Azure Static Web App (SWA) backed by an Azure Function App. The SWA URL (your custom domain or *.azurestaticapps.net) enforces browser-only auth and cannot be used as CIPP_BASE_URL. Use the Function App URL instead.

Self-hosted CIPP: Find the Function App in the Azure portal (look for an App Service with Kind: functionapp in the same resource group as your SWA), or run:

az staticwebapp show --name <your-swa-name> --resource-group <rg> \
  --query "linkedBackends[0].backendResourceId" -o tsv

CIPP-sponsored hosting: Contact the CIPP team for your instance's Function App URL — it is not the same as the URL shown in your browser.

IP Allowlist

CIPP validates each API client against an IPRange field stored in Azure Table Storage. If your server's public IP is not in this list, you will receive:

Access to this CIPP API endpoint is not allowed, the API Client does not have the required permission

Self-hosted: Add your IP via the CIPP UI (Settings → API Client Management) or directly in the ApiClients table of your CIPP storage account.

CIPP-sponsored hosting: Ask the CIPP team to add your server's public IP to your API client's allowed range.

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. This server is tracked against wyre-technology/msp-claude-plugins#24.