microsoft-teams-mcp

io.github.chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-20
Health score 62

About microsoft-teams-mcp

microsoft-teams-mcp is an MCP server published by the GitHub account chrischall. Microsoft Teams for Claude — read any chat or channel and its unread messages; send and react

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp at version 0.7.0.

It asks for 2 secrets: TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN and MCP_CONFIRM_SECRET. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 0.7.0 was published on 20 October 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, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`TEAMS_WS_PORT`	No	No	fetchproxy concentrator port used for the browser bridge. Defaults to 37149, the fleet-wide shared port.
`FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST`	No	No	Bind interface for the bridge (default 127.0.0.1; a literal IP only, anything else is ignored). Keep on loopback — it exists for ONE topology: a hosted child in its own network namespace.
`FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR`	No	No	Where to store the long-term fetchproxy identity keypair (default ~/.fetchproxy/identity/; an absolute path only, anything else is ignored). Exists for a host that runs a separate child per caller, so they can share one identity.
`TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN`	No	Yes	A pre-obtained Teams chat-service bearer token (the JWT itself). Leave blank to capture one from your signed-in Teams browser tab via the ContextMint Bridge extension.
`TEAMS_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY`	No	No	Set to true to never capture a token from the browser; then TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN is required. Leave blank.
`TEAMS_CHATSVC_REGION`	No	No	The Teams chat-service region in the API path. Defaults to amer. Leave blank unless your tenant lives elsewhere.
`TEAMS_CHATSVC_BASE`	No	No	Full override for the chat-service API base (default https://teams.cloud.microsoft/api/chatsvc/<region>/v1). Leave blank.
`TEAMS_CAPTURE_TIMEOUT`	No	No	Seconds to wait for the Teams tab to issue a chat-service request when capturing a token. Defaults to 30.
`TEAMS_TOKEN_CACHE`	No	No	Set to false to keep the captured token in memory only. Defaults to on: it is cached so a restart within its ~23h lifetime needs no browser.
`TEAMS_TOKEN_FILE`	No	No	Where the captured token is cached. Defaults to ~/.microsoft-teams-mcp/token.json.
`TEAMS_SUBSTRATE_TOKEN_FILE`	No	No	Where the captured Substrate search token is cached. Defaults to ~/.microsoft-teams-mcp/substrate-token.json.
`TEAMS_SHAREPOINT_TOKEN_FILE`	No	No	Where the captured SharePoint tokens are cached. Defaults to ~/.microsoft-teams-mcp/sharepoint-tokens.json.
`TEAMS_TIME_ZONE`	No	No	Default IANA time zone (e.g. America/New_York) for time_local on read results. Unset means UTC only.
`TEAMS_OUTPUT_DIR`	No	No	Folder teams_export_messages writes exports into. Unset means ~/Downloads/microsoft-teams-mcp.
`MCP_CONFIRM_MODE`	No	No	What the writes (teams_send_message, teams_react, teams_mark_read and the read tools' mark_read) do on a client that cannot show a confirmation prompt (claude.ai, Claude Desktop): "ask-user" (default: the first call returns a preview and a confirmToken, and the model must get your approval in chat before using it), "auto" (the model may use the token after reviewing the preview itself) or "refuse". An unrecognised value is treated as refuse.
`MCP_CONFIRM_ELICITATION`	No	No	"off" never shows a confirmation prompt, so every client gets the MCP_CONFIRM_MODE flow. Set it for a client that says it can show prompts but never does. Defaults to on.
`MCP_CONFIRM_TTL_SECONDS`	No	No	How long a confirmToken stays valid, in seconds. Defaults to 600.
`MCP_CONFIRM_SECRET`	No	Yes	Signing key for confirmTokens. Random per process by default; set it only if tokens must survive a server restart.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: TEAMS_ACCESS_TOKEN, MCP_CONFIRM_SECRET
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp@0.7.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 54 files in @chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp@0.7.0: 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 54 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 62 / 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.

Popularity9 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 291 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-26, last release 2026-10-20, 76 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

9 closed of 9 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

0 forks, 75 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.chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account chrischall
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall. 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	npm `@chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp` 0.7.0 (stdio)
Version	0.7.0
Published	2026-10-20
Last updated	2026-10-20
Source repository	https://github.com/chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Email & messaging (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "microsoft-teams-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@chrischall/microsoft-teams-mcp@0.7.0"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

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