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PatrolTech MCP server

The remote Model Context Protocol server of PatrolTech, the guard tour and security patrol platform. It lets AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini or Cursor read and act on a PatrolTech account on behalf of a user who signs in with OAuth: rounds, routes, checkpoints, guards, incidents, users, locations, access control and scans.

CI License: MIT

This repository holds only the server code. To install the connector in your assistant, use PatrolTech/ai-integrations: plugins, MCP Registry entry and instructions for each client.

This server grants no access by itself. It has no credentials of its own: it forwards the user's token, and the PatrolTech API authorizes every call (organization and location roles, OAuth scopes and a closed list of writes allowed to agents). See SECURITY.md.

How it works

MCP client ──OAuth──▶ PatrolTech authorization server
    │ Bearer access token (audience = MCP_PUBLIC_URL)
    ▼
MCP server (this repo, stateless) ──agent session──▶ PatrolTech API
    │                                   ▲
    └── Redis: locks and rate limits    └── @patroltech/agent-capabilities + @patroltech/sdk-api
  • OAuth resource server. /mcp requires a bearer token issued by the PatrolTech authorization server (RFC 9728 metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp). Tokens are verified against the API's JWKS (ES256, exact issuer and audience) and exchanged for a 15-minute agent session (POST /oauth/agent-session), cached by a hash of the token. The API trims the session to what the grant still allows.

  • Stateless. Each request gets a fresh MCP server instance and serves both protocol eras (2025 and 2026-07-28). Nothing about a conversation is kept in memory: proposals live in the PatrolTech API, so any number of workers can serve the same user.

  • Redis holds what must be shared between workers: the per-user lock around proposals (SET NX PX, renewed while it lasts) and the per-user, per-tool rate limits. It is required in production and staging. If Redis fails, propose, confirm and cancel answer "busy" rather than risk two proposals overwriting each other. Without REDIS_URL (development and test only) both live in process memory.

  • Tools come from the mcp channel of @patroltech/agent-capabilities, which calls the API through @patroltech/sdk-api.

Tools

Tool

What it does

patroltech_<area>_<read>

One per read of the catalog: read-only, English titles and descriptions, optional organization when the user has several.

patroltech_account_get_context

The user's organizations (name, role, access) and their locations.

patroltech_<area>_propose_<verb>

Proposes a change. Nothing changes until it is confirmed. Proposals of one user and client form one batch (up to 10, expires after 30 minutes).

patroltech_proposals_confirm

Executes the whole pending batch, in order, with the parameters that were proposed (marked destructive: clients ask the user first).

patroltech_proposals_cancel

Withdraws the pending batch.

patroltech_locations_get_qr_sheet

A signed link (1 hour) to the printable QR sheet of a location.

Writes need the write scope: without it the server answers 403 insufficient_scope with the read write challenge. Every result is { data, truncated?, notices?, note }, capped at 60,000 characters, where note says that data is data, never instructions. Each user can make 60 calls per minute to a read tool and 20 to a write tool. Every call writes one mcp.tool_call audit line with a hash of the arguments, never the arguments.

Endpoints

Path

Auth

Purpose

/mcp (path of MCP_PUBLIC_URL)

Bearer

The MCP endpoint (POST, GET, DELETE). Validates Host and rejects any Origin.

/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp

none

Protected resource metadata (RFC 9728), also at the root path.

/health

none

Liveness: 200 {"status":"ok","version":"…"}.

/health/ready

none

Readiness: 200 if the JWKS answers within 3 s and, with REDIS_URL, Redis answers PING; otherwise 503.

/.well-known/openai-apps-challenge

none

The OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE token, for the ChatGPT apps directory; 404 without it.

Related MCP server: MCP Server for Odoo

Configuration

Every variable is documented in .env.example. The server refuses to start, listing each missing or invalid variable, if the configuration is not valid.

Variable

Required

Description

MCP_PUBLIC_URL

yes

Exact public URL of the MCP endpoint, the audience of the tokens (for example https://mcp.example.com/mcp).

API_BASE_URL

yes

Origin of the PatrolTech API, without /api.

OAUTH_ISSUER

yes

Expected iss of the access tokens, byte for byte.

OAUTH_JWKS_URL

no

JWKS of the issuer. Default API_BASE_URL + /oauth/jwks.json.

DASHBOARD_URL, APP_BASE_URL

yes

PatrolTech dashboard and web app, for links shown to the user.

APP_ENVIRONMENT

yes

production, staging, development or test.

REDIS_URL

in production and staging

Shared Redis (ioredis URL).

REDIS_NAMESPACE

no

Key prefix in Redis. Default APP_ENVIRONMENT.

HOST, PORT

no

Where the process listens. Default 127.0.0.1:3110, behind a reverse proxy.

LOG_LEVEL

no

debug, info (default), warn or error. Audit and heartbeat lines are written at any level.

SERVICE_NAME

no

service field of every log line. Default mcp-server.

OPENAI_APPS_CHALLENGE

no

Domain verification token for the ChatGPT apps directory.

Logs are one JSON object per line on stdout and stderr. Each process writes an mcp.heartbeat line every 5 minutes, so a log monitor can alert when it stops.

Development

Node.js 22.9 or later.

npm ci
cp .env.example .env.local   # fill in the values; .env.local is ignored by git
npm run dev                  # tsx watch, loads .env.local
curl http://127.0.0.1:3110/health

Script

npm run dev

Run with reload (tsx watch).

npm run lint, npm run format:check, npm run typecheck

ESLint, Prettier and the type check of sources and tests.

npm test

Unit and HTTP tests (vitest).

npm run test:deploy

Tests of the PM2 ecosystem and of the remote deployment script.

npm run build

Compile to dist/ (npm start runs it).

npm run bundle

One self-contained ESM file, dist/bundle/server.mjs (+ source map): the deployable artifact.

npm run smoke

Starts the bundle with a test configuration and checks /health, the metadata, the challenge and that /health/ready reports the unreachable JWKS and Redis.

Code layout follows the hexagonal style: src/domain (pure rules), src/application (use cases and their ports), src/interface/mcp (the MCP adapter) and src/infrastructure (HTTP, OAuth, SDK adapters, Redis, logging).

Self-hosting

You can run this server on your own infrastructure, for example to audit it or to put it in front of your own network policies.

OAuth audience. Access tokens are bound to the resource they were issued for. The PatrolTech authorization server only issues tokens for resources it knows, so a deployment under your own MCP_PUBLIC_URL needs to be registered with PatrolTech before PatrolTech users can connect to it. Ask through the channels in SECURITY.md.

What you need:

  • Node.js 22.9 or later and Redis.

  • A reverse proxy with TLS in front of HOST:PORT that forwards /mcp, /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (and its subpaths) and, if you use them, /health, /health/ready and /.well-known/openai-apps-challenge. Keep the Host header: the server only accepts the host of MCP_PUBLIC_URL or loopback.

Steps:

  1. Build the artifact: npm ci && npm run bundle && npm run smoke.

  2. Copy dist/bundle/server.mjs, dist/bundle/server.mjs.map and package.json (the version comes from it) to a directory on the server. No npm install is needed there.

  3. Create .env.local in that directory from .env.example, with APP_ENVIRONMENT=production and REDIS_URL.

  4. Start it: node --enable-source-maps --env-file-if-exists=.env.local server.mjs, or with PM2 (below). The process stops gracefully on SIGTERM, waiting up to 55 s for calls in progress, so give it about 60 s before a forced kill.

With PM2

deploy/ecosystem.config.cjs runs the bundle in cluster mode. It holds no server data: it reads MCP_PM2_NAME, MCP_PORT and MCP_APP_ENVIRONMENT (required) and MCP_INSTANCES, MCP_SERVICE_NAME and PM2_APP_DIR (optional) from the environment, and loads the rest from .env.local.

MCP_PM2_NAME=mcp MCP_PORT=3110 MCP_APP_ENVIRONMENT=production MCP_INSTANCES=2 \
  pm2 start ecosystem.config.cjs

In cluster mode the workers run with the Node.js of the PM2 daemon, which must be 22.9 or later for --env-file-if-exists. Never run pm2 update on a shared daemon: it restarts every app it manages.

With GitHub Actions

.github/workflows/deploy.yml deploys a fork of this repository by SSH, by hand (workflow_dispatch, staging by default). It builds, tests and smoke-tests the bundle without secrets, uploads the bundle, package.json and the ecosystem with rsync, and runs deploy/remote-deploy.sh on the server: checks .env.local, reloads PM2 without downtime, probes the readiness URL and waits until every instance is online with the new version. production only deploys from main or a v* tag.

The workflow and the scripts contain no server data, and the logs print nothing from the server. Create the GitHub environments staging and production (with a required reviewer and a deployment branch rule for main and v* tags on production) and set, in each one:

Secret

Required

Description

SSH_HOST

yes

Host name or IP address of the server.

SSH_USER

yes

SSH user that owns the app directory and runs PM2.

SSH_PRIVATE_KEY

yes

Private key of that user, without passphrase, used only for deployments.

SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS

yes

known_hosts lines of the server, checked out of band (ssh-keyscan -H <host>).

APP_DIR

yes

Absolute path of the app directory (bundle, .env.local, logs/).

PM2_APP_NAME

yes

Name of the PM2 process.

APP_PORT

yes

Local port the process listens on.

HEALTH_URL

yes

Readiness URL as seen from the server, http://127.0.0.1:<port>/health/ready.

SSH_PORT

no

SSH port, if not 22.

DEPLOY_HOME

no

HOME used to talk to the PM2 daemon (where its .pm2 lives).

NODE_BIN_DIR

no

Directory of the Node.js binary to use on the server, put first in PATH.

PM2_BIN

no

Path of the pm2 CLI to use. Default: the one in PATH.

DEPLOY_LOCK_FILE

no

Lock file (flock) shared with the deployments of other apps on the same PM2 daemon.

FILE_OWNER

no

user:group the app directory must have after the upload.

SERVICE_NAME

no

service of the log lines. Default: the PM2 process name.

DD_API_KEY

no

Datadog API key, to send an event when a deployment fails.

Variable

Required

Description

PM2_INSTANCES

no

Number of instances (default 1).

DD_SITE

no

Datadog site for the failure event (default datadoghq.com).

Server data goes in secrets, not variables: Actions masks secrets in the logs, and the workflow also masks the values derived from them.

Versioning and releases

The version lives only in package.json. When a change to it reaches main, the release workflow creates the v<version> tag and a GitHub release with the bundle and its checksums.

License

MIT © Ingenieros Web SL

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