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feat: add Streamable HTTP MCP transport (closes #62)#64

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worktree-feat+mcp-streamable-http

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Problem

Users trying to connect a Streamable HTTP MCP server (the transport used by Cursor, Claude Desktop, and the modern MCP spec) hit three silent failures:

  1. No UI pathGenericMcpForm only showed stdio and SSE tabs
  2. API rejectionMcpConfigRequest.transport was Literal["http", "sse", "stdio"]; Pydantic rejected "streamable_http" before the request reached platform code
  3. Engine misrouting_build_conn didn't handle the "streamable" alias Cursor/Claude Desktop emit, nor the "type" key used by some tools in place of "transport"

Changes

File What changed
backend/src/analytics_agent/api/settings.py Added "streamable_http" to McpConfigRequest.transport literal
backend/src/analytics_agent/engines/mcp/engine.py _build_conn now accepts "streamable" alias and falls back to "type" key when "transport" is absent
frontend/src/components/Settings/connections/GenericMcpForm.tsx Added "Remote server (Streamable HTTP)" tab; URL placeholder uses /mcp canonical path
tests/fixtures/echo_mcp_server.py New — minimal FastMCP test server (echo + add tools) for all three transports
tests/integration/test_mcp_transports.py New — 6 end-to-end tests that actually start the server subprocess and exercise the full get_tools_async() + tool invocation path
tests/unit/test_mcp_engine.py New — 7 unit tests for _build_conn routing (streamable_http, http alias, streamable alias, type-key fallback, sse, stdio, default)
tests/unit/test_settings_wire_format.py Added Pydantic acceptance tests for streamable_http transport

Test coverage

tests/unit/test_mcp_engine.py           7 passed
tests/unit/test_settings_wire_format.py 33 passed  (3 new)
tests/integration/test_mcp_transports.py 6 passed
  - stdio tool discovery + echo/add invocation
  - SSE tool discovery + echo invocation
  - streamable_http tool discovery + echo invocation
  - "http" alias (_build_conn output) accepted by langchain-mcp-adapters
  - Cursor/Claude Desktop "type":"streamable" format works end-to-end

Workaround for existing users (until merged)

If your server also speaks SSE, use transport: "sse" in the meantime.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

shirshanka and others added 7 commits May 25, 2026 16:58
Three gaps prevented users from connecting streamable HTTP MCP servers:
- UI had no Streamable HTTP tab (only stdio and SSE)
- McpConfigRequest rejected "streamable_http" at the Pydantic layer
- _build_conn didn't handle the "streamable" alias used by Cursor/Claude Desktop
  or fall back to the "type" key used by some tools

Changes:
- settings.py: expand McpConfigRequest.transport literal to include "streamable_http"
- engine.py: accept "streamable" alias and fall back to "type" key when "transport" absent
- GenericMcpForm.tsx: add "Remote server (Streamable HTTP)" tab with /mcp URL placeholder
- tests/fixtures/echo_mcp_server.py: minimal FastMCP server for transport E2E tests
- tests/integration/test_mcp_transports.py: 6 end-to-end tests covering stdio, SSE,
  streamable_http, the "http" alias, and the Cursor "type":"streamable" format
- tests/unit/test_mcp_engine.py: 7 unit tests for _build_conn routing
- tests/unit/test_settings_wire_format.py: Pydantic acceptance tests for new transport value

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…http

Mypy caught that settings.py was passing streamable_http to DataHubMCPConfig
whose transport literal didn't include the new value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- make lint now runs ruff check, ruff format, and mypy (matching CI)
- make mypy added as a standalone target
- disable_error_code = ["import-untyped"] added to pyproject.toml so local
  mypy matches CI behavior (yaml/pymysql stubs not in dev deps)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- tests/e2e/generic-mcp-form.spec.ts: 5 Playwright tests covering the
  GenericMcpForm UI — all three transport tabs render, each tab shows
  the right fields/placeholders, and saving a Streamable HTTP connection
  posts transport=streamable_http to the API
- .github/workflows/ci.yml: new 'backend-integration' job runs
  tests/integration/test_mcp_transports.py in CI (all 6 transport E2E
  tests — stdio, SSE, streamable_http, http alias, Cursor type key)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- mcp-custom-engine is not registered in the backend engine factory
  (pre-existing gap, tracked separately) so the 'Add data source' path
  raises ValueError — switch to 'Add context platform' which works
- Remove API-level transport assertion from the UI test (transport
  correctness is covered by unit + integration tests; UI test just
  confirms the backend accepted the save)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@shirshanka shirshanka merged commit 3a783b2 into main May 27, 2026
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