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Welcome to the arthur-mcp wiki!

Arthur MCP is an open, self-hostable control plane for building and operating Model Context Protocol servers from APIs, databases, prompts, resources, and internal tools.

• New here? Start with Getting Started — a step-by-step walkthrough from creating your account to an AI client calling your first tool.
• Have a specific question? Check the FAQ.
• Installing or deploying the app itself? See the Quick Start in the README.

Features

Servers & Tools

• MCP Server Management — create, configure, pause, and re-import servers.
• REST API Template Gallery — 69+ ready-made API servers.
• Dynamic Tools — the actions an AI client can call.
• Chains — combine several tools into one multi-step call.
• Resources — read-only data and documents for an AI client.
• Prompts — reusable instruction templates.

Security & Access

• Secrets and Authentication — credential storage, access keys, and OAuth clients.
• Roles and Permissions — built-in and custom roles.
• Public MCP Swagger Pages — shareable public documentation links.

Platform

• Settings — instance-wide configuration.
• AI Providers — connect and use your own LLM providers.
• Multi-Language and Terminology — locales and custom vocabulary.

Operations

• Observability — health checks, metrics, and tracing.
• Audit Logs — who changed what.
• Error Tracking — forward runtime failures to your monitoring provider.

Coming Soon

• Harness — timeouts, retries, and execution hooks.
• Guard Rails — input constraints, output filtering, and tool restrictions.

How To

Task-oriented recipes for common jobs:

• Connect Claude Desktop
• Connect Cursor
• Connect ChatGPT via OAuth
• Import an OpenAPI Spec
• Import a Postman Collection
• Create a Server from a Template
• Re-import an Updated API Spec
• Protect a Server with an Access Key
• Store and Reference a Secret
• Create a Custom Role
• Share and Revoke a Public Link
• Add a Resource
• Test a Tool
• Create and Link a Prompt
• Build a Chain
• Use AI-Assisted Tool Generation
• Rotate the JWT Signing Secret
• Set Global Request Headers
• Pause and Reactivate a Server
• Connect an Error Tracking Provider
• Import the Grafana Dashboard
• Manage Your Server Slug
• Configure API Credentials
• Add HTML Output to a Tool
• Configure Response Limits
• Configure Multi-Tenant Parameters
• Set Up Error Alerts