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com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/commits?a... Many contributors to the python sdk continued to iterate on the mcp server implementation using the name fastmcp ( since it had been donated to the project ) resulting in growing interest: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=fastmcp%20&date=2024-12-... Then around April 2025, the author likely noticing the growing interest and stickyness of the name, decided to write a new version and start using the name fastmcp again. https://github.com/PrefectHQ/fastmcp/graphs/contributors?fro... The author clearly made an attempt to promote his effort: https://www.reddit.com/r/mcp/comments/1np6dwg/fastmcp_20_is_... This resulted in a lot of confusion by users, which persists to this day. I only looked into this last year, because i was one of those users who was suddenly confused regarding the provenance of what i was actually using vs what i thought i was using; and as i looked into it i was suddenly seeing lots of questionable reddit comments pop up in subreddits i was reading, all evangelizing fastmcp 2.0 and using language that was contributing to the confusion. The author's interest in monetizing the fastmcp github repo is understandable, and he and others have clearly put alot of effort into iterating in his SaaS onramp, but the confusion arises simply because the author wanted to capitalize on the success of mcp and on the popularity of the fastmcp name, the initial growth and popularity of which was primarily driven by the effort and support of contributors to the mcp python sdk .

e: 1. It was the fastest "time-to-capable" I've had on any software build. 2. It was fully "human-capable" in a way that I have not experienced with "agentic workflow" approaches... it just worked. 3. There are nuances to how you "architect" your tool signatures for best results. For example, I had to name one parameter html_code_mail_body to prevent Claude from using plaintext in mails. 4. It was better to make pure, highly cohesive and atomic tools and let the LLM combine them for more complicated tasks. 5. It was so easy to build, all companies are likely to launch official MCP servers eventually. Overall, I think MCP offers a stark alternative to the "agentic workflows" model. In a technical sense, each step in a workflow is highly coupled to its upstream/downstream counterpart. This makes them both rigid and fragile. That's the source of some of the "RPA smells" people talk about with workflow agents. MCP is classic dependency inversion. The llm becomes an abstraction that can self-orchestrate using any tool it wants, in any order, based on the task set for it.

n's docstring: https://github.com/jlowin/fastmcp/blob/998de22a6e76fc8ae323e...

and faster. If you're interested, I keep a repo with some of my experiments and samples as I'm learning this stuff. Feel free to poke around there and see if any of those examples help: https://github.com/mindcrime/MCPSandbox I've got FastMCP and "vanilla SDK" examples of sse server/client pairs, and a stdio based example mostly cribbed from the "quickstart guide". My next step is going to be to start working with the Java SDK, so some Java samples will probably show up there soon'ish. [1]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/tree/main... [2]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/blob/main... [3]: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/blob/main...