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-title: "Mcp Oauth Remote Gateway — Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways"
-sidebar_label: "Mcp Oauth Remote Gateway"
-description: "Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways"
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-
-{/* This page is auto-generated from the skill's SKILL.md by website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py. Edit the source SKILL.md, not this page. */}
-
-# Mcp Oauth Remote Gateway
-
-Manual OAuth for remote MCP servers on headless gateways.
-
-## Skill metadata
-
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| Source | Optional — install with `hermes skills install official/mcp/mcp-oauth-remote-gateway` |
-| Path | `optional-skills/mcp\mcp-oauth-remote-gateway` |
-| Version | `1.0.0` |
-| Author | Ben Barclay (benbarclay), Hermes Agent |
-| License | MIT |
-| Platforms | linux, macos |
-| Tags | `MCP`, `OAuth`, `PKCE`, `Remote-Deployment` |
-| Related skills | [`hermes-agent`](/docs/user-guide/skills/bundled/autonomous-ai-agents/autonomous-ai-agents-hermes-agent), [`mcporter`](/docs/user-guide/skills/optional/mcp/mcp-mcporter), [`fastmcp`](/docs/user-guide/skills/optional/mcp/mcp-fastmcp) |
-
-## Reference: full SKILL.md
-
-:::info
-The following is the complete skill definition that Hermes loads when this skill is triggered. This is what the agent sees as instructions when the skill is active.
-:::
-
-# MCP OAuth on a Remote Hermes Gateway
-
-## Overview
-
-Hermes' built-in MCP OAuth client runs a one-shot HTTP listener on `127.0.0.1:<port>`
-inside the Hermes process and registers that loopback address as the OAuth
-`redirect_uri`. That works perfectly for a local CLI on the user's own machine.
-It breaks completely when Hermes runs as a remote gateway (container, VPS,
-messaging bot), because the user's browser resolves `127.0.0.1` to the user's own
-laptop, not the remote container — so the authorization code never reaches Hermes.
-
-This skill does the OAuth dance by hand and writes the resulting tokens into the
-exact files Hermes' token storage expects, so a subsequent `/reload-mcp` finds
-cached tokens and skips the browser flow entirely.
-
-## When to Use
-
-Use this skill when **all** of the following are true:
-
-1. The user wants to add a remote HTTP MCP server that requires OAuth (not a static Bearer token).
-2. Hermes is running as a **remote gateway** (container, VPS, Docker, managed service) — NOT a local CLI on the user's laptop.
-3. The server supports OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and RFC 7591 Dynamic Client Registration (most modern MCP servers do — Better Stack, Linear, Cloudflare, Datadog, etc.). If it doesn't support DCR (GitHub is the notable exception), this skill does not apply — use a pre-registered OAuth App or a Personal Access Token instead.
-
-Do NOT use this for:
-- **Local CLI Hermes** — just set `auth: oauth` in `mcp_servers.<name>` and `/reload-mcp`. The built-in flow opens a browser and captures the callback on localhost. Works perfectly.
-- **Servers that accept a static Bearer token (API key)** — always prefer `headers.Authorization: "Bearer <token>"` when the user is willing. Simpler, no refresh dance.
-- **GitHub Copilot MCP** (`api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/`) — GitHub does not expose DCR. Use a PAT or a pre-registered OAuth App (see pitfall 12).
-
-## Why the Built-in OAuth Flow Fails on a Remote Gateway
-
-Hermes' native MCP OAuth client (`tools/mcp_oauth.py`):
-
-1. Picks a free local port `P`.
-2. Registers a dynamic OAuth client with the AS, sending `redirect_uri = http://127.0.0.1:P/callback`.
-3. Starts an HTTP server on `127.0.0.1:P` **inside the Hermes process**.
-4. Prints the authorize URL and waits for the code at its local endpoint.
-
-When Hermes runs remotely, the `127.0.0.1` in the `redirect_uri` is the remote
-container's loopback, not the user's. After authorizing, the user's browser 302s
-to `http://127.0.0.1:P/callback?code=...`, which resolves to the user's own
-laptop and fails to connect. The callback never reaches the Hermes process, the
-flow times out, and `/reload-mcp` returns "No MCP tools available" with no detail.
-
-Symptoms to recognize: `[xdg-open] <defunct>` processes under the hermes user, an
-empty or missing tokens directory (`$HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/`), and a reload that
-responds without any "Added/Reconnected: X" line in `change_detail`.
-
-## Cheap First Fallbacks: the Built-in Flow's Own Escape Hatches
-
-Before any manual token surgery, check whether the built-in flow's fallbacks
-already cover the deployment. When Hermes detects a remote session it prints two
-options alongside the authorize URL (`tools/mcp_oauth.py`):
-
-1. **Paste-back** — on an interactive TTY, a stdin reader races the HTTP
-   listener. The user authorizes, the browser fails to connect to
-   `127.0.0.1:<port>`, and they paste the full address-bar URL
-   (`?code=...&state=...`) back at the prompt. Works for SSH'd-in CLI sessions.
-2. **SSH port-forward** — `ssh -N -L <port>:127.0.0.1:<port> <user>@<host>`
-   makes the redirect reach the remote listener normally.
-
-Both require an interactive terminal to the Hermes host. The rest of this skill
-is for when there is NO interactive TTY — Hermes running purely as a messaging
-gateway/bot where `/reload-mcp` triggers the flow with nobody at a prompt.
-
-## Preferred Front Door: the Hermes Dashboard (try this BEFORE manual token surgery)
-
-A remote Hermes gateway often also runs the **dashboard** web UI as a SEPARATE
-process (e.g. `hermes dashboard --host 0.0.0.0 --port <port>`; check with
-`ps aux | grep 'hermes dashboard'`). It exposes a connector/MCP console —
-endpoints like `/api/mcp/servers`, `/api/mcp/status`, and `/connectors` (all
-login-gated; a cookieless curl returning 401/302 confirms they exist).
-
-**Why the dashboard solves the core problem:** when the user drives OAuth from
-the dashboard *in their own browser*, the redirect lands in a context the
-dashboard can capture — sidestepping the `127.0.0.1`-callback failure that breaks
-the CLI/manual flow. So the correct escalation order for "add or re-auth an OAuth
-MCP server on a remote gateway" is:
-
-1. **Dashboard, in the user's browser** — the intended front door. Add servers, run OAuth, reload, all authenticated as the user. No copy-paste-callback dance, no hand-writing token files.
-2. **Manual token surgery (the rest of this skill)** — the FALLBACK for when there's no browser session to the dashboard (pure-chat/headless context).
-
-**Finding the dashboard's PUBLIC URL.** The dashboard binds internally to
-`0.0.0.0:<port>`, but the user needs the externally-reachable URL. Most deploy
-platforms inject it into the environment — grep for it rather than making the
-user hunt:
-
-```bash
-env | grep -iE "HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL|RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN|RAILWAY_STATIC_URL|RAILWAY_SERVICE_.*_URL|PUBLIC_URL|BASE_URL|DOMAIN" \
-  | sed -E 's/(TOKEN|SECRET|KEY|PASSWORD)=.*/\1=***REDACTED***/I'
-```
-
-`HERMES_DASHBOARD_PUBLIC_URL` is authoritative when present. On Railway also check
-`RAILWAY_PUBLIC_DOMAIN` / `RAILWAY_STATIC_URL` (the `*.up.railway.app` host) and
-`RAILWAY_SERVICE_*_URL` vars, which sometimes carry a friendlier custom domain.
-Hand the user the full `https://` URL and point them at the Connectors/MCP
-section. ALWAYS pipe through the `sed` redaction above — these env greps sit next
-to `*_TOKEN`/`*_SECRET` vars.
-
-**What the dashboard does NOT fix (still host-side / shell):** stdio servers that
-need shell auth state (a CLI `login` command whose credentials may not persist
-across restarts) and anything reading credentials from `$HERMES_HOME/.env`. Those
-are out of the dashboard's scope regardless.
-
-## The Workaround
-
-Do the OAuth dance manually, then write the resulting tokens into the exact files
-Hermes' `HermesTokenStorage` would have written, so on `/reload-mcp` Hermes finds
-cached tokens and skips the browser flow entirely.
-
-Run the shell commands below through the `terminal` tool on the gateway host and
-do the Python steps (PKCE generation, token exchange, file writes) via
-`execute_code` or a `terminal` python3 invocation — file writes must happen in
-the SAME code block as the token exchange (see pitfall 16).
-
-### 1. Confirm it's a remote gateway
-
-```bash
-env | grep -iE "HERMES|RAILWAY|CONTAINER"
-echo "$DISPLAY $WAYLAND_DISPLAY $SSH_CLIENT"
-```
-
-No display + a remote indicator = remote gateway. `tools/mcp_oauth.py::_can_open_browser()`
-uses these same env vars, so if Hermes' own auto-detect says "headless", the
-built-in flow won't work.
-
-### 2. Find HERMES_HOME and the config path
-
-```bash
-HERMES_HOME=$(python3 -c 'from hermes_constants import get_hermes_home; print(get_hermes_home())')
-echo "config: $HERMES_HOME/config.yaml"
-echo "tokens: $HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/"
-```
-
-### 3. Discover OAuth metadata from the MCP server
-
-MCP servers advertise their OAuth setup via RFC 9728 (OAuth 2.0 Protected
-Resource Metadata). The `WWW-Authenticate` header on a 401 tells you where to look:
-
-```bash
-curl -sI https://mcp.example.com | grep -i www-authenticate
-# → Bearer realm="mcp", resource_metadata="https://mcp.example.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"
-```
-
-**Not every server returns `WWW-Authenticate`.** Some return a bare
-`{"errors":["Unauthorized"]}` 401 with no auth-discovery hint. When that happens,
-probe well-known paths directly:
-
-```bash
-for p in \
-  /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource \
-  /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server \
-  /.well-known/openid-configuration ; do
-  echo "=== $p ==="
-  curl -s -A "python-httpx/0.27" "https://mcp.example.com$p" | head -c 400; echo
-done
-```
-
-Fetch the resource metadata to get `authorization_servers`, then fetch the AS's
-`/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server` to get `authorization_endpoint`,
-`token_endpoint`, and `registration_endpoint`.
-
-Pitfall: many servers sit behind Cloudflare and 403 bare `urllib` user agents.
-Always set `User-Agent: python-httpx/0.27` (or similar) on requests in this flow.
-
-### 4. Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591)
-
-POST to the `registration_endpoint` with:
-
-```json
-{
-  "client_name": "Hermes Agent (manual OAuth)",
-  "redirect_uris": ["http://127.0.0.1:8765/callback"],
-  "grant_types": ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
-  "response_types": ["code"],
-  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none",
-  "scope": "<scopes_from_resource_metadata>"
-}
-```
-
-Omit `scope` entirely if the AS's `scopes_supported` is empty — see step 5
-pitfall. Use port `8765` (or any port — nothing will listen).
-`token_endpoint_auth_method: none` marks this as a public PKCE client. Save the
-returned `client_id`.
-
-### 5. Build the authorize URL with PKCE
-
-Generate:
-- `code_verifier`: `secrets.token_urlsafe(64)[:128]`
-- `code_challenge`: `base64url(sha256(code_verifier))` (no padding)
-- `state`: `secrets.token_urlsafe(24)`
-
-Query params: `response_type=code`, `client_id`, `redirect_uri`, `code_challenge`,
-`code_challenge_method=S256`, `state`, plus `resource=<mcp_server_url>` (RFC 8707 —
-many servers require this to bind the token to the specific MCP resource). Include
-`scope=<space-separated>` ONLY if the AS metadata's `scopes_supported` is a
-non-empty array AND/OR the resource metadata declares specific scopes. If
-`scopes_supported: []`, omit the `scope` parameter — the server grants its full
-default set on its own. Fabricating scope strings against an empty
-`scopes_supported` can cause `invalid_scope` errors on some ASes.
-
-**Stash `code_verifier` and `state` to disk** (e.g. `/tmp/.mcp-oauth-work/<server>.json`,
-0600 perms). You need them for step 7, possibly across multiple chat turns.
-
-### 6. Give the user the authorize URL
-
-```
-Open this URL in your browser:
-<authorize_url>
-
-After approving, your browser will try to load http://127.0.0.1:8765/callback
-and fail to connect — THAT'S EXPECTED. Just copy the entire URL from the
-address bar (it will contain ?code=...&state=...) and paste it back here.
-```
-
-### 7. Exchange the code for tokens
-
-When the user pastes the callback URL:
-
-1. Parse `code` and `state` from the query string.
-2. **Verify `state` matches the stashed value** (CSRF check — do not skip).
-3. POST `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` to the `token_endpoint`:
-   - `grant_type=authorization_code`
-   - `code=<from callback>`
-   - `redirect_uri=<same as step 4>`
-   - `client_id=<from step 4>`
-   - `code_verifier=<stashed>`
-   - `resource=<mcp_server_url>` (if the AS required it in step 5, include here too)
-4. Response contains `access_token`, `refresh_token`, `token_type`, `expires_in`, `scope`.
-
-### 8. Write tokens in Hermes' exact schema
-
-`tools/mcp_oauth.py::HermesTokenStorage` expects two files under
-`$HERMES_HOME/mcp-tokens/` (create dir with `0o700`, files with `0o600`):
-
-**`<server_name>.json`** — the `OAuthToken` pydantic model:
-```json
-{
-  "access_token": "...",
-  "token_type": "Bearer",
-  "expires_in": 7200,
-  "refresh_token": "...",
-  "scope": "read write"
-}
-```
-
-**`<server_name>.client.json`** — the `OAuthClientInformationFull` model:
-```json
-{
-  "client_id": "...",
-  "redirect_uris": ["http://127.0.0.1:8765/callback"],
-  "grant_types": ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
-  "response_types": ["code"],
-  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "none",
-  "scope": "read write",
-  "client_name": "..."
-}
-```
-
-Write each file via `json.dumps(..., indent=2)`. Sanitize the filename with
-`re.sub(r'[^\w\-]', '_', server_name)[:128]` — this matches `_safe_filename()` in
-Hermes' token storage.
-
-### 9. Add the server to config.yaml
-
-```yaml
-mcp_servers:
-  <name>:
-    url: "https://mcp.example.com"
-    auth: oauth
-    timeout: 180
-    connect_timeout: 60
-```
-
-### 10. Smoke-test the token BEFORE asking the user to reload
-
-Manually POST an MCP `initialize` request to confirm the token works end-to-end —
-this catches scope misconfigurations, wrong `resource` values, and CF blocks
-before the user is confused by another "No MCP tools available" reload:
-
-```python
-body = json.dumps({
-    "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "initialize",
-    "params": {
-        "protocolVersion": "2025-06-18",
-        "capabilities": {},
-        "clientInfo": {"name": "hermes-debug", "version": "1.0"},
-    },
-}).encode()
-# POST to the MCP URL with:
-#   Authorization: Bearer <access_token>
-#   Accept: application/json, text/event-stream
-#   Content-Type: application/json
-#   MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18
-#   User-Agent: python-httpx/0.27
-```
-
-Expect HTTP 200 with `Content-Type: text/event-stream` and a JSON-RPC result
-containing `serverInfo` and `capabilities`. **Do not use `urllib` with its default
-UA** — Cloudflare will 403 you even though Hermes (which uses httpx) will succeed.
-`scripts/diagnose-oauth-mcp.py` automates this smoke test.
-
-### 11. Tell the user to run `/reload-mcp`
-
-On reload, Hermes sees `auth: oauth`, calls `HermesTokenStorage.get_tokens()`,
-finds your cached tokens, skips the browser flow, and registers `mcp_<name>_*`
-tools. Refresh happens automatically before `expires_in` elapses.
-
-## Pitfalls & Lessons Learned
-
-1. **Do not assume "headless" means "OAuth impossible."** The built-in flow works fine for local CLI; the issue is strictly remote deployments where the user's browser and the Hermes process are on different machines. Check the execution environment before claiming OAuth isn't an option.
-
-2. **Read the source, not just the skill docs.** `tools/mcp_oauth.py` and the MCP config reference in `website/docs/` are the authoritative references. Grep the tree before telling the user a feature "doesn't exist."
-
-3. **Cloudflare UA filter.** Many MCP/OAuth providers front their infra with Cloudflare, which 403s `python-urllib/*` user agents on metadata endpoints even though those endpoints are public. Set `User-Agent: python-httpx/0.27` (or any browser-like string) on every request in this flow. Hermes itself uses httpx, so this is never a problem in the real connection path.
-
-4. **Include `resource` in both authorize and token requests.** RFC 8707 resource indicators are not optional for most modern MCP servers — they bind the issued token to the specific MCP resource URL. Leaving it out sometimes still works but may yield a token that later fails at the MCP server with a scope/audience error.
-
-5. **Trailing slash matters.** Some servers advertise the resource as `https://mcp.example.com/` with a trailing slash and reject tokens issued against the no-slash variant. Copy the `resource` value verbatim from the `.well-known/oauth-protected-resource` response.
-
-6. **`/reload-mcp` is silent on failure.** If the reload shows "No MCP tools available" with no `change_detail` line, a server is in config but failed to connect and no error bubbled up. Tail the error log, smoke-test the token directly with a manual `initialize` POST, and — if everything looks good — ask for a full process restart.
-
-7. **Circuit breaker can survive `/reload-mcp`.** `tools/mcp_tool.py` keeps a module-level error-count dict with a small threshold. Once tripped (e.g. after token expiry produces several consecutive failures), the tool handler can short-circuit before calling the server, so no successful call resets the counter. Symptom: reload says "Reconnected: X" but subsequent calls still fail with "server unreachable" in the same conversation. Recovery order: try `/reload-mcp` FIRST (cheap, no chat-process blip) — on current builds it can clear the counter; only escalate to a full gateway process restart if a live call STILL short-circuits after reload. Do not lead with "you must restart."
-
-8. **Refresh on an expired access_token + a tripped breaker is a deadlock.** The auto-refresh logic runs inside the MCP call path, which the breaker short-circuits once tripped. Manually refreshing the token on disk does not help by itself — pair a manual token refresh with a full restart, not a `/reload-mcp`.
-
-9. **`invalid_grant` on a manual refresh means the refresh token is DEAD — re-auth is the only fix, do not loop.** When the access_token has been expired long enough, the refresh_token can also be revoked/expired server-side. A `grant_type=refresh_token` POST then returns HTTP 400 `{"error":"invalid_grant",...}` (wording varies: "Grant not found", "Token expired", "refresh token is invalid"). There is NO recovery from the gateway side. Hand back to the user with two options: (a) re-run the full manual OAuth dance (steps 3–10), or (b) if the provider offers a static personal API key, switch to that — no refresh/expiry cycle, more durable for an unattended remote gateway. Detect early: before any create/update operation against an OAuth MCP, check `expires_at` vs `time.time()`; if already expired, attempt the refresh first and surface `invalid_grant` immediately rather than failing mid-task.
-
-10. **A successful refresh that STILL yields a rejected token = server-side SESSION revocation; only a fresh authorization_code flow fixes it.** Distinct from pitfall 9. The stored token file can look healthy (`expires_at` well out, refresh_token present), yet a live `initialize` POST returns `401 invalid_token` with a JSON-RPC body like `{"error":{"code":-32002,"message":"Session expired. Please re-authenticate."}}`. The `grant_type=refresh_token` POST may **succeed** (HTTP 200, new access_token) — yet the brand-new token gets the SAME `-32002`. The provider revoked the underlying MCP *session* server-side; the OAuth refresh chain re-mints credentials but cannot re-establish a revoked session. Decision rule when an OAuth MCP reports "not connected": (1) smoke-test the stored access_token with a manual `initialize` POST; (2) if `401 invalid_token`, attempt a refresh and smoke-test the NEW token; (3a) new token works → write it + restart to clear the breaker; (3b) new token STILL gets `-32002`/"Session expired" → stop, this is session revocation, hand the user the authorize URL for a full re-auth. `scripts/diagnose-oauth-mcp.py` automates steps 1–2 and prints which branch you're in. For an unattended gateway whose session keeps getting revoked, prefer a static Personal API key. See `references/stripe-mcp-oauth-revocation.md` for a worked example of a provider that revokes weekly.
-
-11. **Client info file is NOT optional.** Hermes needs `<server>.client.json` to know the `client_id` for refresh grants. Skipping it means the first refresh fails and the user has to re-auth — writing both files is the whole point of this skill.
-
-12. **Never hand-type the redirect URL for the user to open.** Generate the authorize URL programmatically with `urllib.parse.urlencode()`. Spaces in scopes and special chars in `state` break string-concatenated URLs.
-
-13. **Security: the stash file contains the `code_verifier`.** Delete `/tmp/.mcp-oauth-work/<server>.json` immediately after successful token exchange. There's no reason to keep a proof-of-identity secret around once it's consumed.
-
-14. **Write what the token endpoint actually returned.** The AS may grant a narrower (or wider) scope than requested. Write the `scope` from the token-exchange response to `<server>.json`, not what you asked for in step 5. When `scopes_supported: []`, the explicit scope list you send IS authoritative both ways: some servers grant exactly what you list (pass narrow scopes for least-privilege, or enumerate the full set if the user needs everything), and some won't echo the granted scope back at registration time — only the token-exchange response is authoritative.
-
-15. **OAuth tokens often double as Bearer tokens against the provider's public REST API.** The access_token in `<server>.json` is frequently not "MCP-only" — `Authorization: Bearer <token>` against the provider's documented REST API succeeds whenever the corresponding resource scope was granted. This is the OAuth 2.0 spec, not a provider quirk. When the MCP server is read-only but you need a write operation, check whether the OAuth token can hit the provider's REST API directly before suggesting a separate API key.
-
-16. **Secret redaction can mask tokens in tool output.** If secret redaction is enabled, tokens and long opaque strings render as `***` in tool-result output, so you cannot `print(response)` to keep the access_token visible across turns. Combined with single-use `code` values from authorization_code grants: if you print the token-exchange response, you may lose the token AND consume the code, forcing a restart with a fresh authorize URL. **Always write the access_token directly to its final destination file in the SAME code block that performs the token exchange.** If you must print for debugging, print only `len(access_token)`, `token_type`, `scope`, `expires_in` — never the secret.
-
-17. **GitHub MCP (`api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/`) uses a pre-registered confidential OAuth App, not DCR + PKCE-public.** Its client info ships with a real `client_secret` and `token_endpoint_auth_method: client_secret_post`. The token-exchange POST to `https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token` must include `client_secret` as a form field alongside `client_id`, `code`, `code_verifier`, and `redirect_uri` (PKCE is still honored on top of the secret). The redirect URI is **fixed** in the OAuth App config — you cannot change it, so the manual listener-port trick doesn't apply; the user just lets the browser fail to connect on that port and pastes the address-bar URL back.
-
-## What NOT to do
-
-- **Don't use `mcp-remote` as a fallback.** It runs an npx subprocess whose OAuth callback server ALSO sits on the remote container's localhost — same problem. `mcp-remote` only helps when the MCP client doesn't speak remote HTTP at all (Hermes does natively).
-- **Don't push "paste your API token and I'll add headers"** if the user explicitly asked for OAuth. Offer the static-token shortcut only after explaining why the native OAuth flow fails in remote deployments. Respect the user's choice to do the extra legwork for rotation-free, scope-limited access.
-- **Don't claim Hermes doesn't support a feature without reading the source.** Grep the source tree before making capability claims.
-
-## Quick Reference Files
-
-- `scripts/diagnose-oauth-mcp.py` — re-runnable, read-only-by-default diagnostic. Given a server name, it smoke-tests the stored access_token, attempts a refresh, smoke-tests the new token, and prints exactly which recovery branch you're in (`TOKEN_OK` = breaker/restart, `REFRESH_FIXED` = persist+restart, `SESSION_REVOKED` = full re-auth, `REFRESH_DEAD` = full re-auth/API key). Pass `--write` to persist a working refreshed token atomically. Never prints secret values. **Run this FIRST when an OAuth MCP server reports "not connected"** — it encodes the pitfall 7/9/10 decision tree.
-- `references/stripe-mcp-oauth-revocation.md` — a worked example (Stripe) of a provider that revokes its OAuth session on a recurring basis, and the durable fix: switch to a static restricted API key.
-
-## Related
-
-- `native-mcp` — general guide to configuring MCP in Hermes. Authoritative config reference lives there.
-- `mcporter` — the external CLI bridge, for ad-hoc MCP calls outside of Hermes' config.

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-title: "Mcporter — List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal"
-sidebar_label: "Mcporter"
-description: "List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal"
----
-
-{/* This page is auto-generated from the skill's SKILL.md by website/scripts/generate-skill-docs.py. Edit the source SKILL.md, not this page. */}
-
-# Mcporter
-
-List, auth, and call MCP servers/tools from the terminal.
-
-## Skill metadata
-
-| | |
-|---|---|
-| Source | Optional — install with `hermes skills install official/mcp/mcporter` |
-| Path | `optional-skills/mcp\mcporter` |
-| Version | `1.0.0` |
-| Author | community |
-| License | MIT |
-| Platforms | linux, macos, windows |
-| Tags | `MCP`, `Tools`, `API`, `Integrations`, `Interop` |
-
-## Reference: full SKILL.md
-
-:::info
-The following is the complete skill definition that Hermes loads when this skill is triggered. This is what the agent sees as instructions when the skill is active.
-:::
-
-# mcporter
-
-Use `mcporter` to discover, call, and manage [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) servers and tools directly from the terminal.
-
-## Prerequisites
-
-Requires Node.js:
-```bash
-# No install needed (runs via npx)
-npx mcporter list
-
-# Or install globally
-npm install -g mcporter
-```
-
-## Quick Start
-
-```bash
-# List MCP servers already configured on this machine
-mcporter list
-
-# List tools for a specific server with schema details
-mcporter list <server> --schema
-
-# Call a tool
-mcporter call <server.tool> key=value
-```
-
-## Discovering MCP Servers
-
-mcporter auto-discovers servers configured by other MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor, etc.) on the machine. To find new servers to use, browse registries like [mcpfinder.dev](https://mcpfinder.dev) or [mcp.so](https://mcp.so), then connect ad-hoc:
-
-```bash
-# Connect to any MCP server by URL (no config needed)
-mcporter list --http-url https://some-mcp-server.com --name my_server
-
-# Or run a stdio server on the fly
-mcporter list --stdio "npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem" --name fs
-```
-
-## Calling Tools
-
-```bash
-# Key=value syntax
-mcporter call linear.list_issues team=ENG limit:5
-
-# Function syntax
-mcporter call "linear.create_issue(title: \"Bug fix needed\")"
-
-# Ad-hoc HTTP server (no config needed)
-mcporter call https://api.example.com/mcp.fetch url=https://example.com
-
-# Ad-hoc stdio server
-mcporter call --stdio "bun run ./server.ts" scrape url=https://example.com
-
-# JSON payload
-mcporter call <server.tool> --args '{"limit": 5}'
-
-# Machine-readable output (recommended for Hermes)
-mcporter call <server.tool> key=value --output json
-```
-
-## Auth and Config
-
-```bash
-# OAuth login for a server
-mcporter auth <server | url> [--reset]
-
-# Manage config
-mcporter config list
-mcporter config get <key>
-mcporter config add <server>
-mcporter config remove <server>
-mcporter config import <path>
-```
-
-Config file location: `./config/mcporter.json` (override with `--config`).
-
-## Daemon
-
-For persistent server connections:
-```bash
-mcporter daemon start
-mcporter daemon status
-mcporter daemon stop
-mcporter daemon restart
-```
-
-## Code Generation
-
-```bash
-# Generate a CLI wrapper for an MCP server
-mcporter generate-cli --server <name>
-mcporter generate-cli --command <url>
-
-# Inspect a generated CLI
-mcporter inspect-cli <path> [--json]
-
-# Generate TypeScript types/client
-mcporter emit-ts <server> --mode client
-mcporter emit-ts <server> --mode types
-```
-
-## Notes
-
-- Use `--output json` for structured output that's easier to parse
-- Ad-hoc servers (HTTP URL or `--stdio` command) work without any config — useful for one-off calls
-- OAuth auth may require interactive browser flow — use `terminal(command="mcporter auth <server>", pty=true)` if needed