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Vault MCP MCP Server

MCP server for credential isolation — bots use passwords and API keys without seeing them

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Published as chillai-vault-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 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 5.

Most discussed

Plugin system for custom auth patterns

Why: Some APIs use exotic auth mechanisms (AWS Sig v4, Digest auth, HMAC, custom signing). Instead of building each one into core, provide a plugin interface.

Scope:

  • Plugin interface: receive credential data, return modified request (headers, URL, body)
  • Load plugins from ~/.vault-mcp/plugins/
  • Built-in plugins for common patterns

Use cases:

  • AWS Sig v4 as a plugin
  • MongoDB Atlas Digest auth
  • Custom HMAC-signing APIs

Priority: Medium — enables community contributions

Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Digest auth support

Why: Some APIs (MongoDB Atlas Admin API, older HTTP servers) use HTTP Digest authentication instead of Basic or Bearer.

Scope:

  • Add auth_type: 'digest' to vault_api_request
  • Implement challenge-response Digest auth (RFC 7616)
  • Store username + password for Digest

Priority: Low — niche use case

Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

OAuth2 flow support (Authorization Code + PKCE + token refresh)

Why: Many APIs (Google Sheets, Meta Ads, Spotify, etc.) require OAuth2 tokens that expire. Currently Vault can only store static tokens — when they expire, the user must manually re-authenticate.

Scope:

  • Authorization Code flow with PKCE
  • Token refresh (store refresh_token, auto-get new access_token)
  • Support for Google, Meta, Slack, Shopify OAuth2 providers

Use cases:

  • Google Sheets API with user OAuth tokens
  • Meta Ads API with long-lived tokens that need periodic refresh
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Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Browser session reuse between vault_login calls

Why: Currently each vault_login opens a new Chrome tab. If the user is already logged in (from a previous vault_login), we waste time re-authenticating.

Scope:

  • Check if already logged in (cookie/session check) before filling login form
  • Reuse existing Chrome context/tab
  • Integrate with vault_check for pre-login validation

Priority: Low — optimization, not blocking

Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

Environment variable injection for child processes

Why: Database clients (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis) and cloud SDKs (GCP, AWS) expect credentials as environment variables (DATABASE_URL, GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY). Vault currently only handles HTTP-level auth.

Scope:

  • New tool: vault_exec — run a command with secrets injected as env vars
  • Secrets never appear in the agent's context
  • Audit logging for each exec call

Use cases:

  • PostgreSQL: vault_exec("psql", { DB_PASSWORD: "mydb" })
  • GCP SDK: vault_exe

Read the thread · 2026-03-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

See all 7 reports Pod holds for Vault MCP.

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