Akto MCP

Akto MCP Server is a Spring Boot-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to provide AI-powered tools and APIs to interact with Akto. It leverages the Spring AI and is container-ready for…

Local serverstdio

What is the Akto MCP Server?

Akto MCP is an MCP project maintained in the akto-api-security/akto-mcp-server repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Akto MCP Server is a Spring Boot-based Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, designed to provide AI-powered tools and APIs to interact with Akto. It leverages…”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.

Local setup

The project provides a local client configuration using docker. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.

Configuration values

The example declares AKTO_API_KEY. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.

Source

Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.

How to install the Akto MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "akto-mcp-server": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "--name akto-mcp-server",
        "-i",
        "-e",
        "AKTO_API_KEY",
        "akto-api-security/akto-mcp-server:latest"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AKTO_API_KEY": "YOUR_AKTO_API_KEY"
      }
    }
  }
}

From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
AKTO_API_KEYDeclared in the maintainer’s client configuration.Yes