hudu-mcp

MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for Hudu IT documentation platform. Provides 39 tools and 6 resources for managing companies, assets, articles, passwords, websites, and more through any MCP-compatible client.

Features

• 39 MCP tools covering all major Hudu resources

• 6 MCP resources for direct data access

• Dual auth mode: classic HUDU_API_KEY REST access, or oauth — a thin, authenticated proxy to a newer Hudu instance's own native MCP server

• Dual transport support: stdio (default) and HTTP Streamable

• Lazy initialization - SDK client created on first tool call

• Connection testing built-in

• All logging to stderr to avoid polluting MCP stdio transport

Related MCP server: redmine-mcp

One-Click Deployment

Installation

This project depends on @wyre-technology/node-hudu, published to the GitHub Packages npm registry, which requires a token even for public packages. Authenticate npm once before installing:

git clone https://github.com/WYRE-AI/hudu-mcp.git
cd hudu-mcp

# Authenticate npm to GitHub Packages (token needs the read:packages scope)
export NODE_AUTH_TOKEN=$(gh auth token)   # or a PAT with read:packages

npm install
npm run build

The repo's .npmrc already points the @wyre-technology scope at GitHub Packages and reads the token from NODE_AUTH_TOKEN, so no further config is needed.

Configuration

Authentication modes

This server talks to Hudu in one of two ways. HUDU_AUTH_MODE picks between them; if it's unset, the mode is auto-detected from whether HUDU_API_KEY is set:

• api_key (auto-selected when HUDU_API_KEY is set) — the classic mode. This server calls Hudu's REST API directly via @wyre-technology/node-hudu and implements all 39 tools itself, exactly as before. This is the mode every existing deployment already uses, and it is 100% unchanged and unaffected by everything below.

• oauth (auto-selected when HUDU_API_KEY is not set) — for newer Hudu instances that expose their own native MCP server (Hudu Admin -> External Apps -> MCP), protected by interactive OAuth rather than a static API key. In this mode hudu-mcp does not reimplement any tools; it acts as a thin, authenticated proxy that forwards MCP requests straight through to {HUDU_BASE_URL}/mcp and relays the responses back, so you automatically get whatever tool surface that Hudu instance exposes.

  The OAuth flow (RFC 9728/8414 discovery, RFC 7591 Dynamic Client Registration, PKCE authorization_code, no client secret — this is a public client) runs the first time a request needs a token:

  1. hudu-mcp discovers the instance's OAuth metadata from {HUDU_BASE_URL}/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp and {HUDU_BASE_URL}/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.

  2. It registers itself as a public OAuth client via Dynamic Client Registration (once per Hudu instance — the issued client_id is cached).

  3. It prints an authorization URL to stderr. Open it in a browser and approve access.

  4. A short-lived local server on http://127.0.0.1:<ephemeral-port>/callback catches the redirect and exchanges the code for tokens.

  5. Tokens are cached at ~/.hudu-mcp/credentials-<hash-of-base-url>.json (file mode 0600), and transparently refreshed on later runs — you should only see the browser prompt again if the refresh token itself expires or is revoked.

  Because this flow needs a browser that can reach a callback server bound to 127.0.0.1 on the machine running hudu-mcp, it works for stdio (always local to the calling MCP client) and for a self-hosted http transport running on the same machine you're browsing from — e.g. local testing on localhost:8080. It does not work for an http transport deployed to a remote host you don't have browser-level access to (a cloud VM, a container, etc.): your browser can't reach that machine's own loopback interface to complete the redirect, so the first-run authorization would hang. This is unrelated to gateway mode (AUTH_MODE=gateway), which is a stateless multi-tenant proxy with credentials injected per request via headers and has no single user to run a browser flow for at all — setting HUDU_AUTH_MODE=oauth together with AUTH_MODE=gateway is a startup error.

  HTTP transport (both api_key and oauth) also requires CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET or MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1. The dev flag binds 127.0.0.1 only. See HTTP authentication. The stdio transport does not use CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET.

Usage

Claude Desktop (stdio)

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hudu": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/hudu-mcp/dist/entry.js"],
      "env": {
        "HUDU_BASE_URL": "https://docs.example.com",
        "HUDU_API_KEY": "your-api-key"
      }
    }
  }
}

For a newer Hudu instance with its own native MCP server (see Authentication modes), omit HUDU_API_KEY and only set HUDU_BASE_URL — hudu-mcp will print an authorization URL to the terminal the first time it's launched:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hudu": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/hudu-mcp/dist/entry.js"],
      "env": {
        "HUDU_BASE_URL": "https://docs.example.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

HTTP Transport

/health stays unauthenticated and does not read credentials.

CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
HUDU_BASE_URL=https://docs.example.com \
HUDU_API_KEY=your-api-key \
MCP_TRANSPORT=http \
MCP_HTTP_PORT=8080 \
npm start

Local HTTP without a service-to-service secret is development-only. It binds 127.0.0.1 and logs a warning:

MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 npm start

HTTP authentication

With MCP_TRANSPORT=http and a real CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET, every /mcp request must include X-Gateway-S2S. The check is verifyS2sHeader in src/mcp/s2s-verify.ts: the header value is t=<unix seconds>,v1=<hex>, where the hex is HMAC-SHA256 of the literal string t=<unix seconds> keyed with CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET (64 lowercase hex characters). The timestamp must be within 300 seconds of the server clock. A missing or invalid header is HTTP 401, before Hudu credentials are read.

TS=$(date +%s)
SIG=$(printf 't=%s' "$TS" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hmac "$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" -hex | awk '{print $NF}')
curl -sS http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -H "X-Gateway-S2S: t=${TS},v1=${SIG}" \
  -H "X-Hudu-Base-URL: $HUDU_BASE_URL" \
  -H "X-Hudu-API-Key: $HUDU_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}'

In AUTH_MODE=gateway, /mcp also requires X-Hudu-Base-URL and X-Hudu-API-Key. Those headers are the only credential source for that request. A missing header is HTTP 401 and does not fall back to HUDU_BASE_URL or HUDU_API_KEY in the environment.

Compose refuses to start when CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is unset. The gateway service sets AUTH_MODE=gateway, does not inject HUDU_BASE_URL or HUDU_API_KEY, and publishes 127.0.0.1:8080:8080:

CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET=your-s2s-secret docker compose up

The image listens on 0.0.0.0 inside the container and still refuses to start without a real secret. Publish the port on loopback:

docker run \
  -e CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET=your-s2s-secret \
  -e AUTH_MODE=gateway \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/wyre-ai/hudu-mcp

Tools (39)

Companies (8 tools)

Assets (6 tools)

Asset Layouts (4 tools)

Asset Passwords (5 tools)

Articles (6 tools)

Websites (5 tools)

Other Resources (5 tools)

Resources

Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

# Run in development mode
npm run dev

# Clean build output
npm run clean

License

Apache-2.0