The Lansweeper MCP server is currently in beta. Functionality and supported clients may change before general availability.
Every IT estate carries lifecycle risk. A security agent that never finished rolling out. An operating system that slipped past end of support months ago. A batch of laptops old enough that failures are becoming routine. Lansweeper already has the data to surface all of it.
Finding it is one thing. Turning it into something a change board or a budget owner will act on is the slow part, and it usually means exporting rows and building the report by hand.
The Lansweeper Lifecycle Risk plugin closes that gap. It connects Claude Cowork to the Lansweeper MCP server and adds six skills on top of it. In one conversation, you can go from a discovery question to a coverage check, end-of-life audit, change impact analysis, or hardware refresh plan.
Prerequisites
- A Lansweeper account with access to at least one site
- Access to Claude Cowork (Team or Enterprise if you want the plugin installed for your whole organization, not just yourself)
- Org admin rights in Cowork if you're installing the plugin organization-wide
Install the plugin
The plugin bundles six skills plus the connector needed to reach the Lansweeper MCP server, so there's nothing else to assemble.
- Download the Lansweeper Lifecycle Risk plugin.
- In Claude Cowork, upload it as a personal plugin, or as an organization plugin if you want your whole team to use it.
- Once uploaded, Lansweeper Lifecycle Risk appears in your plugin list with its six skills and MCP connector listed alongside it.
If you can't install the connector after uploading, you're likely not an org admin. On Team and Enterprise plans, an admin needs to enable it for the organization before personal accounts can use it.
Connect the MCP server
The plugin ships with one MCP server: https://mcp.lansweeper.com/mcp.
- Open the plugin's connectors and select it.
- Install and connect it.
- Sign in with your Lansweeper Sites account when prompted. This authorizes the connection.
Once connected, every skill in the plugin can query your site's live data. There's nothing else to configure per skill.
Verify the connection
Ask something simple and verifiable first, for example "How many active assets do I have?" If the plugin is wired up correctly, you get a real number pulled from a live query.
Run your first query
The skills are built to hand off to each other, so one conversation can move from discovery to analysis to a finished document.
- Ask a discovery question, for example "Is CrowdStrike deployed on all our Windows servers?" Coverage Check queries your site through the connector and classifies every asset in scope.
- Ask for a deliverable, for example "Generate a rollout plan." Document Builder turns the results into a branded document, with a cover page, stats, asset tables, and phased recommendations.
- Ask for a deeper look, for example "Run a change impact analysis for the missing servers." Change Impact Analysis takes the same asset set, checks it against compatibility requirements, and returns a proceed or hold call.
What the plugin includes
The plugin includes six skills. You call four of them directly. The other two work behind the scenes: one builds documents, and one shapes how all of them behave.
| Skill | What it does | Example prompt |
|---|---|---|
| Coverage Check | Confirms whether an EDR, RMM, monitoring, or backup agent is installed everywhere it should be, and sorts gaps into ready to deploy, deployment risk, or requirements unverified. | "Which Windows devices are missing the Qualys agent?" |
| EOL Check | Finds assets on end-of-life or soon-to-be-EOL operating systems and software, using Lansweeper lifecycle data first and the endoflife.date API as a fallback. | "Give me a full EOL audit." |
| Change Impact Analysis | Weighs the risk of a deployment, upgrade, or removal and returns one of four calls: proceed, proceed with pilot only, do not proceed, or insufficient confidence. | "Can we safely upgrade SQL Server from 2017 to 2022?" |
| Hardware Refresh | Scores devices on age, warranty, health, and OS supportability, then groups them into prioritized, cost-modeled replacement waves. | "Build me a hardware refresh plan for all devices over five years old." |
| Document Builder | The engine the other skills use to produce Word, PDF, PowerPoint, or Excel output, branded to Lansweeper or your own company by default. Not called directly; it's triggered automatically by the other skills. | N/A |
| AI Experience Layer (ls-ai-ux) | The behavioral layer behind every skill, keeping confirmations proportional, answers grounded and traceable, and responses concise and on topic. Not called directly. | N/A |
Scope and chain skills
The six skills are fixed, but how you use them isn't:
- Scope any skill to part of your estate: a site, an asset type, an OS version, whatever you need. State it in your prompt.
- Chain skills on purpose: start with Coverage Check or EOL Check for discovery, move to Change Impact Analysis for a recommendation, then ask for a document.
- If you manage more than one Lansweeper site, tell Claude which one you mean at the start of the conversation.
Troubleshooting
| Problem | Likely cause | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Can't install the connector | You're not an org admin | Ask your org admin to enable the plugin for the organization. |
| Assistant gives a generic answer instead of live data | The connector is listed but not actually connected | Reopen the plugin's connectors and confirm it shows as connected, not just listed. |
| Queries return no data or the wrong site's data | Signed in with the wrong Lansweeper Sites account | Sign in again with the account that has access to the site you want queried. |
| Asked for a document but got nothing back | Document Builder isn't enabled alongside the skill you called | Check that Document Builder is enabled. It's the component that produces the .docx, .pdf, .pptx, or .xlsx file. |