How-To

Step-by-step guides for ToolHive and MCP servers

May 19, 2026

Stacklok and Anthropic MCP Tunnels: securely connect Claude to everything behind your firewall

You’re invested in Claude, including Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude Design. To make it as valuable as possible, you need to connect it to your internal systems and data. Traditionally …

May 11, 2026

MCP server governance starts with discovery

When MCP server URLs live in Slack threads, nobody knows what’s approved. See how Stacklok’s Registry Server solves discovery and access control at scale.

May 07, 2026

Enforcing MCP tool annotation policies with Cedar

MCP tool annotations declare what a tool does. Here’s how to enforce Cedar policies against those declarations using Stacklok’s ToolHive Kubernetes operator.

April 20, 2026

GitHub authorization for MCP servers

It’s easy to justify static credential configuration when an MCP server starts out as a one-user, one-server setup in a developer environment. But things quickly get complicated when that server …

March 30, 2026

MCP server authorization for downstream access

In enterprise MCP deployments, authentication and authorization at the MCP server don’t fully determine downstream authorization. The server still has to reach downstream systems with the right credential, the right …

September 25, 2025

Bridging the observability gap in MCP servers with ToolHive

ToolHive collects usage statistics from MCP servers and feeds data into OTel and Prometheus. Get full visibility with request metrics and distributed traces.