Acronis MCP

Acronis + AI - for Claude, the ChatGPT desktop app, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, and any agent that speaks MCP

Unofficial. Community-built Claude Code Skill and MCP server for the Acronis API. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Acronis International GmbH.

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The first real CLI for the Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud platform - every tenant, agent, and usage metric mirrored locally, with cross-tenant rollups no single API call returns. Works with the AI you already use - ChatGPT (desktop app), Claude Desktop, Codex, Claude Code, Claude Cowork, and GitHub Copilot - plus Gemini CLI. Free, open source, runs on your laptop. Built for MSP owners. No code required.

Works with your agent

Security note. Local agents use the default stdio transport and need no network listener. HTTP mode (--transport http, for remote agents) refuses to start until ACRONIS_MCP_HTTP_TOKEN is set, rejects any request without that bearer token, serves http://127.0.0.1:7777/mcp by default, and needs --tls-cert and --tls-key for any other address. It refuses a request body over 4 MiB or one that takes longer than 30 seconds to arrive. Whoever holds the token can call every tool with your Acronis credentials. Endpoint tools that delete or replace (DELETE, PUT) carry the MCP destructiveHint annotation, and those that create or trigger (POST) are marked not read-only; the server asks for no confirmation on either, so that step is your MCP host's. Set ACRONIS_MCP_READ_ONLY=1 on any host that only needs to read: it removes every tool not marked read-only. See mcp-install.md.

The six agents MSP owners actually use (self-serve, works today):

The ChatGPT desktop app runs acronis-mcp locally and shares MCP configuration with Codex (OpenAI). ChatGPT on the web needs a remote server, which msp-skills does not support yet. If your team works there, a hosted gateway is the better pick; check that your AI app is on the gateway's setup list. Setup steps: mcp-install.md.

Also for the Microsoft and Google stacks

Big install base, but an honest heads-up: Gemini CLI runs the local binary you just installed, while Microsoft 365 Copilot and the Gemini app need a remote server, which msp-skills does not support yet.

Skill-native agents (also covered): Hermes and OpenClaw read this skill's SKILL.md directly and speak MCP - see their install sections below. Also works with Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Continue.dev, and Zed via MCP. Full per-tool wire-up: docs/which-agent.md.

Run more than one agent? Install across all 51+ supported agents in one command: npx skills add Servosity/msp-skills@latest (requires Node.js, then run the per-skill installer for the CLI/MCP binaries). See docs/which-agent.md.

Install in 60 seconds

Fastest for Claude Desktop - one-click .mcpb

Claude Desktop bundle: the .mcpb launches on macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), Windows x64 and Linux x64. Every tool shells out to the companion acronis-cli. Releases cut from 2026-09-18 on ship that CLI inside the bundle; older bundles contain only the MCP server, so if yours lacks the companion, run the Path A or Path B installer below first (or set ACRONIS_CLI_PATH to an existing binary). Details: #331.

Download Acronis MCP (.mcpb) - then open Claude Desktop > Settings > Extensions and select the file. One click, no JSON, no shell. (Browse every Acronis release on the releases page.)

Prefer the Claude Code plugin? Add the marketplace once, then install - works immediately, no directory listing required:

/plugin marketplace add Servosity/msp-skills/plugin install acronis@msp-skills

Path A - paste one prompt into your AI agent (recommended)

Copy this into Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Claude Cowork:

Install the Acronis Skill and MCP server from Servosity/msp-skills in this agent workspace. If this workspace uses a POSIX shell (macOS, Linux, WSL, or Bash), run bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.sh). If it uses Windows PowerShell, run iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.ps1 | iex. Then authenticate per the README and run acronis-cli --help to explore.

The same prompt works in any agent that can run shell.

Path B - run the installer yourself

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.ps1 | iex

macOS / Linux:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.sh)

The installer drops both acronis-cli (the CLI) and acronis-mcp (the MCP server) into your user bin path. Claude Code, Codex, and Cowork discover the Skill via SKILL.md in this directory.

Verify:

acronis-cli --version

Upgrade to the latest version

The installer always fetches the current release - re-run it to upgrade:

macOS / Linux:

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.sh)

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/acronis/install.ps1 | iex

Claude Desktop .mcpb users: download the latest .mcpb (top of this section) and re-select it in Settings > Extensions. Claude Code plugin users: /plugin update acronis@msp-skills.

Add to Claude Desktop, the ChatGPT desktop app, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, or another MCP client

After the installer runs, see mcp-install.md and docs/which-agent.md for the per-agent wire-up - one section per agent, including the GitHub Copilot servers key and the ChatGPT desktop app. Claude Desktop's Settings > Extensions panel is the simplest path; the MCP config block (for users who prefer editing JSON) is documented in mcp-install.md.

Install for Hermes

From the Hermes CLI:

hermes skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/acronis --force

Inside a Hermes chat session:

/skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/acronis --force

Hermes speaks MCP natively, so it can also use the acronis-mcp server directly - same install path, same env vars.

Install for OpenClaw

Tell your OpenClaw agent (copy this):

Install the acronis skill from https://github.com/servosity/msp-skills/tree/main/skills/acronis. The skill defines how its required CLI (acronis-cli) can be installed via the openclaw: frontmatter block.

OpenClaw isn't generally available yet; the frontmatter wiring is pre-shipped and will activate the moment OpenClaw launches.

Authenticate

Set the credentials the CLI needs (from your Acronis portal):

ACRONIS_BEARER_AUTH=<value> ACRONIS_DATACENTER=<value> acronis-cli doctor

doctor confirms the credentials work before you run anything that touches data. It exits 0 even when the credential is rejected, so scripts should add --fail-on error.

What this skill does

Full command reference: guide.md. For the AI-agent operating contract (--agent, --dry-run, when to confirm before mutating), see AGENTS.md.

What makes this different

Most Acronis integrations and MCP servers proxy each question into a live API call. That's fine for one record. It dies at scale, when you're asking which of your 40-plus customer tenants had a failed backup last night and which agents have silently gone offline - one paginated API call per tenant, behind token exchange and the datacenter-host dance.

This skill syncs Acronis into a local SQLite mirror with full-text search - the exact local-store approach Acronis's own developer monitoring guide tells MSPs to build. Aggregate questions become one local SQL join: instant, offline, and the AI sees the answer, not the raw data. Compound commands like health, coverage --unprotected, and customer join across tenants, agents, backup tasks, usage, and offering items - work a stateless API wrapper can't do.

The pain this closes

Backup verification is the one job an MSP can never let slide, and Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud makes it a per-tenant chore. Acronis's own Management Portal Administrator Guide is explicit that partner-level dashboards and reports work only inside one partner tenant - so whose backups failed last night has no single cross-customer view. You drill into each tenant, or you export and stitch in Excel. The failure mode that hurts most is the quiet one: a backup agent that silently stops checking in is the most common way protection lapses without anyone noticing, and it only surfaces when a customer asks for a restore that isn't there. It's the daily slog MSPs describe on r/msp whenever backup monitoring comes up.

After one sync, the cross-tenant questions become one offline query:

• acronis-cli health - backup success / failure / stale across your whole book of customers in one table.
• acronis-cli agents stale --older-than 7d - every silently offline agent, across all tenants, sorted by customer.
• acronis-cli freshness --sla 48h --breached - customers who have gone too long without a good backup.
• acronis-cli coverage --unprotected - tenants billed for protection that isn't actually running.
• acronis-cli reconcile usages - usage with no SKU and paid SKUs with zero usage, so invoices match reality.

See pain-point.md for the longer narrative.

Frequently asked questions

Does this work with ChatGPT?

Yes, in the ChatGPT desktop app. It runs MCP servers locally (STDIO), the way acronis-mcp runs, and shares MCP configuration with Codex (OpenAI): add acronis-mcp under Settings > MCP servers as a STDIO server, or add it once to Codex's ~/.codex/config.toml. ChatGPT on the web is not supported by msp-skills yet: it needs a remote server. If your team works there, a hosted gateway is the better pick; check that your AI app is on the gateway's setup list. Setup steps: mcp-install.md.

Does this work with Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Copilot, or Gemini?

Yes - all of them speak MCP. Cross-tool install commands are in the matrix above and the deep-dive in docs/which-agent.md.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. The recommended install is to paste one sentence into Claude Code or Codex - your agent reads SKILL.md and does the install. The fallback is a one-line installer per OS (bash or PowerShell). Neither path requires writing code. You'll enter your Acronis credentials once.

Is my Acronis data safe?

Your data stays on your machine. The CLI and MCP server are local binaries. The SQLite mirror sits in a directory under your user account. The AI agent only sees what the CLI returns - typically a query result, not raw bulk data. Credentials are read from your environment or your agent's config; never bundled into this repo or transmitted anywhere by MSP Skills.

Will this hit my Acronis API rate limits?

The local mirror exists so reads stop hitting the API. After the first sync, the cross-tenant views (health, coverage, freshness, agents stale, reconcile usages) run against local SQLite with zero API calls. Live calls respect a --rate-limit throttle. Each sync re-reads every resource it mirrors, so schedule it rather than running it before every question.

Do I need to be an Acronis partner?

Yes. You authenticate with an API client created in your own Acronis Management Portal (an OAuth2 client, or a bearer token), so you need partner or admin access to the tenants you want to reach. The CLI can only see what that API client is scoped to.

Which datacenter does it point at?

Whichever hosts your Acronis account. Set ACRONIS_DATACENTER (for example us-cloud or eu2-cloud), or pass --datacenter on acronis-cli auth login. The CLI builds the correct regional API host from it, so you never hand-assemble the datacenter URL.

Will this replace the Acronis console?

No. The console stays best for configuring protection plans and running restores. This skill adds the cross-tenant reporting layer the partner dashboards don't - one place to ask whose backups failed, which agents are offline, and where billing and protection diverge.

What does it cost?

Free. Apache-2.0 licensed. You pay only for whichever AI agent you use (Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, etc.), and that's billed by your AI provider, not by us.

Safety model

The strongest control is the scope you grant the Acronis credentials - the CLI can only do what the credentials are permitted to do. Full details, including how to lock it down, are in governance.md.

Status

Live-verified. Confirmed by @asterisk79 (MSP) against their own multi-tenant partner account (#325). More MSPs run it live in our weekly Build Sessions. RSVP at compoundingteams.com/build-sessions.

Standards. Conforms to the open Agent Skills spec (Anthropic, Dec 2025; 40+ agents). MCP-compatible - works with any MCP-capable agent including Hermes. OpenClaw-ready (frontmatter pre-wired, awaiting OpenClaw launch).

Maintained by Servosity. Apache-2.0 licensed. Built with CLI Printing Press. Last updated: 2026-06-06.

Partner sync and completeness

Run acronis-cli sync --full before relying on fleet rollups. Sync resolves the API client's root tenant and fetches its tenant hierarchy, agents, tasks, activities, and each tenant's users, usages, and offering items across all editions.

Any failed, denied, malformed, or truncated resource makes sync exit non-zero. health, freshness, coverage, tree, and other local rollups refuse an incomplete mirror. Old databases require a successful full sync with this version. Scoped syncs, --since, and --latest-only leave the mirror marked partial; use raw search or sql to inspect those records. Runs enumerate from the first page; an old checkpoint cannot certify a complete mirror. An unfiltered sync replaces the prior mirror, removing records deleted at the vendor. If the refresh fails, the mirror stays incomplete until a successful retry.

The existing --tenant-id flag on task lists filters an exact tenant UUID locally after all pages have been fetched. It does not filter by a tenant subtree and cannot be combined with --after or --data-source local; use live enumeration for an exact tenant filter. Task filters use the vendor's camelCase wire names. Use --order 'desc(startedAt)'; the older startedAt desc spelling is translated too. Direct MCP task tools use the same handling and paginate before applying the tenant filter.

remote-search --query Customer uses the authenticated root tenant by default; --tenant-id supplies another accessible subtree. Search needs at least three characters and a limit of 1 to 300. This API has no pagination: --all does not extend the search beyond that limit.

auth login --datacenter eu8-cloud now saves the selected API URL when the config contains the shipped placeholder or a standard Acronis regional host. An explicit custom base URL or ACRONIS_BASE_URL override is preserved. HTTP 400 validation errors no longer suggest replacing working credentials.

Some Agent API versions return numeric tenant IDs while Account Management uses UUIDs. If those identities cannot be joined, rollups report the unmatched agents instead of claiming zero agents. The partner's live re-test remains necessary.

API contracts: task pagination, task filters, account API, agent API.

Syncs sharing a database run one at a time. After a process crash, a stale <database>.sync.lock may remain. Verify that no sync is running before removing that lock and retrying the full sync.