Authentik MCP Server: Give AI Agents Access to Your Identity Provider, Users, and Auth Flows

Why Give AI Access to Authentik?

Authentik is the self-hosted identity provider that handles SSO, OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, and SCIM for all your applications. It provides a unified authentication layer with customizable flows, user management, and detailed audit logs.

But when you're coding in Claude or Cursor, your AI assistant can't see your Authentik instance. It can't check which users are active, verify provider configurations, or review authentication flow logic. You keep switching to the Authentik admin panel.

With DataFaucet, you browse your Authentik admin interface once and it captures the API calls as MCP tools. Now your AI coding assistant can check user sessions, review provider configs, and monitor auth events directly.

What AI Agents Can Do With Authentik Access

Once DataFaucet creates an MCP server from your Authentik session, AI agents can:

• List users and groups with last login dates and status
• Check active sessions across all applications
• Review authentication flows with their stages and policies
• Monitor providers (OAuth2, SAML, LDAP, proxy) and their configurations
• View audit events for login failures and suspicious activity
• Check application assignments and access permissions
• Browse outpost status for proxy and LDAP deployments

Setting Up Authentik as an MCP Server with DataFaucet

Step 1: Browse Your Authentik Admin Panel

Open your Authentik admin interface and navigate through Users, Groups, Applications, Providers, Flows, and System sections.

Step 2: DataFaucet Captures the API

DataFaucet's browser extension records the API calls your browser makes to Authentik. Each call becomes a callable MCP tool with parameters and response types.

Step 3: Connect to Your AI Client

Add the generated MCP server to Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf. Your AI assistant can now query your identity provider whenever it needs context.

Example: AI Checks Active Sessions

User: How many active sessions are there on Authentik right now?

AI (via DataFaucet MCP): 24 active sessions across 8 applications:
- Nextcloud: 12 sessions (most active)
- Grafana: 5 sessions
- Gitea: 4 sessions
- Jellyfin: 3 sessions
- Last failed login: 2 hours ago (unknown user, IP: 203.0.113.42)

Example: AI Reviews Provider Config

User: What OAuth2 providers are configured in Authentik?

AI (via DataFaucet MCP): 6 OAuth2/OIDC providers:
- nextcloud-oauth (Nextcloud, authorization code flow)
- grafana-oauth (Grafana, authorization code flow)
- portainer-oauth (Portainer, authorization code flow)
- gitea-oauth (Gitea, authorization code flow)
- immich-oauth (Immich, authorization code flow)
- jellyfin-oauth (Jellyfin, implicit flow — consider upgrading to auth code)

Why Not Just Use the Authentik API Directly?

Authentik has a comprehensive REST API with full OpenAPI documentation, but building a dedicated MCP server means writing dozens of endpoint wrappers, handling token refresh, managing pagination, and keeping up with API changes across versions.

DataFaucet skips all of that. It watches what your browser does on the admin panel and replicates those exact calls as structured MCP tools. If Authentik updates its admin interface, you just re-capture.

Works With Any MCP Client

The Authentik MCP server created by DataFaucet works with:

• Claude Desktop and Claude Code
• Cursor (AI-powered editor)
• Windsurf (Codeium's IDE)
• Any MCP-compatible client

Your AI gets real-time data from your Authentik instance regardless of which tool you use.

Get Started

Create your Authentik MCP server with DataFaucet — browse your Authentik admin panel once, get AI access to your identity infrastructure in under two minutes.