Keyward is the secure-by-default platform for building and running MCP servers. Every tool call gets a scoped, short-lived credential, a per-agent identity, and a full audit trail — automatically. Ship your first secure server in under five minutes.
Built for the way agents work today
// the problem
Builders wire agents to tools with raw API keys in plaintext files. No expiry, no scope, no idea which agent did what. It's the exact problem the rest of software solved a decade ago — reborn, at machine scale.
of public MCP endpoints are dead — largely abandoned servers and expired or leaked credentials (April 2026 scan of 2,181 endpoints).
non-human identities now outnumber humans in the enterprise. Almost none of them are scoped, short-lived, or audited.
AI agents projected in operation by 2028 (IDC) — each one a credential waiting to leak.
// the product
Not a gateway you bolt on after an incident. The place you build your MCP server — where least privilege is the default, not a project.
One line of SDK swaps a static key for a scoped, short-lived credential minted at call time. Delete your .env for good.
Every agent gets its own identity. Every action ties back to the agent and the user who authorized it. Revoke one without breaking the rest.
An append-only log of every tool call: who, on whose behalf, what scope, allowed or denied. Compliance-ready, and your own peace of mind.
keyward init scaffolds a brokered agent. keyward wrap adopts your existing MCP server with zero rewrite.
Grant exactly the access a task needs, no more. Native short-lived credentials for cloud, OAuth, and databases — not just a proxy.
Open-source SDK and CLI. Works with the frameworks you already use. No lock-in, no rewrite, auditable client.
// how it works
npx keyward init and connect a project. Add your upstream secrets once — Keyward vaults them with envelope encryption + KMS.
Replace static keys with broker.get(...). Your server now requests scoped, short-lived credentials at call time.
Every call streams to your audit log and dashboard. See, scope, and revoke any agent in one click.
// pricing
The whole "aha" is free — one developer can ship one genuinely-secure server end to end. You only pay when you add a team, environments, and compliance.
For solo devs, labs, and side projects.
For startups running agents in production.
For security & platform organizations.
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