Nerdio Manager MCP

Nerdio Manager + 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 Nerdio Manager API. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Nerdio, Inc.

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The first non-PowerShell client for the Nerdio Manager for MSP API - cross-account AVD fleet audits, async-job plumbing, and offline search no other Nerdio tool has. 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 nerdio-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.

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 nerdio-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 NERDIO_CLI_PATH to an existing binary). Details: #331.

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

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

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

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

macOS / Linux:

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

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

Verify:

nerdio-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/nerdio/install.sh)

Windows (PowerShell):

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

Inside a Hermes chat session:

/skills install servosity/msp-skills/skills/nerdio --force

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

Install for OpenClaw

Tell your OpenClaw agent (copy this):

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

NERDIO_BASE_URL=<value> NERDIO_TOKEN_URL=<value> NERDIO_CLIENT_ID=<value> NERDIO_CLIENT_SECRET=<value> NERDIO_OAUTH_SCOPE=<value> nerdio-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 Nerdio Manager 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 host pools across all 40 of my customers have autoscale turned off this quarter" - because the NMM API only returns one account, or one billing period, per call.

This skill syncs Nerdio Manager 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 fleet autoscale-audit, fleet billing-rollup, and usages drift join across customer accounts, host pools, invoices, and usage windows - work a stateless API wrapper can't do. And because every NMM change is async, job wait turns "did it finish?" into a scriptable primitive that exits non-zero when the job actually failed.

The pain this closes

On r/msp, the recurring Nerdio refrain is that autoscale is the whole reason to buy it - and the hardest thing to keep honest across a fleet. There's no single view of which host pools, in which customer tenants, actually have scaling enabled, so idle session hosts quietly bleed Azure spend until the invoice lands. Every NMM install is per-tenant, so even "how many hosts are running right now across all clients" means logging into each portal one at a time. And because every change is async, the portal makes you babysit the Jobs page to know whether anything finished.

This skill answers those at the fleet level:

• nerdio-cli fleet autoscale-audit - every pool across every account whose autoscale is off or drifting from your baseline.
• nerdio-cli fleet host-estate - one table of every session host, its pool, account, and power state.
• nerdio-cli fleet billing-rollup --period <start>:<end> - per-customer billed, unpaid, and usage totals, PSA-reconciliation-ready.
• nerdio-cli usages drift --from <start>:<end> --to <start>:<end> - which customers' consumption spiked month-over-month.
• nerdio-cli job wait <job_id> - poll any NMM job to a terminal state and exit non-zero if it failed.

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 nerdio-mcp runs, and shares MCP configuration with Codex (OpenAI): add nerdio-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, and this connector's HTTP mode is paused until it is reprinted; the security note in mcp-install.md explains why. 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 Nerdio Manager credentials once.

Is my Nerdio Manager 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.

Do I need to be a Nerdio partner, or run Nerdio Manager for MSP (NMM)?

Yes - this targets the NMM Partner REST API, which is the MSP edition (not Nerdio Manager for Enterprise). You create an API client in your own NMM portal under Settings > Integrations > REST API. There is no vendor-global endpoint; the CLI talks to your own instance URL, which you set as NERDIO_BASE_URL.

Will this replace the Nerdio Manager portal?

No. It's a read-first, cross-account companion. Day-to-day operating still happens in NMM; this is for the fleet-wide questions and scripted automation the portal makes tedious.

Why does a change only return a job ID?

Every NMM mutation (provisioning, scripted actions, backup, host power) is async and returns a job ID. Run nerdio-cli job wait <job_id> to poll it to a terminal state and exit non-zero if it failed - so your agent never reports "done" on a job that actually errored.

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 Nerdio Manager 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 Nerdio Manager 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.