camunda-mcp 1.0.1

Camunda (7 & 8) API + MCP Server + A2A Server for Agentic AI!

Camunda Mcp

API | MCP Server | A2A Agent

Camunda (7 & 8) process automation API + MCP Server + A2A Agent for the agent-utilities ecosystem.

Version: 0.5.0

Documentation — Installation, deployment, usage across the API, CLI, and MCP interfaces, and guidance for provisioning the Camunda platform are maintained in the official documentation.

camunda-mcp wraps the Camunda process automation APIs with thin, deterministic MCP tools, targeting both platforms from a single server: the Camunda 7 Engine REST API and the Camunda 8 Zeebe / Operate / Tasklist REST APIs. It additionally ships an A2A agent server that exposes the same capability through a Pydantic-AI graph agent for agent-to-agent orchestration.

What it provides

• Api (camunda_mcp.api_client) — a facade holding both the Camunda 7 Engine REST client (Camunda7Api) and the Camunda 8 Zeebe / Operate / Tasklist client (Camunda8Api), each constructed lazily so a server configured for one platform never needs the other's URLs or credentials.
• Action-dispatch MCP tools (camunda-mcp console script): camunda_process, camunda_instance, camunda_task, camunda_deploy, camunda_message, camunda_external_task, camunda_job, camunda_history, camunda_deployment, and camunda_ops. Each takes a platform argument (7 or 8). See docs/overview.md for the full surface.
• An A2A agent server (camunda-agent console script, described by a2a.json) wrapping the tool surface in a Pydantic-AI graph agent.

Available MCP Tools

Auto-generated — do not edit (synced by the mcp-readme-table pre-commit hook).

Condensed action-routed tools (default — MCP_TOOL_MODE=condensed)

MCP Tool	Toggle Env Var	Description
camunda_deploy	CAMUNDATOOL	Deploy a BPMN/DMN/form resource to Camunda 7 or Camunda 8.
camunda_deployment	CAMUNDATOOL	Manage Camunda 7 deployments (list/get/delete).
camunda_external_task	CAMUNDATOOL	Camunda 7 external task worker operations.
camunda_history	CAMUNDATOOL	Query Camunda 7 historic data.
camunda_instance	CAMUNDATOOL	Work with process instances on Camunda 7 or Camunda 8.
camunda_job	CAMUNDATOOL	Manage jobs and incidents on Camunda 7 or Camunda 8.
camunda_message	CAMUNDATOOL	Correlate/publish a message or broadcast a signal.
camunda_ops	CAMUNDATOOL	Search Camunda 8 Operate / Tasklist surfaces.
camunda_process	CAMUNDATOOL	Work with process definitions on Camunda 7 or Camunda 8.
camunda_task	CAMUNDATOOL	Work with user tasks on Camunda 7 or Camunda 8 (Tasklist).

Verbose 1:1 API-mapped tools (MCP_TOOL_MODE=verbose or both)

1 per-operation tools — one per public API method (click to expand)

MCP Tool	Toggle Env Var	Description
camunda_client	APITOOL	Return the platform client (defaults to the configured platform).

10 action-routed tool(s) (default) · 1 verbose 1:1 tool(s). Each is enabled unless its <DOMAIN>TOOL toggle is set false; MCP_TOOL_MODE selects the surface (condensed default · verbose 1:1 · both). Auto-generated — do not edit.

Environment Variables

Package environment variables

Variable	Example	Description
CAMUNDA_PLATFORM	7	Platform selector: "7" (Engine REST) or "8" (Zeebe/Operate/Tasklist)
CAMUNDA_SSL_VERIFY	True	Verify TLS certificates for Camunda HTTP calls
CAMUNDA7_URL	http://localhost:8080/engine-rest
CAMUNDA7_TOKEN	changeme
CAMUNDA7_USERNAME	demo
CAMUNDA7_PASSWORD	changeme
CAMUNDA8_ZEEBE_REST_URL	http://localhost:8080
CAMUNDA8_OPERATE_URL	http://localhost:8081
CAMUNDA8_TASKLIST_URL	http://localhost:8082
CAMUNDA8_CLIENT_ID	changeme
CAMUNDA8_CLIENT_SECRET	changeme
CAMUNDA8_OAUTH_URL	https://login.cloud.camunda.io/oauth/token
CAMUNDA8_AUDIENCE	zeebe.camunda.io
CAMUNDATOOL	True	Toggle registration of the Camunda tool group

Inherited agent-utilities variables (apply to every connector)

Variable	Example	Description
TRANSPORT	stdio	MCP transport: stdio
HOST	0.0.0.0	Bind host (HTTP transports)
PORT	8000	Bind port (HTTP transports)
MCP_TOOL_MODE	condensed	Tool surface: condensed
MCP_ENABLED_TOOLS	—	Comma-separated tool allow-list
MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS	—	Comma-separated tool deny-list
MCP_ENABLED_TAGS	—	Comma-separated tag allow-list
MCP_DISABLED_TAGS	—	Comma-separated tag deny-list
EUNOMIA_TYPE	none	Authorization mode: none
EUNOMIA_POLICY_FILE	mcp_policies.json	Embedded Eunomia policy file
EUNOMIA_REMOTE_URL	—	Remote Eunomia authorization server URL
ENABLE_OTEL	False	Enable OpenTelemetry export
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	—	OTLP collector endpoint
MCP_CLIENT_AUTH	—	Outbound MCP auth (oidc-client-credentials for fleet calls)
OIDC_CLIENT_ID	—	OIDC client id (service-account auth)
OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET	—	OIDC client secret (service-account auth)
DEBUG	False	Verbose logging
PYTHONUNBUFFERED	1	Unbuffered stdout (recommended in containers)
MCP_URL	http://localhost:8000/mcp	URL of the MCP server the agent connects to
PROVIDER	openai	LLM provider for the agent
MODEL_ID	gpt-4o	Model id for the agent
ENABLE_WEB_UI	True	Serve the AG-UI web interface

14 package + 22 inherited variable(s). Auto-generated from .env.example + the shared agent-utilities set — do not edit.

Every variable the server reads, grouped by purpose. Credentials left blank leave the corresponding platform inactive — the connector remains inactive when credentials are absent. A starter .env.example ships with the repository; copy it to .env and populate the values for the platform you use.

Connection & Credentials

Var	Default	Meaning
CAMUNDA_PLATFORM	7	Target platform: 7 or 8
CAMUNDA_SSL_VERIFY	True	Verify TLS (set False for self-signed homelab)
CAMUNDA7_URL	http://localhost:8080/engine-rest	Camunda 7 Engine REST base URL
CAMUNDA7_TOKEN / CAMUNDA7_USERNAME / CAMUNDA7_PASSWORD	—	Camunda 7 bearer or basic auth
CAMUNDA8_ZEEBE_REST_URL	http://localhost:8080	Camunda 8 Zeebe REST base URL
CAMUNDA8_OPERATE_URL / CAMUNDA8_TASKLIST_URL	—	Camunda 8 Operate / Tasklist URLs
CAMUNDA8_CLIENT_ID / CAMUNDA8_CLIENT_SECRET / CAMUNDA8_OAUTH_URL / CAMUNDA8_AUDIENCE	—	Camunda 8 OAuth client_credentials

MCP server / transport

Variable	Description	Default
TRANSPORT	stdio, streamable-http, or sse	stdio
HOST	Bind host (HTTP transports)	0.0.0.0
PORT	Bind port (HTTP transports)	8000
MCP_TOOL_MODE	Tool surface: condensed, verbose, or both	condensed
MCP_ENABLED_TOOLS / MCP_DISABLED_TOOLS	Comma-separated tool allow/deny list	—
MCP_ENABLED_TAGS / MCP_DISABLED_TAGS	Comma-separated tag allow/deny list	—
DEBUG	Verbose logging	False
PYTHONUNBUFFERED	Unbuffered stdout (recommended in containers)	1

Tool toggles

Each action-routed tool can be disabled individually via its toggle env var (set to false). See the Available MCP Tools table above for the authoritative names.

Variable	Description	Default
CAMUNDATOOL	Register the Camunda tool set	True

Telemetry & governance

Variable	Description	Default
ENABLE_OTEL	Enable OpenTelemetry export	True
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT	OTLP collector endpoint	—
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PUBLIC_KEY / OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_SECRET_KEY	OTLP auth keys	—
OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL	OTLP protocol (e.g. http/protobuf)	—
EUNOMIA_TYPE	Authorization mode: none, embedded, remote	none
EUNOMIA_POLICY_FILE	Embedded policy file	mcp_policies.json
EUNOMIA_REMOTE_URL	Remote Eunomia server URL	—

Agent CLI (full [agent] runtime only)

Variable	Description	Default
MCP_URL	URL of the MCP server the agent connects to	http://localhost:8000/mcp
PROVIDER	LLM provider (e.g. openai)	openai
MODEL_ID	Model id (e.g. gpt-4o)	gpt-4o
ENABLE_WEB_UI	Serve the AG-UI web interface	True

Installation

Pick the extra that matches what you want to run:

Extra	Installs	Use when
camunda-mcp[mcp]	Slim MCP server only (agent-utilities[mcp] — FastMCP/FastAPI)	You only run the MCP server (smallest install / image)
camunda-mcp[agent]	Full agent runtime (agent-utilities[agent,logfire] — Pydantic AI + the epistemic-graph engine)	You run the integrated agent
camunda-mcp[all]	Everything (mcp + agent)	Development / both surfaces

# MCP server only (recommended for tool hosting — slim deps)
uv pip install "camunda-mcp[mcp]"

# Full agent runtime (Pydantic AI + epistemic-graph engine)
uv pip install "camunda-mcp[agent]"

# Everything (development)
uv pip install "camunda-mcp[all]"      # or: python -m pip install "camunda-mcp[all]"

Run the servers:

camunda-mcp                       # stdio MCP server (default transport)
camunda-mcp --transport streamable-http --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

# A2A agent server against a deployed MCP endpoint
MCP_URL=http://camunda-mcp:8000/mcp camunda-agent --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8001

Container images (:mcp vs :agent)

One multi-stage docker/Dockerfile builds two right-sized images, selected by --target:

Image tag	Build target	Contents	Entrypoint
knucklessg1/camunda-mcp:mcp	--target mcp	camunda-mcp[mcp] — slim, no engine/pydantic-ai/dspy/llama-index/tree-sitter	camunda-mcp
knucklessg1/camunda-mcp:latest	--target agent (default)	camunda-mcp[agent] — full agent runtime + epistemic-graph engine	camunda-agent

docker build --target mcp   -t knucklessg1/camunda-mcp:mcp    docker/   # slim MCP server
docker build --target agent -t knucklessg1/camunda-mcp:latest docker/   # full agent

docker/mcp.compose.yml runs the slim :mcp server; docker/agent.compose.yml runs the agent (:latest) with a co-located :mcp sidecar.

Knowledge-graph database (epistemic-graph)

The full agent ([agent] / :latest) embeds the epistemic-graph engine (pulled in transitively via agent-utilities[agent]). For production — or to share one knowledge graph across multiple agents — run epistemic-graph as its own database container and point the agent at it instead of embedding it. Deployment recipes (single-node + Raft HA), connection config, and the full database architecture (with diagrams) are documented in the epistemic-graph deployment guide. The slim [mcp] server does not require the database.

MCP config

Register in the multiplexer under nickname camun (tools surface as camun__process, camun__instance, camun__task, …). See camunda_mcp/mcp_config.json.

Additional Deployment Options

camunda-mcp can also run as a local container (Docker / Podman / uv) or be consumed from a remote deployment. The Deployment guide has full, copy-paste mcp_config.json for all four transports — stdio, streamable-http, local container / uv, and remote URL:

• Local container / uv — launch the server from mcp_config.json via uvx, docker run, or podman run, or point at a local streamable-http container by url.
• Remote URL — connect to a server deployed behind Caddy at http://camunda-mcp.arpa/mcp using the "url" key.

Documentation

The complete documentation is published as the official documentation site and is the recommended reference for installation, deployment, and day-to-day operation.

Page	Contents
Installation	pip, source, extras, prebuilt Docker image
Deployment	run the MCP and agent servers, Compose, Caddy + Technitium, env config
Usage	the MCP tools, the Api client, the CLI
Backing Platform	deploy Camunda with Docker
Overview	the Camunda 7 / Camunda 8 surface
Concepts	concept registry (CONCEPT:CAMUNDA-*)

AGENTS.md is the canonical contributor/agent guidance.

Deploy with agent-os-genesis

This package can be provisioned for you — skill-guided — by the agent-os-genesis universal skill (its single-package deploy mode): it picks your install method, seeds secrets to OpenBao/Vault (or .env), trusts your enterprise CA, registers the MCP server, and verifies it — the same machinery that stands up the whole Agent OS, narrowed to just this package. Ask your agent to "deploy camunda-mcp with agent-os-genesis".

Install mode	Command
Bare-metal, prod (PyPI)	uvx camunda-mcp · or uv tool install camunda-mcp
Bare-metal, dev (editable)	uv pip install -e ".[all]" · or pip install -e ".[all]"
Container, prod	deploy knucklessg1/camunda-mcp:latest via docker-compose / swarm / podman / podman-compose / kubernetes
Container, dev (editable)	deploy docker/compose.dev.yml (source-mounted at /src; edits live on restart)

Secrets are read-existing + seeded via vault_sync — you are only prompted for what's missing.