This topic explains how to transform a development profile into a secure and deployable production artifact. It provides clear objectives and mechanisms to ensure production readiness.

This following table describes the key objectives for creating hardened production artifacts and the mechanisms to achieve them:
Objective Mechanism
Clean production artifacts Use --bundle prod during export
Reduce attack surface Remove client utilities, verbose configurations, and private keys
Ensure configuration clarity Provide a minimal mcp_server_config.json with only overrides
Maintain secret hygiene Externalize tokens and keys using Vault or key management system (KMS)