MCP/Clients

Clients

Configure MCP-capable clients by URL and bearer header, then restart for discovery.

Remote MCP configuration

yaml

mcp_servers:
  hermes_async:
    url: "http://<bridge-host>:8081/mcp"
    headers:
      Authorization: "Bearer ${HERMES_MCP_TOKEN}"
    timeout: 600
    connect_timeout: 30

Tool-name prefixes

Harness	Prefix
Claude Code	`mcp__hermes-async__hermes_*`
Hermes Agent	`mcp_hermes_async_*`

Verify from another node

Unauthenticated MCP initialize must fail; authenticated MCP initialize must succeed; health endpoint is liveness only.