# Hugging Face — Five Big Improvements to Gradio MCP Servers

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2025-07-17T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Subject: Platform
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-mcp-updates
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1656-five-big-improvements-to-gradio-mcp-servers

Hugging Face announced five improvements to Gradio MCP servers as of version 5.38.0: seamless local file support via a File Upload MCP server, real-time progress notifications, one-line transformation of OpenAPI specs to MCP, authentication improvements with gr.Header, and customizable tool descriptions with api_description.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/gradio-mcp-updates:

> To that end, here are some of the big improvements we've added to Gradio MCP servers as of version 5.38.0.

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