# iap-mcp-proxy

> Local stdio bridge for MCP clients connecting to IAP-protected remote MCP servers

Record `iap-mcp-proxy` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/iap-mcp-proxy/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/iap-mcp-proxy
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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/iap-mcp-proxy/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.4.3
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:iap-mcp-proxy

### Description (declared)

# iap-mcp-proxy

A client-side bridge that lets generic MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ...) connect to remote MCP servers protected by **Google Cloud Identity-Aware Proxy (IAP)**.

This is a Python port of [knwoop/iap-mcp-proxy](https://github.com/knwoop/iap-mcp-proxy).

```
┌──────────────┐        stdio          ┌───────────────┐   HTTPS + ID token   ┌─────┐      ┌────────────┐
│  MCP client  │ ────────────────────► │ iap-mcp-proxy │ ───────────────────► │ IAP │ ───► │ MCP server │
│ (Claude etc.)│                       │  (this tool)  │  Proxy-Authorization │     │      │ (Cloud Run)│
└──────────────┘                       └───────────────┘                      └─────┘      └────────────┘
```

IAP expects a Google-issued OIDC ID token (or, for managed Cloud Run IAP, a self-signed service-account JWT). The MCP spec's OAuth 2.1 flow cannot produce these tokens, so generic clients get a 401/redirect and stop. This proxy runs locally, obtains and refreshes Google credentials, attaches them as `Proxy-Authorization` (IAP consumes and strips this header), and forwards MCP traffic (Streamable HTTP) upstream.

## Install

From [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/iap-mcp-proxy/):

```bash
pip install iap-mcp-proxy
# or
uv pip install iap-mcp-proxy
```

ExtensibilityAI also publishes the same versions to the private Artifact Registry PyPI index for internal consumers.

Or install from source with [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/):

```bash
git clone https://github.com/ExtensibilityAI/iap-mcp-proxy.git
cd iap-mcp-proxy
uv sync
uv run iap-mcp-proxy --version
```

## Quick start

1. Make sure you have credentials IAP will accept (see [Credentials](#credentials)):

   ```bash
   gcloud auth application-default login
   ```

2. Add the proxy to your MCP client config. Cursor / Claude Desktop:

   ```json
   {
     "mcpServers": {
       "internal-tools": {
         "command": "iap-mcp-proxy",
         "args": [
           "--audience", "1234567890-abc.apps.googleus…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.745, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/iap-mcp-proxy/ (first seen 2026-09-09T17:21:50.459Z)

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