Ntfy Me MCP MCP Server

An ntfy MCP server for sending ntfy notifications to your self-hosted ntfy server from AI Agents 📤 (supports secure token auth & more - use with npx

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What is the Ntfy Me MCP MCP server?

If you already use Ntfy Me MCP, the ntfy me mcp mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. An ntfy MCP server for sending ntfy notifications to your self-hosted ntfy server from AI Agents 📤 (supports secure token auth & more - use with npx or docker!).

What the server does

ntfy-me-mcp provides AI assistants with the ability to send real-time notifications to your devices through the ntfy.sh service (either public or selfhosted with token support). Get notified when your AI completes tasks, encounters errors, or reaches important milestones - all without constant monitoring.

  • 🚀 Quick Setup: Run with npx or docker!
  • 🔔 Real-time Notifications: Get updates on your phone/desktop when tasks complete
  • 🎨 Rich Notifications: Support for topic, title, priorities, emoji tags, and detailed messages
  • 🔍 Notification Fetching: Fetch and filter cached messages from your ntfy topics
  • 🎯 Smart Action Links: Automatically detects URLs in messages and creates view actions
  • 📄 Intelligent Markdown: Auto-detects and enables markdown formatting when present

Installation

Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.

Available tools

The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:

  • Authentication — This MCP server supports both authenticated and unauthenticated ntfy endpoints:

Credentials and setup notes

Configuration is passed through the environment: NTFY_TOPIC, NTFY_URL, NTFY_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.

Worth knowing first

  • Your data travels to the provider's service, so the usual questions apply about what you send and what they retain.
  • Missing credentials fail quietly in some clients — if no tools show up, check the environment block first.
  • Keep per-call confirmation enabled while you learn its behaviour; it is the cheapest safeguard you have.

Where it fits

Plenty of cloud and infrastructure servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Ntfy Me MCP's toolset — Authentication — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by gitmotion; 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.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
AuthenticationThis MCP server supports both authenticated and unauthenticated ntfy endpoints:

How to install the Ntfy Me MCP MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ntfy-me": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "ntfy-me-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "NTFY_TOPIC": "your-value",
        "NTFY_URL": "your-value",
        "NTFY_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
NTFY_TOPICConfiguration value read at startup.Optional
NTFY_URLEndpoint or connection string the server talks to.Yes
NTFY_TOKENCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • Use Ntfy Me MCP to Authentication.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Ntfy Me MCP to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Authentication) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Ntfy Me MCP directly.