📄️ MCP primer
A brief introduction to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and its benefits for developers.
📄️ Organizing MCP servers
Understanding when and why to use groups for organizing MCP servers and controlling client access.
📄️ Optimizing LLM context
Understanding when and why to use tool filtering and overrides to reduce context pollution and improve AI performance.
📄️ Registry criteria
Criteria for adding MCP servers to the ToolHive registry
📄️ Observability
Understanding ToolHive's observability features for MCP server monitoring
📄️ Authentication and authorization
Understanding ToolHive's authentication and authorization framework concepts.
📄️ Cedar policies
Writing and configuring Cedar policies for MCP server authorization.
📄️ Backend authentication
Understanding how MCP servers authenticate to external services using ToolHive's backend authentication patterns, including static credentials, token exchange, and the embedded authorization server.
📄️ Embedded authorization server
How the ToolHive embedded authorization server works, including the OAuth flow, token storage and forwarding, and when to use it.
📄️ Virtual MCP Server (vMCP)
Learn what Virtual MCP Server does, why it exists, and when to use it.
📄️ Understanding skills
Learn what skills are in ToolHive, why they exist, and how they relate to MCP servers.