Snappy MCP Server with Xano Integration

A remote MCP server built on Cloudflare Workers with Xano database integration for tool management, session tracking, and OAuth. Now with full support for the latest Streamable HTTP transport protocol (2024-11-05).

Develop locally

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/roboulos/remote-mcp-server.git

# install dependencies
cd remote-mcp-server
npm install

# Configure Xano API Key
# Add your Xano API key to wrangler.jsonc in the XANO_API_KEY variable

# run locally
npm run dev

You should be able to open http://localhost:8787/ in your browser

Connect to your MCP server

Using the MCP Inspector (legacy)

To explore your new MCP API with the older SSE transport, you can use the MCP Inspector.

• Start it with npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
• Within the inspector, switch the Transport Type to SSE and enter http://localhost:8787/sse as the URL of the MCP server to connect to, and click "Connect"
• You will navigate to a (mock) user/password login screen. Input any email and pass to login.
• You should be redirected back to the MCP Inspector and you can now list and call any defined tools!

Using Workers AI Playground (Streamable HTTP)

To test with the latest Streamable HTTP transport protocol:

1. Visit the Workers AI Playground
2. When prompted to connect to an MCP server, enter your endpoint URL:

   https://remote-mcp-server.robertjboulos.workers.dev/mcp
   

   or for local testing:

   http://localhost:8787/mcp
   

3. Provide authentication credentials when prompted:
   • auth_token: Your Xano authentication token
   • user_id: Your Xano user ID
4. The Playground will handle session management automatically using the new protocol

Connect Claude Desktop to your local MCP server

Legacy SSE Transport

To connect using the older SSE transport, follow Anthropic's Quickstart and within Claude Desktop go to Settings > Developer > Edit Config to find your configuration file.

Open the file in your text editor and replace it with this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "math": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "http://localhost:8787/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

This will run a local proxy and let Claude talk to your MCP server over HTTP.

Streamable HTTP Transport (Recommended)

To use the newer, more efficient Streamable HTTP transport with Claude Desktop, update your configuration to use the /mcp endpoint instead:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "xano": {
      "remoteUrl": "http://localhost:8787/mcp",
      "auth": {
        "type": "bearer",
        "token": "YOUR_XANO_AUTH_TOKEN"
      },
      "headers": {
        "x-user-id": "YOUR_USER_ID"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace YOUR_XANO_AUTH_TOKEN and YOUR_USER_ID with your actual credentials.

When you open Claude a browser window should open and allow you to login. You should see the tools available in the bottom right. Given the right prompt Claude should ask to call the tool.

Xano Integration

This MCP server uses Xano as its backend for:

1. Tool Management: Define tools in Xano's ____mcp_tools table and they will be automatically registered in the MCP server
2. Session Tracking: All MCP sessions are tracked in the ___mcp_sessions table with unique session IDs
3. OAuth Authentication: OAuth tokens and states are stored in Xano's ___oauth_tokens and ___oauth_states tables
4. Logging: All MCP requests are logged in the ___mcp_logs table

Streamable HTTP Implementation

This server implements the latest Model Context Protocol Streamable HTTP transport (2024-11-05) with the following features:

Authentication Methods

The server supports multiple authentication mechanisms for maximum compatibility:

1. URL Parameters: ?auth_token=xxx&user_id=yyy (legacy method)
2. Authorization Header: Authorization: Bearer xxx with x-user-id header (modern method)
3. Request Body: Auth parameters can be included in the initialization payload

Session Management

The server handles session IDs according to the latest spec:

1. Session Creation: The server generates a unique session ID for new connections
2. Session Tracking: Clients store this ID and include it in future requests as ?sessionId=xxx
3. State Persistence: Each session maintains its own state in Xano, which persists across requests

Protocol Compliance

The implementation includes proper support for:

1. Unified Message Endpoint: Support for the /mcp/message endpoint pattern
2. Protocol Headers: All responses include proper headers like MCP-Available-Transports
3. SSE Streaming: Enhanced SSE support for streaming responses
4. Response Format: Standard JSON-RPC 2.0 format with protocol-specific extensions

Setting up Xano

1. Create a Xano project with the required tables (see database schema)
2. Create API endpoints for:
   • /api/tools - GET - List all tools
   • /api/tools/execute/{tool_name} - POST - Execute a specific tool
   • /api/sessions - POST - Create a new session
   • /api/sessions/update-activity - PUT - Update session activity
   • /api/oauth/tokens - POST - Store OAuth tokens
   • /api/oauth/tokens/{user_id}/{provider} - GET - Get OAuth tokens
   • /api/oauth/states - POST - Store OAuth states
   • /api/oauth/states/{state} - GET - Validate OAuth states
   • /api/logs - POST - Log MCP requests

Deploy to Cloudflare

1. npx wrangler kv namespace create OAUTH_KV
2. Follow the guidance to add the kv namespace ID to wrangler.jsonc
3. Add your Xano API key to the XANO_API_KEY variable in wrangler.jsonc
4. npm run deploy

Call your newly deployed remote MCP server from a remote MCP client

Just like you did above in "Develop locally", run the MCP inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector@latest

Then enter the workers.dev URL (ex: worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse) of your Worker in the inspector as the URL of the MCP server to connect to, and click "Connect".

You've now connected to your MCP server from a remote MCP client.

Connect Claude Desktop to your remote MCP server

Update the Claude configuration file to point to your workers.dev URL (ex: worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse) and restart Claude

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "math": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Debugging

Should anything go wrong it can be helpful to restart Claude, or to try connecting directly to your MCP server on the command line with the following command.

npx mcp-remote http://localhost:8787/sse

In some rare cases it may help to clear the files added to ~/.mcp-auth

rm -rf ~/.mcp-auth