Make several cleanups of the streamable client transport, encountered
during work on JSON support for the streamable server:
- The 'Close' condition is differentiated from asynchronous failures. A
failure should unblock Read with an error, at which point the JSON-RPC
connection will be broken and closed.
- Fields are reordered in streamableClientConn to make guards more
apparent.
- The handling of sessionID is simplified: we simply set the session ID
whenever we receive response headers. No need to have special handling
for the first request, as the serializeation of session initialization
is implemented in Client.Connect.
- Since the above bullet makes Write a trivial wrapper around
postMessage, the two methods are merged.
- A bug is fixed where JSON responses were handled synchronously in
Write. This lead to deadlock when a hanging client->server request is
waiting on a server->client request. Now JSON is handled symmetrically
to SSE: the Write returns once response headers are received.
asynchronous to Write.
- The httpConnection interface is renamed to clientConnection, and
receive the entire InitializeResult.
- streamableClientConn receivers are renamed to be consistently 'c'.
This CL introduces a fundamental change to the jsonrpc2 library:
connection writes, which were previously serialized by the jsonrpc2
library itself, are now allowed to be concurrent.
The change in semantics of the jsonrpc2 library should hopefully be easy
to review, since moving the synchronization to the Writer implementation
is equivalent to the previous logic. However, this change is critical
for the streamable client transport, because it allows for concurrent
http requests to the server.
Consider that a write is a POST to the server, and we don't know that
write succeeded until we get the response header. Previously, we had the
following problem: if the client POSTs a request, and the server blocks
its response on a request made through the hanging GET, the client was
unable to respond because the initial POST is still blocked. We could
update our streamable server transport to force a flush of the response
headers, but we can't guarantee that other servers behave the same way.
Fundamentally, writes in the spec are asynchronous, and we need to
support that.
You can make MCP server log error, send response and then abruptly exit, with a json input malformed at the end.
While using json.RawMessage, once a valid first json is decoded, trailing bad input is silently ignored.
Without graciously handling this input, mcp server is currently sending response as well as encountering error.
It should just report error without further processing of request.
Fixes#179.
Use a read loop and incoming channel so that we can select on incoming
messages and unblock calls of ioConn.Read as soon as Close is called.
This avoids the scenario of #224, where a close of the StdioTransport
does not gracefully shut down the JSON-RPC connection.
Fixes#224
Negotiate the protocol version properly, and set the header on HTTP
transports.
We follow the logic of the Typescript SDK.
- On initialization, the client sends the latest version it can support,
and accepts the version that the server returns if the client supports
it. If not, the connection fails.
- The server accepts the client's version unless it doesn't support it,
in which case it replies with its latest version.
Fixes#103.
In CL 682976, Alan Donovan correctly points out that the term in the MCP
spec is 'stdio', and therefore the correct capitalization is Stdio.
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Use JSONRPCMessage, JSONRPCRequest, and JSONRPCResponse aliases
throughout the internal/mcp package, so that no jsonrpc2 names are
exposed in the public API.
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After implementing the Streamable transport, it is apparent to me that
the name 'Stream' is confusing, as it can refer either to a stream in
the streamable transport, or to a JSON-RPC stream.
But the name 'Connection' is available, and a natural name for the
result of the Transport.Connect interface method. Therefore, rename
Stream to Connection, and update the streamable implementation to refer
to its HTTP connections as 'streams', consistent with other SDKs.
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Add an (almost) complete implementation of the streamable HTTP
transport, including:
- A StreamableHTTPHandler for serving sessions.
- A StreamableHTTPServerTransport that supports session resumption.
- A minimal StreamableHTTPClientTransport.
Additionally, include the following minor changes:
- Refactor SSE event reading to use an iterator.
- Start to to aliases for JSON-RPC types (incomplete)
- Fix handling for null tool arguments (again)
Still to do:
- The streamable client does not support retry/resumption, or the
side-channel GET requests.
- Support configurable session and event retention (garbage collection).
- Expose the HTTP client used for HTTP requests (for auth).
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In preparation for extracting the jsonrpc2_v2 package, update the Reader
and Writer interfaces to not report byte counts, and remove the
internal/event dependency.
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Implement sending middleware.
Sending middleware is useful for adding tracing, progress tokens,
and so on.
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Make Tool APIs future-proof by pushing generics into CallToolParams, and
using CallToolParams throughout. This has several advantages:
- We no longer need the awkward CallToolOptions type, which is almost
but not quite like CallToolParams.
- NewTool no longer needs to define its own handler type: it accepts a
ToolHandler[TArgs]. This also means its signature is future-proof.
Additionally, provide a `CallTool` helper (the analog of NewTool) to
serve as a more strongly typed variant of `ClientSession.CallTool`.
+ design, protocol generation
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Implement the dispatcher middleware framework, allowing users to
wrap method dispatching with their own code.
The Dispatcher functions have an untyped params arg, but expect its
value to be a typed, unmarshaled XXXParams struct. That required
splitting the elegant dispatch[P, R] function into two parts, one
to do the unmarshaling and one to call the method. The nicest way
I could find to do that was to map from method names to a pair
of functions, one to unmarshal and one to call. We could also write
it as two switches on method name, which would require less machinery
but would duplicate the list of method names, already a tad fragile
because they are literal strings.
I also exported the initialize params and result, so user Dispatchers
could access them. All Params and Result types will have to be exported
for that reason.
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Since cancellation is handled transparently, this type need not be
exported.
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Add a logical client session type back to the SDK, to bring it closer to
the design. Also, remove 'ConnectionOptions', which is better
implemented using middleware, and reimplement logging as a
LoggingTransport middleware, which is also added to the design.
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Update the design to mention our in-memory transport, since it is
generally useful, and update the implementation to use distinct types
for InMemoryTransport and StdIOTransport (the fact that they are both
implemented as an io.ReadWriteCloser is an implementation detail).
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In accordance with the updated design, merge the protocol package into
the mcp package. To do so, rename protocol.Content to WireContent and
protocol.ResourceContents to WireResource.
Also, remove some stray logging in readResource.
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Implementation of resources.
This follows the design sketched in design/design.md, except for
Server.FileResourceHandler, which will be in a forthcoming CL.
As the spec recommends, the server verifies an incoming URI from the
client against its list of resources, to make sure the URI came from one
of them.
Some things that aren't in the design doc:
- I provide an exported function that creates a "resource not found"
jsonrpc2.WireEror error for server authors to return.
A wrinkle: the MCP spec defines the error code for
"resource not found" as -32002 [1]. That code is reserved for use
by implementations of JSON-RPC, not applications. That matters to us
because our JSON-RPC implementation already uses that code for the
"server closing" error. I filed a bug against MCP about it [2] and
chose a different code for the "resource not found" error.
- As a slight convenience, I fill in some fields in the
ReadResourceResult if the handler doesn't set them.
[1] https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-26/server/resources#error-handling
[2] https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/issues/509
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Enhance the generator so that it recognizes initialisms like "Id" and
writes them in all caps, as is idiomatic for Go.
Also, fix the import path of jsonschema in the generated code.
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Start writing up a formal design doc for an MCP SDK based on what we've
learned from the prototype. Include discussion of package layout,
jsonrpc2, and transport. Lay out the rest of the design sections,
leaving stub comments describing what they should cover.
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It's too confusing that you send server requests through the Client, and
send client requests through the ClientConnection. Rename
ClientConnection to ServerConnection, so that the types on the
server side of the control diagram start with 'Server'.
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Pass the client Transport to NewClient instead of Connect.
Combine the ConnectionOptions with the ClientOptions.
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The generated protocol package is part of the SDK API, so it shouldn't
be internal.
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Remove ServerConnection.
- It's not in typescript or mcpgo APIs.
- Amortizing a client over multiple servers doesn't have any value.
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Add a missing CommandTransport that communicates with a sidecar process
over newline-delimited stdin/stdout, the counterpart to the existing
StdIOTransport.
Add a test using the usual TestMain trick.
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Export the Transport interface, as there's no reason users shouldn't be
able to define their own transports: they are just bidirectional
streams.
Also, add a godoc example for basic Server usage.
Finally, remove some TODOs that existed due to a bad merge: they are
related to the (as yet unsubmitted) streamable HTTP transport.
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Use the existing jsonrpc2 preemption mechanism to implement MCP
cancellation.
This was mostly straightforward, except where I got confused about ID
unmarshaling. Leave a note about using omitempty when it is available.
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Add support for SSE transport, as defined by version 2024-11-05 and
2025-03-26 of the MCP spec.
In order to achieve this, the jsonrpc2 stream must be abstracted so that
we can implement it across multiple HTTP requests. This required some
refactoring of the jsonrpc2_v2 package, so that we can avoid the
Dialer/Binder interfaces and construct the Connection directly from its
constituent primitives.
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Update the jsonrpc2 MCP framer to support both incoming and outgoing
batches. In order to achieve this, we must correlate the framed Reader
and Writer, which is not explicitly supported by the jsonrpc2 API, but
does work. A note is left to revisit the Framer interface.
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This CL contains an minimal prototype of an MCP SDK, using the
"new" jsonrpc2_v2 package (similar to x/exp/jsonrpc2).
Much is still yet to do, but this initial version addressed the
following aspects:
- Support for newline delimited JSONRPC2 framing, and message logging.
- A generated protocol package, containing type definitions to be used
in transport.
- A minimal jsonschema package to be used for both reading the MCP spec,
and for serving Tool input schemas.
- A transport abstraction, and two transport implementations: stdio, and
local (for testing).
- Client and Server types, to be configured with features and then
connected using their Connect methods, which return (respectively) a
ServerConnection and ClientConnection object.
- A minimal binding API for tools.
A catalog of things not yet done is in doc.go, but we should review this
CL eagerly, as it contains the fundamental building blocks of an
eventual SDK.
It is the intention that this package is more-or-less standalone, as it
may eventually be carved out into a separate repository. As such, its
only dependency within x/tools is jsonrpc2_v2, and the only change
required to that package is to expose a callback when the connection is
closed.
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