io.github.cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server

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Overview

A standalone developer-utilities server — the five always-on tools need no upstream API: generate identifiers, QR codes, and cryptographic digests, encode and decode values, and geolocate a public IP or hostname. Two more tools report diagnostics about the server's own host, gated off by default. Runs as a stdio process, a local Streamable HTTP server, or the public hosted endpoint above.

Tools

Tool	Description
toolkit_hash_value	Generate a cryptographic digest (sha256/sha512/sha1/md5), or constant-time-compare a value against an expected digest.
toolkit_generate_id	Mint cryptographically-random identifiers — UUIDv4, UUIDv7, or ULID — singly or in batches up to 1000.
toolkit_generate_qr	Encode text or a URL into a QR code as SVG markup, base64 PNG, or a terminal-renderable string.
toolkit_encode_value	Encode or decode a value across base64, base64url, hex, or URL percent-encoding, in either direction.
toolkit_geolocate_ip	Resolve a public IP or hostname to geographic and network metadata — country, city, coordinates, ASN, timezone.
toolkit_check_network	Gated, off by default. Read-only network diagnostics from the server host — ping, traceroute, TCP connectivity, or egress-IP detection.
toolkit_check_system	Gated, off by default. Report a facet of the server host's system state — OS, CPU, memory, load average, or network interfaces.

Capability reference

toolkit_hash_value _tool

• operation: generate (lowercase-hex digest) or compare (timing-safe check via timingSafeEqual)
• Algorithms: sha256 (default) and sha512 for security; sha1 and md5 are exposed for checksum and file-integrity compatibility only — never for passwords or signatures
• inputEncoding reads value as utf8 (default), hex, or base64, so binary blobs skip a decode round-trip
• Canonical use: match a download against a vendor-published checksum

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toolkit_generate_id _tool

• type: uuid_v4 (random, default), uuid_v7 (time-ordered, sortable by creation), or ulid (26-char Crockford base32, lexicographically sortable)
• count mints a batch up to 1000 in one call; the returned ids array always holds exactly count values
• uuid_v7 and ulid batches are monotonic — strictly increasing even within the same millisecond — so ids stays in sorted creation order
• Read-only — minting changes nothing — but never idempotent, so a client won't cache or deduplicate a batch

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toolkit_generate_qr _tool

• format: svg (inline markup), png_base64 (raster bytes with mimeType and byteLength), or terminal (Unicode block string)
• errorCorrection (L/M/Q/H) trades data capacity for damage tolerance; margin sets the quiet-zone width; scale sets pixels per module for raster output
• The returned version (1–40) reflects how dense the encoded data is
• png_base64 also arrives as an MCP image content block, so a client reading content[] can render the code without decoding structuredContent
• A rendered PNG is bounded at 2048 px per side — (modules + 2 × margin) × scale — so a dense symbol at a high scale is rejected with a typed raster_too_large error naming a scale that fits; svg and terminal are unbounded
• data is capped at 2953 bytes — the absolute ceiling (version 40, level L, byte mode); usable capacity is lower at higher errorCorrection levels, so over-capacity input is rejected with a typed data_too_large error rather than a generic failure

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toolkit_encode_value _tool

• encoding: base64, base64url (URL-safe alphabet), hex, or url (percent-encoding)
• operation: encode (raw UTF-8 → encoding) or decode (encoded value → text)
• Malformed decode input returns a typed decode_failed error with a recovery hint, not a silent best-effort

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toolkit_geolocate_ip _tool

• Returns country, region, city, latitude/longitude, ASN, owning organization, and timezone
• proxy, hosting, and mobile flag when the address is a proxy/VPN/Tor exit, a datacenter network, or a mobile carrier — a true on any of them means the coordinates describe infrastructure, not a person. Absent when the provider doesn't report them
• A hostname is DNS-resolved first; resolvedIp echoes the IP actually located, and source names the answering provider
• SSRF-free — the server calls the provider, never the target; the resolved IP is re-checked against private ranges, and private/reserved addresses are rejected (they have no public geolocation)
• Best-effort and provider-bounded: VPNs, proxies, mobile NAT, and anycast all defeat IP-to-location, accuracy is city-level at best, and absent fields are reported as unknown rather than invented
• Provider-supplied strings are truncated and stripped of control characters before they reach the response, so registry-controlled text (org, isp, as) cannot flood or format a model's context
• Keyless by default (ip-api free tier, which is plaintext HTTP — see TOOLKIT_GEO_BASE_URL); results are cached in memory by resolved IP under a fixed entry cap

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toolkit_check_network _tool

• Gated — registered only when TOOLKIT_ENABLE_NET_DIAGNOSTICS=true; absent from tools/list otherwise
• mode: ping (ICMP round-trip), traceroute (hop path to the target), connectivity (raw TCP connect to target on port), or public_ip (the host's own egress IP)
• A host that does not respond is reported as reachable: false — a valid result, not an error
• Diagnoses the server's own network, so it is useful on a local or self-hosted deployment; reaching a private/reserved/internal target additionally requires TOOLKIT_ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORK=true, which keeps the cloud-metadata endpoint blocked by default

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toolkit_check_system _tool

• Gated — registered only when TOOLKIT_ENABLE_SYSTEM_INFO=true; absent from tools/list otherwise
• what: os, cpu, memory, load, or interfaces
• Exactly one facet object is populated per call, matching what
• Describes the host this server runs on, not the calling client — meaningful on a local or self-hosted deployment; gated off by default because os and interfaces disclose host topology and version details

Features

Built on @cyanheads/mcp-ts-core: stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, pluggable auth (none / jwt / oauth), swappable storage (in-memory, filesystem, Supabase, Cloudflare KV/R2/D1), structured logging with optional OpenTelemetry tracing.

Toolkit-specific:

• Local, pure-compute core — hashing, ID minting, QR encoding, and value encode/decode run entirely in-process via node:crypto and the qrcode library; no upstream calls
• toolkit_geolocate_ip is the one keyless-by-default network call (ip-api free tier, optional TOOLKIT_GEO_API_KEY); the server calls the provider directly and re-checks the DNS-resolved IP against private ranges, so a hostname can't smuggle a request to an internal address
• Fail-closed gating — the two host-probing tools (toolkit_check_network, toolkit_check_system) are absent from tools/list unless explicitly enabled, so a hosted instance exposes no SSRF or info-disclosure surface by default
• Two-tier network gate — even with diagnostics enabled, private/reserved/loopback/link-local targets (including the cloud-metadata endpoint) stay blocked until a second flag permits them
• Bounded inputs — QR data capped at 2953 bytes, rendered PNGs capped at 2048 px per side, ID batches capped at 1000; CSPRNG-backed primitives with constant-time hash comparison via timingSafeEqual

Agent-friendly output:

• Provenance — geolocation echoes resolvedIp (the IP actually located) and source (the answering provider); absent upstream fields are reported as unknown, never invented
• Response shaping — provider-supplied strings (org, isp, as) are length-bounded and stripped of control characters before they reach the response, so untrusted registry text can't flood or format a model's context
• Discriminated output contracts — operation, format, mode, and what fields echo back exactly what ran, with only the branch-relevant fields populated per call; an unreachable host in toolkit_check_network reports reachable: false as valid data, not an error
• Typed failure reasons — decode, geolocation, and network failures each carry a structured reason plus a next-step recovery hint (e.g. decode_failed, raster_too_large, private_target_blocked)

Getting started

Public Hosted Instance

A public instance is available at https://toolkit.caseyjhand.com/mcp — no installation required. Point any MCP client at it via Streamable HTTP:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolkit-mcp-server": {
      "type": "streamable-http",
      "url": "https://toolkit.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Self-Hosted / Local

Add the following to your MCP client configuration file. No API key is required — the five always-on tools and the default keyless geolocation tier work out of the box.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolkit-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "bunx",
      "args": ["@cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or with npx (no Bun required):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolkit-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
        "MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or with Docker:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "toolkit-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "-e", "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=stdio", "ghcr.io/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server:latest"]
    }
  }
}

To enable the gated host-probing tools, add their flags to env (or -e for Docker):

"env": {
  "MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
  "TOOLKIT_ENABLE_NET_DIAGNOSTICS": "true",
  "TOOLKIT_ENABLE_SYSTEM_INFO": "true"
}

For Streamable HTTP, set the transport and start the server:

MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=http MCP_HTTP_PORT=3010 bun run start:http
# Server listens at http://localhost:3010/mcp

Prerequisites

• Bun v1.4.0 or higher (or Node.js v24+).
• No API key needed — geolocation uses the keyless ip-api free tier by default.

Installation

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server.git

2. Navigate into the directory:

cd toolkit-mcp-server

3. Install dependencies:

bun install

Configuration

Every variable is optional. Server-specific options are validated at startup via the Zod schema in src/config/server-config.ts.

Variable	Description	Default
TOOLKIT_ENABLE_NET_DIAGNOSTICS	Register the gated toolkit_check_network tool. Leave off for hosted or shared deployments.	false
TOOLKIT_ENABLE_SYSTEM_INFO	Register the gated toolkit_check_system tool. Meaningful only on a local or self-hosted deployment.	false
TOOLKIT_ALLOW_PRIVATE_NETWORK	With network diagnostics on, permit private/reserved/loopback targets. The second explicit gate.	false
TOOLKIT_GEO_API_KEY	API key for the geolocation endpoint, if it requires one.	none
TOOLKIT_GEO_BASE_URL	Base URL for an ip-api-compatible geolocation endpoint. The default is plaintext HTTP — ip-api's HTTPS endpoint is not part of the keyless free tier and answers 403 SSL unavailable for this endpoint without a paid key. Point this at an HTTPS endpoint (with TOOLKIT_GEO_API_KEY) to encrypt the provider request.	http://ip-api.com
TOOLKIT_GEO_CACHE_TTL_SECONDS	In-memory geolocation cache TTL in seconds.	3600
TOOLKIT_GEO_RATE_LIMIT_PER_MIN	Max geolocation requests per minute.	45
MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE	Transport: stdio or http.	stdio
MCP_HTTP_PORT	Port for the HTTP server.	3010
MCP_SESSION_MODE	auto, stateful, or stateless. No tool requests multi-round input. auto is the framework schema default and resolves to stateful, but with MCP_SESSION_MODE unset the server resolves stateless from createApp({ sessionMode }); an explicit MCP_SESSION_MODE value still overrides it.	stateless
MCP_AUTH_MODE	Auth mode: none, jwt, or oauth.	none
MCP_LOG_LEVEL	Log level (RFC 5424).	info
OTEL_ENABLED	Enable OpenTelemetry instrumentation (spans, metrics, completion logs).	false

See .env.example for the full list of optional overrides.

Running the server

Local development

• Build and run:

  # One-time build
  bun run rebuild
  
  # Run the built server
  bun run start:stdio
  # or
  bun run start:http
  

• Run checks and tests:

  bun run devcheck   # Lint, format, typecheck, security, changelog sync
  bun run test       # Vitest test suite
  bun run lint:mcp   # Validate MCP definitions against spec
  

Docker

docker build -t toolkit-mcp-server .
docker run --rm -e MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE=http -p 3010:3010 toolkit-mcp-server

The Dockerfile defaults to HTTP transport, stateless session mode, and logs to /var/log/toolkit-mcp-server. OpenTelemetry peer dependencies are installed by default — build with --build-arg OTEL_ENABLED=false to omit them.

Project structure

Directory	Purpose
src/index.ts	createApp() entry point — registers tools and inits services, with fail-closed gating for the two host-probing tools.
src/config	Server-specific environment variable parsing and validation with Zod.
src/mcp-server/tools	Tool definitions (*.tool.ts). Seven tools — five always-on, two gated.
src/services/geo	Geolocation service — DNS resolution, provider call with retry/backoff, normalization, in-memory cache.
src/services/network	Network-diagnostic service plus the shared target validator and private-range classifier.
tests/	Unit and integration tests mirroring the src/ structure.

Development guide

See CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md for development guidelines and architectural rules. The short version:

• Handlers throw, framework catches — no try/catch in tool logic
• Use ctx.log for request-scoped logging, ctx.state for tenant-scoped storage
• Register new tools in the createApp() arrays in src/index.ts
• The two host-probing tools register behind their enable-flags; the network target gate validates after DNS resolution — never fabricate a result for an unlocatable or unreachable target

Contributing

Issues are welcome. Run checks and tests before submitting:

bun run devcheck
bun run test

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for details.