Afi MCP

Afi + 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 Afi API. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Afi.

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The first CLI for Afi SaaS backup - full public-API coverage plus the fleet-wide coverage, staleness, and offboarding answers the rate-limited API can't serve live. 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

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

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

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 afi-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 AFI_CLI_PATH to an existing binary). Details: #331.

Download Afi MCP (.mcpb) - then open Claude Desktop > Settings > Extensions and select the file. One click, no JSON, no shell. (Browse every Afi 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 afi@msp-skills

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

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

Install the Afi 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/afi/install.sh). If it uses Windows PowerShell, run iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/afi/install.ps1 | iex. Then authenticate per the README and run afi-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/afi/install.ps1 | iex

macOS / Linux:

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

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

Verify:

afi-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/afi/install.sh)

Windows (PowerShell):

iwr -useb https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Servosity/msp-skills/main/skills/afi/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 afi@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/afi --force

Inside a Hermes chat session:

/skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/afi --force

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

Install for OpenClaw

Tell your OpenClaw agent (copy this):

Install the afi skill from https://github.com/servosity/msp-skills/tree/main/skills/afi. The skill defines how its required CLI (afi-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 Afi portal):

AFI_API_KEY=<value> afi-cli doctor

PowerShell:

$env:AFI_API_KEY = "<value>"; afi-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 Afi 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 mailboxes across all 47 client tenants have no backup policy attached?" - and Afi's public API throttles you for polling.

This skill syncs Afi into a local SQLite mirror with full-text search. Aggregate questions become one local SQL join: instant, offline, and the AI sees the answer, not the raw data. Compound commands like coverage-gaps, backup-stale, and reconcile-licenses join resources against protections, archives, and purchased subscriptions across every tenant at once - work a stateless API wrapper can't do.

The pain this closes

SaaS backup has a quiet failure mode MSP owners raise again and again on r/msp: the backup you think is running isn't. A mailbox or site gets created in Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, the onboarding ticket closes, and nobody confirms a backup policy was ever attached - or a policy is attached but the nightly archive quietly stops landing, and the portal still shows it "protected." The gap stays invisible until a client asks for a restore and the data was never there. The recurring refrain: "how do you actually verify your M365 backups are running across every client?" Afi has the data, but only one tenant at a time, through a portal that forces a per-client walk, behind an API the vendor asks you not to poll.

This skill closes that gap from the local mirror:

• afi-cli coverage-gaps --agent - every resource with no backup protection, fleet-wide. The blind spots, named.
• afi-cli backup-stale --agent - protected resources with no archive at all, or in a tenant where no backup task finished in the synced window: the silent-failure class.
• afi-cli fleet-health --failed-only --agent - the Monday "is the fleet green" sweep in one table.
• afi-cli reconcile-licenses --agent - seats purchased vs seats actually protected.
• afi-cli offboard <resource-id> --tenant <tenant-id> --reason "employee departure" - a guarded archive-then-release that refuses to drop protection until a fresh backup is verified.

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 afi-mcp runs, and shares MCP configuration with Codex (OpenAI): add afi-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 (HTTP) server, which msp-skills does not support yet (see mcp-install.md). If your team works there, a hosted gateway is the better pick; check that your AI app is on the gateway's setup list.

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 Afi credentials once.

Is my Afi 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, or from credentials.toml (mode 0600) if you run auth set-token; never bundled into this repo or transmitted anywhere by MSP Skills, and the key goes only to the Afi API host.

Will this trip Afi's API rate limits?

Not if you use it as designed. Afi throttles - and may suspend - applications that poll continuously, so this skill walks the fleet into a local store in one respectful, rate-limited pass (afi-cli fleet-sync), then answers every question offline against that store. You sync on a schedule, not on every question.

Do I need to be an Afi customer, and what access does the key need?

Yes - you need an Afi account and an Application API key, created in the Afi portal (org level under Configuration > Apps, or tenant level under Service > Settings > Apps). The key inherits the Application's installation scope, so the CLI sees exactly the orgs and tenants that Application is installed on. Each Application supports two keys for rotation.

Will this replace the Afi portal?

No. Restores, exports, and policy editing still happen in the Afi portal - the public API doesn't expose them. This skill is the read, report, and guarded-offboard layer: it answers fleet-wide questions and runs the verified archive-then-release, then hands you back to the portal for the actions only it can do.

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 Afi 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

Beta. Validated against the Afi API surface and being validated with MSPs running it live against their own production tenant 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: 2026-06-07.