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keycloak-mcp

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An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for the KeyCloak Admin REST API.

Authenticates via a Service Account (Client Credentials Grant), so no human password or TOTP is involved. Also Infinispan-safe — it never creates user sessions and never hits the userinfo endpoint.

Features

Users

Tool Description
count_users Total user count in the realm
search_users Partial-match search (username / email / name)
get_user Full detail for an exact username
reset_password Reset one user's password
reset_passwords_batch Bulk reset from CSV (username,password per line; blank password is generated)
get_user_sessions Active sessions for one user, timestamps in local time
logout_user Kill all active sessions for one user
set_user_enabled Enable or disable one user; disabling blocks all logins (custom attributes preserved)

MFA / Credentials

Tool Description
get_user_credentials Credential types configured for one user; an otp entry means TOTP/HOTP is set up
get_totp_users Realm-wide TOTP adoption: how many users have an otp credential, with percentage and (optionally) the user list. Enumerates users and reads each one's credentials (N+1; bound with max_users)

Groups

Tool Description
list_user_groups Which groups a user belongs to
list_users_by_group Members of a group

Security

Tool Description
get_brute_force_status Whether a user is currently locked by brute-force detection
get_realm_security_defenses Realm-level security policy: whether brute-force detection is enabled and its thresholds, the password policy, and browser security headers
get_login_failures_by_ip Failure breakdown by source IP (site-labeled when KEYCLOAK_SITES_INI is set)
get_ip_activity Exhaustive investigation of one source IP: success/failure counts, affected users/clients, timeline. Returns structured JSON.
detect_login_loops Flag users who logged in too many times in a short window (redirect loops)

Events

Tool Description
get_events Filter by type, username, client, IP, and date range. Username is resolved to user ID internally. Failure events include KeyCloak's error field (e.g. invalid_user_credentials).
get_login_stats Login success/failure totals, paginated across all results
get_login_stats_by_hour Logins bucketed by hour of day (local time)
get_login_stats_by_client Logins bucketed by client / SP
get_password_update_events UPDATE_PASSWORD history

Admin Events

get_events only sees user events. Actions driven by an admin — or by a service account writing custom attributes — don't show up there. The admin-event endpoint fills that gap.

Tool Description
get_admin_events Filter by operation (CREATE / UPDATE / DELETE / ACTION), resource type (USER / CLIENT / ROLE / GROUP / …), resource path, and date range
get_user_attribute_history UPDATE/ACTION events scoped to one user — handy for tracking when a custom attribute (e.g. temp_password) was written by an automated pipeline

Both tools accept max_repr to control the representation payload: positive = truncate to N chars (default 500), 0 = omit, negative = include in full.

Sessions & Clients

Tool Description
get_session_stats Active session count per client
get_client_sessions Active sessions for one client (SP)
list_clients SAML and OIDC clients in the realm
get_realm_roles Realm-level roles

Morning Patrol

Tool Description
health_check Report the running server version and verify the KeyCloak backend is reachable and the service account can authenticate. Lightweight (one token request; no user/event/session scans). Returns a fixed-shape dict with status (healthy / degraded / error), auth (ok / error / missing-env), and the configured URL/realm.
daily_brief One-shot morning health check: login stats, brute-force IPs, active sessions, password updates, and admin events in a single Markdown summary. IPs exceeding ip_failure_threshold failures (default 50) are flagged WARNING; API errors surface as CRITICAL. since_hours controls the look-back window (default 18 h).

Setup

# uv
uv pip install keycloak-mcp

# pip
pip install keycloak-mcp

From source:

git clone https://github.com/shigechika/keycloak-mcp.git
cd keycloak-mcp

# uv
uv sync

# pip
pip install -e .

Configuration

Variable Description Default
KEYCLOAK_URL Base URL, e.g. https://keycloak.example.com required
KEYCLOAK_REALM Realm name master
KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_ID Service Account client ID required
KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET Client secret required
KEYCLOAK_SITES_INI INI file for IP-to-site labeling (see below) unset
KEYCLOAK_DEFAULT_DATE_FROM_HOURS Default look-back window for event tools when date_from is omitted. Set to 0 to scan full history (can hang on large realms). 24
KEYCLOAK_DEADLINE Per-call wall-clock budget (seconds) for the heavy event/TOTP tools. When a wide window / large realm would exceed it, the tool stops and returns a disclosed partial (⚠️ warning) instead of running past the client's ~60s gateway timeout and hammering KeyCloak. 0 or negative disables. 45
KEYCLOAK_MAX_EVENTS Per-pagination cap on events fetched by the event tools (also bounds how deep the slow high-offset pagination goes). Over the cap the result is a disclosed partial. 0 or negative disables. 200000
KEYCLOAK_MAX_USERS Default cap on users scanned by get_totp_users when its max_users argument is 0 (each user costs one credential call). 0 or negative disables (whole realm, bounded only by KEYCLOAK_DEADLINE). 5000

KeyCloak client setup

  1. Create a new client in the KeyCloak admin console.
  2. Turn on Client authentication and Service account roles.
  3. Give it view-users, view-events, view-clients, and — only if you need password reset — manage-users.

Verify your setup

After setting the environment variables, run --check to confirm authentication works before wiring it into an MCP client:

export KEYCLOAK_URL=https://keycloak.example.com
export KEYCLOAK_REALM=my-realm
export KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_ID=keycloak-mcp
export KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-secret
keycloak-mcp --check
# HTTP Request: POST https://keycloak.example.com/realms/my-realm/protocol/openid-connect/token "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
# OK: authenticated to https://keycloak.example.com/admin/realms/my-realm

Exit codes: 0 success, 1 configuration error (missing variable), 2 authentication error.

IP-to-site labeling (optional)

Point KEYCLOAK_SITES_INI at an INI file if you want IP addresses in tool output to be tagged with your site names. Tools like get_user_sessions, get_events, and get_login_failures_by_ip pick it up automatically; anything outside your declared ranges is labeled external. Leave the variable unset and IPs are shown as-is.

See sites.ini.example. A minimal file:

[hq]
name = HQ (Tokyo)
ipv4 = 192.0.2.0/24, 198.51.100.0/24
ipv6 = 2001:db8:1::/48

[vpn]
name = VPN
ipv4 = 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12

One site per [section]. name is the display label (falls back to the section name). ipv4 / ipv6 take comma-separated CIDRs; a single host is /32 or /128. Matching is first-match in file order — put specific ranges before broad ones.

Usage

Claude Code

In .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "keycloak-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "keycloak-mcp",
      "env": {
        "KEYCLOAK_URL": "https://keycloak.example.com",
        "KEYCLOAK_REALM": "my-realm",
        "KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_ID": "keycloak-mcp",
        "KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

In claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "keycloak-mcp": {
      "command": "keycloak-mcp",
      "env": {
        "KEYCLOAK_URL": "https://keycloak.example.com",
        "KEYCLOAK_REALM": "my-realm",
        "KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_ID": "keycloak-mcp",
        "KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET": ""
      }
    }
  }
}

From a shell

export KEYCLOAK_URL=https://keycloak.example.com
export KEYCLOAK_REALM=my-realm
export KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_ID=keycloak-mcp
export KEYCLOAK_CLIENT_SECRET=your-secret
keycloak-mcp

CLI

keycloak-mcp --version   # Print version and exit
keycloak-mcp --help      # Show usage and required environment variables
keycloak-mcp --check     # Verify env vars and authentication, then exit
keycloak-mcp             # Run the MCP STDIO server (default)

No-argument mode is the normal one — that's how MCP clients launch it.

Development

git clone https://github.com/shigechika/keycloak-mcp.git
cd keycloak-mcp

# uv
uv sync --dev
uv run pytest -v
uv run ruff check .

# pip
python3 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e . && .venv/bin/pip install pytest pytest-cov respx ruff
.venv/bin/pytest -v
.venv/bin/ruff check .

License

MIT

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