depix-mcp

The MCP (Model Context Protocol) server for DePix App —
the agent-facing interface of the non-custodial Pix↔DePix payment gateway and
of a non-custodial Liquid wallet.
One MCP, two levels of access. Same package, same registry entry; what works
depends only on whether the running instance has a seed:
| How | https://mcp.depixapp.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP) | npx -y @depixapp/mcp (stdio) |
| Runs on | DePix App's servers | your machine |
| Tools | 26 — receive Pix, status reads, onboarding/vault/webhook reads, support | 59 — the 26 plus 29 wallet_* and 4 account tools |
| Seed | none, ever | yours, never leaves the machine |
| Install | zero (claude.ai, ChatGPT) | Node.js ≥ 22.4 |
Custody is decided by who holds the seed, not by the transport. Every spend
materializes a signer in-process, and there is no remote-signing path — so
DePix App cannot host working wallet tools without becoming custodial, and does
not. That is physics, not a product tier.
What it is (and isn't)
Both levels:
- A pure client of the public DePix API (
https://api.depixapp.com/api/*) for
the 26 gateway tools. It holds zero critical credentials — no Eulen token,
no database, no webhook HMAC. Your sk_ key is passed verbatim to the API
on each call and lives only in memory for that request.
- Same door as everyone. No privileged path: the same auth, scopes and rate
limits as any external agent.
Level 1 (mcp.depixapp.com) only: it never signs, never holds funds, never
stores your key. It has no wallet code at all — the wallet engine is not merely
disabled there, it is structurally absent from that deployment's import graph,
and a CI guard (npm run guard:hosted) fails the build if that ever changes.
Level 2 (npx) only: the 29 wallet_* tools hold, send, convert and pay —
signing locally, inside your own process, under guardrails (per-transaction and
rolling-24h BRL caps, optional allowlist) that no tool call can raise. There is
no tool that exports the seed, edits guardrails, or pays a merchant checkout QR.
Related — @depixapp/sdk
The wallet engine started life as the standalone
@depixapp/sdk. It lives here
now (src/wallet-engine/), and this package is where it is developed and
released. The 1.2.x line of @depixapp/sdk stays on npm and keeps working; it
is frozen, not deprecated. If what you want is an agent with a wallet, you
want this package: it exposes the engine over MCP, so nothing has to be written.
Quickstart 1 — Connect Claude Code (remote, HTTP)
Pass your DePix API key as a Bearer header. Always start with a sandbox key.
claude mcp add --transport http depix https://mcp.depixapp.com/mcp \
--header "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_YOUR_KEY"
Then test the connection by asking Claude to run get_account. It should return
your merchant with is_live: false (sandbox).
Cursor — add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (or a project .cursor/mcp.json):
{
"mcpServers": {
"depix": {
"url": "https://mcp.depixapp.com/mcp",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer sk_test_YOUR_KEY" }
}
}
}
Or use the one-click deeplink. The key placeholder lives INSIDE the base64
config= value, so re-encode it with your real key first:
node -e 'const cfg={url:"https://mcp.depixapp.com/mcp",headers:{Authorization:"Bearer sk_test_YOUR_KEY"}};console.log(Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(cfg)).toString("base64"))'
cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=depix&config=<base64 from the command above>
The claude.ai web UI custom-connector only supports OAuth (no custom header).
This server is an OAuth 2.1 Resource Server (WorkOS AuthKit): the web connector
signs you in, and the session forwards your verified login to the API as the
bearer. To operate you must first link that login to your DePix account
(dashboard → connector settings); until then the tools return a typed
"not linked yet" message. OAuth sessions are read + merchant only and can never
move money (wallet_write) — use an sk_ key for withdrawals. The whole OAuth
surface is feature-flagged (AUTHKIT_DOMAIN): with it unset, only the sk_
header/stdio paths above are active. Terminal clients keep using sk_ keys.
Quickstart 2 — Local stdio, 59 tools (Claude Desktop / Claude Code / Cursor)
Requires Node.js ≥ 22.4. The only official npm package is @depixapp/mcp —
the @depixapp scope is organization-owned; do not install any similarly-named
unscoped package. Secrets come from the environment, never from a flag.
2a. Gateway only (no wallet)
Exactly the 26 tools of level 1, running locally:
{
"mcpServers": {
"depix": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@depixapp/mcp"],
"env": { "DEPIX_API_KEY": "sk_test_YOUR_KEY" }
}
}
}
All 59 tools are still listed — the 29 wallet_* ones answer with a typed
wallet_not_configured error telling the agent to ask you to run init. That is
deliberate: MCP hosts snapshot the tool list when they connect, so a catalog that
grew later would mean "restart your client".
2b. First run — create the wallet
init is a human ceremony at a terminal, never an MCP tool. It prints your
12-word seed backup, so it refuses to run when stdin/stdout are not a real TTY,
and no agent can invoke it:
npx -y @depixapp/mcp init
npx -y @depixapp/mcp init --restore
It asks for (or generates) a passphrase — never echoed — walks you through the
backup ritual, and finishes by printing the exact mcpServers block to paste,
with the passphrase left as a placeholder for you to fill in:
{
"mcpServers": {
"depix": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@depixapp/mcp"],
"env": {
"DEPIX_API_KEY": "sk_test_YOUR_KEY",
"DEPIX_WALLET_PASSPHRASE": "<the passphrase you typed>",
"DEPIX_WALLET_DIR": "/Users/you/.depix-wallet"
}
}
}
}
Clear your terminal scrollback afterwards. Restart your MCP client and ask it to
run wallet_status.
2c. Reading the 12 words again
npx -y @depixapp/mcp backup
Same rules as init: a real terminal or nothing. It asks for your passphrase
every time, even on a machine that unlocks the wallet by itself — the
keychain unlock key exists so the server can start, not so anyone at the keyboard
can read the seed. When you confirm you have copied the words, it wipes the
screen and the scrollback. Quit your MCP client first: the wallet dir takes an
exclusive lock, and a running server holds it.
Run the server directly to sanity-check:
DEPIX_API_KEY=sk_test_YOUR_KEY npx -y @depixapp/mcp
Self-hosting over HTTP is NOT trivially safe. The wallet tools have no auth
of their own and the seed is loaded process-wide. Over local stdio that is
fine. Exposed over HTTP, anyone who reaches the port can drain the wallet — bind
to localhost and add your own bearer/mTLS + network isolation, or don't.
Quickstart 3 — Sandbox testing (the full loop)
Always test with an sk_test_ key before sk_live_. Sandbox QRs are
non-payable placeholders (SANDBOX-…-DO-NOT-PAY).
-
create_checkout — amount is always required; on the default Pix
rail payer_tax_number is too (the CPF/CNPJ is required even in sandbox).
Use a test CPF like 52998224725:
{ "amount": 1500, "payer_tax_number": "52998224725" }
Returns a chk_… id, a payment_url, a sandbox pix.qr_code, and
is_live: false.
-
simulate_checkout_payment — { "checkout_id": "chk_…" } marks the
sandbox checkout paid (sandbox-only; live checkouts return sandbox_only).
-
wait_for_checkout — { "checkout_id": "chk_…" }. The server polls
internally and streams progress; you make one call and it returns
{ "status": "completed", "terminal": true } — no client-side polling loop.
You can also read a synthetic deposit: get_deposit_status with a
sandbox_… id returns depix_sent.
Charging on the DePix rail instead of Pix
create_checkout takes payment_method. The default "pix" is the flow above.
With "depix" the payer sends DePix wallet-to-wallet on Liquid to the
merchant's dedicated address — there is no Pix QR and no payer document:
{ "amount": 9990, "payment_method": "depix", "expected_discount_pct": 10 }
The response carries depix instead of pix: address, the exact
amount_cents to send (face amount minus the merchant's discount, minus a
sub-cent-window adjustment that makes the value unique — that uniqueness is how
the payment is matched), the decimal amount a wallet signs, asset_id and a
ready-to-scan uri. Send any other amount or any other asset and the payment
cannot be credited automatically, and an on-chain payment is irreversible.
Settlement is observed on-chain: approved at the first confirmation (~1 min),
completed at the second. expires_in accepts 300–3600 s here (default 1800)
instead of the Pix rail's 300–1200. The rail must be enabled by the merchant —
otherwise the API answers depix_not_enabled. On the local level, a registered
agent account turns it on with configure_depix_rail ({ "enabled": true }):
the tool derives a dedicated address from your own wallet and registers it, so
you keep custody and the backend only gains a per-address viewing key. Sandbox
DePix checkouts are deliberately unpayable (placeholder address, uri: null);
drive them with simulate_checkout_payment.
Tools
26 gateway tools — available at both levels. Amounts are BRL cents.
create_checkout | POST /api/checkouts | merchant_write |
get_checkout | GET /api/checkouts/:id | merchant_read |
list_checkouts | GET /api/checkouts | merchant_read |
simulate_checkout_payment | POST /api/checkouts/:id/simulate-payment | merchant_write (sandbox-only) |
wait_for_checkout | GET /api/checkouts/:id (server-side loop) | merchant_read |
create_product | POST /api/products | merchant_write |
list_products | GET /api/products | merchant_read |
get_product | GET /api/products/:id | merchant_read |
update_product | PATCH /api/products/:id | merchant_write |
activate_product | POST /api/products/:id/activate | merchant_write |
deactivate_product | POST /api/products/:id/deactivate | merchant_write |
set_featured_products | POST /api/products/featured | merchant_write |
list_product_checkouts | GET /api/products/:id/checkouts | merchant_read |
get_account | GET /api/me | merchant_read |
get_onboarding_status | GET /api/verification + GET /api/me probe (self-heals via POST when every step is done) | merchant_read |
update_merchant_profile | PATCH /api/merchants/me | merchant_write |
get_vault_status | GET /api/vault/status | wallet_read (read-only) |
list_webhook_logs | GET /api/webhook-logs, /api/webhook-logs/:id | merchant_read |
get_deposit_status | GET /api/deposits/:id | wallet_read (read-only) |
get_withdrawal_status | GET /api/withdrawals/:id | wallet_read (read-only) |
open_support_ticket | POST /api/tickets | any key (scope-less) |
get_support_ticket | GET /api/tickets/:id | any key (scope-less) |
list_support_tickets | GET /api/tickets | any key (scope-less) |
reply_support_ticket | POST /api/tickets/:id/messages | any key (scope-less) |
attach_support_ticket_file | POST /api/tickets/:id/attachments | any key (scope-less) |
close_support_ticket | POST /api/tickets/:id/close | any key (scope-less) |
Charges (cobranças). create_product with kind: "charge" creates a payment link with a due date and optional late fine/interest — rent, tuition, an instalment. It is served at pay.depixapp.com/c/{id}, never appears on the merchant's public store, and the amount is recomputed on each visit (base + fine + pro-rata interest for the current cycle). With recurrence the same link keeps working month after month, settling the oldest unpaid cycle first. list_products does not return charges unless you pass kind: "charge" (or "all"); charge rows then carry charge_state — current cycle, days late, today's total.
Do not confuse it with create_checkout, which mints a one-off payment that is paid once and is short-lived. A charge is the standing one.
The last six are the support channel: open a ticket, poll for the human reply,
reply back, attach a screenshot or diagnostic/log file (base64, ~3 MB), or close
it (up to 5 open per account). Replies are not pushed —
poll get_support_ticket. Amounts are BRL cents. A tool call whose key lacks the required scope returns an
insufficient_scope tool error naming the missing scope — that is the only way
to discover a missing scope (the API never lists a key's scopes).
29 wallet_* tools — the local (npx) level only. They sign in-process with
your seed; without one they return wallet_not_configured.
| Status & reads | wallet_status, wallet_get_address, wallet_get_balances, wallet_list_transactions, wallet_list_utxos, wallet_get_guardrails, wallet_diagnostics |
| Sync | wallet_sync (explicit refresh; rescan for a deep cold re-scan) |
| Move money | wallet_send, wallet_create_deposit, wallet_wait_deposit, wallet_create_withdrawal, wallet_wait_withdrawal |
| Convert | wallet_quote, wallet_convert, wallet_swap_quote, wallet_swap_execute, wallet_to_stablecoin, wallet_shift_usdt |
| Lightning | wallet_pay_lightning_invoice, wallet_receive_lightning |
| Gift cards | wallet_list_giftcards, wallet_list_giftcard_products, wallet_giftcard_price, wallet_buy_giftcard, wallet_list_giftcard_orders, wallet_get_giftcard_order_status |
| Recovery | wallet_recover, wallet_pending |
wallet_convert is the primary conversion surface (wallet_quote enumerates the
routes); the provider-level tools are the escape hatch. wallet_shift_usdt is the
one custodial route (SideShift) and says so. Amounts carry their unit in the
field name: amount_cents is BRL cents, amount_sats is the asset's base units.
There is deliberately no tool to export the seed, change guardrails, edit the
payout addresses, or pay a merchant checkout QR — not even from a fully injected
model.
Configuration (public, no secrets)
DEPIX_API_BASE | API base URL (allowlisted origins only) | https://api.depixapp.com |
MCP_MAX_WAIT_SECONDS | Max wait_for_checkout budget; prod sets ~780 (Vercel Pro) | 290 (Hobby-safe) |
MCP_SERVER_VERSION | Version reported in the handshake | package version |
MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS | Comma-separated Host allowlist (DNS-rebinding protection). Matched exactly — no wildcards. Vercel preview deploys add their own hostnames automatically, so this is normally unset | mcp.depixapp.com |
DEPIX_API_KEY | stdio mode only — your sk_ key | — |
Local (npx) level only — the wallet half:
DEPIX_WALLET_PASSPHRASE | Unlocks the encrypted local wallet. Required for the 29 wallet_* tools; without it they return wallet_not_configured | — |
DEPIX_WALLET_DIR | Where the encrypted wallet lives | ~/.depix-wallet |
DEPIX_GUARDRAIL_* | Per-transaction / rolling-24h BRL caps and allowlist. Immutable at runtime: set here + restart | R$100/tx, R$500/day |
DEPIX_MCP_MAX_WAIT_SECONDS | Ceiling for the wallet wait tools | 900 |
There is deliberately no env for an API key, Eulen token, HMAC or DB
credential in the remote server. In HTTP mode the key arrives per-request in the
Authorization header. The wallet passphrase and seed exist only on the
operator's machine — the hosted deployment reads neither and has no code that
could.
Endpoints
POST /mcp — the MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint (DELETE ends a session;
GET returns 405 — this stateless server offers no standalone SSE stream).
GET /.well-known/mcp.json — minimal discovery document.
GET /api/health (also /) — service status.
Development
npm install
npm test
npm run typecheck
npm run lint
npm run build
npm run smoke
npm run guard:hosted
npm run licenses:check
Set DEPIX_TEST_KEY=sk_test_… to run the real-sandbox e2e test
(test/e2e/sandbox.test.ts), otherwise it is skipped. Set DEPIX_SDK_OFFLINE=1
(CI does) to skip the one engine test that reads mainnet Esplora for real.
The wallet engine (src/wallet-engine/)
The 29 wallet tools come from the DePix App wallet engine. It used to be vendored
here from a pinned commit of a second repository; it is now simply part of this
package's source, developed and released with it. Its tests live in
test/wallet-engine/, mirroring the layout.
Two settings the engine brings with it:
tsconfig.wallet-engine.json typechecks src/wallet-engine/ +
test/wallet-engine/ under the stricter options the engine was written with
(noUncheckedIndexedAccess and friends). npm run typecheck runs the
repo-wide pass and then this one; tsc has no per-directory options.
floor-smoke in CI runs the compiled artifact on Node 22.4 exactly — the
engines floor. The test matrix's "22" is whatever latest-22 resolves to,
which never proves the floor.
Why the hosted deployment cannot sign
api/mcp.ts → src/http.ts → src/server.ts has zero import path to
src/wallet-engine/**. Neither this repo nor Vercel runs a tree-shaking bundler,
so that import graph is the whole guarantee. scripts/check-hosted-isolation.mjs
enforces it twice — a static walk of the TypeScript sources and a @vercel/nft
trace of the compiled entries — and its --self-test proves both checks reject a
poisoned entry. Only src/stdio.ts → src/unified.ts may reach the engine.
CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) runs typecheck + lint + test + build + smoke +
both guards on every push to main and every PR, on Node 22 and 24, plus the
Node 22.4 floor smoke — that is the correctness gate.
Releasing
Publishing is automated via GitHub Actions using npm Trusted Publishing
(OIDC) — no npm token, no 2FA prompt, and every release carries build
provenance. .github/workflows/publish-mcp.yml (on a v* tag) publishes the
npm package and then the MCP Registry entry (registry/server.json).
To cut a release:
The workflow verifies the versions, re-runs typecheck + lint + tests + both
guards (ci.yml is not triggered by tags), publishes to npm with provenance,
then publishes the registry entry (idempotent — re-running a tag is a safe
no-op).
Re-tagging an already-published version skips both publishes.
One-time setup (already done): the package is registered as an npm Trusted
Publisher for this repo with workflow filename publish-mcp.yml (npmjs.com →
package → Settings → Trusted Publisher). No secrets are stored in the repo.
Release smoke test
After a preview/production deploy:
claude mcp add --transport http depix <url>/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer sk_test_…"
- Ask Claude to run
get_account → returns the merchant, is_live: false.
create_checkout (sandbox) → simulate_checkout_payment → wait_for_checkout
→ completed.
Pushing to main deploys to production (mcp.depixapp.com). Validate on a
Vercel preview deploy before merging. Previews are reachable out of the box:
a non-production deployment adds its own VERCEL_URL and VERCEL_BRANCH_URL
to the DNS-rebinding allowlist (resolveAllowedHosts), and production widens by
nothing. If you ever need to allow another host, set MCP_ALLOWED_HOSTS to the
exact hostname — the allowlist is an exact match, so *.vercel.app matches
nothing and would leave the preview unreachable.