MCP Python SDK
The official Python SDK — 24.5K stars, MIT.
About
MCP Python SDK (modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk, 24,552 stars, MIT) is the official Python SDK for Model Context Protocol: build servers and clients in Python with FastMCP.
Pushed Oct 2026. The standard way to build MCP servers in Python — for Python shops, this is the starting point. FastMCP (now merged in) makes servers trivial. The TypeScript SDK is already in the catalog.
What it can do
- • Official Python SDK\n• FastMCP server framework\n• Client and server\n• Async support
Setup
- Install:
pip install mcp.\n2. Define tools with@mcp.tool().\n3. Run the server.
Prerequisites
Python ≥ 3.10.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier). 24.5K stars, MIT, official, actively maintained — the Python MCP standard. Docked one point: (1) the ecosystem moves fast — check for breaking changes. For Python MCP.
★ 24,552 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 8.2/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.5/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.7/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 9.0/10
- · 24,552 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 1d ago; 25 releases/12mo; 310 open issues
- · manual review: the Python MCP standard; fast-moving; license: MIT
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