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Create a New Certificate

An MCP tool from the DigitalOcean API server, hosted on mcp.hjlabs.in.

Create a New Certificate To upload new SSL certificate which you have previously generated, send a POST request to /v2/certificates. When uploading a user-generated certificate, the private_key, leaf_certificate, and… [POST /v2/certificates]

Name on the gateway: digitalocean_api__certificates_create · may change things.

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
name requiredstringA unique human-readable name referring to a certificate.
typecustom | lets_encryptA string representing the type of the certificate. The value will be custom…
dns_names requiredarrayAn array of fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) for which the certificate was…

How to call it

Through the Smart Gateway, any client can run it by name with call_tool, or let the gateway find it with search_tools:

call_tool arguments
{
  "name": "digitalocean_api__certificates_create",
  "arguments": {
    "name": "…",
    "dns_names": []
  }
}

Or connect the DigitalOcean API server directly, which lists 874 tools including this one:

Run in your terminal
claude mcp add --transport http hj-digitalocean-api https://mcp.hjlabs.in/mcp/digitalocean-api \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Try asking

Use the create a new certificate tool with name set to ….

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