Does us-all/airflow-mcp-server work with Claude Desktop?

Yes. The server speaks MCP stdio by default and the README lists Claude Desktop as a compatible client.

What Airflow versions does us-all/airflow-mcp-server support?

Versions 0.2 and later target Airflow 3.0–3.2 through `/api/v2`. For Airflow 2.x, use `@us-all/airflow-mcp@0.1.0`.

How do I enable Airflow DAG triggering with us-all/airflow-mcp-server?

Set `AIRFLOW_ALLOW_WRITE=true`. This enables the trigger-DAG and clear-task operations; read operations are enabled by default.

Airflow MCP Server

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Connects MCP clients to Airflow 3.x for DAG inspection, health analysis, log tails, and gated run management.

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-all-airflow-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@us-all/airflow-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Overview

The us-all/airflow-mcp-server MCP server exposes Airflow 3.x’s REST API through MCP tools for browsing DAGs, inspecting runs and task instances, reading log tails, and summarizing DAG health. It authenticates with Airflow’s SimpleAuthManager by minting and refreshing JWT tokens from a username and password. Read operations are enabled by default, while triggering DAG runs and clearing tasks require an explicit write setting. Reach for it when an agent needs operational visibility into Airflow workflows or controlled run remediation from an MCP client.

Use cases

Inspect recent Airflow DAG failures

Review task logs and failing instances

Summarize DAG health across runs

Trigger or re-run tasks with write access enabled

Key features

Airflow 3.x REST API support

DAG, run, task, and log inspection

Aggregated DAG health rollups

JWT authentication with token refresh

Write-gated triggering and task clearing

MCP stdio and optional Streamable HTTP transport

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airflow-list-dags

List active DAGs with tag/search filters

airflow-list-runs

Recent runs of one DAG (state filter, ordered newest first)

airflow-get-task-instances

Task instances for a specific DAG run

airflow-get-task-logs

Tail (last N kB) of one task instance log

airflow-trigger-dag

Trigger a new run (write-gated)

airflow-clear-task

Clear specific task instances → re-run (write-gated)

How Airflow MCP Server works

What us-all/airflow-mcp-server does

The us-all/airflow-mcp-server MCP server connects an MCP client to the Airflow 3.x REST API at /api/v2. It provides tools for finding active DAGs, reviewing recent runs, inspecting task instances, and retrieving the end of a task log. A health rollup combines operational signals into a DAG-level view with success rate, average duration, the most recent failed run, and failing tasks.

The server also includes two workflow prompts. dag-failure-triage gathers run and task information, retrieves relevant logs, and proposes remediation for a failed DAG. dag-schedule-audit checks DAGs for low success rates and stuck runs. The search-tools meta tool supports natural-language discovery of available tools.

How it works

At startup, the server receives an Airflow host base URL and adds /api/v2 internally. If the supplied URL ends in /api/v1 or /api/v2, that suffix is removed first. Authentication uses Airflow SimpleAuthManager: the server sends the configured credentials to /auth/token, caches the resulting JWT for the session, and refreshes it one minute before expiration.

The us-all/airflow-mcp-server MCP server uses MCP stdio by default, so it can be configured in local clients such as Claude Desktop and Cursor. Setting MCP_TRANSPORT=http switches to Streamable HTTP transport, which provides Bearer authentication and a /health endpoint.

Setup and configuration

Install the npm package as a development dependency with pnpm, or run the published package directly with npx. The server requires AIRFLOW_API_URL, AIRFLOW_USERNAME, and AIRFLOW_PASSWORD. The URL should identify the Airflow host rather than include an API path.

Set AIRFLOW_ALLOW_WRITE=true only when the client should be able to use airflow-trigger-dag and airflow-clear-task. Without that setting, the server remains read-only for those operations. AIRFLOW_TOOLS and AIRFLOW_DISABLE are available for category-level tool toggles.

Tools and capabilities

List active DAGs with tag and search filters.
Retrieve recent runs for a selected DAG, optionally filtered by state and ordered newest first.
Inspect task instances for a specific DAG run.
Read the last N kilobytes of a task instance log.
Trigger a DAG run or clear selected task instances when writes are enabled.
Produce an aggregated health report for a DAG.

Limitations and notes

The us-all/airflow-mcp-server MCP server targets Airflow 3.0–3.2 and the /api/v2 API; the README reports verification against Airflow 3.2.1. Version 0.2 and later do not support Airflow 2.x deployments because the required basic-auth and /api/v1 behavior was removed. Airflow 2.x users should use @us-all/airflow-mcp@0.1.0 instead.

This package does not provide the deeper dbt artifact, lineage, source-freshness, or data-quality capabilities described for the companion @us-all/dbt-mcp server. The HTTP transport is opt-in; stdio is the default transport.

Getting started with this us-all/airflow-mcp-server MCP server

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