mcp-foss-connectors

Vendor-neutral Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that let MCP clients — Claude Desktop, Cowork, or any other MCP host — read from and act on the free and open-source tools that run a typical back office: ERP, project board, CMS, automation, chat, file storage, notes and code forge.

Every server is a single, self-contained Python file. It is configured entirely through environment variables — no hostname, login or secret is ever baked into the code — so it works against any instance of the target tool, whether self-hosted or managed.

Origin: these connectors were built and battle-tested at inno³ against its own information system, then generalised and released under Apache-2.0. See Origin & attribution.

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Connectors

Connector	Server name	Tools	Integrates with	Auth
Dolibarr ERP	dolibarr-mcp	78¹	Dolibarr 16+ REST API	DOLAPIKEY API key
Kanboard	kanboard-mcp	53	Kanboard JSON-RPC API	personal API token
WordPress	wordpress-mcp	26	WP REST API (+ ACF)	Application Password
n8n	n8n-mcp	22	n8n public REST API	X-N8N-API-KEY
Matrix	matrix-mcp	22	Matrix client-server API	access token
Nextcloud	nextcloud-mcp	14	WebDAV + OCS API	app password
HedgeDoc	hedgedoc-mcp	8	HedgeDoc 1.x API	session / API token
GitLab	gitlab-mcp	18	GitLab REST API v4	personal access token

All servers target Python 3.11+ and use the official mcp library. A per-connector README in each *_mcp/ directory documents its environment variables and tools in detail.

¹ Dolibarr exposes 78 vendor-neutral tools. Organisation-specific tools that depend on custom Dolibarr modules (e.g. inno³'s MeetingNotes and signed portal URLs) are not shipped here: they live in a separate package that plugs in via the dolibarr_mcp.extensions entry-point group. See Optional extensions and dolibarr_mcp/README.md.

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Quick start (from source)

git clone <this-repo> && cd mcp-foss-connectors
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"

# configure the connector you want, then run it over stdio
export GITLAB_URL="https://gitlab.com"
export GITLAB_TOKEN="glpat-…"
python -m gitlab_mcp.server

To wire a server into an MCP client manually, point the client at the module:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitlab": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["-m", "gitlab_mcp.server"],
      "env": { "GITLAB_URL": "https://gitlab.com", "GITLAB_TOKEN": "glpat-…" }
    }
  }
}

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Install in Claude Desktop (MCPB bundle)

Each connector can be packaged as an MCPB bundle (the Claude Desktop extension format): a zip containing manifest.json + src/server.py + src/lib/ (vendored dependencies).

python scripts/build_mcpb.py gitlab     # produces dist/gitlab-mcp.mcpb

Then in Claude Desktop → Settings → Extensions, drag the .mcpb file in and fill the requested fields (URL, token…). They are stored encrypted by the client. See docs/PACKAGING.md for the MCPB rules and known gotchas.

MCPB bundles are build artifacts and are not committed to this repository.

Download pre-built bundles

You don't have to build them yourself — pre-built .mcpb bundles for every connector are attached to each tagged release.

Latest — v0.1.0:

Connector	Download
Dolibarr ERP	dolibarr-mcp.mcpb
Kanboard	kanboard-mcp.mcpb
WordPress	wordpress-mcp.mcpb
n8n	n8n-mcp.mcpb
Matrix	matrix-mcp.mcpb
Nextcloud	nextcloud-mcp.mcpb
HedgeDoc	hedgedoc-mcp.mcpb
GitLab	gitlab-mcp.mcpb

The bundles embed no credentials: you fill the URL/token at install time and the client stores them encrypted.

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Configuration model

• One environment variable per setting. Conventionally <TOOL>_URL for the base URL plus the credential variables listed in each connector's README.
• No defaults that point at a specific deployment. Where a connector ships a default URL it is the tool's public/canonical one (e.g. https://gitlab.com) or empty, never a private host.
• Compact responses. Servers return minified JSON with conservative default page sizes to keep the client's context window small.

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Optional extensions

The connectors stay vendor-neutral, but they are extensible: an organisation that runs custom modules can add its own tools without forking.

The Dolibarr connector discovers extensions through the entry-point group dolibarr_mcp.extensions. A separate package advertises a register callable there:

# in the extension package's pyproject.toml
[project.entry-points."dolibarr_mcp.extensions"]
my_org = "my_org_pkg.extension:register"

# my_org_pkg/extension.py
def register(mcp):
    """Receives the live FastMCP instance; add @mcp.tool()-style tools."""
    mcp.tool()(my_extra_tool)

When that package is installed next to mcp-foss-connectors, its tools appear automatically; uninstall it and the connector falls back to the generic core. No environment flag, no patch to this repository.

inno³ ships its own such add-on — inno3-mcp-extensions — for tools that depend on its custom Dolibarr modules (MeetingNotes, signed client/support-credits portal URLs). It is not part of this repo, which keeps the public core strictly generic.

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Tests

pytest

All tests are offline unit tests — every HTTP call is mocked, so the suite runs with no network and no real credentials. Each connector has a tests/test_<tool>.py.

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Origin & attribution

This toolkit was created by inno³, an independent consultancy specialised in open-source and open-innovation strategy, legal and compliance. inno³ runs its own back office entirely on the free/open-source tools these connectors target, and originally wrote them to drive that system from MCP clients.

The code was then generalised — stripped of any inno³-specific host, identifier or module — and published here under the Apache License 2.0 so that:

• any organisation running these tools can reuse the connectors as-is, and
• inno³ can migrate its own usage onto this public, community-maintainable code base rather than a private fork.

Organisation-specific helpers (tools tied to inno³'s own Dolibarr modules) are kept entirely out of this repository and published as a separate add-on package — see Optional extensions.

Please keep the NOTICE file when redistributing, as required by the Apache-2.0 license. "inno³" is a trademark of inno³; the tool names above belong to their respective projects, which do not endorse this work.

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License

Apache License 2.0 — © 2026 inno³ and contributors.