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Python developers and AI engineers who want a high-level, production-ready framework to build and deploy MCP servers that expose tools and data to LLMs securely and efficiently
About FastMCP
FastMCP is an open source, Pythonic framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) applications that makes creating, managing, and interacting with MCP servers simple and production-ready by handling the protocol’s complexity so developers can focus on business logic. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a standardized way for large language models to securely connect to tools, data, and services, and FastMCP provides a clean API to implement that protocol with minimal boilerplate, using Python decorators to register tools, resources, and prompts. A typical FastMCP server is created by instantiating a FastMCP object, decorating Python functions as tools (functions the LLM can invoke), and then running the server with built-in transport options like stdio or HTTP; this lets AI clients call into your code as if it were part of the model’s context.
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fastmcp
Founded: 2025
United States
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