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Althea MCP

Bring your personal Althea into Codex, Claude, and other MCP-compatible tools.

Althea MCP talks to the main Althea application. It uses your existing account and canonical Althea—with the same dossier and long-term memory you use through the web, email, SMS, and other channels. It creates a dedicated MCP conversation thread, just as each other channel has its own thread.

It does not use the retired Platform API, create an account in a parallel auth database, or spin up a separate blank agent.

Setup

Run one command:

uvx --from git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git althea-mcp setup

The command asks for your email and lets the Althea frontend determine the correct journey:

• Existing account: Althea emails a verification code.
• Eligible new account: the CLI asks for your name, creates the account, and emails a verification code.
• Access still required: the CLI opens the existing Althea access-request page. Complete that journey, then rerun the same setup command.

After verification, setup creates a dedicated, 90-day MCP API key and stores it at ~/.config/althea-mcp/credentials.json with user-only file permissions where the operating system supports them. The key is scoped to the Althea MCP frontend channel; it is not a general-purpose Althea or ACTX credential. Setup also schedules the same idempotent dossier setup used after web sign-in. It does not persist the interactive login token or print the API key. Optional onboarding details can still be completed in the Althea web app.

Once the package is on PyPI, the setup command becomes:

uvx althea-mcp setup

Connect an MCP client

Run setup once before adding the server.

Codex

codex mcp add althea -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git althea-mcp

Or add this to ~/.codex/config.toml:

[mcp_servers.althea]
command = "uvx"
args = ["--from", "git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git", "althea-mcp"]

[mcp_servers.althea.env]
ALTHEA_THREAD_KEY = "codex"

Claude Code

claude mcp add --scope user althea -- uvx --from git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git althea-mcp

Or add this under the top-level mcpServers object in ~/.claude.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "althea": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git",
        "althea-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ALTHEA_THREAD_KEY": "claude-code"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop and other local MCP clients

Use the same stdio command:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "althea": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "--from",
        "git+https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git",
        "althea-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Use a distinct ALTHEA_THREAD_KEY for each MCP client if you run several clients concurrently.

Tools

• ask_althea(message) Sends a real message to your Althea and waits for her response.
• send_message_to_althea(message) Sends a message without waiting, for asynchronous requests or context.
• get_althea_messages(sender=None, limit=10) Retrieves recent messages from the configured MCP thread.

Configuration

• ALTHEA_API_KEY Overrides the API key in the credentials file.
• ALTHEA_APP_URL Defaults to https://althea.tiptreesystems.com.
• ALTHEA_THREAD_KEY Stable conversation-thread identifier. Defaults to mcp.
• ALTHEA_MCP_CREDENTIALS_FILE Overrides ~/.config/althea-mcp/credentials.json.
• ALTHEA_MCP_HTTP_TIMEOUT HTTP timeout in seconds. Defaults to 60.
• ALTHEA_MCP_POLL_INTERVAL Response polling interval in seconds. Defaults to 2.
• ALTHEA_MCP_POLL_TIMEOUT Maximum time ask_althea waits for a response. Defaults to 120.
• ALTHEA_MCP_LOG_LEVEL Defaults to WARNING.

Environment variables are useful for automation, but the normal user journey is simply althea-mcp setup; no API key needs to be pasted into an MCP config.

Architecture

This repository is intentionally independent of the private tiptree-clients package. It is a thin public adapter over frontend-owned routes:

Capability	Frontend route
Unified sign-in/sign-up detection	POST /otp/signin
CLI OTP verification	POST /mcp/auth/otp/signin/verify
Idempotent profile/dossier setup	POST /create_dossier
Create and manage MCP-scoped keys	/mcp/api-keys
Send to the user's Althea	POST /mcp/threads/{thread_key}/messages
Read the MCP conversation	GET /mcp/threads/{thread_key}/messages

The stored key goes only to the frontend MCP routes. The frontend authenticates it through a service-only auth-server exchange and receives a two-hour delegated user token. That delegated token—not the MCP key—is sent to ACTX. The duration covers queued wakes and code-assistant work. The frontend uses the token to resolve the main user, provision or find that user's canonical Althea, and own the MCP ChannelSession.

Creating, listing, or revoking MCP keys requires an interactive login token; an MCP key cannot mint or manage keys. Revoking the key deactivates the usage session behind both the key and any delegated token. The MCP package does not know about ACTX internals.

Local development

git clone https://github.com/tiptreesystems/althea-mcp.git
cd althea-mcp
uv sync --extra dev
uv run pytest
uv run ruff check .
uv run althea-mcp setup --app-url http://localhost:8080

Running althea-mcp with no subcommand starts the stdio MCP server. The equivalent explicit command is althea-mcp serve.

Distribution

Althea MCP is a local stdio server. It can be published to PyPI and submitted to the official MCP Registry. Anthropic's connectors directory is for remote MCP servers, so this local package is not a fit for that directory unless a hosted transport is added later.

License

MIT. See the license.