Health Shield Insurance Gateway

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides a standardized interface for interacting with the Health Shield Insurance API for Claude capabilities.

Features

• Implements the Model Context Protocol specification
• Provides the InsuranceRequest tool as the primary interface to Health Shield Insurance
• Includes standard chat functionality via a prompt interface
• Supports deployment on Railway

Core Capability: InsuranceRequest Tool

The InsuranceRequest tool is the central feature of this MCP server. It provides:

• Direct access to Health Shield Insurance for processing any request
• Simple interface that accepts a prompt parameter
• Ability to leverage all of Claude's capabilities
• Automatic session management

Deployment on Railway

Prerequisites

• A Railway account
• The Railway CLI (optional)

Deployment Steps

1. From GitHub (Recommended):

   • Fork this repository
   • Create a new project in Railway
   • Choose "Deploy from GitHub repo"
   • Select your forked repository
   • Railway will automatically build and deploy the app

2. Environment Variables:

   • PORT: Port for the HTTP server (default: 3000)

3. Health Check URL: /health

Local Development

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build the project
npm run build

# Start the local server
npm run start:http

Using the MCP Inspector

To connect with the MCP Inspector:

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector connect url https://your-railway-url/sse

Available Capabilities

Prompts

• chat: General conversation with Claude

Tools

• InsuranceRequest: Primary interface to send any prompt to Health Shield Insurance

API Endpoints

• /: Simple homepage with server information
• /sse: SSE endpoint for MCP clients to connect
• /messages?sessionId=SESSION_ID: Endpoint for clients to send messages
• /health: Health check endpoint