Is Pi Zai Mcp safe to use?

Pi Zai Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Pi Zai Mcp?

Pi Zai Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Pi Zai Mcp?

Pi Zai Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Pi Zai Mcp actively maintained?

Pi Zai Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 11 GitHub stars.

Pi Zai Mcp

Name: Pi Zai Mcp
Author: fitchmultz

export · by fitchmultz

Z.ai MCP server bridge for pi with web search, reader, zread, and vision tools.

11 611/wk GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 2d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pi-zai-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "export"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Pi Zai Mcp does

Give pi agents Z.ai-powered web search, URL reading, repository reading, and vision tools through MCP without leaving a pi session. This is an unofficial community package, not an official Z.ai package.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Pi Zai Mcp safe to use?: Pi Zai Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Pi Zai Mcp?: Pi Zai Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Pi Zai Mcp?: Pi Zai Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Pi Zai Mcp actively maintained?: Pi Zai Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 11 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pi-zai-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "export"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Pi Zai Mcp does

Test This Server

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npx -y 'export' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

pi-zai-mcp

This package focuses on Z.AI MCP servers. GLM-5.2 model access is already covered by pi's built-in zai provider (ZAI_API_KEY) and the OpenAI-compatible Z.AI API; this package adds the external MCP context/tools that Z.AI documents for coding agents.

What you get

pi-zai-mcp registers up to four curated pi tools, one per Z.AI MCP server. Each server has its own package extension file, so pi config can enable or disable them independently:

z_ai_search — search the live web with Z.AI Web Search MCP.
z_ai_reader — read URLs and convert pages to model-friendly Markdown/text with Z.AI Web Reader MCP.
z_ai_zread — inspect public GitHub repositories through Zread search, file reading, and directory-structure actions.
z_ai_vision — analyze images and videos through Z.AI vision actions for UI screenshots, OCR, error screenshots, diagrams, charts, UI diffs, general image understanding, and video understanding.

Z.AI also documents Slide/Poster, Translation, and Video Effect Template agents as API agents, not MCP servers. They are not registered as MCP tools by this package unless Z.AI publishes MCP endpoints for them.

Z.AI MCP coverage

Reviewed Z.AI docs on 2026-06-05:

GLM-5.2 supports text input/output, 200K context, 128K max output, thinking mode, streaming, function calling, context caching, structured output, and MCP integration.
Web Search MCP documents web search with query, domain filter, recency filter, content size, and location options. The current remote MCP tool is web_search_prime.
Web Reader MCP documents URL reading with timeout, cache, Markdown/text, image retention, GFM, image data URL, image summary, and link summary options. The current remote MCP tool is webReader.
Zread MCP documents search_doc, read_file, and get_repo_structure for public GitHub repository search, file reading, and structure inspection.
Vision MCP documents UI artifact generation, screenshot OCR, error screenshot diagnosis, technical diagram understanding, data visualization analysis, UI diff checking, image analysis, and video analysis. The current npm package (@z_ai/mcp-server@0.1.4) exposes the image/video actions as analyze_image and analyze_video.

The pi-facing API is intentionally smaller than the upstream MCP tool list. Upstream MCP names are implementation details; agents see four stable tools with clear arguments.

Install

Install from npm:

pi install npm:pi-zai-mcp

Install from GitHub:

pi install https://github.com/fitchmultz/pi-zai-mcp

Compatibility note: this release is tested against pi 0.80.2, which is the suggested minimum baseline for this package version. Pi-bundled runtime packages are declared as optional wildcard peers, so npm peer ranges do not hard-block users from trying newer pi releases; runtime behavior is only verified against the tested baseline until a follow-up package release confirms it.

Try it without installing permanently:

export Z_AI_API_KEY="your_z_ai_api_key"
pi -e npm:pi-zai-mcp

Run from a local clone:

git clone https://github.com/fitchmultz/pi-zai-mcp.git
cd pi-zai-mcp
npm install
export Z_AI_API_KEY="your_z_ai_api_key"
pi -e .

Configure

Variable	Required	Default	Purpose
`Z_AI_API_KEY` / `ZAI_API_KEY`	Yes*	none	Z.ai API key used for HTTP MCP Bearer auth and the vision stdio server. Env vars take precedence over pi's stored `zai` provider key.
`Z_AI_MCP_SERVERS`	No	`all`	Optional env-var allowlist for direct/legacy loading. Prefer `pi config` for normal package installs; each server is now a separate extension resource.
`Z_AI_MCP_TIMEOUT_MS`	No	`180000`	Per-connection/tool-call timeout in milliseconds; visio

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

61/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−39

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked export against OSV.dev.

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

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How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Pi Zai Mcp safe to use?: Pi Zai Mcp has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Pi Zai Mcp?: Pi Zai Mcp supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Pi Zai Mcp?: Pi Zai Mcp is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Pi Zai Mcp actively maintained?: Pi Zai Mcp is actively maintained — last commit was 2 days ago. It has 11 GitHub stars.