[Schema] Add resource_link content block (#400)

* Add resource_link content block

The spec's `resource_link` content type (protocol revision 2025-06-18,
still present in 2025-11-25) had no corresponding schema class: it lets a
tool result or prompt message reference a resource by URI/name without
embedding its full contents, the way `EmbeddedResource` does. Without it,
tools returning many or large resource references (e.g. search results
over a DAM) are stuck smuggling URIs through text/structured content.

Add `Mcp\Schema\Content\ResourceLink`, mirroring the spec's `Resource`
shape (uri, name, title, description, mimeType, annotations, size, icons,
_meta) with a fixed `type: "resource_link"`, following the conventions of
the sibling `EmbeddedResource`/`ResourceDefinition` classes.

Register it everywhere `resource` content blocks are (de)serialized by
type per the spec's `ContentBlock` union:
- `CallToolResult::fromArray()`
- `PromptMessage` (constructor type, `fromArray()`, phpstan types)
- `PromptResultFormatter` (typed-array and direct-instance paths)

`SamplingMessage`/`CreateSamplingMessageResult` are intentionally left
unchanged: the spec's `SamplingMessageContentBlock` does not include
`ResourceLink`.

Fixes #399

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Add resource_link example coverage to discovery-userprofile

Add a lookup_user tool to the discovery-userprofile example: given a
userId, it returns a short text summary plus a resource_link pointing
at the existing user://{userId}/profile resource template, instead of
embedding the profile. This mirrors the PR's motivating use case (a
tool referencing many/large resources by URI rather than inlining
them) and exercises resource_link through the example's own inspector
snapshot tests (tools_call-lookup_user[_not_found], tools_list).

Wiring this up surfaced a real bug: ToolReference::extractStructuredContent()
passed any raw array return value straight through as structuredContent,
even when it held Content instances (e.g. the TextContent/ResourceLink
pair above). That serializes to a JSON list, which fails the spec's
requirement that structuredContent be an object - the inspector's MCP
client rejected the tool call outright until fixed. Skip structuredContent
extraction whenever the raw result contains a Content item, since those
are already represented in `content` and were never meant to double as
structured data.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Alex Rothberg <51059+cancan101@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ use Mcp\Schema\Content\Content;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\EmbeddedResource;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\ImageContent;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\PromptMessage;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\ResourceLink;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\TextContent;
use Mcp\Schema\Enum\Role;
@ -141,18 +142,19 @@ final class PromptResultFormatter
/**
* Formats content into a proper Content object.
*/
private function formatContent(mixed $content, ?int $index = null): TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|EmbeddedResource
private function formatContent(mixed $content, ?int $index = null): TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|ResourceLink|EmbeddedResource
{
$indexStr = null !== $index ? " at index {$index}" : '';
if ($content instanceof Content) {
if (
$content instanceof TextContent || $content instanceof ImageContent
|| $content instanceof AudioContent || $content instanceof EmbeddedResource
|| $content instanceof AudioContent || $content instanceof ResourceLink
|| $content instanceof EmbeddedResource
) {
return $content;
}
throw new RuntimeException("Invalid Content type{$indexStr}. PromptMessage only supports TextContent, ImageContent, AudioContent, or EmbeddedResource.");
throw new RuntimeException("Invalid Content type{$indexStr}. PromptMessage only supports TextContent, ImageContent, AudioContent, ResourceLink, or EmbeddedResource.");
}
if (\is_string($content)) {
@ -182,7 +184,7 @@ final class PromptResultFormatter
*
* @param array<string, mixed> $content
*/
private function formatTypedContent(array $content, ?int $index = null): TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|EmbeddedResource
private function formatTypedContent(array $content, ?int $index = null): TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|ResourceLink|EmbeddedResource
{
$indexStr = null !== $index ? " at index {$index}" : '';
$type = $content['type'];
@ -199,6 +201,7 @@ final class PromptResultFormatter
'image' => ImageContent::fromArray($content),
'audio' => AudioContent::fromArray($content),
'resource' => EmbeddedResource::fromArray($content),
'resource_link' => ResourceLink::fromArray($content),
default => throw new RuntimeException("Invalid content type '{$type}'{$indexStr}."),
};
} catch (InvalidArgumentException $e) {

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@ -68,6 +68,17 @@ class ToolReference extends ElementReference
public function extractStructuredContent(mixed $toolExecutionResult): ?array
{
if (\is_array($toolExecutionResult)) {
foreach ($toolExecutionResult as $item) {
if ($item instanceof Content) {
// Content items are already reflected in the result's `content`
// array; a raw array holding one or more of them isn't
// structured data and, if it were serialized as-is, could
// produce a `structuredContent` value that isn't a JSON object
// (e.g. a list), which the spec doesn't allow.
return null;
}
}
return $toolExecutionResult;
}

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@ -20,11 +20,12 @@ use Mcp\Schema\Enum\Role;
* @phpstan-import-type TextContentData from TextContent
* @phpstan-import-type ImageContentData from ImageContent
* @phpstan-import-type AudioContentData from AudioContent
* @phpstan-import-type ResourceLinkData from ResourceLink
* @phpstan-import-type EmbeddedResourceData from EmbeddedResource
*
* @phpstan-type PromptMessageData array{
* role: string,
* content: TextContentData|ImageContentData|AudioContentData|EmbeddedResourceData,
* content: TextContentData|ImageContentData|AudioContentData|ResourceLinkData|EmbeddedResourceData,
* }
*
* @author Kyrian Obikwelu <koshnawaza@gmail.com>
@ -34,12 +35,12 @@ class PromptMessage extends Content
/**
* Create a new PromptMessage instance.
*
* @param Role $role The role of the message
* @param TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|EmbeddedResource $content The content of the message
* @param Role $role The role of the message
* @param TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|ResourceLink|EmbeddedResource $content The content of the message
*/
public function __construct(
public readonly Role $role,
public readonly TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|EmbeddedResource $content,
public readonly TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|ResourceLink|EmbeddedResource $content,
) {
parent::__construct('prompt');
}
@ -67,6 +68,7 @@ class PromptMessage extends Content
'image' => ImageContent::fromArray($contentData),
'audio' => AudioContent::fromArray($contentData),
'resource' => EmbeddedResource::fromArray($contentData),
'resource_link' => ResourceLink::fromArray($contentData),
default => throw new InvalidArgumentException(\sprintf('Invalid content type "%s" for PromptMessage.', $contentType)),
};
@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ class PromptMessage extends Content
*
* @return array{
* role: string,
* content: TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|EmbeddedResource
* content: TextContent|ImageContent|AudioContent|ResourceLink|EmbeddedResource
* }
*/
public function jsonSerialize(): array

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@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
<?php
/*
* This file is part of the official PHP MCP SDK.
*
* A collaboration between Symfony and the PHP Foundation.
*
* For the full copyright and license information, please view the LICENSE
* file that was distributed with this source code.
*/
namespace Mcp\Schema\Content;
use Mcp\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;
use Mcp\Schema\Annotations;
use Mcp\Schema\Icon;
/**
* Represents a link to a resource, without embedding its contents.
*
* A resource that the server is capable of reading, included in a prompt or
* tool call result. Unlike `EmbeddedResource`, this points to a resource
* without including its full content, allowing clients to fetch it separately.
*
* @phpstan-import-type AnnotationsData from Annotations
* @phpstan-import-type IconData from Icon
*
* @phpstan-type ResourceLinkData array{
* type: 'resource_link',
* uri: string,
* name: string,
* title?: string,
* description?: string,
* mimeType?: string,
* annotations?: AnnotationsData,
* size?: int,
* icons?: IconData[],
* _meta?: array<string, mixed>,
* }
*
* @author Alex Rothberg <cancan101@users.noreply.github.com>
*/
class ResourceLink extends Content
{
/**
* @param string $uri the URI of this resource
* @param string $name a short identifier for this resource
* @param ?string $title optional human-readable title for display in UI
* @param ?string $description a description of what this resource represents. This can be used by clients to improve the LLM's understanding of available resources
* @param ?string $mimeType the MIME type of this resource, if known
* @param ?Annotations $annotations optional annotations for the client
* @param ?int $size the size of the raw resource content, in bytes (before base64 encoding or any tokenization), if known
* @param ?Icon[] $icons optional icons representing the resource
* @param ?array<string, mixed> $meta optional metadata
*/
public function __construct(
public readonly string $uri,
public readonly string $name,
public readonly ?string $title = null,
public readonly ?string $description = null,
public readonly ?string $mimeType = null,
public readonly ?Annotations $annotations = null,
public readonly ?int $size = null,
public readonly ?array $icons = null,
public readonly ?array $meta = null,
) {
parent::__construct('resource_link');
}
/**
* @param ResourceLinkData $data
*/
public static function fromArray(array $data): self
{
if (($data['type'] ?? null) !== 'resource_link') {
throw new InvalidArgumentException('Invalid type for ResourceLink.');
}
if (empty($data['uri']) || !\is_string($data['uri'])) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException('Invalid or missing "uri" in ResourceLink data.');
}
if (empty($data['name']) || !\is_string($data['name'])) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException('Invalid or missing "name" in ResourceLink data.');
}
if (isset($data['_meta']) && !\is_array($data['_meta'])) {
throw new InvalidArgumentException('Invalid "_meta" in ResourceLink data.');
}
return new self(
uri: $data['uri'],
name: $data['name'],
title: isset($data['title']) && \is_string($data['title']) ? $data['title'] : null,
description: $data['description'] ?? null,
mimeType: $data['mimeType'] ?? null,
annotations: isset($data['annotations']) ? Annotations::fromArray($data['annotations']) : null,
size: isset($data['size']) ? (int) $data['size'] : null,
icons: isset($data['icons']) && \is_array($data['icons']) ? array_map(Icon::fromArray(...), $data['icons']) : null,
meta: $data['_meta'] ?? null,
);
}
/**
* @return array{
* type: 'resource_link',
* uri: string,
* name: string,
* title?: string,
* description?: string,
* mimeType?: string,
* annotations?: Annotations,
* size?: int,
* icons?: Icon[],
* _meta?: array<string, mixed>,
* }
*/
public function jsonSerialize(): array
{
$data = [
'type' => $this->type,
'uri' => $this->uri,
'name' => $this->name,
];
if (null !== $this->title) {
$data['title'] = $this->title;
}
if (null !== $this->description) {
$data['description'] = $this->description;
}
if (null !== $this->mimeType) {
$data['mimeType'] = $this->mimeType;
}
if (null !== $this->annotations) {
$data['annotations'] = $this->annotations;
}
if (null !== $this->size) {
$data['size'] = $this->size;
}
if (null !== $this->icons) {
$data['icons'] = $this->icons;
}
if (null !== $this->meta) {
$data['_meta'] = $this->meta;
}
return $data;
}
}

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@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ use Mcp\Schema\Content\AudioContent;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\Content;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\EmbeddedResource;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\ImageContent;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\ResourceLink;
use Mcp\Schema\Content\TextContent;
use Mcp\Schema\JsonRpc\ResultInterface;
@ -105,6 +106,7 @@ class CallToolResult implements ResultInterface
'image' => ImageContent::fromArray($item),
'audio' => AudioContent::fromArray($item),
'resource' => EmbeddedResource::fromArray($item),
'resource_link' => ResourceLink::fromArray($item),
default => throw new InvalidArgumentException(\sprintf('Invalid content type in CallToolResult data: "%s".', $type)),
};
}