Manual Client Registration

In manual client registration, you can register any MCP client using the Auth0 Dashboard or Auth0 CLI. For production MCP deployments, we recommend using manual CIMD registration for its security and scalability in managing registration credentials.

Prerequisites

You can use manual client registration with any MCP client:

Native app: executes on a mobile device
Single-page app (SPA): executes on a browser
Regular web app: executes on a server
Machine-to-machine (M2M) app: executes on backend service

To learn more, read Applications in Auth0.

Manually register MCP client in Auth0

Auth0 Dashboard
Auth0 CLI

Manually register an MCP client by creating an application in the Auth0 Dashboard:

Go to Dashboard > Applications > Applications and select Create Application.
Select Create it manually and give your new application a descriptive name. Then, select an app type:
- Native Applications: These applications include mobile, desktop, or hybrid apps running natively on a device (e.g., iOS, Android).
- Single-Page Web Applications: These applications include JavaScript apps that perform most of their user interface logic in a web browser, communicating with a web server primarily using APIs (e.g., AngularJS + Node.js or React).
- Regular Web Applications: These applications are traditional web applications that perform most of their application logic on the server (e.g., Express.js, ASP.NET).
- Machine-to-Machine Applications: These applications include non-interactive applications, such as command-line tools, daemons, IoT devices, or services running on your back-end.
Select Create.

Manually register an MCP client by creating an application using the auth0-cli, like in the following example:

auth0 api post clients --data '{
  "name": "MCP Inspector",
  "app_type": "regular_web",
  "is_first_party": false,
  "callbacks": ["http://localhost:6274/oauth/callback"],
  "grant_types": ["authorization_code"],
  "token_endpoint_auth_method": "client_secret_post",
  "oidc_conformant": true,
  "jwt_configuration": { "alg": "RS256" },
  "logo_uri": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/182288589"
}'

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Create Applications: Learn how to create applications in Auth0

​Prerequisites

​Manually register MCP client in Auth0

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Prerequisites

Manually register MCP client in Auth0

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