Garmin data in Claude: 135 tools — activities, sleep, HRV, training, workouts. Free, open source.
com.missingmcp/garmin MCP Server
This MCP server provides Garmin data for Claude. It is described as a multi-user gateway that hosts connectors Claude is missing, including a flagship Garmin Connect connector. The gateway is protected by OAuth 2.1 and uses the unmodified garmin_mcp worker to supply Garmin activities, sleep, HRV, training, and workouts. It is free and open source.
🛠️ Key Features
135 tools covering activities, sleep, HRV, training, and workouts
Multi-user gateway with OAuth 2.1 protection
Per-user token isolation
Wraps unmodified garmin_mcp worker
Hosts connectors for multiple Claude client platforms (iOS, Android, Web, Desktop)
🚀 Use Cases
Access Garmin Connect data through Claude
Retrieve fitness and health metrics such as sleep and HRV
Use training and workout information in an MCP-integrated workflow
⚡ Developer Benefits
Uses OAuth 2.1 with per-user token isolation
Small trusted circle can connect their own accounts from a Claude client
Built around an unmodified upstream garmin_mcp worker
⚠️ Limitations
Connector availability is tied to the hosted Garmin Connect gateway and the garmin_mcp worker it wraps
A multi-user, OAuth 2.1–protected gateway that hosts the connectors Claude is
missing, so a small trusted circle can connect their own accounts from any
Claude client (iOS, Android, Web, Desktop). The flagship connector is
Garmin Connect: the gateway wraps the
unmodifiedgarmin_mcp worker and
adds OAuth, per-user token isolation, and a reverse proxy. WHOOP
is served the same way but in-process, on WHOOP's own official OAuth v2 API.
The core is adapter-based and supports three forward strategies — worker
(garmin), local (whoop, in-process, no subprocess), and remote (MCP +
header injection, for services with a hosted MCP that lacks its own OAuth) —
see Connectors. The reference deployment runs at
missingmcp.com.
code
Claude → POST /garmin/mcp (Bearer) → Gateway → 127.0.0.1:<port>/mcp (per-user garmin_mcp) → connect.garmin.com
Why
garmin_mcp is a great MCP server, but it's single-user and stdio-only: each
person has to run it locally with their own Garmin tokens. This gateway makes it a
remote MCP server any Claude client can connect to over HTTP, with a proper
OAuth sign-in flow — so non-technical users just click "connect" and log in with
their Garmin credentials, and never touch a terminal or a token file.
Features
OAuth 2.1 — Authorization Code + PKCE (S256) with Dynamic Client
Registration. Connect from any Claude client; no manual token wrangling.
Garmin password is never stored — used once to sign in (MFA supported);
only the resulting session tokens are persisted.
Encrypted at rest — tokens sealed with AES-256-GCM; the DB is useless without
GATEWAY_SECRET. Bearer tokens are stored only as SHA-256 hashes.
Per-user isolation — each account gets its own garmin_mcp worker bound to
127.0.0.1, started on demand and reaped when idle.
Hardened — one-time 10-min auth codes, CSRF on forms, per-IP/-token rate
limits, the garmin_mcp worker pinned to a reviewed commit.
Off-box backups — periodic encrypted SQLite snapshots to an S3-compatible
bucket (see Backups).
Instructional landing page served on / and as a friendly fallback for
unknown paths.
Deploy
Railway (how missingmcp.com runs): one service built from the Dockerfile,
a volume mounted at /data, a single replica (the gateway keeps process-local
state by design), and TLS terminated at the Railway edge. Set the env vars from
Configuration on the service; pushes to main deploy
automatically once the service is connected to the GitHub repo. An optional
Railway bucket enables Backups (railway bucket create backups,
then wire its credentials as the BACKUP_S3_* variables).
Put any TLS-terminating proxy in front (Caddy, nginx, Traefik). One non-obvious
requirement: /<adapter>/mcp streams SSE, so disable response buffering and
raise the read timeout (nginx: proxy_buffering off; proxy_read_timeout 3600s;).
Then add https://<your-domain>/garmin/mcp as a remote MCP server in Claude.
Local development
bash
uv pip install -e ".[dev]"
uv run --extra dev pytest -q # run the test suite# Run the gateway locally (no Garmin account needed to exercise the OAuth surface).# garmin-mcp isn't on PATH locally, so point GARMIN_MCP_CMD at uvx.
GATEWAY_SECRET="$(openssl rand -base64 48)" \
PUBLIC_URL=http://localhost:8088 PORT=8088 DATA_DIR=./.localdata \
GARMIN_MCP_CMD="uvx --python 3.12 --from git+https://github.com/Taxuspt/garmin_mcp garmin-mcp" \
uv run missingmcp
A .env file in the working directory is loaded automatically (real environment
variables take precedence), so you can drop the same values there instead.
Connectors
Each connector is mounted under its own path prefix with its own OAuth flow and
its own Bearer tokens (there is no bare /mcp). The landing page on / lists
the available connectors.
Garmin — /garmin/mcp
Sign in with your Garmin Connect email + password (MFA supported). The password
is used once for the Garmin login and discarded; only the resulting Garmin
session tokens are stored (AES-256-GCM encrypted). Each account gets its own
garmin_mcp worker process, bound to 127.0.0.1, started on demand and reaped
when idle.
WHOOP — /whoop/mcp
Sign in on WHOOP's own OAuth page — the gateway never sees your WHOOP password,
only the resulting (encrypted, read-only) tokens. Covers recovery, sleep,
strain & daily cycles, workouts, and body measurements. Served in-process on
WHOOP's official v2 API (no worker subprocess, no shared upstream). Requires
the operator to register a WHOOP developer app — see WHOOP connector
setup in Configuration.
Rohlík — no longer missing
The gateway briefly served a Rohlík connector (remote strategy: credential
headers injected into the hosted Rohlík MCP). It was retired in 2026-07 when
Rohlík shipped its own OAuth-protected MCP — add
https://mcp.rohlik.cz/mcp directly as a custom connector in Claude and sign
in in the browser (Rohlík's guide).
The remote-forward strategy remains a first-class, tested part of the core
(tests/test_remote_forward.py) for the next service that needs it.
Connecting from Claude
In any Claude client: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, or in
the CLI: claude mcp add --transport http garmin https://<your-domain>/garmin/mcp
(whoop: claude mcp add --transport http whoop https://<your-domain>/whoop/mcp).
Claude opens the gateway's sign-in page — enter the service's email +
password (Garmin also prompts for an MFA code when needed), or for WHOOP,
sign in on WHOOP's own OAuth page.
Done — the service's tools are now available in Claude.
≥32-char key for token encryption. Refuses to start with the placeholder. Generate with openssl rand -base64 48.
PUBLIC_URL
yes
http://localhost:8080
Public URL used in OAuth metadata + redirects.
PORT
no
8080
Listen port.
DATA_DIR
no
/data
Where the SQLite DB and per-user token dirs live.
DB_PATH
no
$DATA_DIR/gateway.db
Override the DB path.
GARMIN_MCP_CMD
no
garmin-mcp
Command to spawn the worker. Use a uvx … invocation when garmin-mcp isn't on PATH.
GARMIN_MCP_REF
no
pinned SHA in Dockerfile
Docker build arg: commit of garmin_mcp to install. Bumping it is a deliberate, reviewed action — afterwards run python scripts/gen_garmin_tools.py to refresh the tool listing on the /garmin page.
WORKER_PORT_START / WORKER_PORT_END
no
9000 / 9099
Port range for per-user workers.
WORKER_IDLE_TTL
no
900
Seconds before an idle worker is reaped.
WORKER_STARTUP_TIMEOUT
no
20
Seconds to wait for a worker to become healthy.
MAX_WORKERS
no
10
Max concurrent per-user workers.
SSO_PROBE_INTERVAL
no
0 (off)
Seconds between browser-impersonated GET probes of Garmin's SSO sign-in page (event sso-probe, floor 60 s) — an attempt-independent block timeline for diagnosing egress-IP rate-limiting (reliability ticket 12).
ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_DAYS
no
90
Bearer token lifetime; user re-authenticates after it. 0 disables expiry.
OPERATOR_NAME / OPERATOR_EMAIL
no
—
Shown on the landing page.
OPERATOR_URL
no
—
Homepage the operator name links to (footer, trust notes). Unset → plain text.
WHOOP_CLIENT_ID / WHOOP_CLIENT_SECRET
no
—
Credentials of your WHOOP developer app (see WHOOP connector setup); both unset ⇒ the whoop connector is disabled.
Redirect URI: https://<your-domain>/whoop/oauth/callback — exact match required.
Scopes: read:recovery read:cycles read:workout read:sleep read:profile read:body_measurement offline
(offline is required — without it WHOOP issues no refresh token and sessions die after an hour).
Put the app's Client ID/Secret into WHOOP_CLIENT_ID / WHOOP_CLIENT_SECRET.
Note: an unapproved WHOOP app is limited to 10 WHOOP members. To lift the
limit, submit the app for approval: https://developer.whoop.com/docs/developing/app-approval/
(requirements: API Terms of Use
compliance, tested with ≥1 member, accurate app name / contact email / privacy-policy
URL in the dashboard, brand-guidelines
compliance, and their Typeform submission).
Operating obligations under the WHOOP API Terms of Use (the gateway's design
already covers the technical ones — no WHOOP data stored, encrypted tokens,
auto-purge of revoked accounts):
Report any security incident involving WHOOP member data to
apisupport@whoop.com without undue delay, and to affected users.
No press release or public announcement that references WHOOP without
WHOOP's prior written approval.
Keep the app's Client ID/Secret out of the repo (env vars only) and never
reuse them for another application.
When a member revokes the app at WHOOP, the gateway detects it on the next
refresh (invalid_grant), deletes the stored tokens, and revokes the
member's gateway access tokens (log event whoop-account-revoked).
Backups
When the BACKUP_S3_* variables are set, the gateway uploads a consistent
SQLite snapshot (via the SQLite backup API, WAL-safe) to the bucket right
after startup and then every BACKUP_INTERVAL_HOURS. Keys rotate by weekday
(db/gateway-mon.db … db/gateway-sun.db), giving seven days of retention
with no cleanup logic. Watch the backup-ok / backup-failed log events.
Only the DB is backed up — per-user token dirs under DATA_DIR/users/ are
re-materialized from the DB on demand.
The backup is useless without GATEWAY_SECRET (account blobs stay
AES-256-GCM encrypted inside it) — and that is the point. Keep a copy of
GATEWAY_SECRET somewhere that is not the bucket and not Railway
(e.g. your password manager). Losing the secret = losing every account.
Restore: download the newest object, put it at $DATA_DIR/gateway.db
(delete any stale gateway.db-wal/-shm next to it), set the same
GATEWAY_SECRET, start the gateway. Bearer tokens and logins survive;
workers respawn lazily.
Monitoring
Three helper scripts work directly on the gateway's DB (safe to run while the gateway is live):
bash
python scripts/status.py # summary counts only (safe to paste/share)
python scripts/status.py --detail # + per-account devices (token prefixes),# usage summary, OAuth clients, running workers
python scripts/revoke.py --list # accounts + token counts
python scripts/revoke.py --account [<adapter>:]<key> # kill-switch: revoke ALL the# account's tokens (bare key = garmin)
python scripts/revoke.py --account <key> --purge # + delete stored account & usage
python scripts/revoke.py --device <hash-prefix> # revoke ONE device (prefix from status.py)
python scripts/usage.py # per-account tool usage + leaderboard
python scripts/usage.py --account [<adapter>:]<key> # one account's per-tool breakdown
python scripts/subscribers.py # newsletter signups + suggestions
python scripts/subscribers.py --emails # subscriber emails, one per line
python scripts/daily_report.py # yesterday's new/active/total users (print)
python scripts/daily_report.py --post # + POST it to Slack ($SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL)
python scripts/add_beer.py --email <supporter> # record a "buy me a beer" donation (1 beer, 5 EUR)
python scripts/add_beer.py --email <supporter> --beers 3 --at 2026-07-20 # 3 beers, backdated
The gateway also posts this daily user-stats report to Slack on its own each
morning (DAILY_REPORT_HOUR, default 08:00 DAILY_REPORT_TZ) when
SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL is set; scripts/daily_report.py runs the same report on
demand for testing.
Daily triage — a GitHub Actions workflow
(.github/workflows/daily-triage.yml) runs scripts/daily_triage.py every
morning (~07:45 Prague): it pulls the last 24 h of error/warn rows from the
gateway's Railway logs, classifies the known error signatures
deterministically, and — only when something actionable remains — has Claude
write the operator's triage (what happened → what it means → proposed action,
per class) and posts it to Slack. Healthy days post a one-line "all quiet"
(the daily heartbeat); if the analysis fails, the deterministic aggregate
table posts instead — never silence. The analysis runs on the operator's
Claude subscription via headless Claude Code (repo secret
CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN, minted with claude setup-token); an
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY secret works as the fallback backend. Also needs
RAILWAY_API_TOKEN + SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL (already present for the hourly
pager). Run by hand with python scripts/daily_triage.py --dry-run (needs the
RAILWAY_* env; the analysis step degrades gracefully without a token).
Hourly hard-signal pager — a GitHub Actions workflow
(.github/workflows/hourly-digest.yml) runs scripts/hourly_digest.py every
hour: it reads the last 60 min of the gateway's Railway logs via the Railway
API, does a liveness probe, and pages (<!here>) only on a hard signal —
a failed probe (site down), worker-start-failed across ≥2 distinct accounts
in the hour (the broken-image signature), any 5xx, or any critical. It is
otherwise fully silent — plain error volume belongs to the daily triage.
Requires repo secrets RAILWAY_API_TOKEN + SLACK_WEBHOOK_URL
(service/environment ids are set as workflow env). RAILWAY_API_TOKEN may be a
Railway project token (narrowest scope — reaches only this project; sent via
the Project-Access-Token header) or an account/workspace token (sent as
Authorization: Bearer); the script tries both. Run it by hand with
python scripts/hourly_digest.py --dry-run (needs RAILWAY_API_TOKEN,
RAILWAY_SERVICE_ID, RAILWAY_ENVIRONMENT_ID in the environment).
PostHog telemetry — with POSTHOG_API_KEY set (see the env table), the
gateway also ships analytics to PostHog (EU cloud; design:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-20-posthog-telemetry-design.md):
per-request $mcp_* events (PostHog's built-in MCP analytics), a lean
connect-funnel/conversion event set, an OTLP tee of the structured log stream
(PostHog Logs, beta — Railway stays the durable archive), and posthog-js on the
site (UTM campaign attribution; autocapture disabled on OAuth pages). Egress
rule: identity + metadata only — never MCP bodies, credentials, or form
contents; the account email travels only as distinct_id. Everything is
fire-and-forget: a PostHog outage never blocks a request. The Slack reports
above keep running unchanged — PostHog complements them. When off-boarding a
user (revoke.py --purge), also delete the person in PostHog (People → delete)
to complete the GDPR path.
Beer supporters — scripts/add_beer.py records a "buy me a beer" donation
(buymeacoffee.com/venik) into a local beers audit table and emits a
beer_purchased PostHog event, best-effort attributed to the supporter's
gateway account (matched when the email is a known login). The event is meant to
feed the operator's connect→paying funnel and "beers this month" metric on the
Growth dashboard — those PostHog insights are set up manually and don't exist
until built. Ingestion is manual for now (BMC automation deferred; design:
docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-24-beer-supporters.md). Same egress rule as
above — the email travels only as distinct_id, never the supporter name or
note.
With Docker the scripts are baked into the image at /app/scripts; run them
inside the container. status.py finds the DB under /data automatically:
All logging is structured JSON on stdout (one event per line) with a proper
level attribute — including uvicorn/stdlib records (event stdlib-log) and
each worker's own output (event worker-log, with an account attribute;
lines matching ERROR/Traceback are elevated to error severity). On Railway
that makes everything searchable in the log explorer — filter e.g.
@event:worker-log @account:<email> to trace one user's worker, or
@level:error for problems. Request latency is recorded per call in the
mcp-response event (ttfb_ms, total_ms, bytes, tool, account);
login/verify and worker-spawn events carry ms durations. The gateway also
logs a stats event (accounts / tokens / people-with-token / clients /
active-workers) on startup and whenever those counts change, and status.py
lists the running workers.
Automatic data hygiene
The gateway keeps its own DB tidy — no manual grooming needed. Alongside expiring
old auth codes and access tokens, the background loop (roughly once a minute):
sweeps abandoned OAuth clients — Claude registers a fresh client (DCR) on
every connection attempt, and one that never completes the flow leaves a
token-less client behind. Any client with zero access tokens older than one
hour (comfortably above the 10-min code lifetime, so an in-progress sign-in is
never touched) is removed. This is why status.py's OAuth-client count tracks
the number of connected devices rather than growing with every failed attempt.
Revoking a device also leaves its client token-less, so it's swept the same way.
purges retired-adapter data — if a connector is ever dropped, all its rows
(accounts, tokens, clients, codes, usage) are deleted across the board. The
retired set is an explicit list in the code, never inferred from
configuration, so a missing env var can't accidentally wipe a live connector.
Both are logged only when they actually delete something — cleanup-orphan-clients
(count) and cleanup-dead-adapter (adapter + per-table counts) — so a quiet
log means there was nothing to clean. The one-hour threshold is a fixed constant,
not an env var, by design.
How it works
Claude registers a client (DCR) and starts OAuth 2.1 (Authorization Code + PKCE).
On the authorize page the user signs in with Garmin (email + password, + MFA if
prompted). The gateway logs in via garminconnect, stores only the resulting
tokens (encrypted), and discards the password.
Claude exchanges the code for a Bearer token.
On each /garmin/mcp call the gateway ensures the user's garmin_mcp worker is running
(its own tokens, bound to 127.0.0.1) and reverse-proxies to it.
Adapters using the remote strategy replace steps 2 and 4 with a probe-verify
against the upstream MCP and a direct header-injected forward — no worker.
Adapters using an upstream-OAuth login (whoop) replace step 2 with a redirect
to the provider's own OAuth page; the provider calls back with tokens, which
the gateway verifies and persists the same way (verify-then-persist is
unchanged). Adapters using the local strategy (whoop) replace step 4: the
request is handled in-process — no worker, no shared upstream — and the
gateway refreshes the account's rotating WHOOP tokens itself as needed.
Security
Garmin password is never persisted; WHOOP passwords are never even seen
(sign-in happens on WHOOP's own OAuth page, read-only scopes).
Tokens encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM); the DB is useless without GATEWAY_SECRET.
A member revoking the app at WHOOP is detected on the next refresh and their
stored tokens are purged automatically.
Workers bind 127.0.0.1 only; garmin_mcp is pinned to a reviewed commit.
Deploy only on infrastructure you control and trust. Back up DATA_DIR; keep
GATEWAY_SECRET separately.
Before you deploy
Set a real random GATEWAY_SECRET (openssl rand -base64 48) — the app
refuses to start with the placeholder from .env.example.
Pin GARMIN_MCP_REF to a reviewed commit SHA — main is a floating ref that
can change without notice (supply-chain).
Revoking access — access tokens expire after ACCESS_TOKEN_TTL_DAYS (default
90; the user just re-authenticates in Claude). To revoke sooner — a leaked token
or a removed user — run python scripts/revoke.py --account [<adapter>:]<email> (kill-switch
for all of that account's tokens). A single device can be revoked with --device <hash-prefix> (prefixes are shown by status.py).
Run a manual end-to-end smoke test with a real Garmin account (including the
MFA path) before connecting real users — the upstream is mocked in the
automated tests.
Wraps the excellent garmin_mcp by Taxuspt,
unmodified. Garmin and Garmin Connect are trademarks of Garmin Ltd.; this project is
not affiliated with or endorsed by Garmin.
Install
Remote endpoint
Streamable HTTP
Hosted server - connect over the network, no local install.