Algenta MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server for Algenta — self-hosted building blocks for AI applications.

Any MCP-capable agent operates the engine — metered and audited like every other caller. This server gives MCP-compatible agents access to governed data discovery, exact queries, decisions, simulations, runtime utilities, and account operations through the same public API contract used by the Algenta SDKs. The Algenta engine itself is proprietary; everything in this package is Apache-2.0.

Full reference: docs.algenta.ai/sdk/mcp

Install

pipx install algenta-mcp

pip install algenta-mcp is also supported. The package includes its MCP transport dependencies; users do not install or manage a separate protocol package.

Auth model

Introspection (initialize/tools/list) needs no credentials. Executing tools requires a free community login — device registration at algenta.ai (free): run algenta login, or create a key at https://app.algenta.ai/dashboard/api-keys, then set ALGENTA_API_KEY.

Configure

export ALGENTA_API_KEY="<YOUR_ALGENTA_API_KEY>"
export ALGENTA_BASE_URL="https://api.algenta.ai"

Use your deployment URL for self-hosted Algenta. Private deployment profiles fail closed rather than silently sending traffic to Algenta Cloud.

Cursor and Claude Desktop

algenta-mcp uses stdio by default. Add this server to Cursor's ~/.cursor/mcp.json or Claude Desktop's MCP configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "algenta": {
      "command": "algenta-mcp",
      "env": {
        "ALGENTA_API_KEY": "<YOUR_ALGENTA_API_KEY>",
        "ALGENTA_BASE_URL": "https://api.algenta.ai"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart the client after changing its MCP configuration.

Codex

Add the stdio server to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.algenta]
command = "algenta-mcp"

[mcp_servers.algenta.env]
ALGENTA_API_KEY = "<YOUR_ALGENTA_API_KEY>"
ALGENTA_BASE_URL = "https://api.algenta.ai"

Keep credentials in user-level configuration or environment variables, not in a repository.

Streamable HTTP

Start the remote transport:

algenta-mcp --mode http --port 8001

The standalone server binds to 127.0.0.1 by default. Set ALGENTA_MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 only when an authenticated container ingress or gateway must expose it to another host.

Connect modern clients to:

http://localhost:8001/mcp

The endpoint uses stateless Streamable HTTP. It dual-serves both protocol eras from the same endpoint: a legacy initialize handshake negotiates 2025-11-25, and a modern per-request caller (the MCP-Protocol-Version header plus the 2026-07-28 _meta envelope, no handshake) gets 2026-07-28, including the built-in server/discover method. Algenta pins the official Python MCP SDK 2.0.0. Deprecated /mcp/sse and /mcp/messages routes remain for older clients but are not the default.

LangChain example:

import os

from langchain_mcp_adapters.client import MultiServerMCPClient

client = MultiServerMCPClient(
    {
        "algenta": {
            "transport": "http",
            "url": "http://localhost:8001/mcp",
            "headers": {
                "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ALGENTA_API_KEY']}"
            },
        }
    }
)

tools = await client.get_tools()

Verify

The human-readable discovery route is available alongside the protocol endpoint:

curl -s http://localhost:8001/mcp/tools | jq '.tools | length'

In an MCP client, call get_contract first, then use list_data and get_data_summary before querying a dataset. Tool names, descriptions, and input schemas are returned by MCP tools/list.

Security

• Tool calls use Authorization: Bearer <ALGENTA_API_KEY> or the configured process credential.
• Streamable HTTP validates Host and Origin to prevent DNS-rebinding access.
• Standalone HTTP binds to loopback unless ALGENTA_MCP_HOST is explicitly changed.
• Error payloads redact API-key material.
• ALGENTA_BASE_URL is required when cloud access is disabled.
• Put an authenticating gateway in front of a publicly reachable standalone MCP port.

Compatibility

Canonical environment variables are ALGENTA_API_KEY and ALGENTA_BASE_URL. Legacy DE_API_KEY, DE_BASE_URL, and ALGENTA_API_URL remain accepted for existing deployments.

License

Apache-2.0