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MCP Servers for Identity, Auth and Secrets
Identity providers are an unusual thing to hand an assistant, and the guides here treat them that way. Managing tenants, applications and users from chat is genuinely useful during setup work, but the same connection reaches the system that guards everything else.
The 1Password guide is the odd one out and the most broadly useful: rather than exposing a product to the assistant, it is about supplying secrets to other MCP servers without those secrets sitting in a config file.
5 guides in this collection.
Identity providers
Auth0 tenants, apps and actions
Auth0 MCP server setup for Cursor IDE: log in through the Auth0 CLI, connect the MCP server to that session, and manage applications, APIs, and Actions without leaving your editor.
Okta with device or JWT auth
Set up Okta's open source MCP server for Cursor IDE: clone and run it with uv, configure mcp.json, and authorize with either the device-code flow or JWT client-credentials — with human-in-the-loop confirmation on destructive actions.
Clerk in one install command
Clerk MCP server Cursor IDE setup 2026: run clerk mcp install for one-command registration, or add the mcp.clerk.com endpoint manually to get real SDK snippets while coding auth flows.
Secrets
Secrets Cursor can use but never see
Connect Cursor IDE to 1Password's official Environments MCP Server: the plugin-based install, per-Environment approval prompts, and why the model never sees the actual secret values.
Which auth pattern each server expects
A complete guide to MCP server authentication — API keys in env vars, OAuth flows, bearer tokens, and keeping secrets out of your config files.
Other kinds of MCP server
Prefer to scan the whole library at once? The complete article index lists every guide by publication date, and both hub views sit side by side on the guides page.