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Tools for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on top of aiohttp

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Tools for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers on top of aiohttp.

Features

  • Easy integration with aiohttp web applications
  • Support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools
  • Async-first design
  • Type hints support
  • Debug mode for development
  • Flexible routing options

Installation

With uv package manager:

uv add aiohttp-mcp

Or with pip:

pip install aiohttp-mcp

Quick Start

Basic Server Setup

Create a simple MCP server with a custom tool:

import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo

from aiohttp import web

from aiohttp_mcp import AiohttpMCP, build_mcp_app

# Initialize MCP
mcp = AiohttpMCP()


# Define a tool
@mcp.tool()
def get_time(timezone: str) -> str:
    """Get the current time in the specified timezone."""
    tz = ZoneInfo(timezone)
    return datetime.datetime.now(tz).isoformat()


# Create and run the application
app = build_mcp_app(mcp, path="/mcp")
web.run_app(app)

Using as a Sub-Application

You can also use aiohttp-mcp as a sub-application in your existing aiohttp server:

import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo

from aiohttp import web

from aiohttp_mcp import AiohttpMCP, setup_mcp_subapp

mcp = AiohttpMCP()


# Define a tool
@mcp.tool()
def get_time(timezone: str) -> str:
    """Get the current time in the specified timezone."""
    tz = ZoneInfo(timezone)
    return datetime.datetime.now(tz).isoformat()


# Create your main application
app = web.Application()

# Add MCP as a sub-application
setup_mcp_subapp(app, mcp, prefix="/mcp")

web.run_app(app)

Using Streamable HTTP Transport

For production deployments requiring advanced session management, you can use the streamable HTTP transport mode:

import datetime
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo

from aiohttp import web

from aiohttp_mcp import AiohttpMCP, TransportMode, build_mcp_app

# Initialize MCP
mcp = AiohttpMCP()


# Define a tool
@mcp.tool()
def get_time(timezone: str) -> str:
    """Get the current time in the specified timezone."""
    tz = ZoneInfo(timezone)
    return datetime.datetime.now(tz).isoformat()


# Create application with streamable transport
app = build_mcp_app(mcp, path="/mcp", transport_mode=TransportMode.STREAMABLE_HTTP, stateless=True)
web.run_app(app)

Client Example

Here's how to create a client that interacts with the MCP server:

import asyncio

from mcp import ClientSession
from mcp.client.sse import sse_client


async def main():
    # Connect to the MCP server
    async with sse_client("http://localhost:8080/mcp") as (read_stream, write_stream):
        async with ClientSession(read_stream, write_stream) as session:
            # Initialize the session
            await session.initialize()

            # List available tools
            tools = await session.list_tools()
            print("Available tools:", [tool.name for tool in tools.tools])

            # Call a tool
            result = await session.call_tool("get_time", {"timezone": "UTC"})
            print("Current time in UTC:", result.content)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    asyncio.run(main())

More Examples

For more examples, check the examples directory.

Development

Setup Development Environment

  1. Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/kulapard/aiohttp-mcp.git
cd aiohttp-mcp
  1. Create and activate a virtual environment:
uv venv
source .venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: .venv\Scripts\activate
  1. Install development dependencies:
uv sync --all-extras

Running Tests

uv run pytest

Requirements

  • Python 3.10 or higher
  • aiohttp >= 3.9.0, < 4.0.0
  • aiohttp-sse >= 2.2.0, < 3.0.0
  • anyio >= 4.9.0, < 5.0.0
  • mcp >= 1.8.0, < 2.0.0

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

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