MCP on self-host is not working

Hello all, I'm trying to setup MCP with Claude Code on my self-hosted Appwrite instance 1.9.5.

What I did:

• Installed uv
• Installed Claude Appwrite plugin with claude plugin install appwrite@claude-plugins-official
• Ran this command to setup config

• On Claude Code, I try to go on plugins, then installed and "reconnect" and give this error : "Failed to reconnect to appwrite-api: -32000"

Note:

• Trying to ran a curl on /health endpoint with the same api key and got "PASS".
• Enabled only Databases read & Functions read permissions for this key.

Do I need to explicitly enable something on .env file?
Thanks

@iStornZ can you try using

claude mcp add --transport http appwrite https://mcp.appwrite.io/

Thanks but It only connect to Appwrite cloud not my self hosted instance no?

I need to authentificate with my Appwrite cloud credentials, it was successful but it only interract with my cloud project @Chirag Aggarwal

sorry yeah mb, follow these sh docs - https://github.com/appwrite/mcp/blob/main/docs/self-hosted.md

Thanks @Chirag Aggarwal but I can't achieve to make it working...
My Claude config is :

"mcpServers": {
"appwrite-api": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-server-appwrite"
],
"env": {
"APPWRITE_PROJECT_ID": "XXXXX-prod",
"APPWRITE_API_KEY": "XXXXXX",
"APPWRITE_ENDPOINT": "https://XXXXX/v1"
}
}
},

And always have this error Failed to reconnect to appwrite-api: -32000

Is there a way using docker to see the status of MCP server running?

i see, something seems wrong. thanks for reporting! will take a look soon

Thanks

@iStornZ releasing this pr - https://github.com/appwrite/mcp/pull/83

it should show you proper error instead of a generic reconnect error

Thanks! Need to reinstall the mcp plugin I guess to try this?

since command uses uvx it should default to latest, might need a cache clear if it doesnt work automatically

@Chirag Aggarwal
After debugging a lot, it seems MCP try to parse from 1.9.6 servers but "policies, archives" props are missing from TableDB. I think it's a migration issue on 1.9.0 no?

right, i fixed it in latest python sdk- https://github.com/appwrite/sdk-for-python

need to release it to mcp, gimme a second

Wow, so fast haha 🙏

do check if [appwrite/mcp] New release published: v0.8.25 works

Yes it's working thanks a lot!

hey, recently wanted to setup MCP myself, and used the option --all as shown in the docs : https://appwrite.io/docs/advanced/self-hosting/mcp#command-line-arguments

tho it says :

are the docs maybe outdated or is there a bug in the MCP ?

thats outdated, cc @Atharva

that's for self hosted since it doesnt support the remote mcp server

did anything change in local mcp

even in self hosted all flag does not exist, we use the 4 tool approach

oh right, definitely outdated, got confused for a bit, i'll update it