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Okta MCP: Give Claude Safe Access to Your Identity Infrastructure

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Okta MCP: Give Claude Safe Access to Your Identity Infrastructure

Identity management is tedious—creating users, rotating app access, investigating suspicious logins. Okta MCP lets you hand these tasks to Claude while keeping your authentication layer locked down.

This official Okta server bridges your identity platform to AI agents. Instead of manual API calls or UI clicking, you can ask Claude to provision users, audit group memberships, reset passwords, or analyze authentication events. It's built for security and IT teams who need faster incident response without sacrificing control.

What It Does

Okta MCP unlocks six core capabilities:

  • User & group management: Create, update, deactivate users; manage group assignments and roles
  • App access: Assign applications, configure OAuth/OIDC clients, query sign-on rules
  • Authentication insights: Inspect MFA status, review auth events, detect anomalies
  • Password & recovery: Automate password resets and recovery workflows
  • Policy enforcement: Query and apply access policies programmatically
  • Security response: Empower AI to react to identity incidents in real time

All requests stay within your Okta tenant. Claude gets no direct API key—just scoped, auditable actions.

How to Install

npx -y @okta/mcp
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Add to your Claude Desktop config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "okta-mcp": {
      "command": "npx -y @okta/mcp",
      "env": {
        "OKTA_DOMAIN": "https://your-domain.okta.com",
        "OKTA_API_TOKEN": "your_api_token_here"
      }
    }
  }
}
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Replace OKTA_DOMAIN and OKTA_API_TOKEN with your actual values. See full setup docs at developer.okta.com/docs/mcp.

Real-World Use Cases

  • Onboarding at scale: Ask Claude to create a new employee, assign them to the correct groups, grant app access, and send a summary—all in one prompt.
  • Incident response: "Check the last 50 auth events for failed MFA attempts, flag suspicious IPs, and reset passwords for affected accounts."
  • Policy audits: "List all users with admin roles and compare their app assignments against our security policy."

Free to use. CuratedMCP has full install guides for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and more.

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