page-user — proactive push-notification MCP

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An MCP server that gives any MCP client (Claude Code, Codex CLI, …) a page_user tool. The AI calls it to proactively push a short message to your phone via Telegram — when a long task finishes, a run fails, it needs a decision, or you asked for periodic progress. Each message carries the machine name, which CLI sent it, a session label, and optional tables (rendered aligned).

Claude Code / Codex ── page_user(message, title?, host?, session?, agent?, table?, tag?) ──►
        (just a URL + token in config)                                                       │
                                                                                             ▼
                                              Cloudflare Worker (remote MCP) ──► Telegram

There are two flavors. The Cloudflare remote MCP is recommended; the original self-hosted Apprise gateway is kept as a legacy alternative (see the end).

Recommended: remote MCP on Cloudflare

The whole server is one Cloudflare Worker in cloudflare/ — stateless MCP over Streamable HTTP, bearer auth, pushes straight to Telegram. Nothing runs on your machines; you update every client at once by redeploying.

1. Deploy the Worker and set its secrets — full step-by-step in cloudflare/README.md. You end up with an endpoint like https://<name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev/mcp and a bearer AUTH_TOKEN.

2. Register with your CLIs on each machine:

   PAGE_USER_TOKEN=<AUTH_TOKEN> ./scripts/install_page_user.sh

   This removes any old notify server and adds page-user to Claude Code (user scope) and Codex (~/.codex/config.toml), baking in the machine's hostname (X-Host) and the CLI name (X-Agent). Override the endpoint with PAGE_USER_URL if you deployed under a different name.

3. Verify: claude mcp list (should show page-user … ✔ Connected) and codex mcp list.

Egress: clients must be able to reach *.workers.dev (the default Worker domain is commonly blocked on direct connections — a working HTTP(S) proxy in the environment is enough; the CLIs inherit HTTPS_PROXY). If a machine can't reach *.workers.dev at all, bind a custom domain to the Worker instead.

The tool

page_user(message, title?, host?, session?, agent?, table?, tag?) — pushes a formatted notification. Only message is required; host/agent default to the X-Host/X-Agent headers set at registration, tag selects a recipient group (TARGETS secret), and table is rows of strings rendered as an aligned monospace table. The model learns all of this from the tool's MCP schema — it does not read this README. To change the tool or its guidance, edit cloudflare/worker.js and npx wrangler deploy; all clients pick it up.

Manual registration

# Claude Code (user scope):
claude mcp add --transport http page-user https://<name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <AUTH_TOKEN>" -H "X-Host: $(hostname)" -H "X-Agent: claude-code" -s user

# Codex — add to ~/.codex/config.toml:
# [mcp_servers.page-user]
# url = "https://<name>.<subdomain>.workers.dev/mcp"
# http_headers = { "Authorization" = "Bearer <AUTH_TOKEN>", "X-Host" = "<host>", "X-Agent" = "codex" }

Related MCP server: MCP-Pushover Bridge

Legacy: self-hosted Apprise gateway

The original design is a thin Python MCP wrapper (notify_mcp.py, tool send_notification) that POSTs to a self-hosted Apprise gateway (server.py), which forwards to Telegram/Feishu/etc. Use this if you can't or don't want to use Cloudflare. It is managed with uv:

uv sync --extra gateway       # wrapper + apprise
./scripts/start_gateway.sh    # run the gateway (needs ./token and ./targets.json)
./scripts/install_mcp.sh      # register the `notify` MCP with Claude Code + Codex

Details:

• docs/NOTIFY_GATEWAY.md — example gateway deployment (systemd, proxy, Telegram/Feishu).

• docs/MCP_INTROSPECTION.md — how a client discovers the server's identity and tool.

• docs/ABOUT.txt — short, human-friendly intro (中文).

Unit tests (legacy Python code)

uv run pytest -q                 # no network needed
uv run pre-commit run --all-files  # ruff format/lint