# chuk-mcp-client-oauth

> A reusable OAuth 2.0 client library for MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/chuk-mcp-client-oauth/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.4
- license: Apache-2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: authentication, mcp, model-context-protocol, oauth, oauth2
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:chuk-mcp-client-oauth

### Description (declared)

# chuk-mcp-client-oauth

A simple, secure OAuth 2.0 client library for connecting to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers.

**Perfect for developers who want to add OAuth authentication to their MCP applications without wrestling with OAuth complexity.**

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## 🎯 What is This?

This library makes it **dead simple** to authenticate with OAuth-enabled MCP servers. Whether you're building a CLI tool, web app, or service that needs to connect to MCP servers, this library handles all the OAuth complexity for you.

### What's MCP OAuth?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers can use OAuth 2.0 to control who can access them. Think of it like logging into GitHub or Google - but for AI/LLM services.

**As a client developer, you need:**
1. 🔐 **Authenticate** - Get permission from the server
2. 💾 **Store tokens** - Keep credentials secure
3. 🔄 **Refresh tokens** - Keep sessions alive
4. 🔧 **Use tokens** - Include them in API requests

This library does all of that for you.

### OAuth 2.1 & MCP Compliance

This library implements:
- ✅ **OAuth 2.1 Best Practices** - Authorization Code + PKCE, no legacy grants
- ✅ **MCP Authorization Spec** - Protected Resource Metadata discovery (RFC 9728)
- ✅ **Resource Indicators** - Token binding to prevent reuse (RFC 8707)
- ✅ **WWW-Authenticate Fallback** - Discovery from 401/403 responses
- ✅ **Secure Token Storage** - OS keychain, encrypted files, HashiCorp Vault
- ✅ **Automatic Token Refresh** - Handles expiration transparently
- 🔄 *…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (1, declared)
- security.secrets (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/chuk-mcp-client-oauth/ (first seen 2026-09-09T11:30:27.787Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/chuk-mcp-client-oauth/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/chuk-mcp-client-oauth · ARD identifier urn:air::server:chuk-mcp-client-oauth