Phoenix MCP CLI

Command-line client and MCP bridge scripts for the Phoenix Security CVE Intelligence public API.

• phoenix_cli/ — a pip-installable CLI (phoenix-cli) for the REST + MCP JSON-RPC public API.
• mcp/ — standalone stdio bridge scripts for Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktop (no CLI install required).

Full documentation: docs/CLI.md (command reference) · docs/REPOSITORY.md (repo structure, architecture, development)

Install the CLI

Requires Python 3.8+.

# Directly from GitHub
pip install "git+https://github.com/Security-Phoenix-demo/blue-cve-intelligence-mcp-cli.git"

# Or clone and install locally
git clone https://github.com/Security-Phoenix-demo/blue-cve-intelligence-mcp-cli.git
cd blue-cve-intelligence-mcp-cli
pip install .

Verify:

phoenix-cli --help

Authenticate

Get an API key from My Account → Platform API Keys (Registered tier or above), then either:

export PHOENIX_API_KEY="phx_your_key_here"

or persist it:

phoenix-cli configure --api-key phx_your_key_here

(Saved to ~/.phoenix/cli-config.json, mode 0600.)

Usage

# Search
phoenix-cli search --severity CRITICAL --kev-only --limit 10

# Full intelligence for one CVE
phoenix-cli get CVE-2024-27198

# CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
phoenix-cli kev --limit 20

# Trending CVEs
phoenix-cli trending

# Raw MCP JSON-RPC call
phoenix-cli mcp tools/call --params '{"name":"get_cve_intelligence","arguments":{"cve_id":"CVE-2024-27198"}}'

Point at a self-hosted instance with --base-url or PHOENIX_API_URL (default: https://phxintel.security/api/v1).

Full API reference: https://phxintel.security/docs/API/PUBLIC_API.html · MCP integration guide: https://phxintel.security/pubdoc/mcp/installation.html

MCP bridge scripts (no CLI install)

If you only need Claude Desktop / ChatGPT Desktop stdio integration, download the scripts directly from mcp/ without installing the CLI — see mcp/README.md.

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Security-Phoenix-demo/blue-cve-intelligence-mcp-cli/main/mcp/mcp_http_bridge.py
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Security-Phoenix-demo/blue-cve-intelligence-mcp-cli/main/mcp/mcp_http_bridge_chatgpt.py

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.