MCP for individual users set in user settings

[ser]

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using:
32

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Users can have access to individual MCP servers with different credentials than other users.

Describe the solution you'd like
It would be fantastic if the user is able to set its own .json file with MCP servers specifications. Currently only the administrator is able to set MCPs to share between users with the same credentials for all users.

Describe alternatives you've considered
There is no alternative.

[janepie]

Hello, thanks for this suggestion! We'd be happy to receive a PR for this, it should be created with declarative settings similar to the admin one: https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/developer_manual/exapp_development/tech_details/api/settings.html

[ser]

I would love to do it but there are problems with setting the user config.

I set up the user settings:

# Register personal (user) settings
PERSONAL_SETTINGS = SettingsForm(
    id="context_agent_personal_form",
    section_type="personal",
    section_id="ai_integration_team",
    title=_("Context Agent Preferences"),
    description=_("Personal preferences for Context Agent."),
    fields=[
        SettingsField(
            id="context_agent___mcp_config",
            title=_("MCP Config"),
            description=_(
                'JSON configuration for the MCP. Structured as {"service_name": {"url": "https://service.url","transport": "streamable_http"}}. For more details view the documentation for context_agent.'
            ),
            type=SettingsFieldType.TEXT,
            default="",
            placeholder='{"weather": {"url": "https://weather.internet/mcp","transport": "streamable_http"}}',
        ),
    ],
)

I add them to the enabled_handler():

nc.ui.settings.register_form(PERSONAL_SETTINGS)

And the user can see them indeed, but when tries to modify the value, the browser console shows 403... When I set the value in the table oc_preferences_ex they are correctly visible in that setting. Only "writing" from browser does not work correctly.

Unfortunately there is no single other ex_app which sets user settings, so I am unable to see how it should be done or is this a bug.

If you can, please have a look, cheers!