20 Python MCP tools worth knowing in 2026, from servers to security
MaryamMiradi · x · 2026-10-13
Dr. Maryam Miradi maps the 2026 Python MCP open-source ecosystem in five categories:
- Build MCP servers: MCP Python SDK, FastMCP, mcp-use, mcp-agent
- Connect to agents: OpenAI Agents SDK, PydanticAI, LangChain, CrewAI
- Gateways & routing: ContextForge, mcp-gateway, MCP Gateway, MCP Proxy for AWS
- Security & identity: MCP-Scan (tool poisoning/prompt injection scanning), MCP Auth (OAuth), MCP Safeguard, MCP Security Gateway Monitor (PII leakage)
- Testing & production: mcp-eval, Microsoft Agent Framework, AutoGen, MCP Registry Search
She notes production MCP means handling permissions, retries, timeouts and bad tool responses, and may benchmark FastMCP vs mcp-use vs mcp-agent next.
More from coding & agent
- Use your agent.ai email to sign up a Google account so your agent gets its own identity — RachelVT42 · 2026-10-13
- Rox trains an outbound reward model on seller edits: 5x faster, 30x cheaper than LLM judges, 1.75x reply rate — andrew_ilyas · 2026-10-13
- Developer says EU compliance turns AI coding agents into a 'EU token tax' — kevinkern · 2026-10-13
- Live talk: MinerU-Popo paper on fixing OCR's cross-page context failures — HamelHusain · 2026-10-13
- Amp coding agent adds GitHub Webhooks: PR reviews and CI results flow back into the same thread — HamelHusain · 2026-10-13
- Agents must be lawful by design: safety should live in the inference engine — rseroter · 2026-10-13