Scalekit MCP authentication: known deviations

The token audience is an opaque resource id, not the MCP server's URL.

How Scalekit deviates from the MCP authorization spec

How to spot it without credentials

authorization_servers contains a /resources/sk_resource_… path.

What it breaks in production

An audience check that compares `aud` against the MCP URL always fails on a correctly configured server; the comparison has to target the resource id.

Check a Scalekit-backed MCP server

The free scanner runs the discovery and client-compatibility checks with no credentials, and every finding cites the spec requirement it violates:

npx mcpcomp https://your-mcp-server.example/mcp

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