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🎯 What is GoMCP?

GoMCP is a framework for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers — not just an SDK. Think of it as "Gin for MCP".

MCP is the open protocol that lets AI applications (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Kiro, VS Code Copilot) call external tools, read data sources, and use prompt templates. GoMCP makes building those servers trivial.

Why GoMCP?

mcp-go (mark3labs)

Official Go SDK

GoMCP

Level

SDK

SDK

Framework

Schema generation

Manual

jsonschema tag

Middleware

Basic hooks

None

Full chain (Logger, Auth, RateLimit, OTel…)

Tool groups

No

No

Import Gin routes

No

No

✅ One line

Import OpenAPI/Swagger

No

No

✅ One line

Import gRPC services

No

No

Built-in auth

No

No

Bearer, API Key, Basic + RBAC

Inspector UI

No

No

Test utilities

Basic

No

mcptest package


🛠️ Tech Stack

Environment Requirements

Requirement

Version

Go

≥ 1.25

MCP Protocol

2024-11-05 (backward compatible with 2025-11-25)

Core Dependencies

Technology

Description

Go standard library

Core framework — zero external dependencies

Gin

Adapter only — import existing Gin routes

gRPC

Adapter only — import gRPC services

OpenTelemetry

Optional — distributed tracing

YAML v3

Provider only — hot-reload tool definitions


🌟 Core Features

🔧 Tool Development

  • Struct-tag auto schema — define parameters with Go structs and mcp tags, JSON Schema generated automatically

  • Typed handlersfunc(*Context, Input) (Output, error) — no manual parameter parsing

  • Parameter validation — required, min/max, enum, pattern — checked before your handler runs

  • Component versioning — register multiple versions, clients call name@version

  • Async tasks — long-running tools return task ID, with polling and cancellation

🔌 Adapters (Core Differentiator)

  • Gin adapter — import existing Gin routes as MCP tools with one line

  • OpenAPI adapter — generate tools from Swagger/OpenAPI 3.x docs

  • gRPC adapter — import gRPC service methods as MCP tools

🔐 Security

  • BearerAuth — JWT token validation

  • APIKeyAuth — API key validation via header

  • BasicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication

  • RequireRole / RequirePermission — RBAC authorization on tool groups

🧩 Framework Features

  • Middleware chain — Logger, Recovery, RequestID, Timeout, RateLimit, OpenTelemetry

  • Tool groups — organize tools with prefixes and group-level middleware

  • Resource & Prompt — full MCP support including URI templates and parameterized prompts

  • Auto-completions — suggest values for prompt/resource arguments

🚀 Production Ready

  • Multiple transports — stdio (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Kiro) and Streamable HTTP with SSE

  • MCP Inspector — built-in web debug UI for browsing and testing tools

  • Hot-reload — load tool definitions from YAML files with file watching

  • mcptest package — in-memory client for unit testing with snapshot support


🏗️ Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                        User Code                             │
│   s.Tool() / s.ToolFunc() / s.Resource() / s.Prompt()        │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                     Framework Core                           │
│   Router → Middleware Chain → Validation → Handler → Result   │
├────────────┬─────────────┬───────────────┬───────────────────┤
│   Schema   │  Validator  │   Adapters    │  Observability    │
│  Generator │   Engine    │ Gin/OpenAPI/  │  OTel / Logger    │
│ (mcp tags) │ (auto)      │ gRPC          │  / Inspector      │
├────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────┴───────────────────┤
│                     Protocol Layer                           │
│          JSON-RPC 2.0 / MCP / Capability Negotiation         │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│                     Transport Layer                          │
│              stdio  /  Streamable HTTP + SSE                 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Project Structure

gomcp/
├── server.go              # Server core, tool/resource/prompt registration
├── context.go             # Request context with typed accessors
├── group.go               # Tool groups with prefix naming
├── middleware.go           # Middleware interface and chain execution
├── middleware_builtin.go   # Logger, Recovery, RequestID, Timeout, RateLimit
├── middleware_auth.go      # BearerAuth, APIKeyAuth, BasicAuth, RBAC
├── middleware_otel.go      # OpenTelemetry tracing
├── schema/                # struct tag → JSON Schema generator + validator
├── transport/             # stdio + Streamable HTTP
├── adapter/               # Gin, OpenAPI, gRPC adapters
├── mcptest/               # Testing utilities
├── task.go                # Async task support
├── completion.go          # Auto-completions
├── inspector.go           # Web debug UI
├── provider.go            # Hot-reload from YAML
└── examples/              # Working examples

📦 Installation

go get github.com/zhangpanda/gomcp

⚡ Quick Start

5 lines to a working MCP server

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/zhangpanda/gomcp"
)

type SearchInput struct {
    Query string `json:"query" mcp:"required,desc=Search keyword"`
    Limit int    `json:"limit" mcp:"default=10,min=1,max=100"`
}

type SearchResult struct {
    Items []string `json:"items"`
    Total int      `json:"total"`
}

func main() {
    s := gomcp.New("my-server", "1.0.0")

    s.ToolFunc("search", "Search documents by keyword", func(ctx *gomcp.Context, in SearchInput) (SearchResult, error) {
        items := []string{fmt.Sprintf("Result for %q", in.Query)}
        return SearchResult{Items: items, Total: len(items)}, nil
    })

    s.Stdio()
}

The SearchInput struct automatically generates this JSON Schema:

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": { "type": "string", "description": "Search keyword" },
    "limit": { "type": "integer", "default": 10, "minimum": 1, "maximum": 100 }
  },
  "required": ["query"]
}

Invalid parameters are rejected before your handler runs:

validation failed: query: required; limit: must be <= 100

📖 Usage Guide

Struct Tag Reference

Tag

Type

Description

Example

required

flag

Field must be provided

mcp:"required"

desc

string

Human-readable description

mcp:"desc=Search keyword"

default

any

Default value

mcp:"default=10"

min

number

Minimum value (inclusive)

mcp:"min=0"

max

number

Maximum value (inclusive)

mcp:"max=100"

enum

string

Pipe-separated allowed values

mcp:"enum=asc|desc"

pattern

string

Regex validation

mcp:"pattern=^[a-z]+$"

Combine: mcp:"required,desc=User email,pattern=^[^@]+@[^@]+$"

Supported types: string, int, float64, bool, []T, nested structs.

Tools

Simple handler:

s.Tool("hello", "Say hello", func(ctx *gomcp.Context) (*gomcp.CallToolResult, error) {
    return ctx.Text("Hello, " + ctx.String("name")), nil
})

Typed handler (recommended):

type Input struct {
    Name  string `json:"name"  mcp:"required,desc=User name"`
    Email string `json:"email" mcp:"required,pattern=^[^@]+@[^@]+$"`
}

s.ToolFunc("create_user", "Create user", func(ctx *gomcp.Context, in Input) (User, error) {
    return db.CreateUser(in.Name, in.Email)
})

Resources

// Static
s.Resource("config://app", "App config", func(ctx *gomcp.Context) (any, error) {
    return map[string]any{"version": "1.0"}, nil
})

// Dynamic URI template
s.ResourceTemplate("db://{table}/{id}", "DB record", func(ctx *gomcp.Context) (any, error) {
    return db.Find(ctx.String("table"), ctx.String("id")), nil
})

Prompts

s.Prompt("code_review", "Code review",
    []gomcp.PromptArgument{gomcp.PromptArg("language", "Language", true)},
    func(ctx *gomcp.Context) ([]gomcp.PromptMessage, error) {
        return []gomcp.PromptMessage{
            gomcp.UserMsg(fmt.Sprintf("Review this %s code for bugs.", ctx.String("language"))),
        }, nil
    },
)

Middleware

s.Use(gomcp.Logger())                              // Log tool name + duration
s.Use(gomcp.Recovery())                            // Recover from panics
s.Use(gomcp.RequestID())                           // Unique request ID
s.Use(gomcp.Timeout(10 * time.Second))             // Deadline enforcement
s.Use(gomcp.RateLimit(100))                        // 100 calls/minute
s.Use(gomcp.OpenTelemetry())                       // Distributed tracing
s.Use(gomcp.BearerAuth(tokenValidator))            // JWT auth
s.Use(gomcp.APIKeyAuth("X-API-Key", keyValidator)) // API key auth

Custom middleware:

func AuditLog() gomcp.Middleware {
    return func(ctx *gomcp.Context, next func() error) error {
        start := time.Now()
        err := next()
        log.Printf("tool=%s duration=%s err=%v", ctx.String("_tool_name"), time.Since(start), err)
        return err
    }
}

Tool Groups

user := s.Group("user", authMiddleware)
user.Tool("get", "Get user", getUser)              // → user.get
user.Tool("update", "Update user", updateUser)      // → user.update

admin := user.Group("admin", gomcp.RequireRole("admin"))
admin.Tool("delete", "Delete user", deleteUser)     // → user.admin.delete

Adapters

Gin — one line to import your existing API:

adapter.ImportGin(s, ginRouter, adapter.ImportOptions{
    IncludePaths: []string{"/api/v1/"},
})
// GET /api/v1/users/:id → Tool get_api_v1_users_by_id (id = required param)

OpenAPI — generate from Swagger docs:

adapter.ImportOpenAPI(s, "./swagger.yaml", adapter.OpenAPIOptions{
    TagFilter: []string{"pets"},
    ServerURL: "https://api.example.com",
})

gRPC:

adapter.ImportGRPC(s, grpcConn, adapter.GRPCOptions{
    Services: []string{"user.UserService"},
})

Component Versioning

s.ToolFunc("search", "v1", searchV1, gomcp.Version("1.0"))
s.ToolFunc("search", "v2 with embeddings", searchV2, gomcp.Version("2.0"))
// "search" → latest, "search@1.0" → exact version

Async Tasks

s.AsyncTool("report", "Generate report", func(ctx *gomcp.Context) (*gomcp.CallToolResult, error) {
    // long-running work
    return ctx.Text("done"), nil
})
// Client gets taskId immediately, polls tasks/get, can tasks/cancel

Hot-Reload

s.LoadDir("./tools/", gomcp.DirOptions{Watch: true})

MCP Inspector

s.Dev(":9090") // http://localhost:9090 — browse and test all tools

Testing

func TestSearch(t *testing.T) {
    c := mcptest.NewClient(t, setupServer())
    c.Initialize()

    result := c.CallTool("search", map[string]any{"query": "golang"})
    result.AssertNoError(t)
    result.AssertContains(t, "golang")

    mcptest.MatchSnapshot(t, "search_result", result)
}

Transports

s.Stdio()          // Claude Desktop, Cursor, Kiro
s.HTTP(":8080")    // Remote deployment with SSE
s.Handler()        // Embed in existing HTTP server

Use with AI Clients

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "my-server": {
      "command": "/path/to/your/binary"
    }
  }
}

Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Kiro, Windsurf, VS Code Copilot, and any MCP-compatible client.


📋 Roadmap

  • Core: Tool, Resource, Prompt with full MCP protocol support

  • Struct-tag auto schema generation + parameter validation

  • Middleware chain (Logger, Recovery, RateLimit, Timeout, RequestID)

  • Auth middleware (Bearer / API Key / Basic) + RBAC authorization

  • Tool groups with prefix naming and nested groups

  • stdio + Streamable HTTP transports with SSE notifications

  • Gin adapter — import existing Gin routes as MCP tools

  • OpenAPI adapter — generate tools from Swagger/OpenAPI docs

  • gRPC adapter — import gRPC services as MCP tools

  • OpenTelemetry integration

  • mcptest package with snapshot testing

  • Component versioning + deprecation

  • Async tasks with polling and cancellation

  • MCP Inspector web debug UI

  • Hot-reload provider from YAML

  • Auto-completions for prompt/resource arguments

  • MCP Client support (server-to-server calls)


🤝 Feedback & Support

💡 Recommended reading: How To Ask Questions The Smart Way


Copyright © 2026 GoMCP Contributors

Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Important Notes

  1. This project is open source and free for both personal and commercial use under the Apache 2.0 license.

  2. You must retain the copyright notice, license text, and any attribution notices in all copies or substantial portions of the software.

  3. The Apache 2.0 license includes an express grant of patent rights from contributors to users.

  4. Contributions to this project are licensed under the same Apache 2.0 license.

  5. Unauthorized removal of copyright notices may result in legal action.

Patent Notice

Certain features of this framework (struct-tag schema generation, HTTP-to-MCP automatic adapter, OpenAPI-to-MCP automatic adapter) are the subject of pending patent applications. The Apache 2.0 license grants you a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free patent license to use these features as part of this software.


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