Setting Up MCP in Claude Code with Auth Headers

Adding MCP Servers with Authorization

Today I learned that you can configure MCP servers in Claude Code with http headers for authentication/authorization using the CLI:

claude mcp add \
  --scope user \
  --transport http \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer your-token" \
  my-mcp http://example.com/mcp;

In this case I decided to use the scope user because I want that MCP being configured for all my projects.

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