a2me-mcp-server: Instructions file for GitHub Copilot

a2me-mcp-server — Copilot / Agent Instructions

Overview

a2me-mcp-server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that exposes read-only, privacy-redacted family-context tools to LLM assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, and the in-product KAI assistant). It lets an assistant answer questions like "when is mom's birthday?" or "help me write a message to grandma" using A2Me family data — without exposing sensitive details.

Status: live (v1, read-only). Production is hosted at mcp.a2me.app with Scalekit OAuth and live A2Me API calls. Mock mode (A2ME_USE_MOCK=true) remains the default for local dev.

Stack

• Node 20+, TypeScript (strict). MCP via @modelcontextprotocol/sdk, stdio transport.
• Zod for input validation, Vitest for tests, ESLint + Prettier.

Commands

npm install
npm run dev          # tsx src/index.ts (run locally over stdio)
npm run build        # tsc -> dist/
npm run start        # node dist/index.js
npm run test         # vitest run   (test:watch for watch mode)
npm run check        # tsc --noEmit (type check)
npm run lint         # eslint src/ test/
npm run format       # prettier --write .

Layout

src/ → index.ts (entry), server.ts, tools/ (the MCP tools), auth/, client/, resolver/, mock/ (mock auth + API), config.ts, types/.

Conventions (CRITICAL — privacy)

• Tools are read-only; never mutate A2Me data from here.
• Redact sensitive fields: no raw email / phone / street address; birthdays as month–day only. Scope every result to the authenticated user's family — never leak other families' data. (This matches A2Me's child-safety / privacy-first positioning.)
• Validate all tool inputs with Zod.
• Keep mock/ behind the same interfaces as the real client so swapping in the live API later is a drop-in change.

Repo conventions

• Branching — environment-as-branch (matches the rest of a2me): dev = dev environment, main = production. Feature branches → PR to dev (the default branch); promote dev → main for prod releases. Never PR a feature branch straight to main.
  • Dev: dev.mcp.a2me.app · Scalekit Kinnectd Dev env (issuer https://kinnectd.scalekit.dev/resources/res_130696843431510786) · dev.api.kinnectd.com.
  • Prod: mcp.a2me.app · a Scalekit Kinnectd Prod env (separate server to register; same name a2me-mcp-server is fine — envs are isolated) · api.kinnectd.com.
  • Deploy: dev auto-deploys on push to dev; prod is released via create-tag.yml (environment=prod) → Cloud Run, through the shared kinnectd-workflows deploy-service.yml. Per-env values (MCP_PUBLIC_URL, MCP_AUTH_ISSUER, MCP_AUTH_AUDIENCE, A2ME_API_URL) are set there.
• Any future credentials must come from env/secret stores — never commit tokens.