Kilo IoT MCP Server
Connect an AI client to a live IoT deployment and let it work the real thing: read devices, provisionhardware, deploy automation rules, work the alarm queue, and send commands to physical equipment.
The server is hosted by Kilo IoT — there is nothing to install and no API key tomint. You sign in with your usual Kilo account in the browser, and the connection carries your ownpermissions.
https://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/mcp
This repository holds the public metadata for that server: its registry manifest, its icon, and thesetup instructions below. The service itself is closed-source.
What is the Model Context Protocol?
MCP is an open standard that lets an AI client discover and calltools on a remote server. Because it is a standard rather than a per-vendor integration, any MCPclient can connect — Claude Code, Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor and others — over StreamableHTTP.
What can an AI agent do with the Kilo MCP server?
| Area | What the connected client can do |
|---|---|
| Devices | List and inspect devices, read telemetry and diagnostics, provision LoRaWAN devices, MQTT devices and GPS trackers, manage device profiles |
| Commands | List the commands a device supports, send one, and check how it completed — this is where the assistant acts on physical equipment |
| Connectors | Review connectors, create connections for a device to report through |
| Rules | Review rules, generate and deploy automation, simulate logic against real sensor values before it reaches production, stop a running rule, read execution history |
| Alarms | List and resolve alarms, summarize activity for a shift or a site, manage alarm rules and notification channels, send a test notification |
| Dashboards | List dashboards and query the data behind any widget |
| Sensors | Inspect and change sensor mappings, manage sensor templates |
| Organization | Read organization details, list teams, invite users, assign roles |
Every tool is annotated, so a client knows which ones only read and which ones change something.Read-only tools run without interrupting you; anything destructive asks first.
How do I connect Claude Code to Kilo?
claude mcp add --transport http kilo https://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/mcp
Then run /mcp inside Claude Code, pick kilo, and authorize in the browser window that opens. Run/mcp again to confirm it reports connected.
How do I connect Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex?
Clients with a connector dialog — Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor — take the URL directly: openSettings → Connectors (or Integrations / MCP servers), choose Add custom connector, pastehttps://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/mcp, and authorize in the browser.
Clients configured from a file or a terminal, such as Codex, register the same URL as a StreamableHTTP server. Your client's own documentation says where its MCP settings live; nothing about thisendpoint is client-specific.
Which organization does the connection see?
By default, whichever organization is currently selected in the Kilo web app. Switch organizationsthere and reconnect the client to follow it.
To pin a client to one organization regardless of what is selected in the web app:
https://mcp-auth.kiloiot.io/o/{organizationId}/mcp
The organization ID comes from the web app. Pinning is worth doing for a workstation that must alwaysoperate against one production organization — and it cannot be moved by a stray click in theorganization switcher. Requests for an organization you are not a member of are refused.
Is it safe to give an AI agent access to my IoT devices?
- You sign in, not a service account. Authorization happens in your browser against your normalKilo account. No key is generated, copied or stored for the connection.
- Your permissions are the ceiling. The client can only do what your account can do. If you cannotdeploy a rule or invite a user, neither can it.
- Organization boundaries hold, on the default endpoint and the pinned one alike.
- Actions keep their normal records. Rule changes and executions appear in rule history, devicecommands in command execution history, and access changes in the Audit Trail.
Treat an authorized client like a signed-in session: it belongs on machines you control.
MCP server vs REST API — which should I use?
The Public REST API is for programs you write: a syncjob, a reporting pipeline, a bridge to another system. It authenticates with a scoped API key thatruns unattended. MCP is for an AI client acting on your behalf, authorized by your own sign-in. If youare writing code, use REST. If you are working with an assistant, use MCP.
Links
- Platform: kiloiot.io · Kilo IoT Server
- Documentation: docs.kiloiot.io — MCP Server
- Support: kiloiot.io/contact
- Privacy policy: kiloiot.io/privacy-policy · Terms: kiloiot.io/terms-of-service
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