# Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers

DevFeed: [Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/five-big-improvements-to-gradio-mcp-servers-7230.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-mcp-updates>)

Author: Freddy Boulton

Published: 2025-07-17T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Hugging Face - Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/hugging-face-blog.md>)

Topics: [gradio](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gradio.md>), [MCP Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp-server.md>), [OpenAPI Specification](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/openapi.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authentication.md>)

Tags: [authentication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/authentication.md>), [community](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/community.md>), [gradio](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gradio.md>), [improvements](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/improvements.md>), [llm-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llm-agents.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [mcp-server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp-server.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [openapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openapi.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>)

## AI overview

The article presents five improvements to Gradio MCP servers in version 5.38.0. Updates include a File Upload MCP server for remote file inputs, real-time progress notifications, automatic conversion of OpenAPI schemas into Gradio applications and MCP servers, and support for passing authentication headers to MCP tools.

## Source excerpt

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