This PR removes the TTL enforcing on the cached tools, when used to
generate the http-parameters for CallTool, according to updated
[spec](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2972)
> Clients **MUST** construct `Mcp-Param-*` headers using the most
recently obtained `inputSchema` for the tool.
## Description
This PR introduces support for custom (non-standard) JSON-RPC methods in
the MCP Go SDK.
This feature enables servers to handle arbitrary JSON-RPC methods and
clients to invoke them, all while maintaining full type safety and
integrating seamlessly with the SDK's existing middleware and session
management.
- Server-Side Registration: Added AddReceivingCustomMethod to allow
servers to register handlers for custom methods. Incoming requests are
automatically unmarshaled into user-defined parameter structs.
- Client-Side Calling: Added AddSendingCustomMethod which returns a
strongly-typed caller function that clients can use to invoke custom
methods and receive strongly-typed results.
- Helper Structs: Provided ParamsBase and ResultBase for users to embed
in their custom structs. This allows them to easily satisfy the SDK's
internal Params and Result interfaces.
Fixes#954
This PR adds the protocol version `2026-07-28` to the list of supported
protocol versions and fixes legacy tests hardcoding the legacy protocol
version for those use cases.
This PR updates the error codes to align with the updated specifications
in
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2907
ErrServerClosing and ErrClientClosing are reverted to their 1.6.0
version codes, as they do not overlap anymore with the newly introduced
error codes.
To guarantee a better compatibility with legacy server, enable the
fallback to the legacy initialize rpc in case of any error returned by
the server, in case of `server/discover` request.
## Summary
Fixes#976.
`DecodeMessage` used `msg.Method != ""` to classify messages. A wire
payload with `"method":""` was decoded as a **response**, so stdio
servers dropped it without a correlated JSON-RPC error.
## Approach
Decode into a `wireDecode` struct whose `method` field is
`json.RawMessage`. Treat the message as a **request** when the `method`
key is **present on the wire** (including `""`), which matches JSON-RPC
semantics.
This revision:
- Uses a **single JSON parse** per message (dedicated decode struct, no
secondary fields-map unmarshal)
- Documents why `json.RawMessage` is used for `method`
- Adds regression coverage so normal responses and id-only payloads
without a `method` key stay on the response path
## Test plan
- [x] `go test ./internal/jsonrpc2/... -v`
- [x] `go test ./mcp/... -run TestIOConnRead_EmptyMethod -v`
- [x] `go test ./... -count=1`
- [x] `go test -race ./internal/jsonrpc2/... -count=1`
- [x] Server conformance (`npx @modelcontextprotocol/conformance server
--url http://127.0.0.1:3000/mcp`) — 40 passed, 0 failed
- [x] Client conformance (`./scripts/client-conformance.sh`) — 217
passed, 0 failed
## Scope note
This PR addresses the primary repro in #976 (empty `method` with valid
`id`). Other cases listed in the issue (`id: null`, structurally invalid
envelopes) are unchanged.
Co-authored-by: Guglielmo Colombo <guglielmoc@google.com>
## Summary
Part 3 of the SEP-2575 ("Make MCP Stateless") implementation. Builds on
PR #975 which landed the client-side discover/fallback flow and the
per-request `_meta` plumbing. This PR adds the **server-side**
counterparts:
- `server/discover` handler (replaces the
stub),ProtocolVersionSupporter`
- transport hook for per-transport version filtering,
- transport-agnostic version validation and method-removal enforcement
in `ServerSession.handle`,
- HTTP-level wire compliance for SEP-2575 error codes/status codes,
- bug fix in `internal/jsonrpc2`,`processResult` with an `MCPGODEBUG`
opt-out for backward compatibility.
Implements the client half of the SEP-2575 / `2026-06-30` protocol. This
CL is client-only; server-side `server/discover` is still a
`MethodNotFound` stub.
### Changes
- **`server/discover` probe in `Client.Connect()`** (`client.go`). When
the caller opts into `protocolVersion >= 2026-06-30`, the client probes
the server with `server/discover` before falling back to the legacy
`initialize`
handshake.
- **Per-request `_meta` injection** (`shared.go`, `injectRequestMeta`).
For`>= 2026-06-30` sessions every outgoing request gets the SEP-2575
triple (`protocolVersion`, `clientInfo`, `clientCapabilities`).
- **Server-side fix**: `ServerSession.handle` no longer pre-populates
`state.InitializeParams` from a `server/discover` request's `_meta`, so
a subsequent fallback `initialize` is not rejected as a duplicate.
### Fallback rules
Client falls back to the legacy `initialize` handshake when discover
returns:
- `MethodNotFound` (-32601),
- `UnsupportedProtocolVersionError` (-32004),
- an HTTP `Bad Request` (substring-matched on the error message, to
interop
with pre-2026-06-30 servers).
Fixes#966
## Summary
- add the optional `description` field to `mcp.Implementation`
- keep the field omitted when empty
- cover JSON marshal/unmarshal behavior with a focused regression test
Fixes#977.
## To verify
- `go test ./mcp -run TestImplementationDescriptionJSON -count=1`
- `go test ./mcp -run TestServerRequest_PerRequestAccessors -count=1`
- `go test ./mcp -count=1`
- `go test ./...`
- `git diff --check`
Co-authored-by: Guglielmo Colombo <guglielmoc@google.com>
mcp: add configurable keepalive failure threshold
Introduce `KeepAliveFailureThreshold` option in both `ClientOptions` and
`ServerOptions` to control how many consecutive keepalive ping failures
are tolerated before closing the session.
This aligns with the MCP spec's guidance that "multiple failed pings MAY
trigger a connection reset," allowing operators to tune resilience
against transient network hiccups without immediately tearing down
otherwise healthy sessions.
A threshold of 0 or 1 (the default) closes on the first failure,
preserving existing behavior. Higher values let isolated misses pass
while still closing the session once consecutive failures reach the
threshold. A successful ping resets the counter.
Tolerated failures are logged at WARN level; the final failure that
closes the session is logged at ERROR level.
This is rework of #979.
### Context
Design (`design/mrtr.md`) and implementation proposal for Multi
Round-Trip Requests (MRTR) per
[SEP-2322](de6d76fba3/seps/2322-MRTR.md).
### Changes
- Introduce `InputRequest` and `InputResponse` sealed interfaces with
corresponding `InputRequestMap` and `InputResponseMap` types for custom
map JSON codec implementation.
- Extend `CallToolParams`, `GetPromptParams`, and `ReadResourceParams`
with `InputResponses`, `RequestState` and an unexported `resultType`
("complete" or "input_required") for retry round-trips. The type is set
by the SDK based on input requests presence.
- Add client-side MRTR middleware enabled by default that automatically
fulfills input requests and retries.
- Added MRTROptions on ClientOptions to allow disabling the middleware
and configuring the number of retries.
- Add server-side MRTR middleware for backward compatibility:
transparently bridges input requests to direct
Elicit/CreateMessage/ListRoots calls for older clients
## Description
This PR lays the foundational server-side groundwork for the `>=
2026-06-30` sessionless and stateless feature introduced by
[SEP-2575](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2575)
and SEP-2567, tracked in
[design/stateless.md](614460a225/design/stateless.md).
### SEP-2575: Stateless MCP
* **Per-request protocol detection in `ServerSession.handle()`**
Unmarshal `_meta` from the raw JSON-RPC params determines whether each
request follows the new protocol.
* **Per-request typed accessors on `ServerRequest[P]`**
```go
func (r *ServerRequest[P]) ProtocolVersion() string
func (r *ServerRequest[P]) ClientInfo() *Implementation
func (r *ServerRequest[P]) ClientCapabilities() *ClientCapabilities
```
* **Reject client->server `initialize`, `initialized` and `ping` for
new-protocol requests**
* **Per-request `_meta` field name constants**
Three constants for the wire-protocol field names
(`MetaKeyProtocolVersion`, `MetaKeyClientInfo`,
`MetaKeyClientCapabilities`)
* **Stop synthesizing fake `InitializeParams` for new-protocol
requests**
Fixes: #966
`ReadOnlyHint` is a `bool` with omitempty, so the zero value (false) is
indistinguishable from unset, and **drops out** of marshaled JSON.
The current behavior causes an issue with the OpenAI MCP app submission
because they require explicit hints.
Consumers that explicitly set `ReadOnlyHint: false` on write tools lose
the field on the wire. Removing `omitempty` ensures `false` is always
serialized, which matches the MCP spec default.
---------
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Maciej Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
Co-authored-by: guglielmoc <guglielmoc@google.com>
## Summary
- reject a second `initialize` request on an already initialized server
session
- keep the original `ServerSession.InitializeParams()` instead of
replacing it with later client parameters
- add a raw JSON-RPC regression test for the duplicate-initialize path
Fixes#961.
## To verify
- `go test ./mcp -run TestServerRejectsDuplicateInitialize -count=1`
- `go test ./mcp -count=1`
- `go test ./...`
---------
Co-authored-by: guglielmoc <guglielmoc@google.com>
Fixes#937.
### What this changes
Adds a single line — an SSE comment (`: ok\n\n`) — after `WriteHeader`
and before `Flush` on the standalone SSE GET stream. SSE comments are
explicitly ignored by clients (any line starting with `:` per the SSE
spec), but they produce an HTTP/2 DATA frame, which is what HTTP/2
reverse proxies need before they will forward the HEADERS frame.
### Why the existing fix isn't sufficient
Issue #410 was closed by #413, which added `WriteHeader(StatusOK)` +
`Flush()` to the same site. #870 refactored the `Flush()` to use
`http.NewResponseController`. Both correctly address HTTP/1.1: `Flush()`
writes the headers as text on the TCP stream and any HTTP/1.1-aware
proxy forwards them.
In HTTP/2, headers and body are separate frame types (HEADERS, DATA).
Reverse proxies batch them for efficiency and won't forward the HEADERS
frame on its own. `Flush()` on the response writer only pushes the
in-process buffer to the HTTP/2 stack; the proxy still holds the HEADERS
frame waiting for DATA. The standalone SSE stream never sends body data
on connect (the whole point — it's the long-poll listener for
server-pushed notifications), so without a deliberate "kick" the headers
never reach the client until the proxy tears down the stream on timeout.
The SSE-comment trick is the established mitigation for SSE servers
behind HTTP/2 proxies. It's used in Caddy
(https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4247), referenced in the Go
issue tracker (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31125), and is
independent of the proxy implementation.
### The diff
```go
if s.id == "" {
// Issue #410: the standalone SSE stream is likely not to receive messages
// for a long time. Ensure that headers are flushed.
+ //
+ // On HTTP/2, headers and body travel as separate frames (HEADERS and
+ // DATA). Reverse proxies (e.g. Envoy, Caddy, net/http/httputil)
+ // commonly buffer the HEADERS frame until they have a DATA frame to
+ // coalesce it with — there is no HTTP/2 equivalent of HTTP/1.1's
+ // Transfer-Encoding: chunked signal that says "this is streaming, send
+ // headers now". Calling Flush() alone is not sufficient: it pushes
+ // the kernel buffer to the proxy, but the proxy still holds the
+ // HEADERS frame.
+ //
+ // Write an SSE comment (lines starting with ":" are ignored by
+ // clients per RFC) so a DATA frame is produced, which forces the
+ // proxy to forward both frames. See:
+ // https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31125
+ // https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/4247
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+ fmt.Fprint(w, ": ok\n\n")
rc := http.NewResponseController(w)
// Ignore returned error as flushing is best-effort.
_ = rc.Flush()
}
```
`fmt` is already imported in this file; no other dependencies change.
### Test
Added `TestStandaloneSSEEmitsCommentForHTTP2Flush`. It initializes a
streamable session via raw POST, then opens the standalone SSE GET and
asserts the first body byte starts with `:` (the SSE comment marker,
which is what produces the DATA frame HTTP/2 proxies need).
The test catches the bug behaviorally without requiring a full HTTP/2
reverse-proxy setup: it verifies the SDK's contract (emit body bytes
after headers on the standalone SSE stream). HTTP/2-specific behavior is
then a property of any conforming proxy.
I confirmed the test fails on `main` without the patch — it times out at
2s waiting for the first body byte — and passes in <1ms with the patch.
Full streamable test suite still passes.
### Reproduction matrix (from #937)
| Configuration | TTFB | Result |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP/2 + 30s request timeout | ~31s | Headers only on stream tear-down
|
| HTTP/2 + no request timeout | never | Headers never arrive |
| HTTP/1.1 + 30s request timeout | ~300ms | Headers immediate |
| HTTP/1.1 + no request timeout | ~270ms | Headers immediate |
| HTTP/2 POST (response has body) | ~350ms | Works (DATA frame
coalesces) |
| **HTTP/2 + this PR** | ~1ms | Headers immediate |
### Risk
- Behavior-preserving for HTTP/1.1 clients (a leading `:` line is a
valid SSE comment and is ignored by every conforming SSE client).
- No protocol-level concern: SSE explicitly defines comment lines as a
no-op for the consumer.
- The DATA frame adds 7 bytes per standalone SSE connection, sent once
on connect.
Co-authored-by: Maciej Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
Replaces the simple time-interval check in `LoggingHandler` with a
standard `rate.Limiter` from `golang.org/x/time/rate`, as suggested by
the existing TODO comment.
This provides a well-tested implementation and removes the need for
manual `lastMessageSent` tracking. The rate (`1/MinInterval`) and burst
(1) match the previous behavior exactly.
/cc @jba
Closes#924
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Signed-off-by: wucm667 <stevenwucongmin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Jonathan Amsterdam <jba@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Maciej Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
## Bug
`mcp.AddTool` crashes the server with SIGSEGV when input/output struct
tags trigger a nil schema.
## Root Cause
In `mcp/server.go`, the function `setSchema` calls
`internalSchema.Resolve(...)` without checking if `internalSchema` is
nil. If the schema inference (e.g., via `jsonschema.ForType`) or a
provided schema results in a nil value, this dereference causes a panic.
## Fix
Added nil checks for `internalSchema` before calling `Resolve` in two
locations within `setSchema`:
1. After schema generation via `jsonschema.ForType`.
2. After processing a provided schema (which might be nil or fail to
unmarshal).
If `internalSchema` is nil, the function now returns a descriptive error
instead of crashing.
## Verification
- `go test ./mcp/...` passes.
- The fix prevents the crash by handling the nil case gracefully.
Closes#916.
---------
Signed-off-by: wucm667 <stevenwucongmin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Guglielmo Colombo <guglielmoc@google.com>
Change the error code returned by ResourceNotFoundError from -32002 to
-32602 (jsonrpc.CodeInvalidParams), aligning with
[SEP-2164](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/2164).
* Not gated with a protocol version check, because the previous error
code was never formally specified and the behaviour varied across SDKs.
* In case clients which rely on the old error code exist, the previous
behaviour can be restored with `MCPGODEBUG=customresnotfounderrcode=1`.
* `CodeResourceNotFound` deprecated since its only purpose going forward
is backward compatibility. The new code should use
`jsonrpc.CodeInvalidParams` directly.
* `CodeResourceNotFound` changed to `var` so it can stay in sync with
`ResourceNotFoundError` and existing code doing `code ==
mcp.CodeResourceNotFound` keeps working in both the default and compat
modes.
Previously, an expired refresh token in the oauth2.Token returned from
OAuthHandler.TokenSource() would cause the connection to fail.
From the client perspective, this meant that the MCP connection was in a
hard-failed state with no way to re-authorize.
The change in this commit causes Authorize() to be called in the event
of both an oauth2.RetrieveError from the token endpoint, as well as in
the pre-existing case of a 401/403 HTTP response from the MCP server.
Clients will handle this in their existing Authorize() flows to get a
new valid token for the connection.
Supersedes and closes: #909.
Co-authored-by: Yaroslav <yarolegovich@gmail.com>
## Summary
The DELETE request that terminates a streamable HTTP session discards
the `*http.Response` without closing its body. Per the `net/http`
documentation, this prevents the underlying TCP connection from being
reused and leaks it.
## The bug
```go
// mcp/streamable.go:2239 (before)
} else if _, err := c.client.Do(req); err != nil {
c.closeErr = err
}
```
On the success path (no error), the response is silently discarded. The
default client is `http.DefaultClient` with keep-alives enabled, so the
leaked connection stays open until GC or process exit.
## The fix
```go
// mcp/streamable.go:2239 (after)
} else if resp, err := c.client.Do(req); err != nil {
c.closeErr = err
} else {
resp.Body.Close()
}
```
All 10 other `client.Do` call sites in this file close the response
body. This one was missed.
## Test plan
- [x] `go build ./...` passes
- [x] `go test ./... -short` passes
Fixes#928
When `OAuthHandler.Authorize` returns a context-cancelled error, the
cancellation notification that the call layer sends in response to the
same ctx cancellation is routed back through the streamable client
transport, re-triggering the `401` → `Authorize` path and prompting the
user a second time for a request they have already abandoned.
Fix in two layers:
1. **`mcp/transport.go`** — bound the cancellation `Notify` with a fresh
`context.Background()`-derived timeout instead of reusing the cancelled
caller context. This guarantees the caller never blocks on a doomed
notify against a degraded connection.
2. **`mcp/streamable.go`** — when `Authorize` returns a
context-cancelled error, mark the streamable client connection as failed
via `c.fail()`. The existing failure check in `Write()` then
short-circuits the cancellation notification without re-invoking the
OAuth handler, matching the bug reporter's expectation that cancelling
`Authorize` abandons the connection.
Includes a regression test
(`TestStreamableClientOAuth_CancelledAuthorize_NoReprompt`) with a
blocking `OAuthHandler` that asserts `Authorize` is invoked exactly
once. The test was verified to fail on unfixed code (`got 2` calls) and
pass with the fix.
Fixes#882
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
mcp: preserve transport errors in Write error chain
Custom RoundTrippers that return typed errors (e.g. for auth failures)
have those errors flattened to strings by `%v`, making `errors.As`
unusable for callers inspecting transport-level errors.
This is inconsistent with the OAuth handler path (line 1807) which
already uses `%w` to preserve errors for client inspection.
Relates to #579
Co-authored-by: Maciej Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
Use a shared helper for Content-Type parsing in streamable transport
request validation and client response handling.
Follow up to https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk/pull/853,
where we did this for `Accept` headers.
This allows the streamable mcp server to validate the following header
`Content-Type: application/json;charset=utf-8`
Co-authored-by: Maciej Kisiel <mkisiel@google.com>
Since ping is optional per the MCP spec, a peer that doesn't implement
it will respond with a -32601 (method not found) error. Previously,
startKeepalive treated all ping errors identically, closing the session
even when the peer was perfectly healthy.
Now, a method-not-found response stops the keepalive goroutine without
closing the session.
Fixes#897
