embr-foundry-tool-sample-node

A minimal Node.js / Express tool server that exposes the same two tools through two Foundry-consumable surfaces:

• OpenAPI (custom skill) at /api/* + spec at /openapi.json.

• MCP (Model Context Protocol) streamable-HTTP at /mcp.

Same code path, two doors. Lets you compare the two integration paths from a single deployment.

This is the Node sibling of embr-foundry-tool-sample-python and embr-foundry-tool-sample-dotnet.

What's in the box

• ESM Node app on Node 20+ / Express 5.

• Two tools: getWeather and getTime — pure functions in tools.js.

• Hand-written OpenAPI 3.1 doc with an x-api-key security scheme declared (Foundry's custom-OpenAPI tool import rejects anonymous specs).

• MCP server via the official @modelcontextprotocol/sdk package, mounted at /mcp with a stateless StreamableHTTP transport (new transport per request, no session management).

Related MCP server: Node MCP Server

Layout

app/
  server.js     # Express endpoint mapping + auth gate
  tools.js     # core tool implementations
  mcp.js       # McpServer + StreamableHTTPServerTransport wiring
  openapi.js   # hand-written OpenAPI 3.1 document
embr.yaml      # Embr deploy config (platform: nodejs)
.env.example   # optional TOOL_API_KEY for runtime auth

Surfaces

Auth

The OpenAPI spec declares an x-api-key header security scheme (Foundry requires at least one auth scheme on imported tools). At runtime:

• If TOOL_API_KEY is unset, requests are accepted without a header. This is the easy mode for the Foundry import flow and local development.

• If TOOL_API_KEY is set, /api/* requests must include x-api-key: <value> or get a 401.

The MCP surface does not enforce the header — Foundry's MCP connection configuration is the auth boundary there.

Run locally

npm install
npm start

Then:

curl http://localhost:5000/health
curl 'http://localhost:5000/api/weather?location=Seattle'
curl 'http://localhost:5000/api/time?timezone=America/New_York'
curl http://localhost:5000/openapi.json | jq .

For the MCP surface, post a JSON-RPC initialize:

curl -s -X POST http://localhost:5000/mcp \
  -H 'Accept: application/json,text/event-stream' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2025-03-26","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1"}}}'

Deploy to Embr

gh repo create embr-foundry-tool-sample-node --source=. --public --push
embr quickstart deploy <your-user>/embr-foundry-tool-sample-node
# optional:
embr variables set TOOL_API_KEY <secret> -p <projectId> -e <envId> -s

Once deployed, the URLs Foundry needs are:

• OpenAPI: https://<your-deploy>/openapi.json

• MCP: https://<your-deploy>/mcp

Notes

• Tool implementations are pure (no external deps), so behavior is fully identical between the OpenAPI route and the MCP tool call.

• Stateless MCP: each POST gets a fresh McpServer + transport. Keeps the surface trivial to reason about behind Embr's ingress.