crowdsec-local-mcp 0.0.2

An MCP exposing prompts and tools to help users write WAF rules, scenarios etc.

Life is too short to write YAML, just ask nicely!

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to generate, validate, and deploy CrowdSec WAF rules & Scenarios.

Features

WAF Rules Features

• WAF Rule Generation: Generate CrowdSec WAF rules from user input or a CVE reference
• Validation: Validate syntaxical correctness of WAF rules
• Linting: Get warnings and hints to improve your WAF rules
• Deployment Guide: Step-by-step deployment instructions
• Docker Test Harness: Spin up CrowdSec + nginx + bouncer to exercise rules for false positives/negatives
• Nuclei Lookup: Quickly jump to existing templates in the official projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates repository for a given CVE

Scenarios Features

• CrowdSec Scenarios Generation: Generate CrowdSec scenarios
• Validation: Validate syntaxical correctness of scenarios
• Linting: Get warnings and hints to improve your scenarios
• Deployment Guide: Step-by-step deployment instructions
• Docker Test Harness: Spin up CrowdSec to test scenario behavior

Demo

WAF Rules Creation and testing

• Rule creation from natural language with Claude Desktop
• Rule creation from CVE reference

Scenario Creation and testing

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Installation

Quick MCP client setup

• Configure supported clients automatically with uvx run --from crowdsec-local-mcp init <client>, where <client> is one of claude-desktop, chatgpt, vscode, or stdio:

uvx --from crowdsec-local-mcp init

Logging

• The MCP server writes its log file to your operating system's temporary directory. On Linux/macOS this is typically /tmp/crowdsec-mcp.log; on Windows it resolves via %TEMP%\crowdsec-mcp.log.

Pre Requisites

• Docker + Docker Compose

• Python >= 3.12