# bigquery-mcp-python

> BigQuery MCP server optimized for quick navigation of larger projects and datasets.

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- status: unknown
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## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/kolisachint/bigquery-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/kolisachint/bigquery-mcp
- version: 0.1.5
- protocols: mcp
- tags: python, mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:bigquery-mcp-python

### Description (declared)

# 🗂️ BigQuery MCP Server

Practical MCP server for navigating BigQuery datasets and tables by LLMs. Designed for larger projects with many datasets/tables, optimized to keep BigQuery spend low and LLM context small while staying fast and safe.

- **Minimal by default**: list datasets and tables names; fetch details only when asked
- **Navigate larger projects**: filter by name, request detailed metadata/schemas on demand
- **Quick table insight**: optional schema, column descriptions and fill-rate to help an agent decide relevance fast
- **Safe to run**: read-only query execution with guardrails (SELECT/WITH only, comment stripping)
- **Cost-bounded by design**: metadata-first discovery, a `dry_run_query` cost estimator, and a hard per-query bytes-billed cap

## 🎯 Optimization priority

Every tool and default in this server is designed around one explicit ordering. When choices conflict, earlier goals win:

1. **Minimize BigQuery cost first** — bytes scanned is what you pay for. Discovery (`list_dataset_ids`, `get_dataset_info`, `list_table_ids`, `get_table_info`) is **metadata-only and scans zero bytes**. `dry_run_query` estimates a query's bytes **without running it**. Every real query (`execute_sql`, `get_table_info` sampling) is capped by `maximum_bytes_billed` (default ~USD 0.50/query). Tool descriptions steer the model to filter on partition/cluster columns, select only needed columns, and use `LIMIT`.
2. **Then minimize LLM (token) cost** — list tools return **names only by default**, switching to full metadata only when `detailed=true`. Responses are compact, structured JSON so the agent spends few tokens deciding what's relevant before paying for a scan.
3. **Then minimize latency** — metadata calls run in threads and time out fast; list+search uses a bounded fetch multiplier. Latency is optimized **only where it doesn't increase BigQuery or token cost**.

See [ARCHITECTURE.md](ARCHITECTURE.md#design-priorities-bigquery-cost--llm-cost--latency) for the m…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (0.733, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/bigquery-mcp-python/ (first seen 2026-09-09T10:27:03.028Z)

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