Dopesecurity

The Dope MCP is a local Model Context Protocol server that lets an AI assistant talk to your dope.security tenant — look at endpoints, read and tweak policies, and curate custom URL categories. It wraps most of the Flightdeck partner API, runs on your machine, and is read-only out of the box: nothing changes in your tenant until you explicitly turn writes on. It's currently in beta, we hope you enjoy using it.

Installation

Installation is via uvx.

Runs the server on demand. Nothing is installed globally.

Prerequisites

1. Install uv — see Astral's install guide.

2. Install a Python runtime with uv:

   uv python install 3.11
   

MCP client config

Add the server to your MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dope-security": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["dopesecurity-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "DOPE_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "DOPE_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
        "DOPE_ENABLE_MUTATIONS": "false",
        "DOPE_ENABLE_DESTRUCTIVE": "false"
      }
    }
  }
}

Three tiers of access

The tool surface is gated by two environment variables, both false by default. Tools that aren't enabled by the active combination are not registered at all — they don't exist on the MCP wire.

DOPE_ENABLE_MUTATIONS	DOPE_ENABLE_DESTRUCTIVE	What the agent can do
false	false	Read-only. Inspect endpoints, policies, custom categories. Cannot modify the tenant.
true	false	Read + write. Per-entry creates, updates, upserts, assigns, unassigns, and per-entry deletes. Cannot drop a whole policy or wipe a section.
true	true	Read + write + destructive. Adds whole-policy drops, whole-section resets to base, whole-custom-category deletes, and wipe-all-URLs.
false	true	Invalid — the server refuses to start.

Flightdeck RBAC still applies on top of whichever tier you enable: even when a tool is registered, Flightdeck may reject the call because your OAuth client's role doesn't permit it. Start with read-only, flip to mutations when you trust the agent's workflow, and only enable destructive when you explicitly want the agent to be able to start over.

Configuration reference

Env var	CLI flag	Default	Description
DOPE_CLIENT_ID	—	—	API client ID issued from the dope console. Required.
DOPE_CLIENT_SECRET	—	—	API client secret issued from the dope console. Required.
DOPE_ENABLE_MUTATIONS	--enable-mutations	false	Expose write tools that modify tenant state.
DOPE_ENABLE_DESTRUCTIVE	--enable-destructive	false	Additionally expose destructive tools (whole-policy drops, whole-section resets). Requires mutations.
DOPE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS	--timeout-seconds	30	HTTP timeout for Flightdeck calls.
DOPE_LOG_LEVEL	--log-level	INFO	Log verbosity (logs go to stderr only).

DOPE_CLIENT_ID and DOPE_CLIENT_SECRET should be provided as environment variables. You can grab the credentials from the dope console.

Available tools

Endpoints (read-only)

Tool	Description
search_endpoints	List or search endpoints (cursor paged).

Policies (read)

Tool	Description
list_policies	List all policies.
get_policy_assignments	Show users/groups assigned to a policy.
get_policy_restrictions	Show per-category restrictions.
get_policy_exceptions	Show per-category exceptions.
get_policy_url_bypass	List URL bypass entries.
get_policy_application_bypass_entries	List application bypass entries.

Policies (write — only when mutations enabled)

Tool	Description
create_policy	Create a new policy.
assign_policy_principals	Add users/groups to a policy.
unassign_policy_principals	Remove users/groups from a policy.
update_policy_restrictions	Update per-category restrictions.
replace_policy_category_exceptions	Replace exceptions for the submitted category.
upsert_policy_url_bypass	Add or update URL bypass entries.
delete_policy_url_bypass_entries	Delete named URL bypass entries.
upsert_policy_application_bypass	Add or update application bypass entries.
delete_policy_application_bypass_entries	Delete named application bypass entries.

Policies (destructive — only when both mutations and destructive are enabled)

Tool	Description
delete_policy	Delete a whole policy.
reset_policy_restrictions_to_base	Reset all restrictions to Base.
reset_policy_url_bypass_to_base	Reset URL bypass to Base.
reset_policy_application_bypass_to_base	Reset application bypass to Base.

Custom categories (read)

Tool	Description
list_custom_categories	List all custom categories.
get_custom_category_urls	List URLs in a custom category.

Custom categories (write — only when mutations enabled)

Tool	Description
create_custom_category	Create a new custom category.
add_urls_to_custom_category	Add URLs to a custom category.
delete_single_url_from_custom_category	Remove one URL from a category.

Custom categories (destructive — only when both mutations and destructive are enabled)

Tool	Description
delete_custom_category	Delete a whole custom category.
delete_all_urls_from_custom_category	Wipe every URL from a category.

Developing

Setup and verification

From the repository root:

make install      # uv sync --locked
make check        # lint + typecheck + unit tests
make integration-tests  # requires DOPE_MCP_TESTS_CLIENT_SECRET
uv run dopesecurity-mcp-server --help

Run make help to see all available targets.

Known limitations

• assign_policy_principals and unassign_policy_principals are read-merge-write on top of Flightdeck's overwrite-only assignments endpoint, so concurrent edits to the same policy may be clobbered.
• Pagination is cursor-based; the mcp server does not auto-fetch all pages.

Flightdeck routes deliberately omitted from MCP

Some Flightdeck partner API routes are intentionally not exposed as MCP tools and will not be added. This is the list — treat it as a "don't bother proposing this" register.

• PUT /custom_categories/{name}/urls — overwrite-all semantics. An agent calling this with a partial list silently destroys every URL it didn't mention. Use add_urls_to_custom_category, delete_single_url_from_custom_category, and delete_all_urls_from_custom_category instead, which force the agent to state intent explicitly.

Running a local checkout from an MCP client

To point an MCP client (Amp, Claude Desktop, etc.) at your local checkout instead of the published uvx package, replace the command/args so the client launches the server through uv run --directory:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dope-security-dev": {
      "command": "uv",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--directory",
        "/absolute/path/to/dopemcp",
        "dopesecurity-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DOPE_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
        "DOPE_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret",
        "DOPE_ENABLE_MUTATIONS": "true",
        "DOPE_ENABLE_DESTRUCTIVE": "true",
        "DOPE_LOG_LEVEL": "DEBUG"
      }
    }
  }
}

Replace /absolute/path/to/dopemcp with the path to your clone. The MCP client spawns the server over stdio on demand.