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Building a Remote MCP Server on Cloudflare (Without Auth)

Building a Remote MCP Server on Cloudflare (Without Auth)

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github.com/brooksy4503Developer Tools0Updated 76w ago
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About Building a Remote MCP Server on Cloudflare (Without Auth)

A Cloudflare Workers example for deploying an unauthenticated remote MCP server. It is aimed at developers who want to add their own tools and connect them to remote or local MCP clients.

Key features

  1. 01Deploy an unauthenticated MCP server on Cloudflare Workers
  2. 02Add tools in `src/index.ts`
  3. 03Connect through an SSE endpoint
  4. 04Use with Cloudflare AI Playground or local clients

Use cases

  1. 01Deploy a remote MCP server without authentication
  2. 02Add custom tools to a Cloudflare Workers server
  3. 03Test server tools in Cloudflare AI Playground
  4. 04Connect a local client through `mcp-remote`

MCP support

It provides an MCP server over an SSE endpoint without authentication. MCP clients, including Cloudflare AI Playground and local clients using `mcp-remote`, can access its tools.

Configuration

Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.

mcp.json · Universal config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "remote-mcp-server-authless-brooksy4503": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote"
      ]
    }
  }
}
Run commandnpx -y mcp-remote

Local servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.

Packages
npmmcp-remote

Tools

No tool list yet

Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.

Details

From the project README

Building a Remote MCP Server on Cloudflare (Without Auth)

This example allows you to deploy a remote MCP server that doesn't require authentication on Cloudflare Workers.

Get started:

Deploy to Workers

This will deploy your MCP server to a URL like: remote-mcp-server-authless.<your-account>.workers.dev/sse

Alternatively, you can use the command line below to get the remote MCP Server created on your local machine:

npm create cloudflare@latest -- my-mcp-server --template=cloudflare/ai/demos/remote-mcp-authless

Customizing your MCP Server

To add your own tools to the MCP server, define each tool inside the init() method of src/index.ts using this.server.tool(...).

Connect to Cloudflare AI Playground

You can connect to your MCP server from the Cloudflare AI Playground, which is a remote MCP client:

  1. Go to https://playground.ai.cloudflare.com/
  2. Enter your deployed MCP server URL (remote-mcp-server-authless.<your-account>.workers.dev/sse)
  3. You can now use your MCP tools directly from the playground!

Connect Claude Desktop to your MCP server

You can also connect to your remote MCP server from local MCP clients, by using the mcp-remote proxy.

To connect to your MCP server from Claude Desktop, follow Anthropic's Quickstart and within Claude Desktop go to Settings > Developer > Edit Config.

Update with this configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "calculator": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-remote",
        "http://localhost:8787/sse"  // or remote-mcp-server-authless.your-account.workers.dev/sse
      ]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude and you should see the tools become available.

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