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Expand Up @@ -75,6 +75,22 @@ with streamable_http_mcp_client:
agent = Agent(tools=tools)
```

You can configure additional properties - like authentication and headers - when creating the `streamablehttp_client`. All configuration options from the [MCP Python SDK](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk) are supported:

```python
import os
from strands.tools.mcp.mcp_client import MCPClient
from mcp.client.streamable_http import streamablehttp_client

github_http_mcp_client = MCPClient(
lambda: streamablehttp_client(
url="https://api.githubcopilot.com/mcp/",
# Get pat token from here: https://github.com/settings/personal-access-tokens
headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.getenv('MCP_PAT')}"}
)
)
```

### 3. Server-Sent Events (SSE)

For HTTP-based MCP servers that use Server-Sent Events transport:
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