Patterns · Vol. 09

Pattern

MCP transports — stdio and Streamable HTTP

Choose how an MCP client and server exchange messages — stdio for a local subprocess, Streamable HTTP for a remote service — matching the transport to whether the server runs beside the client and whether it must serve multiple users.

Classification — MCP transport options: local stdio and remote Streamable HTTP.

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