agentskillexchange Build authenticated MCP tools and servers with Arcade MCP
Use Arcade MCP to create custom MCP servers and tools with OAuth-aware authorization, evals, and deployment paths for agent tool-calling workflows.
Prerequisites
Python, arcade-mcp, an MCP-compatible client, optional Arcade Cloud account for hosted auth and deployment
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- uv tool install arcade-mcp
- uv run server.py # stdio (default), for Claude Desktop and CLI tools
- uv run server.py http # HTTP+SSE, for Cursor and VS Code; docs at http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs
- git clone https://github.com/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp.git
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- Open-source Python framework for building MCP servers and tools.
- arcade-mcp is the Python framework for building Model Context Protocol servers and the tools that run inside them. It powers the 7,500+ prebuilt tools across 81 MCP servers at [Arcad...
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
The secrets (OAuth tokens, API keys, etc) are securely injected by Arcade into your tool call at runtime, so that your tool can authorize requests to upstream APIs, for example. **The client and the LLM never see the...
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Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ArcadeAI/arcade-mcp/HEAD/README.md