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mcp-chassis/README.md
Mathias 67decddc8a feat: initial mcp-chassis with auth primitives
Shared Go library for Mathias-owned MCP servers, born from spike S3 of
the 2026-05 homelab architecture review (see
gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/infra/docs/superpowers/handoffs/2026-05-22-mcp-chassis-spike.md
for the viability assessment and abort-criterion check).

Provides three primitives every MCP server today re-implements:

- auth.JWTValidator — Dex OIDC JWT validation. nil-safe (nil = "JWT
  disabled"), audience-optional. Lifted from the identical
  ~80-LOC implementations in gitea-mcp and hyperguild/ingestion.
- auth.BearerMiddleware — dual-mode static-Bearer-or-Dex-JWT gate.
  Static wins first to avoid emitting a WWW-Authenticate challenge
  that would flip claude.ai's MCP client into OAuth discovery for
  static-only deployments. The fall-through 401 emits the RFC 9728
  resource_metadata header only when explicitly configured.
- auth.ProtectedResourceHandler — RFC 9728
  /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource metadata document handler.

Test coverage exercises every branch (static OK, JWT-disabled,
empty bearer, wrong static, with-challenge vs without-challenge,
nil-validator-Validate). go test -race clean.

Deps: github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2 (already a dep of every consumer)
and testify (test-only). No new transitive deps.

First migration target: gitea-mcp. If that port lands in one PR
(abort criterion from spec), brain-mcp (ingestion) follows. Otherwise
chassis reverts per the spec.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-22 09:07:53 +02:00

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# mcp-chassis
Shared Go library for Mathias-owned MCP servers. Provides the
auth + middleware primitives that every MCP server needs.
## Why
By 2026-05-22 there were three+ MCP servers (`gitea-mcp`, `brain-mcp` /
`ingestion`, future ones from `template-go-agent`) each carrying their
own near-identical:
- Dex JWT validator (~80 LOC, identical `jwx/v2` plumbing)
- Bearer middleware (~50 LOC, dual-mode static + JWT)
- RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata handler (~25 LOC)
The homelab architecture review's spike S3 (see
`gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/infra/docs/superpowers/handoffs/2026-05-22-mcp-chassis-spike.md`)
concluded a thin shared lib pays for itself within the first migration.
This is that lib.
## Non-goals
- Replacing each MCP's tool registration / handler logic — that is per-domain.
- Solving HTTP routing — consumers keep their own `http.ServeMux`.
- Solving observability — see `gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/metrics`
for the hand-rolled Prometheus pattern. May absorb a `metrics` subpackage here
later, once a second consumer needs it.
## Packages
### `auth`
- `JWTValidator` — Dex OIDC JWT validation. `nil` is a valid value meaning
"JWT auth disabled".
- `BearerMiddleware` — static-Bearer-or-Dex-JWT gate. Static wins first; only
emits `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer ... resource_metadata=...` on 401 when
`resourceMetadataURL` is non-empty (claude.ai OAuth discovery).
- `ProtectedResourceHandler` — RFC 9728 metadata document for
`GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`.
## Usage
```go
package main
import (
"context"
"net/http"
"os"
"gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/mcp-chassis/auth"
)
func main() {
staticToken := os.Getenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN")
dexIssuer := os.Getenv("DEX_ISSUER_URL")
audience := os.Getenv("MCP_AUDIENCE")
resourceURL := os.Getenv("MCP_RESOURCE_URL")
validator, err := auth.NewJWTValidator(context.Background(), dexIssuer, audience)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
mux := http.NewServeMux()
mux.HandleFunc("GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource",
auth.ProtectedResourceHandler(resourceURL, dexIssuer))
mux.Handle("/mcp", auth.BearerMiddleware(
staticToken,
validator,
"brain",
resourceURL+"/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource",
mcpHandler(),
))
_ = http.ListenAndServe(":3300", mux)
}
func mcpHandler() http.Handler { /* per-domain */ return nil }
```
## Versioning
Trunk-based development on `main`. Tagged with semver. Consumers pin
specific tags (`go.mod` `require gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/mcp-chassis v0.x.y`)
and bump deliberately.
Migrations are documented per-consumer in the consumer's CHANGELOG / commits.
## Dependencies
- `github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2` — JWKS cache + JWT parsing. Same dep
every MCP already had; no new transitive cost when adopting the chassis.
- `github.com/stretchr/testify` — tests only.
stdlib otherwise.