# Frisian MCP (Django) MCP Server

Your DRF API as MCP tools — 1,800 endpoints become 16 dispatchers, permissioned by Django.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://mcp.frisian-mcp.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "frisian-mcp-django": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.frisian-mcp.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**42 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Synthetic requests carry no URL resolver context, so URLPath and Namespace versioning silently resolve to the default version

## Summary

The synthetic request frisian-mcp builds carries **no URL resolver context** — no `resolver_match`, and no route kwargs. Two of DRF's four versioning schemes read exactly that context, so on a host using either, the version resolves to the scheme's `default_version` rather than the version the route would have selected.

This affects **discovery and dispatch equally**. It is a pre-existing structural limitation, not a regression.

> ⚠️ **Status: statically derived, not reproduced.** 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/77) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [Bug]: frisian_mcp_oauth.0003 cannot be applied on MySQL — UniqueConstraint is 3x over the index limit, blocking every MySQL host

## Summary

`frisian_mcp_oauth.0003_oauthauthorizeconsent` cannot be applied on MySQL:

```
MySQLdb.OperationalError: (1071, 'Specified key was too long; max key length is 3072 bytes')
```

**frisian-mcp therefore cannot be installed to completion on any MySQL-backed
Django host.** Found while installing into Open edX (Verawood, MySQL 8.4),
which is blocked outright.

## The cause, measured

```python
migrations.AddConstraint(
    model_name="oauthauthorizeconsent",
    constraint=models.UniqueC

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/72) · 2026-08-27 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### [Bug]: Dispatcher description counts the unfiltered route registry — a scoped caller can compute the size of the surface hidden from it

## Summary

Each group dispatcher's `description` in `tools/list` reads:

```
Group dispatcher for N tools across M resources. Use action='help' to discover them.
```

`N`/`M` are computed from the **route registry**. They honour the route's
`deny_list`, and they ignore **both** the route's tier ceiling and the calling
principal's permissions. `action="help"` — which renders the correctly filtered
set — therefore disagrees with the description on every scoped door.

Subtracting one from the othe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/71) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [Bug]: Validation errors are unusable by MCP clients — a schema-blind client cannot create a record

A schema-blind MCP client currently has **no legal path to a create**. Three behaviours combine; each is small on its own.

Found during live testing against a deployed host, but every part is general — no host-specific behaviour is involved.

## 1. The corrective detail is written to a field clients discard

`views.py` builds the validation failure as:

```python
_jsonrpc_error(request_id, INVALID_PARAMS, "Invalid arguments", str(exc))
```

`message` is the constant `"Invalid arguments"`. The t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/65) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [Feature]: Post-#62 cleanup — write-envelope restoration, true DRF status codes, and a test-infra correction

Small cleanup PR following #62. Deliberately scoped to be a short build, not another long-running effort.

## Scope

Three items. Two are contained code fixes; one is a two-line correction.

**Explicitly out of scope, and moved:**

- **`$defs`/`$ref` schema deduplication** — deferred to the 2.0 line. `$ref` is permitted only from protocol revision 2026-07-28; this server advertises 2025-11-25, so emitting it today would be out of contract on the revision it declares. Adopting 2026-07-28 removes 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/63) · 2026-08-22 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Add xfail tests characterising version resolution when the synthetic request has no route context

> **Good first issue.** Self-contained, no live host required, no design decisions. It walks you through both halves of how this package talks to a host application, and the deliverable is a small set of tests.

## What this is

#77 describes a limitation that has been **derived from source but never observed**: the synthetic request frisian-mcp builds carries no URL resolver context, so `URLPathVersioning` and `NamespaceVersioning` silently resolve to their `default_version` instead of the vers

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/79) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Version bumps happen in feature PRs, and the rule requiring it contradicts the changelog convention

## Summary

`CONTRIBUTING.md` instructs every contributor to bump the version in the same PR as their change, with a checklist item enforcing it. That rule is self-contradictory, it is the reason the version has drifted, and it puts release numbering in the hands of whoever merges next rather than whoever cuts the release.

## The rule contradicts itself

`CONTRIBUTING.md` currently says:

> Apply the bump that matches the change **in the same PR** — reviewers check for it.

> Any *non-feature* 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/78) · 2026-08-29 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### FRISIAN_MCP_TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT is missing from the canonical settings reference

## Summary

`FRISIAN_MCP_TRUSTED_PROXY_COUNT` is **absent from the canonical settings reference** in both documentation versions, while five package modules read it, eight install templates set it, and one of those modules **rejects a bad value at startup**.

An operator reading the reference to find out how to configure proxy trust will not find the setting that does it.

## Measured

```
docs/v1.0/Reference/installation-configuration-reference.md    0 occurrences
docs/v1.1/Reference/installati

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/76) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Synthetic requests discard the caller's origin and the ViewSet's field schema

## Summary

Three defects, in two places, with one root shape: **frisian-mcp builds a stand-in request
and gets it wrong.** In each case the stand-in is hand-assembled from a few attributes
rather than derived from something real, and each one silently degrades output the agent
depends on.

| # | Defect | Where | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | `SERVER_NAME` hardcoded to `localhost` | `backends/invocation.py` | ✅ **Fixed** — `9414d13` |
| 2 | Scheme permanently `http` | same lines | ✅ **Fixed**

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/74) · 2026-08-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [Bug]: OAuth tokens are not bound to a route — no RFC 8707 resource indicator or audience validation

## Problem

An OAuth access token is not bound to the route it was issued for, and nothing validates an audience when it is used. A token minted through one route's discovery flow is accepted at every other mounted route, clamped only by tier.

This is measurable today. On a three-route host, a `read_write` principal reaching the admin route's admin-only groups is stopped by the host application's object permissions — never by the gateway. The route boundary is currently enforced by host permiss

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/69) · 2026-08-25 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [Bug]: Redeeming a write continuation token reports total 0 when the created object has a single list-valued field

Redeeming the `continuation_token` from a successful create returns an envelope that says nothing was created.

Observed live:

```json
{"items": [], "page": 1, "page_size": 20, "total": 0, "has_more": false,
 "envelope": { ...the entire created object... },
 "envelope_payload_key": "tags"}
```

The created object is present, under `envelope`. But `items` is empty and `total` is `0`, so **a client reading the payload concludes the create did not happen.** The token redeems correctly; the shape o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/66) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### [Feature]: Ungrouped auto-discovered writes cannot use the lean envelope — redemption must be decoupled from the write tool's schema

Ungrouped auto-discovered writes lost the lean confirmation envelope in #62, and the obvious fix does not work. This issue records why, so the next attempt does not repeat it.

## The regression

#62 gated the flat write-path mint on `schema_discloses_continuation`, closing a real defect: an auto-discovered write was returning a lean envelope containing a `continuation_token` the published schema did not declare, so a schema-validating client could not legally send it back — and the written obje

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Frisian-MCP/frisian-mcp/issues/64) · 2026-08-23 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 19 reports Pod holds for Frisian MCP (Django)](/mcp/frisian-mcp-django/issues) — of 42 qualified upstream.

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