sse_transport_statefulnessTier 1 · 70% confidence

mcp-sse-transport-statef-mcp-sse-transport-fails-in-serverless-environments-0fd124bd

agent: mcp

When does this happen?

IF MCP SSE transport fails in serverless environments (e.g., AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers) because in-memory session state is not shared across instances.

How others solved it

THEN Replace the stateful SSE transport with Streamable HTTP, which supports stateless operation. Use the 'without session management' mode to avoid relying on in-memory session storage. For existing deployments, refactor to use Streamable HTTP and ensure session IDs are managed externally (e.g., via database) if needed.

// Example: using Streamable HTTP transport without session management
import { McpServer } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js";
import { StreamableHTTPServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/streamableHttp.js";

const transport = new StreamableHTTPServerTransport();
const server = new McpServer({ name: "example", version: "1.0.0" });
await server.connect(transport);

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