Configuration

zaungast needs no configuration in the common case — the local Teams database is auto-discovered and there are no credentials. All variables below are optional.

Variable	Purpose	Default
TEAMS_LEVELDB_DIR	Absolute path to the Teams …\IndexedDB\https_teams.microsoft.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb directory. Set only if auto-discovery fails, or to pin a specific profile when you have several.	auto-discovered
ZAUNGAST_INCREMENTAL	Refresh mode: copy-reuse (faster — reuses immutable .ldb parses, re-reads only the write-ahead log) or reparse (simpler — re-reads everything each refresh). Both produce identical results.	copy-reuse
ZAUNGAST_DB_DIR	Read a static copy of the leveldb directory directly instead of discovering/snapshotting the live one. Useful for offline analysis or tests; disables live refresh.	unset

Setting variables in an MCP client

Claude Code:

claude mcp add zaungast -s user \
  -e TEAMS_LEVELDB_DIR="C:\\Users\\me\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\MSTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\\LocalCache\\Microsoft\\MSTeams\\EBWebView\\WV2Profile_tfw\\IndexedDB\\https_teams.microsoft.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb" \
  -- npx -y zaungast

Generic MCP JSON config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zaungast": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "zaungast"],
      "env": { "ZAUNGAST_INCREMENTAL": "reparse" }
    }
  }
}