KrabiClaw MCP Server
io.github.paulchrisluke/krabiclaw
Manage and publish restaurant and local business websites through MCP.
What is the KrabiClaw MCP server?
The Krabiclaw MCP server is a multi-tenant SaaS platform built on Nuxt 5, Nitro 3, Cloudflare Workers, and D1 that enables management and publishing of restaurant and local business websites. It provides a complete development and deployment infrastructure for building and hosting business websites at scale.
Krabiclaw is a SaaS platform for creating and managing restaurant and local business websites. It uses modern cloud infrastructure (Cloudflare Workers, D1 database) and provides development tools, local testing, and production deployment pipelines. The platform supports multi-tenant operations with features like Stripe integration, authentication, notifications, and E2E testing.
How to install KrabiClaw
Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.
Use cases
- Develop and test restaurant websites locally with hot module reloading
- Deploy multi-tenant business websites to production via Cloudflare Workers
- Manage database migrations and schema for restaurant and business data
- Test website rendering and functionality across different tenant configurations
- Integrate Stripe payments for restaurant reservations and services
KrabiClaw MCP server FAQ
Krabiclaw is a multi-tenant SaaS platform for managing and publishing restaurant and local business websites. It's built on Nuxt 5, Nitro 3, Cloudflare Workers, and D1 database, providing a complete development and deployment infrastructure.
Install Node.js 24.18.1, run `corepack yarn install`, copy `.env.example` to `.env` with your secrets, then run `corepack yarn local:setup` to initialize the database and create a developer account. Start development with `corepack yarn dev`.
Krabiclaw uses Yarn exclusively. Never use npm or pnpm. Use `corepack yarn` commands for all package management.
Deployment is automated via GitHub Actions: pull requests run local checks, pushes to `staging` deploy to staging, and pushes to `main` deploy to production. Cloudflare Workers and D1 migrations are applied automatically.
Yes, Krabiclaw integrates with Stripe for payments. Use `yarn stripe:listen` locally to test webhooks, and configure the webhook secret in `.env` before deploying.
Yes, run `yarn dev:worker` to build and run a production-like Worker locally with Wrangler, or use `yarn dev:worker:start` to restart an existing build without recompiling.
README (reference)
Source of truth, from the repository.
Krabiclaw
Multi-tenant platform SaaS. Nuxt 5 nightly + Nitro 3 + Cloudflare Workers + D1.
Package manager: yarn only. Never npm or pnpm.
Scripts
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
yarn dev | Nuxt development server with HMR and locally emulated Cloudflare bindings at http://localhost:3000. |
yarn local:setup | The only local setup entry point: migrate D1, refresh fixtures, create the local developer account, and verify the result. |
yarn dev:worker | Build and run the production-like Worker locally with Wrangler at http://localhost:3000. |
yarn dev:worker:start | Run the existing .output Worker build locally without rebuilding it. |
yarn build | Production build → .output/ |
yarn db:generate | Generate a new migrations/*.sql file from server/db/schema.ts |
yarn drizzle:check | Verify server/db/schema.ts hasn't drifted from the live D1 schema |
yarn stripe:listen | Forward Stripe webhooks to localhost (local dev only) |
yarn canary:prod | Production-safe authenticated browser canary (read-only checks). |
yarn canary:notifications | Production provider-level email/WhatsApp notification canary. |
Production Canary Runs
Real-send production canaries are intentionally off on normal main deploys to avoid
accidental email/WhatsApp spend on every merge. To run them on demand, use the GitHub
Actions workflow Production Real-Send Canaries and choose whether to send:
- the auth OTP canary
- the notification email/WhatsApp canary
That workflow always runs production smoke first, then only sends the real canaries you explicitly selected for that run.
See docs/notification-testing.md for the full policy on log-only vs live email/WhatsApp testing, production-safe verification, and which public submission paths send for real in production.
Local Setup
1. Install
corepack yarn install
The repository uses Node.js 24.18.1. Use the exact version declared in
.nvmrc before installing dependencies. When changing Node, follow the
Node runtime upgrade runbook so
local development, CI, type definitions, and Worker builds move together.
Yarn accepts new direct and transitive package releases only after seven days.
Routine yarn add and yarn up commands apply this rule automatically. CI
installs the package graph immutably and rechecks registry metadata in its
hardened job.
For an urgent reviewed security fix, update only the affected package:
corepack yarn up <package>@<fixed-version> --no-time-gate
Record the advisory and the reason for bypassing the wait in the pull request.
Do not add a package to npmPreapprovedPackages or disable the age gate in
.yarnrc.yml.
2. Environment
Copy .env.example to .env and fill in the application secrets there. This is
the single local configuration for Nuxt, Wrangler, setup scripts, and E2E tests.
See local development for setup and migrating an
older .dev.vars file. No second secret file or symlink is needed.
3. Prepare local development
corepack yarn local:setup
The command is safe to repeat. It leaves local D1 at the current migration, fixture, credential, and foreign-key baseline, then prints the one local developer login:
URL: http://localhost:3000/login?email=developer%40playwright.example
Email: developer@playwright.example
Password: <fresh value generated by local:setup>
This localhost-only account is a member of every curated tenant and can access the platform dashboard. The password is generated on each setup run, printed once, and stored only as a hash in local D1. A repeated setup deletes existing local sessions, so sign in again with the newly printed password afterward.
4. Run
corepack yarn dev
App at http://localhost:3000.
yarn dev is the normal application-development loop. Nitro reads the bindings
declared in wrangler.toml, emulates local D1/KV/R2 resources, and preserves
Nuxt hot module replacement. It never resets D1. Run
corepack yarn local:setup when you want to restore local D1 from a production
snapshot.
Open tenant dashboards from the dashboard UI instead of guessing their URLs.
When a route must be constructed manually, the dashboard segment is the
organization's slug, not its subdomain, and everything else sits directly
under it: Kikuzuki's locations are
/dashboard/org-bVY8SxxUuG6Ctk2CQnfCk8T2cPsj4jJX/locations.
For production-runtime browser verification, use the generated Worker locally.
Wrangler reads the same .env as Nuxt. Playwright also loads it and supplies
test-specific local URLs and delivery settings to the Worker.
yarn test:e2e:local tests/e2e/tenant-rendering.spec.ts
For a production-like local Worker:
yarn dev:worker
After a successful build, yarn dev:worker:start restarts that same .output
without rebuilding. Source edits are not compiled into .output automatically;
use yarn dev for the normal HMR editing loop.
Playwright applies the local D1 schema, clears disposable E2E artifacts, restores
a production snapshot, provisions verified synthetic Better Auth accounts, builds the
Cloudflare Worker, and starts it under local workerd. Authenticated tests sign
in through Better Auth with a random password generated inside the Playwright
process; no email inbox or authentication bypass route is involved. Those test
credentials are not a second manual login path. Use the local developer account
printed by corepack yarn local:setup for browser work.
Local tenant tests use a shared-host routing contract: the browser targets
localhost and the test helper supplies x-preview-tenant for the selected
fixture. Deployed staging uses direct first-level tenant aliases instead. This is the authoritative local browser path; do not rely on direct
*.localhost navigation for Worker browser verification.
http://localhost:3000/ (x-preview-tenant: ncls)
http://localhost:3000/services (x-preview-tenant: ncls)
http://localhost:3000/experiences (x-preview-tenant: pottery-house)
http://localhost:3000/reservations (x-preview-tenant: kikuzuki-krabi-thailand)
macOS file limit fix
ulimit -n 65536
Deployment
Deployment follows the branches in .github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Pull requests run
Checksand theE2Esuite against a local Worker and a local D1 copied from production (db:pull:local). Nothing is deployed for a pull request. - Pushes to
stagingrunChecks, then deploy the staging Worker, apply staging migrations, and run read-only MCP and tenant rendering against staging itself. Nothing writes test data into real staging. - Pushes to
mainrunChecks, then deploy the production Worker, apply production migrations, and run read-only production browser verification.
CI invokes native Wrangler commands only in the matching branch job.
During an incident, use Cloudflare's deployment history to restore the last
known-good production deployment without changing D1 data. Then land the source
fix through staging and main and repeat the browser gates.
Production secrets live in the Cloudflare dashboard → Workers & Pages → krabiclaw → Settings → Variables.
Set protected internal job secrets with Wrangler:
openssl rand -base64 32
yarn wrangler secret put CRON_SECRET
CRON_SECRET protects internal scheduled endpoints. Local commands read their configuration from .env; deployed Workers use Cloudflare secrets and the variables in wrangler.toml.
MCP reconnect triage and Cloudflare auth debugging are documented in docs/observability.md.
The mandatory deployed-browser release gate and outage recovery rules are documented in docs/operations/release-and-outage-prevention.md.
Schema
server/db/schema.ts is the only schema source of truth; migrations/ holds generated output. Hand-written migrations are prohibited.
Stripe (local)
yarn stripe:listen
Copy the whsec_... signing secret it outputs into .env as STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET. Swap back to the production webhook secret before deploying.
Native marketplace onboarding uses a separate Accounts v2 thin-event destination and signing secret. See Stripe Connect onboarding.
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