formio-mcp

io.form/formio-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
1 secret
★ 8 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-14
Health score 58

About formio-mcp

formio-mcp is an MCP server published by form.io. Create and manage Form.io forms, resources, actions, roles, and projects from your AI agent.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package @formio/mcp at version 1.0.1.

It asks for one secret: FORMIO_API_KEY. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 1.0.1 was published on 14 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`FORMIO_PROJECT_URL`	No	No	Optional, and the WEAKEST of the three project sources: a committed formio.json found by walking up from the working directory wins, then the per-directory mapping project_set writes, then this. It pins nothing — project_set can redirect a directory whose environment names a different project. Useful for a launch with nowhere to record a project, such as CI or a container (e.g. https://examples.form.io on the hosted cloud; self-hosted it is either https://your-project.your-domain.com or https://your-host/project-name, depending on how that deployment routes projects). Leave it unset and the agent asks for a project and records it per directory.
`FORMIO_BASE_URL`	No	No	Optional, and usually unnecessary: the base URL is DERIVED from the project URL — https://api.form.io for a project on a form.io host, the parent path for a project addressed as a sub-directory — and is asked for only when it cannot be derived, which is a path-less project URL on a customer domain. There is no default. Like FORMIO_PROJECT_URL it is the weakest source, behind a committed formio.json and the per-directory mapping.
`FORMIO_API_KEY`	No	Yes	Form.io project API key. Optional — applied only to the project FORMIO_PROJECT_URL names, so set FORMIO_PROJECT_URL beside it; any other project, and every project when it is omitted, uses the browser-based portal login flow to obtain a JWT.
`FORMIO_LOGIN_FORM`	No	No	URL of a custom login form used by the browser-based portal login flow. Defaults to the deployment's portal login form.
`FORMIO_AUTH_HOST`	No	No	Address the browser-login page binds to. Optional; defaults to 127.0.0.1. Set it to 0.0.0.0, together with FORMIO_AUTH_PORT, when the server runs in a container or on a remote machine and the login page must be reachable through a published port. 0.0.0.0 exposes the page on every interface for the duration of a login.
`FORMIO_AUTH_PORT`	No	No	Fixed port for the browser-login page, so a container can publish it (e.g. 43117). Optional; a positive integer, and by default the page takes an ephemeral port.
`FORMIO_AUTH_TIMEOUT`	No	No	Seconds to wait for a browser login before the call fails with an error naming the remedies. Optional; a positive integer no larger than 2147483, and any other value is ignored. Defaults to 900.
`FORMIO_FORCE_BROWSER`	No	No	Set to 1 to attempt the browser login even where the server detects it cannot present one (CI, a container, a remote shell with no display). Use it when the login page is reachable from a browser elsewhere.
`FORMIO_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`	No	No	Seconds a Form.io request may go unanswered before the call fails with a network error naming the URL. Optional; a positive integer no larger than 2147483, and any other value is ignored. Defaults to 60. project_import and project_export wait 300 seconds, or this value when it is longer.
`FORMIO_INSECURE_TLS`	No	No	Set to 1 to skip TLS certificate verification only for requests to the configured deployment (the hosts of the resolved project URL and base URL); every other host is verified as usual. For local development against self-signed certificates only — never enable in production.

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/formio/ai
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 1 secret: FORMIO_API_KEY
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via domain form.io
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	@formio/mcp@1.0.1 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 144 files in @formio/mcp@1.0.1: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 144 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 58 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity15 / 40

8 GitHub stars, 730 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-28, last release 2026-10-14, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

1 closed of 1 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

4 forks, 109 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.form/formio-mcp`
Publisher	Domain form.io
How the name is verified	Name verified via domain form.io. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	npm `@formio/mcp` 1.0.1 (stdio)
Version	1.0.1
Published	2026-10-14
Last updated	2026-10-14
Source repository	https://github.com/formio/ai
Website	https://form.io
Category	Other (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "formio-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@formio/mcp@1.0.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-form-formio-mcp.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.