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     new ffd77bc7465 CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - Spring AI engine 
for the MCP server bridge (#1871)
ffd77bc7465 is described below

commit ffd77bc74652b006aff9f67ddc055944f9155d44
Author: Federico Mariani <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Aug 5 10:45:16 2026 +0200

    CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - Spring AI engine for the MCP server 
bridge (#1871)
    
    * CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - Spring AI engine for the MCP 
server bridge
    
    Expose ai-tool routes as MCP tools on Spring Boot through the Spring AI
    2.x MCP server (CAMEL-24308):
    
    - Depends on camel-mcp-server-api (bridge + SPI) and
      spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc - NOT the camel-mcp-server Vert.x
      engine; Spring AI 2.0.0 pins the same MCP Java SDK (2.0.0) as camel.
    - SpringAiMcpServerEngine maps toolAdded/toolRemoved onto the
      auto-configured McpSyncServer (list_changed emitted by the SDK).
    - CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration with camel.mcp-server.* properties
      (enabled default true, tags opt-in, tool-timeout 20s); serving
      concerns are owned by spring.ai.mcp.server.* per the CAMEL-24311
      precedence rule; backs off without an McpSyncServer bean.
    - Tests: auto-configuration conditions + the engine conformance
      scenarios over WebMVC streamable HTTP with the official MCP SDK
      client (tag filtering, call success, sanitized errors, timeout,
      tools list following route stop/start).
    
    Requires the camel-mcp-server-api artifact from apache/camel PR #25306.
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
    
    * CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - richer usage docs and @McpTool 
coexistence
    
    - Usage docs: YAML DSL tool example with parameter types/enum/required,
      MCP client configuration examples (camel-openai agent + mcp.json),
      dynamic tools, error handling semantics, and a link to the Spring AI
      MCP server documentation for the spring.ai.mcp.server.* options.
    - Prove Spring-defined tools (@McpTool annotation) coexist with Camel
      ai-tool routes on the same MCP server; compile with -parameters so
      the annotation scanner derives proper input schemas in tests (Spring
      Boot applications inherit this from the boot parent).
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
    
    * CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - document serving over stdio
    
    Verified with a reproducer application over both transports: streamable
    HTTP on /mcp and stdio driven with JSON-RPC over stdin/stdout, both
    exposing the tag selected ai-tool routes and executing them.
    
    - Add a stdio section: swap spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc for
      spring-ai-starter-mcp-server, enable spring.ai.mcp.server.stdio and run
      as a non web application with console logging turned off, since stdout
      carries the MCP protocol
    - Correct the streamable HTTP note: spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol has to be
      set to STREAMABLE explicitly. Without it the autoconfiguration condition
      falls back to the SSE transport and nothing is served at /mcp, even
      though McpServerProperties defaults the field to STREAMABLE
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
    
    * CAMEL-24331: camel-mcp-server-starter - add a stdio transport test
    
    Drives the JSON-RPC conversation a stdio MCP client would have over
    stdin/stdout against in-memory pipes, so no process has to be spawned:
    initialize, the tag filtered tools/list and a tools/call of an ai-tool
    route. Everything below the transport bean is the production wiring.
    
    Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <[email protected]>
    
    ---------
    
    Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <[email protected]>
---
 .../camel-mcp-server-starter/pom.xml               |  92 ++++++++
 .../src/main/doc/intro.adoc                        |  14 ++
 .../src/main/doc/usage.adoc                        | 210 +++++++++++++++++
 .../src/main/docs/mcp-server.json                  |  35 +++
 .../server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration.java    |  63 +++++
 .../server/McpServerConfigurationProperties.java   |  69 ++++++
 .../mcp/server/SpringAiMcpServerEngine.java        | 107 +++++++++
 .../src/main/resources/META-INF/LICENSE.txt        | 203 ++++++++++++++++
 .../src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE.txt         |  11 +
 ...rk.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration.imports |  17 ++
 .../CamelMcpServerAutoConfigurationTest.java       |  74 ++++++
 .../mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest.java   | 145 ++++++++++++
 .../mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerTest.java        | 218 ++++++++++++++++++
 components-starter/pom.xml                         |   1 +
 docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc             |   1 +
 .../modules/ROOT/pages/starters/mcp-server.adoc    | 254 +++++++++++++++++++++
 tooling/camel-spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml     |   5 +
 17 files changed, 1519 insertions(+)

diff --git a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/pom.xml 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/pom.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93922ae05f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/pom.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!--
+
+    Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+    contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+    this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+    The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+    (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+    the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+    limitations under the License.
+
+-->
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"; 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd";>
+  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+  <parent>
+    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>components-starter</artifactId>
+    <version>4.22.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+  </parent>
+  <artifactId>camel-mcp-server-starter</artifactId>
+  <packaging>jar</packaging>
+  <name>Camel SB Starters :: MCP Server</name>
+  <description>Spring Boot Starter to expose ai-tool routes as MCP tools 
through the Spring AI MCP server</description>
+  <properties>
+    <!-- the Spring AI MCP server support requires Spring AI 2.x (Spring Boot 
4.1 baseline);
+             it pins the same MCP Java SDK version (2.0.0) that Apache Camel 
manages -->
+    <spring-ai-mcp-version>2.0.0</spring-ai-mcp-version>
+  </properties>
+  <dependencies>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
+      <version>${spring-boot-version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- the runtime-agnostic MCP bridge and engine SPI; the serving engine is 
provided
+             by Spring AI below (NOT the camel-mcp-server Vert.x engine) -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
+      <artifactId>camel-mcp-server-api</artifactId>
+      <version>${camel-version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc</artifactId>
+      <version>${spring-ai-mcp-version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <!-- test dependencies -->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+      <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
+      <version>${spring-boot-version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
+      <artifactId>camel-ai-tool</artifactId>
+      <version>${camel-version}</version>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
+      <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
+      <scope>test</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <!--START OF GENERATED CODE-->
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
+      <artifactId>camel-core-starter</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <!--END OF GENERATED CODE-->
+  </dependencies>
+  <build>
+    <plugins>
+      <!-- parameter names are needed by the Spring AI annotation scanner to 
derive @McpTool
+           input schemas in the tests (Spring Boot applications get this from 
the boot parent) -->
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <parameters>true</parameters>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
+    </plugins>
+  </build>
+</project>
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/intro.adoc 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/intro.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4af6d66884c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/intro.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+The MCP Server starter exposes Camel routes registered via the `ai-tool`
+component as tools of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, served through
+the Spring AI MCP server over streamable HTTP. No route is needed for the
+server itself: add the starter, tag the `ai-tool` routes to expose, and any
+MCP client (another Camel application, an IDE, a coding agent) can discover
+and call them.
+
+Tool semantics — tag-based opt-in (the untagged default pool is never
+exposed), flat-namespace collision refusal, per-call timeout and error
+sanitization — are owned by the runtime-agnostic `camel-mcp-server-api`
+bridge and are identical on every Camel runtime. Serving concerns (endpoint
+path, protocol, server identity, authentication) are owned by the Spring AI
+MCP server and configured via `spring.ai.mcp.server.*`; use
+`spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE` for the streamable HTTP transport.
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/usage.adoc 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/usage.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1eaa70ceae3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/doc/usage.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+Define tools as regular `ai-tool` routes and give them tags:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+from("ai-tool:query_db?tags=crm&description=Query customer database"
+     + "&parameter.customerId=string&parameter.customerId.required=true")
+    .to("jdbc:dataSource");
+----
+
+or in YAML DSL:
+
+[source,yaml]
+----
+- route:
+    from:
+      uri: "ai-tool:send_email"
+      parameters:
+        description: "Send email notification"
+        tags: "notify"
+        parameter.to: string
+        parameter.to.description: "Recipient address"
+        parameter.to.required: "true"
+        parameter.subject: string
+        parameter.priority: string
+        parameter.priority.enum: "low,normal,high"
+      steps:
+        - to: "smtp://mail.example.com"
+----
+
+Tool parameters are declared with the `parameter.NAME` options: the value is
+the JSON type (`string`, `integer`, `number`, `boolean`), and the
+`parameter.NAME.description`, `parameter.NAME.required` and
+`parameter.NAME.enum` options refine the generated JSON Schema. Arguments
+arrive as message headers in the route (`${header.customerId}`).
+
+Select the tags to expose in `application.properties`:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+camel.mcp-server.tags = crm,notify
+
+# per-call execution timeout (milliseconds, default 20000)
+camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout = 10000
+----
+
+The streamable HTTP transport has to be selected explicitly with
+`spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE`; when the property is not set,
+Spring AI serves the deprecated SSE transport instead and there is no
+endpoint at `/mcp`.
+
+Serving concerns are configured on the Spring AI MCP server — see the
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/mcp/mcp-streamable-http-server-boot-starter-docs.html[Spring
 AI MCP server documentation]
+for the full list of `spring.ai.mcp.server.*` options. For example:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol = STREAMABLE
+spring.ai.mcp.server.name = my-integration-app
+spring.ai.mcp.server.version = 1.0.0
+spring.ai.mcp.server.streamable-http.mcp-endpoint = /mcp
+----
+
+=== Connecting MCP clients
+
+Any MCP client can connect over streamable HTTP. Another Camel integration
+can consume the tools with the camel-openai MCP client and automatic tool
+execution:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+from("direct:agent")
+    .to("openai:chat-completion"
+        + "?model={{llm.model}}"
+        + "&autoToolExecution=true"
+        + "&mcpServer.myCamelTools.transportType=streamableHttp"
+        + "&mcpServer.myCamelTools.url=http://localhost:8080/mcp";);
+----
+
+A coding agent or IDE is configured with the same URL, e.g. in an
+`mcp.json`-style client configuration:
+
+[source,json]
+----
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "my-integration-app": {
+      "type": "http",
+      "url": "http://localhost:8080/mcp";
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
+
+=== Serving over stdio
+
+Out of the box the tools are served over streamable HTTP: the starter brings
+in `spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc`. MCP clients that launch the server
+as a subprocess speak over stdin/stdout instead, which Spring AI serves with
+the plain `spring-ai-starter-mcp-server`. Swap the transport starter:
+
+[source,xml]
+----
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>camel-mcp-server-starter</artifactId>
+    <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+    </exclusions>
+</dependency>
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
+    <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0.0</version>
+</dependency>
+----
+
+and enable the stdio transport:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+spring.ai.mcp.server.stdio = true
+spring.main.web-application-type = none
+spring.main.banner-mode = off
+
+# stdout carries the MCP protocol, so nothing else may be written to it
+logging.threshold.console = OFF
+logging.file.name = my-integration-app.log
+----
+
+Because stdout carries the MCP protocol, the application must not run as a
+web application, the banner has to be switched off and console logging has
+to be turned off — writing the log to a file instead. Leaving console
+logging on corrupts the protocol stream, as the Spring Boot startup log is
+then interleaved with the JSON-RPC messages.
+
+A stdio server is launched by the client instead of being connected to over
+a URL:
+
+[source,json]
+----
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "my-integration-app": {
+      "command": "java",
+      "args": ["-jar", "/path/to/my-integration-app-1.0.0.jar"]
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
+
+See the
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/mcp/mcp-server-boot-starter-docs.html[Spring
 AI MCP Server Boot Starter documentation]
+for the transport options and the full list of `spring.ai.mcp.server.*`
+properties. On Quarkus the equivalent setup is described in the
+https://docs.quarkiverse.io/quarkus-mcp-server/dev/getting-started-stdio.html[quarkus-mcp-server
 stdio guide].
+
+=== Mixing with Spring-defined tools
+
+Camel tools coexist with tools defined natively in Spring AI — both are
+served by the same MCP server and appear in the same `tools/list`. For
+example, a `@McpTool`-annotated bean:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+@Component
+public class CalculatorTools {
+
+    @McpTool(name = "add_numbers", description = "Add two numbers")
+    public String add(
+            @McpToolParam(description = "First addend", required = true) int a,
+            @McpToolParam(description = "Second addend", required = true) int 
b) {
+        return String.valueOf(a + b);
+    }
+}
+----
+
+is exposed alongside the `ai-tool` routes. Spring-defined tools are
+registered when the server is created; Camel tools are added and removed
+dynamically with the route lifecycle. Choose distinct tool names — MCP has a
+flat tool namespace.
+
+=== Dynamic tools
+
+The exposed tool list follows the route lifecycle: stopping or suspending an
+`ai-tool` route removes its tool, starting or resuming it publishes the tool
+again, and connected clients are notified via
+`notifications/tools/list_changed`:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+camelContext.getRouteController().stopRoute("query-db-route");   // tool 
disappears
+camelContext.getRouteController().startRoute("query-db-route");  // tool is 
back
+----
+
+=== Error handling
+
+Results returned to MCP clients are sanitized by the bridge: a route
+exception produces an `isError` result with the generic message
+`Tool execution failed` (the cause is logged server-side and never sent to
+the client), a missing or invalid argument returns the validation message,
+and a call exceeding `camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout` returns
+`Tool execution timed out` while the route keeps running until it completes
+on its own.
+
+On Camel Main and Camel JBang the equivalent setup is the `camel-mcp-server`
+module with the `camel.server.mcp-*` options; on Quarkus it is the
+`camel-quarkus-mcp-server` extension.
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/docs/mcp-server.json 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/docs/mcp-server.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ecb58231709
--- /dev/null
+++ b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/docs/mcp-server.json
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{
+  "groups": [
+    {
+      "name": "camel.mcp-server",
+      "type": 
"org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.McpServerConfigurationProperties",
+      "sourceType": 
"org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.McpServerConfigurationProperties"
+    }
+  ],
+  "properties": [
+    {
+      "name": "camel.mcp-server.enabled",
+      "type": "java.lang.Boolean",
+      "description": "Whether to expose ai-tool routes as MCP tools through 
the Spring AI MCP server. Enabled by default when the starter is on the 
classpath.",
+      "sourceType": 
"org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.McpServerConfigurationProperties",
+      "defaultValue": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "camel.mcp-server.tags",
+      "type": "java.lang.String",
+      "description": "Comma-separated list of ai-tool tags to expose as MCP 
tools. Only tools registered under one of these tags are exposed; the untagged 
default pool is never exposed. When not set, no tools are exposed.",
+      "sourceType": 
"org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.McpServerConfigurationProperties"
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout",
+      "type": "java.lang.Long",
+      "description": "Per-call tool execution timeout in milliseconds. A call 
exceeding the timeout returns an error result to the MCP client; the underlying 
route keeps running until it completes on its own.",
+      "sourceType": 
"org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.McpServerConfigurationProperties",
+      "defaultValue": 20000
+    }
+  ],
+  "hints": [],
+  "ignored": {
+    "properties": []
+  }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4c9c1bac7f2
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration.java
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.server.McpSyncServer;
+import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerBridge;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerConfiguration;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerEngine;
+import org.apache.camel.spring.boot.CamelAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnBean;
+import 
org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnMissingBean;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
+import 
org.springframework.boot.context.properties.EnableConfigurationProperties;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+
+/**
+ * Auto-configures the Camel MCP server bridge over the Spring AI MCP server: 
every ai-tool route whose tags match
+ * {@code camel.mcp-server.tags} is exposed as an MCP tool of the 
auto-configured {@link McpSyncServer}.
+ */
+@AutoConfiguration(after = CamelAutoConfiguration.class,
+                   afterName = 
"org.springframework.ai.mcp.server.common.autoconfigure.McpServerAutoConfiguration")
+@ConditionalOnBean(McpSyncServer.class)
+@ConditionalOnProperty(value = "camel.mcp-server.enabled", matchIfMissing = 
true)
+@EnableConfigurationProperties(McpServerConfigurationProperties.class)
+public class CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration {
+
+    @Bean(initMethod = "", destroyMethod = "")
+    // Camel handles the lifecycle of this bean
+    @ConditionalOnMissingBean(McpServerEngine.class)
+    McpServerEngine camelMcpServerEngine(McpSyncServer mcpSyncServer) {
+        return new SpringAiMcpServerEngine(mcpSyncServer);
+    }
+
+    @Bean(initMethod = "", destroyMethod = "")
+    // Camel handles the lifecycle of this bean
+    @ConditionalOnMissingBean(McpServerBridge.class)
+    McpServerBridge camelMcpServerBridge(
+            CamelContext camelContext, McpServerConfigurationProperties 
properties)
+            throws Exception {
+        McpServerConfiguration configuration = new McpServerConfiguration();
+        configuration.setTags(properties.getTags());
+        configuration.setToolTimeout(properties.getToolTimeout());
+        McpServerBridge bridge = new McpServerBridge(configuration);
+        camelContext.addService(bridge);
+        return bridge;
+    }
+}
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/McpServerConfigurationProperties.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/McpServerConfigurationProperties.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b5023fe62b4
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/McpServerConfigurationProperties.java
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.ConfigurationProperties;
+
+/**
+ * Bridge-owned configuration of the Camel MCP server. Serving concerns 
(endpoint path, protocol, server identity,
+ * authentication) are owned by the Spring AI MCP server and configured via 
{@code spring.ai.mcp.server.*}.
+ */
+@ConfigurationProperties(prefix = "camel.mcp-server")
+public class McpServerConfigurationProperties {
+
+    /**
+     * Whether to expose ai-tool routes as MCP tools through the Spring AI MCP 
server. Enabled by default when the
+     * starter is on the classpath.
+     */
+    private boolean enabled = true;
+
+    /**
+     * Comma-separated list of ai-tool tags to expose as MCP tools. Only tools 
registered under one of these tags are
+     * exposed; the untagged default pool is never exposed. When not set, no 
tools are exposed.
+     */
+    private String tags;
+
+    /**
+     * Per-call tool execution timeout in milliseconds. A call exceeding the 
timeout returns an error result to the MCP
+     * client; the underlying route keeps running until it completes on its 
own.
+     */
+    private long toolTimeout = 20000;
+
+    public boolean isEnabled() {
+        return enabled;
+    }
+
+    public void setEnabled(boolean enabled) {
+        this.enabled = enabled;
+    }
+
+    public String getTags() {
+        return tags;
+    }
+
+    public void setTags(String tags) {
+        this.tags = tags;
+    }
+
+    public long getToolTimeout() {
+        return toolTimeout;
+    }
+
+    public void setToolTimeout(long toolTimeout) {
+        this.toolTimeout = toolTimeout;
+    }
+}
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringAiMcpServerEngine.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringAiMcpServerEngine.java
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b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringAiMcpServerEngine.java
@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import java.util.Map;
+
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.json.McpJsonDefaults;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.json.McpJsonMapper;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.server.McpServerFeatures;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.server.McpSyncServer;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpSchema;
+import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerEngine;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerInfo;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerTool;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpToolCallResult;
+import org.apache.camel.support.service.ServiceSupport;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+/**
+ * {@link McpServerEngine} publishing tools into the Spring AI MCP server: 
{@code toolAdded}/{@code toolRemoved} map to
+ * the auto-configured {@link McpSyncServer}'s {@code addTool}/{@code 
removeTool}, which emit
+ * {@code notifications/tools/list_changed} to connected clients. Serving 
concerns (endpoint path, protocol, server
+ * identity, authentication) are owned by the Spring AI MCP server 
configuration ({@code spring.ai.mcp.server.*}).
+ */
+public class SpringAiMcpServerEngine extends ServiceSupport implements 
McpServerEngine {
+
+    private static final Logger LOG = 
LoggerFactory.getLogger(SpringAiMcpServerEngine.class);
+
+    private static final String EMPTY_OBJECT_SCHEMA = """
+            {
+              "type": "object",
+              "properties": {},
+              "additionalProperties": false
+            }
+            """;
+
+    private final McpSyncServer server;
+    private final McpJsonMapper jsonMapper = McpJsonDefaults.getMapper();
+    private CamelContext camelContext;
+
+    public SpringAiMcpServerEngine(McpSyncServer server) {
+        this.server = server;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public CamelContext getCamelContext() {
+        return camelContext;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void setCamelContext(CamelContext camelContext) {
+        this.camelContext = camelContext;
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void initialize(McpServerInfo info) {
+        // serving identity is owned by spring.ai.mcp.server.*; the hint is 
deliberately ignored
+        LOG.debug("Spring AI MCP server engine initialized; serving 
configuration is owned by spring.ai.mcp.server.*");
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void toolAdded(McpServerTool tool) {
+        String schema = tool.inputSchemaJson() != null ? 
tool.inputSchemaJson() : EMPTY_OBJECT_SCHEMA;
+        McpSchema.Tool mcpTool = McpSchema.Tool.builder(tool.name(), 
jsonMapper, schema)
+                .description(tool.description())
+                .build();
+        McpServerFeatures.SyncToolSpecification spec = 
McpServerFeatures.SyncToolSpecification.builder()
+                .tool(mcpTool)
+                .callHandler((exchange, request) -> {
+                    Map<String, Object> arguments = request.arguments() != 
null ? request.arguments() : Map.of();
+                    McpToolCallResult result = tool.handler().call(arguments);
+                    return McpSchema.CallToolResult.builder()
+                            .addTextContent(result.text())
+                            .isError(result.isError())
+                            .build();
+                })
+                .build();
+        server.addTool(spec);
+        LOG.debug("MCP tool added: {}", tool.name());
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public void toolRemoved(String toolName) {
+        try {
+            server.removeTool(toolName);
+            LOG.debug("MCP tool removed: {}", toolName);
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            LOG.debug("Failed to remove MCP tool {}: {}", toolName, 
e.getMessage());
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration.imports
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration.imports
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b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfiguration.imports
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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+## See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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+org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server.CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfigurationTest.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfigurationTest.java
new file mode 100644
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b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/CamelMcpServerAutoConfigurationTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.server.McpSyncServer;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerBridge;
+import org.apache.camel.component.mcp.server.McpServerEngine;
+import org.apache.camel.spring.boot.CamelAutoConfiguration;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.mockito.Mockito;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.AutoConfigurations;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.runner.ApplicationContextRunner;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+class CamelMcpServerAutoConfigurationTest {
+
+    private final ApplicationContextRunner runner = new 
ApplicationContextRunner()
+            
.withConfiguration(AutoConfigurations.of(CamelAutoConfiguration.class, 
CamelMcpServerAutoConfiguration.class))
+            .withPropertyValues("spring.main.banner-mode=off");
+
+    @Configuration
+    static class McpSyncServerConfiguration {
+        @Bean
+        McpSyncServer mcpSyncServer() {
+            return Mockito.mock(McpSyncServer.class);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testBridgeAndEngineConfiguredByDefault() {
+        runner.withUserConfiguration(McpSyncServerConfiguration.class)
+                .withPropertyValues("camel.mcp-server.tags=crm")
+                .run(context -> {
+                    assertThat(context).hasSingleBean(McpServerEngine.class);
+                    assertThat(context).hasSingleBean(McpServerBridge.class);
+                    
assertThat(context.getBean(McpServerBridge.class).getConfiguration().getTags()).isEqualTo("crm");
+                });
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testDisabledProperty() {
+        runner.withUserConfiguration(McpSyncServerConfiguration.class)
+                .withPropertyValues("camel.mcp-server.enabled=false")
+                .run(context -> {
+                    assertThat(context).doesNotHaveBean(McpServerEngine.class);
+                    assertThat(context).doesNotHaveBean(McpServerBridge.class);
+                });
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testBacksOffWithoutMcpSyncServer() {
+        runner.run(context -> {
+            assertThat(context).doesNotHaveBean(McpServerEngine.class);
+            assertThat(context).doesNotHaveBean(McpServerBridge.class);
+        });
+    }
+}
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest.java
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b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.PipedInputStream;
+import java.io.PipedOutputStream;
+
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.json.McpJsonDefaults;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.server.transport.StdioServerTransportProvider;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpServerTransportProviderBase;
+import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
+import org.apache.camel.test.spring.junit6.CamelSpringBootTest;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import 
org.springframework.ai.mcp.server.webmvc.autoconfigure.McpServerSseWebMvcAutoConfiguration;
+import 
org.springframework.ai.mcp.server.webmvc.autoconfigure.McpServerStatelessWebMvcAutoConfiguration;
+import 
org.springframework.ai.mcp.server.webmvc.autoconfigure.McpServerStreamableHttpWebMvcAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+
+/**
+ * Serves the same {@code ai-tool} routes over the stdio transport instead of 
streamable HTTP.
+ * <p>
+ * The transport provider is fed with in-memory pipes rather than the real 
{@code System.in} / {@code System.out}, so
+ * the JSON-RPC conversation a stdio MCP client would have with the 
application can be driven from the test without
+ * spawning a process. Supplying the bean also replaces the one the Spring AI 
auto-configuration would create for
+ * {@code spring.ai.mcp.server.stdio=true} (it is annotated with {@code 
@ConditionalOnMissingBean}); everything below
+ * that bean — the MCP server, this starter's engine and the Camel bridge — is 
the production wiring.
+ */
+// a stdio application does not depend on spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc 
at all; the test classpath has it, so
+// its transports are excluded here to leave the stdio one as the only MCP 
server transport
+@EnableAutoConfiguration(exclude = {
+        McpServerSseWebMvcAutoConfiguration.class,
+        McpServerStreamableHttpWebMvcAutoConfiguration.class,
+        McpServerStatelessWebMvcAutoConfiguration.class })
+@CamelSpringBootTest
+@SpringBootTest(
+                webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.NONE,
+                classes = { 
SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest.TestConfiguration.class },
+                properties = {
+                        "spring.main.banner-mode=off",
+                        "camel.mcp-server.tags=stdio-conformance",
+                        "camel.springboot.main-run-controller=false" })
+public class SpringBootMcpServerStdioTest {
+
+    private static final PipedOutputStream TO_SERVER;
+    private static final PipedInputStream SERVER_IN;
+    private static final PipedOutputStream SERVER_OUT;
+    private static final BufferedReader FROM_SERVER;
+
+    static {
+        try {
+            TO_SERVER = new PipedOutputStream();
+            SERVER_IN = new PipedInputStream(TO_SERVER);
+            SERVER_OUT = new PipedOutputStream();
+            FROM_SERVER = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new 
PipedInputStream(SERVER_OUT), UTF_8));
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void toolsAreServedOverStdio() throws Exception {
+        
send("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":1,\"method\":\"initialize\",\"params\":{\"protocolVersion\":\"2024-11-05\","
+             + 
"\"capabilities\":{},\"clientInfo\":{\"name\":\"test\",\"version\":\"1\"}}}");
+        assertThat(responseWith("\"id\":1")).contains("\"protocolVersion\"");
+
+        send("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"method\":\"notifications/initialized\"}");
+
+        // only the selected tag is exposed
+        send("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":2,\"method\":\"tools/list\"}");
+        assertThat(responseWith("\"id\":2"))
+                .contains("say_hello")
+                .doesNotContain("hidden_tool");
+
+        send("{\"jsonrpc\":\"2.0\",\"id\":3,\"method\":\"tools/call\","
+             + 
"\"params\":{\"name\":\"say_hello\",\"arguments\":{\"name\":\"World\"}}}");
+        assertThat(responseWith("\"id\":3")).contains("Hello World");
+    }
+
+    private static void send(String message) throws IOException {
+        TO_SERVER.write((message + "\n").getBytes(UTF_8));
+        TO_SERVER.flush();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads server output until the response carrying the given id shows up, 
skipping the notifications the server
+     * emits on its own (such as {@code notifications/tools/list_changed}).
+     */
+    private static String responseWith(String id) throws IOException {
+        for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) {
+            String line = FROM_SERVER.readLine();
+            if (line != null && line.contains(id)) {
+                return line;
+            }
+        }
+        throw new AssertionError("No response containing " + id + " was 
received over stdio");
+    }
+
+    @Configuration
+    static class TestConfiguration {
+
+        @Bean
+        McpServerTransportProviderBase stdioServerTransport() {
+            return new 
StdioServerTransportProvider(McpJsonDefaults.getMapper(), SERVER_IN, 
SERVER_OUT);
+        }
+
+        @Bean
+        RouteBuilder stdioRoutes() {
+            return new RouteBuilder() {
+                @Override
+                public void configure() {
+                    
from("ai-tool:say_hello?tags=stdio-conformance&description=Say hello"
+                         + 
"&parameter.name=string&parameter.name.description=Who to greet"
+                         + "&parameter.name.required=true")
+                            .setBody(simple("Hello ${header.name}"));
+
+                    from("ai-tool:hidden_tool?description=Untagged tool, must 
not be exposed")
+                            .setBody(constant("hidden"));
+                }
+            };
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git 
a/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerTest.java
 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d240924a0bc
--- /dev/null
+++ 
b/components-starter/camel-mcp-server-starter/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/springboot/mcp/server/SpringBootMcpServerTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,218 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.camel.springboot.mcp.server;
+
+import java.time.Duration;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.client.McpClient;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.client.McpSyncClient;
+import 
io.modelcontextprotocol.client.transport.HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport;
+import io.modelcontextprotocol.spec.McpSchema;
+import org.apache.camel.CamelContext;
+import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder;
+import org.apache.camel.test.spring.junit6.CamelSpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpTool;
+import org.springframework.ai.mcp.annotation.McpToolParam;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
+import org.springframework.boot.test.web.server.LocalServerPort;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.awaitility.Awaitility.await;
+
+/**
+ * The engine conformance scenarios (CAMEL-24313) against the Spring AI MCP 
server engine, driven by the official MCP
+ * SDK client over streamable HTTP. Mirrors {@code 
McpServerConformanceTestSupport} from camel-mcp-server-api, which
+ * cannot be reused as-is here because it manages its own CamelContext outside 
Spring Boot.
+ */
+@EnableAutoConfiguration
+@CamelSpringBootTest
+@SpringBootTest(
+                webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT,
+                // the auto-configurations (Camel, Spring AI MCP server, this 
starter) are activated by
+                // @EnableAutoConfiguration so their ordering and 
@ConditionalOnBean conditions apply
+                classes = { SpringBootMcpServerTest.TestConfiguration.class },
+                properties = {
+                        "spring.main.banner-mode=off",
+                        "spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE",
+                        "camel.mcp-server.tags=conformance",
+                        "camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout=2000",
+                        "camel.springboot.main-run-controller=false" })
+public class SpringBootMcpServerTest {
+
+    @LocalServerPort
+    private int port;
+
+    @Autowired
+    private CamelContext camelContext;
+
+    private McpSyncClient client;
+
+    /**
+     * A plain Spring-defined MCP tool ({@code @McpTool} annotation, 
registered by the Spring AI annotation scanner)
+     * living on the same MCP server as the Camel ai-tool routes.
+     */
+    public static class SpringDefinedTools {
+        @McpTool(name = "add_numbers", description = "Add two numbers")
+        public String add(
+                @McpToolParam(description = "First addend", required = true) 
int a,
+                @McpToolParam(description = "Second addend", required = true) 
int b) {
+            return String.valueOf(a + b);
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Configuration
+    public static class TestConfiguration {
+        @Bean
+        public SpringDefinedTools springDefinedTools() {
+            return new SpringDefinedTools();
+        }
+
+        @Bean
+        public RouteBuilder routes() {
+            return new RouteBuilder() {
+                @Override
+                public void configure() {
+                    from("ai-tool:say_hello?tags=conformance&description=Say 
hello"
+                         + 
"&parameter.name=string&parameter.name.required=true")
+                            .routeId("say-hello-route")
+                            .setBody(simple("Hello ${header.name}"));
+
+                    
from("ai-tool:fail_tool?tags=conformance&description=Always fails")
+                            .process(e -> {
+                                throw new IllegalStateException("secret 
internal detail");
+                            });
+
+                    
from("ai-tool:slow_tool?tags=conformance&description=Exceeds the tool timeout")
+                            .delay(6000)
+                            .setBody(constant("done"));
+
+                    from("ai-tool:hidden_tool?description=Untagged tool, must 
not be exposed")
+                            .setBody(constant("hidden"));
+
+                    from("ai-tool:other_tool?tags=untrusted&description=Not a 
selected tag, must not be exposed")
+                            .setBody(constant("other"));
+                }
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    private McpSyncClient client() {
+        if (client == null) {
+            client = McpClient
+                    
.sync(HttpClientStreamableHttpTransport.builder("http://localhost:"; + 
port).build())
+                    .requestTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
+                    .initializationTimeout(Duration.ofSeconds(10))
+                    .build();
+            client.initialize();
+        }
+        return client;
+    }
+
+    @AfterEach
+    void closeClient() {
+        if (client != null) {
+            client.closeGracefully();
+            client = null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testListToolsExposesOnlySelectedTags() {
+        List<McpSchema.Tool> tools = client().listTools().tools();
+
+        assertThat(tools).extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name)
+                .contains("say_hello", "fail_tool", "slow_tool")
+                .doesNotContain("hidden_tool", "other_tool");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testSpringAnnotatedToolsCoexistWithCamelTools() {
+        // both tool sources are served by the same MCP server
+        
assertThat(client().listTools().tools()).extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name)
+                .contains("add_numbers", "say_hello");
+
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result
+                = client().callTool(new 
McpSchema.CallToolRequest("add_numbers", Map.of("a", 17, "b", 25)));
+        
assertThat(result.isError()).as(textOf(result)).isNotEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
+        assertThat(textOf(result)).isEqualTo("42");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testCallToolSuccess() {
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result
+                = client().callTool(new McpSchema.CallToolRequest("say_hello", 
Map.of("name", "World")));
+
+        assertThat(result.isError()).isNotEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
+        assertThat(textOf(result)).isEqualTo("Hello World");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testCallToolMissingRequiredArgument() {
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result = client().callTool(new 
McpSchema.CallToolRequest("say_hello", Map.of()));
+
+        assertThat(result.isError()).isEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
+        assertThat(textOf(result)).contains("name");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testCallToolExecutionErrorIsSanitized() {
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result = client().callTool(new 
McpSchema.CallToolRequest("fail_tool", Map.of()));
+
+        assertThat(result.isError()).isEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
+        assertThat(textOf(result))
+                .doesNotContain("secret internal detail")
+                .isEqualTo("Tool execution failed");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testCallToolTimeout() {
+        McpSchema.CallToolResult result = client().callTool(new 
McpSchema.CallToolRequest("slow_tool", Map.of()));
+
+        assertThat(result.isError()).isEqualTo(Boolean.TRUE);
+        assertThat(textOf(result)).contains("timed out");
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void testToolsListReflectsRouteStopAndStart() throws Exception {
+        
assertThat(client().listTools().tools()).extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name).contains("say_hello");
+
+        camelContext.getRouteController().stopRoute("say-hello-route");
+        await().atMost(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> 
assertThat(client().listTools().tools())
+                .extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name).doesNotContain("say_hello"));
+
+        camelContext.getRouteController().startRoute("say-hello-route");
+        await().atMost(10, TimeUnit.SECONDS).untilAsserted(() -> 
assertThat(client().listTools().tools())
+                .extracting(McpSchema.Tool::name).contains("say_hello"));
+    }
+
+    private static String textOf(McpSchema.CallToolResult result) {
+        return result.content().stream()
+                .filter(McpSchema.TextContent.class::isInstance)
+                .map(c -> ((McpSchema.TextContent) c).text())
+                .collect(Collectors.joining());
+    }
+}
diff --git a/components-starter/pom.xml b/components-starter/pom.xml
index a13317f572e..d058ccd3b58 100644
--- a/components-starter/pom.xml
+++ b/components-starter/pom.xml
@@ -362,6 +362,7 @@
     <module>camel-management-starter</module>
     <module>camel-mapstruct-starter</module>
     <module>camel-master-starter</module>
+    <module>camel-mcp-server-starter</module>
     <module>camel-mdc-starter</module>
     <module>camel-metrics-starter</module>
     <module>camel-micrometer-observability-starter</module>
diff --git a/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc 
b/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc
index a4cdf931e8b..9594299d575 100644
--- a/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc
+++ b/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/nav.adoc
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@
 ** xref:starters/management.adoc[Management]
 ** xref:starters/mapstruct.adoc[MapStruct]
 ** xref:starters/master.adoc[Master]
+** xref:starters/mcp-server.adoc[Mcp Server]
 ** xref:starters/mdc.adoc[Mdc]
 ** xref:starters/metrics.adoc[Metrics]
 ** xref:starters/micrometer-observability.adoc[Micrometer Observability]
diff --git a/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/pages/starters/mcp-server.adoc 
b/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/pages/starters/mcp-server.adoc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bd465cb2b0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/spring-boot/modules/ROOT/pages/starters/mcp-server.adoc
@@ -0,0 +1,254 @@
+// Do not edit directly!
+// This file was generated by camel-spring-boot-generator-maven-plugin
+= Mcp Server
+:artifactid: camel-mcp-server-starter
+
+The MCP Server starter exposes Camel routes registered via the `ai-tool`
+component as tools of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, served through
+the Spring AI MCP server over streamable HTTP. No route is needed for the
+server itself: add the starter, tag the `ai-tool` routes to expose, and any
+MCP client (another Camel application, an IDE, a coding agent) can discover
+and call them.
+
+Tool semantics — tag-based opt-in (the untagged default pool is never
+exposed), flat-namespace collision refusal, per-call timeout and error
+sanitization — are owned by the runtime-agnostic `camel-mcp-server-api`
+bridge and are identical on every Camel runtime. Serving concerns (endpoint
+path, protocol, server identity, authentication) are owned by the Spring AI
+MCP server and configured via `spring.ai.mcp.server.*`; use
+`spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE` for the streamable HTTP transport.
+
+== Maven coordinates
+
+[source,xml]
+----
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>camel-mcp-server-starter</artifactId>
+</dependency>
+----
+
+== Usage
+
+Define tools as regular `ai-tool` routes and give them tags:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+from("ai-tool:query_db?tags=crm&description=Query customer database"
+     + "&parameter.customerId=string&parameter.customerId.required=true")
+    .to("jdbc:dataSource");
+----
+
+or in YAML DSL:
+
+[source,yaml]
+----
+- route:
+    from:
+      uri: "ai-tool:send_email"
+      parameters:
+        description: "Send email notification"
+        tags: "notify"
+        parameter.to: string
+        parameter.to.description: "Recipient address"
+        parameter.to.required: "true"
+        parameter.subject: string
+        parameter.priority: string
+        parameter.priority.enum: "low,normal,high"
+      steps:
+        - to: "smtp://mail.example.com"
+----
+
+Tool parameters are declared with the `parameter.NAME` options: the value is
+the JSON type (`string`, `integer`, `number`, `boolean`), and the
+`parameter.NAME.description`, `parameter.NAME.required` and
+`parameter.NAME.enum` options refine the generated JSON Schema. Arguments
+arrive as message headers in the route (`${header.customerId}`).
+
+Select the tags to expose in `application.properties`:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+camel.mcp-server.tags = crm,notify
+
+# per-call execution timeout (milliseconds, default 20000)
+camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout = 10000
+----
+
+The streamable HTTP transport has to be selected explicitly with
+`spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol=STREAMABLE`; when the property is not set,
+Spring AI serves the deprecated SSE transport instead and there is no
+endpoint at `/mcp`.
+
+Serving concerns are configured on the Spring AI MCP server — see the
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/mcp/mcp-streamable-http-server-boot-starter-docs.html[Spring
 AI MCP server documentation]
+for the full list of `spring.ai.mcp.server.*` options. For example:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+spring.ai.mcp.server.protocol = STREAMABLE
+spring.ai.mcp.server.name = my-integration-app
+spring.ai.mcp.server.version = 1.0.0
+spring.ai.mcp.server.streamable-http.mcp-endpoint = /mcp
+----
+
+=== Connecting MCP clients
+
+Any MCP client can connect over streamable HTTP. Another Camel integration
+can consume the tools with the camel-openai MCP client and automatic tool
+execution:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+from("direct:agent")
+    .to("openai:chat-completion"
+        + "?model={{llm.model}}"
+        + "&autoToolExecution=true"
+        + "&mcpServer.myCamelTools.transportType=streamableHttp"
+        + "&mcpServer.myCamelTools.url=http://localhost:8080/mcp";);
+----
+
+A coding agent or IDE is configured with the same URL, e.g. in an
+`mcp.json`-style client configuration:
+
+[source,json]
+----
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "my-integration-app": {
+      "type": "http",
+      "url": "http://localhost:8080/mcp";
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
+
+=== Serving over stdio
+
+Out of the box the tools are served over streamable HTTP: the starter brings
+in `spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc`. MCP clients that launch the server
+as a subprocess speak over stdin/stdout instead, which Spring AI serves with
+the plain `spring-ai-starter-mcp-server`. Swap the transport starter:
+
+[source,xml]
+----
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.apache.camel.springboot</groupId>
+    <artifactId>camel-mcp-server-starter</artifactId>
+    <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+            <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
+            <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server-webmvc</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+    </exclusions>
+</dependency>
+<dependency>
+    <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
+    <artifactId>spring-ai-starter-mcp-server</artifactId>
+    <version>2.0.0</version>
+</dependency>
+----
+
+and enable the stdio transport:
+
+[source,properties]
+----
+spring.ai.mcp.server.stdio = true
+spring.main.web-application-type = none
+spring.main.banner-mode = off
+
+# stdout carries the MCP protocol, so nothing else may be written to it
+logging.threshold.console = OFF
+logging.file.name = my-integration-app.log
+----
+
+Because stdout carries the MCP protocol, the application must not run as a
+web application, the banner has to be switched off and console logging has
+to be turned off — writing the log to a file instead. Leaving console
+logging on corrupts the protocol stream, as the Spring Boot startup log is
+then interleaved with the JSON-RPC messages.
+
+A stdio server is launched by the client instead of being connected to over
+a URL:
+
+[source,json]
+----
+{
+  "mcpServers": {
+    "my-integration-app": {
+      "command": "java",
+      "args": ["-jar", "/path/to/my-integration-app-1.0.0.jar"]
+    }
+  }
+}
+----
+
+See the
+https://docs.spring.io/spring-ai/reference/api/mcp/mcp-server-boot-starter-docs.html[Spring
 AI MCP Server Boot Starter documentation]
+for the transport options and the full list of `spring.ai.mcp.server.*`
+properties. On Quarkus the equivalent setup is described in the
+https://docs.quarkiverse.io/quarkus-mcp-server/dev/getting-started-stdio.html[quarkus-mcp-server
 stdio guide].
+
+=== Mixing with Spring-defined tools
+
+Camel tools coexist with tools defined natively in Spring AI — both are
+served by the same MCP server and appear in the same `tools/list`. For
+example, a `@McpTool`-annotated bean:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+@Component
+public class CalculatorTools {
+
+    @McpTool(name = "add_numbers", description = "Add two numbers")
+    public String add(
+            @McpToolParam(description = "First addend", required = true) int a,
+            @McpToolParam(description = "Second addend", required = true) int 
b) {
+        return String.valueOf(a + b);
+    }
+}
+----
+
+is exposed alongside the `ai-tool` routes. Spring-defined tools are
+registered when the server is created; Camel tools are added and removed
+dynamically with the route lifecycle. Choose distinct tool names — MCP has a
+flat tool namespace.
+
+=== Dynamic tools
+
+The exposed tool list follows the route lifecycle: stopping or suspending an
+`ai-tool` route removes its tool, starting or resuming it publishes the tool
+again, and connected clients are notified via
+`notifications/tools/list_changed`:
+
+[source,java]
+----
+camelContext.getRouteController().stopRoute("query-db-route");   // tool 
disappears
+camelContext.getRouteController().startRoute("query-db-route");  // tool is 
back
+----
+
+=== Error handling
+
+Results returned to MCP clients are sanitized by the bridge: a route
+exception produces an `isError` result with the generic message
+`Tool execution failed` (the cause is logged server-side and never sent to
+the client), a missing or invalid argument returns the validation message,
+and a call exceeding `camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout` returns
+`Tool execution timed out` while the route keeps running until it completes
+on its own.
+
+On Camel Main and Camel JBang the equivalent setup is the `camel-mcp-server`
+module with the `camel.server.mcp-*` options; on Quarkus it is the
+`camel-quarkus-mcp-server` extension.
+
+== Spring Boot Auto-Configuration
+
+The starter supports 3 options, which are listed below.
+
+[width="100%",cols="2,5,^1,2",options="header"]
+|===
+| Name | Description | Default | Type
+| camel.mcp-server.enabled | Whether to expose ai-tool routes as MCP tools 
through the Spring AI MCP server. Enabled by default when the starter is on the 
classpath. | true | Boolean
+| camel.mcp-server.tags | Comma-separated list of ai-tool tags to expose as 
MCP tools. Only tools registered under one of these tags are exposed; the 
untagged default pool is never exposed. When not set, no tools are exposed. |  
| String
+| camel.mcp-server.tool-timeout | Per-call tool execution timeout in 
milliseconds. A call exceeding the timeout returns an error result to the MCP 
client; the underlying route keeps running until it completes on its own. | 
20000 | Long
+|===
diff --git a/tooling/camel-spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml 
b/tooling/camel-spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
index 7b25c0c6561..dbff63e0ded 100644
--- a/tooling/camel-spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
+++ b/tooling/camel-spring-boot-dependencies/pom.xml
@@ -4629,6 +4629,11 @@
         <artifactId>camel-spring-ai-image</artifactId>
         <version>4.22.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
       </dependency>
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
+        <artifactId>camel-spring-ai-tools</artifactId>
+        <version>4.22.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+      </dependency>
       <dependency>
         <groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
         <artifactId>camel-spring-ai-vector-store</artifactId>

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