mcp-oauth-setup

mcp-oauth-setup is a skill for Claude Code from zarpay/rails-template. It costs 131 tokens per session (2,488 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for connecting an application to authenticated MCP servers using OAuth or bearer/API-key credentials. MCP, or Model Context Protocol, is a way for an application to connect to external tools and services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build connection settings, support OAuth login with PKCE, register clients dynamically, discover authorization endpoints, and manage shared or per-agent credentials.
Why use it?
It handles the discovery, registration, and credential choices needed to let agents connect to third-party MCP servers securely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to build connection settings, support OAuth login with PKCE, register clients dynamically, discover authorization endpoints, and manage shared or per-agent credentials.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zarpay/rails-template/mcp-oauth-setup
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add zarpay/rails-template --skill mcp-oauth-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zarpay/rails-template

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,488 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00131 $0.02488
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.01244
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00498
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00249

Measured 9d ago against content hash f938472e1ab3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

mcp-oauth-setup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

files/.claude/skills/mcp-oauth-setup/SKILL.md · 222 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 222 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MCP Server Authentication & OAuth Dynamic Client Registration

Implement flexible authentication for MCP (Model Context Protocol) server connections. For OAuth providers, auto-discover endpoints and dynamically register as a client — the user just provides the MCP server URL and clicks "Connect." For bearer/API key providers, support both admin-shared and per-agent credentials so different agents can authenticate with different accounts.

When to Use

  • Building an admin UI for managing MCP server connections
  • Integrating with third-party MCP providers (Linear, Sentry, Granola, Render, etc.)
  • Implementing the MCP Streamable HTTP transport with authenticated tool sync
  • Adding per-agent credential support so each agent can use its own account
  • Adding OAuth to an existing MCP connector/server management system

Core Standards

The OAuth implementation relies on three RFCs:

  1. RFC 8414 - OAuth Authorization Server Metadata Discovery via .well-known/oauth-authorization-server
  2. RFC 7591 - Dynamic Client Registration at the provider's registration endpoint
  3. RFC 7636 - PKCE (S256) for authorization code security

Not all MCP servers use OAuth. Some (e.g., Render) use bearer tokens with API keys and handle account/workspace selection at the MCP protocol level. The credential system must be auth-type-agnostic.

Architecture Overview

Credential Mode (Orthogonal to Auth Type)

credential_mode applies to all auth types (bearer, api_key_header, oauth), not just OAuth. This is a critical design decision — different agents may need their own credentials for the same MCP server (e.g., different Render accounts, different Linear workspaces).

credential_mode = "shared"     → Admin provides one credential, all agents use it
credential_mode = "per_agent"  → Each agent has its own credential

OAuth Flow

Admin clicks "Connect"
    |
    v
Discover OAuth metadata (RFC 8414)
    |  GET /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
    v
Register as OAuth client (RFC 7591)
    |  POST /oauth/register
    v
Redirect to provider consent screen
    |  GET /oauth/authorize?client_id=...&code_challenge=...
    v
Provider redirects back with code
    |  GET /callback?code=...&state=...
    v
Exchange code for tokens
    |  POST /oauth/token
    v
Store tokens, sync tools

Read the full file on GitHub · 222 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 222 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A f938472e1ab3

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mcp-oauth-setup is a skill published in the GitHub repository zarpay/rails-template (9 stars, last pushed 27d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 2,488 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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