MCP Server Starter
Production-shaped MCP server template in TypeScript: auth, scoping, rate limits, tracing, and deploy targets for Lambda, Azure Functions, and Cloudflare Workers.
Shape your surface first
MCP exposes three things: resources (read), tools (write), and prompts (templates). Before writing code, list exactly which of each your server needs and the audience (internal, partner, public). Scope determines auth.
Auth at the gateway, scoping in the server
Put OAuth / SSO at the edge. Inside the server, enforce per-user scopes on every tool call. Never trust the client to filter results — the server owns authorization.
Rate limits and quotas
Per-user and per-tenant limits. One bad client should never take the server down for everyone. Quotas also make cost attribution trivial.
Transport: stdio vs HTTP/SSE
Local users (Claude Desktop power users) get stdio. Teams and partners get HTTP/SSE deployed to Lambda, Azure Functions, or Cloudflare Workers. The starter supports both.
Version contracts explicitly
MCP is evolving fast. Version your server surface and document what changed between versions. Clients break less often when contracts are explicit.
Observe every tool call
Trace input, scope, output, tokens, latency, and cost. The resulting dataset is gold for capacity planning and for catching misbehaving clients.
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