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The MCP server exposes the platform to agents that speak MCP rather than a shell: every operation — projects, services, branches, deploys, secrets, logs — as an insta_* tool, hitting the same API as the CLI.

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Endpoint

Streamable HTTP; there is no stdio server to run locally. Register it with your agent in one command:
Supported agents: claude-code, cursor, codex, opencode, copilot, factory-droid. insta agent setup does this as part of full setup.

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Authentication

Two options, both a Bearer credential the server forwards to the platform — it stores nothing itself:
  • OAuth (default) — the agent runs the OAuth 2.1 + PKCE flow, discovered via the standard protected-resource metadata. No credential is written to disk.
  • API token — a durable insta_ token, for headless machines and CI. insta config install-mcp --mcp-token mints one and embeds it (Claude Code only); other agents use OAuth.

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Tools overview

The MCP tools reference tables the tools by area. Two things to know up front:
  • Project-scoped tools take an explicit projectId, branch-scoped tools take branch too — the CLI’s linked directory does not carry over. Discover IDs with insta_list_orgs → insta_list_projects.
  • insta_get_agent_manifest returns the agent-legible view of a project: branches, services with bound secret names, and URLs.

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Staging server

The staging deployment has its own server at https://mcp.staging.instacloud.com/mcp, registered as insta-cloud-staging when you run setup with --env staging. Accounts and sessions never cross between the two.