MCP servers, over streamable HTTP

A server is a row with a URL; its tools are discovered by a button and
cached, then offered beside the built-in ones. Written by hand rather than
taken from the reference SDK, because that SDK's transport does its own
connecting -- and the one thing that must not be bypassed is check_url on
every hop. Owning the transport is the point; the framing beside it is the
small part.

Sessions are per call: initialize, initialized, the call, a best-effort
DELETE. Caching one wants an owner, a TTL, eviction, a lock and a shutdown
hook, and the server may expire it under all of that anyway -- ToolContext
is a session-free snapshot precisely so nothing in a tool holds live state.

A server's names and descriptions reach the model as instructions and are
bounded before they do; what it returns is escaped preformatted text, never
markdown. Tools are namespaced per server, so two servers exposing "search"
do not collide and neither shadows a built-in.

Also: a round's calls now run together under a semaphore, results indexed
so each tool turn stays paired with its call, and generation.status names
what is running -- a remote tool is latency-bound, and a silent pause is
what a hang looks like.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Jaroslav Beneš
2026-08-01 16:44:29 +02:00
parent d4cefb066a
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@@ -31,11 +31,15 @@ from lembas.db.models import (
SECRET_PLACEMENTS,
CustomTool,
Group,
McpServer,
)
from lembas.services import custom_tools
from lembas.services import prompts as prompts_service
from lembas.services import tools as tools_service
from lembas.services.crypto import UNCHANGED_SENTINEL, decrypt, keep_or_replace, mask
from lembas.services.fetch import FetchError, check_url
from lembas.services.mcp import client as mcp_client
from lembas.services.mcp import registry as mcp_registry
from lembas.web.templating import render
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -413,3 +417,245 @@ async def update_tool(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser, tool_id: str) -
log.info("%s updated custom tool %s", user.email, tool.slug)
return _back(f"Saved {tool.name}.")
# --- MCP servers -------------------------------------------------------------
MCP_SLUG_PATTERN = re.compile(r"^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9_-]{0,23}$")
def _server(db: Db, server_id: str) -> McpServer:
server = db.get(McpServer, server_id)
if server is None:
raise HTTPException(status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND, "That server no longer exists.")
return server
def _mcp_back(message: str = "") -> Response:
target = f"/admin/mcp?saved={message}" if message else "/admin/mcp"
return RedirectResponse(target, status_code=status.HTTP_303_SEE_OTHER)
def _populate_server(server: McpServer, form) -> None:
server.name = str(form.get("name") or "").strip()[:120]
server.url = str(form.get("url") or "").strip()[:1000]
server.guidance = str(form.get("guidance") or "").replace("\r\n", "\n").strip()
server.headers_json = _parse_headers(str(form.get("headers") or ""))
placement = str(form.get("secret_placement") or SECRET_NONE)
server.secret_placement = placement if placement in SECRET_PLACEMENTS else SECRET_NONE
server.secret_name = str(form.get("secret_name") or "Authorization").strip()[:120]
server.timeout = _number(
form.get("timeout"), default=30, low=mcp_client.MIN_TIMEOUT, high=mcp_client.MAX_TIMEOUT
)
server.max_chars = _number(
form.get("max_chars"), default=8000, low=mcp_client.MIN_CHARS, high=mcp_client.MAX_CHARS
)
server.position = _number(form.get("position"), default=server.position or 0, low=0, high=999)
server.allow_private = "allow_private" in form
server.enabled = "enabled" in form
server.public = "public" in form
# One checkbox per advertised tool, so an unticked one is absent. The
# stored map holds only the refusals; absent means on.
if "tool_choices" in form:
offered = set(form.getlist("tool_names"))
chosen = set(form.getlist("tool_names_on"))
server.tool_overrides_json = dict.fromkeys(offered - chosen, False)
def _server_problem(db: Db, server: McpServer, form, *, existing_id: str = "") -> str:
if not server.name:
return "A server needs a name."
slug = str(form.get("slug") or "").strip().lower()
if not MCP_SLUG_PATTERN.match(slug):
return (
"The identifier must be lowercase letters, digits, hyphens or "
"underscores, and at most 24 characters. It prefixes every tool "
"name this server offers."
)
clash = db.scalar(select(McpServer).where(McpServer.slug == slug))
if clash is not None and clash.id != existing_id:
return f"There is already a server called “{slug}”."
server.slug = slug
try:
check_url(server.url, allow_private=True)
except FetchError as exc:
return exc.message
return ""
def _server_detail(
request: Request, db: Db, server: McpServer, *, is_new: bool, error: str = "", **extra
):
key = f"tool.mcp_{server.slug}" if server.slug else ""
overrides = server.tool_overrides_json or {}
return render(
request,
"admin/mcp_detail.html",
{
"server": server,
"is_new": is_new,
"error": error,
"groups": list(db.scalars(select(Group).order_by(Group.name))),
"selected_groups": extra.pop(
"selected_groups", {group.id for group in (server.groups if server.id else [])}
),
"headers_text": extra.pop("headers_text", _headers_text(server.headers_json)),
"tools": [
{**entry, "on": overrides.get(entry.get("name"), True)}
for entry in (server.tools_json or [])
if isinstance(entry, dict)
],
"masked": mask(decrypt(server.secret_encrypted)) if server.secret_encrypted else "",
"unchanged": UNCHANGED_SENTINEL,
"secret_placements": SECRET_LABELS,
"prompt_key": key,
"prompt_overridden": key in prompts_service.stored(db),
**extra,
},
)
@router.get("/admin/mcp")
async def mcp_page(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser, saved: str = ""):
servers = list(db.scalars(select(McpServer).order_by(McpServer.position, McpServer.slug)))
return render(
request,
"admin/mcp.html",
{
"servers": servers,
"counts": {server.id: len(server.tools_json or []) for server in servers},
"saved": saved,
},
)
# Registered before /{server_id}, for the reason given above.
@router.get("/admin/mcp/new")
async def new_server_page(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser):
draft = McpServer(
name="",
slug="",
url="https://",
secret_placement=SECRET_NONE,
timeout=30,
max_chars=8000,
enabled=True,
public=True,
position=0,
tools_json=[],
tool_overrides_json={},
)
return _server_detail(request, db, draft, is_new=True)
@router.post("/admin/mcp")
async def create_server(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser) -> Response:
form = await request.form()
draft = McpServer(headers_json={}, tools_json=[], tool_overrides_json={})
_populate_server(draft, form)
draft.position = db.scalar(select(func.coalesce(func.max(McpServer.position), -1))) + 1
problem = _server_problem(db, draft, form)
if problem:
return _server_detail(
request,
db,
draft,
is_new=True,
error=problem,
headers_text=str(form.get("headers") or ""),
selected_groups=set(form.getlist("group_ids")),
)
draft.secret_encrypted = keep_or_replace(str(form.get("secret") or ""), "")
draft.groups = _chosen_groups(db, form, public=draft.public)
db.add(draft)
db.commit()
# Discovered immediately, the way a new connection's models are: an
# administrator who has just typed a URL wants to know whether it answered.
count, error = await mcp_registry.refresh(db, draft)
log.info("%s added MCP server %s (%d tools)", user.email, draft.slug, count)
if error:
return _mcp_back(f"Added {draft.name}, but it could not be reached: {error}")
return _mcp_back(f"Added {draft.name}{count} tool(s).")
@router.get("/admin/mcp/{server_id}/edit")
async def edit_server_page(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser, server_id: str):
return _server_detail(request, db, _server(db, server_id), is_new=False)
@router.post("/admin/mcp/{server_id}/test")
async def test_server(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser, server_id: str):
"""Contact the server and cache what it advertises.
Returns the row fragment, swapped in place, exactly as "Test & refresh"
does for a connection.
"""
server = _server(db, server_id)
count, error = await mcp_registry.refresh(db, server)
message = (
f"{server.name}: {error}"
if error
else f"{server.name}: found {count} tool{'s' if count != 1 else ''}."
)
return render(
request,
"admin/_mcp_row.html",
{
"server": server,
"tool_count": len(server.tools_json or []),
"message": message,
"message_kind": "error" if error else "success",
},
)
@router.post("/admin/mcp/{server_id}/delete")
async def delete_server(db: Db, user: AdminUser, server_id: str) -> Response:
server = _server(db, server_id)
name = server.name
db.delete(server)
db.commit()
log.info("%s deleted MCP server %s", user.email, name)
return _mcp_back(f"Deleted {name}.")
@router.post("/admin/mcp/{server_id}")
async def update_server(request: Request, db: Db, user: AdminUser, server_id: str) -> Response:
server = _server(db, server_id)
form = await request.form()
draft = McpServer(headers_json={}, tools_json=[], position=server.position)
_populate_server(draft, form)
problem = _server_problem(db, draft, form, existing_id=server.id)
if problem:
draft.id = server.id
draft.secret_encrypted = server.secret_encrypted
draft.tools_json = server.tools_json
return _server_detail(
request,
db,
draft,
is_new=False,
error=problem,
headers_text=str(form.get("headers") or ""),
selected_groups=set(form.getlist("group_ids")),
)
_populate_server(server, form)
server.slug = draft.slug
server.secret_encrypted = keep_or_replace(
str(form.get("secret") or ""), server.secret_encrypted
)
server.groups = _chosen_groups(db, form, public=server.public)
db.commit()
log.info("%s updated MCP server %s", user.email, server.slug)
return _mcp_back(f"Saved {server.name}.")