About Kamai
Kamai is an MCP server for construction teams working with Kamai blueprint projects and takeoffs. It provides project and drawing views, measured quantities, element editing, and optional query tools and interactive widgets.
Key features
- 01Browse projects and blueprints
- 02View takeoff quantities and elements
- 03Edit and organize blueprint elements
- 04Download processed blueprint PDFs
- 05Optional element queries and calculations
- 06Interactive MCP Apps widgets
Use cases
- 01Review measured quantities in a blueprint
- 02Organize rooms, walls, doors, and windows
- 03Download a processed plan with detected elements
- 04Query element counts or calculate wall area
MCP support
Exposes Kamai project, blueprint, takeoff, and element operations as tools, with MCP Apps widgets for interactive views. It connects to Kamai's MCP API and validates OAuth tokens in HTTP mode; local stdio mode uses a personal API key.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.kamai.io/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http io-kamai https://mcp.kamai.io/mcp{"mcpServers":{"io-kamai":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.kamai.io/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"io-kamai":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.kamai.io/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"io-kamai":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.kamai.io/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"io-kamai":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.kamai.io/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEkamai-mcp
Kamai's MCP server: tools and MCP Apps widgets for Kamai construction-blueprint projects, blueprints and takeoffs. It runs against Kamai's MCP API and validates access tokens issued by Kamai's OAuth authorization server. It holds no Kamai secrets.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
view_projects | Interactive panel of the user's projects and blueprints |
list_blueprints | Blueprints grouped by project, with their ids and whether they are ready |
view_blueprint | A blueprint page with its take-off shapes drawn on top |
view_takeoff | Measured take-off quantities as a sortable table |
list_elements | Per-element rows (rooms, walls, doors, windows, objects) with outlines |
list_folders | A blueprint's legend folders |
download_plan | A PDF of a processed blueprint with its detected elements highlighted, as a temporary download link |
update_elements, move_elements, create_folder | Rename, recolour and refile elements; create a folder |
set_opening_height | Store a user-stated height, or a door/window tag, on wall-surface opening pieces |
create_project, update_project | Create or rename a project |
list_jobs, get_job, cancel_job | Processing jobs of a project |
view_upload | Upload panel for a blueprint PDF |
ingest_blueprint_from_chat | Import a PDF attached to a ChatGPT message (ChatGPT only) |
open_kamai | Open the Kamai app in a panel |
With KAMAI_QUERY_TOOLS=on (see below):
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
count_elements | Counts and totals by Kamai category (doors, windows, walls, wet rooms…), grouped, summed in the database |
find_elements | Individual elements with type, folder, tag, handing and measurements |
calculate_wall_surface_area | Net wall (paint or plaster) area of rooms |
render_table | A table panel whose rows highlight their elements on the plan |
set_scale | Set a blueprint's drawing scale |
set_rotation | Turn how a blueprint is shown (display only) |
With KAMAI_HOST_PROBE on (the default on dev and debug, off in prod; see below):
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
probe_host | A diagnostic panel that tests what widgets can use in this chat (WebGPU, WebGL2, workers, WebAssembly, the GCS tile host) and logs the result as a widget_probe event |
list_blueprints also takes include_inventory (with a project_id): what each
blueprint contains.
list_projects, get_project, get_blueprint, request_blueprint_upload,
finalize_blueprint_upload, and with the query tools get_table_row_elements and
get_element_outlines, and with the probe report_host_probe, are app-only: callable by the widgets, not advertised to the
model.
Run locally with your API key
The quickest way to run this server against your own Kamai data is local mode: the host spawns the server, talks to it over stdio, and the credential is a personal API key from Kamai (API Keys in the Kamai app) instead of OAuth.
bun install
bun run build:widgets
KAMAI_API_KEY=... MCP_API_BASE_URL=https://mcp-api.kamai.io bun run local
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --env KAMAI_API_KEY=... --env MCP_API_BASE_URL=https://mcp-api.kamai.io \
--transport stdio kamai -- bun /path/to/kamai-mcp/src/local.ts
Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):
{ "mcpServers": { "kamai": {
"command": "bun", "args": ["/path/to/kamai-mcp/src/local.ts"],
"env": { "KAMAI_API_KEY": "...", "MCP_API_BASE_URL": "https://mcp-api.kamai.io" } } } }
The key is used as the bearer for every API call; the tools run as the key's owner.
Add KAMAI_QUERY_TOOLS=on to the environment for the query tools.
Run the HTTP server
bun install
cp .env.example .env
bun run dev
The values in .env.example are placeholders: set MCP_PUBLIC_URL and
MCP_AUTH_ISSUER to your tunnel and to a reachable authorization server before
starting, or every request will be refused with invalid_token.
| Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
PORT | Listen port, default 8006 |
MCP_PUBLIC_URL | The URL hosts call and ask a token for (the resource in discovery); a tunnel, not localhost |
MCP_AUTH_ISSUER | Issuer of the access tokens, matched byte for byte against the token's iss |
MCP_AUTH_JWKS_URI | Optional. Defaults to {MCP_AUTH_ISSUER}/jwks.json |
MCP_API_BASE_URL | Kamai MCP API base URL, https://mcp-api.kamai.io. Also the audience an access token must carry |
MCP_ACCEPTED_AUDIENCES | Optional comma-separated audiences, for a cutover. Defaults to MCP_API_BASE_URL |
KAMAI_API_KEY | Local mode only: the personal API key the tools run as |
KAMAI_APP_ORIGINS | Optional comma-separated extra origins open_kamai may frame; the first becomes the default |
KAMAI_QUERY_TOOLS | on registers the query tools. Only once the API layer serves /v1/vocabulary (401, not 404) |
KAMAI_ROTATION | off drops set_rotation from the query tools (on by default; needs an API layer that serves PUT .../blueprints/{id}/rotation) |
KAMAI_HOST_PROBE | on or off registers probe_host and report_host_probe. Unset, it is on when Cloud Run's K_SERVICE starts with dev- or debug-, off otherwise. Never in local mode |
KAMAI_MCP_NO_INSTRUCTIONS | 1 leaves the server instructions out, as claude.ai does; for evals |
The MCP API and the authorization server are operated by Kamai, so running the
HTTP server end to end needs access to both. An MCP server is only really testable
against a real host, and a host can only reach a public HTTPS URL, so HTTP-mode
development means running behind a tunnel and pointing MCP_PUBLIC_URL at it.
bun run dev builds the widgets first: the server serves the built HTML from
dist/widgets/, not the React source, so rebuild after touching anything under
src/widgets/app/.
The widgets use React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI and Lucide. Vite produces one self-contained HTML resource per widget, so nothing needs hosting.
Local builds require Bun 1.3.3 and Node.js 22.12 or newer.
Layout
src/index.ts HTTP server, OAuth protected-resource metadata, MCP transport
src/local.ts stdio entrypoint for local mode (personal API key)
src/auth.ts Bearer-token verification (RFC 9728 challenges)
src/server.ts Tool and resource registration
src/api.ts Client for the Kamai MCP API
src/elements.ts list_elements paging, filtering and result budgeting
src/errors.ts The text a failed tool call shows the model
src/query/ Query tools: descriptions, vocabulary, filters, budgets, contract
src/widgets/ Widget resources, CSP metadata and the React widget sources
scripts/ Widget build (escapes & so Open WebUI can embed the
widgets); check-routes and check-vocabulary against a live API
scripts/open-webui/
Open WebUI helpers: an open_kamai Tool, a display-mode
host script, a local bridge demo
Privacy and support
- Privacy policy: https://kamai.io/privacy-policy
- Support: https://kamai.io/support or [email protected]
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md. Security issues go to the address in SECURITY.md, not to the issue tracker.
License
Apache-2.0. Copyright 2026 Kamai Enterprises LTD.
The Kamai name and logo are trademarks of Kamai Enterprises LTD and are not covered by the license.
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