directus.io

Directus is a self-hostable collaborative backend and headless CMS that sits over SQL databases. It provides an admin Studio plus generated REST, GraphQL, and MCP interfaces for working with project data and content.

3 integrations · REST · GraphQL · CLI

Directus exposes per-instance REST and GraphQL APIs plus a built-in MCP server, all authenticated with Directus-issued tokens/sessions, and a public extension-scaffolding CLI.

discovered 2mo ago

REST · OpenAPI1

Directus REST APIdiscoveredrest

GraphQL1

Directus GraphQL APIdiscoveredgraphql

CLI1

create-directus-extension CLIdiscoveredcreate-directus-extension

Credentials

Directus static access tokenbearerGet token ↗

In your Directus project’s Data Studio, open the user you want to authenticate as and generate a token in the Token field, then save the user. For MCP, Directus recommends creating a dedicated user first via User Directory and generating that user’s token. See Access Tokens and MCP Installation.

Directus user login session / standard tokenscompoundGet key ↗

Log in to your Directus project with a user account via the Directus auth flow. A login to /auth/login returns an access_token and refresh_token, or you can request mode=session to receive a directus_session_token cookie. See Authenticate a User and Access Tokens.

conventions · 1/7 published

integrations.json——
llms.txt✓https://directus.io/llms.txt
API catalog✗/.well-known/api-catalog
OpenAPI document✗/api/schema/, /openapi.json, /swagger.json, /api/openapi.json, or /v1/openapi.json
MCP server card✗/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json
OAuth protected resource✗/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
Agent card✗/.well-known/agent-card.json
Agent skills✗/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json

Publish these signals → /publishing