Liongard MCP

Liongard + AI - for ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Gemini, and any agent that speaks MCP

Unofficial. Community-built Claude Code Skill and MCP server for the Liongard API. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Liongard, Inc.

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Every Liongard endpoint, plus an offline copy of your whole MSP estate you can join, search, and drift-check from one command. Works with the AI you already use - ChatGPT (Plus/Pro+, paused until this connector is reprinted; see mcp-install.md), Claude Desktop, Codex, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and GitHub Copilot - plus Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio and Google Gemini via the remote path. Free, open source, runs on your laptop. Built for MSP owners. No code required.

Works with your agent

Security note (until this connector is reprinted). Do not run HTTP mode (--transport http), not even on localhost. This build has no password, listens on every network interface, and predates the browser-rebinding guard, so a web page you open can reach it. The MCP tools can also make changes with your credentials. Use the default stdio transport. If you set up a tunnel for a remote agent, shut it down. A fix is on the way.

The six agents MSP owners actually use (self-serve, works today):

Your AI agent	How to install the Liongard skill
Claude Desktop	Run installer, then Settings > Extensions to register liongard-mcp (no JSON editing).
ChatGPT (paid plans)	Paused until this connector is reprinted: ChatGPT needs its HTTP mode, and in this build that mode asks for no password, listens on every network interface, and can be reached by a web page you open. See the security note in mcp-install.md.
Codex CLI	Paste the install prompt below.
Claude Code	Paste the install prompt below.
Claude Cowork	Paste the install prompt below.
GitHub Copilot (VS Code)	Run installer, add liongard-mcp to mcp.json under the servers key, then pick Agent mode.

ChatGPT needs a remote HTTPS server, which means this connector's HTTP mode, and that is paused until the connector is reprinted: in this build that mode asks for no password, listens on every network interface, and can be reached by a web page you open. See the security note in mcp-install.md.

Also for the Microsoft and Google stacks

Big install base, but an honest heads-up: these are the remote / enterprise path, not the local binary you just installed.

Agent	What it takes
Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio	Paused until this connector is reprinted: Copilot Studio needs its HTTP mode, and in this build that mode asks for no password, listens on every network interface, and can be reached by a web page you open. See the security note in mcp-install.md.
Google Gemini	Gemini CLI is local - same as Claude Code. The Gemini app is remote and needs the same paused HTTP mode as ChatGPT. See mcp-install.md.

Skill-native agents (also covered): Hermes and OpenClaw read this skill's SKILL.md directly and speak MCP - see their install sections below. Also works with Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue.dev, and Zed via MCP. Full per-tool wire-up: docs/which-agent.md.

Run more than one agent? Install across all 51+ supported agents in one command: npx skills add Servosity/msp-skills@latest (requires Node.js, then run the per-skill installer for the CLI/MCP binaries). See docs/which-agent.md.

Install in 60 seconds

Fastest for Claude Desktop - one-click .mcpb

Claude Desktop bundle: the .mcpb launches on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows x64 and Linux x64. Every tool shells out to the companion liongard-cli. Releases cut from 2026-09-18 on ship that CLI inside the bundle; older bundles contain only the MCP server, so if yours lacks the companion, run the Path A or Path B installer below first (or set LIONGARD_CLI_PATH to an existing binary). Details: #331.

Download Liongard MCP (.mcpb) - then open Claude Desktop > Settings > Extensions and select the file. One click, no JSON, no shell. (Browse every Liongard release on the releases page.)

Prefer the Claude Code plugin? Add the marketplace once, then install - works immediately, no directory listing required:

/plugin marketplace add Servosity/msp-skills
/plugin install liongard@msp-skills

Path A - paste one prompt into your AI agent (recommended)

Copy this into Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Claude Cowork:

Install the Liongard Skill and MCP server from Servosity/msp-skills in this agent workspace. If this workspace uses a POSIX shell (macOS, Linux, WSL, or Bash), run bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.sh). If it uses Windows PowerShell, run iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.ps1 | iex. Then authenticate per the README and run liongard-cli --help to explore.

The same prompt works in any agent that can run shell.

Path B - run the installer yourself

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.ps1 | iex

macOS / Linux:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.sh)

The installer drops both liongard-cli (the CLI) and liongard-mcp (the MCP server) into your user bin path. Claude Code, Codex, and Cowork discover the Skill via SKILL.md in this directory.

Verify:

liongard-cli --version

Upgrade to the latest version

The installer always fetches the current release - re-run it to upgrade:

macOS / Linux:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.sh)

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/liongard/install.ps1 | iex

Claude Desktop .mcpb users: download the latest .mcpb (top of this section) and re-select it in Settings > Extensions. Claude Code plugin users: /plugin update liongard@msp-skills.

Add to Claude Desktop, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Microsoft 365 Copilot, or another MCP client

After the installer runs, see mcp-install.md and docs/which-agent.md for the per-agent wire-up - one section per agent, including the GitHub Copilot servers key and the remote Microsoft 365 Copilot / Copilot Studio path. Claude Desktop's Settings > Extensions panel is the simplest path; the MCP config block (for users who prefer editing JSON) is documented in mcp-install.md.

Install for Hermes

From the Hermes CLI:

hermes skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/liongard --force

Inside a Hermes chat session:

/skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/liongard --force

Hermes speaks MCP natively, so it can also use the liongard-mcp server directly - same install path, same env vars.

Install for OpenClaw

Tell your OpenClaw agent (copy this):

Install the liongard skill from https://github.com/servosity/msp-skills/tree/main/skills/liongard. The skill defines how its required CLI (liongard-cli) can be installed via the openclaw: frontmatter block.

OpenClaw isn't generally available yet; the frontmatter wiring is pre-shipped and will activate the moment OpenClaw launches.

Authenticate

Set the credentials the CLI needs (from your Liongard portal):

LIONGARD_INSTANCE=<your-subdomain> LIONGARD_API_KEY=<value> liongard-cli doctor

• LIONGARD_INSTANCE (required) is your Liongard subdomain - the acme in https://acme.app.liongard.com. It builds the API URL; if you leave it unset the CLI falls back to the placeholder example.app.liongard.com, which will not reach your data, so always set it. (Advanced: set LIONGARD_BASE_URL instead to point at a full custom URL.)

• The credential (required) comes in one of two shapes, and you set exactly one of them. Either LIONGARD_API_KEY, your pre-encoded base64 X-ROAR-API-KEY (the line above), or the pair LIONGARD_ACCESS_KEY_ID + LIONGARD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET, the two strings Liongard hands you, which the CLI encodes for you:

  LIONGARD_INSTANCE=<your-subdomain> LIONGARD_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<value> LIONGARD_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET=<value> liongard-cli doctor
  

  Do not set both shapes: LIONGARD_API_KEY wins whenever it is non-empty and the ID/secret pair is ignored.

• LIONGARD_ENDPOINTS_API_KEY (optional) is only needed for the Liongard Endpoints API surface; leave it unset if you do not use it.

doctor confirms the credentials work before you run anything that touches data. It exits 0 even when the credential is rejected, so scripts should add --fail-on error.

What this skill does

Run liongard-cli sync once first - the cross-estate commands below (drift, health, coverage, the stale/offline/failure rollups, metrics pivot) read your local mirror, so they return empty until the first sync populates it.

Question your MSP keeps asking	Command
What changed across all my clients in the last 24h?	liongard-cli drift --since 24h
Which collectors (launchpoints) have gone stale?	liongard-cli launchpoints stale --older-than 7d
Which agents are offline, and whose environment do they serve?	liongard-cli agents offline
Give me one health scorecard for the whole estate.	liongard-cli health --agent
Show one client's complete picture in a single command.	liongard-cli environments overview 42
Which inspections failed or errored across the estate?	liongard-cli detections failures --since 7d
Pull one metric across every system, CSV-ready for a report.	liongard-cli metrics pivot "MFA Enabled Count" --csv
Which systems breach a threshold (e.g. patch age over 30 days)?	liongard-cli metrics breach "Patch Age Days" --op gt --value 30
Where are my monitoring gaps?	liongard-cli coverage
Which environments are still missing a given inspector?	liongard-cli inspectors coverage --inspector "Microsoft 365"

Full command reference: guide.md. For the AI-agent operating contract (--agent, --dry-run, when to confirm before mutating), see AGENTS.md.

What makes this different

Most Liongard integrations and MCP servers proxy each question into a live API call. That's fine for one record. It dies at scale, when you're asking "what changed across all 40 clients this week" or "which of my 600 launchpoints went stale" - questions that become dozens of paginated API calls.

This skill syncs Liongard into a local SQLite mirror with full-text search. Aggregate questions become one local SQL join: instant, offline, and the AI sees the answer, not the raw data. Compound commands like drift, health, and metrics pivot join across environments, systems, launchpoints, agents, and detections in one shot - work a stateless API wrapper can't do.

The pain this closes

Liongard is one of the most data-rich tools in the MSP stack - and one of the hardest to operationalize. The recurring theme in r/msp threads about Liongard is the same: it collects an enormous amount of configuration and change data, but the value is locked behind clicking into one environment at a time. Two pains show up over and over:

• Silent decay. A launchpoint goes stale or an agent drops offline and just stops collecting. Nobody notices until a QBR or an audit needs the data - and the "documentation" has quietly rotted. liongard-cli launchpoints stale and liongard-cli agents offline surface it estate-wide in one command.
• Reporting is manual. One metric across every system, or every failed inspection estate-wide, means clicking environment by environment or a one-off API script. liongard-cli metrics pivot, liongard-cli detections failures, and liongard-cli health answer it in a single line.

See pain-point.md for the longer narrative.

Frequently asked questions

Does this work with ChatGPT?

Not with this build. ChatGPT (Plus, Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise, and Education plans; Free does not yet expose Developer Mode) connects only to remote MCP servers over HTTPS, which means running the Liongard MCP server in HTTP mode. In this build HTTP mode asks for no password, listens on every network interface, and can be reached by a web page you open, so do not run it or put it behind a tunnel until the connector is reprinted; the security note in mcp-install.md explains why. Until then, use Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Codex.

Does this work with Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, or Gemini?

Yes - all of them speak MCP. Cross-tool install commands are in the matrix above and the deep-dive in docs/which-agent.md.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The recommended install is to paste one sentence into Claude Code or Codex - your agent reads SKILL.md and does the install. The fallback is a one-line installer per OS (bash or PowerShell). Neither path requires writing code. You'll enter your Liongard credentials once.

Is my Liongard data safe?

Your data stays on your machine. The CLI and MCP server are local binaries. The SQLite mirror sits in a directory under your user account. The AI agent only sees what the CLI returns - typically a query result, not raw bulk data. Credentials are read from your environment or your agent's config; never bundled into this repo or transmitted anywhere by MSP Skills.

Do I need to be a Liongard customer, and will this hit my API limits?

Yes - you use your own Liongard instance and access keys, so the skill only reaches data your credentials already permit. Because it syncs once into a local mirror and answers most questions from there, it makes far fewer API calls than a per-question live wrapper, which keeps you well clear of rate limits during reporting and QBR prep.

Will this replace my Liongard portal?

No - it complements it. The portal is built for clicking into one environment at a time; this skill answers the cross-estate questions (drift, stale collectors, offline agents, coverage gaps, one metric across every system) in a single command you can pipe into a report or hand to your AI agent.

What does it cost?

Free. Apache-2.0 licensed. You pay only for whichever AI agent you use (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, etc.), and that's billed by your AI provider, not by us.

Safety model

Tier	Examples	Recommended agent policy
Read	drift, health, coverage, launchpoints stale, agents offline, detections failures, metrics pivot, search, and every get/list/count	Allow
Write (routine)	environments create/update, launchpoints launchpoint/update/update-bulk, metrics create/update, users create/update, agents update, import, and inspection triggers (launchpoints run/bulk-run/run-stale, agents flush job-queue)	Preview with --dry-run, then a reviewed write
Destructive / credential	environments delete, launchpoints delete/bulk-delete, metrics delete, users delete, agents delete, access-keys create/delete, and the authentication/auth token commands	Human-in-the-loop only

The strongest control is the scope you grant the Liongard credentials - the CLI can only do what the credentials are permitted to do. Full details, including how to lock it down, are in governance.md.

Status

Beta. Validated against the Liongard API surface. The next step is live validation with MSPs running it against their own production tenant in our weekly Build Sessions - RSVP at compoundingteams.com/build-sessions.

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Standards. Conforms to the open Agent Skills spec (Anthropic, Dec 2025; 40+ agents). MCP-compatible - works with any MCP-capable agent including Hermes. OpenClaw-ready (frontmatter pre-wired, awaiting OpenClaw launch).

Maintained by Servosity. Apache-2.0 licensed. Built with CLI Printing Press. Last updated: 2026-06-06.