Installation

The Python SDK is available on PyPI as mcp so installation is as simple as:

pipuv

pip install mcp

uv add mcp

The following dependencies are automatically installed:

httpx: HTTP client to handle HTTP Streamable and SSE transports.
httpx-sse: HTTP client to handle SSE transport.
pydantic: Types, JSON schema generation, data validation, and more.
starlette: Web framework used to build the HTTP transport endpoints.
python-multipart: Handle HTTP body parsing.
sse-starlette: Server-Sent Events for Starlette, used to build the SSE transport endpoint.
pydantic-settings: Settings management used in FastMCP.
uvicorn: ASGI server used to run the HTTP transport endpoints.
jsonschema: JSON schema validation.
pywin32: Windows specific dependencies for the CLI tools.

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