# django-rest-mcp

> MCP server for Django REST Framework — auto-discovers DRF views and exposes them as MCP tools

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## Observed
- status: unknown
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## Verification
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## Declared
- version: 0.2.4
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:django-rest-mcp

### Description (declared)

# django-rest-mcp

Turn the Django REST Framework API you already have into MCP tools, without rewriting a thing.

## Why

You have a DRF API. You want an MCP client (Claude, an agent, your own tooling) to call it.

The usual way is to hand-write an MCP tool for every endpoint, re-describe your
serializers as tool inputs, and re-check your permissions in a second place that
quietly drifts from the real API.

This package skips that. Point it at your existing DRF router and every ViewSet
action becomes an MCP tool, input types pulled straight from your serializers,
every call running through your real permissions and querysets. One source of
truth: your API. If `curl` can hit it, an MCP client can too.

It owns no models, no business logic, no views of its own. It is glue.

## What you get

Register a `BookViewSet` under `books` and an MCP client sees six tools:

```
books_list   books_retrieve   books_create   books_update   books_partial_update   books_destroy
```

For each one:

- **Typed inputs**, generated from the action's serializer, so the model knows
  exactly what fields to send.
- **Runs as the authenticated user**, so your `permission_classes`, OAuth
  scopes, object-level permissions, and `get_queryset()` filtering all apply
  unchanged.
- **Returns** whatever your API already returns.

## Install

```bash
pip install django-rest-mcp
```

Python 3.12+, Django 5.1+, DRF 3.14+, `mcp>=1.26`, `pydantic>=2`.

## How

You already have a router. Three lines:

```python
# myapp/urls.py
from django.urls import path
from drf_mcp import DRFMCP
from myapp.urls import router          # your existing DefaultRouter

mcp = DRFMCP("myapp")
mcp.autodiscover(router)

urlpatterns = [path("mcp/", mcp.as_view()), ...]
```

That exposes every standard action on every registered ViewSet. That's it.

### Pick what to expose

```python
mcp.autodiscover(router, include=["books"])       # only these basenames
mcp.autodiscover(router, exclude=["internal"])     # all but these

# or…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/django-rest-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T14:31:49.984Z)

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