anythingmcp

🏭 Origin story. AnythingMCP started inside a German industrial group that needed AI agents to talk to 15+ legacy systems (ERP, CRM, custom SOAP, on-prem Postgres). Writing one MCP server per system would have taken weeks each; we extracted the common gateway after the third rewrite and have been running it in production for ~6 months. We open-sourced it because the catalog grows faster as a community than as a single vendor. Built by a small team using AI coding assistants — see AUTHORS.md.

• What is AnythingMCP?

• Get started in 60 seconds

• Use cases

• Why AnythingMCP

• How it compares

• Key features

• Pre-configured MCP connectors

• Quick Start

• Connect your AI client

• Connector guides

• Architecture

• FAQ

• Documentation

• Tech stack

• Community & support

• Star history

• License

What is AnythingMCP?

AnythingMCP is a self-hosted, source-available MCP server and API gateway that turns your existing APIs into Model Context Protocol tools. Connect any API — REST, SOAP, GraphQL, databases, or other MCP servers — and expose them to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Cursor, and any other MCP-compatible client.

No SDK. No code changes. Point, configure, connect.

Built-in adapters ship with the catalog so you get an instant MCP server for popular SaaS and public APIs — DHL, DPD, GLS, Shipcloud, Sendcloud, Deutsche Bahn, DATEV, Weclapp, Xentral, Shopware 6, Personio, Handelsregister, VIES VAT, OpenPLZ, HERE Geocoding, Oxomi and more (full list below).

Related MCP server: Agent MCP Gateway

Get started in 60 seconds

Requires Docker 24+, bash, openssl. On macOS, start Docker Desktop first.

git clone https://github.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp.git
cd anythingmcp && ./setup.sh
# When setup finishes, open http://localhost:3000 and register
# the first user — they automatically become the admin.

⚠️ Register immediately after setup. The first account to register becomes Admin. If your instance is reachable from the internet during setup, configure firewall rules or bind the UI to 127.0.0.1 until you've created the admin account.

Or one-click deploy

Use cases

• Talk to your ERP from Claude Desktop — connect SAP, Oracle, Weclapp, Xentral, DATEV or any REST/SOAP ERP and query it conversationally

• Track parcels with AI — built-in MCP servers for DHL, DPD, GLS, Shipcloud and Sendcloud

• Automate B2B compliance — pre-flight every invoice with VIES VAT validation and Handelsregister lookups

• Let AI agents query your production database safely — read-only database connectors with audit logging

• Bridge legacy SOAP services to modern AI workflows — automatic WSDL parsing, no code changes

• Aggregate multiple MCP servers behind one gateway — MCP-to-MCP bridge for unified tool access

• Import your Postman collection and get MCP tools instantly — zero-config API onboarding

Why AnythingMCP

How it compares

Key features

• 5 connector types — REST, SOAP, GraphQL, Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, SQLite), MCP-to-MCP bridge

• 6 import formats — OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman, cURL, WSDL, GraphQL introspection, custom JSON

• 36+ pre-built adapters — logistics, ERP, HR, public data, payments, e-commerce, messaging — see catalog

• Dynamic MCP server — tools registered at runtime, no restart

• Visual tool editor — map parameters to path, query, body, headers visually

• Database auto-tools — schema introspection + dynamic query execution out of the box

• Environment variables — per-connector {{VAR}} interpolation, hidden from AI

• Full auth — OAuth2 (PKCE + Client Credentials), Bearer, API Key, Basic, Query, WS-Security, Certificates

• Audit logging — every tool call logged with input, output, duration, status

• Roles & access control — tool-level whitelisting per custom role

• Per-user MCP API keys — individual keys with usage tracking

• Docker ready — docker compose up and you're running

Pre-configured MCP connectors

AnythingMCP ships with 37+ ready-to-use adapters — DACH-rooted but reaching the UK, India, Brasil, Nigeria, Japan and the global gaming web3 space. Provide your API credentials at import time and the tools become available immediately. Each adapter has its own setup guide on anythingmcp.com (English, German, Italian).

📍 Catalog heads-up. The starting set leans DACH (Germany / Austria / Switzerland) because that's where this was built in production first, with first-wave international coverage now landing across 🇬🇧 UK, 🇮🇳 India, 🇧🇷 Brasil, 🇳🇬 Nigeria and 🇯🇵 Japan. US/APAC SaaS adapters are very welcome as community PRs — there's a good-first-issue walking you through adding one in ~30 minutes (single JSON file).

🎮 Gaming & Web3 — featured

Sorare is also the reference implementation of AnythingMCP's new LOGIN_TOKEN AuthType — a declarative spec for any API that requires a custom bcrypt-style sign-in handshake before issuing a long-lived bearer. Reuse the pattern for any other crypto / fintech / gaming API with non-OAuth auth: see docs/connectors/login-token-auth.md.

📦 Logistics & shipping

💼 ERP, accounting & invoicing

🛍️ E-commerce & catalog

👥 HR & field service

🏛️ Government & public data

🏦 Banking, payments & remote

🏗️ Construction & mapping

💬 Messaging & communication

Want to add your own? Drop a JSON adapter in packages/backend/src/adapters/ (organised by region — e.g. de/), register it in catalog.ts, and it becomes available to every user. The catalog.spec.ts parametrised test validates every adapter at build time. See the existing adapters and the Tool Definition Format for the expected schema.

👀 Don't see your favourite SaaS? Open a discussion — we prioritise the next adapter by community demand. ⭐ Star and 👀 Watch to be notified when it ships.

Quick Start

git clone https://github.com/HelpCode-ai/anythingmcp.git
cd anythingmcp
./setup.sh        # interactive setup — generates .env, starts Docker

The setup script configures everything interactively: deployment mode, domain/SSL, auth, email, Redis. All secrets are auto-generated. First user to register becomes Admin.

What setup.sh handles

• Domain & HTTPS — for production domains, enables Caddy reverse proxy with automatic Let's Encrypt SSL

• Secrets — generates JWT, encryption keys, and database passwords

• MCP authentication mode — OAuth 2.0, API Key, or both

• Optional — SMTP and Redis configuration

Prefer manual setup? Copy .env.example to .env, edit the values, and run docker compose up -d. See the Deployment Guide.

Next — create a connector, import your API spec, and connect your AI client. See Connector guides below.

Connect your AI client

AnythingMCP works with any MCP-compatible client. Pick yours:

Connector guides

Featured adapter walkthroughs

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Architecture

How it works

1. Create a connector — point to your API (REST base URL, WSDL endpoint, GraphQL URL, DB connection string) or pick a pre-built adapter from the catalog

2. Import or define tools — auto-import from OpenAPI / Postman / WSDL / GraphQL or define manually (pre-built adapters skip this step)

3. Connect AI clients — point your MCP client to http://your-server:4000/mcp

4. AI calls tools — AnythingMCP translates MCP tool calls into actual API requests and returns results

FAQ

An MCP server exposes tools to an AI agent over the Model Context Protocol — an open standard from Anthropic. Once connected, the AI can call those tools to read data, run queries, or perform actions on your behalf. AnythingMCP is a self-hosted MCP server that wraps your existing APIs so you don't have to write one from scratch.

You don't write code. AnythingMCP imports your OpenAPI / Postman / WSDL spec (or you point it at a database) and generates the MCP tools automatically. You also get auth, audit logging, RBAC, and a visual editor on top — features that would take weeks to build per service.

Yes. Any client that speaks MCP works. See Connect your AI client for direct setup guides.

We use the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL-1.1), the same model as Sentry, MariaDB, CockroachDB and HashiCorp Terraform. The source is fully public — you can read, fork, modify and self-host — but you can't resell it as a managed SaaS without a commercial license. On 2030-03-04 the license automatically converts to Apache 2.0, so the code is guaranteed to become OSI-approved open-source. We chose this over MIT/Apache up-front to keep building AnythingMCP sustainably while avoiding the AWS-strip-mining trap. See the License FAQ.

Yes, for everyone except SaaS resellers. Free for internal company use, personal use, development, testing, evaluation and academic use. The only restriction is offering it as a hosted commercial service to third parties without a commercial license — and even that lifts on 2030-03-04 when BSL converts to Apache 2.0.

Yes — it ships as a Docker image and runs on your own infrastructure. Run ./setup.sh or use the Railway and DigitalOcean one-click installs. There's also a managed Cloud version if you'd rather not run it yourself.

Yes — see Pre-configured MCP connectors. Each adapter has its own setup guide on anythingmcp.com. If your service isn't there yet, you can add it in ~10 minutes by copying an existing JSON adapter and adapting the endpoints.

Built-in. AnythingMCP automatically parses WSDL documents and generates one MCP tool per SOAP operation. Useful for legacy enterprise APIs (SAP, Oracle, .NET WCF, banking middleware) that no AI client speaks natively.

No — but the question conflates two problems. CLI is the right call when the model already knows the tool from training (git, docker, kubectl, aws, gh), the agent is acting for the builder, and a CLI actually exists. MCP wins when you need per-user auth, scoped permissions, audit logs, multi-tenant isolation, typed contracts, or SaaS integrations without a CLI (Salesforce, Workday, Notion, Linear, internal tools).

The mature pattern in 2026 is hybrid: CLI for local/dev/popular tools, MCP for SaaS / multi-tenant / compliance-bound integrations. AnythingMCP covers the MCP side — you keep using git and docker directly, the gateway handles everything else with proper auth and audit. Full decision matrix on anythingmcp.com/vs/cli.

Yes, with safety. PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MSSQL, Oracle, MongoDB and SQLite are supported. Each tool is whitelisted, every invocation is audit-logged, and you can scope a connector to read-only credentials. See the Database Connector Guide.

OAuth2 (PKCE + Client Credentials), Bearer Token, API Key, Basic Auth, query-parameter auth, WS-Security and TLS client certificates are all supported. Credentials are stored AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest. Per-user MCP API keys are issued on top so each AI client gets its own key with usage tracking.

Documentation

Tech stack

Local development

./setup.sh    # choose "Local development"
npm run dev

Or see the Deployment guide for manual setup.

Community & support

• 💬 Questions & discussions — GitHub Discussions — vote on the next adapter, share what you've built, ask for help

• 🐛 Bug reports — Open an issue

• 💡 Feature requests — Request a feature

• 🆘 Need help? — see SUPPORT.md for the full list of channels

• 🏢 Built by helpcode.ai — an independent team in Freiburg, Germany

Star history

⭐ Like what you see? Star this repo — every star helps another developer discover AnythingMCP.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please read our Contributing guide before submitting a PR. For security issues, see SECURITY.md.

License

AnythingMCP is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1 (BSL-1.1). This is not an OSI-approved open-source license — see the License FAQ for a plain-language explanation.

• ✅ Free for — internal use, personal use, development, testing, evaluation, academic use

• ❌ Not permitted — offering as a commercial hosted service (SaaS) without a separate license

• 📅 Change date — 2030-03-04 — on this date the license automatically converts to Apache 2.0

For commercial licensing: info@helpcode.ai

Transparency note — AnythingMCP makes optional network calls to anythingmcp.com for license verification and email delivery when SMTP is not configured. No API credentials or tool invocation data is ever sent. See External services for full details.

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