Cove Data Protection MCP

io.github.Servosity/cove-mcp

4/5 checks passed
Runs locally
3 secrets
★ 64 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-27
Health score 63

About Cove Data Protection MCP

Cove Data Protection MCP is an MCP server published by the GitHub account Servosity. Fleet-wide Cove Data Protection backup health, billing, and storage trends from your terminal.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the MCP bundle package cove-mcp.mcpb at version 0.1.13.

It asks for 3 secrets: COVE_PASSWORD, PRINTING_PRESS_CLIENT_PROFILE and COVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs COVE_PARTNER and COVE_USERNAME set before it starts.

Version 0.1.13 was published on 27 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 7 automated checks on registry metadata: 4 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`COVE_BASE_URL`	No	No	Base URL for the Cove Data Protection API. Leave the prefilled default unless your account uses a different regional or self-hosted host.
`COVE_PARTNER`	Yes	No	The full customer/partner string exactly as it appears in the Cove console dropdown, including the parenthesised email, e.g. 'Acme Corp (admin@example.com)'.
`COVE_PASSWORD`	Yes	Yes	API token issued with the Cove API user. Cove shows it once, at creation.
`COVE_USERNAME`	Yes	No	Login name of the Cove API user (Cove console: Settings > API users). This is the API user's login, not your console email.
`PRINTING_PRESS_CLIENT_PROFILE`	No	Yes	Optional: binds the MCP server to an existing tenant-gated Printing Press client profile. Leave unset for a single-tenant install.
`COVE_MCP_READ_ONLY`	No	No	Optional. Set to exactly 1 to expose only read-only tools and refuse any state-changing execute call.
`COVE_NO_LOCAL_DATA`	No	No	Optional. Set to 1 to keep no local copy of API responses: reads go to the API and the response cache is off.
`COVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Required only when running the MCP server with --transport http. Not needed for the default local stdio transport.
`COVE_USER_AGENT`	No	No	Overrides the User-Agent the CLI sends on Cove requests.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/servosity/msp-skills
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Warn	Asks for 3 secrets: COVE_PASSWORD, PRINTING_PRESS_CLIENT_PROFILE, COVE_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account Servosity
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Code red flags	Info	Package could not be read (too large)

Popularity & health: 63 / 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

67 GitHub stars, no download count, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-10-27, 1,049 commits in 90 days.

Issue health13 / 15

83 closed of 94 issues.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

14 forks, 379 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.Servosity/cove-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account Servosity
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account Servosity. 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	mcpb `https://github.com/Servosity/msp-skills/releases/download/cove-v0.1.13/cove-mcp.mcpb` 0.1.13 (stdio)
Version	0.1.13
Published	2026-10-27
Last updated	2026-10-27
Source repository	https://github.com/servosity/msp-skills
Website	None linked
Category	Files & documents (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)