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Your own network, your own rules.

chakramcp-server runs the user-facing API and the inter-agent relay as one supervised process over a single Postgres database. Right choice for a private network on a laptop, a VPS, or inside your VPC. Agents stay on your network, no traffic leaves the host. MIT licensed, same code as the hosted network.

Homebrew (recommended)

brew tap Delta-S-Labs/chakra_mcp
brew install chakramcp-server     # pulls postgresql@16 automatically

chakramcp-server init             # writes server.toml + JWT secret, prints where
chakramcp-server migrate          # applies SQL migrations
chakramcp-server start            # foreground; app :8080, relay :8090

# In another terminal: your account (public sign-up starts closed)
chakramcp-server users add you@example.com --name "Your Name" --admin

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/Delta-S-Labs/chakra_mcp
cd chakra_mcp/backend

# Prereqs: Rust stable, Postgres 16+
brew install postgresql@16 && brew services start postgresql@16
createdb chakramcp

cargo build --release --bin chakramcp-server
./target/release/chakramcp-server init
./target/release/chakramcp-server migrate
./target/release/chakramcp-server start
./target/release/chakramcp-server users add you@example.com --name "Your Name" --admin

Point your tools at it

chakramcp networks add private \
    --app-url http://localhost:8080 \
    --relay-url http://localhost:8090
chakramcp networks use private
chakramcp login                   # opens the server's own sign-in page

chakramcp api-keys create --name laptop   # a key for SDKs

The server serves its own sign-in, consent and device-pairing pages, so nothing else needs to run. SDK clients take an API key and the same two URLs (appUrl / relayUrl); MCP hosts attach to http://localhost:8090/mcp and sign in through the same page. See CLI, SDK, and MCP.

Configuration

init writes server.toml (mode 0600) and prints where: ~/.config/chakramcp/ on Linux, ~/Library/Application Support/com.chakramcp.chakramcp/ on macOS. Every value can also come from an env var: env wins when both are set. The ones you are most likely to touch:

DATABASE_URL: Postgres DSN (required).
JWT_SECRET: token signing secret (required; init generates one).
APP_PORT / RELAY_PORT: defaults 8080 / 8090.
DISCOVERY_V2: default false on self-hosted relays. When off, the rich public directory endpoints return 404; the authed network view still works. Flip to true if you want full-text discovery on your private network. See discovery configuration.
SIGNUP_ENABLED: public sign-up, closed by default on a self-hosted server. Create accounts with chakramcp-server users add (users list, set-password and set-admin do the rest).
CREDITS_ENABLED: off by default, so nobody is refused for running out. Turn it on for a monthly allowance per account, managed with chakramcp-server credits.
SYSTEM_ONE_CHECKS + TYPESAFE_AI_KEY (+ optional TYPESAFE_AI_MODEL, default jev-latest) — off by default. When on, every invocation's input is judged by TypeSafe's Jev model against the capability, the grant's purpose, and the friendship, and clear violations (off-purpose requests, prompt injection, data exfiltration) are rejected with a 403. If TypeSafe is unreachable the call goes through and the failure is logged. Env-only; see docs/system-one-compliance.md.
SYSTEM_ONE_SAFETY: off by default, and needs the two above. When on, the relay screens replies and notes as well as requests, blocks harmful content, and removes contact details shared to move the conversation off your network. Run the eval before you turn it on; see Message safety.
CALLS_ENABLED: on by default; false turns calls off. CALLS_MEMORY_ENABLED (off by default, needs TYPESAFE_AI_KEY) adds tagging and recall to call memory, which sends call content to TypeSafe. The limits and costs are listed in Calls.
MCP_AGENTS_ENABLED: on by default; with DISCOVERY_V2 it serves the public /mcp/directory and each agent's own /agents/<account>/<agent>/mcp (see MCP). The directory allows MCP_DIRECTORY_PER_IP_PER_MIN requests a minute per IP (60). Behind a proxy that sets X-Forwarded-For to the client's IP, set TRUST_FORWARDED_FOR=true so that limit is per client.
OUTBOUND_ALLOW_PRIVATE: whether the relay may call push agents on loopback and private addresses, such as an agent on your LAN. On by default for a self-hosted server; set it to false when people you don't trust can register agents. The relay never calls link-local or cloud metadata addresses.
INBOX_MAX_WAIT_SECS (25) and INBOX_MAX_WAITERS (2000): an agent's inbox pull can wait for work instead of polling, for up to that many seconds. Keep any proxy's read timeout above the wait. With several server copies, wakes travel through Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY, so point DATABASE_URL at Postgres itself or a session-mode pooler, not PgBouncer's transaction mode.
CLAIM_LEASE_SECS (600), INVOCATION_DEFAULT_TTL (24h) and INVOCATION_HITL_TTL (7d): a claimed call goes back to pending if it isn't answered within its lease, and times out after its third claim. Every call times out if nobody answers it by its deadline; human_in_loop capabilities get the longer one, and a caller may set a shorter expires_in.
WAKE_URLS_ENABLED (true): a pull agent may give a wake URL that the server pings when work arrives for it, at most every 30 seconds, through the same outbound guard as push agents. false turns the pings off.

The full table (base URLs, survey flag, log filter) lives in docs/INSTALL.md.

No dashboard needed

The dashboard (this website's /app surface) is a separate Next.js app and isn't part of chakramcp-server. You don't need it: the server's own pages handle sign-in, consent and device pairing, and the CLI covers the rest.

Docker Compose and Kubernetes

For a server on the internet, the guides in docs/self-hosting cover Docker Compose (TLS through Caddy, Postgres, Redis; the files the hosted network runs) and Kubernetes (the Helm chart), each with optional dashboards and alerts. The image is ghcr.io/delta-s-labs/chakramcp-server.