Scry MCP Server

A spec-compliant remote MCP server on Cloudflare Workers that exposes multi-modal vector search over the Scry component database. Authenticates users via Firebase and issues its own OAuth tokens to MCP clients.

Compatible with Claude Desktop, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP client via mcp-remote.

Architecture

Claude Desktop / ChatGPT / Any MCP Client
    │
    │  (stdio via mcp-remote)
    ▼
mcp-remote (local proxy)
    │
    │  (Streamable HTTP + OAuth 2.1)
    ▼
Cloudflare Worker ──────────────► Firebase Auth (upstream IdP)
  ├─ OAuthProvider (token mgmt)
  ├─ FirebaseAuthHandler (login UI + token verify)
  └─ ScryMCP (Durable Object)
         │
         ▼
  Scry Search API (Next.js)
    ├─ POST /api/search         — vector search (text, image, hybrid)
    ├─ GET  /api/image/...      — image proxy (CDN auth)
    └─ POST /api/image/presign  — presigned URL generation

The Worker acts as both an OAuth server to MCP clients (issuing its own tokens) and an OAuth client to Firebase (authenticating users upstream). The MCP client never sees the Firebase token.

Related MCP server: Aicon

Tools

Project Structure

scry-mcp/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts                # Entry point — OAuthProvider wrapper
│   ├── firebase-handler.ts     # Auth handler — login UI + Firebase verification
│   ├── mcp.ts                  # MCP server — 4 Scry search tools
│   └── utils/
│       └── firebase-verify.ts  # Firebase ID token verification (Workers-compatible)
├── test/
│   ├── firebase-verify.test.ts # Unit tests for token verification
│   ├── firebase-handler.test.ts# Integration tests for auth handler
│   ├── mcp.test.ts             # Tests for MCP tools
│   ├── e2e.test.ts             # E2E smoke tests (requires dev server)
│   └── fixtures/
│       └── tokens.ts           # Test JWT fixtures
├── vitest.config.ts
├── wrangler.jsonc
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── eslint.config.mjs
└── worker-configuration.d.ts

Prerequisites

• Node.js v22+

• A Cloudflare account

• A Firebase project with Authentication enabled

• The Scry Next.js search API running (provides /api/search and /api/image/presign)

Local Development

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Create local environment file

cp .dev.vars.example .dev.vars

Edit .dev.vars with your values:

FIREBASE_API_KEY=your-firebase-api-key
FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN=your-project.firebaseapp.com
FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID=your-project-id
SCRY_SEARCH_API_URL=http://localhost:3000
SCRY_SEARCH_API_KEY=your-search-api-key
SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET=same-value-as-scry-nextjs-SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET
COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_KEY=any-random-string-for-dev

SCRY_SEARCH_API_KEY is transport auth: it proves a request came from this worker. SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET signs the short-lived X-Scry-Caller JWT that tells the search API which user the worker is acting for; it is the only channel that carries the uid, and the search API verifies it with the same secret before it trusts the uid. Without the secret the search tools return SERVER_MISCONFIGURED rather than searching anonymously.

3. KV configuration

The production and staging KV namespaces already exist and are configured in wrangler.jsonc. Local development uses Wrangler's local KV emulator; no cloud namespace creation is needed.

4. Start the dev server

npm run dev

The server runs at http://localhost:8787.

5. Test with MCP Inspector

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector
# Enter: http://localhost:8787/mcp

Running Tests

# Unit + integration tests
npm test

# With verbose output
npx vitest run --reporter=verbose

# Watch mode
npm run test:watch

# E2E tests (requires dev server running in another terminal)
npm run dev          # terminal 1
npm run test:e2e     # terminal 2

# Full verification (typecheck + lint + tests)
npm run verify

Deployment

The shared workflow is .github/workflows/deploy.yml, using Node 22 and Wrangler 4.72.0 (the lockfile version). PRs targeting stage or main run typecheck, lint, widget build and tests without deploying. Feature PRs target stage; promotion advances main to the tested staging commit.

Pushes to these branches deploy after checks pass; Markdown and docs/** changes alone do not trigger push CI. Use the workflow's environment choice for a manual run, selecting the branch whose commit should deploy. Deployments are serialized per ref and include the Phase 0 commit, branch, build time, run ID, actor and Sentry release stamps. The smoke gate retries /healthz six times at 10-second intervals until its commit matches the run SHA, then requires unauthenticated /mcp to return 401 and /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server to return 200.

For an authorized manual deploy, npm run deploy:staging selects staging and npm run deploy:production (or npm run deploy) retains the existing production worker and stamp flags. Production intentionally has no env.production block; use a top-level deploy/dry-run, not --env production.

After this Phase 1 change merges, create stage from the updated main and push it to trigger the first staging deploy. CI reuses the repository's existing CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN and CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID. GitHub deployment environments are staging and production, with their respective worker URLs. The existing staging-OAUTH_KV namespace is reused, and Wrangler applies migration v1 to the new worker's ScryMCP Durable Object; no KV creation or manual DO migration is needed. Staging uses workers.dev and has no custom routes.

Phase 1 health and OAuth smoke checks work without worker secrets: health reads only stamp vars, the provider builds metadata from the request origin and endpoint configuration, and missing bearer auth returns 401 before accessing KV or services. Firebase sign-in, search and image generation need Phase 2 configuration:

• Add staging FIREBASE_API_KEY, FIREBASE_AUTH_DOMAIN, and FIREBASE_PROJECT_ID for scry-dev-dashboard-stage.

• Set SCRY_SEARCH_API_URL to the scry-nextjs stable stage alias and SCRY_SEARCH_API_KEY to its stage-only API key.

• Set SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET to the same value as the scry-nextjs Preview deployment's SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET (wrangler secret put SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET --env staging; production is top-level, wrangler secret put SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET). Generate a distinct value per environment with openssl rand -base64 48. Set it on scry-nextjs first, with its ALLOW_LEGACY_USER_HEADER=true transition flag on, then deploy the worker, then turn the flag off.

• Add a staging COOKIE_ENCRYPTION_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY for image generation, and optionally SENTRY_DSN for error reporting. In Phase 2, use wrangler secret put <NAME> --env staging; production secrets remain top-level.

• In the staging Firebase console, authorize scry-mcp-staging.epinnock.workers.dev and enable the intended sign-in providers (Google and email/password alongside GitHub).

Do not enable DEV_BYPASS_AUTH on deployed workers. Full authenticated staging verification follows in Phase 2 after those secrets and Firebase settings exist.

Firebase Setup

1. Create a Firebase project at console.firebase.google.com

2. Enable Authentication > Sign-in method > Google and/or Email/Password

3. Add your Worker's domain to authorized domains: Authentication > Settings > Authorized domains > Add scry-mcp.<your-account>.workers.dev

4. Copy config values from Project Settings > General > Web app config: apiKey, authDomain, projectId

Client Setup (Claude Desktop)

Add to your Claude Desktop config (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scry": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://scry-mcp.<your-account>.workers.dev/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

For local development:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scry": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["mcp-remote", "http://localhost:8787/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. On first launch, a browser window opens for Firebase sign-in. After authenticating, the 4 tools appear in Claude's tool picker.

Auth Flow

Claude Desktop        mcp-remote          Worker              Firebase
     │                    │                  │                    │
     │── start ──────────►│                  │                    │
     │                    │── GET /mcp ─────►│                    │
     │                    │◄── 401 ──────────│                    │
     │                    │                  │                    │
     │  (browser opens)   │── GET /authorize►│                    │
     │                    │                  │── render login ───►│
     │                    │                  │◄── ID token ───────│
     │                    │                  │  verify + issue    │
     │                    │◄── MCP token ────│                    │
     │                    │                  │                    │
     │── "find buttons" ─►│── tool call ────►│── POST /api/search►
     │◄── components ─────│◄── results ──────│◄──────────────────

Security

• Token isolation: Firebase tokens are never exposed to MCP clients. The Worker encrypts them in KV and issues separate MCP-scoped tokens.

• CSRF protection: __Host- prefixed cookies with HttpOnly, Secure, SameSite=Lax.

• Rate limiting: 60 requests/minute per user (sliding window in Durable Object).

• Request timeouts: 30s AbortController timeout on all upstream calls.

• Input validation: Zod schemas enforce query length (500 chars), image size (10MB), project ID length (128 chars).

• Presigned URLs: Time-limited (1 hour), generated server-side. R2 credentials never leave the Next.js service. The presign request carries the caller assertion, so the Next.js service signs only keys the user may read.

• Caller identity: the worker sends X-Scry-Caller, an HS256 JWT over SCRY_CALLER_ASSERTION_SECRET ({sub: uid, aud: "scry-search", iat, exp ≤ 60s}), so the shared SCRY_SEARCH_API_KEY cannot be used to impersonate a user. This assertion is the only identity channel: the search API's transition flag is gone, the unsigned X-User-Id header is no longer read there, and the worker no longer sends it.

• Search scope: explicit scope on both search tools, default project, which never widens. org returns another project's rows only when that project opted in (discoverableByOrg) and the user can read it.

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