Huntress

Huntress MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides AI assistants with structured access to Huntress cybersecurity platform data and operations.

Note: This project is maintained by Wyre Technology.

Quick Start

Claude Desktop — download, open, done:

1. Download huntress-mcp.mcpb from the latest release
2. Open the file (double-click or drag into Claude Desktop)
3. Enter your Huntress credentials when prompted (API Key, API Secret)

No terminal, no JSON editing, no Node.js install required.

Claude Code (CLI):

claude mcp add huntress-mcp \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_KEY=your-api-key \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_SECRET=your-api-secret \
  -- npx -y github:WYRE-AI/huntress-mcp

See Installation for Docker and from-source methods.

Features

• 🔌 MCP Protocol Compliance: Full support for MCP resources and tools
• 🛡️ Comprehensive Security Coverage: Tools spanning agents, organizations, incidents, escalations, billing, signals, and users
• 🔍 Decision-Tree Navigation: Start with huntress_navigate to explore domains, then dynamically load domain-specific tools
• 📝 CRUD Operations: Create, read, update, delete operations for organizations, memberships, incidents, and more
• 🔒 Secure Authentication: HTTP Basic Auth with Huntress API credentials
• 🌐 Dual Transport: Supports both stdio (local) and HTTP Streamable (remote/Docker) transports
• 📦 MCPB Packaging: One-click installation via MCP Bundle for desktop clients
• 🐳 Docker Ready: Containerized deployment with HTTP transport and health checks
• ⚡ Rate Limiting: Built-in rate limiter respects Huntress API limits (60 req/min)
• 📊 Structured Logging: Comprehensive logging with configurable levels

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Configuration
• Usage
• Domains
• Docker Deployment
• Development
• Testing
• Contributing
• License

Installation

Option 1: MCPB Bundle (Claude Desktop)

The simplest method — no terminal, no JSON editing, no Node.js install required.

1. Download huntress-mcp.mcpb from the latest release
2. Open the file (double-click or drag into Claude Desktop)
3. Enter your Huntress credentials when prompted (API Key, API Secret)

For Claude Code (CLI), one command:

claude mcp add huntress-mcp \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_KEY=your-api-key \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_SECRET=your-api-secret \
  -- npx -y github:WYRE-AI/huntress-mcp

Option 2: Docker

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 service-to-service secret. In gateway mode, Huntress credentials arrive on each request as headers; they are not read from the environment.

docker run -d \
  -e CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/wyre-ai/huntress-mcp:latest

Compose refuses to start when CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is unset:

CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" docker compose up

Option 3: From Source

git clone https://github.com/WYRE-AI/huntress-mcp.git
cd huntress-mcp
npm ci
npm run build

Configuration

Copy .env.example and set the variables below.

Variable	Required	Description
HUNTRESS_API_KEY	For stdio and AUTH_MODE=env	Huntress API public key
HUNTRESS_API_SECRET	For stdio and AUTH_MODE=env	Huntress API secret
MCP_TRANSPORT	No	stdio (default) or http
AUTH_MODE	No	gateway (Docker image and Compose default) or env. Gateway mode requires X-Huntress-Api-Key and X-Huntress-Api-Secret on each /mcp request and never falls back to HUNTRESS_*. env uses those variables only after S2S auth succeeds.
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET	Yes for HTTP	Service-to-service secret. The HTTP server logs an error and exits non-zero when this is empty or a known placeholder (changeme, secret, replace-me, your-s2s-secret, and the other example values). Compose will not start without it. Never commit a real value. Generate one with openssl rand -hex 32.
MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV	No	Set to exactly 1 only for local development to start HTTP without CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET. The process logs a warning, does not enforce X-Gateway-S2S, and listens on 127.0.0.1 only. A non-loopback MCP_HTTP_HOST (including 0.0.0.0) is ignored and the override is logged. A known placeholder secret is still refused.
MCP_HTTP_HOST	No	Bind address when CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is set. Defaults to 127.0.0.1 when unset. The container image sets 0.0.0.0.
MCP_HTTP_PORT	No	HTTP port. Defaults to 8080.
LOG_LEVEL	No	Log level (debug, info, warn, error). Defaults to info.

/health and /healthz stay unauthenticated and do not read credentials. The stdio transport does not use CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET.

HTTP authentication

With MCP_TRANSPORT=http and CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET set, every /mcp request must include X-Gateway-S2S:

t=<unix seconds>,v1=<hex hmac-sha256>

v1 is HMAC-SHA256 over the exact message t=<unix seconds>, keyed with CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET, hex-encoded. The timestamp must be within 300 seconds of the server clock. A missing or invalid header returns 401. The secret is never written to logs.

import { createHmac } from 'node:crypto';

const t = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
const v1 = createHmac('sha256', process.env.CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET).update(`t=${t}`).digest('hex');
const xGatewayS2s = `t=${t},v1=${v1}`;

In AUTH_MODE=gateway, /mcp also requires X-Huntress-Api-Key and X-Huntress-Api-Secret. Those headers are the only credential source for that request. A request missing either header returns 401 and does not fall back to HUNTRESS_API_KEY / HUNTRESS_API_SECRET.

await fetch('http://127.0.0.1:8080/mcp', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'content-type': 'application/json',
    accept: 'application/json, text/event-stream',
    'x-gateway-s2s': xGatewayS2s,
    'x-huntress-api-key': apiKey,
    'x-huntress-api-secret': apiSecret,
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ jsonrpc: '2.0', id: 1, method: 'tools/list' }),
});

Domains

The server uses decision-tree navigation. Start with huntress_navigate to pick a domain:

Domain	Tools
accounts	Get account info, get current actor
agents	List agents, get agent by ID
organizations	List, get, create, update, delete organizations
incidents	Incident reports (list/get/resolve), remediations (list/get/approve/reject), escalations (list/get/resolve)
billing	Billing reports, summary reports
signals	List/get security signals
users	Membership CRUD (list/get/create/update/delete)

Docker Deployment

See docker-compose.yml for full configuration. The checked-in Compose service is gateway mode. It does not set HUNTRESS_API_KEY or HUNTRESS_API_SECRET and does not use env_file, so a project .env cannot inject static vendor credentials into the container. Compose still interpolates CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET from that file and will not start when it is unset. The port is published on 127.0.0.1.

cp .env.example .env
# Set CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET. Leave it empty in the example; never commit a real value.
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" docker compose up -d

Single-tenant HTTP (AUTH_MODE=env) still requires the S2S secret, then uses HUNTRESS_API_KEY and HUNTRESS_API_SECRET. It is separate from the gateway Compose service:

docker run -d \
  -e CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" \
  -e AUTH_MODE=env \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_KEY=your-key \
  -e HUNTRESS_API_SECRET=your-secret \
  -p 127.0.0.1:8080:8080 \
  ghcr.io/wyre-ai/huntress-mcp:latest

Local HTTP without a secret is development-only. It binds 127.0.0.1 only and logs a warning:

MCP_TRANSPORT=http MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 npm run start:http

Development

npm ci
npm run build       # Build the project
npm run dev         # Watch mode
npm run test        # Run tests
npm run lint        # Type-check
npm run clean       # Remove dist/

# HTTP refuses to start until CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET is set
CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET="$CONDUIT_S2S_SECRET" npm run start:http

# Local HTTP only, without a service-to-service secret (always binds 127.0.0.1)
MCP_ALLOW_INSECURE_DEV=1 npm run start:http

Testing

npm test            # Run test suite
npm run test:watch  # Watch mode

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

License

Apache 2.0 — Copyright WYRE Technology