The HTTP+SSE transport was replaced by Streamable HTTP in protocol revision 2025-03-26 (spec PR #206). The spec now refers to it as the "deprecated HTTP+SSE transport" and only documents it for backwards compatibility.

The Python SDK still exposes the SSE transport with no indication that it is deprecated.

Proposal

Add warnings.warn(..., DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2) and @deprecated docstring markers to:

• sse_client
• SseServerTransport
• MCPServer.run(transport="sse") / run_sse_async() / sse_app()

The warning should point users to streamable-http / StreamableHTTPTransport instead.

Prior art

The TypeScript SDK already marks SSEClientTransport as @deprecated with a note to prefer StreamableHTTPClientTransport.

Open questions

• Should we remove SSE entirely in v2, or deprecate now and remove in a later major?
• The 2024-11-05 spec is still technically valid — clients connecting to old servers may still need the SSE client. The deprecation message should acknowledge this (same as the TS SDK wording does).

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