{"id":"owui-mcp-server","name":"owui-mcp-server","af_score":67.7,"security_score":54.5,"reliability_score":27.5,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server that exposes Open WebUI Knowledge Bases as MCP tools/resources, enabling clients to list knowledge bases, fetch knowledge base info, and run semantic search against a specific knowledge base. Supports stdio (local) and HTTP (remote) transports and proxies requests to the Open WebUI API using an API token.","best_when":"You already run Open WebUI and want MCP clients (Cursor, Claude Desktop, others) to search and reference your Knowledge Bases with minimal integration overhead.","avoid_when":"You cannot safely store/use Open WebUI API tokens for the MCP server, or you require strong, formally documented security guarantees (e.g., security posture details beyond README claims).","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:49:30.436576+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":true,"auth_methods":["Open WebUI API token (OPEN_WEBUI_API_TOKEN) for upstream Open WebUI API calls","HTTP transport likely uses Authorization header as shown in Cursor HTTP example"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["Agents may not know which knowledge_base_id to query; README suggests calling list_knowledge_bases when unsure.","If using HTTP transport, misconfiguration of MCP_TRANSPORT/MCP_HTTP_PORT or missing Authorization header will prevent the client from connecting.","If MCP_CORS_ORIGINS is left empty, remote browser-based setups may fail due to lack of CORS (though most MCP clients are not browser-based)."],"error_quality":0.0}