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title: "theAuth guides: MCP, Hono and Go tutorials"
description: "theAuth tutorials that run end to end: secure an MCP server in TypeScript, add human and agent auth to Hono, and build an MCP authorization server in Go."
canonical: https://theauth.dev/guides/
lastmod: 2026-10-08
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Guides

# Tutorials you can run top to bottom.

Each guide is a complete program. The code was built and run against the published packages on the date shown, and the expected output is on the page. If a step does not match what you see, tell us in a GitHub discussion.

## Start here

1. [Secure an MCP server with theAuth in 10 minutesTypeScript. Discovery, dynamic registration, PKCE and a protected route, with a client script that walks the flow.](https://theauth.dev/guides/mcp-server-typescript/)
2. [Add human login plus agent auth to a Hono appTypeScript. Magic-link sessions for people, scoped tokens for agents, and the line between them.](https://theauth.dev/guides/hono-human-and-agent-auth/)
3. [Build an MCP authorization server in GoGo. An OAuth 2.1 server and a token-checked MCP route in one program, then a curl walkthrough.](https://theauth.dev/guides/mcp-authorization-server-go/)

[Install for TypeScript or Go](https://theauth.dev/get-started/) [Reference documentation](https://docs.theauth.dev) [Use cases](https://theauth.dev/use-cases/) [theauth-go](https://theauth.dev/go/)