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freshservice-claude/mcp-server
spencerm 7e0a3fabc2 Fix MCP 'Invalid Host header' (421) for LAN access
The streamable-HTTP transport enables DNS-rebinding protection by default,
which rejects non-localhost Host headers with HTTP 421. The server is reached
by LAN IP via mcp-remote (not a browser) and is gated by a bearer token, so
disable the protection via TransportSecuritySettings.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-16 21:12:40 -06:00
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Freshservice MCP server (for Cowork / Claude Desktop)

Cowork runs the agent inside an isolated VM, so a locally-installed skill can't see your credentials or reach your Freshservice host. This MCP server runs as a container on the LAN box (192.168.101.12) — outside the VM — and Claude Desktop connects to it through mcp-remote, exactly like the existing sharepoint-lists server. Credentials and network both live on the LAN box.

(The skill in the parent directory remains the right tool for the Claude Code CLI, which is not sandboxed.)

Deploy on 192.168.101.12

# on the LAN box, in this directory
cp .env.example .env
# edit .env: FRESHSERVICE_DOMAIN, FRESHSERVICE_API_KEY, MCP_AUTH_TOKEN
#   token:  openssl rand -hex 32
docker compose up -d --build
docker compose logs -f          # confirm it started on :3838 inside the container

The container listens on container port 3838, published to host port 3839 (3838 is used by sharepoint-lists). Adjust in docker-compose.yml if needed.

Verify

# from the LAN box or any host that can reach it:
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" -X POST \
  http://192.168.101.12:3839/mcp \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <MCP_AUTH_TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05","capabilities":{},"clientInfo":{"name":"t","version":"0"}}}'
# expect 200 (401 means bad/missing token)

Connect Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers (alongside sharepoint-lists):

"freshservice": {
  "command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/npx",
  "args": [
    "-y", "mcp-remote",
    "http://192.168.101.12:3839/mcp",
    "--allow-http",
    "--header", "Authorization:${MCP_AUTH_HEADER}"
  ],
  "env": { "MCP_AUTH_HEADER": "Bearer <MCP_AUTH_TOKEN>" }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The Freshservice tools then appear in chat and Cowork.

Tools

Tickets (list_tickets, get_ticket, create_ticket, update_ticket, reply_ticket, add_note, list_ticket_conversations), assets (search_assets, get_asset, update_asset), people (find_requester, list_agents, list_groups, list_departments), change/problem/release (list_changes, get_change, create_change, list_problems, get_problem, list_releases, get_release), and freshservice_request for any other v2 endpoint.