sap-help-mcp 1.0.0

MCP server that searches SAP Help Portal and SAP Community from your AI assistant

sap-help-mcp

Stop your AI assistant from guessing at SAP configuration. This MCP server gives it live access to the two places the answer actually lives: the official SAP documentation on help.sap.com and the practitioner knowledge on community.sap.com.

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Why

Ask a general-purpose model how to configure foreign currency valuation, or what message F5 702 means, and you get an answer assembled from memory: plausible, often subtly wrong, and impossible to verify. SAP documentation is huge, versioned per release, and mostly invisible to ordinary web search.

With this server connected, the assistant searches the portal first and answers from the page it just read — with a link you can open.

You: How do I set up a substitution for the profit center in FI documents in ECC?

Assistant: (calls help_search, then help_read) According to Substitution in Accounting Documents (SAP_ERP 6.18) the callup point is 0002 … — https://help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ERP/…

It also reaches the Support Content space — the FAQs and troubleshooting guides written by SAP support, the ones that normally sit behind a search box nobody knows about — and the forum, for the "has anyone actually hit this" half of the job.

What it gives the assistant

Tool	What it does
help_search(query, product?, version?, limit)	Search help.sap.com: all SAP product documentation plus the Support Content wiki.
help_read(ref, part?)	Fetch a full help.sap.com page as markdown, paginated for long pages.
community_search(query, limit, min_kudos)	Search SAP Community blogs, Q&A and discussions, ranked on our side.
web_status()	Version, source endpoints, cache state. Useful to confirm the connection works.

No credentials, no local data, nothing written to disk. The server only issues anonymous GET requests to public portal endpoints and caches responses in memory for six hours.

SAP Notes are not included. Reading Notes requires a personal S-user, and this server deliberately holds no secrets. Use mcp-sap-notes alongside it — this server surfaces the Note numbers, that one opens them.

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Install

Pick one. Option A is the least work; option B also covers Claude Code and other MCP clients.

Option A — one-click bundle (Claude Desktop, Windows and macOS)

1. Download sap-help-mcp.mcpb from the latest release.
2. In Claude Desktop: Settings → Extensions → Install Extension… and select the file (or just drag it onto that page).
3. Confirm the install prompt. Done.

You do not need Python. The bundle uses the MCPB uv runtime — Claude Desktop downloads a private Python and the dependencies itself, per bundle, and removes them on uninstall.

Option B — uvx (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, anything MCP)

Install uv once — it is a single self-contained binary:

# Windows (PowerShell)
powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://astral.sh/uv/install.ps1 | iex"

# macOS / Linux
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Claude Code — one command, nothing to edit:

claude mcp add sap-help -- uvx sap-help-mcp

Claude Desktop — add this block to the mcpServers section of your config file (keep any servers already listed there):

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

	Config file
Windows	%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
macOS	~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Then quit Claude Desktop completely (Cmd+Q on macOS, File → Exit on Windows — closing the window is not enough) and start it again. uvx installs the package on first launch, which takes a few seconds once.

Option C — from source (for development)

git clone https://github.com/aamelin1/sap-help-mcp.git
cd sap-help-mcp
uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest                       # offline tests
uv run python -m sap_help_mcp.probe # live check against both portals

Point a client at the checkout with "command": "uv", "args": ["run", "--directory", "/abs/path/to/sap-help-mcp", "sap-help-mcp"].

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Check that it works

Ask the assistant: "call web_status". You should get the server version and the portal endpoints back. Then try a real question, e.g. "search SAP help for document splitting in new general ledger".

Getting good answers out of it

• Queries go to the portals in English — both sources are English-only. Ask your own question in any language; the assistant is instructed to translate it into SAP terminology itself («переоценка валюты» → foreign currency valuation).
• Filter by product line when you know it. SAP_ERP is ECC 6.0, SAP_S4HANA_ON_PREMISE and SAP_S4HANA_CLOUD are what they say, and SUPPORT_CONTENT is the support Expert Content wiki. Without a filter the portal happily returns ByDesign pages.
• Rephrase once or twice if the results are thin. It helps more than anything else, and the assistant is told to do it.
• The forum is the forum. community_search returns field experience, not truth. Each result carries a match_score and a kudos count so quality is visible.

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Self-hosting over HTTP (optional)

For a shared deployment, run it as an HTTP service instead of stdio:

export MCP_TOKEN=$(openssl rand -hex 32)
echo "give this to your clients: $MCP_TOKEN"
MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_HOST=127.0.0.1 uvx sap-help-mcp

Variable	Default	Meaning
MCP_TRANSPORT	stdio	stdio or http
MCP_HOST / MCP_PORT	127.0.0.1 / 8010	Listen address
MCP_TOKEN	—	Bearer token. Required unless the listener is on loopback: the server refuses to start on any other address without one.

Every request must carry Authorization: Bearer <token> (compared with hmac.compare_digest); GET /health stays open for monitoring. Put it behind a TLS-terminating reverse proxy — the server speaks plain HTTP and binds to localhost by default.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause and fix
Server does not appear in Claude Desktop	The config was edited but the app was not fully restarted. Quit it entirely and reopen.
spawn uvx ENOENT	uvx is not on the PATH the app inherits. Restart the machine after installing uv, or put the absolute path in command (%USERPROFILE%\.local\bin\uvx.exe, ~/.local/bin/uvx).
Tools return "Network unreachable or timed out"	A corporate proxy or firewall is blocking the portals. Check that help.sap.com opens in a browser on the same machine.
Tools return SAP responded 4xx	The portal probably changed its undocumented endpoints. Run uv run python -m sap_help_mcp.probe --raw and open an issue with the output.
Search finds nothing sensible	Use the exact English SAP term, a transaction code or a message number; drop the product filter.
Claude Desktop logs	macOS: ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp-server-sap-help.log · Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\logs\

How it works

Roughly 800 lines of Python in four layers: tool declarations, one module per source, and a single place where HTTP happens. docs/ARCHITECTURE.md covers the three-step page-read chain, the Khoros LiQL ranking problem and the reasoning behind each design decision.

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Run uv run pytest before submitting; if you touched any portal request shape, also run uv run python -m sap_help_mcp.probe and say in the PR that you did — those endpoints are undocumented and only live checks prove anything.

Legal

SAP and other SAP product names are trademarks of SAP SE. This project is not affiliated with SAP. All content reachable through the server remains the property of SAP SE and the respective authors; the server stores and redistributes nothing. See NOTICE for third-party attribution, including mcp-sap-docs, whose portal request shapes this project builds on.

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.