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MCP Swift SDK

Swift implementation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Requirements

  • Swift 6.0+ (Xcode 16+)

Supported Platforms

Platform Minimum Version
macOS 13.0+
iOS / Mac Catalyst 16.0+
watchOS 9.0+
tvOS 16.0+
visionOS 1.0+
Linux ✓ 1

Installation

Swift Package Manager

Add the following to your Package.swift file:

dependencies: [
    .package(url: "https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/swift-sdk.git", from: "0.7.1")
]

Usage

Basic Client Setup

import MCP

// Initialize the client
let client = Client(name: "MyApp", version: "1.0.0")

// Create a transport and connect
let transport = StdioTransport()
try await client.connect(transport: transport)

// Initialize the connection
let result = try await client.initialize()

Basic Server Setup

import MCP

// Initialize the server with capabilities
let server = Server(
    name: "MyServer", 
    version: "1.0.0",
    capabilities: .init(
        prompts: .init(),
        resources: .init(
            subscribe: true
        ),
        tools: .init()
    )
)

// Create transport and start server
let transport = StdioTransport()
try await server.start(transport: transport)

// Register method handlers
server.withMethodHandler(ReadResource.self) { params in
    // Handle resource read request
    let uri = params.uri
    let content = [Resource.Content.text("Example content")]
    return .init(contents: content)
}

// Register notification handlers
server.onNotification(ResourceUpdatedNotification.self) { message in
    // Handle resource update notification
}

// Stop the server when done
await server.stop()

Working with Tools

// List available tools
let tools = try await client.listTools()

// Call a tool
let (content, isError) = try await client.callTool(
    name: "example-tool", 
    arguments: ["key": "value"]
)

// Handle tool content
for item in content {
    switch item {
    case .text(let text):
        print(text)
    case .image(let data, let mimeType, let metadata):
        // Handle image data
    }
}

Working with Resources

// List available resources
let (resources, nextCursor) = try await client.listResources()

// Read a resource
let contents = try await client.readResource(uri: "resource://example")

// Subscribe to resource updates
try await client.subscribeToResource(uri: "resource://example")

// Handle resource updates
await client.onNotification(ResourceUpdatedNotification.self) { message in
    let uri = message.params.uri
    let content = message.params.content
    // Handle the update
}

Working with Prompts

// List available prompts
let (prompts, nextCursor) = try await client.listPrompts()

// Get a prompt with arguments
let (description, messages) = try await client.getPrompt(
    name: "example-prompt",
    arguments: ["key": "value"]
)

Changelog

This project follows Semantic Versioning. For pre-1.0 releases, minor version increments (0.X.0) may contain breaking changes.

For details about changes in each release, see the GitHub Releases page.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.


  1. Linux support requires glibc-based distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, or RHEL. Alpine Linux and other musl-based distributions are not supported. ↩︎