Function stdio_server

src/mcp/server/stdio.py:33–77

Server transport for stdio: this communicates with an MCP client by reading from the current process' stdin and writing to stdout.

(stdin: anyio.AsyncFile[str] | None = None, stdout: anyio.AsyncFile[str] | None = None)

@asynccontextmanager
async def stdio_server(stdin: anyio.AsyncFile[str] | None = None, stdout: anyio.AsyncFile[str] | None = None):
    """Server transport for stdio: this communicates with an MCP client by reading
    from the current process' stdin and writing to stdout.
    """
    # Purposely not using context managers for these, as we don't want to close
    # standard process handles. Encoding of stdin/stdout as text streams on
    # python is platform-dependent (Windows is particularly problematic), so we
    # re-wrap the underlying binary stream to ensure UTF-8.
    if not stdin:
        stdin = anyio.wrap_file(TextIOWrapper(sys.stdin.buffer, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace"))
    if not stdout:
        stdout = anyio.wrap_file(TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding="utf-8"))

    read_stream_writer, read_stream = create_context_streams[SessionMessage | Exception](0)
    write_stream, write_stream_reader = create_context_streams[SessionMessage](0)

    async def stdin_reader():
        try:
            async with read_stream_writer:
                async for line in stdin:
                    try:
                        message = types.jsonrpc_message_adapter.validate_json(line, by_name=False)
                    except Exception as exc:
                        await read_stream_writer.send(exc)
                        continue

                    session_message = SessionMessage(message)
                    await read_stream_writer.send(session_message)
        except anyio.ClosedResourceError:  # pragma: no cover
            await anyio.lowlevel.checkpoint()

    async def stdout_writer():
        try:
            async with write_stream_reader:
                async for session_message in write_stream_reader:
                    json = session_message.message.model_dump_json(by_alias=True, exclude_unset=True)
                    await stdout.write(json + "\n")
                    await stdout.flush()
        except anyio.ClosedResourceError:  # pragma: no cover
            await anyio.lowlevel.checkpoint()

    async with anyio.create_task_group() as tg:
        tg.start_soon(stdin_reader)
        tg.start_soon(stdout_writer)
        yield read_stream, write_stream