MCP Hangar

Parallel MCP tool execution. One interface. 50x faster.

The Problem

Your AI agent calls 5 tools sequentially. Each takes 200ms. That's 1 second of waiting.

Hangar runs them in parallel. 200ms total. Same results, 50x faster.

Quick Start

30 seconds to working MCP providers:

# Install, configure, and start - zero interaction
curl -sSL https://mcp-hangar.io/install.sh | bash && mcp-hangar init -y && mcp-hangar serve

That's it. Filesystem, fetch, and memory providers are now available to Claude.

What just happened?

1. Install - Downloaded and installed mcp-hangar via pip/uv
2. Init - Created ~/.config/mcp-hangar/config.yaml with starter providers
3. Serve - Started the MCP server (stdio mode for Claude Desktop)

The init -y flag uses sensible defaults:

• Detects available runtimes (uvx preferred, npx fallback)
• Configures starter bundle: filesystem, fetch, memory
• Updates Claude Desktop config automatically

Manual Setup

If you prefer step-by-step:

# 1. Install
pip install mcp-hangar
# or: uv pip install mcp-hangar

# 2. Initialize with wizard
mcp-hangar init

# 3. Start server
mcp-hangar serve

Custom Configuration

Create ~/.config/mcp-hangar/config.yaml:

providers:
  github:
    mode: subprocess
    command: [uvx, mcp-server-github]
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${GITHUB_TOKEN}
  slack:
    mode: subprocess
    command: [uvx, mcp-server-slack]
  internal-api:
    mode: remote
    endpoint: "http://localhost:8080"

Claude Desktop is auto-configured by mcp-hangar init. Manual setup:

Add to Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hangar": {
      "command": "mcp-hangar",
      "args": ["serve", "--config", "~/.config/mcp-hangar/config.yaml"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. Done.

One Interface

hangar_call([
    {"provider": "github", "tool": "search_repos", "arguments": {"query": "mcp"}},
    {"provider": "slack", "tool": "post_message", "arguments": {"channel": "#dev"}},
    {"provider": "internal-api", "tool": "get_status", "arguments": {}}
])

Single call. Parallel execution. All results returned together.

Benchmarks

Scenario	Sequential	Hangar	Speedup
15 tools, 2 providers	~20s	380ms	50x
50 concurrent requests	~15s	1.3s	10x
Cold start + batch	~5s	<500ms	10x

100% success rate. <10ms framework overhead.

Why It's Fast

Single-flight cold starts. When 10 parallel calls hit a cold provider, it initializes once — not 10 times.

Automatic concurrency. Configurable parallelism with backpressure. No thundering herd.

Provider pooling. Hot providers stay warm. Cold providers spin up on demand, shut down after idle TTL.

Production Ready

Lifecycle management. Lazy loading, health checks, automatic restart, graceful shutdown.

Circuit breaker. One failing provider doesn't kill your batch. Automatic isolation and recovery.

Observability. Correlation IDs across parallel calls. OpenTelemetry traces, Prometheus metrics.

Multi-provider. Subprocess, Docker, remote HTTP — mix them in a single batch call.

Configuration

providers:
  - id: fast-provider
    command: ["python", "fast.py"]
    idle_ttl_s: 300              # Shutdown after 5min idle
    health_check_interval_s: 60  # Check health every minute
    max_consecutive_failures: 3  # Circuit breaker threshold

  - id: docker-provider
    image: my-registry/mcp-server:latest
    network: bridge

  - id: remote-provider
    url: "https://api.example.com/mcp"

Works Everywhere

• Home lab: 2 providers, zero config complexity
• Team setup: Shared providers, Docker containers
• Enterprise: 50+ providers, observability stack, Kubernetes

Same API. Same reliability. Different scale.

Documentation

• Getting Started
• Configuration Reference
• Claude Code Integration
• Observability Setup

License

MIT — use it, fork it, ship it.

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