NestJS MCP Server Module

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

🧩 NestJS Microservice Strategy: MCP runs as a CustomTransportStrategy, so tools/resources/prompts are real @MessagePattern handlers — guards, pipes, interceptors, and exception filters apply to them natively
🚀 Multi-Transport Support: Streamable HTTP and STDIO — selected via the transports array
🔧 Tools: Expose NestJS methods as MCP tools with automatic discovery and Zod validation
- 🛠️ Elicitation: Interactive tool calls with user input elicitation
- 🌐 HTTP Request Access: Full access to request context within MCP handlers
- 🔐 Per-Tool Authorization: Implement fine-grained authorization for tools
📁 Resources: Serve content and data through MCP resource system
📚 Resource Templates: Dynamic resources with parameterized URIs
💬 Prompts: Define reusable prompt templates for AI interactions
🔐 Guard-based Authentication: Guard-based security with OAuth support
🏠 Built-in Authorization Server — Using the built-in Authorization Server for easy setups. (Beta)
🌐 External Authorization Server — Securing your MCP server with an external authorization server (Keycloak, Auth0, etc).
💉 Dependency Injection: Leverage NestJS DI system throughout MCP components
🔍 Server mutation and instrumentation — 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/server @modelcontextprotocol/core @modelcontextprotocol/node zod@^4

Optional dependencies

The built-in authorization server now lives in a separate package. If you use it, install it alongside @rekog/mcp-nest:

npm install @rekog/mcp-nest-auth

If you additionally use the TypeORM store for the authorization server, install the following optional peer dependencies as well:

npm install @nestjs/typeorm typeorm

Quick Start

MCP-Nest runs as a NestJS microservice transport strategy. Tools, resources, and prompts live on @McpController() classes (so NestJS guards, pipes, interceptors, and exception filters apply to them), and the strategy serves them over one or more transports (Streamable HTTP, STDIO).

// greeting.controller.ts
import { McpController, Tool, McpContext } from '@rekog/mcp-nest';
import { Ctx, Payload } from '@nestjs/microservices';
import { z } from 'zod';

@McpController()
export class GreetingController {
  @Tool({
    name: 'greeting-tool',
    description: 'Returns a greeting with progress updates',
    parameters: z.object({ name: z.string().default('World') }),
  })
  async sayHello(
    @Payload() { name }: { name: string },
    @Ctx() ctx: McpContext,
  ) {
    await ctx.reportProgress({ progress: 50, total: 100 });
    return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Hello, ${name}!` }] };
  }
}

// app.module.ts
import { Module } from '@nestjs/common';
import {
  McpStrategy,
  MCP_STRATEGY,
  StreamableHttpTransport,
} from '@rekog/mcp-nest';
import { GreetingController } from './greeting.controller';

// The strategy is the whole configuration — there is no McpModule.
export const mcp = new McpStrategy({
  name: 'my-mcp-server',
  version: '1.0.0',
  transports: [
    new StreamableHttpTransport(),
  ],
});

@Module({
  controllers: [GreetingController],
  // Optional: only needed if a provider injects the strategy (e.g. for
  // runtime/dynamic tool registration).
  providers: [{ provide: MCP_STRATEGY, useValue: mcp }],
})
export class AppModule {}

// main.ts
import { NestFactory } from '@nestjs/core';
import { AppModule, mcp } from './app.module';

async function bootstrap() {
  const app = await NestFactory.create(AppModule);
  mcp.setHttpAdapter(app.getHttpAdapter()); // needed for HTTP transports
  app.connectMicroservice({ strategy: mcp });
  await app.startAllMicroservices(); // mounts the MCP transports
  await app.listen(3000); // also serves your normal HTTP routes
}
void bootstrap();

Order matters: call startAllMicroservices() before listen() so the MCP HTTP routes are mounted before the server starts accepting connections.

For an STDIO-only server, skip the HTTP adapter and use NestFactory.createMicroservice(AppModule, { strategy: mcp }) with transports: [new StdioTransport()] and disable logging (stdout is reserved for the protocol).

Documentation

Migration to the Strategy API - Moving from McpModule.forRoot(options) to McpStrategy + @McpController
Tools Guide - Define and expose NestJS methods as MCP tools
Discovery and Registration of Tools - Automatic discovery and manual registration of tools
Dynamic Capabilities Guide - Register tools, resources, and prompts programmatically at runtime
Resources Guide - Serve static and dynamic content
Resource Templates Guide - Create parameterized resources
Prompts Guide - Build reusable prompt templates
Built-in Authorization Server - Secure your MCP server with built-in OAuth
External Authorization Server - Securing your MCP server with an external authorization server (Keycloak, Auth0, etc)
Server examples - MCP servers examples (Streamable HTTP, HTTP, and STDIO) and with Fastify support

Examples

The examples directory contains working examples for all features. Refer to examples/README.md for details.

MCP Nest

README