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# Protect Your MCP Tools With Auth0 FGA in TypeScript

**[Auth0](https://daily.dev/sources/auth0)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to building a secure MCP server in TypeScript using FastMCP, Auth0 for OAuth 2.0 authentication, and Auth0 FGA (OpenFGA) for fine-grained authorization. The tutorial covers setting up three MCP tools (whoami, datetime, get_documents), defining a relationship-based authorization model with roles and groups, filtering tool visibility per user, and controlling access to private documents based on FGA permissions. Includes configuration of Auth0 API, FGA store, CLI-based model deployment, and testing with MCP Inspector.

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