MCP Nest

NestJS MCP Server Module

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A NestJS module to effortlessly expose tools, resources, and prompts for AI, from your NestJS applications using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

With @rekog/mcp-nest you define tools, resources, and prompts in a way that's familiar in NestJS and leverage the full power of dependency injection to utilize your existing codebase in building complex enterprise ready MCP servers.

Features

• 🚀 [Multi-Transport Support](docs/server-examples.md#multiple-transport-types): HTTP+SSE, Streamable HTTP, and STDIO
• 🔧 [Tools](docs/tools.md): Expose NestJS methods as MCP tools with automatic discovery and Zod validation
• 🛠️ [Elicitation](docs/tools.md#interactive-tool-calls): Interactive tool calls with user input elicitation
• 🌐 [HTTP Request Access](docs/tools.md#understanding-tool-method-parameters): Full access to request context within MCP handlers
• 🔐 [Per-Tool Authorization](docs/per-tool-authorization.md): Implement fine-grained authorization for tools
• 📁 [Resources](docs/resources.md): Serve content and data through MCP resource system
• 📚 [Resource Templates](docs/resource-templates.md): Dynamic resources with parameterized URIs
• 💬 [Prompts](docs/prompts.md): Define reusable prompt templates for AI interactions
• 🔐 [Guard-based Authentication](docs/server-examples.md#server-with-authentication): Guard-based security with OAuth support
• 🏠 [Built-in Authorization Server](docs/built-in-authorization-server.md) — Using the built-in Authorization Server for easy setups. (Beta)
• 🌐 [External Authorization Server](docs/external-authorization-server/README.md) — Securing your MCP server with an external authorization server (Keycloak, Auth0, etc).
• 💉 [Dependency Injection](docs/dependency-injection.md): Leverage NestJS DI system throughout MCP components
• 🔍 [Server mutation and instrumentation](docs/server-mutation.md) — Mutate the underlying mcp server for custom logic or instrumentation purposes.

Are you interested to build ChatGPT widgets (with the OpenAI SDK) or MCP apps? Find out how to do that with @rekog/MCP-Nest in this repository MCP-Nest-Samples

> [!TIP] > You can easily learn about this package using the chat tab in Context7. Better yet, connect the Context7 MCP server to allow your AI agents to access the documentation and implement MCP-Nest for you.

Installation

npm install @rekog/mcp-nest @modelcontextprotocol/sdk zod@^4

Optional dependencies

If you use the built-in authorization server with the TypeORM store, install the following optional peer dependencies:

npm install @nestjs/typeorm typeorm

Quick Start

// app.module.ts
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import { McpModule } from '@rekog/mcp-nest';
import { GreetingTool } from './greeting.tool';

@Module({
  imports: [
    McpModule.forRoot({
      name: 'my-mcp-server',
      version: '1.0.0',
    }),
  ],
  providers: [GreetingTool],
})
export class AppModule {}

// greeting.tool.ts
import { Injectable } from '@nestjs/common';
import { Tool, Context } from '@rekog/mcp-nest';
import { z } from 'zod';

@Injectable()
export class GreetingTool {
  @Tool({
    name: 'greeting-tool',
    description: 'Returns a greeting with progress updates',
    parameters: z.object({
      name: z.string().default('World'),
    }),
  })
  async sayHello({ name }, context: Context) {
    await context.reportProgress({ progress: 50, total: 100 });
    return `Hello, ${name}!`;
  }
}

Documentation

• [Tools Guide](docs/tools.md) - Define and expose NestJS methods as MCP tools
• [Discovery and Registration of Tools](docs/tool-discovery-and-registration.md) - Automatic discovery and manual registration of tools
• [Dynamic Capabilities Guide](docs/dynamic-capabilities.md) - Register tools, resources, and prompts programmatically at runtime
• [Resources Guide](docs/resources.md) - Serve static and dynamic content
• [Resource Templates Guide](docs/resource-templates.md) - Create parameterized resources
• [Prompts Guide](docs/prompts.md) - Build reusable prompt templates
• [Built-in Authorization Server](docs/built-in-authorization-server.md) - Secure your MCP server with built-in OAuth
• [External Authorization Server](docs/external-authorization-server/README.md) - Securing your MCP server with an external authorization server (Keycloak, Auth0, etc)
• [Server examples](docs/server-examples.md) - MCP servers examples (Streamable HTTP, HTTP, and STDIO) and with Fastify support

Playground

The playground directory contains working examples for all features. Refer to [playground/README.md](playground/README.md) for details.

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Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: rekog-labs
• Source: rekog-labs/MCP-Nest
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.