MCP tooling explodes on PyPI: mcp-types up 425%, OpenHands doubles 4 months straight
rajistics · x · 2026-09-08
- ClickHouse's August ClickPy report: PyPI recorded 176.6B downloads, down 4.5% from July overall, but MCP and AI-agent tooling kept accelerating.
- mcp-types jumped from 11.7M to 61.3M monthly downloads (+425%), making MCP tooling a 60M-download dependency.
- OpenHands, the autonomous coding agent, grew from 1.11M to 2.52M downloads (+128%), doubling for four straight months.
- Other notable movers: google-cloud-parametermanager up 459%, skia-python up 2,312% (24x).
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