mcp-piazza

A read-only MCP server for Piazza that allows agents to catch up on courses, search posts, and read full threads. It supports listing courses, getting course info, counting unread posts, viewing recent activity, listing and searching posts, reading full threads, viewing post history, listing instructor notes, opening attachments, and getting course stats. It works with various MCP clients like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by jadenpxrk

You need:Install uv .

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What you can do with it

List your Piazza courses with ID, course number, term, role, active status, and folders.
Search posts by keywords in one course or in all active courses.
Read one full thread including question, instructor answer, student answer, followups, replies, and poll data.
Get the course page description, syllabus, office hours, general information, and staff with emails.

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.1.0MIT

mcp-registry: io.github.jadenpxrk/mcp-piazza@0.1.0 Source repository

Last repository push: Oct 28, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC
Latest release: v0.1.0
Maintenance checked: Nov 2, 2026, 5:16 PM UTC

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mcp-piazza 0.1.0

pypi

mcp-piazza package definition

{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "mcp-piazza",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_EMAIL",
      "description": "Piazza account email. Not needed after 'mcp-piazza login'."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_PASSWORD",
      "description": "Piazza account password. Not needed after 'mcp-piazza login'."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE",
      "default": "~/.config/mcp-piazza/cookies.json",
      "description": "Path of the saved session file."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS",
      "default": "false",
      "description": "Replace student names with pseudonyms."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT",
      "default": "true",
      "description": "Mark post text as untrusted data."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL",
      "default": "0.5",
      "description": "Minimum seconds between Piazza requests."
    },
    {
      "name": "PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL",
      "default": "60",
      "description": "Seconds to keep feeds and posts in memory."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-piazza": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-piazza==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIAZZA_EMAIL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_EMAIL>",
        "PIAZZA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_PASSWORD>",
        "PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE>",
        "PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS>",
        "PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT>",
        "PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-piazza": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-piazza==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIAZZA_EMAIL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_EMAIL>",
        "PIAZZA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_PASSWORD>",
        "PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE>",
        "PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS>",
        "PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT>",
        "PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "mcp-piazza": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-piazza==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIAZZA_EMAIL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_EMAIL>",
        "PIAZZA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_PASSWORD>",
        "PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE>",
        "PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS>",
        "PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT>",
        "PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-piazza": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-piazza==0.1.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PIAZZA_EMAIL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_EMAIL>",
        "PIAZZA_PASSWORD": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_PASSWORD>",
        "PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_COOKIE_FILE>",
        "PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_ANONYMIZE_STUDENTS>",
        "PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_FENCE_CONTENT>",
        "PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_MIN_INTERVAL>",
        "PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL": "<YOUR_PIAZZA_CACHE_TTL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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