@cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server

@cyanheads/toolkit-mcp-server

Generate random IDs, QR codes, and hashes, encode and decode values, and geolocate IPs, plus gated network and system diagnostics, via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.

7 Tools

Tools

Seven tools. Five are always on and need no configuration — pure-compute utilities plus an SSRF-free IP lookup. Two probe the server host and stay absent from tools/list until you opt in, fail-closed.

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.

toolkit_hash_value

Generate a digest, or constant-time-verify a value against an expected one.

• 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

toolkit_generate_id

Mint cryptographically-random identifiers from the platform CSPRNG — the correct source for IDs that must be unpredictable, unlike model-invented values.

• 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
• Not read-only — each call is fresh entropy, so a client won't cache it or auto-approve it as side-effect-free

toolkit_generate_qr

Encode text or a URL into a QR code.

• 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
• 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

toolkit_encode_value

Encode or decode a value, in either direction.

• 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

toolkit_geolocate_ip

Resolve a public IP or hostname to geographic and network metadata.

• Returns country, region, city, latitude/longitude, ASN, owning organization, and timezone
• 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
• Keyless by default (ip-api free tier); results are cached in memory by resolved IP

toolkit_check_network

Gated — registered only when TOOLKIT_ENABLE_NET_DIAGNOSTICS=true. Read-only network diagnostics from the server host.

• 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

toolkit_check_system

Gated — registered only when TOOLKIT_ENABLE_SYSTEM_INFO=true. Report a facet of the server host's system state, read-only.

• 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:

• Declarative tool definitions — single file per tool, framework handles registration and validation
• Unified error handling — handlers throw, framework catches, classifies, and formats
• Typed error contracts — each fallible tool declares its failure reasons with recovery hints the agent can act on
• Pluggable auth: none, jwt, oauth
• Structured logging with optional OpenTelemetry tracing
• STDIO and Streamable HTTP transports

Toolkit-specific:

• Fail-closed gating — the two host-probing tools are absent from tools/list unless explicitly enabled, so a hosted instance exposes no SSRF or info-disclosure surface
• 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
• CSPRNG-backed primitives — identifiers and digests come from the platform crypto source, and hash comparison is constant-time via timingSafeEqual
• SSRF-free geolocation — the server calls the provider, then re-checks the DNS-resolved IP against private ranges before the lookup, so a hostname cannot smuggle a request to an internal address

Agent-friendly output:

• Provenance — geolocation echoes the resolved IP and names the answering provider; absent upstream fields are reported as unknown, never invented
• Down-but-valid results — an unreachable host returns reachable: false instead of an error, so callers branch on data, not exception text
• Typed failure reasons — decode failures, missing digests, and blocked private targets each carry a structured reason plus a next-step recovery hint

Getting started

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 v1.3.2 or higher (or Node.js v24+).
• No API key needed — geolocation uses the keyless ip-api free tier by default.

Installation

• Clone the repository:

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

• Navigate into the directory:

cd toolkit-mcp-server

• 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_PROVIDER	IP-geolocation provider id. The default ip-api tier is keyless.	ip-api
TOOLKIT_GEO_API_KEY	API key for the geolocation provider, if it requires one.	none
TOOLKIT_GEO_BASE_URL	Base URL for the geolocation provider.	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_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 and pull requests are welcome. Run checks and tests before submitting:

bun run devcheck
bun run test

License

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE for details.