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Christopher Hertel
0cd5d56164
[Docs] Render the guides with Zensical instead of phpDocumentor (#414)
* [Docs] Render guides with Zensical, deploy via GitHub Pages actions

phpDocumentor's guide renderer copies the markdown through mostly verbatim:
relative links between pages keep pointing at `*.md` targets that do not exist
in the built site, and nothing validates them, so the published guides are full
of dead links.

Zensical (the Material for MkDocs team's successor to MkDocs) resolves internal
links against the page tree and fails the build on a broken one. `zensical
build --strict` already found four dead links on the first run — three
repo-relative links escaping docs/ (fixed to point at GitHub) and one wrong
in-page anchor.

phpDocumentor stays on for the class-level API reference only; `make docs`
builds the guides into site/ and mounts the reference at site/api/, so its two
header links back to the guides now target the site root.

Deployment moves from pushing a gh-pages branch to the official GitHub Pages
actions, and from release-only to every push on main, with pull requests
building (but not deploying) so a broken link fails review instead of the site.

NOTE: this needs the repository's Pages source switched to "GitHub Actions"
(Settings -> Pages) once.

* [Docs] Adopt the Python SDK's documentation look and feel

The docs site now uses the same theme configuration as
https://py.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/ so the language SDKs read as one set
of docs: the MCP mark as logo and favicon, Inter/JetBrains Mono, the
black/slate palette with a three-way (system/light/dark) toggle, instant
navigation, code copy/annotate, and a right-hand table of contents.

The markdown extension set is widened to the same list (tabbed blocks,
task lists, footnotes, emoji/icons, mermaid fences), which the content
restructure builds on.

Styling is otherwise stock: no custom stylesheet, and Zensical's own
`modern` theme variant, pinned explicitly rather than left to the default.

The one departure is code highlighting, which is broken out of the box here:
Pygments only highlights PHP after a `<?php` tag, so the guides — whose code
blocks are almost all fragments — rendered as flat plain text. The `php`
lexer is extended with `startinline`, and complete-file blocks use a
`php-file` lexer that keeps the literal open tag highlighted.

* [Docs] Restructure the guides into task-oriented sections

The guides were ten flat pages, each opening with a hand-maintained table of
contents and each mixing several audiences: `mcp-elements.md` covered tools,
prompts, schema generation and handler-side logging, `transports.md` covered
both transports plus framework integration, and `server-builder.md` covered
configuration, sessions and custom message handlers.

They are now split along the same lines as the Python SDK's documentation
(https://py.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/), one topic per page:

  Get started        installation, first server, the Inspector
  Servers            tools, resources, resource templates, prompts,
                     completions, schema generation, registration
  Inside your handler  the ClientGateway, logging
  Running your server  builder, STDIO, HTTP, framework integration,
                     sessions, authorization
  Clients            connecting, transports, capabilities, server-initiated
                     requests, error handling
  Advanced           events, protocol extensions, custom message handlers

Prose is carried over as-is apart from the seams; what is new is the landing
page and one index page per section, which say what the section is for and
where to go next, so no page is a dead end.

The per-page "Table of Contents" lists are gone — the theme renders one from
the headings — and GitHub's `> [!IMPORTANT]` blockquotes became admonitions,
which Zensical renders as callouts rather than plain quotes.

Every code sample and factual claim was then checked against src/ and the
runnable examples, which turned up long-standing errors in the carried-over
prose. Samples that could not run: a prompt using a `system` role (MCP has
only user/assistant), `Mcp\Schema\PromptMessage` (it is under `Schema\Content`)
constructed with an array instead of a single content object,
`Mcp\Capability\Prompt\Completion\ProviderInterface` (it is
`Mcp\Capability\Completion\ProviderInterface`), `new EmbeddedResource(type:,
resource: [...])` (neither parameter exists), a `: resource` return type
(not a PHP type), `#[McpResource]` with a `{path}` variable (that is a
template), a stray quote in the builder example, a `middlewares:` argument
(it is `middleware:`), and `getRequest()->getAttribute()` in the OAuth guide
(no such method — the values arrive on the request meta). Claims corrected:
sampling's `system_prompt` option (it is `systemPrompt`), `SampleMessage`
(it is `SamplingMessage`), `Notification` called an interface (abstract
class), "parameter order matters" for URI templates (bound by name), full
RFC 6570 support (only simple `{var}`), the tool description fallback chain,
`void` returning empty content, a non-zero STDIO exit code, `ErrorEvent`
being null for parse errors, handlers being "prepended", `Psr16StoreSession`,
and PSR-3 log context being sent to the client (it is dropped). Sixteen
`examples/` paths were missing their `server/` segment.

README, the OAuth ADR and one source comment now point at the published site
instead of at markdown files that moved.

* [Docs] Run the docs workflow unfiltered, keep README links relative

The `paths:` filters were mostly noise: `src/**` had to be in the list for
the phpDocumentor build, which meant the workflow ran on nearly every PR
anyway. They also missed two real inputs — `.phpdoc/template/**` and
`composer.lock` — so a template tweak or a phpDocumentor bump could change
the rendered site without triggering a build.

README links go back to relative repo paths. The README is not part of the
Zensical site (`docs_dir` is `docs/`), so those links are only ever resolved
by GitHub and Packagist, where absolute URLs break in-repo navigation for no
gain. The site pointer and the generated API reference stay absolute.

* [Docs] Adopt the doc changes that landed on main into the new structure

Twelve commits landed while the restructure was open, seven of them touching
the flat guides this branch replaces. Renames merged on their own; the three
files that were split apart needed their new sections placed by hand:

- Connection retries, protocol version negotiation, sampling with tools and
  roots from `client.md` into `client/connecting.md` and
  `client/server-requests.md`
- `ResourceLink` and structured output from `mcp-elements.md` into
  `servers/tools.md`
- Protocol version negotiation from `server-builder.md` into
  `run/server-builder.md`

The `setMaxRetries()` note claiming the value is never acted on is gone —
#413 implemented it. Callouts became admonitions and cross-links were
repointed at the new paths, as everywhere else in this branch.

* [Docs] Document the elicitation and roots client examples

Both were missing from the examples guide: the elicitation client predates
this branch, the roots client arrived with #395.

* [Docs] Fold the 2026-07-28 lifecycle into the new structure

Main's stateless-lifecycle.md becomes a docs/lifecycle/ section, and the pages
main touched — deprecations, the middleware split, the client's modern era —
land where the restructure moved them.

* [Docs] Link the Inspector to its documentation, not its repo

* [Docs] Distribute the 2026-07-28 material into the task sections

The Python and TypeScript SDKs file each feature where the task lives and keep
only an era comparison on its own page. Follow them: input-required moves next
to the other handler concerns, caching, subscriptions and era routing to
"Running your server", and one Protocol versions page carries the rest.

* [Docs] Move protocol version negotiation onto the Protocol versions page

The builder page keeps the setProtocolVersion() knob and links out; how a
revision is agreed now sits beside the era it belongs to.

* [Docs] Slim the README to a funnel, turn Examples into an index

* [Docs] Fix the code samples and API listings flagged by the audit

* [Docs] Link the negotiation spec section at latest, not draft
2026-08-20 00:03:54 +02:00
Christopher Hertel
7fe88677ad
[Docs][Examples][CI] Document and gate the 2026-07-28 lifecycle (#457)
docs/stateless-lifecycle.md walks the revision end to end - per-request
_meta, server/discover, multi round-trip requests, caching and subscriptions
- and a runnable example on each side shows what that looks like in code.

CI matrixes both conformance roles over both revisions. --spec-version is
cumulative across the dated revisions, so 2025-11-25 covers the two before
it; 2026-07-28 is not cumulative with them and needs its own run against its
own baseline. The runner is pinned so a PR only goes red for reasons in the
PR, and conformance-weekly tracks the moving target instead - on both
revisions, since the draft scenarios ship only on the alpha dist-tag.

The Inspector cannot reach a modern-lifecycle server (it opens with
initialize), so the example is covered by integration tests instead: one
drives it with hand-built HTTP the way a conforming client would, one drives
it with this SDK's client, and one drives the single endpoint from both eras.
2026-08-19 03:24:17 +02:00
Christopher Hertel
590afb575b
[Schema][Client][Server] Deprecate Roots, Sampling and Logging (SEP-2577) (#427)
* [Schema][Client][Server] Deprecate Roots, Sampling and Logging (SEP-2577)

* Emit runtime deprecation notices and document the migration (SEP-2596)
2026-08-18 01:23:32 +02:00
Christopher Hertel
43815e38a8
[Schema][Server] Harden sampling tools against the spec (#420)
* harden sampling tools against the spec

Report tool-flow violations as -32602 instead of dropping the request,
accept resource_link in tool results, gate tools on sampling.tools, and
reject empty content.

* normalize keyed content arrays to lists

array_filter() and friends preserve keys, and a keyed array serializes as a
JSON object instead of the content-block array the schema requires.
2026-08-15 04:13:53 +02:00
Christopher Hertel
becce29c41
[Capability] Harden structuredContent extraction (#417)
* Address review feedback on resource_link

Three follow-ups from review of the resource_link work:

* PromptResultFormatter: add a regression test proving the optional
  fields of a typed resource_link block (title, description, mimeType,
  size, annotations, _meta) survive formatting. The delegation to
  ResourceLink::fromArray() already landed while rebasing onto the
  PromptResultFormatter refactor, but the existing test only supplied
  uri/name and so could not catch a reintroduced field drop.

* ResourceLink::fromArray(): validate optional fields consistently, the
  way the equivalent ResourceDefinition::fromArray() already does.
  description, mimeType and size now raise InvalidArgumentException
  instead of surfacing a TypeError (or silently coercing, for size's
  (int) cast); annotations goes through Annotations::tryFromArray(),
  which carries the is_array() guard that icons already had; icons uses
  Icon::listFromArray() so a non-array entry is reported in context.

* ToolReference::extractStructuredContent(): never emit a list as
  structuredContent. The Content guard added earlier fixed only one
  instance of the real invariant - structuredContent must be a JSON
  object, and a PHP list can never be one. Tool::fromArray() already
  enforces the matching rule by rejecting an outputSchema whose type is
  not "object", so this aligns the runtime path with it. The test
  asserting the opposite for an array-typed outputSchema contradicted
  the phpstan type and the fromArray() check introduced alongside it in
  the same commit, so it is replaced by tests for the two list shapes.

* Apply the structuredContent object rule to object results too

`extractStructuredContent()` guards raw array results against being emitted
as a JSON array, but the object branch handed back whatever `json_decode()`
produced. A `JsonSerializable` returning a list or a scalar slipped straight
through, producing exactly the `structuredContent` the array guard exists to
prevent — and a return value that contradicts the method's own
`array<string, mixed>|null` signature.

Check the decoded value before returning it, and cover the object branch,
which had no tests at all.

* Document structured tool output

`outputSchema` and `structuredContent` were undocumented: the tool return
value docs covered only the `content` side, and the schema generation
section is about tool parameters.

Add a "Structured Output" subsection covering how to declare the schema,
which return values populate `structuredContent`, and why a list has to be
wrapped in a key to get structured output at all.

* Gate structuredContent on the negotiated protocol revision

SEP-2106 (revision 2026-07-28) widens structuredContent to any JSON value;
earlier revisions require an object. Resolve the revision per request and
apply the matching rule, and warn when a declared outputSchema yields none.

* Resolve the protocol revision on RequestContext

Keeps the `_meta`-then-session lookup in one place instead of per handler,
and exposes the negotiated revision to tool handlers.

* Document reading the negotiated revision from RequestContext

* Warn when a self-built CallToolResult carries an invalid structuredContent

Returning a CallToolResult opts out of the extraction rules, so the value is
still sent unchanged — but a JSON array is not valid before SEP-2106.
2026-08-15 04:03:20 +02:00
wWzZb
82aac972c1
[Schema][Server] feat: support sampling with tools (#409)
* feat: support sampling with tools

* address sampling tools review feedback

* tighten sampling tools spec compliance

* drop SamplingStopReason enum in favor of open string

The spec leaves stopReason open for provider-specific values, so upcasting
the four known ones to enum cases makes every future enum addition a silent
BC break for string comparisons.

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Co-authored-by: Christopher Hertel <mail@christopher-hertel.de>
2026-08-15 03:28:11 +02:00
Recoordinate
785fc3b9b7
Fix 'notifcation' typo in docs (#410) 2026-08-10 22:09:23 +02:00
Mateu Aguiló Bosch
fb2c8c2ee4
[Schema][Server] Add top-level title to Tool (#288)
* feat(schema): add top-level title to Tool

Mirror PR #278's Prompt change for Tool:

- Add optional ?string $title to Mcp\Schema\Tool between $name
  and $inputSchema. fromArray() now reads $data['title'];
  jsonSerialize() emits 'title' right after 'name'. The
  @phpstan-type ToolData gains title?: string.
- Add ?string $title to the #[McpTool] attribute between $name
  and $description.
- Note ToolAnnotations::$title as deprecated-for-display in
  favor of Tool::$title per MCP spec 2025-06-18 (PHPDoc only,
  field retained for BC).

Phase 1 of plan 01--tool-title-spec-compliance. Later phases
update Discoverer, Builder::addTool(), ArrayLoader, and the
conformance fixture to match the new signature.

* feat(server): thread title through discovery

- Discoverer::processMethod() now propagates McpTool::$title
  into every discovered Tool via named arguments.
- Builder::addTool() accepts ?string $title between $name and
  $description. [BC Break] positional callers passing the old
  $description as 3rd positional argument must switch to named
  arguments, matching the precedent set for addPrompt() in
  0.5.0.
- tests/Conformance/server.php migrated to named-argument form
  for every addTool() call.

Phase 2 of plan 01--tool-title-spec-compliance.

* feat(loader): forward title in ArrayLoader

ArrayLoader now reads 'title' from each tool config entry and
passes it into the Tool constructor, completing the wiring
from Builder::addTool() through array-driven registration.

The $tools @param array-shape typedef gains title: ?string
between name and description.

Phase 3 of plan 01--tool-title-spec-compliance.

* test(schema): cover Tool.title end-to-end

- New tests/Unit/Schema/ToolTest.php: constructor round-trip,
  jsonSerialize key-order when title set vs null, fromArray
  tolerance.
- New tests/Unit/Capability/Discovery/DiscovererToolTitleTest
  plus a TitleFixture class verifying McpTool(title: ...)
  propagates through discovery into the registered Tool.
- New tests/Unit/Capability/Registry/Loader/ArrayLoader...
  test verifying array-driven title propagation.
- Extend McpToolTest for title named-arg and default-null.
- Extend BuilderTest with addTool(title: 't') propagation.
- Update tests/Unit/.../RegistryTest, CallToolHandlerTest,
  ListToolsHandlerTest and examples/.../server.php
  new Tool(...) call sites to pass title (named args) so
  they match the new constructor signature.
- CHANGELOG 0.6.0 section: feature bullet + [BC Break]
  note for addTool() signature, mirroring 0.5.0 Prompt
  entries.
- docs/server-builder.md: addTool() row and prose now
  list title? between name and description.

Phase 4 of plan 01--tool-title-spec-compliance. All 730
phpunit tests pass; remaining phpstan warnings are
pre-existing and unrelated to Tool.title.

* refactor(schema): make Tool.title non-BC-breaking

Move `title` to the end of the Tool, Builder::addTool, and McpTool
attribute constructors with a default of null. This preserves
positional-argument compatibility and removes the need for
`title: null` boilerplate at call sites. JSON serialization order
(name, title, inputSchema, ...) is unchanged.

Also tighten the new tests: parameterize ToolTest with data
providers, fold the Discoverer title fixture into the existing
DiscoverableToolHandler, and drop the reflection-heavy Builder
test that overlapped with ArrayLoaderToolTitleTest.

* fix: move title after name

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Co-authored-by: DDEV User <nobody@example.com>
2026-04-26 15:37:40 +02:00
Jonathan Hefner
940eb90872
Add API documentation generation with phpDocumentor (#184)
* Add API documentation generation with phpDocumentor

- Add phpDocumentor configuration and `docs` Makefile target
- Generate docs during CI to catch errors before releases
- Set up GitHub Pages with Jekyll for hosting generated docs
- Add GitHub Actions workflow to deploy docs to GitHub Pages on releases

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* Fix phpDocumentor errors in type annotations

Change class-string union types to use phpDocumentor-compatible syntax
and reorder docblock tags so class descriptions precede `@author` tags.

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* Fix CI: pin phar-io/composer-distributor ^1.0.2

phar-io/composer-distributor 1.0.0 has a bug where it uses the wrong
package version when determining the phpDocumentor download URL,
causing CI to fail with 404 errors when using --prefer-lowest.
Version 1.0.2 fixes this issue.

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* Integrate markdown guides into phpDocumentor output

Configure phpDocumentor to generate both API documentation and user
guides in a single unified site. This replaces the previous Jekyll-based
approach where API docs were copied into the docs folder.

- Add `<guide>` configuration to `phpdoc.dist.xml`
- Create custom template with "Guides" navigation link
- Replace `docs/index.html` redirect with `docs/index.md` guide index
- Update workflow to publish `build/docs` directly without Jekyll
- Track `.phpdoc/template/` while still ignoring `.phpdoc/cache/`

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* Fine-tuning for path, config, and layout

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Christopher Hertel <mail@christopher-hertel.de>
2026-02-01 16:22:40 +01:00
Renamed from docs/client-communication.md (Previous history)