CertIndex MCP
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The only certificate-transparency MCP server. Search 2.15B+ TLS certificates, monitor domains for new issuance, stream the global CT firehose to your agent.
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Setup
Install CertIndex MCP in your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and others).
Repository: https://github.com/certindex/certindex-mcp
Follow the installation instructions in the repository README, then restart your MCP client.
- Search certificates by domain or issuer— Find TLS certificates matching a domain, CN, issuer, or SAN pattern usingsearch_certificates.
- Retrieve a certificate by fingerprint— Fetch full PEM data and CT log metadata for a specific SHA-256 fingerprint withget_certificate.
- List all certificates for a domain— Get every certificate ever issued for an exact domain viaget_domain_certificates, optionally filtered to currently valid certs only.
- Enumerate subdomains seen in CT logs— Discover unique subdomains observed for a domain using cursor-based pagination inget_subdomains.
- Find certificates expiring soon— Identify certificates for a domain that expire within a given number of days usingget_expiring_certs.
- Run a global index sweep— Submit an async substring search across the entire CT corpus by CN or SAN withsubmit_global_sweep, then poll results withget_sweep_results.
AnMCP(Model Context Protocol) server that exposesCertIndex's Certificate Transparency search tools to any MCP-compatible client (Claude Desktop, the MCP Inspector, Continue, etc.).
CertIndex indexes the full public CT corpus (~5 M certificates, growing ~100 k/day). This server wraps the public CertIndex REST API so an LLM can ask questions like:
- "List every TLS certificate ever issued forexample.com."
- "What subdomains has Let's Encrypt seen formycompany.io?"
- "Show me certs expiring in the next 30 days forapi.mycompany.io."
- "Pull the full PEM and CT log metadata for SHA-256<fingerprint>."
The CertIndex monorepo bundles an MCP server (mounted athttps://api.ctindex.io/mcp) that talks directly to the production Postgres index. This standalone package is a thinclient-sideshim: it speaks MCP to your editor / agent and forwards every tool call to the hosted CertIndex REST API over HTTPS. Two consequences:
- You don't need a copy of the index — sign up for a free API key athttps://ctindex.ioand you're done.
- The package has a tiny dependency footprint (mcp,httpx,pydantic) — easy to audit, easy to vendor, no DB drivers.
To install the latest development version from source instead:
pip install git+https://github.com/certindex/certindex-mcp
Add to~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json(macOS) or%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json(Windows):
{ "mcpServers": { "certindex": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["certindex-mcp"], "env": { "CERTINDEX_API_KEY": "ctx_live_..." } } } }
Restart Claude Desktop. The ten CertIndex tools appear in the tool tray.
Ten tools, matching the hosted CertIndex MCP server 1:1:
export CERTINDEX_API_KEY=ctx_live_... npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector uvx certindex-mcp
Input validation, rate-limit handling, and our supply-chain posture are documented inSECURITY.md. Please report vulnerabilities tosecurity@ctindex.iorather than filing public issues.
git clone https://github.com/certindex/certindex-mcp cd certindex-mcp pip install -e ".[dev]" pytest
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