diff --git a/src/fetch/pyproject.toml b/src/fetch/pyproject.toml
index 84735f278a..4cbf1e0b2c 100644
--- a/src/fetch/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/fetch/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
     "httpx>=0.27",
     "markdownify>=0.13.1",
-    "mcp>=1.1.3",
+    "mcp>=1.1.3,<2",
     "protego>=0.3.1",
     "pydantic>=2.0.0",
     "readabilipy>=0.2.0",
diff --git a/src/fetch/tests/test_server.py b/src/fetch/tests/test_server.py
index 96c1cb38c7..be82914d14 100644
--- a/src/fetch/tests/test_server.py
+++ b/src/fetch/tests/test_server.py
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 """Tests for the fetch MCP server."""
 
+import tomllib
 import pytest
+from pathlib import Path
 from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, patch, MagicMock
 from mcp.shared.exceptions import McpError
+from packaging.requirements import Requirement
 
 from mcp_server_fetch.server import (
     extract_content_from_html,
@@ -324,3 +327,23 @@ async def test_fetch_with_proxy(self):
 
             # Verify AsyncClient was called with proxy
             mock_client_class.assert_called_once_with(proxy="http://proxy.example.com:8080")
+
+
+class TestDeclaredDependencies:
+    """Tests for the dependencies declared in pyproject.toml."""
+
+    def test_mcp_requirement_excludes_2x(self):
+        """Test that the mcp requirement excludes the 2.x line.
+
+        mcp 2.0.0 renamed McpError to MCPError and changed its constructor, so
+        server.py fails to import against it. Without an upper bound, unpinned
+        launchers such as uvx resolve 2.x and the server dies on startup.
+        """
+        pyproject = Path(__file__).parent.parent / "pyproject.toml"
+        with pyproject.open("rb") as f:
+            dependencies = tomllib.load(f)["project"]["dependencies"]
+
+        requirements = [Requirement(dep) for dep in dependencies]
+        mcp_requirement = next(req for req in requirements if req.name == "mcp")
+
+        assert not mcp_requirement.specifier.contains("2.0.0")
diff --git a/src/fetch/uv.lock b/src/fetch/uv.lock
index ea9b0567e2..4f6f729518 100644
--- a/src/fetch/uv.lock
+++ b/src/fetch/uv.lock
@@ -582,7 +582,7 @@ dev = [
 requires-dist = [
     { name = "httpx", specifier = ">=0.27" },
     { name = "markdownify", specifier = ">=0.13.1" },
-    { name = "mcp", specifier = ">=1.1.3" },
+    { name = "mcp", specifier = ">=1.1.3,<2" },
     { name = "protego", specifier = ">=0.3.1" },
     { name = "pydantic", specifier = ">=2.0.0" },
     { name = "readabilipy", specifier = ">=0.2.0" },