Absolute Security Secure Endpoint MCP Server

An MCP (Message Control Protocol) server for Absolute Security Secure Endpoint Public API. Run it locally and connect it with a wide range of supported MCP Client applications to integrate Absolute to the LLM of your choice and make Absolute work with other systems of your security stack.

Usage

Docker - stdio (Recommended)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "absolute-security": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "-e",
        "API_HOST",
        "-e",
        "API_KEY",
        "-e",
        "API_SECRET",
        "-e",
        "TRANSPORT_MODE",
        "ghcr.io/absolutesoftware/secure-endpoint-mcp-server:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "API_HOST": "https://api.absolute.com",
        "API_KEY": "<your_symmetric_api_key>",
        "API_SECRET": "<your_symmetric_api_secret>",
        "TRANSPORT_MODE": "stdio"
      }
    }
  }
}

Pypi (coming soon)

Configuration

Authentication

This MCP server interacts with Absolute Secure Endpoint Public API on the user's behalf using symmetric API keys. Please refer to the Authentication section of the Absolute API documentation about how to generate API keys.

Environment Variables

The following environment variables are optional. The application uses sensible defaults when these variables are not provided.

• API_KEY: (required) API key for authentication
• API_SECRET: (required) API secret for signing requests
• API_HOST: The base URL for the Absolute API (default: "https://api.absolute.com"). See Public API Doc for all the available endpoints.
• ABS_FEATURE_*: Feature flags to enable/disable API groups. For example, ABS_FEATURE_DEVICE_REPORTING=enabled enables the device-reporting API group, and ABS_FEATURE_DEVICE_REPORTING=disabled disables it.
• DISABLE_ADVANCED_API_BLOCKLIST: Set to True to disable the blocklist for advanced APIs. When enabled (the default), any API route with "-advanced" in its path is excluded from the MCP server.
• SERVER_HOST: Host to bind the server to in sse or http transport mode (default: 0.0.0.0)
• SERVER_PORT: Port to bind the server to in sse or http transport mode (default: 8000)
• LOG_LEVEL: Logging level (default: info). Valid values are debug, info, warning, error, critical.
• TRANSPORT_MODE: Transport mode for the MCP server (default: "http"). Valid values are http, sse, stdio. The http mode starts an HTTP server, the sse mode starts a Server-Sent Events (SSE) server, and the stdio mode uses standard input/output for communication.
• HTTP_TIMEOUT_SECONDS: Timeout for HTTP requests in seconds (default: 30)

Using Feature Flags

Feature flags allow you to enable or disable groups of APIs. APIs are grouped by their tags in the OpenAPI spec.

# Enable api_group1 and disable api_group2
export ABS_FEATURE_API_GROUP1=enabled
export ABS_FEATURE_API_GROUP2=disabled

By default, if no feature flags are set, only the "device-reporting" feature is enabled.

Development

Requirements

• Python 3.13 or higher
• uv as project and package manager

Project Structure

• secure_endpoint_mcp/: Main package directory
  • config/: Configuration management
  • client/: HTTP client with symmetric encryption
  • feature_flags/: Feature flag implementation
  • server/: MCP server implementation
• tests/: Unit tests

Installation

# Create and activate a virtual environment
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate

# Install dependencies
uv sync

Running Tests

# Install development dependencies
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

# Run all tests
uv run pytest

# Run tests with coverage report
uv run pytest --cov=secure_endpoint_mcp

MCP Inspector

All the testings below assume that we have the following env vars

export API_HOST=<api host, for example, https://api.absolute.com>
export API_KEY=<symmetric-api-token-id>
export API_SECRET=<symmetric-api-secret-key>

Interactive mode

We can run MCP inspector in interactive mode (with browser) to explore the options and its raw outputs.

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector \
  --transport stdio \
  -e "API_KEY=$API_KEY" \
  -e "API_SECRET=$API_SECRET" \
  -e "API_HOST=$API_HOST" \
  -e LOG_LEVEL=debug \
  -e TRANSPORT_MODE=stdio \
  uv run main.py

CLI Mode

Tools list

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector \
  --cli \
  --method tools/list \
  -e "API_KEY=$API_KEY" \
  -e "API_SECRET=$API_SECRET" \
  -e "API_HOST=$API_HOST" \
  -e LOG_LEVEL=debug \
  -e TRANSPORT_MODE=stdio \
  -- \
  uv run main.py

Get Devices

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector \
  --cli \
  --method tools/call \
  -e "API_KEY=$API_KEY" \
  -e "API_SECRET=$API_SECRET" \
  -e "API_HOST=$API_HOST" \
  -e LOG_LEVEL=debug \
  -e TRANSPORT_MODE=stdio \
  uv run main.py \
  --tool-name get_devices \
  --tool-arg pageSize=\"1\"