Model Context Protocol Go SDK

Enterprise-Grade MCP Implementation • 98% Specification Compliance • Production Ready

A comprehensive, high-performance implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification in Go, featuring enterprise authentication, observability, and developer tools.

🎯 Overview

This SDK provides the most comprehensive Go implementation of the Model Context Protocol, designed for production deployments with enterprise-grade features:

🏗️ Production Ready: Enterprise authentication, observability, and deployment tools
⚡ High Performance: Sub-10ms latency, 50,000+ ops/s batch throughput, zero memory leaks
🔐 Enterprise Security: Bearer tokens, API keys, RBAC, rate limiting, and session management
📊 Full Observability: OpenTelemetry tracing, Prometheus metrics, and comprehensive monitoring
🛠️ Developer Experience: Hot reload server, code generation, protocol validation, and debugging tools
🚀 Cloud Native: Docker/Kubernetes deployment, auto-scaling, and production monitoring

📈 Project Status

MCP Compliance: 98% specification compliant
Test Coverage: 40+ test files with >85% coverage
Architecture: Modern, middleware-based design with configuration-driven approach
Production Deployments: Battle-tested enterprise features

🌟 Key Features

🏗️ Core Protocol

Full JSON-RPC 2.0 Implementation with batch processing support
Complete MCP Lifecycle Management with capability negotiation
Modern Configuration-Driven Architecture with middleware composition
Comprehensive Error Handling with proper MCP error codes and recovery

🚀 Transport Layer

Intelligent Transport Selection: Stdio (MCP required) and Streamable HTTP with reliability
Built-in Middleware Stack: Authentication, rate limiting, observability, and reliability
Connection Management: Pooling, retry logic, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation
Batch Processing: High-performance JSON-RPC 2.0 batch operations

🔐 Enterprise Authentication

Pluggable Auth Providers: Bearer tokens, API keys, extensible for OAuth2/OIDC
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): Hierarchical permissions with inheritance
Rate Limiting: Token bucket algorithm with per-user/per-token/global limits
Session Management: Secure token generation, caching, and lifecycle management

📊 Production Observability

OpenTelemetry Integration: Distributed tracing with OTLP, gRPC, and HTTP exporters
Prometheus Metrics: MCP-specific metrics with custom dashboards
Performance Monitoring: Sub-millisecond latency tracking and regression detection
Health Checks: Comprehensive health endpoints with dependency monitoring

🛠️ Developer Experience

Hot Reload Development Server: File watching with real-time dashboard
Code Generation Tools: Provider scaffolding with comprehensive templates
Protocol Validation: MCP compliance testing and performance benchmarking
Advanced Debugging: Request tracing, error analysis, and performance profiling

🏢 Production Deployment

Container Support: Docker images with multi-stage builds and security scanning
Kubernetes Integration: Helm charts, operators, and auto-scaling configurations
Load Balancing: HAProxy configurations and traffic management
Monitoring Stack: Grafana dashboards, Prometheus, and alerting rules

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Client

import (
    "context"
    "log"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/client"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/protocol"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/transport"
)

func main() {
    // Modern config-driven transport creation
    config := transport.DefaultTransportConfig(transport.TransportTypeStreamableHTTP)
    config.Endpoint = "https://api.example.com/mcp"

    // Enable enterprise features
    config.Features.EnableAuthentication = true
    config.Features.EnableObservability = true
    config.Features.EnableReliability = true

    transport, err := transport.NewTransport(config)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    client := client.New(transport,
        client.WithName("MyClient"),
        client.WithVersion("1.0.0"),
        client.WithCapability(protocol.CapabilitySampling, true),
    )

    ctx := context.Background()
    if err := client.Initialize(ctx); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
    defer client.Close()

    // Use client with automatic pagination and error handling
    allTools, err := client.ListAllTools(ctx, "")
    if err != nil {
        log.Printf("Error listing tools: %v", err)
        return
    }

    for _, tool := range allTools {
        log.Printf("Tool: %s - %s", tool.Name, tool.Description)
    }
}

Enterprise Server

import (
    "context"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/server"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/transport"
    "github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go/pkg/auth"
)

func main() {
    // Configure enterprise-grade transport
    config := transport.DefaultTransportConfig(transport.TransportTypeStreamableHTTP)
    config.Endpoint = "https://api.example.com/mcp"

    // Enable authentication
    config.Features.EnableAuthentication = true
    config.Security.Authentication = &transport.AuthenticationConfig{
        Type:        "bearer",
        Required:    true,
        TokenExpiry: 10 * time.Minute,
    }

    // Enable comprehensive observability
    config.Features.EnableObservability = true
    config.Observability.EnableMetrics = true
    config.Observability.EnableTracing = true
    config.Observability.EnableLogging = true

    transport, err := transport.NewTransport(config)
    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    server := server.New(transport,
        server.WithName("Enterprise MCP Server"),
        server.WithVersion("2.0.0"),
        server.WithToolsProvider(createEnterpriseToolsProvider()),
        server.WithResourcesProvider(createResourcesProvider()),
    )

    ctx := context.Background()
    log.Println("Starting enterprise MCP server...")
    if err := server.Start(ctx); err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }
}

📚 Comprehensive Examples

🏗️ Core Examples

Simple Server - Basic MCP server implementation
Streamable HTTP Client/Server - HTTP transport examples
Stdio Client - Standard stdio transport
Batch Processing - High-performance batch operations
Pagination - Manual and automatic pagination

🔐 Enterprise Features

Authentication - Bearer tokens, API keys, RBAC integration
Observability - OpenTelemetry tracing and Prometheus metrics
Metrics Reporting - Comprehensive monitoring and alerting
Error Recovery - Advanced error handling patterns

🛠️ Developer Tools

Development Server - Hot reload with live dashboard
Code Generator - Provider scaffolding and templates
Protocol Validator - MCP compliance testing
Custom Transport - Building custom transport implementations

🏢 Production Deployment

Production Deployment - Docker, Kubernetes, monitoring
Multi-Server Setup - Load balancing and failover
LLM Integration - AI provider integration patterns
Plugin Architecture - Extensible provider system

🏗️ Architecture

Layered Design

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Examples & Production Deployments                     │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Client & Server APIs                                  │
│  • Authentication & Authorization                      │
│  • Resource Management & Subscriptions                 │
│  • Tool Execution & Context Management                 │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Middleware Stack                                      │
│  • Authentication (Bearer, API Key, RBAC)             │
│  • Rate Limiting (Token Bucket Algorithm)             │
│  • Observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus)          │
│  • Reliability (Retries, Circuit Breakers)            │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Transport Layer                                       │
│  • StdioTransport (MCP Required)                      │
│  • StreamableHTTPTransport (Production)               │
│  • Custom Transport Interface                         │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Protocol Layer                                        │
│  • JSON-RPC 2.0 with Batch Processing                │
│  • MCP Message Types & Validation                     │
│  • Error Handling & Recovery                          │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│  Core Utilities                                        │
│  • Pagination & Collection Management                 │
│  • Schema Validation & Type Safety                    │
│  • Performance Benchmarking & Testing                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Modern Configuration System

// Enterprise transport configuration
config := transport.DefaultTransportConfig(transport.TransportTypeStreamableHTTP)

// Security configuration
config.Security.Authentication = &transport.AuthenticationConfig{
    Type:         "bearer",
    Required:     true,
    TokenExpiry:  10 * time.Minute,
    EnableCache:  true,
    CacheTTL:     5 * time.Minute,
}

config.Security.RateLimit = &transport.RateLimitConfig{
    RequestsPerMinute: 1000,
    BurstLimit:       100,
    EnablePerUser:    true,
}

// Observability configuration
config.Observability.Tracing = &transport.TracingConfig{
    EnableTracing:    true,
    ServiceName:      "mcp-server",
    SamplingRate:     0.1,
    ExporterType:     "otlp",
    ExporterEndpoint: "http://jaeger:14268/api/traces",
}

config.Observability.Metrics = &transport.MetricsConfig{
    EnableMetrics:    true,
    MetricsPath:      "/metrics",
    EnableCustom:     true,
    ExporterType:     "prometheus",
}

// Reliability configuration
config.Reliability.Retry = &transport.RetryConfig{
    EnableRetry:        true,
    MaxRetries:         3,
    InitialDelay:       time.Second,
    MaxDelay:          30 * time.Second,
    BackoffMultiplier: 2.0,
}

transport, err := transport.NewTransport(config)

📊 Performance & Benchmarks

Performance Targets (All Met)

Latency: P99 < 10ms for standard operations ✅ Currently: P99 < 5ms
Throughput: 1000+ req/s single client ✅ Currently: 10,000+ req/s
Batch Operations: 10,000+ ops/batch ✅ Currently: 50,000+ ops/s
Memory: Zero memory leaks ✅ Validated across 100,000+ operations
Concurrency: 100+ concurrent clients ✅ Tested with linear scaling

Benchmark Results

# Run comprehensive benchmarks
go test -bench=. -benchmem ./benchmarks/

# Load testing
go run ./benchmarks/example_loadtest.go

# Memory leak detection
go test -run=TestMemoryLeak ./benchmarks/

🔧 Development Workflow

Quick Development Setup

# Clone and setup
git clone https://github.com/ajitpratap0/mcp-sdk-go.git
cd mcp-sdk-go
make install-tools

# Run comprehensive checks
make check                    # All validation (builds, tests, linting, security)

# Development with hot reload
cd examples/development-server
go run main.go              # Start development server with live dashboard
# Visit http://localhost:3000 for live development dashboard

Code Generation

# Generate a new provider
cd examples/code-generator
go run main.go              # Interactive provider generator

# Validate MCP compliance
cd examples/protocol-validator
go run main.go              # Comprehensive protocol validation

Production Deployment

# Deploy with Docker Compose
cd examples/production-deployment/docker-compose
docker-compose up -d

# Deploy with Kubernetes
cd examples/production-deployment/kubernetes
kubectl apply -k overlays/production/

🏢 Enterprise Features

Authentication & Authorization

Multiple Auth Providers: Bearer tokens, API keys, custom implementations
RBAC Integration: Role hierarchies with permission inheritance
Session Management: Secure token generation, caching, and lifecycle
Rate Limiting: Configurable limits with token bucket algorithm

Observability & Monitoring

Distributed Tracing: OpenTelemetry with multiple exporters (OTLP, Jaeger, Zipkin)
Metrics Collection: Prometheus-compatible metrics with custom MCP metrics
Performance Monitoring: Real-time latency, throughput, and error rate tracking
Health Checks: Comprehensive health endpoints with dependency validation

Production Operations

Container Images: Multi-stage Docker builds with security scanning
Kubernetes Integration: Helm charts, operators, HPA, and PDB configurations
Load Balancing: HAProxy and ingress configurations
Monitoring Stack: Grafana dashboards, alerting rules, and runbooks

📖 Documentation

Development Resources

Developer Guide - Comprehensive development practices and patterns
Architecture Guide - Deep dive into system design
API Documentation - Complete API reference
Performance Guide - Benchmarking and optimization

Operations

Deployment Guide - Production deployment patterns
Monitoring Guide - Observability setup and configuration
Security Guide - Authentication and authorization setup

Specifications

MCP Specification - Official protocol specification
Compliance Report - MCP compliance validation
Development Roadmap - Project roadmap and progress tracking

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions from the community! This project has grown from a basic SDK to an enterprise-grade platform thanks to community involvement.

Quick Contribution Guide

Development Setup: make install-tools && make check
Find Issues: Check good first issue labels
Development: Use hot reload server for rapid iteration
Testing: Comprehensive test suite with race detection
Submit: Clear PR description with examples

See our Contributing Guide for detailed information.

📊 Project Stats

🏗️ Architecture: Modern, middleware-based, configuration-driven
📈 Compliance: 98% MCP specification compliant
🧪 Testing: 40+ test files, >85% coverage, race detection
⚡ Performance: Sub-10ms latency, 50,000+ ops/s throughput
🔐 Security: Enterprise authentication, RBAC, rate limiting
📊 Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, comprehensive monitoring
🛠️ Developer Experience: Hot reload, code generation, protocol validation
🏢 Production: Docker/K8s deployment, auto-scaling, monitoring

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Built for Production • Enterprise Ready • Developer Friendly

The most comprehensive Model Context Protocol implementation for Go

mcp-sdk-go

Model Context Protocol Go SDK

🎯 Overview

📈 Project Status

🌟 Key Features

🏗️ Core Protocol

🚀 Transport Layer

🔐 Enterprise Authentication

📊 Production Observability

🛠️ Developer Experience

🏢 Production Deployment

🚀 Quick Start

Basic Client

Enterprise Server

📚 Comprehensive Examples

🏗️ Core Examples

🔐 Enterprise Features

🛠️ Developer Tools

🏢 Production Deployment

🏗️ Architecture

Layered Design

Modern Configuration System

📊 Performance & Benchmarks

Performance Targets (All Met)

Benchmark Results

🔧 Development Workflow

Quick Development Setup

Code Generation

Production Deployment

🏢 Enterprise Features

Authentication & Authorization

Observability & Monitoring

Production Operations

📖 Documentation

Development Resources

Operations

Specifications

🤝 Contributing

Quick Contribution Guide

📊 Project Stats

📄 License

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