rmcp is the official Rust implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a protocol designed for AI assistants to communicate with other services. This library can be used to build both servers that expose capabilities to AI assistants and clients that interact with such servers.
wait for the first release.
Creating a server with tools is simple using the #[tool] macro:
use rmcp::{
handler::server::router::tool::ToolRouter, model::*, tool, tool_handler, tool_router,
transport::stdio, ErrorData as McpError, ServiceExt,
};
use std::future::Future;
use std::sync::Arc;
use tokio::sync::Mutex;
#[derive(Clone)]
pub struct Counter {
counter: Arc<Mutex<i32>>,
tool_router: ToolRouter<Self>,
}
#[tool_router]
impl Counter {
fn new() -> Self {
Self {
counter: Arc::new(Mutex::new(0)),
tool_router: Self::tool_router(),
}
}
#[tool(description = "Increment the counter by 1")]
async fn increment(&self) -> Result<CallToolResult, McpError> {
let mut counter = self.counter.lock().await;
*counter += 1;
Ok(CallToolResult::success(vec![Content::text(
counter.to_string(),
)]))
}
#[tool(description = "Get the current counter value")]
async fn get(&self) -> Result<CallToolResult, McpError> {
let counter = self.counter.lock().await;
Ok(CallToolResult::success(vec![Content::text(
counter.to_string(),
)]))
}
}
// Implement the server handler
#[tool_handler]
impl rmcp::ServerHandler for Counter {
fn get_info(&self) -> ServerInfo {
ServerInfo {
instructions: Some("A simple counter that tallies the number of times the increment tool has been used".into()),
capabilities: ServerCapabilities::builder().enable_tools().build(),
..Default::default()
}
}
}
// Run the server
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
// Create and run the server with STDIO transport
let service = Counter::new().serve(stdio()).await.inspect_err(|e| {
println!("Error starting server: {}", e);
})?;
service.waiting().await?;
Ok(())
}Creating a client to interact with a server:
use rmcp::{
model::CallToolRequestParam,
service::ServiceExt,
transport::{TokioChildProcess, ConfigureCommandExt}
};
use tokio::process::Command;
#[tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
// Connect to a server running as a child process
let service = ()
.serve(TokioChildProcess::new(Command::new("uvx").configure(
|cmd| {
cmd.arg("mcp-server-git");
},
))?)
.await?;
// Get server information
let server_info = service.peer_info();
println!("Connected to server: {server_info:#?}");
// List available tools
let tools = service.list_tools(Default::default()).await?;
println!("Available tools: {tools:#?}");
// Call a tool
let result = service
.call_tool(CallToolRequestParam {
name: "increment".into(),
arguments: None,
})
.await?;
println!("Result: {result:#?}");
// Gracefully close the connection
service.cancel().await?;
Ok(())
}RMCP supports multiple transport mechanisms, each suited for different use cases:
Low-level interface for asynchronous read/write operations. This is the foundation for many other transports.
For working directly with I/O streams (tokio::io::AsyncRead and tokio::io::AsyncWrite).
Run MCP servers as child processes and communicate via standard I/O.
Example:
use rmcp::transport::TokioChildProcess;
use tokio::process::Command;
let transport = TokioChildProcess::new(Command::new("mcp-server"))?;
let service = client.serve(transport).await?;You can get the Peer struct from NotificationContext and RequestContext.
# use rmcp::{
# ServerHandler,
# model::{LoggingLevel, LoggingMessageNotificationParam, ProgressNotificationParam},
# service::{NotificationContext, RoleServer},
# };
# pub struct Handler;
impl ServerHandler for Handler {
async fn on_progress(
&self,
notification: ProgressNotificationParam,
context: NotificationContext<RoleServer>,
) {
let peer = context.peer;
let _ = peer
.notify_logging_message(LoggingMessageNotificationParam {
level: LoggingLevel::Info,
logger: None,
data: serde_json::json!({
"message": format!("Progress: {}", notification.progress),
}),
})
.await;
}
}For many cases you need to manage several service in a collection, you can call into_dyn to convert services into the same type.
let service = service.into_dyn();RMCP uses feature flags to control which components are included:
client: Enable client functionalityserver: Enable server functionality and the tool systemmacros: Enable the#[tool]macro (enabled by default)- Transport-specific features:
transport-async-rw: Async read/write supporttransport-io: I/O stream supporttransport-child-process: Child process supporttransport-streamable-http-client/transport-streamable-http-server: HTTP streaming (client agnostic, see [StreamableHttpClientTransport] for details)transport-streamable-http-client-reqwest: a defaultreqwestimplementation of the streamable http client
auth: OAuth2 authentication supportschemars: JSON Schema generation (for tool definitions)
transport-io: Server stdio transporttransport-child-process: Client stdio transporttransport-streamable-http-serverstreamable http server transporttransport-streamable-http-clientstreamable http client transport
Transport
The transport type must implemented [`Transport`] trait, which allow it send message concurrently and receive message sequentially. There are 2 pairs of standard transport types:| transport | client | server |
|---|---|---|
| std IO | [child_process::TokioChildProcess] |
[io::stdio] |
| streamable http | [streamable_http_client::StreamableHttpClientTransport] |
[streamable_http_server::session::create_session] |
IntoTransport trait
[IntoTransport] is a helper trait that implicitly convert a type into a transport type.
These types is automatically implemented [IntoTransport] trait
- A type that already implement both [
futures::Sink] and [futures::Stream] trait, or a tuple(Tx, Rx)whereTxis [futures::Sink] andRxis [futures::Stream]. - A type that implement both [
tokio::io::AsyncRead] and [tokio::io::AsyncWrite] trait. or a tuple(R, W)whereRis [tokio::io::AsyncRead] andWis [tokio::io::AsyncWrite]. - A type that implement Worker trait.
- A type that implement [
Transport] trait.
This project is licensed under the terms specified in the repository's LICENSE file.