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  "slug": "io-github-hexamatic-pihole-mcp",
  "name": "io.github.hexamatic/pihole-mcp",
  "title": "Pi-hole MCP Server",
  "description": "Manage Pi-hole v6: DNS blocking, domains, clients, query analysis, DHCP, and multi-instance sync.",
  "version": "0.9.0",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-11T04:51:05.017914Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-11T04:51:05.017914Z",
  "repoUrl": "https://github.com/hexamatic/pihole-mcp",
  "websiteUrl": "https://github.com/hexamatic/pihole-mcp",
  "namespace": {
    "type": "github",
    "owner": "hexamatic"
  },
  "kind": "local",
  "packages": [
    {
      "registryType": "oci",
      "identifier": "ghcr.io/hexamatic/pihole-mcp:0.9.0",
      "version": null,
      "transport": "stdio",
      "runtimeHint": null
    }
  ],
  "remotes": [],
  "envVars": [
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_URL",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Base URL of your Pi-hole web interface. For multiple Pi-holes use PIHOLE_1_URL, PIHOLE_2_URL, ... instead."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_PASSWORD",
      "isSecret": true,
      "isRequired": true,
      "description": "Pi-hole admin password, or an application password (recommended — bypasses TOTP 2FA)"
    },
    {
      "name": "TZ",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "IANA timezone for rendered timestamps, e.g. Australia/Adelaide. Defaults to UTC in the container."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_READ_ONLY",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Expose only inspection tools. Every tool that can change Pi-hole is hidden and rejected if called."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_TLS_SKIP_VERIFY",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Set to true only for a Pi-hole serving a self-signed HTTPS certificate. A trusted certificate is the better fix."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_REQUEST_TIMEOUT",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "HTTP request timeout as a Go duration, e.g. 30s or 1m"
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_MAX_RETRIES",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Retries after a transient Pi-hole API failure; 0 disables retrying"
    },
    {
      "name": "PIHOLE_RETRY_MAX_DELAY",
      "isSecret": false,
      "isRequired": false,
      "description": "Upper bound on a single exponential-backoff wait, as a Go duration"
    }
  ],
  "category": "cloud-infra",
  "subcategory": "servers",
  "company": "",
  "categoryAuto": true,
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      "id": "source-linked",
      "label": "Source repository linked",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "https://github.com/hexamatic/pihole-mcp"
    },
    {
      "id": "version-pinned",
      "label": "Version pinned",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Every package has an explicit version"
    },
    {
      "id": "secrets-requested",
      "label": "Secrets requested",
      "result": "info",
      "detail": "Asks for 1 secret: PIHOLE_PASSWORD"
    },
    {
      "id": "known-registry",
      "label": "Known package registry",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB"
    },
    {
      "id": "namespace",
      "label": "Namespace ownership",
      "result": "info",
      "detail": "Name verified via GitHub account hexamatic"
    },
    {
      "id": "meta-text",
      "label": "Registry text aimed at the AI",
      "result": "pass",
      "detail": "Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI"
    },
    {
      "id": "code-flags",
      "label": "Code red flags",
      "result": "info",
      "detail": "oci packages are not read yet"
    }
  ],
  "scannedAt": "2026-10-29",
  "level": "Scanned",
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      "label": "Claude Desktop (oci)",
      "kind": "claude_desktop_json",
      "text": "{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"pihole-mcp\": {\n      \"command\": \"docker\",\n      \"args\": [\n        \"run\",\n        \"-i\",\n        \"--rm\",\n        \"-e\",\n        \"PIHOLE_URL\",\n        \"-e\",\n        \"PIHOLE_PASSWORD\",\n        \"ghcr.io/hexamatic/pihole-mcp:0.9.0\"\n      ],\n      \"env\": {\n        \"PIHOLE_URL\": \"<your value>\",\n        \"PIHOLE_PASSWORD\": \"<your value>\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}"
    }
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  "stars": 9,
  "archived": false,
  "pushedAt": "2026-10-19T01:06:12Z",
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      "issuesClosed": 2,
      "prsMerged": 39,
      "commits90": 33,
      "release": "2026-09-11T04:50:24Z",
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      "growth": null,
      "growthDays": null,
      "archived": false
    },
    "at": "2026-10-31T07:42:38.200Z"
  },
  "icon": "/icons/s/io-github-hexamatic-pihole-mcp.png"
}