Cortex Gateway · OAuth Scopes

Cortex Gateway OAuth Scopes

OAuth 2.0 searched

Cortex Gateway publishes 3 OAuth 2.0 scopes. Scopes are the fine-grained permissions an application requests at authorization time to act against the Cortex Gateway API on a user’s behalf.

This index is generated from the provider’s OpenAPI security definitions (and, where available, its documented scope reference) and refreshes on every APIs.io network build. Browse every provider’s scopes at scopes.apis.io.

CompanyMCPMCP GatewayOpen SourceOAuth 2.1AI AgentsIdentityAuthorizationSelf-Hosted

Scopes: 3 Flows: Method: searched

Scopes (3)

Scope	Description	Flows
mcp:demo:read	Use the read-only demo tools (echo, get_time, get_help)
mcp:demo:write	Use the demo write tools (pro tier demonstration)
mcp:access	Example floor scope set via OAUTH_REQUIRED_SCOPES; when set, a token without it gets 403 insufficient_scope before any dispatch (docs/security.md §5).

📄 Provider scope reference: https://github.com/wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway/blob/main/docs/security.md

Source

OAuth Scopes

generated: '2026-11-04'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway/blob/main/demo/auth-server/src/lib/oauth/scopes.ts
docs: https://github.com/wellknownmcp/cortex-gateway/blob/main/docs/security.md
format: 'mcp:{domain}:{level}'
note: Scopes are deployment-defined. Each backend may only declare scopes under its own prefix (default mcp:<id>:); tools/list is filtered by the token's scopes. The two demo scopes below come from the demo authorization server.
scopes:
- name: mcp:demo:read
  description: Use the read-only demo tools (echo, get_time, get_help)
- name: mcp:demo:write
  description: Use the demo write tools (pro tier demonstration)
- name: mcp:access
  description: Example floor scope set via OAUTH_REQUIRED_SCOPES; when set, a token without it gets 403 insufficient_scope before any dispatch (docs/security.md §5).

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find_scopesBrowse and filter every scope set in the catalog.
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