Anomalo MCP Server

Bring your Anomalo data quality deployment into Claude Desktop, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and other MCP clients. Ask natural-language questions about the tables Anomalo monitors, trigger check runs, and — if your deployment has AIDA enabled — let Anomalo's AI Data Analyst explore your data on your behalf.

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Quick start

1. Get an Anomalo API key

1. Log into your Anomalo instance in the browser.
2. Go to Settings → API Keys.
3. Click Create API Key, copy the token.

You'll also need your Anomalo instance hostname, such as app.anomalo.com or acme.anomalo.com. Use the bare hostname — no https://, no trailing slash.

2. Install uv

uv is a small Python tool runner. Your MCP client will use it to launch this server on demand — you do not install anomalo-mcp yourself.

# macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Windows PowerShell
powershell -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

If your environment doesn't allow piping a remote script into a shell, see uv's installation docs for Homebrew, pip, and standalone-binary alternatives.

Verify:

uvx --version

3. Configure your MCP client

Pick your client and drop the anomalo server block into its MCP config. Replace YOUR-INSTANCE.anomalo.com and your-api-key with the values from step 1.

Claude Desktop

Edit your Claude Desktop config:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Add the anomalo entry (merging with any existing mcpServers block):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "anomalo": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["anomalo-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST": "YOUR-INSTANCE.anomalo.com",
        "ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Save, then fully quit and restart Claude Desktop (not just close the window).

Cursor

Open Cursor Settings → Features → Model Context Protocol → Add new MCP server.

• Name: anomalo
• Command: uvx
• Arguments: anomalo-mcp
• Environment variables:
  • ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST → YOUR-INSTANCE.anomalo.com
  • ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN → your-api-key

Gemini CLI

Install the anomalo-gemini-extension — it wraps this MCP server for Gemini CLI and handles the config for you.

# Set env vars (one-time, or add to ~/.gemini/.env)
export ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST=YOUR-INSTANCE.anomalo.com
export ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN=your-api-key

# Install the extension
gemini extensions install \
  https://github.com/datagravity-ai/anomalo-gemini-extension --auto-update

Other MCP clients

Any client that supports standard mcpServers config works. Use the same shape as Claude Desktop above:

"anomalo": {
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["anomalo-mcp"],
  "env": {
    "ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST": "...",
    "ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN": "..."
  }
}

4. Verify it works

In your MCP client, ask:

Use Anomalo to list the organizations I have access to.

You should see your Anomalo orgs come back. If it fails, head to Troubleshooting below.

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What you get

Always available:

Tool	What it does
get_organizations	List Anomalo organizations you can access.
set_active_organization	Switch the active org for subsequent calls.
get_labels	List labels configured in the active org.
get_configured_tables	Tables monitored in the active org (filter by label, name, or id).
get_checks_for_table	List the data quality checks configured on a table.
run_data_quality_checks_on_table	Trigger a check run on a table.

If your deployment has AIDA enabled:

Tool	What it does
ask_aida	Ask a natural-language question about a specific table. AIDA explores the data, runs SQL (with approval), and returns analysis.
ask_aida_chunked	Same question across parallel conversations — useful for "last N weeks" or "per-dimension" sweeps.
list_aida_conversations	See recent AIDA conversations for a table.
approve_aida_query	Manually approve a pending SQL query (fallback when your client can't render approval dialogs).

Not seeing AIDA tools? Contact your Anomalo account team — AIDA is enabled per deployment.

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Troubleshooting

"command not found: uvx" or "failed to spawn: anomalo-mcp"

uv isn't installed, or isn't on your shell's PATH. Re-run the install from step 2, then restart your MCP client.

"missing required environment variable(s): ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST, ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN"

Your MCP client launched the server but didn't pass the env vars. Double-check the env block in your client's config (the JSON for Claude Desktop, the UI for Cursor). Save and restart the client — most clients only re-read MCP config on startup.

"401 Unauthorized" or "403 Forbidden"

Your API token is wrong, revoked, or lacks permissions.

• Confirm you pasted the full token (no stray whitespace).
• Make sure your account has at least "Viewer" role on the org whose tables you're asking about.
• If the token is recent, give it a minute — some deployments cache tokens briefly.

DNS / connection errors

Check ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST. Use the bare hostname with no protocol or path:

• ✅ app.anomalo.com
• ✅ acme.anomalo.com
• ❌ https://app.anomalo.com/
• ❌ app.anomalo.com/dashboard

Claude (or another client) says "I don't see any Anomalo tools"

You added the config but didn't fully restart the client. Close the app completely (Cmd-Q on macOS, quit from tray on Windows), then reopen.

The server keeps timing out

Long-running AIDA analyses can hit the 5-minute MCP client timeout. For broad questions (many weeks of data, many dimensions), use ask_aida_chunked and have your assistant compose the partial answers.

Still stuck?

Contact your Anomalo account team with the error text and your client logs. For Claude Desktop, MCP error logs live at ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\logs\mcp*.log (Windows).

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Environment variables

Variable	Required	Description
ANOMALO_INSTANCE_HOST	yes	Your Anomalo hostname, e.g. app.anomalo.com. No https://, no trailing slash.
ANOMALO_API_SECRET_TOKEN	yes	API token from Settings → API Keys.
SENTRY_DSN	no	Enables Sentry error reporting (PII scrubbed). Requires the [sentry] extra: uvx --with sentry-sdk anomalo-mcp.
AIDA_FETCH_FILES	no	true to download AIDA CSV query results inline. Off by default so row-level data doesn't flow through your MCP client's context window.
ANOMALO_EXPERIMENTAL_UNSTRUCTURED_TOOLS	no	1 to expose experimental unstructured-collection tools.