# Custom Apps

#### Overview

In addition to applications hosted in Natoma or by third-party providers, Natoma can also host your own, custom-developed applications. These can be:

1. A repository containing the source code for an MCP server
2. A remote URL specifying an MCP server
3. An API specification (from which to generate an MCP server)

This section describes the various mechanisms to provide access to custom apps in Natoma.

#### Requirements

1. The repository must be a publicly available repository hosted in GitHub or GitLab. At this time, Private repositories and other repository providers are not supported.
2. The MCP servers must support streamable HTTP, and the endpoint must end with “/mcp”
3. The API specification must adhere to OpenAPI Specification (“OAS”).

(Optional) The working directory for building and deploying the server should be provided, in case it is not the root directory of the repository. The build steps and deployment will happen from this provided folder path.


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