agentmfa

agentmfa

AgentMFA is a credential broker for AI coding agents. Agents make API calls, open database connections, and reach SSH servers using unmodified tools like curl, psql, and git.

The broker keeps the raw credentials in a local secret store and injects them into requests only after human approval.

This package installs the broker's command line, aka (also linked as agentmfa): the headless broker, the store seeding commands, and the skill-file generator that teaches agents how to use the broker.

• HTTP: the agent supplies method/path/headers/body to a pinned host
• Postgres: the agent gets a password-less DSN plus a short-lived ticket
• SSH: the agent gets an SSH_AUTH_SOCK that signs only for the connection's pinned user and server host key
• WebSocket: the agent gets a short-lived ws://127.0.0.1:… bridge URL

Install

npm install -g agentmfa

This installs a prebuilt binary via a platform-specific optional dependency — there is no postinstall script and no install-time network access beyond npm itself.

Supported platforms: macOS (Apple silicon and Intel) and Linux (x64 and arm64, glibc). The broker rendezvous is a Unix domain socket, so Windows is not supported.

Quick start

Run a broker headless with terminal approvals (the desktop app is the primary interface; the CLI is its dev/headless counterpart):

aka serve

Seed the store from another terminal (offline edits require the broker to be stopped first, so it cannot overwrite them from memory):

printf '%s' "$GITHUB_TOKEN" | aka secret add GITHUB_TOKEN
aka conn add github --kind api --host api.github.com \
    --template 'Authorization: Bearer {{GITHUB_TOKEN}}'
aka conn list

Teach the agents in a repository about the broker:

aka skill --write          # writes .claude/skills/aka/SKILL.md
aka skill --write --user   # or ~/.claude/skills/aka/SKILL.md for all repos

Agents discover the live contract from the broker itself:

curl --unix-socket ~/.aka/broker.sock http://localhost/instructions

Every command accepts --root <dir> to run against an isolated directory (data and socket under it) instead of the per-user defaults — handy for demos, tests, and CI. aka serve --yes auto-approves everything and exists for CI and local demos only; the entire point of the broker is the human approval step.

Platform notes

• macOS is the fully supported product platform: secrets live in the Keychain, approvals confirm via LocalAuthentication (Touch ID), and paired agents are pinned to their code-signing identity.
• Linux support is developer-grade: secrets are kept in a 0600 JSON file vault that is not encrypted at rest, and peer identity is pinned by uid plus a best-effort executable fingerprint. aka serve prints a warning to this effect. It is intended for development, integration testing, and evaluation rather than production use.