mcp-agent
A composable Python framework for building agents from MCP servers and simple workflow patterns.
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Python developers who want agents whose tools are MCP servers and whose control flow stays simple.
About mcp-agent
mcp-agent, from LastMile AI, builds agents on the premise that MCP plus simple patterns beats complex architectures. It fully implements MCP and manages server connection lifecycles, implements the patterns from Anthropic's Building Effective Agents in a composable way, and scales from simple agents to durable workflows on Temporal that can pause, resume and recover.
mcp-agent is listed in this index written primarily in Python, with 8.6k stars on GitHub. Its latest recorded repository push was in January 2026; that is not an ASE editorial review date.
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