KYA-OS MCP Server

A ready-to-deploy Model Context Protocol server, protected by KYA-OS Checkpoint. Deploy it in one click, point an MCP client at it, and every agent that connects is verified by the KYA-OS detection engine — running in-process, no gateway round-trip — before it can reach your tools.

Railway: a one-click button is coming — Railway deploys published templates by code (railway.com/new/template/<code>), so it needs this repo published as a Railway template first. For now, deploy it on Railway from the repo directly (New Project → Deploy from GitHub repo).

What you get

• A working MCP server at /api/mcp (streamable HTTP) with two example tools — swap in your own.

• Checkpoint protection via withCheckpoint from @kya-os/checkpoint-nextjs — the Rust detection engine runs in-process (WASM), and enforcement is driven by your dashboard policy.

• Zero-config deploy — a standard Next.js 16 App Router app; Vercel / Railway / Netlify detect and build it automatically.

Related MCP server: Outfit

One-click deploy

1. Click a Deploy button above.

2. When prompted, paste two values from your Checkpoint project settings:

   • CHECKPOINT_PROJECT_ID — binds this server to your project's policy.

   • CHECKPOINT_API_KEY — authenticates the policy fetch.

3. Deploy. Your MCP endpoint is live at https://<your-deployment>/api/mcp.

Secrets are entered on the platform, never in a URL. Without them the server still runs, using the engine's default detection instead of your dashboard policy.

Connect an MCP client

Point any MCP client at your endpoint. For example, in a client that uses mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kya-os": {
      "url": "https://<your-deployment>/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Then call the checkpoint_status tool to confirm which project is protecting the server.

Local development

cp .env.example .env.local   # add your CHECKPOINT_* values
npm install
npm run dev                  # http://localhost:3000  ·  MCP at /api/mcp

How Checkpoint protects it

middleware.ts wires withCheckpoint across every route (including /api/mcp). The engine verifies each request locally and applies your project's policy — block, challenge-for-delegation, or observe — which you configure in the dashboard. Because verification is in-process, there's no per-request network hop.

// middleware.ts
import { withCheckpoint } from '@kya-os/checkpoint-nextjs';

export default withCheckpoint({
  tenantHost: process.env.CHECKPOINT_TENANT_HOST ?? 'localhost:3000',
  projectId: process.env.CHECKPOINT_PROJECT_ID,
  apiKey: process.env.CHECKPOINT_API_KEY,
});

Add your own tools

Tools live in app/api/[transport]/route.ts. Each server.tool(...) becomes callable by any connected MCP client:

server.tool(
  'get_weather',
  'Return the current weather for a city.',
  { city: z.string() },
  async ({ city }) => ({
    content: [{ type: 'text', text: `It's sunny in ${city}.` }],
  })
);

Going further — verifiable agent delegation

This template uses Checkpoint's detection layer. If you want agents to present a cryptographically verifiable, capability-scoped delegation (a user grants an agent a time-boxed, read-vs-write-separated credential from their own passkey-backed identity), see the Hobbsidian reference app, which builds on @kya-os/id and @kya-os/mcp.

Learn more

• Checkpoint dashboard & docs — kya.vouched.id

• Model Context Protocol — modelcontextprotocol.io