Kavita MCP Connector
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Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| PORT | No | HTTP port when using HTTP transport. | 3000 |
| KAVITA_URL | Yes | Required. Self-hosted Kavita origin, http or https, no userinfo, query, or hash. Hosts on kavitareader.com and its subdomains are refused. There is no default base URL. | |
| MCP_TRANSPORT | No | Transport mode: stdio or http. --http overrides this. | |
| KAVITA_API_KEY | No | Auth Key from User Settings. Sent as the x-api-key header. Can be used instead of KAVITA_USERNAME and KAVITA_PASSWORD. | |
| KAVITA_CONTACT | No | Contact token in the User-Agent. Must not contain the key or password. | |
| KAVITA_PASSWORD | No | Password for the KAVITA_USERNAME login. The connector posts /api/Account/login once and refreshes the JWT once after a 401. | |
| KAVITA_TOOLSETS | No | Comma list of toolsets, or all. Default is the read-focused set. | |
| KAVITA_USERNAME | No | Optional login username. Set together with KAVITA_PASSWORD when no Auth Key is set. | |
| KAVITA_PER_MINUTE | No | Local request budget. Cache hits do not spend it. | 30 |
| KAVITA_TIMEOUT_MS | No | Upstream timeout in milliseconds. | 20000 |
| KAVITA_ALLOW_WRITES | No | Must be the literal true before a confirmed write is sent. The string "true" is rejected. | |
| KAVITA_CACHE_TTL_SEC | No | Read cache TTL in seconds. Writes clear the cache. | 60 |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Server capabilities have not been inspected yet.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No tools | |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No prompts | |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
No resources | |
This server cannot be deployed
Maintenance
ActivityMaintained
ResponsivenessNo issues