MCP Client for Laravel

A Laravel client for the Model Context Protocol. It speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over both Streamable HTTP (2025-03-26) and STDIO, and exposes a single facade for listing and calling tools and reading resources. The HTTP transport content-negotiates with the server on every request, so you receive the final result whether the server replies with one JSON object or a stream of server-sent events.

Installation

Install the package via Composer:

composer require redberry/mcp-client-laravel

Then publish the configuration file:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="mcp-client-config"

This will create a config/mcp-client.php file in your application.

Configuration

The mcp-client.servers array maps a server name to its connection details. Each server uses one of two transports — HTTP for remote servers, STDIO for local subprocesses:

use Redberry\MCPClient\Enums\Transporters;

return [
    'servers' => [
        'github' => [
            'type'     => Transporters::HTTP,
            'base_url' => 'https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp',
            'token'    => env('GITHUB_API_TOKEN'),
            'timeout'  => 30,
        ],

        'memory' => [
            'type'    => Transporters::STDIO,
            'command' => ['npx', '-y', '@modelcontextprotocol/server-memory'],
            'cwd'     => base_path(),
        ],
    ],
];

HTTP Transport

The HTTP transport implements MCP's Streamable HTTP transport. On the first request, it performs the initialize handshake and captures the mcp-session-id for the rest of the session. If the server later signals that the session has expired with an HTTP 404, the client clears its session, re-handshakes, and retries the call once.

Key	Default	Description
base_url	—	The MCP endpoint URL.
token	null	Bearer token; sent as Authorization: Bearer {token} when present.
timeout	30	Connection timeout in seconds.
read_timeout	60	Maximum gap between SSE chunks before the parser aborts a wedged stream. The clock resets on every chunk. Set to null to disable.
max_session_retries	1	Automatic retries after a session-loss 404. Set to 0 to disable.
headers	[]	Additional headers merged into every request.
id_type	'int'	'int' or 'string'; controls how JSON-RPC ids are cast.

STDIO Transport

The STDIO transport launches the configured command as a subprocess and exchanges newline-delimited JSON-RPC over its standard streams. The subprocess starts lazily on the first call and is reused for every subsequent request.

Key	Default	Description
command	—	Array of command parts to launch.
cwd	null	Working directory for the subprocess.
env	null	Environment variables, merged on top of the parent environment.
inherit_env	true	When false, the subprocess receives only the keys listed in env.
request_timeout	30	Per-call wait for a JSON-RPC response, in seconds. Falls back to the legacy timeout key when only that is set.
process_timeout	null	Symfony Process kill timer, in seconds. Set this only if you need a hard upper bound on the subprocess lifetime.
startup_delay	100	Milliseconds to wait after Process::start() before sending the initialize handshake. Increase if a cold-start npx -y … is still booting when the handshake fires.
poll_interval	20	Milliseconds between reads of the subprocess output buffer.

Note. The STDIO transport does not work under php artisan serve. The built-in PHP development server tears down its worker between requests, which kills the long-running subprocess. Run your application via Octane, a queue worker, Sail, or Valet to use STDIO servers.

Connecting to a Server

Resolve the client and call connect with a server name from your configuration:

use Redberry\MCPClient\Facades\MCPClient;

$github = MCPClient::connect('github');

The container binds the client as a singleton and aliases the Redberry\MCPClient\Contracts\MCPClient interface to it, so the facade and dependency injection on the contract resolve the same instance:

use Redberry\MCPClient\Contracts\MCPClient;

class GithubToolService
{
    public function __construct(private MCPClient $client) {}

    public function tools()
    {
        return $this->client->connect('github')->tools();
    }
}

connect returns a per-server clone of the client, so you may hold handles to multiple servers at once without one routing through another:

$github = MCPClient::connect('github');
$memory = MCPClient::connect('memory');

$github->tools();
$memory->tools();

Repeated connect calls for the same server reuse a cached transporter, so the initialize handshake is paid once per server per root instance.

Listing Tools and Resources

The tools and resources methods return a Collection of associative arrays:

$tools = $github->tools();

$tools->all();                          // raw array
$tools->only('search', 'create_issue'); // by name
$tools->except('delete_repository');    // by name
$tools->map(fn ($tool) => $tool['name']);

The same Collection wraps both lists, but only and except know which key to filter on — name for tools and uri for resources.

Calling a Tool

Pass the tool name and an associative array of arguments. The method returns the decoded JSON-RPC result array:

$result = $github->callTool('create_issue', [
    'owner' => 'laravel',
    'repo'  => 'framework',
    'title' => 'Documentation feedback',
    'body'  => '…',
]);

Reading a Resource

Pass the URI of the resource. The method returns the decoded JSON-RPC result array:

$result = $github->readResource('file:///project/src/main.rs');

Streaming Events

Both callTool and readResource accept an optional callback as the last argument. When the server replies with an SSE stream, the callback is invoked for every decoded JSON-RPC message — progress notifications, log entries, partial results, and the final result-bearing one — as each arrives. The call still blocks until the final result is returned:

$result = $github->callTool('long_running_task', $args, function (array $event) {
    Log::info('mcp event', $event);
});

The callback is invoked zero times when the server replies with a single JSON object, so it is safe to pass unconditionally. Streaming is an HTTP-only concept; the callback is a no-op under the STDIO transport.

Custom Transports

The package ships with HTTP and STDIO transports, and the IO seam is a single interface — Redberry\MCPClient\Core\Transporters\Transporter. To add another, implement the interface, register a case on Redberry\MCPClient\Enums\Transporters, and add a match arm to TransporterFactory::make. See ARCHITECTURE.md and .claude/rules/transporters.md for the full contract.

Testing

composer test

Upgrading

Upgrading from 1.x to 2.x? See UPGRADE.md for the migration guide.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for the list of changes.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy before reporting a vulnerability.

Credits

• Nika Jorjoliani
• All Contributors

Built and maintained by Redberry, a Diamond-tier Laravel partner. We also run a 5-week AI agent PoC sprint for teams exploring agentic features in Laravel.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see LICENSE.md for more information.