Zimi MCP Server

Enables AI agents to search, read, and manage offline knowledge from ZIM files (Kiwix archives) with full-text search, language support, and library management.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: ZIMI_MANAGE_PASSWORD, ZIMI_API_TOKEN

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configBASE_URL

configZIMI_RATE_LIMIT— 60 Requests/min/IP. 0 to disable.

configZIMI_AUTO_UPDATE— 0 Auto-update ZIMs (1 to enable)

configZIMI_UPDATE_FREQ— weekly daily, weekly, or monthly

🔐 secretZIMI_MANAGE_PASSWORD— _(none)_ Protect library management

🔐 secretZIMI_API_TOKEN

configZIM_DIR— ./zims zimi serve --port 8899

configZIMI_MANAGE— 1 Library manager. 0 to disable.

configZIMI_DATA_DIR— /config (Docker) or $ZIM_DIR/.zimi Cache, indexes, and settings. Mount separately in Docker.

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

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commit: 20149e6ffec396dd9877910c60a7e0c7027da437

code hash: bed0c0c1681035765905cbf3686f046a3f7ed941d13e9851187c88a8513b7e60

verified: 6/22/2026, 12:42:11 PM

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