drama-mcp-service
Drama MCP Service
drama-mcp-service is the thin Host Protocol Adapter between an MCP host and
the independent Drama Plugin. The Plugin tool registry remains the only source
of tool names, descriptions, input schemas, handlers, and provider routing.
Local setup
Python 3.12 is required. From this directory:
python3.12 -m venv .venv
.venv/bin/pip install -e ../drama-plugin/plugin -e '.[dev]'The local Python interpreter may be supplied by the existing Plugin virtual
environment when python3.12 is not installed globally.
Local configuration
Runtime values live outside Git in two ownership-separated files:
~/.config/historical-plugin/mcp-host.env and
~/.config/historical-plugin/drama-plugin.env. Start the process with
../scripts/start-drama-mcp.sh; it validates and loads only those two files.
The MCP process must not load drama-service.env and starts normally without
database or object-storage variables.
Run the complete stack
Start Java Drama Service through
../scripts/start-drama-service.sh.Configure the corresponding Plugin provider credentials in
drama-plugin.env:DRAMA_PLUGIN_SERVICE_MEMORY_API_TOKEN,DRAMA_PLUGIN_SERVICE_ASSET_API_TOKEN, andDRAMA_PLUGIN_SERVICE_MEDIA_API_TOKEN.Set
DRAMA_PLUGIN_ROOTand/orDRAMA_PLUGIN_CONFIGinmcp-host.envwhen defaults are unsuitable.Run
../scripts/start-drama-mcp.sh.Point the MCP host at
http://127.0.0.1:8765/mcpand runtools/list.Call a canonical tool such as
work.list_works.
The checked-in Plugin Host configuration is
../drama-plugin/plugin/.mcp.json; it names the formal server drama-tools
and uses the URL above. Restart/reinstall the local Plugin snapshot after a
source checkout change because an already installed Codex cache will retain
its previous MCP server name until refreshed.
The MCP schemas never expose Java URLs, endpoint paths, or provider secrets.
The browser/frontend must never receive provider tokens. Unit tests use the
Plugin's default Mock/Local routing and require no Java or MySQL service.
New Plugin tools, including media.import_media and media.resolve_media, are
discovered automatically; this project contains no media-specific wrapper.
Verify
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -ra
.venv/bin/python -m mypy src/drama_mcp_serviceWith the full stack running, execute
.venv/bin/python integration/run_mcp_e2e.py. It is intentionally excluded
from regular pytest because it creates temporary E2E_B03_ cloud data.