Idios MCP Server

New here? Start with QUICKSTART.md: from nothing to a settled contract, for an agent developer.

Exposes Idios private escrow contract actions as MCP tools so any MCP-compatible AI agent framework (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, Claude, or any framework with MCP support) can create and manage private work contracts on Beam without human involvement.

What this enables

An AI agent can:

• Discover workers to hire, and jobs to work on, from the Idios marketplace, then verify a worker's slashable bond on chain before contracting
• Create a private escrow contract and lock payment
• Commit collateral as a worker before delivering
• Submit delivery and auto-settle on hash match (Mode A)
• Approve or dispute a delivery (Mode B)
• Claim funds after settlement or dispute resolution
• View current contract state at any time

All settlement is private on Beam MimbleWimble. Amounts and parties are hidden at the protocol level. No platform takes a cut.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+
• Beam CLI wallet binary on disk
• Idios app shader (idios_app.wasm) on disk, current v2 build from this repo
• A funded wallet.db

Install from PyPI:

pip install idios-mcp-server

That gives you an idios-mcp-server command on your PATH. To run from a clone instead, install just the SDK and invoke the script directly:

pip install mcp

Config

Copy idios_mcp_config.example.json to idios_mcp_config.json and fill in your paths:

{
  "beam_wallet_binary": "/home/you/beam-cli/beam-wallet",
  "shader_app_file": "/path/to/idios_app.wasm",
  "wallet_path": "/home/you/beam-cli/wallet.db",
  "node_addr": "eu-node01.mainnet.beam.mw:8100",
  "cid": "41ef8be50f0d727a919b5f5e64f7e66d5ec04442bb4f536f664e38b765e4921f"
}

The cid above is the live Idios v2 contract on Beam mainnet. eu-node01 is a public mainnet node; run your own for anything serious. If Beam Desktop is running locally its embedded node is at 127.0.0.1:10005.

Running

python3 idios_mcp_server.py --config idios_mcp_config.json

The server needs your wallet password. Run by hand, it prompts once at startup. When an MCP client spawns it over stdio, set the password in the IDIOS_WALLET_PASS environment variable so it starts without a prompt; the server falls back to the prompt only when that variable is unset. The password is held in memory and never written to disk by the server.

Install the mcp package into a virtualenv and run the server with that venv python (for example /path/to/venv/bin/python idios_mcp_server.py ...) so the client spawns it with the mcp package available.

Connecting to your agent framework

The server uses stdio transport, which every major MCP client supports (Claude Code, Claude Desktop, LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, and others).

Claude Code (the path on Linux, where there is no Claude Desktop)

Export the password in the shell, then register the server. Keeping the password out of the command and config means it is never written to disk:

read -s -p "Wallet password: " IDIOS_WALLET_PASS && export IDIOS_WALLET_PASS && echo
claude mcp add --scope user idios -- /path/to/venv/bin/python /path/to/idios_mcp_server.py --config /path/to/idios_mcp_config.json

The server inherits IDIOS_WALLET_PASS from the shell Claude Code runs in, so launch claude from that same shell. Then ask in plain language, for example "use idios to view contract 99903" or "create a Mode B contract and settle it".

Config-file clients (Claude Desktop and others)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "idios": {
      "command": "/path/to/venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["/path/to/idios_mcp_server.py", "--config", "/path/to/idios_mcp_config.json"],
      "env": { "IDIOS_WALLET_PASS": "your-wallet-password" }
    }
  }
}

Putting the password in the env block writes it to that client config file in plaintext. Fine on a machine you control, but know the tradeoff.

Available tools

The dispute winner receives payment + collateral. The dispute fee pays the consensus voting arbitrators, never either party. Voting is deliberately not an agent tool; disputes are resolved by humans over the CLI.

Amount units

All amounts are in groth. 1 BEAM = 100,000,000 groth. NPH (asset_id=47) uses the same unit. So 5 NPH = 500,000,000 groth, 0.05 BEAM = 5,000,000 groth.

Timing

view_contract is fast (read-only). State-changing calls (commit_collateral, submit_delivery, approve_delivery, dispute_delivery, claim_funds) wait for on-chain confirmation and usually take one to two minutes on Beam mainnet, occasionally several.

Arbitrator

For disputes, contact @tappyoak on Telegram or Discord with the contract ID, your role, and a description of the situation.

Live contract

CID: 41ef8be50f0d727a919b5f5e64f7e66d5ec04442bb4f536f664e38b765e4921f Live on Beam mainnet, v2 via in place Upgradable3 upgrades (original deploy 15 June 2026, v2 since 8 July 2026).