feat: add Streamable HTTP MCP transport (closes #62)#64
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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>
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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:
GenericMcpFormonly showedstdioandSSEtabsMcpConfigRequest.transportwasLiteral["http", "sse", "stdio"]; Pydantic rejected"streamable_http"before the request reached platform code_build_conndidn't handle the"streamable"alias Cursor/Claude Desktop emit, nor the"type"key used by some tools in place of"transport"Changes
backend/src/analytics_agent/api/settings.py"streamable_http"toMcpConfigRequest.transportliteralbackend/src/analytics_agent/engines/mcp/engine.py_build_connnow accepts"streamable"alias and falls back to"type"key when"transport"is absentfrontend/src/components/Settings/connections/GenericMcpForm.tsx/mcpcanonical pathtests/fixtures/echo_mcp_server.pytests/integration/test_mcp_transports.pyget_tools_async()+ tool invocation pathtests/unit/test_mcp_engine.py_build_connrouting (streamable_http, http alias, streamable alias, type-key fallback, sse, stdio, default)tests/unit/test_settings_wire_format.pystreamable_httptransportTest coverage
Workaround for existing users (until merged)
If your server also speaks SSE, use
transport: "sse"in the meantime.🤖 Generated with Claude Code