shaughv-health-mcp
Reads Fitbit data synced to Google Health, providing access to Fitbit health metrics.
Integrates with Google Health API to read health data (including Fitbit-synced metrics) and log nutrition, hydration, and body measurements.
Click on "Install Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@shaughv-health-mcpget my latest weight reading"
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
shaughv-health-mcp
A private, single-user remote MCP server on Vercel for Emmett. His trusted LLM assistants — Claude Code / Claude Desktop, claude.ai (web + mobile connectors), and ChatGPT connectors — can read his Google Health data ("How many steps today?", "How did I sleep?", "Why am I tired?", "What did I eat yesterday?") and write the things a wearable can't track itself: nutrition, hydration, and body measurements.
It is a thin, typed, authenticated data adapter over the
Google Health API (health.googleapis.com/v4).
The LLM does the reasoning; this server returns accurate data with timestamps, units, and
freshness metadata on every response. It is not a health warehouse, an analytics
product, or anything that diagnoses — there are no medical claims anywhere in the surface.
docs/PLAN.mdis the build plan and the source of truth for architecture, the four auth layers, the database schema, the tool surface, the watchouts, and the E2E verification bar. Accepted architecture decisions underdocs/adr/govern their specific scope; ADR-0002 fixes the Emmett-only audience while ADR-0001 records the private/unverified posture. This README is the human front door. Live phase/task status is on the.tasks/board — see Task board.
Table of contents
Related MCP server: google-health-mcp-server
What it is / what it is not
It is | It is not |
A remote MCP server (streamable HTTP) on Vercel | A local/stdio MCP server |
A thin, typed adapter over | A data warehouse or ETL pipeline |
Read access to activity, sleep, heart, nutrition | An analytics or dashboard product |
Write access for nutrition, hydration, measurements | A writer of sleep / exercise / settings (absent by design) |
Private and allowlist-only (Emmett's two approved aliases) | Public or self-service multi-tenant |
A returner of data + freshness metadata + units | A source of diagnoses, advice, or medical claims |
The device data path is never live — a Fitbit Air syncs to the Fitbit app, which
pushes to the Google Health cloud, which this server reads on demand. Every response
therefore carries freshness metadata (retrievedAt, latestDataTime?, isPossiblyStale,
note) so the LLM can distinguish "no data synced yet" from "nothing happened."
Who it's for and how it's used
Audience: Emmett, through either approved alias, and the LLM assistants he authorizes.
Nobody else can sign in: the exact approved identities are fixed by
ADR-0002, and enforced through
ALLOWED_GOOGLE_EMAILS.
Intent — how Emmett uses it. He asks his assistants natural questions and expects grounded answers with real numbers, timestamps, and freshness notes:
"How many steps do I have today? What's left to hit my goal?"
"How did I sleep last night?" / "Why am I tired?"
"Why is my heart rate so high?" (latest synced HR, explicitly not live)
"What did I eat yesterday?" / "What's my exercise looking like this week?"
"Log a snack: Greek yogurt, 150 cal, 15 g protein." / "Edit that to 180 cal." / "Delete it."
"Log 16 oz of water." / "Update my weight to X."
Writes are the reason the server exists at all beyond read-only: a Fitbit Air does not track food, water, or manual measurements, so the LLM logs them through validated, audit-logged write tools. Every mutation is explicit-input-only (never inferred) and leaves an audit row.
Future directions (parked on the board; see Task board):
#api— a plain REST API surface (bearer/PAT-authenticated) over the same health services, so Emmett's own scripts/apps can call the data without an OAuth dance. Feasibility analyzed: feasible and additive on the current stack.#rlw— closed by ADR-0003: retain Vercel Node 24 + Fluid iniad1; reconsider Edge/Workers/Railway only on measured triggers.#w11— v1.1 webhooks: implemented endpoint/signature/ledger/inbox; production subscriber registration and a real sync are the final live gates.
Architecture
┌─────────────┐ Bluetooth sync ┌──────────────┐
Fitbit Air ─────▶│ Fitbit app │ ─────────────────▶│ Google Health │
(wearable) │ (phone) │ │ cloud │
└─────────────┘ └──────┬───────┘
│ Google Health API
│ health.googleapis.com/v4
│ ▲ DPoP-bound refresh token
│ │ (AES-256-GCM
│ │ encrypted in Neon)
▼ │
┌───────────────────────────┐ OAuth 2.1 + DCR ┌────────┴──────────────────────┐
│ LLM client │ ───────────────────▶ │ Next.js on Vercel │
│ Claude Code / Desktop │ │ (health.emmetts.dev) │
│ claude.ai web + mobile │ ◀─────────────────── │ │
│ ChatGPT connector │ MCP tools/resources │ ┌─────────────────────────┐ │
└───────────────────────────┘ │ │ MCP SDK v2 → /api/mcp │ │
│ │ better-auth → OAuth AS │ │
│ │ Google Health client │ │
│ └───────────┬─────────────┘ │
└──────────────┼────────────────┘
│ Drizzle ORM
▼
┌──────────────────┐
│ Neon Postgres │
│ encrypted tokens │
│ audit log │
│ webhook tables │
│ (dormant, v1.1) │
└──────────────────┘Request path in one line: an LLM client completes OAuth 2.1 + S256 PKCE (with Dynamic
Client Registration) against this app's own authorization server, gets a one-hour RS256 JWT
bound to /api/mcp, and presents it on every request. The MCP route verifies that JWT locally,
then a tool handler fetches Google Health with the decrypted-on-demand Google credential,
bounds/normalizes the payload, and returns it with freshness metadata.
The four auth layers (never conflate)
These are four separate things. Confusing them is the number-one source of bugs here.
# | Layer | What it is | Status |
1 | Vercel account login | Emmett's Vercel dashboard access | Irrelevant to runtime |
2 | Neon Auth | Neon's own auth product | Disabled — Neon is only a database |
3 | Google Health consent | Health-scope OAuth; refresh credentials and the per-connection DPoP private key are AES-256-GCM encrypted in Neon; done once per (re)connect | Custom routes under |
4 | MCP client auth | This app is an OAuth 2.1 authorization server ( | Endpoints under |
Layers 3 and 4 use the same Google OAuth client ID but separate flows and scopes. Layer
4's login uses basic openid email profile scopes only; layer 3 requests the nine
googlehealth.* scopes. The health-flow refresh token is the one that gates data access.
Tech stack
Concern | Choice | Notes |
Framework | Next.js 16 (App Router) | Server-centric; all API routes on the Node runtime (never edge — needs |
Language | TypeScript 5.9 | Pinned to |
MCP transport |
| 2026 request-scoped HTTP plus stateless 2025 fallback; one server per request, no transport session. See ADR-0003. |
Auth server | better-auth 1.6.25 + | Stable maintained provider, public DCR, S256 PKCE, consent, one-hour exact-audience RS256 JWTs, hashed rotating 60-day refresh tokens; no beta CIMD |
Database | Neon Postgres + Drizzle ORM ( | Pooled URL at runtime, unpooled URL for migrations |
Time | Luxon | Timezone-correct ranges (default |
Validation | Zod 4 | Tool input schemas; write-tool validation |
Tests | Vitest (+ MSW / undici mocks) | Unit + mocked-API integration |
Host | Vercel Node 24 + Fluid Compute in | Canonical domain |
Current status
Milestone #v1 is complete and live; the #mcp2 / 1.0.0 stable-release milestone owns
the remaining rollout qualification and soak. The .tasks/ board remains the source of truth.
1.1.1 is the current stable release at
health.emmetts.devon Vercel Node 24 + Fluid iniad1. The implementation identity reports 1.1.1 while the MCP protocol SDK remains independently pinned to 2.0.0. The existing SEP-973 icon metadata references the canonical hosted PNG; clients decide whether to render it. The DPoP-capable legacy-auth recovery deployment is retained separately so connector reconnect, Google reconsent, and soak evidence are not conflated with deployment success.The MCP endpoint exposes 19 tools and 6 resources through request-scoped SDK v2 transport, with a stateless 2025 fallback for older connectors.
Google Health consent, encrypted token storage/refresh, identity mapping, reads, writes, audit logging, and freshness behavior have been verified against real data.
The stable provider's production metadata, RS256 JWKS, public DCR, exact resource/form boundary, scoped MCP challenges, and no-store behavior pass. Existing clients must reconnect once for the new
/api/auth/oauth2/*endpoints/scopes; signed-in connector and time-based soak gates remain explicit on#q2rather than being inferred from anonymous tests.Google Health webhook implementation exists under v1.1 (
#w11), but its unrelated real Fitbit delivery gate remains open.
Repository structure
.
├── docs/PLAN.md ← SOURCE OF TRUTH (architecture, decisions, phases, E2E bar)
├── docs/adr/ ← accepted architecture decision records
├── README.md ← this file (human front door)
├── CLAUDE.md ← agent instructions for Claude sessions
├── AGENTS.md ← agent instructions, tool-neutral (Codex/Cursor/etc.)
├── .env.example ← every env var, documented by name
├── package.json ← scripts + pinned deps
├── next.config.ts / tsconfig.json / drizzle.config.ts / vitest.config.ts
│
├── app/ ← Next.js App Router
│ ├── layout.tsx · page.tsx ← landing / status dashboard
│ ├── icon.svg ← local Google Health MCP favicon
│ ├── sign-in/page.tsx ← Google sign-in (resumes interrupted OAuth flows)
│ ├── consent/page.tsx ← private OAuth read/write consent
│ ├── components/sign-out-button.tsx
│ ├── api/
│ │ ├── [transport]/route.ts ← live MCP endpoint (`/api/mcp`)
│ │ ├── auth/[...all]/route.ts ← better-auth sign-in + /oauth2 authorize/token/register/userinfo/JWKS
│ │ ├── auth/google-health/start/route.ts ← health-consent redirect (session-gated)
│ │ ├── auth/google-health/callback/route.ts ← code exchange → encrypt+store → identity map
│ │ └── health/status/route.ts ← healthcheck (no secrets)
│ └── .well-known/
│ ├── oauth-authorization-server/route.ts
│ └── oauth-protected-resource/route.ts
│
├── src/
│ ├── auth/ ← auth.ts (better-auth config), allowlist, app-user resolution,
│ │ state (health-consent CSRF state), token-service (single-flight
│ │ refresh), JWT bearer boundary, DPoP, token-store, google-health-oauth
│ ├── db/ ← domain + legacy/new additive auth schemas, client.ts
│ ├── security/ ← encryption.ts (AES-256-GCM), redact.ts
│ ├── audit/ ← mutation-audit.ts (insert-only audit writer)
│ ├── google-health/ ← typed API client, data-type registry, scopes, and errors
│ ├── time/ ← timezone-safe physical/civil range helpers
│ ├── health-services/ ← shared orchestration layer (also enables future #api)
│ └── mcp/ ← thin tool and resource registration
│
├── drizzle/ ← generated SQL migrations + meta
├── scripts/db-inspect.mjs ← utility: list/inspect Neon tables
├── tests/unit/ ← default Vitest security, protocol, service, and OAuth coverage
├── tests/integration/ ← opt-in isolated-Postgres atomic credential-replacement proof
└── .tasks/ ← the task board (see "Task board")The 0.3.0 migration adds isolated mcp_oauth_*_v2 provider tables and
google_health_dpop_key. Legacy OAuth client/token/consent tables remain untouched for the
seven-day rollback window; health connections, encrypted tokens, caches, webhook data, and
audit history are not migrated or deleted.
Setup guide
1. Accounts and services
Google Cloud — enable the Google Health API; configure the OAuth consent screen with the
googlehealth.*scopes; create an OAuth web client; add the redirect URIs below; publish the app to "In production". Publishing is essential: in Testing status Google expires refresh tokens after 7 days (refresh_token_expires_in: 604799). The "unverified app" badge that appears after publishing is expected and stays — do not submit for verification. Public verification and CASA were evaluated and rejected in ADR-0001.Vercel — import this repo as a project. Framework auto-detects as Next.js. Keep Deployment Protection = preview-only (production must stay open so programmatic MCP clients can reach it; the app enforces its own auth).
Neon — the Postgres database was provisioned and connected from the Vercel dashboard through its Storage/Marketplace integration; it is not a separately operated application service. The integration injects
DATABASE_URL(pooled) andDATABASE_URL_UNPOOLEDautomatically. Neon Auth is disabled.
2. Google OAuth redirect URIs
One web client serves both the better-auth sign-in flow (/api/auth/callback/google)
and the Google Health consent flow (/api/auth/google-health/callback). Canonical domain:
health.emmetts.dev; the Vercel-assigned google-health-mcp-realemmetts.vercel.app also
serves. Register all six:
https://health.emmetts.dev/api/auth/callback/google
https://health.emmetts.dev/api/auth/google-health/callback
https://google-health-mcp-realemmetts.vercel.app/api/auth/callback/google
https://google-health-mcp-realemmetts.vercel.app/api/auth/google-health/callback
http://localhost:3000/api/auth/callback/google
http://localhost:3000/api/auth/google-health/callbackRequested health scopes (nine, minimum-necessary — location/ecg/irn are configured on
the consent screen but not requested; there is no settings.writeonly):
Read : googlehealth.activity_and_fitness.readonly
googlehealth.health_metrics_and_measurements.readonly
googlehealth.sleep.readonly
googlehealth.nutrition.readonly
googlehealth.profile.readonly
googlehealth.settings.readonly
Write: googlehealth.nutrition.writeonly
googlehealth.health_metrics_and_measurements.writeonly
googlehealth.profile.writeonly3. Environment variables
Every variable is documented by name in .env.example. Values are never committed —
locally they live in .env.development.local (gitignored); in production they live in the
Vercel env store. Never put secret values in code, logs, the task board, or any
markdown.
Variable | Purpose | Notes |
| Pooled Neon connection (runtime) | Injected by the Neon integration |
| Direct Neon connection | Used only by |
| Google OAuth client id | One client serves both flows |
| Google OAuth client secret | |
| 32-byte base64 AES-256-GCM key | Environments sharing this Neon database must share this key. Losing or splitting it orphans stored tokens (reconnect required) |
| better-auth signing secret | |
| Auth issuer / base URL |
|
| Public app URL | Matches |
| Comma-separated allowlist | Fail-closed perimeter; exactly Emmett's two aliases per ADR-0002 |
| Google Health webhooks | Numeric project identifier |
| Google Health webhooks | Stable subscriber name |
| Google Health webhooks | Full configured Authorization header value |
| Daily retention maintenance | Raw random value sent by Vercel as a Bearer secret |
Generate a key: node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('base64'))"
4. Local development
npm install
cp .env.example .env.development.local # then fill in values
npm run dev # http://localhost:3000
npm test # Vitest
npm run typecheck # tsc --noEmit
npm run db:generate # generate a Drizzle migration from schema changes
npm run db:migrate # apply migrations (uses DATABASE_URL_UNPOOLED)
node scripts/db-inspect.mjs # list/inspect Neon tablesLocal sign-in needs GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID / GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET populated and the
localhost:3000 redirect URIs registered (both are in place). The dev box is Windows —
all npm scripts must be cross-platform.
5. Deploy
Push to main; Vercel builds and deploys. Migrations are run from a dev machine against the
unpooled Neon URL (npm run db:migrate), not in the build. Production env-var changes only
take runtime effect on the next deploy. Note: an auto-deploy webhook has occasionally not
fired on push — if a deploy doesn't appear, deploy manually via the Vercel CLI.
For 0.3.0 sequencing, rollback epochs, fresh-approval boundaries, and cleanup rules, use the 0.3.0 cutover runbook.
Connecting an MCP client
The production endpoint is live. Each client walks the OAuth flow and an approved person signs in with their allowlisted Google account.
Clients previously authorized against /api/auth/mcp/* must remove/re-add the connector once
so discovery can use /api/auth/oauth2/*. The public MCP URL itself does not change.
Claude Code:
claude mcp add --transport http health https://health.emmetts.dev/api/mcpclaude.ai (web + mobile): Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector →
https://health.emmetts.dev/api/mcp→ complete OAuth.ChatGPT: Add a custom connector — it registers itself via Dynamic Client Registration.
MCP surface
Defined in docs/PLAN.md §"MCP surface (v1)"; input schemas per the handoff spec §11. Every
Health-data read response carries freshness + units and is payload-bounded (default pageSize ≤
100; HR series summarized via rollups; truncation notes when capped).
Read/diagnostic tools (13): ping, get_connection_info, get_today_steps,
get_sleep_summary, get_latest_heart_rate,
get_exercise_week, get_nutrition_log, get_health_context (bundle: sleep + latest HR +
resting HR/HRV + recent activity + nutrition — data only, no conclusions),
get_health_trends (bounded 7/30/90-day coverage-aware summaries), get_health_updates
(durable local notification inbox), query_health_data (generic list/reconcile,
registry-allowlisted), rollup_health_data, and get_sync_status.
ping returns the server release, negotiated MCP revision, and auth type. The dedicated
get_connection_info tool provides privacy-safe connection diagnostics: client identity and
capabilities, all supported protocol revisions, Streamable HTTP/session behavior, OAuth 2.1/DCR/
PKCE/JWT/resource/refresh posture, current scopes/expiry, separate Google Health authorization
state, and deployment runtime markers—never credential values, headers, codes, redirects, or email.
Notable behaviors: query_health_data auto-builds the right filter per record type — including
the civil date field for daily-* aggregates, which carry no physical timestamp (a
sample-time filter would silently return everything); use mode: "reconcile" for Google's
merged/deduped stream when multiple sources log the same metric. get_sleep_summary
distinguishes STAGES (deep/light/REM) from CLASSIC sessions (a single asleep block — a
device capture condition, surfaced via stagesStatus, e.g. REJECTED_COVERAGE, not poor
sleep). Staleness is cadence-aware: once-per-night metrics (sleep, daily-*) don't flag
isPossiblyStale for a same-day value; live-ish samples use a 3-hour threshold.
Mutation/action tools (6): create_nutrition_log, update_nutrition_log (replace semantics — the
live PATCH endpoint 500s; a new data-point name is returned), delete_nutrition_log,
create_hydration_log, update_measurement (weight | body-fat | height), and
acknowledge_health_updates (local inbox state only). update_profile
was dropped: the live endpoint 403s despite the granted scope (documented server-side
bug); the service layer is kept for re-enablement.
Resources (6): health://profile, health://settings, health://connected-user,
health://data-types, health://freshness, health://updates.
Absent by design: sleep, exercise, and settings writes; bulk historical writes.
Security posture
Four auth layers, never conflated (table above). The MCP endpoint requires a valid exact-audience JWT with
health:read(andhealth:writebefore mutations); signature, issuer, audience, expiry, subject, scope, and current email allowlist are checked locally. Sign-in is allowlisted toALLOWED_GOOGLE_EMAILS; DCR is open by design (any client may register — safety comes from the allowlisted login, not registration). The approved identity and the prohibition on public signup are fixed by ADR-0002.Google tokens and DPoP private keys are AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest (
TOKEN_ENCRYPTION_KEY, with purpose-separated HKDF context andkey_versionfor rotation). No plaintext tokens in the DB, logs, or error paths — aredact()helper strips token patterns (ya29.,1//,GOCSPX-, JWTs,Bearer/Basic, Neonnpg_) before anything is logged.MCP credentials use a different storage model: provider refresh tokens and public-client secrets are hashed; MCP access JWT values are not persisted. A local JWKS cache verifies warm requests without a token-table lookup.
Token refresh is single-flight through an atomic, expiring database claim on the token row (compatible with the stateless Neon HTTP driver); on refresh failure the connection is marked
reauth_required.The allowlist is rechecked on every MCP bearer request. Removal blocks tool use immediately; complete offboarding still deletes Better Auth sessions/MCP grants and the person's stored Google Health connection.
Writes (nutrition / hydration / measurements only) are Zod-validated, explicit-input only, and every mutation is audit-logged in
mutation_audit_log. There are no sleep / exercise / settings write tools at all.No medical diagnosis language anywhere; freshness/limitation notes on every response.
Production stays open (no Vercel SSO wall) on purpose — the application's own auth is the perimeter.
Stable OAuth Provider 1.6.25 has three tracked residuals: its resource-indicator advisory is contained by one configured audience plus exact resource/audience boundaries. A refresh-only compatibility boundary inserts the canonical resource when a client omits it, but only while that canonical endpoint is the complete configured resource set; supplied invalid values still fail closed. Refresh rotation uses predecessor compare-and-set followed by successor insertion rather than one provider transaction. Local/preview auth storage also shares the Vercel-linked Neon database; preview is Vercel-protected and only the allowlisted owner can grant. Re-evaluate all three when a stable provider fix or environment-isolated auth store is adopted.
Troubleshooting
Symptom | Cause / fix |
Refresh tokens die after ~7 days | The Google OAuth app is in Testing status. Publish it to In production (Audience page). Testing caps refresh tokens at 7 days ( |
"Google hasn't verified this app" warning | Expected for this private, unverified, in-production app. Emmett may proceed (Advanced → continue). Do not submit for verification; see ADR-0001/ADR-0002. |
Redirect URI mismatch / new domain 404s | Every domain that serves the app needs its two redirect URIs registered on the OAuth client. Redirect changes and DNS/CNAME can take minutes to propagate. |
| The health refresh token failed or expired (often the 7-day Testing cap). Re-run the Google Health consent flow (Connect/Reconnect). |
Data looks stale / a workout is missing | The device path is not live: Fitbit Air → Fitbit app → Google Health has real sync latency. |
MCP endpoint returns 401 | No/invalid OAuth token. The |
Hermes, Claude Code, or Codex reconnects every hour | Update the client, then re-authenticate only the affected connector once. The server advertises the complete six-scope grant and accepts a refresh request that omits |
Claude shows | Better Auth 1.6.25 can omit the already-validated RFC 8707 resource from its signed post-login continuation. Release 1.1.1 verifies that continuation's HMAC, signed fields, issuance time, and expiry before restoring the sole canonical |
Codex reports a missing authorization-response issuer after consent | Codex 0.146.0 currently drops the RFC 9207 |
New env var isn't taking effect | Production env changes apply on the next deploy. Redeploy. |
Build fails on TypeScript | Keep |
No deploy after | The auto-deploy webhook has occasionally not fired; deploy manually via the Vercel CLI. |
Non-allowlisted Google account can't sign in | Working as intended — sign-in is rejected server-side for any email not in |
Claude returns from the browser immediately, then the connector fails | An existing Google session can make Google sign-in silent, so the missing account-chooser page is not itself an error. Use the work-computer OAuth runbook to locate the stage that failed. |
Claude work-computer OAuth: browser returns, connector still fails
This is the MCP client-auth flow, not Google Health consent. If the browser already has a valid Google session, clicking Sign in with Google can complete without showing Google's account chooser. The saved MCP authorization request then resumes and returns to Claude immediately. That silent SSO path is normal; the useful question is what happened after the return.
Anthropic's remote-connector guide explains that remote connectors are configured and brokered through the Claude account, with the MCP connection originating from Anthropic's servers rather than the workstation. They can be shared across Claude on the web, Desktop, and Claude Code when the same account and workspace are selected; see Anthropic's connector guidance. On Team and Enterprise plans, an Owner or Primary Owner must add/enable the connector for the organization, and each user normally authenticates it individually.
Record the last confirmed stage before changing anything:
Last confirmed stage | What it means |
The Health MCP sign-in page never opens | Check Claude's connector URL, selected account/workspace, and organization connector configuration. |
The sign-in page opens; no Google chooser appears; the browser returns to Claude | This can be normal silent Google SSO. Continue tracing the callback/token stages. |
Google or the Health MCP shows an error before returning | Investigate Google sign-in, the email allowlist, redirect URI, or server-side authorization error. |
Claude receives the callback, but the server records no access-token issuance | Investigate the callback handoff and token exchange. |
The server issues an access token, but no authenticated | On versions before 0.1.2, the client may have rejected the malformed legacy ID token after access-token persistence. On 0.1.2+, first confirm JWKS/ID-token verification, then investigate Claude's connector state, credential persistence, workspace, or duplicate configuration. |
An authenticated MCP initialize or tool request reaches | OAuth succeeded; troubleshoot MCP transport, reconnection, or the tool call separately. |
For the work-computer incident that prompted this runbook, production evidence showed Claude
access tokens being persisted after the browser returned. A regression replay then found that
better-auth's deprecated MCP path issued an ephemeral HS256 ID token while advertising
RS256, omitted the issuer, wrote auth_time in milliseconds, and advertised JWKS/UserInfo
endpoints that returned 404. A strict client can reject that response before its first Bearer
request even though the server has already stored the access token. Version 0.1.2 repairs that
boundary with an encrypted, persisted RS256 signing key and live JWKS/UserInfo endpoints;
the work-computer retry remains the final acceptance check. This is MCP client auth, not evidence
that Google Health consent failed.
That paragraph describes the pre-0.3.0 legacy bridge retained only as rollback data. New
connections use the maintained OAuth Provider, persisted RS256 JWKS, exact /api/mcp audience,
and locally verified JWT bearer requests.
A fresh 2026-07-14 revalidation also completed native DCR, S256 PKCE, browser handoff, loopback
callback, token exchange, MCP initialize/discovery, and a read-only tool call through both
Claude Code and Codex against production. Claude used a localhost callback; Codex used its
127.0.0.1:<ephemeral>/callback/<server-id> shape. The account-level Claude connector and the
separately authenticated direct Claude Code entry were both connected, and the correlated server
window contained no relevant OAuth/MCP 5xx or unexpected 4xx responses. A new failure that occurs
before any server request is therefore on the client, work-network, or workspace-policy side, not
an MCP callback failure demonstrated at the Health server.
Do not rotate shared auth/encryption secrets, revoke unrelated users' or clients' tokens, disconnect Google Health, or clear every credential as a first response. Scope any reset to the one affected connector.
Recovery sequence:
Capture the exact Claude error (including any
ofid_...identifier), local timestamp with timezone, Claude Code or Desktop version, selected Claude account/workspace, and whether the connector came from Claude's account settings or a direct Claude Code MCP entry.Update Claude Code/Desktop, fully quit the affected clients (including the Desktop tray process), reopen them, and confirm the same account and workspace are selected. Use the latest available release; see Anthropic's Claude Code changelog.
Check the account-level connector in Claude's connector settings. On Team/Enterprise, have an Owner or Primary Owner confirm its organization configuration. Disconnect/reconnect the affected user, or remove and re-add that remote connector once; avoid repeated retries that create more client registrations without isolating the failing stage. Re-add it only at
https://health.emmetts.dev/api/mcp, authenticate once, and test it on Claude web before checking Desktop and Code.In Claude Code, check
claude mcp listand/mcpfor a separately configured direct entry pointing to the same URL. Direct local/project/user entries take precedence over a duplicate claude.ai connector. For that duplicate direct entry only, use Clear authentication in/mcp, remove the duplicate, and retry with the account connector (or re-add the direct entry once if it is intentionally preferred). Anthropic documents this precedence and the clear-auth control in the Claude Code MCP guide.Use Claude Code's “paste the full callback URL” fallback only when the browser ends on a literal connection error at a local
http://localhost:<port>/callbackURL and Claude Code is prompting for that URL. It does not apply to a normal remote return to Claude Desktop or to a callback that already completed.If the failure persists on 0.1.2 after the ID token verifies against the advertised JWKS, preserve the captured
ofid_..., timestamp, versions, workspace type, and sanitized/mcpstatus for Anthropic support, together with the server-side timeline. A valid token response followed by no authenticated MCP request is then a post-token client/connector failure.
For Codex, codex mcp list should show the Health entry as OAuth; use
codex mcp login shaughv-health for a connector-scoped retry. Codex registers a public client and
owns a randomized 127.0.0.1 callback, so no fixed Codex callback belongs in Google Cloud. If a
Codex run fails before the server receives DCR or an unauthenticated MCP discovery probe, update
Codex and correct the local model/client configuration first. See OpenAI's
Codex MCP guide.
Hermes Desktop, direct Claude Code, and Codex use different local callback shapes, all supported by
this server: Hermes uses an ephemeral 127.0.0.1:<port>/callback, Claude Code normally uses its
fixed localhost callback port, and Codex uses an ephemeral 127.0.0.1 path that can include a
server-specific callback identifier. Native IP-literal loopback redirects accept the actual
listening port selected at authorization time; the protocol, host, path, and query remain exact.
The protected-resource document and initial 401 advertise the complete approved initial grant:
openid profile email offline_access health:read health:write. Current clients differ in whether
they treat the challenge, protected-resource document, or authorization-server metadata as the
authoritative scope set, so all three now agree. This intentionally includes offline_access in
resource metadata for uninterrupted private-client refresh interoperability. A real write-scope
failure still returns only the explicit health:write step-up challenge. Existing public
registrations are expanded additively, but an already issued one-hour access token does not become
refreshable: reauthenticate that connector once to receive a rotating refresh credential.
Task board
Work is tracked on a self-contained board under .tasks/ (the SHAUGHV tasks system).
.tasks/TASKS.md— the board (Backlog / To-Do / Active / Done). Source of truth for what's next..tasks/MILESTONES.md— dated epics; tasks join one with an(ms #id)tag. Current milestone:#mcp2(1.0.0 stable release and remaining qualification)..tasks/tasks/<id>.md— a rich detail file per task (TT;DR-led, with## Verification,## Status,## Activity). The decision history lives here — e.g.rlw.md(Railway/FastMCP),api.md(REST surface feasibility),inf.md(the infra session),w11.md(webhooks v1.1)..tasks/CLAUDE.md— working memory (people, terms, projects, preferences).
The live dashboard is a zero-dependency Node server; resolve its port from
.tasks/.board-server.json or run node .tasks/board-server.mjs status. See
CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md for how agents should use the board.
Further reading
docs/adr/0001-private-allowlist-only.md— accepted private-audience, OAuth verification, and access-control decision.docs/PLAN.md— the authoritative build plan (read first).docs/adr/0003-vercel-node-fluid-mcp-2026.md— current host/runtime decision.docs/research/2026-07-29-mcp-sdk-v2-and-hosting.md— SDK v2, auth, hosting, compatibility, and pricing research.CLAUDE.md— instructions for Claude coding sessions.AGENTS.md— the same operational guidance, tool-neutral, for any agent (Codex, Cursor, etc.)..env.example— the env-var reference.
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