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Claude Bridge MCP Server

Durable local-first MCP relay for independent coding agents.

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Published as claude-code-bridge on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 9.

Most discussed

Auth design check-in: confirm scope, storage, protected endpoints

Decisions confirmed 2026-05-27 session:

  • Scope: global token only. Per-channel deferred.
  • Storage: env var CLAUDE_BRIDGE_AUTH_TOKEN + --auth-token CLI override. No config file.
  • Protected surface: /sse, /messages/, /api/*, /, static dashboard files. /status stays public.
  • Header format: standard Authorization: Bearer <token>. Will fall back to X-Bridge-Token only if empirical test (below) shows claude mcp add --header mangles standard

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 2 comments

Pluggable storage backends (Tier 2.4)

Parent: #12

Today: hardcoded SQLite with one global connection. To run several bridges behind a load balancer (or for HA), need a shared backend — Redis or Postgres being the obvious candidates.

Touch surface: define Storage protocol; refactor every db() call site in server.py (~12) to go through it; new storage/ subpackage with SQLiteStorage (default), RedisStorage, PostgresStorage. ~400 LoC. Tradeoff: adds dependency surface and config complexity. Don't pursue unless mu

Read the thread · 2026-05-28 · open · 1 comment

Per-channel auth tokens (Tier 2.2)

Parent: #12

The v0.7.0 design check-in punt. Today's BearerAuthMiddleware uses one global token. Spec: each channel optionally has its own token; sending or receiving on it requires that token.

The existing BearerAuthMiddleware(token_getter=...) callable was deliberately designed for this — swap lambda: AUTH_TOKEN for a channel-aware lookup against a new channel_tokens SQLite table.

Touch surface: new table, replace token_getter, add an admin CLI (`claude-bridge tokens mint|list

Read the thread · 2026-05-28 · open · 1 comment

Server-pushed message stream — live SSE per channel (Tier 2.1)

Parent: #12

GET /sse/channel/<name> emits server-sent events as messages arrive. Dashboard + TUI drop their 2-second poll loops. The MCP SSE transport already exists in server.py for tool-call delivery — the anyio plumbing is reusable.

Touch surface: new route, broadcast hook on insert_message. ~100 LoC. Tradeoff: connection limits become a concern. Document a cap and surface it in /api/state. Why important: single most user-visible quality bump. Reduces idle CPU + DB rea

Read the thread · 2026-05-28 · closed · 1 comment

Message retention / TTL (Tier 1.2)

Parent: #12

SQLite grows unbounded. A long-running bridge will eventually want a --retention-days N flag (global) and/or a per-channel override. Background task deletes messages older than the cutoff.

Touch surface: schema additions, periodic task in server.py startup, new CLI flag, possibly a new MCP tool bridge_retention(channel, days). ~120 LoC + migration. Tradeoff: first feature that modifies historical state — needs careful default. Recommend opt-in with a loud startup bann

Read the thread · 2026-05-28 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

Add --auth-token CLI flag + CLAUDE_BRIDGE_AUTH_TOKEN env var

Where: claude_bridge/cli.py

Acceptance

  • New --auth-token <value> flag in the argparse setup (alongside --host/--port/--db/--no-dashboard/--version)
  • Reads CLAUDE_BRIDGE_AUTH_TOKEN env var as default when flag is omitted
  • CLI value wins over env var when both are set
  • Passes the resolved token through to the server bootstrap
  • claude-bridge --help documents both inputs

Part of #1.

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

WebSocket transport (deferred)

Status: deferred unless specific demand.

SSE works fine across machines; WebSocket would give bidirectional traffic in one socket but doesn't unlock new capability for the relay use case. Scope is large — parallel /ws route, parallel handle_ws, doc updates.

Tracking issue only. Do not start unless a concrete use case appears that SSE cannot serve.

When to revisit

  • Someone reports SSE drops they cannot recover from with the existing since_id flow
  • A consumer wants to push m

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

Submit to MCP server directory

Goal: Claude Bridge listed at https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers under the community section.

Blocked by #1 (auth tokens). Listing a bare instance in the official directory before auth lands would invite trivial abuse.

Work

  • Read CONTRIBUTING.md at modelcontextprotocol/servers
  • Write the entry pointing at pip install claude-code-bridge and this repo
  • Open the PR

Estimate: ~30 min once auth is in place.

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

Auth tokens (v0.7.0)

Goal: allow the bridge to require Authorization: Bearer <token> on its endpoints so a publicly-reachable instance is not wide open. Opt-in; default behavior unchanged.

Scope (initial direction, subject to design check-in)

  • Global token only (one secret, all clients). Per-channel can layer on later if anyone asks.
  • Env var: CLAUDE_BRIDGE_AUTH_TOKEN (matches existing CLAUDE_BRIDGE_DB / CLAUDE_BRIDGE_NO_DASHBOARD pattern). Also exposable via --auth-token <value> CLI fla

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment

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