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dummy-nest-mcp

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dummy-nest-mcp

A minimal MCP server built with @rekog/mcp-nest (NestJS), instrumented with @posthog/mcp to validate that PostHog's MCP analytics SDK works against a MCP-Nest server.

It exposes two mocked tools — get_trends and get_funnel

How the integration works

MCP-Nest creates the underlying @modelcontextprotocol/sdk McpServer for you. It exposes that instance through the serverMutator option on McpModule.forRoot():

// src/app.module.ts
McpModule.forRoot({
  name: 'dummy-nest-mcp',
  version: '0.1.0',
  // Stateful Streamable HTTP: one McpServer / one session spans the whole
  // connection, so `initialize` and every tool call share an `mcp-session-id`.
  // Without this combo (stateless mode, or no propagated session) each request
  // stands alone — every tool call is its own session and identify() has no
  // stable session to attribute events to.
  transport: McpTransportType.STREAMABLE_HTTP,
  streamableHttp: { enableJsonResponse: true },
  serverMutator: instrumentationMutator, // <- the hook @posthog/mcp plugs into
})
// src/posthog.ts
export const instrumentationMutator = (server) => {
  instrument(server, posthog, { logger, identify });
  return server;
};

instrument() accepts the high-level McpServer, is idempotent per server instance, and wraps its request handlers so tool calls / listings / initialize / identity get auto-captured.

⚠️ Subtle bit: because this server is stateful, MCP-Nest builds a fresh McpServer for every session, so serverMutator (and therefore instrument()) runs once per session, not once at boot. Keep the PostHog client a shared singleton outside the mutator — see Gotcha 2 below.

Related MCP server: mcp-nestjs

Setup

npm install
cp .env.example .env   # then put your key in .env

Set in .env:

  • POSTHOG_PROJECT_TOKEN — your Project token (phc_…), shown under "Project token & ID" in the PostHog UI. This is the value the SDK ingests events with. (POSTHOG_API_KEY is still accepted as a fallback name. Don't use a personal key, phx_….)

  • POSTHOG_HOST — optional. Defaults to PostHog Cloud US (https://us.i.posthog.com). EU: https://eu.i.posthog.com; local dev stack: http://localhost:8010.

  • PORT — optional, defaults to 3000.

Run

npm start
# -> server.ready http://localhost:3000/mcp

Tool-call logs (get_trends …) and [posthog] capture lines go to stderr — leave it running.

Test it (curl)

Streamable HTTP is stateful here, so propagate the mcp-session-id returned by initialize:

B=http://localhost:3000/mcp
H='Accept: application/json, text/event-stream'

# initialize → grab the session id from the response header
SID=$(curl -s -D /tmp/h.txt -o /dev/null -H "$H" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -X POST "$B" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"curl","version":"1.0.0"}}}'; \
  grep -i '^mcp-session-id:' /tmp/h.txt | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '\r')

curl -s -H "$H" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "mcp-session-id: $SID" -X POST "$B" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}'

curl -s -H "$H" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H "mcp-session-id: $SID" -X POST "$B" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_trends","arguments":{"event":"pageview","days":3}}}'

Connect from Claude Desktop

Bridge stdio → HTTP with mcp-remote (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dummy-nest-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "http://localhost:3000/mcp", "--transport", "http-only"]
    }
  }
}
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