UniFi Site Manager and Network (unofficial)

io.github.mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 0 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-27
Health score 62

About UniFi Site Manager and Network (unofficial)

UniFi Site Manager and Network (unofficial) is an MCP server published by the GitHub account mguttmann. Unofficial MCP server for the UniFi Site Manager and Network cloud APIs, with a write-confirm guard.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package the-real-unifi-mcp at version 0.4.0.

It asks for one secret: UNIFI_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 0.4.0 was published on 27 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
`UNIFI_API_KEY`	Yes	Yes	UniFi Site Manager API key with Network scope (unifi.ui.com, Settings > API). It controls your whole network: treat it like an admin password.
`UNIFI_CONFIRM_WRITES`	No	No	Write confirmation: destructive tools return a preview and run only when called again with confirm "YES". Only false, 0, no or off turn it off.
`UNIFI_API_BASE`	No	No	API base URL; this host receives the API key. https origin only (http only for loopback test stubs). Keep the default.
`UNIFI_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	No	Per-request timeout in milliseconds, covering response headers and body.
`UNIFI_LOG_LEVEL`	No	No	Log level on stderr: debug, info, warn or error.
`UNIFI_CONSOLE_ID`	No	No	Pins the UniFi console instead of discovering it (needed when the account has several consoles).
`UNIFI_NETWORK_SITE_ID`	No	No	Pins the Network site instead of discovering it.
`UNIFI_SITE_MANAGER_SITE_ID`	No	No	Pins the Site Manager site instead of discovering it.
`UNIFI_READ_ONLY`	No	No	Read-only mode: every write tool returns an error and sends no request; reads still work. Off by default.
`UNIFI_REDACT_SECRETS`	No	No	Masks passwords, WiFi passphrases, pre-shared keys and other secret fields in every tool result with (redacted); write tools refuse a body that contains that placeholder. Off by default.
`UNIFI_MAX_RESULT_BYTES`	No	No	Cuts tool results longer than this many bytes and marks them as truncated. Unset or empty: 100000. 0, off or none: no cap.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: UNIFI_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account mguttmann
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	the-real-unifi-mcp@0.4.0 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 125 files in the-real-unifi-mcp@0.4.0: 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 125 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.

Popularity11 / 40

0 GitHub stars, 860 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity24 / 25

Last push 2026-10-27, last release 2026-10-27, 33 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

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

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

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

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account mguttmann
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account mguttmann. 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 `the-real-unifi-mcp` 0.4.0 (stdio) mcpb `https://github.com/mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp/releases/download/v0.4.0/the-real-unifi-mcp-0.4.0.mcpb` 0.4.0 (stdio)
Version	0.4.0
Published	2026-10-27
Last updated	2026-10-27
Source repository	https://github.com/mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp
Website	https://github.com/mguttmann/the-real-unifi-mcp#readme
Category	Cloud & infrastructure (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "the-real-unifi-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "the-real-unifi-mcp@0.4.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "UNIFI_API_KEY": "<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-mguttmann-the-real-unifi-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.