pingcastle-mcp 1.0.0

MCP server for PingCastle Enterprise — query AD/Entra security reports, findings, comparisons, and scans from your LLM

pingcastle-mcp

Talk to PingCastle Enterprise from Claude

An MCP server that plugs a PingCastle Enterprise instance straight into Claude — browse domains and reports, surface critical Active Directory findings, compare scans over time, and kick off on-demand health checks, all in natural language.

7 MCP tools · reports & critical findings · scan diffing & score trends · on-demand scans · OS-keyring credentials · standalone Windows .exe

Install · Configure · Tools · Clients & local LLMs · How it works · Build

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✨ Why

PingCastle Enterprise already scores your Active Directory and Entra ID security posture. pingcastle-mcp makes that data conversational:

"What changed in cloud.lab since last month?" "Show me the critical findings on the latest report." "Compare report 1002 against 1 and tell me what got fixed." "Run a fresh health check on cloud.lab."

Your LLM calls the right tool, pulls live data from the Enterprise REST API, and answers — no portal-clicking required.

🧰 Tools

Tool	What it does
list_domains	Enumerate scanned domains / forests (and Entra tenants) with their latest score and report count
list_reports	List a domain's reports — id, date, global + category scores, maturity level
get_report_summary	Scores by category, maturity level, finding counts by category, and the top findings by points (for a report id, or a domain's latest)
get_findings	Matched risk rules for a report — filter by category and min_points (severity ≈ points)
compare_reports	Diff two reports: new / resolved / unchanged findings (by riskId) plus per-category & global score deltas
score_trend	Global score over time for a domain, sorted chronologically
run_scan	Trigger an on-demand PingCastle.exe health check and upload it to Enterprise (Windows + AD reachability)

The read tools work on any OS with just an Enterprise URL + API key. run_scan additionally needs PingCastle.exe, so it lights up on a Windows host; elsewhere it degrades gracefully with a clear message.

📦 Install

From PyPI (recommended once published):

claude mcp add pingcastle -- uvx pingcastle-mcp

From GitHub, no clone:

claude mcp add pingcastle -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/dfirdeferred/PingCastle-MCP pingcastle-mcp

Manual clone:

git clone https://github.com/dfirdeferred/PingCastle-MCP && cd PingCastle-MCP
pip install .
claude mcp add pingcastle -- pingcastle-mcp

Standalone Windows .exe (no Python required) — download from Releases, verify, and register:

# verify the download against the published checksum
Get-FileHash .\pingcastle-mcp.exe -Algorithm SHA256
# compare with pingcastle-mcp.exe.sha256
claude mcp add pingcastle -- C:\path\to\pingcastle-mcp.exe

Project-scoped .mcp.json:

{ "mcpServers": { "pingcastle": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["pingcastle-mcp"] } } }

Using a different assistant (Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, Cline, Ollama / LM Studio / local models, …)? See docs/CLIENTS.md for per-client setup.

🔐 Configure

Run the one-time setup — it prompts for your Enterprise URL and API key, validates them against the server, stores the URL in a config file and the API key in your OS keyring (Windows Credential Manager / macOS Keychain / Linux Secret Service):

pingcastle-mcp configure

Re-running configure rotates the key by overwriting it. Prefer environment variables (CI / headless)? Set them instead:

Env var	Purpose
PINGCASTLE_ENTERPRISE_URL	Enterprise base URL
PINGCASTLE_API_KEY	API key (exchanged for a short-lived JWT at runtime)
PINGCASTLE_EXE_PATH	Path to PingCastle.exe — enables run_scan
PINGCASTLE_INSECURE_TLS	1 to skip TLS verification (self-signed lab certs)
PINGCASTLE_LOGIN_LOCATION	Override the location sent at login (default pingcastle-mcp)

Resolution order: environment variables first, then stored config + keyring. The API key and JWT are never logged or written to disk in plaintext.

🏗 How it works

LLM client ──stdio──▶ FastMCP tool handlers (thin)
                          ├──▶ EnterpriseClient ──HTTPS──▶ PingCastle Enterprise REST API
                          │      (API key → POST /api/Agent/Login → JWT; auto-refresh)
                          └──▶ Scanner ──▶ PingCastle.exe --healthcheck --api-endpoint … (upload to Enterprise)

• EnterpriseClient owns auth and all reads. The API key is exchanged for a Bearer JWT at /api/Agent/Login; the token is cached, proactively refreshed before expiry, and re-issued on a 401.
• Scanner wraps PingCastle.exe, with a timeout that reaps the child process and graceful degradation when the exe isn't available.
• Pure parsing/diff (summaries, filtering, report comparison, trends) is isolated and unit-tested against real captured API responses.

🩻 Requirements

• Python 3.11+ (for the pip/uvx install paths; the .exe bundles its own runtime)
• A reachable PingCastle Enterprise instance + an API key (Agent authorization)
• For run_scan: a Windows host with PingCastle.exe and AD/network reachability

🛠 Build from source

git clone https://github.com/dfirdeferred/PingCastle-MCP && cd PingCastle-MCP
python -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate    # Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest                                            # 50 unit tests; live tests are opt-in via RUN_LIVE=1

Standalone Windows .exe (build on a Windows host — PyInstaller does not cross-compile):

pip install -e ".[dev]"
pyinstaller --clean packaging/pingcastle-mcp.spec
# -> dist\pingcastle-mcp.exe

See packaging/README-build.md for the build notes (entry-point wrapper, hidden imports).

🧪 Tests

• Unit tests run offline against real captured API fixtures (50 passed).
• Live integration tests are opt-in and hit a real server:

  RUN_LIVE=1 PINGCASTLE_INSECURE_TLS=1 \
    PINGCASTLE_ENTERPRISE_URL=https://your-pingcastle \
    PINGCASTLE_API_KEY=… \
    pytest tests/integration -v
  

🤝 Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome. The codebase is small, typed, and test-first — please add or update tests with any change.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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