Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI client to [Knowi](https://www.knowi.com). Query your data, create dashboards
Connect Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, or any MCP-compatible AI client to Knowi. Query your data, create dashboards, manage reports, and more — in natural language, directly from your AI assistant. That is what the knowi mcp mcp server brings to an AI assistant: the same capability, reachable through the Model Context Protocol rather than a separate app or dashboard.
The server publishes 14 tools. What each one is for:
knowi_do — Execute any Knowi operation via natural languageknowi_ask — Ask a data question — finds the dataset, generates a query, returns resultsknowi_search — Search across all dashboards, widgets, datasets, and reportsknowi_list_dashboards — List all accessible dashboardsknowi_get_data — Retrieve data rows from a widget or datasetknowi_push_data — Push data rows to a dataset (creates it if it doesn't exist)knowi_get_details — Get full metadata for any assetknowi_find_widget — Find widgets by nameknowi_create_datasource — Create a new datasource connectionknowi_create_query — Create and run a query against a datasourceknowi_create_widget — Create a new chart or visualizationknowi_update_widget — Update an existing widgetConfiguration is passed through the environment: YOUR_MCP_TOKEN, YOUR_NEW_TOKEN, YOUR_TOKEN. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. Knowi MCP's toolset — knowi_do, knowi_ask, knowi_search and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by cloud9charts; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| knowi_do | Execute any Knowi operation via natural language |
| knowi_ask | Ask a data question — finds the dataset, generates a query, returns results |
| knowi_search | Search across all dashboards, widgets, datasets, and reports |
| knowi_list_dashboards | List all accessible dashboards |
| knowi_get_data | Retrieve data rows from a widget or dataset |
| knowi_push_data | Push data rows to a dataset (creates it if it doesn't exist) |
| knowi_get_details | Get full metadata for any asset |
| knowi_find_widget | Find widgets by name |
| knowi_create_datasource | Create a new datasource connection |
| knowi_create_query | Create and run a query against a datasource |
| knowi_create_widget | Create a new chart or visualization |
| knowi_update_widget | Update an existing widget |
| knowi_create_report | Create a scheduled report |
| knowi_create_alert | Create a data alert |
{
"mcpServers": {
"knowi": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "https://your-instance.knowi.com/api/2.0/mcp",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_MCP_TOKEN"
}
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| YOUR_MCP_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_NEW_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| YOUR_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
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