Portkey Admin MCP

The full Portkey Admin API as an MCP server — 156 tools across prompts, configs, keys, analytics, and more.

[!IMPORTANT] Maintenance mode. Portkey was acquired by Palo Alto Networks (completed 2026‑05‑29) and is being folded into the Prisma AIRS platform. The Portkey Admin API this server targets is live and unchanged as of June 2026, and this project still works end‑to‑end — but it is now in maintenance mode: security and dependency patches only, no new features, pending Palo Alto's post‑acquisition API roadmap. If the hosted Admin API is ever deprecated, point PORTKEY_BASE_URL at a self‑hosted Portkey gateway. See docs/audit-2026-06.md for the full assessment and security_best_practices_report.md for the 0.6.0 security-hardening review.

• 🚀 Quick Start
• 🧰 What You Can Do
• 🔑 API Key Scopes
• 🌐 HTTP Server (Experimental)
• 🛠️ Development
• 🧾 Full tool list — ENDPOINTS.md

You need a Portkey API key with appropriate scopes. Get one from your Portkey dashboard under API Keys.

Claude Code

claude mcp add -e PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key portkey-admin -- npx -y portkey-admin-mcp

Cursor / Windsurf / VS Code

Add to your MCP config (.cursor/mcp.json, .windsurf/mcp.json, or .vscode/mcp.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "portkey-admin": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "portkey-admin-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "PORTKEY_API_KEY": "your_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

Run directly

PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key npx -y portkey-admin-mcp

To expose only a focused subset of tools in stdio clients, set PORTKEY_TOOL_DOMAINS:

PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key \
PORTKEY_TOOL_DOMAINS=prompts,analytics \
npx -y portkey-admin-mcp

git clone https://github.com/CodesWhat/portkey-admin-mcp.git
cd portkey-admin-mcp
npm install && npm run build

Then use this config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "portkey-admin": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/portkey-admin-mcp/build/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "PORTKEY_API_KEY": "your_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}

156 tools total. See ENDPOINTS.md for the full list with descriptions.

Most tools work with a workspace-scoped service key that has Select All permissions enabled. That covers prompts, configs, virtual/API keys, providers, guardrails, workspace integrations, MCP servers, rate/usage limits, logs, prompt completions, and workspace user management.

Enterprise-gated tools (28)

The following tools require an organisation-level scope that is only available on Portkey Enterprise plans. They return 403 You do not have enough permissions to execute this request on workspace plans. Their descriptions include an Enterprise-gated. Returns 403 on non-Enterprise Portkey plans. suffix so MCP clients know upfront.

Other scope requirements

If a tool returns a 403 with Portkey error AB03, it means missing scopes — not a broken endpoint.

Status: The HTTP transport works locally and is covered by the integration test suite, but it is a proof of concept — there is no hosted version of this server, and hosted deployment is not currently a goal. Use stdio (npx) as the supported transport.

The server supports Streamable HTTP for remote access:

PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key \
MCP_HOST=127.0.0.1 \
MCP_PORT=3000 \
MCP_PUBLIC_BASE_URL=https://mcp.example.com \
MCP_AUTH_MODE=bearer \
MCP_AUTH_TOKEN=your_secret \
node build/server.js

Or via npx (the portkey-admin-mcp package includes the HTTP binary):

PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key MCP_AUTH_MODE=bearer MCP_AUTH_TOKEN=your_secret \
  npx -y -p portkey-admin-mcp portkey-admin-mcp-http

For local-only HTTP use, leave MCP_HOST at its default 127.0.0.1. Set MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 only when you intentionally need to accept connections from outside the local machine, such as Docker or a reverse proxy on another interface.

Configuration

Production containers must choose their rate-limit topology explicitly: set RATE_LIMIT_STORE=redis for multi-instance deployments, or set RATE_LIMIT_SINGLE_PROCESS=true only for a single long-lived process.

Vercel support is kept as a reference proof of concept — we do not run a hosted deployment. See docs/VERCEL_DEPLOYMENT.md if you want to self-deploy.

Key points:

• Uses stateless request handling with encrypted, principal-bound Redis replay and a shared atomic Redis rate limiter
• Requires Clerk or bearer auth
• Leave MCP_TLS_* unset (Vercel terminates HTTPS)
• Set MCP_PUBLIC_BASE_URL to your deployment URL so advertised MCP endpoints never depend on request headers
• Vercel does not support WebSockets — Streamable HTTP/SSE only

docker build -t portkey-admin-mcp .
docker run \
  -e PORTKEY_API_KEY=your_key \
  -e MCP_TRANSPORT=http \
  -e MCP_HOST=0.0.0.0 \
  -e MCP_PORT=3000 \
  -e MCP_AUTH_MODE=bearer \
  -e MCP_AUTH_TOKEN=your_secret \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  portkey-admin-mcp

Health Endpoints

npm run dev           # stdio with hot reload
npm run dev:http      # HTTP with hot reload
npm test              # unit + contract tests
npm run test:e2e      # MCP protocol tests
npm run test:http     # HTTP endpoint smoke test
npm run ci            # full pipeline (lint + typecheck + test + build + e2e + verify)

npm run dev:http now requires MCP_AUTH_MODE=bearer or MCP_AUTH_MODE=clerk by default. For deliberate local-only unauthenticated testing, set MCP_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_HTTP=true.

Built With

MIT License · Inspired by r-huijts/portkey-admin-mcp-server

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