mdCollab MCP Multitenant Proxy Server

This repository contains a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that acts as a secure, multi-tenant proxy between an AI Assistant and the mdCollab backend API. It exposes 27 MCP tools covering 5 resource domains with full CRUD and permission management.

✨ Features

• 🔑 Identity Passthrough — Extracts the Authorization: Bearer <token> header from incoming HTTP requests and forwards it to the mdCollab API without server-side authentication.

• 👥 Multi-Tenancy — Uses Python contextvars to maintain thread-safe user identity isolation, ensuring all AI-driven actions are scoped to the authenticated user's permissions.

• 📊 Full mdCollab Coverage — 27 tools mapped to mdCollab API endpoints across 5 resource domains.

• ⚡ TOON Optimization — Bulk list responses are automatically compressed using TOON (Token-Optimized Object Notation) to reduce token consumption and maximize context window efficiency.

• 🚀 Efficient Gets — GET responses return only commonly used fields by default. Full objects are available via an include_all_fields flag.

• 🧪 Comprehensive Testing — 39 automated tests covering all tool domains, run via the test runner pipeline.

• 🏷️ Tool Annotations — All tools expose standard MCP ToolAnnotations hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint). The tags field carries grouping metadata (basic/primary/advanced + mdcollab).

Related MCP server: hedgedoc-mcp-server

🔧 Environment Variables

📦 Installation & Local Development

1. Ensure you have Python 3.12+ installed.

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install fastmcp httpx pydantic uvicorn toon-mcp-server

3. Run the server:

   export MDCOLLAB_INTERNAL_URL=http://localhost:7462
   export MDCOLLAB_PUBLIC_URL=https://mdcollab.example.com
   export MCP_SERVER_PORT=80
   python -m src.main

🐳 Docker Deployment

Build and run the server using Docker:

docker build -t mdcollab-mcp:latest .
docker run -d --name mdcollab-mcp \
    -e MDCOLLAB_INTERNAL_URL="http://mdcollab-backend:3000" \
    -e MDCOLLAB_PUBLIC_URL="https://mdcollab.example.com" \
    -e MCP_SERVER_PORT=80 \
    -e IS_STATEFUL=false \
    mdcollab-mcp:latest

The MCP server serves at `http://mdcollab-mcp:80/mcp` (Streamable HTTP).

⚠️ Important Notes

• 📋 include_all_fields — The include_all_fields parameter (available on all get_* and list_* tools) controls whether all available fields are included in responses. Defaults to False for performance; set to True only when additional fields are needed.

• ⚡ TOON Compression — All bulk list responses are automatically compressed using TOON to reduce token consumption by 30–60%.

• 📝 Required Fields & Defaults — Each create_* tool requires specific key fields. All other fields default to empty strings or reasonable values. The owner field is automatically set to the authenticated user for most resources.

🛠️ API Tool Mapping

The server implements 27 MCP tools organized into the following categories:

📄 Notes Core (6 tools)

• create_note — Create a new note from markdown content

• get_note_by_id — Get a single note by ID or alias

• update_note — Update an existing note's content

• delete_note_by_id — Delete a note by ID or alias

• get_note_content — Get raw markdown content of a note

• get_note_metadata — Get a note's metadata (title, tags, etc.)

📎 Notes Advanced (7 tools)

• list_note_media — List all media files attached to a note

• list_note_revisions — List all revisions of a note

• get_note_revision_by_id — Get a specific revision by UUID

• revert_to_revision — Revert a note to a previous revision

• add_alias — Add an alias to a note

• make_alias_primary — Set an alias as primary or non-primary

• remove_alias — Remove an alias from a note

🔐 Notes Permissions (6 tools)

• get_note_permissions — Get a note's permission settings

• set_note_user_permission — Set a user's permission on a note

• remove_note_user_permission — Remove a user's permission from a note

• set_note_group_permission — Set a group's permission on a note

• remove_note_group_permission — Remove a group's permission from a note

• change_note_owner — Change the owner of a note

📋 Notes Listing (4 tools)

• list_all_my_notes — List notes owned by the current user

• list_all_shared_notes — List notes shared with the current user

• list_all_public_notes — List public notes visible to the current user

• list_all_pinned_notes — List notes pinned by the current user

👤 Profile & Media (4 tools)

• get_my_profile — Get the current user's profile information

• list_all_my_media — List all media files owned by the current user

• get_media_by_id — Get a single media file by UUID

• delete_media_by_id — Delete a media file by UUID