django-stateless-mcp

A stateless Model Context Protocol server for Django, built on the 2026-07-28 spec. An MCP endpoint becomes an ordinary Django view — no sessions, no SSE, no sticky routing, and no dedicated single-process service.

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• Created by Ben Atkinson | GitHub @BenA-SA

• MIT License

Why stateless

Before 2026-07-28, MCP needed a persistent connection: elicitation held an open stream and a blocked worker, so a reply that round-robined to another worker failed. The 2026-07-28 spec makes MCP plain request/response HTTP — Django's home turf — and turns elicitation into a retry any instance can serve. That is the change this package is built on; see Why stateless for the full story.

Related MCP server: MCP Server

Usage

# myproject/mcp.py
from mcp.server.mcpserver import MCPServer

from django_stateless_mcp import request_state_security

server = MCPServer(
    name="my-server",
    version="1.0.0",
    request_state_security=request_state_security(),
)


@server.tool()
def add(a: int, b: int) -> int:
    """Add two integers."""
    return a + b

# urls.py
from django.urls import path

from django_stateless_mcp import mcp_view
from myproject.mcp import server

urlpatterns = [path("mcp/", mcp_view(server))]

That is the whole integration. The endpoint runs under both WSGI and ASGI.

What it provides

• mcp_view(server) — serve an MCPServer as a stateless streamable-HTTP Django view, optionally requiring OAuth bearer auth via a token_verifier.

• mcp.py autodiscovery — add django_stateless_mcp to INSTALLED_APPS and each app's mcp.py registers tools, like admin.py.

• request_state_security() — key the SDK's elicitation-resume encryption from SECRET_KEY, so elicitation survives a multi-worker deployment.

• django_request(ctx) — reach the authenticated Django request from inside a tool, with no global state.

• StructlogRequestLogger — optional flow-logging middleware.

Tool registration, elicitation, resources and prompts are the MCP SDK's own API; this package is the Django layer around it.

Supported versions

• Python 3.12–3.14

• Django 5.2 LTS and 6.0

• mcp 2.0.x

Each is exercised in CI, along with an advisory job tracking the SDK's git main.

Try it live

The repo ships a runnable example project. just demo-asgi starts it behind four worker processes; the example README walks through watching an elicitation started on one worker resume on another — the package's thesis, observable with curl or any MCP client.

Documentation

Full documentation, including a worked elicitation example and the design decisions behind the package, is at https://django-stateless-mcp.readthedocs.io/.

Development

git clone git@github.com:Streamlined-Analytics/django-stateless-mcp.git
cd django-stateless-mcp
uv sync

uv run pytest                        # quick run: locked Django
uvx --with tox-uv tox run -f py313   # the full matrix: Django 5.2 + 6.0
just qa                              # format, lint, type check, test
just conformance                     # the official MCP conformance suite

Author

django-stateless-mcp was created in 2026 by Ben Atkinson.

Started from the audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage template.