OAuth

OAuth for MCP Servers with Cognito and Okta

When I added OAuth to the MixCraft MCP server, the identity provider was Clerk, and Clerk did the whole job: it was the OAuth authorization server the MCP client talked to, it signed in the user, and it issued the tokens the MCP server verified. The next remote MCP server

Adding OAuth to an MCP Server: From API Keys to Browser Login

MixCraft started with static API keys—generate one from the web portal, paste it into your Claude Code config. The mx_ prefixed keys had no expiration, lived in shell history and dotfiles, and revoking one meant generating a new key and updating every client. Service tokens from third-party APIs