About KPN Grexx
KPN Grexx is an MCP server for KPN IRMA APIs hosted by Grexx, aimed at MSP helpdesks. Its default tool set covers address checks, prequalification, customer and order data, mobile services, and line diagnostics through realtime XML and OAuth 2.0 client credentials.
Key features
- 01Address technology and speed checks
- 02Product availability prequalification
- 03Customer and order data queries
- 04Mobile, SIM, and porting tools
- 05Optional legacy developer API tools
Use cases
- 01Check broadband technology at a Dutch address
- 02Verify supplier and product availability
- 03Look up customer or order details
- 04Review mobile usage or available portings
MCP support
Exposes KPN Grexx operations as MCP tools over stdio or HTTP, supporting legacy handshake and modern envelope clients. In HTTP gateway mode, credentials and optional per-connection Grexx URLs arrive in request headers.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
docker run -i --rm -e KPN_GREXX_USERNAME -e KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD -e KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL -e KPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URL -e KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API -e KPN_CLIENT_ID -e KPN_CLIENT_SECRET -e KPN_MSM_CLIENT_ID -e KPN_MSM_CLIENT_SECRET -e KPN_BASE_URL -e MCP_TRANSPORT -e AUTH_MODE -e LOG_LEVEL ghcr.io/wyre-ai/kpn-mcp:v2.3.1KPN_GREXX_USERNAMEGrexx API username. Passed to the SDK as the OAuth client_id (portal: API Gegevens). The SDK sends it with HTTP Basic on the token endpoint. This server does not mint the token.KPN_GREXX_PASSWORDSecretGrexx API password. Passed to the SDK as the OAuth client_secret (scope=all). The SDK sends it with HTTP Basic on the token endpoint.KPN_GREXX_BASE_URLGrexx interface root, without /realtime. No default; acceptatie and production differ. In gateway mode a connection may override it with X-Grexx-Api-Url (together with X-Grexx-Token-Url, allowlisted Grexx hosts only).KPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URLSecretOAuth token endpoint. Production differs from acceptatie. In gateway mode a connection may override it with X-Grexx-Token-Url (together with X-Grexx-Api-Url).KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_APISet to 1 to also register the developer.kpn.com tools (disturbances, availability, SIM swap, MSM). Default is Grexx only.KPN_CLIENT_IDLegacy developer.kpn.com project client ID. Used only when KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1.KPN_CLIENT_SECRETSecretLegacy developer.kpn.com project client secret. Used only when KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1, together with KPN_CLIENT_ID.KPN_MSM_CLIENT_IDOptional legacy MSM app ID. Used only when KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1. Must be paired with KPN_MSM_CLIENT_SECRET.KPN_MSM_CLIENT_SECRETSecretOptional legacy MSM app secret. Used only when KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1, together with KPN_MSM_CLIENT_ID.KPN_BASE_URLLegacy developer.kpn.com base URL. Env only. Used only when KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1.MCP_TRANSPORTTransport mode. Set to 'stdio' for local CLI use; the image defaults to 'http' for gateway hosting.AUTH_MODESecretCredential source: 'env' reads KPN_GREXX_* locally, 'gateway' expects X-KPN-Grexx-Username and X-KPN-Grexx-Password, plus optional X-Grexx-Api-Url and X-Grexx-Token-Url per connection.LOG_LEVELLog verbosity: debug, info, warn, errorLocal servers need a runtime on your machine (e.g. Node.js 18+). Config file locations differ by client; see your client’s docs.
ghcr.io/wyre-ai/kpn-mcp:v2.3.1stdioTools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEkpn-mcp
MCP server for KPN IRMA APIs hosted by Grexx (acceptatie: service-accept.grexx.today), aimed at MSP helpdesks. The default surface is realtime XML over OAuth 2.0 client credentials. The SDK sends HTTP Basic to the token endpoint. POST /realtime uses the Bearer token.
Built on the MCP 2026-07-28 spec via the split v2 SDK
(@modelcontextprotocol/server / /node / /client ^2.0.0-beta.5) with dual-era
serving: one shared McpServerFactory behind createMcpHandler({ legacy: 'stateless' })
answers both 2025-era initialize-handshake clients and modern 2026-07-28 envelope clients,
with the same tool list for every caller. Ships as a GHCR container only (no MCPB bundle).
The client is @wyre-ai/node-kpn (Grexx export).
Contract: docs/GREXX.md.
Tools (15, flat)
-
kpn_grexx_test_connection: the SDK mints an OAuth client-credentials token and posts aZipCodeCheckRequest_V6probe for the public reference address 1012JS 1 (portfolio All). Success means the token endpoint andPOST /realtimeaccepted the Bearer token. -
kpn_grexx_zipcode_check: technology and speeds at a Dutch address (ZipCodeCheckRequest_V6→ZipCodeCheckResponse_V5). -
kpn_grexx_prequalification: address and product-type availability per supplier (PrequalificationRequest_V2→PrequalificationResponse_V1). WhenhasBroadbandis true,serviceIdorreferencePhoneNumberis required. -
kpn_grexx_order_data: customer id, product code, and quantity for an order id (OrderDataRequest_V1→OrderDataResponse_V1). -
11 more realtime tools built from the portal request XSDs (see
docs/GREXX.md):kpn_grexx_carrier_info,kpn_grexx_radius_check,kpn_grexx_ras_check,kpn_grexx_start_line_diagnose,kpn_grexx_customer_data,kpn_grexx_order_summary,kpn_grexx_get_sim,kpn_grexx_mobile_settings,kpn_grexx_mobile_usage,kpn_grexx_mobile_orders,kpn_grexx_available_portings.start_line_diagnosestarts a test at KPN, so it is not read-only and is never retried. SIM codes and the RadiusCheck PPP password are masked.
IRMA enforces XSD element order and rejects a bad request with an HTTP 200
NinaResponse; both are handled by the server. Queued writes and Proxymodule
notifications are not exposed.
Set KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1 to also serve the previous 23 developer.kpn.com tools
(disturbances, availability, SIM swap, MSM). They are absent from the default list.
See docs/DESIGN.md for that catalog. Gated MSM writes still require confirmation.
Credentials
Grexx username and password are the OAuth client_id and client_secret (scope=all).
Copy the interface root from the partner portal (API Gegevens). There is no default
base URL: acceptatie and production differ.
| Env var (env mode) | Gateway header (AUTH_MODE=gateway) | Required |
|---|---|---|
KPN_GREXX_USERNAME | X-KPN-Grexx-Username | yes |
KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD | X-KPN-Grexx-Password | yes |
KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL | X-Grexx-Api-Url (optional, per connection) | yes, unless the request sends X-Grexx-Api-Url + X-Grexx-Token-Url. No default. Interface root, without /realtime |
KPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URL | X-Grexx-Token-Url (optional, per connection) | no. Default https://service-accept.grexx.today/oauth/access_token |
Example (acceptatie shape — replace the interface id from API Gegevens):
export KPN_GREXX_USERNAME="..."
export KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD="..."
export KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL="https://service-accept.grexx.today/interfaces/kpn/kpn_partners_acceptatieomgeving/<interface-id>/"
# export KPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URL="https://service-accept.grexx.today/oauth/access_token"
See env.example. Token mint, cache, and Bearer retry live in
@wyre-ai/node-kpn. Base or token URLs under any other header name (X-KPN-Grexx-Base-Url, ...) are
rejected (HTTP 400).
In gateway mode a request missing X-KPN-Grexx-Username or X-KPN-Grexx-Password is
answered 401 (JSON-RPC error -32001) before the MCP handler runs. It never falls
through to env credentials.
Per-connection Grexx environment (WYREAI-525)
In gateway mode Conduit may send two headers on every call to point that connection at another Grexx environment, such as production:
| Header | Value | Example |
|---|---|---|
X-Grexx-Api-Url | Interface root from the portal (API Gegevens), without /realtime | https://service.grexx.today/interfaces/kpn/<interface-name>/<interface-id> |
X-Grexx-Token-Url | OAuth token endpoint | https://service.grexx.today/oauth/access_token |
- Both or neither. When both are absent or empty, the sidecar uses
KPN_GREXX_BASE_URLandKPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URL, also when the credential headers are sent without the URL headers.KPN_GREXX_BASE_URLhas no default and is then required;KPN_GREXX_TOKEN_URLis optional and defaults to the acceptatie token endpoint (https://service-accept.grexx.today/oauth/access_token). Exactly one URL header is HTTP 400. - Honoured only with
X-KPN-Grexx-Username/X-KPN-Grexx-Password; without them the request is 401. - Scheme and authority:
https:only, port 443 only, no userinfo, no query string, no fragment. - Exact-host allowlist (
GREXX_ALLOWED_HOSTSin@wyre-ai/node-kpn):service.grexx.todayandservice-accept.grexx.today. No*.grexx.todaywildcard; IP literals never match. - Paths: token URL path exactly
/oauth/access_token; API URL path must start with/interfaces/kpn/and is the interface root without/realtime(the SDK appends it). - Any violation is HTTP 400 (JSON-RPC
-32600), and the message never echoes the URL. - Private-IP blocking: with header URLs the SDK resolves the host before every token mint and
/realtimepost, and again at socket connect (undicifetchwith a guardedAgent), and refuses private, loopback, link-local (incl.169.254.169.254), CGNAT, reserved/benchmark, ULA and metadata addresses. - Redirects are refused: any 3xx fails the call.
- Every other URL header name (
X-KPN-Grexx-Base-Url, ...) is still rejected with HTTP 400.
HTTP authentication
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is required when MCP_TRANSPORT=http. If it is empty, the process
logs an error and exits non-zero. It never prints the secret. Known placeholders
(changeme, change-me, secret, placeholder, example, your-secret,
your-s2s-secret, s2s-secret, replace-me, replace-with-a-real-secret) are
rejected the same way, including when MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 is set.
MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 is local development only. The process logs a warning,
does not check X-Gateway-S2S, and listens on 127.0.0.1 only. A non-loopback
MCP_HTTP_HOST (including 0.0.0.0) is ignored in that mode and the override is logged.
MCP_HTTP_HOST is honored when a real secret is set. Unset, that bind stays 0.0.0.0.
Set 127.0.0.1 to keep a secret-backed process on loopback. The container image sets
0.0.0.0 and AUTH_MODE=gateway.
With a real secret, every request except /health and /healthz must include:
X-Gateway-S2S: t=<unix seconds>,v1=<hex hmac-sha256>
v1 is HMAC-SHA256 of the exact string t=<unix seconds> (the same t= prefix that
starts the header), keyed with CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET, hex-encoded. The timestamp must
be within 300 seconds of the server clock. A missing or invalid header is 401.
/health and /healthz stay unauthenticated and do not read credentials. The stdio
transport does not use CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET.
# sign "t=$NOW" with the gateway-provisioned secret
NOW=$(date +%s)
SIG=$(printf 't=%s' "$NOW" | openssl dgst -sha256 -hmac "$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" | awk '{print $NF}')
curl -sS -D- http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp \
-H "X-Gateway-S2S: t=${NOW},v1=${SIG}" \
-H "X-KPN-Grexx-Username: ..." \
-H "X-KPN-Grexx-Password: ..." \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list","params":{}}'
SDK dependency
Import the Grexx client from @wyre-ai/node-kpn (package root), not /legacy.
The dependency is the published range ^2.2.0 (per-connection URLs + SSRF guard from node-kpn#6; Prequalification and OrderData from
node-kpn#5, tag v2.1.0). Token minting
is the HTTP Basic behavior from
node-kpn#4. /legacy
remains the developer.kpn.com client for KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1 only.
This server does not mint the Grexx token.
Running
export NODE_AUTH_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) # GitHub Packages auth for @wyre-ai/*
npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js # stdio (default)
# HTTP refuses to start until CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is a real secret
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" MCP_TRANSPORT=http node dist/index.js
# Local HTTP only, without a service-to-service secret (always binds 127.0.0.1)
MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 MCP_TRANSPORT=http node dist/index.js
npm run smoke # both protocol eras serve the same Grexx tools
Docker (linux/amd64 per fleet law). The image listens on 0.0.0.0 inside the
container and defaults to AUTH_MODE=gateway. Publish the port on loopback and
pass the S2S secret. Grexx username and password arrive on each request as
headers. KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL stays in the environment because a caller-supplied
URL is rejected.
docker build --platform linux/amd64 --build-arg GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) -t kpn-mcp .
docker run \
-e CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
-e KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL="https://service-accept.grexx.today/interfaces/kpn/kpn_partners_acceptatieomgeving/<interface-id>/" \
-p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
kpn-mcp
Compose refuses to start when CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is unset, publishes
127.0.0.1:8080:8080, and does not inject KPN_GREXX_USERNAME or
KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD:
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL="https://service-accept.grexx.today/interfaces/kpn/kpn_partners_acceptatieomgeving/<interface-id>/" \
GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) \
docker compose up --build
Single-tenant HTTP (AUTH_MODE=env) still requires the S2S secret, then uses
KPN_GREXX_USERNAME and KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD:
docker run \
-e CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
-e AUTH_MODE=env \
-e KPN_GREXX_USERNAME=... \
-e KPN_GREXX_PASSWORD=... \
-e KPN_GREXX_BASE_URL=... \
-p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
kpn-mcp
/health is a shallow liveness probe. It does not call Grexx and does not read credentials.
Legacy developer.kpn.com tools
With KPN_LEGACY_DEVELOPER_API=1 the process also registers kpn_test_connection,
kpn_disturbances_check, kpn_availability_check, kpn_sim_swap_get_date, and the MSM
read/write tools. Credentials are KPN_CLIENT_ID / KPN_CLIENT_SECRET (gateway:
X-KPN-Client-Id / X-KPN-Client-Secret), plus an optional MSM pair. KPN_BASE_URL
stays env-only. A half MSM pair is rejected. MSM writes still create orders, are not
retried, and require confirmation (confirm_destructive_action when the client cannot
be prompted).
Vendor quirks encoded here
- OAuth client_credentials,
scope=all. The SDK sends HTTP Basic to the token endpoint, then Bearer onPOST /realtime(Content-Type: text/xml). Plain XML, no SOAP envelope. Basic Auth is not sent onPOST /realtime. - This server hands token minting to
GrexxClient, which sends HTTP Basic first and may fall back to form-bodyclient_id/client_secretafter HTTP 400/401invalid_client. - The token endpoint is not retried into a Bearer-less call. HTTP 401 remints once inside the SDK.
- IRMA code
108and HTTP 429 are rate limits. Code102is an IP allowlist rejection. - Success codes include
Success(what acceptatie returned for ZipCodeCheck).
License
Apache-2.0 © WYRE Technology
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