Powerpipe MCP server to run benchmarks, detections and controls using AI.
Powerpipe MCP server to run benchmarks, detections and controls using AI. The powerpipe mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 6 defined tools rather than through you.
Unlock the power of AI-driven security and compliance analysis with Powerpipe! This Model Context Protocol server seamlessly connects AI assistants like Claude to your infrastructure compliance data, enabling natural language exploration and analysis of your cloud security posture.
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Prerequisites — The Prerequisites tool exposed by this serverConfiguration — Add Powerpipe MCP to your AI assistant's configuration file:Prompts — The Powerpipe MCP server includes a set of prompts that can be used to guide AI assistants in working with PowerpipeTools — The Tools tool exposed by this serverResources — The Powerpipe MCP provides access to the following resources:Testing — To test your local development build with AI tools that support MCP, update your MCP configuration to use the local dist/index.js instead of the npmnpx) - Powerpipe installed and configured - A directory containing your Powerpipe mod files (required)The server ships on npm as @modelcontextprotocol/inspector, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
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. Powerpipe's toolset — Prerequisites, Configuration, Prompts and 3 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by e-gineer; 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We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.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 |
|---|---|
| Prerequisites | The Prerequisites tool exposed by this server. |
| Configuration | Add Powerpipe MCP to your AI assistant's configuration file: |
| Prompts | The Powerpipe MCP server includes a set of prompts that can be used to guide AI assistants in working with Powerpipe. |
| Tools | The Tools tool exposed by this server. |
| Resources | The Powerpipe MCP provides access to the following resources: |
| Testing | To test your local development build with AI tools that support MCP, update your MCP configuration to use the local dist/index.js instead of the npm package. For example: |
{
"mcpServers": {
"powerpipe": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@turbot/powerpipe-mcp",
"/path/to/your/mod/is/required"
]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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GitHub's official server — repos, issues, pull requests, Actions and code security, straight from your assistant.
Issue tracking at the speed of conversation — Linear's official hosted server with OAuth and zero install.
Local repository surgery — status, diffs, commits, branches and history for any repo on disk.
Timezone sanity for AI — current time anywhere and correct conversions, without the model doing date math.