Establishing a Remote MCP Gateway via Cloudflare Workers (No Auth Required)

This setup enables deployment of an MCP service accessible through Cloudflare Workers that bypasses standard authorization checks.

Quick Start:

Your deployed gateway will resolve to an address similar to: remote-mcp-server-authless.<your-account>.workers.dev/sse

Alternatively, utilize the subsequent command-line instruction to scaffold the remote MCP gateway locally: bash npm create cloudflare@latest -- my-mcp-server --template=cloudflare/ai/demos/remote-mcp-authless

MCP Server Modification

To incorporate proprietary tools into this MCP service, define each utility within the init() function of src/index.ts by invoking this.server.tool(...).

Linking with Cloudflare AI Console

You can connect to your freshly deployed MCP service from the Cloudflare AI Console, which acts as a remote MCP consumer:

Navigate to https://playground.ai.cloudflare.com/
Input your provisioned MCP service endpoint (e.g., remote-mcp-server-authless.<your-account>.workers.dev/sse)
Your tailored MCP tools are now accessible directly within the console!

Integrating Claude Desktop Client

Connection to this remote MCP gateway is also achievable from local MCP clients using the mcp-remote intermediary package.

To link Claude Desktop to your deployed worker, adhere to Anthropic's Initial Setup Guide and then modify the configuration within Claude Desktop under Settings > Developer > Edit Config.

Update your configuration with this structure:

{ "mcpServers": { "calculator": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "http://localhost:8787/sse" // Or substitute with remote-mcp-server-authless.your-account.workers.dev/sse ] } } }

Restart the Claude application; the newly integrated tools should then appear as operational.