Okta MCP server — remote deployment for Claude.ai

Runs Okta's stdio-only okta-mcp-server as a remote, OAuth-protected Streamable HTTP connector on Google Cloud Run, so it can be used from Claude.ai over the internet.

A thin FastMCP wrapper (wrapper/server.py) does three things: bridges the stdio server to Streamable HTTP, enforces Okta OAuth on the front door (token introspection), and adds a few native Admin API tools the upstream package can't currently serve.

See docs/DEPLOYMENT.md for the full Okta + Cloud Run + Claude.ai setup and troubleshooting.

What this adds over the upstream package

The base okta-mcp-server is a stdio-only server meant to run locally under Claude Desktop / an IDE. This repo turns it into a shared, internet-reachable connector and fills some gaps:

• Remote transport. A FastMCP wrapper (wrapper/server.py) proxies the stdio server and re-exposes it over Streamable HTTP on 0.0.0.0:$PORT, which is what Claude.ai's remote connectors speak. Upstream offers no HTTP mode.

• OAuth front door. Every request is authenticated against your Okta org authorization server via RFC 7662 token introspection, with the OAuth discovery metadata Claude.ai expects. Access is gated by assignment to the Claude.ai Connector app.

• Headless backend auth. The proxied server runs with the browserless Private Key JWT flow (not the interactive device flow), suitable for a container.

• Cloud Run deployment. Dockerfile, deploy/deploy.sh (gcloud) and terraform/ provision the service, a least-privilege runtime service account, and Secret Manager wiring; docs/DEPLOYMENT.md is the runbook.

• Native Admin API tools. Application search, assignment listing, group assignment management, and provisioning-feature management — capabilities the base package lacks or can't serve reliably. They return raw JSON (working around a bug where the upstream SDK models reject some app subtypes) and surface Okta error bodies instead of raising. Listed below.

Related MCP server: Okta MCP Server by CData

Tools

All the upstream okta-mcp-server tools are exposed via the proxy, filtered by OKTA_SCOPES. In addition, the wrapper adds these native tools — thin wrappers over the Okta Management API that return raw JSON (bypassing the upstream SDK models, which reject some app subtypes). On an Okta error they return the error body (e.g. E0000007, E0000006) rather than raising.

Native tools are not part of the upstream package, so they do not appear in the backend's get_scope_status.

remove_group_from_application is destructive (it can trigger deprovisioning), so it asks for confirmation via elicitation and falls back to confirm_remove_group_from_application (requires confirmation="REMOVE") when the client can't show a prompt.

Deploy

./deploy/deploy.sh          # first pass
PUBLIC_BASE_URL="https://<run.app-url>" ./deploy/deploy.sh   # second pass

Layout: wrapper/server.py (the wrapper), Dockerfile, requirements.txt, deploy/deploy.sh (gcloud) or terraform/ (IaC), docs/DEPLOYMENT.md (runbook).

Licence & attribution

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0, © 2026 Rittman Analytics Limited.

This is an independent wrapper, not a fork. It builds on Okta's okta-mcp-server — also Apache 2.0 — which it installs as a dependency and runs as a subprocess (see requirements.txt); none of its source is copied into this repo. See NOTICE for details.