Ckan MCP Server

Turn any (CKAN) open data portal into a conversation. Give your AI assistant direct access to any CKAN open data portal - search datasets, explore organizations, query tabular data, and read metadata, all through natural language. Its 20 documented tools cover ckan, organization, group, datastore. It runs locally over stdio via the published package.

People who work with ckan, organization and group and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in TypeScript.

VERIFIED ACTIVE

LAST COMMIT 2026-09-18 · ★ 57 · #9 OF 153 MAINTAINED CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE · VERIFIED 2026-09-18

MIT · TypeScript servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Ckan MCP Server

before you install - you'll need

CKAN_ALLOWED_DOMAINS is optional or environment-specific per the README.

Claude Code

claude mcp add ondata-ckan-mcp-server -- npx -y @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ondata-ckan-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@aborruso/ckan-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

license MIT - declared in the repository

npm package @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server - the @aborruso scope differs from the repo owner (ondata); confirm it's the project's official package

registry registry publisher io.github.aborruso is not the repo owner (ondata) - the registry entry was published by someone else

03 · What Ckan MCP Server can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

What you can build

With this server connected, an agent can search datasets with Solr queries, list tags with counts, list all organizations, and search organizations by name.

Capability map

Tools grouped from the project's README - what Ckan MCP Server lets an agent do.

Ckan

18 tools - e.g. Search datasets with Solr queries; Rank datasets by relevance score; Complete details of a dataset

ckan_package_search · ckan_find_relevant_datasets · ckan_package_show · ckan_tag_list · ckan_organization_list · ckan_organization_show…

Sparql

1 tool - e.g. Execute SPARQL SELECT queries against any public SPARQL endpoint

sparql_query

Data Store

1 tool - e.g. Data Store

DataStore

Latest releases

v0.4.124 · 2026-09-06

What changes for you · Asking for a place now gets you that place · Ask a CKAN portal for "the defibrillators of the Comune di Lecce" and until this release you got defibrillators from Mussolente, from Desio, from…

v0.4.123 · 2026-09-05

What's New · v0.4.122 restored search recall on CKAN portals. That exposed defects in the local ranking, which had been invisible while a search returned a handful of results: defibrillatori Comune di Lecce used to…

v0.4.122 · 2026-09-05

What's New · Fixes · Search on CKAN portals was losing results, sometimes all of them. package_search hands a colon-free query to Solr's dismax parser with q.op=AND, mm='2<-1 5<80%' and qf='name^4 title^4 tags^2…

04 · Who maintains Ckan MCP Server

ckan-mcp-server is maintained by ondata. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Jan 2026.

05 · Facts

repository: github.com/ondata/ckan-mcp-server
category: cloud infrastructure - ranked #9 of 153 actively-maintained cloud infrastructure servers as of 2026-09-18.
release cadence: 10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-06)
registry: io.github.aborruso/ckan-mcp-server (active, first published 2026-03-12 · 12 versions)
packages: npm:@aborruso/ckan-mcp-server

06 · Ckan MCP Server FAQ

Is Ckan MCP Server still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-18, its last commit was 2026-09-18 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

What can Ckan MCP Server do?

With this server connected, an agent can search datasets with Solr queries, list tags with counts, list all organizations, and search organizations by name.

How do I install Ckan MCP Server?

Run `npx -y @aborruso/ckan-mcp-server`. The README documents one environment variable (CKAN_ALLOWED_DOMAINS) to set first. CKAN_ALLOWED_DOMAINS is optional or environment-specific per the README. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Ckan MCP Server run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via npx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Ckan MCP Server

Alternatives to Ckan MCP Server

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Pairs well with

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