# mcp-trino MCP Server

MCP server for Trino distributed SQL query engine access

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/releases/download/v2.2.1/mcp-trino_2.2.1_darwin_arm64.tar.gz` on mcpb. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**24 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Support for basic auth

Where users are replying their own MCP server locally it should be possible and documented to support trino clusters using basic authentication by providing a password as environment variable.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/159) · 2026-02-20 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Decimal(38,10) columns silently dropped from SELECT * query results

Hi,

when querying a PostgreSQL through Trino that contains decimal(38,10) columns, the MCP server silently drops these columns from the result set. No error is returned — the columns simply don't appear in the JSON output.

**Steps to reproduce:**

Have a PostgreSQL view with a numeric(32,10) column (maps to decimal(38,10) in Trino)

**Query via MCP execute_query:**

```
SELECT * FROM catalog.public.my_view LIMIT 1;
```
-- Result: amount column is missing from JSON output

**Workaround — casti

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/153) · 2026-02-06 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Feat: document setup with LibreChat

I am trying to use this MCP with LibreChat as client: https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat

I am having a lot of trouble getting the oauth to work. For context: I am using Azure AD for oauth in an enterprise context.

This might be a lot to ask, but would it be possible for you to add some documentation on how to configure the MCP in LibreChat?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/127) · 2025-10-30 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Token validation failed

I can connect to mcp server, but token verification failed.

OAuth: Validating token for tool list_catalogs: hJYK6wSu5afG9JMBjK0QOHddo+q69rnzYF9OGR7EDQM=
2025/09/05 10:56:56 OAuth: Token validation failed for tool list_catalogs: failed to parse and validate token: token is malformed: token contains an invalid number of segment

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/91) · 2025-09-05 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### SSL Verify

is it possible to skip TLS verify for internal dev and testing? 
What would be the env variable to use for this?

setting `TRINO_SSL_INSECURE=true` does not work and the cert is still verified (
Eg:- I get hostname verification errors

```
docker run -i --rm -p 8080:8080 -e -e TRINO_SSL_INSECURE=true -e MCP_TRANSPORT=http -e TRINO_ALLOW_WRITE_QUERIES=false -e TRINO_HOST=mytrinoserver -e TRINO_PORT=443 -e TRINO_USER=user -e TRINO_PASSWORD=password -e TRINO_SCHEME=https ghcr.io/tuannvm/mcp-trino:l

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/88) · 2025-08-25 · open · external user · 6 comments

### Most recent

### Looks like the arm64 container has an x86 binary

I'm getting `exec ./trino-mcp: exec format error` when I run the helm chart against Bottlerocket arm64 nodes
the tag I'm using is `4.3.1@sha256:7f74a66e97221a452ca900ba9d958db9b0867c0be85f65bad1322615923a8b6d` which correlates to the arm64 tag here:
https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/pkgs/container/mcp-trino/772251807?tag=4.3.1

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/219) · 2026-08-01 · open · external user · 1 comment

### OAuth scopes not configurable → `scopes_supported` omitted → Google (and strict IdPs) reject authorization with "Missing required parameter: scope"

## Summary

When OAuth is enabled with an IdP that **requires a `scope` parameter** on the authorization request (e.g. Google), the interactive OAuth flow fails: mcp-trino never advertises `scopes_supported` in its RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata and provides no way to configure OAuth scopes. MCP clients (e.g. Claude Desktop/Code) derive the scopes to request from that metadata — with it absent they send **no `scope`**, and Google rejects the request:

```
Error 400: invalid_request — "Miss

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/217) · 2026-07-21 · open · external user · 0 comments

### feat: support configurable OIDC scopes via OIDC_SCOPES env var

## Problem

When using `OAUTH_MODE=proxy` with providers like Okta or Azure AD that require `offline_access` to issue refresh tokens, there is no way to configure which OIDC scopes mcp-trino requests. The scopes are hardcoded inside `oauth-mcp-proxy`, so users cannot add the scopes their IdP needs.

This blocks refresh-token-based flows in proxy mode — the access token expires and the client must re-authenticate from scratch.

## Proposed Solution

Introduce an `OIDC_SCOPES` environment variable

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/209) · 2026-06-05 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Private security disclosure route?

Hi, I have a security report for this project and did not find an enabled GitHub private vulnerability reporting route or SECURITY.md contact.

Could a maintainer enable GitHub private vulnerability reporting or share the preferred private disclosure channel? I can provide the full technical details there.

Thanks.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/205) · 2026-05-20 · open · external user · 0 comments

### fix: persistent OAuth state signing key

## Context

MCP Trino logs on startup:
\`\`\`
[WARN] No state signing key configured, generating random key (will not persist across restarts)
\`\`\`

This means OAuth state parameters are invalidated on every pod restart, causing in-flight auth flows to fail with "state does not match" errors.

Related: #155

## Current behavior

Random signing key generated per process start. Pod restarts or rolling deploys break active OAuth flows.

## Desired behavior

Read signing key from env var \`OAUTH_S

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/202) · 2026-05-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### feat: audit logging with OAuth user identity

## Context

MCP Trino with OAuth enabled knows WHO is running each query (email, groups, roles from JWT). Currently this identity is used only for impersonation — it should also be logged for audit purposes.

## Desired behavior

Every query execution logs:
- User email/subject from JWT
- Groups from JWT
- Query text (truncated to 200 chars)
- Timestamp
- Duration
- Row count
- Success/failure

Log format: structured JSON via slog (already used throughout codebase).

Example:
```json
{"level":"I

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/201) · 2026-05-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### feat: group-based catalog allowlist

## Context

With Keycloak groups mapped to JWT `groups` claim, MCP Trino can restrict which Trino catalogs each group can access.

## Current behavior

All authenticated users see all catalogs (`No Trino allowlists configured, all catalogs, schemas, and tables are accessible`).

## Desired behavior

Configure catalog access per group via environment variable or config:

```
TRINO_GROUP_CATALOG_MAP=data-analysts:lake_curated,lake_landing;finance:finance_prd,finance_sbx;data-engineers:*;engineerin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tuannvm/mcp-trino/issues/200) · 2026-05-07 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for mcp-trino](/mcp/mcp-trino/issues) — of 24 qualified upstream.

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