Anyone tried to connect to Smithery MCP servers? Doesn't work for me

[InfraNodus]

I’m trying to use the MCP Client tool node in n8n to connect to an MCP server that is served from Smithery.

This server requires authentication, but that can be done using query parameters in the URL. So I paste the URL into the MCP client SSE field but nothing is working, the tool doesn’t seem to respond.

Anyone has an idea how to connect to it?

[jabbson]

I just tried and was able to connect and use one of the mcp servers:

I chose Echo Server | Smithery for tests as the most simple and not requiring additional resources.

I created an account, I got the url with keys:

Then I created a credential in n8n (use HTTP Streamable type), and finally:

and

[InfraNodus]

Great, thank you! It just happened that I was using the older version of n8n than you and as soon as I upgraded, it started to work. Probably their old MCP node didn’t support the streamable version.