carddav-mcp

📇 A CardDAV Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to expose contacts and address books as tools for AI assistants.

✨ Features

• Connect to CardDAV servers

• List address books

• List contacts in an address book

• Get the full details of a single contact

• Create contacts (vCard)

• Update contacts — partial updates that preserve vCard properties written by other clients

• Delete contacts by UID

Related MCP server: calendar-mcp

Setup

{
  "mcpServers": {
    ...,
    "contacts": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "carddav-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CARDDAV_BASE_URL": "<CardDAV server URL>",
        "CARDDAV_USERNAME": "<CardDAV username>",
        "CARDDAV_PASSWORD": "<CardDAV password>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Development

Quick Start

Run the MCP server in development mode with auto-reload:

npm run dev

This will run the TypeScript code directly with watch mode and automatically load environment variables from .env.

Manual Build

Alternatively, you can compile TypeScript to JavaScript and run it:

1. Compile:

npx tsc

2. Run:

node dist/index.js

Available Tools

list-address-books

List all address books returning both name and URL

Parameters: none

Returns:

• List of all available address books

list-contacts

List all contacts in the address book specified by its URL. Returns a summary per contact; use get-contact for full details.

Parameters:

• addressBookUrl: string

Returns:

• A list of contacts, each containing uid, fn (formatted name), emails, and phones

get-contact

Get the full details of a single contact in the address book specified by its URL

Parameters:

• uid: string — Unique identifier of the contact to fetch (obtained from list-contacts)

• addressBookUrl: string

Returns:

• The contact's parsed fields (uid, fn, name, emails, phones, and optionally org, title, note) plus the raw vCard in vcard

create-contact

Creates a contact (vCard) in the address book specified by its URL. If name is omitted, structured name parts are derived from fn.

Parameters:

• addressBookUrl: string

• fn: string — Formatted display name of the contact

• name: object (optional) — Structured name parts (family, given, middle, ...)

  • family: string (optional)

  • given: string (optional)

  • middle: string (optional)

  • prefix: string (optional)

  • suffix: string (optional)

• emails: array of string (optional)

• phones: array of string (optional)

• org: string (optional) — Organization / company

• title: string (optional) — Job title or role

• note: string (optional)

Returns:

• The unique ID of the created contact

update-contact

Updates an existing contact in the address book specified by its URL. Only provided fields are changed; emails and phones replace the full list (pass an empty array to clear them, or an empty string to clear org, title, or note). Other vCard properties are preserved.

Parameters:

• uid: string — Unique identifier of the contact to update (obtained from list-contacts)

• addressBookUrl: string

• fn: string (optional)

• name: object (optional)

  • family: string (optional)

  • given: string (optional)

  • middle: string (optional)

  • prefix: string (optional)

  • suffix: string (optional)

• emails: array of string (optional)

• phones: array of string (optional)

• org: string (optional)

• title: string (optional)

• note: string (optional)

Returns:

• The unique ID of the updated contact

delete-contact

Deletes a contact in the address book specified by its URL

Parameters:

• uid: string — Unique identifier of the contact to delete (obtained from list-contacts)

• addressBookUrl: string

Returns:

• Confirmation message when the contact is successfully deleted

Smoke Tests

Two complementary end-to-end checks against a real CardDAV server (both read credentials from .env):

• npm run smoke — deterministic SDK harness (scripts/smoke.ts). Spawns the built server over stdio via the MCP client SDK and asserts the create → list → get → update → delete contact round-trip.

• npm run smoke:agent — agent-ergonomics harness (scripts/smoke-agent.sh). Drives the server via claude -p with a JSON output schema, validating that tool names, descriptions, schemas, and error messages are usable by an LLM.

License

MIT