checkpoint-harmony-mcp 0.2.4

MCP server for the Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration API

Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that exposes the Check Point Harmony Email & Collaboration smart-api (formerly Avanan) to AI assistants. It provides 26 tools across Security Events, Secured Entities, Exceptions, URL Reputation, DLP, and Scopes — full parity with the v1.50 API.

[!IMPORTANT] Unofficial project. This is an independent, community-built MCP server developed against Check Point's published API documentation. It is not an official Check Point product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by Check Point Software Technologies. "Check Point", "Harmony", and "Avanan" are trademarks of Check Point Software Technologies. For official support of the Harmony Email & Collaboration platform itself, contact Check Point directly.

[!WARNING] Beta software — not yet recommended for production environments. This project is under active development. The tool surface and individual tool body shapes may still change between minor versions, and not every endpoint has been exhaustively exercised against every tenant configuration. Use against a lab or non-production scope until you're confident in the behavior for your use case.

This server can also perform destructive actions against your Harmony environment. Tools can quarantine and restore real email and modify allow/block-list exceptions. A hallucinated tool argument from your AI assistant could alter your mail flow in ways that affect email security.

Recommended posture:

• Try the server against a non-production or lab scope first.
• Use a Check Point API key scoped to the minimum permissions your use case requires.
• Review every destructive tool call before allowing execution. Claude Desktop requires tool-call approval by default — keep that enabled.
• Treat the API key (Client ID + Secret) with the same care as portal admin credentials, because functionally it is one.
• The HTTP transport binds to 127.0.0.1 by default. Do not expose it to the public internet without adding authentication.

Tools

Area	Count	Tools
Scopes	1	scopes_list
Security Events	5	events_get_by_id, events_query, events_find, events_action, events_get_task_status
Secured Entities	5	entities_get_by_id, entities_query, entities_find, entities_action, entities_download
Exceptions (Anti-Phishing)	5	exceptions_list, exceptions_get, exceptions_create, exceptions_update, exceptions_delete
URL Reputation	5	urlrep_list, urlrep_get, urlrep_create, urlrep_update, urlrep_delete
DLP	5	dlp_list, dlp_get, dlp_create, dlp_update, dlp_delete

26 tools total. Highlights:

• Query tools (events_query, entities_query) return a compact summary of up to limit records (default 25). Use max_records (cap 500) to auto-paginate, count_only for a {recordsNumber, histogram} triage view, or full=true for raw objects. events_query requires a date range (startDate).
• Find tools (events_find, entities_find) locate a specific message/event by sender, recipient, subject, message-ID, or entity-ID. They filter server-side and default to the last 30 days (override with start_date/end_date), trying an exact match first and falling back to contains — the result's matchMode says which hit. Both cap returned matches to limit (default 25) and set truncated when more exist. Power users can pass a raw server-side extended_filter to entities_query.
• Action tools (events_action, entities_action) wait for completion by default and return the final entity state; pass wait=false for fire-and-forget. entities_action requires entity_type — the target entity's saasEntityType (e.g. office365_emails_email), as returned by entities_query/entities_find.
• exceptions_* (anti-phishing) types are whitelist, blacklist, and spam_whitelist (case-insensitive). URL-Reputation exception types are allow-url, allow-domain, block-url, block-domain. DLP exception types are hash, text_content, sender_email, recipient_email.
• entities_download returns the secured entity's message as an .eml (base64-encoded for transport).
• Rate limits enforced client-side: Anti-Phishing exception writes are paced to 1 rps; URL-Rep + DLP exception writes to 10 rps, matching the API reference.
• events_action verbs: quarantine, restore, dismiss, severityChange (param {"newSeverity": "Low|Medium|High|Highest"}), senttoadmin.
• Server-side filters for entities_query via extended_filter: each entry is {saasAttrName, saasAttrOp, saasAttrValue}; operators are is, contains, startsWith, isEmpty, isNot, notContains, isNotEmpty, greaterThan, lessThan. Use dotted paths like entityPayload.fromEmail.

[!NOTE] events_query and events_find require a date range — include startDate (and ideally endDate). Without it the upstream API returns an opaque 500.

See docs/ENDPOINTS.md for the full tool ↔ endpoint mapping.

Quick start

Install

# with uv (recommended)
uv tool install checkpoint-harmony-mcp

# or with pip
pip install checkpoint-harmony-mcp

For development from source:

git clone https://github.com/Space-C0wboy/Checkpoint-Harmony-Email-MCP-Server
cd Checkpoint-Harmony-Email-MCP-Server
uv venv && uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

Getting an API key

Generate an account-scoped Infinity Portal API key for the Email & Collaboration service. The easiest path also shows you the exact authentication URL for your region:

1. In the Harmony Email & Collaboration console, confirm the correct account / company is selected, then click the Settings gear next to the company name → API Keys. (Equivalently: Infinity Portal Global Settings → API Keys → New Account API key.)
2. Click New, choose Service: Email & Collaboration, optionally set an expiration, then Create.
3. Copy the Client ID, Secret Key, and Authentication URL it displays — the secret is shown only once. These map to CHECKPOINT_CLIENT_ID, CHECKPOINT_SECRET, and CHECKPOINT_AUTH_URL. Set CHECKPOINT_API_URL to your region's gateway + /app/hec-api (see Region gateways below).

No role is requested for Email & Collaboration keys — they are granted Admin access scoped to that single service.

[!WARNING] Use an account API key, not a user key. A user-scoped key (the /auth/external/user endpoint) is bound to the user's home region and is not accepted by the smart-api — it authenticates successfully but every data call returns an opaque 500. If you decode such a token you'll see "authType": "EXTERNAL_USER"; an account key shows "EXTERNAL". Always generate the key via Global Settings → API Keys → New Account API key (or the Harmony console gear → API Keys).

Configuration

Copy .env.example to .env and set:

Variable	Required	Description
CHECKPOINT_CLIENT_ID	yes	Infinity Portal API key Client ID
CHECKPOINT_SECRET	yes	Infinity Portal API key Secret (accessKey)
CHECKPOINT_AUTH_URL	yes	Region gateway + /auth/external
CHECKPOINT_API_URL	yes	Region gateway + /app/hec-api
CHECKPOINT_SCOPE	no*	Auto-discovered when blank (single tenant); set explicitly only for multi-scope keys
CHECKPOINT_TIMEOUT	no	Request timeout in seconds (default 30)
LOG_LEVEL	no	default INFO
MCP_HTTP_HOST / MCP_HTTP_PORT	no	HTTP transport bind, defaults 127.0.0.1:8765

* When blank, the server auto-discovers the scope (single-tenant). Set it explicitly only if your key has access to multiple scopes; discover values with the scopes_list tool.

Region gateways:

• EU https://cloudinfra-gw.portal.checkpoint.com
• US https://cloudinfra-gw-us.portal.checkpoint.com
• AU https://cloudinfra-gw.ap.portal.checkpoint.com
• IN https://cloudinfra-gw.in.portal.checkpoint.com

(Auth URL = gateway + /auth/external; API URL = gateway + /app/hec-api.)

Run

• stdio (default): uv run checkpoint-harmony-mcp (or just checkpoint-harmony-mcp if installed as a tool)
• HTTP: checkpoint-harmony-mcp --transport http --port 8765

Editor integration

Claude Desktop

Edit claude_desktop_config.json:

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "checkpoint-harmony": {
      "command": "checkpoint-harmony-mcp",
      "env": {
        "CHECKPOINT_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "CHECKPOINT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
        "CHECKPOINT_AUTH_URL": "https://cloudinfra-gw-us.portal.checkpoint.com/auth/external",
        "CHECKPOINT_API_URL": "https://cloudinfra-gw-us.portal.checkpoint.com/app/hec-api"
      }
    }
  }
}

If running from source instead of an installed tool, use uv with --directory:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "checkpoint-harmony": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": ["run", "--directory", "/absolute/path/to/Checkpoint-Harmony-Email-MCP-Server", "checkpoint-harmony-mcp"],
      "env": { "CHECKPOINT_CLIENT_ID": "...", "CHECKPOINT_SECRET": "...", "CHECKPOINT_AUTH_URL": "...", "CHECKPOINT_API_URL": "..." }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then confirm checkpoint-harmony appears in the tools menu.

Claude Code

claude mcp add checkpoint-harmony \
  --env CHECKPOINT_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id \
  --env CHECKPOINT_SECRET=your-client-secret \
  --env CHECKPOINT_AUTH_URL=https://cloudinfra-gw-us.portal.checkpoint.com/auth/external \
  --env CHECKPOINT_API_URL=https://cloudinfra-gw-us.portal.checkpoint.com/app/hec-api \
  -- checkpoint-harmony-mcp

Scope auto-discovery

The Harmony API requires a scopes value on every call, but it isn't shown in the Infinity Portal. This server resolves it for you: leave CHECKPOINT_SCOPE blank and, on first use, it calls scopes_list and uses your single scope automatically (logging it so you can pin it later). Set CHECKPOINT_SCOPE explicitly only if your key spans multiple scopes — the server will list the available values in an error if so.

[!TIP] For a single-tenant key, just leave CHECKPOINT_SCOPE unset — there is nothing to look up in the portal. Only multi-scope keys need it set explicitly.

Example prompts

• "How many phishing emails did we get today?" → events_query with count_only.
• "Find the email from [e-mail] to me on June 4th." → entities_find.
• "Quarantine event <id>, then restore it." → events_action (quarantine → restore).
• "Block the sender [e-mail]." / "Remove that block." → exceptions_create / exceptions_delete.
• "Show me the full detail for entity <id>." → entities_get_by_id.

Development

uv run pytest        # full suite (HTTP fully mocked with respx; no live calls)
uv run ruff check .  # lint

Releases publish to PyPI automatically when a v* tag is pushed (see .github/workflows/publish.yml).

License

MIT