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mcp-proxy
Bridge that exposes stdio MCP servers over HTTP/SSE, or vice versa. Run a local server remotely, or connect to a remote server as if it were local.
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mcp-proxy solves the transport mismatch problem in MCP. Most local MCP servers use stdio transport, but some clients (especially cloud-hosted ones) can only speak HTTP or SSE. mcp-proxy wraps either side: point it at a stdio server and it exposes an HTTP endpoint; point it at a remote HTTP server and it exposes a stdio interface for clients that expect one. It handles the session management, reconnection logic, and request correlation that you would otherwise have to write yourself. For anyone bridging between self-hosted local tooling and a cloud Claude/ChatGPT client, mcp-proxy is usually in the path.
mcp-proxy at a glance
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- Pricing
- Free and open source (MIT)
- Install
uv tool install mcp-proxypipx install mcp-proxydocker run --rm -t ghcr.io/sparfenyuk/mcp-proxy:v0.12.0 --help- Models
- A transport bridge, not a model runtime. It connects MCP clients such as Claude Desktop to a remote server over SSE or Streamable HTTP through a local stdio interface. In the other direction it exposes local stdio servers, including several named servers behind one proxy, over SSE or Streamable HTTP.
- Recent changes
- v0.13.0 adds Basic and Digest authentication for upstream connections, forwards pagination params in proxy list handlers, and caps the mcp dependency.
Sources: GitHub README, GitHub releases, LICENSE
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