# katana-mcp-server

> MCP server for Katana Manufacturing ERP

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/katana-mcp-server/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://dougborg.github.io/katana-openapi-client/
- repository: https://github.com/dougborg/katana-openapi-client/issues
- version: 0.122.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-tools, claude, erp, katana, manufacturing, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:katana-mcp-server

### Description (declared)

# Katana MCP Server

[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/katana-mcp-server.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/katana-mcp-server/)

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Katana Manufacturing ERP.

## Features

- **Inventory Management**: Check stock, find low stock items, search items, get variant
  details
- **Catalog Management**: Create products and materials
- **Order Management**: Create, modify, and fulfill purchase orders, sales orders, and
  manufacturing orders; correct shipped builds
- **Document Verification**: Verify supplier documents against purchase orders
- **Preview / Apply Pattern**: Two-step confirmation for every write operation — preview
  returns a Prefab UI card with Confirm/Cancel; apply executes
- **Environment-based Authentication**: Secure API key management
- **Built-in Resilience**: Automatic retries, rate limiting, and pagination via Python
  client
- **Type Safety**: Pydantic models for all requests and responses
- **Typed SQLite Cache**: Local mirror of catalog _and_ transactional entities (items,
  suppliers, customers, locations, sales / purchase / manufacturing orders, stock
  transfers and adjustments) with FTS5 fuzzy search, soft-state filtering, and
  cold-cache recovery — see [docs/typed_cache/](docs/typed_cache/README.md)

## Installation

```bash
pip install katana-mcp-server
```

## Quick Start

### 1. Get Your Katana API Key

Obtain your API key from your Katana account settings.

### 2. Configure Environment

Create a `.env` file or set environment variable:

```bash
export KATANA_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
```

Or create `.env` file:

```
KATANA_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
KATANA_BASE_URL=https://api.katanamrp.com/v1  # Optional, uses default if not set
```

### 3. Choose Your Transport

The MCP server supports multiple transport protocols for different environments:

| Transport         | Use Case                          | Command                                         |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- commerce.ecommerce (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/katana-mcp-server/ (first seen 2026-09-09T22:23:06.369Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/katana-mcp-server/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/katana-mcp-server · ARD identifier urn:air::server:katana-mcp-server