Remote MCP Server On Cloudflare 2ht

🚀 Running a Remote MCP Server on Cloudflare

Let's build a remote MCP server based on Cloudflare Workers and integrate OAuth login functionality!

🚀 Quick Start

📦 Local Development

# Clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:cloudflare/ai.git

# Install dependencies
cd ai
npm install

# Run locally
npx nx dev remote-mcp-server

You should be able to open a browser window at http://localhost:8787/ to access the server.

💻 Connecting the MCP Inspector to Your Server

To explore the new MCP API, you can use the MCP Inspector.

• Start the inspector using npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector.
• In the inspector, switch the transport type to SSE, enter http://localhost:8787/sse as the URL of the MCP server to connect, and click "Connect".
• You'll enter a (simulated) user/password login screen. Enter any email and password to log in.
• After successful login, you'll be redirected back to the MCP Inspector and can list and call any defined tools!

💻 Connecting Claude Desktop to Your Local MCP Server

The MCP Inspector is great, but what we really want is to connect it to Claude! Follow the Anthropic's Quick Start Guide, go to Settings > Developer > Edit Configuration in Claude Desktop to find the configuration file. Open the file with a text editor and replace it with the following content:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "math": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "http://localhost:8787/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

This will run a local proxy that allows Claude to communicate with your MCP server over HTTP. When you open Claude, a browser window will open and allow you to log in. You should be able to see a list of available tools. As prompted, Claude may ask to call a tool.

🚀 Deployment to Cloudflare

1. npx wrangler kv namespace create OAUTH_KV
2. Follow the instructions to add the KV namespace ID to the wrangler.jsonc file.
3. npm run deploy

💻 Calling the Newly Deployed Remote MCP Server from a Remote MCP Client

Just like in the "Local Development" section, run the MCP Inspector: npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector@latest Then, in the inspector, enter the workers.dev URL of your Worker (e.g., worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse) as the URL of the MCP server and click "Connect". You've now connected the MCP server from a remote MCP client.

💻 Connecting Claude Desktop to Your Remote MCP Server

Update the Claude configuration file to point to your workers.dev URL (e.g., https://worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse), then restart Claude.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "math": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://worker-name.account-name.workers.dev/sse"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🔧 Debugging

If you encounter issues, restarting Claude or directly connecting to your MCP server via the following command may help.

npx mcp-remote http://localhost:8787/sse

In rare cases, clearing the files in the ~/.mcp-auth directory may be helpful.

rm -rf ~/.mcp-auth