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A bridge between Streamable HTTP and stdio MCP transports

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The mcp-proxy is a tool that lets you switch between server transports. There are two supported modes:

Run a proxy server from stdio that connects to a remote SSE server.

This mode allows clients like Claude Desktop to communicate to a remote server over SSE even though it is not supported natively.

This mode requires providing the URL of the MCP Server's SSE endpoint as the program’s first argument. If the server uses Streamable HTTP transport, make sure to enforce it on the mcp-proxy side by passing --transport=streamablehttp.

mcp-proxy is supposed to be started by the MCP Client, so the configuration must be done accordingly.

For Claude Desktop, the configuration entry can look like…

Excerpted from github.com/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy

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