Proxmox VE

io.github.akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp

7/8 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 5 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-09-01
Health score 51

About Proxmox VE

Proxmox VE is an MCP server published by the GitHub account akmalovaa. Manage Proxmox VE nodes, VMs, containers, storage and snapshots. Read-only by default.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package proxmox-ve-mcp at version 2.3.0.

It asks for 3 secrets: PROXMOX_TOKEN_VALUE, PROXMOX_PASSWORD and SENTRY_DSN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs PROXMOX_HOST set before it starts.

Version 2.3.0 was published on 1 September 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 1 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`PROXMOX_HOST`	Yes	No	Proxmox host IP or hostname.
`PROXMOX_PORT`	No	No	Proxmox API port.
`PROXMOX_VERIFY_SSL`	No	No	Verify the TLS certificate. Proxmox self-signs by default.
`PROXMOX_TIMEOUT`	No	No	Seconds to wait for each Proxmox API request.
`PROXMOX_USER`	No	No	API user, including the realm.
`PROXMOX_TOKEN_NAME`	No	No	API token name. Use this plus PROXMOX_TOKEN_VALUE, or PROXMOX_PASSWORD.
`PROXMOX_TOKEN_VALUE`	No	Yes	API token secret.
`PROXMOX_PASSWORD`	No	Yes	Password, used only when no API token is set.
`PROXMOX_RISK_LEVEL`	No	No	Which tools exist: read-only, plus lifecycle, or everything.
`PROXMOX_TOOLS_ALLOW`	No	No	Comma-separated tool names to register, intersected with the risk level. Unset = all of them.
`PROXMOX_REDACT_SECRETS`	No	No	Mask cipassword and sshkeys in every response.
`PROXMOX_MCP_TRANSPORT`	No	No	stdio (default) or streamable-http.
`PROXMOX_MCP_HOST`	No	No	HTTP bind address. Anything but loopback also needs PROXMOX_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS.
`PROXMOX_MCP_PORT`	No	No	HTTP port.
`PROXMOX_MCP_PATH`	No	No	Streamable HTTP endpoint path.
`PROXMOX_MCP_JSON_RESPONSE`	No	No	Answer with JSON instead of an SSE stream.
`PROXMOX_MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS`	No	No	Comma-separated Host headers to accept over HTTP; '*' disables the check.
`PROXMOX_MCP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS`	No	No	Comma-separated browser origins allowed to call the endpoint. Empty = same-origin only.
`SENTRY_DSN`	No	Yes	Optional: report tool traces and errors to Sentry. Unset disables it.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: PROXMOX_TOKEN_VALUE, PROXMOX_PASSWORD, SENTRY_DSN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account akmalovaa
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	proxmox-ve-mcp 2.3.0 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 16 files in proxmox-ve-mcp 2.3.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 16 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 51 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity10 / 40

5 GitHub stars, 60 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity17 / 25

Last push 2026-10-01, last release 2026-09-01, 8 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

0 closed of 0 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

2 forks, 0 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account akmalovaa
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account akmalovaa. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `proxmox-ve-mcp` 2.3.0 (stdio) oci `ghcr.io/akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp:2.3.0` no version given (stdio)
Version	2.3.0
Published	2026-09-01
Last updated	2026-09-01
Source repository	https://github.com/akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp
Website	https://github.com/akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp
Category	Cloud & infrastructure (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "proxmox-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "proxmox-ve-mcp==2.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXMOX_HOST": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Docker image

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "proxmox-mcp": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "PROXMOX_HOST",
        "ghcr.io/akmalovaa/proxmox-mcp:2.3.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROXMOX_HOST": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-akmalovaa-proxmox-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.