zola-mcp

io.github.chrischall/zola-mcp

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 3 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-16
Health score 63

About zola-mcp

zola-mcp is an MCP server published by the GitHub account chrischall. Zola wedding planning for Claude — vendors, budget, guests, seating, registry, and RSVPs

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the npm package zola-mcp at version 2.1.11.

It asks for 2 secrets: ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN and ZOLA_SESSION_TOKEN. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

Version 2.1.11 was published on 16 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
`ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN`	No	Yes	Zola refresh token JWT (~1 year lifetime). Optional — when unset, the MCP falls back to the ContextMint Bridge browser extension to read the `usr` cookie from your signed-in zola.com tab, and caches it so later starts need no browser.
`ZOLA_DISABLE_FETCHPROXY`	No	No	Set to '1' to opt out of the fetchproxy browser fallback (headless / CI). With it set and no ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN, auth is a hard error unless a previous bootstrap already cached a token — reading that file is not opening a browser, so the cache stays readable.
`ZOLA_TOKEN_CACHE`	No	No	Set to 'false' to disable the on-disk refresh-token cache and ask the browser on every start. Defaults to enabled. Inert when ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN is set — there is no bootstrap to skip.
`ZOLA_TOKEN_FILE`	No	No	Absolute path for the refresh-token cache file. Defaults to $MCP_DATA_DIR/.zola-mcp/refresh-token.json, else the same path under $HOME.
`ZOLA_ACCOUNT_ID`	No	No	Overrides the account id normally read from GET /v3/users/me/context. Set it only to pin a specific account.
`ZOLA_REGISTRY_ID`	No	No	Overrides the registry id normally read from the same context call.
`ZOLA_WEDDING_ID`	No	No	Overrides the wedding id normally read from the same context call.
`ZOLA_SESSION_TOKEN`	No	Yes	A seed session token (JWT). The client refreshes it about five minutes before its exp, so this is a starting point rather than a long-lived credential.
`FETCHPROXY_WS_PORT`	No	No	Localhost port of the fetchproxy concentrator the ContextMint Bridge extension connects to (default 37149). Every MCP on one machine shares it, so move it for all of them or not at all.
`FETCHPROXY_WS_HOST`	No	No	Bind interface for the fetchproxy concentrator, a literal IP only (default 127.0.0.1). Keep on loopback; it exists for hosted deployments that run each MCP in its own network namespace.
`FETCHPROXY_IDENTITY_DIR`	No	No	Absolute path where the fetchproxy long-term identity keypair is stored (default ~/.fetchproxy/identity/).

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/chrischall/zola-mcp
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: ZOLA_REFRESH_TOKEN, ZOLA_SESSION_TOKEN
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	zola-mcp@2.1.11 runs nothing at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 36 files in zola-mcp@2.1.11: 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 36 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 63 / 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.

Popularity13 / 40

3 GitHub stars, 382 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-25, last release 2026-10-16, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health15 / 15

23 closed of 23 issues.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

2 forks, 266 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.github.chrischall/zola-mcp`
Publisher	GitHub account chrischall
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account chrischall. 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 `zola-mcp` 2.1.11 (stdio)
Version	2.1.11
Published	2026-10-16
Last updated	2026-10-16
Source repository	https://github.com/chrischall/zola-mcp
Website	None linked
Category	Business data (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · npm package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zola-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zola-mcp@2.1.11"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

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