Document client credentials grant for MCP authentication#5218
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Summary
client_credentialsOAuth grant type on the MCP authentication page, enabling machine-to-machine access to authenticated MCP servers without interactive browser login.What shipped
MCP servers now support the OAuth 2.0
client_credentialsgrant type alongside the existingauthorization_codeflow. This lets automated systems, CI/CD pipelines, and backend services authenticate with a client ID and secret to access authenticated MCP servers programmatically. Tokens issued via client credentials are subject to server-side revocation checks for security.Note
Low Risk
Low risk documentation-only change; no runtime code paths are modified.
Overview
Documents OAuth 2.0
client_credentialsauthentication for MCP servers, includingcurlexamples for form-encoded and HTTP Basic client auth, a sample token response, and guidance that these tokens are immediately invalidated when the dashboard credential is revoked.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit eb0738a. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.