Cozi MCP Server

An unofficial Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants like Claude read and update your Cozi Family Organizer lists and calendar.

Each user runs their own instance against their own Cozi account. Your credentials are stored in your MCP client's secure config (Claude Desktop's OS keychain, Smithery's encrypted session config, or your local environment) and never leave your machine — the author of this server has no access to your data.

Install

1. MCPB (recommended for Claude Desktop)

Download the latest .mcpb from the Releases page and double-click to install in Claude Desktop. You'll be prompted for your Cozi username and password — they're stored securely in your OS keychain.

This path requires no Node, npm, or Python install on your machine.

2. Smithery (for other MCP clients)

For Cursor, ChatGPT-style clients, or web agents that connect to Smithery-hosted servers:

Deploy on Smithery.ai →

Configure your Cozi credentials in the Smithery UI; each session runs in isolation with its own credential set.

3. npx (for power users)

Add this to your Claude Desktop claude_desktop_config.json (or any other MCP client config file):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cozi": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@mjucius/cozi-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "COZI_USERNAME": "you@example.com",
        "COZI_PASSWORD": "your-password",
        "COZI_READ_ONLY": "true"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires Node 20+. The package will be downloaded on first run.

Set COZI_READ_ONLY=true to expose only read operations. In read-only mode, the server registers family_members, get_lists, get_list_items, and get_calendar; tools that create, update, or delete Cozi data are hidden from MCP clients. Omit the variable, or set it to any value other than 1, true, yes, or on, for the default read-write tool surface.

Troubleshooting

Tools fail with "Authentication failed" even after I corrected my password

COZI_USERNAME and COZI_PASSWORD are read once, when the server process starts. Editing them in your MCP client's settings updates the stored config but does not reach a server that is already running — it keeps presenting the old credentials until it is respawned.

Fully quit and relaunch your MCP client (on macOS, Cmd-Q rather than closing the window). Reloading, reconnecting, or toggling the extension off and on is usually not enough.

How do I tell which version is actually running?

The running server advertises its version in the MCP handshake; your client displays it (Claude Desktop: Settings > Extensions). That is independent of what is in your working tree — installing an MCPB installs whatever is inside the .mcpb file, which is only as current as the last npm run bundle:mcpb. Build the bundle immediately before installing it, or install from a GitHub release.

Repeated failures start returning "Too many failed login attempts"

Five consecutive failed authentications for a username trigger an exponential backoff, capped at 15 minutes; the message states the remaining wait. The counter lives in process memory, so restarting the client clears it.

Trust and Security

Cozi has no OAuth — username/password authentication is the only way the API supports. This server handles that fact honestly:

• Per-user, by architecture. Each user runs their own instance against their own Cozi account. There is no shared backend, no proxy, no multi-tenant database. The author of this server never sees anyone's credentials or data.
• Credentials live only in your MCP client's secure config. Claude Desktop stores them in your OS keychain. Smithery encrypts them per-session. The npx path reads them from environment variables you set yourself. Nothing is logged, written to disk by this server, or sent anywhere except https://rest.cozi.com.
• API surface is constrained. This server only contacts rest.cozi.com for the same endpoints the Cozi web app uses (auth, lists, calendar, family members). The full request/response code lives in src/cozi/ — about 500 lines of TypeScript you can audit yourself.
• Open source, MIT licensed. Pin a specific version (@mjucius/cozi-mcp@2.0.0) if you want a stable target, or fork the repo and run your own build if you want zero supply-chain trust.

Security & trust model

This is a single-user server by design. The Cozi credential holder is the principal — there is no separate per-caller authentication gate, because each user runs their own instance against their own Cozi account. Concretely:

• stdio (npx / MCPB) trusts the local user. Whoever can launch the process and read the configured COZI_USERNAME / COZI_PASSWORD (or the OS keychain entry) is treated as the account owner. The trust boundary is your machine and its user account.
• The Smithery HTTP deployment trusts the session-config credentials as the principal. Whoever supplies valid Cozi credentials in the session config is the authenticated user for that session. There is no additional login layer.
• No multi-tenancy. Each user configures their own instance with their own Cozi account. There is no shared backend, no tenant isolation to breach, and no per-caller authentication beyond possession of valid Cozi credentials — which is the same access model as the Cozi web app itself.

Two defensive measures narrow the blast radius of that model:

• Time-bounded credential cache. Authenticated clients are cached only for a bounded lifetime, so a rotated or revoked Cozi password stops working rather than being honored indefinitely from a stale cached session.
• Failed-login rate limiting. Repeated failed authentication attempts are rate-limited to blunt credential-guessing against the Cozi endpoint.

Tools

The server exposes 12 tools by default, or 4 read-only tools when COZI_READ_ONLY=true (or Smithery/MCPB read-only config) is enabled. Returns are slim dicts with null/empty fields omitted.

Family

• family_members() → [{id, name, color?}] — call this first to get attendee IDs for appointments.

Lists

• get_lists(list_type?) → [{id, title, type, item_count, completed_count}] — list_type is optional, 'shopping' or 'todo'.
• get_list_items(list_id, include_completed=false) → [{id, text, status, position?}].
• create_list(name, list_type) → {id, title, type}.
• delete_list(list_id) → boolean.

create_list and delete_list are hidden in read-only mode.

Items

• add_item(list_id, text, position=0) → {id, text}.
• update_item(list_id, item_id, text?, completed?) → {id, text, status} — pass either or both. Non-atomic when both are passed: the text is updated first, then the status.
• remove_items(list_id, item_ids) → boolean.

All item tools are hidden in read-only mode.

Calendar

• get_calendar(year, month) → [{id, subject, day, all_day, start?, end?, end_day?, attendees?, location?, notes?}]. day is always the start day; end_day appears only on multi-day events, which Cozi lists in every month they overlap (so day may fall outside the month you asked for).
• create_appointment(subject, start, end, attendees?, all_day=false, notes='', location?) — start and end are ISO datetimes (e.g. '2026-06-15T10:00:00'). For all-day events (all_day=true) a bare date (e.g. '2026-06-15') is also accepted and end may equal start; a bare date on a timed event is an error. Put end on a later date for a multi-day event; the result reports the span as end_day. An end before start is an error.
• update_appointment(appointment_id, year, month, ...) — partial update via fetch-then-merge: pass (appointment_id, year, month) plus any fields to change. Omitted fields are preserved. To switch a timed appointment to all-day pass all_day=true; to switch to timed pass new start/end. Passing end re-spans the event against its (possibly newly set) start day, so an end on a later date makes it multi-day and one on the start day collapses it back; passing start alone moves the event and keeps its length. A bare date is accepted for start/end when the event is, or is being made, all-day; on a timed event it is an error.
• delete_appointment(appointment_id, year, month) → boolean.

create_appointment, update_appointment, and delete_appointment are hidden in read-only mode.

Workflow tip

When creating or updating appointments with specific attendees, call family_members() first and use those id values in the attendees arg. Calendar tools are scoped to a (year, month) page — pass the same year/month back when updating or deleting an appointment from that page.

Migration from v1 (Python)

v2.0 is a Node/TypeScript rewrite of the previous Python implementation, distributed as MCPB / npx / Smithery. The runtime changed AND the tool surface was consolidated — if you have prompts written against v1, update them as follows: