* [Schema][Server] Close the 2025-11-25 schema gaps and add the 2026-07-28 surface
Ports the type definitions this SDK still misses outside of sampling tool use,
which #409 and #420 already cover. Every addition is optional and defaults to
current behaviour, so a connection negotiated on an older revision is
unaffected.
From 2025-11-25, elicitation gains modes. ElicitationMode splits `form` —
build a form from the requested schema — from `url`, which sends the user out
of band and returns only the accept/decline/cancel outcome. That is why
requestedSchema becomes optional and `url` appears beside it.
ClientCapabilities learns the matching sub-capabilities, where an
`elicitation` naming no mode declares form, the only shape that existed
before. Icon gains `theme` from the same revision, and Implementation gains
the `title` BaseMetadata has carried since 2025-06-18.
From 2026-07-28, schemas loosen where the revision loosens them: SEP-2106
drops the object-only restriction, so Tool::outputSchema may describe any JSON
value and CallToolResult::structuredContent follows.
The same revision defines three error codes (-32020 header mismatch, -32021
missing required client capability, -32022 unsupported protocol version).
ProtocolVersionMiddleware switches to the last of them, so a rejected version
carries the supported set as structured data the client can retry from rather
than only as prose.
* [Schema] Reject what the 2026-07-28 types cannot represent
`Implementation::title` reached the typed constructor unchecked, so malformed
wire data raised a TypeError instead of InvalidArgumentException.
`ToolUseContent::input` accepted a list and serialized it as a JSON array,
where the protocol requires an object. The empty array stays exempt: it is
also an empty map and still emits `{}`.
`ToolChoice` and `ElicitRequest` read their mode with isset(), which is false
for an explicit null, so `{"mode": null}` silently became the default instead
of being rejected. Both use array_key_exists() now, letting the existing type
check refuse null.
* [Client][Server] Advertise the implementation title through both builders
`Implementation::title` could be parsed but never sent: neither
`Client\Builder::setClientInfo()` nor `Server\Builder::setServerInfo()`
accepted one, so every SDK user emitted null.
Both gain a trailing optional `$title`. On the server it sits where the
Implementation constructor already puts it, so existing positional calls keep
their meaning; the client builder forwards it by name, leaving the icons and
websiteUrl slots defaulted.
* [Schema] Serialize every non-null structuredContent
The object-only hydration guard was never that: `!is_array()` admitted
`[1, 2, 3]` and `[]`, which serialize to JSON arrays, while rejecting the
scalars 2026-07-28 permits. The truthiness emission gate was backwards in the
same way — it dropped `[]`, `0`, `false` and `""`, yet emitted lists, strings
and an empty stdClass.
Hydration now accepts any JSON value, and `null` alone means absent, matching
`ToolResultContent` which already carries this field that way. Which values a
given revision permits is a question for version-aware serialization, which
results cannot answer yet.
* [Schema][Server] Make url elicitation reachable
`ElicitRequest::forUrl()` built a request no SDK user could send: the only
public gateway method always constructed form mode from an ElicitationSchema,
and `request()` is private.
`elicitUrl()` joins `elicit()`, and both funnel through one send path that
hydrates the result with the request's own mode. Without that, a url-mode
accept — contentless by design — threw, because ElicitResult requires content
whenever the action is accept. The result carries no discriminator of its own,
so the mode has to come from the request it answers.
`supportsElicitationUrl()` reports whether the client named the mode, reusing
the sub-capability reader the sampling checks already use.
* [Schema] Add CHANGELOG entry for the 2026-07-28 surface
* [Capability][Schema][Server] Carry the widened structuredContent end to end
Review follow-up on the SEP-2106 widening, which stopped at the type.
`ToolReference::extractStructuredContent()` returned `?array`, so a tool
declaring a scalar `outputSchema` had its result dropped and logged as
unsendable. It returns `mixed` now and keeps a scalar — but only from
2026-07-28 on, and only when the tool declared an outputSchema: without one
the value is already carried in `content`, and advertising it twice is not an
improvement.
`CallToolHandler` only warned about list-shaped `structuredContent` on a
self-built `CallToolResult`, so a scalar reached revisions that require an
object unremarked. The check is on the shape now, not on the list case alone.
`ElicitResult` retained a `content` the spec says is absent from url-mode
results, leaving a malformed response indistinguishable from a valid one.
`Tool::jsonSerialize()` emitted the empty root schema as `[]`, which is not a
schema at all. Sub-schemas already had this treatment.
* 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.
* [Client][Docs][Schema][Server] Implement protocol version negotiation
The `initialize` handler never looked at the version the client asked for:
it always answered with the server's configured version (or the SDK default),
so a client offering a revision the server supports could still be told to
speak a different one. The spec requires echoing back a supported request and
only counter-offering when the requested version cannot be honoured.
Turns ProtocolVersion into the registry the other SDKs converged on
(typescript-sdk's protocolEras.ts, python-sdk's mcp_types/version.py):
`latestHandshake()`, `handshakeVersions()`, `modernVersions()` and ordered
comparison through `isAtLeast()`. Comparison goes through declaration order
rather than string collation, so an unrecognized peer string compares
conservatively instead of accidentally sorting above a known revision. The
one throw the enum can produce is the SDK's own LogicException, so a consumer
catching `Mcp\Exception\ExceptionInterface` does not miss it.
Adds 2026-07-28 as a known revision and splits the set into two eras:
handshake (2025-11-25 and earlier, negotiated via `initialize`) and modern
(2026-07-28+, per-request `_meta`). The lists are kept apart so a modern
revision can never leak into an `initialize` exchange, which has no
`initialize` at all. Serving the modern era is follow-up work; this only
teaches the SDK that the revision exists and must not be mis-negotiated.
Deliberately absent is any "newest revision in any era" accessor, which
would hand back the one revision the handshake must never offer.
Server: negotiates and stores the result on the session. A version pinned in
Configuration still pins the handshake to exactly that revision.
Client: validates the counter-offer and fails the handshake instead of
continuing on a revision it cannot speak; records the negotiated version on
the client state, readable through the new Client::getProtocolVersion().
The HTTP middleware now defaults to the handshake versions rather than every
declared case, so it stops accepting a modern version the server cannot yet
serve. When the header is absent it falls back to
ProtocolVersion::DEFAULT_NEGOTIATED_VERSION (2025-03-26), the revision that
introduced both Streamable HTTP and the header itself.
The negotiation behaviour is one provideNegotiationTable() data provider
whose rows are the documented table -- supported revision echoed back,
unknown or malformed counter-offered, modern counter-offered -- so the docs
and the suite cannot drift apart. The supported-revision rows iterate
handshakeVersions() rather than a literal list, so declaring a new handshake
revision extends the table automatically, and the "never answer with a modern
revision" assertion runs on every row.
Documented in server-builder.md (the enum registry, how the server answers a
handshake, what pinning changes), transports.md (the header check) and
client.md (the client's side), all linking the spec's versioning section.
* [Client][Docs][Schema][Server] Warn when the configured protocol version cannot be negotiated
* Log a warning instead of silently falling back when a modern revision is
configured on the client or pinned on the server builder.
* Document that setProtocolVersion() does not restrict the MCP-Protocol-Version
header check, which validates against a fixed set.
* Pin every revision's era in a test, so a new case declared past the modern
boundary fails instead of dropping out of the handshake set.
* Add CHANGELOG entry.
* [Client][Docs][Schema][Server] Rename version fallback constant and trim comments
* [Client][Server] Add Roots support
Wire up the MCP "roots" capability on both sides:
Client (php-sdk as client):
- RootsCallbackInterface + ListRootsRequestHandler answer server roots/list
requests, mirroring the Sampling handler.
- Client::sendRootsListChanged() emits notifications/roots/list_changed.
Server (php-sdk as server):
- ClientGateway::listRoots() requests the client's roots, and
supportsRoots() reports whether the client advertised the capability,
normalizing the stored capabilities to an array so an empty
capabilities object (\stdClass) doesn't cause a TypeError.
- Add ListRootsResult::fromArray() (used by listRoots()).
- ListRootsRequestHandler forwards RootsException messages to the server
(new Mcp\Exception\RootsException), mirroring SamplingRequestHandler.
- Client::sendRootsListChanged() throws when the client did not advertise
the roots.listChanged capability.
Examples, docs and tests:
- examples/README/docs advertise
`new ClientCapabilities(roots: true, rootsListChanged: true)` before
sending notifications/roots/list_changed.
- CHANGELOG entry for Roots (unreleased 0.7.0 section at the time).
- Unit tests for capability serialization/round-trip, sendRootsListChanged
gating, and RootsException message forwarding.
phpunit, php-cs-fixer and phpstan green.
* [Client][Server] Address review: schema validation, changelog section, connection guard, working example
Responds to chr-hertel's review of the Roots support:
- ListRootsResult::fromArray() rejects non-array root elements instead of
accepting malformed entries silently.
- CHANGELOG entry moved to the next unreleased section as the release
train advanced past it (0.7.0 -> 0.8.0).
- Client::sendRootsListChanged() went straight to
Protocol::sendNotification(), which sends via
`$this->transport?->send()` -- on a client that is not connected the
notification was silently dropped. It now throws a ConnectionException
like sendRequest() does.
- The stdio example only advertised the roots capability, so the
roots/list handler never actually ran. The client-communication demo
server gets an `inspect_workspace_roots` tool that calls
ClientGateway::supportsRoots()/listRoots(); the example calls it, so
the server actually issues roots/list and the client answers it.
Dropped the try/catch wrapper from the example.
- ClientTest's connected-client mock now goes through setState() so
isConnected() reflects a real handshake instead of a stubbed flag.
phpunit, php-cs-fixer and phpstan green.
HttpTransport looked for an event boundary with strpos($buffer, "\n\n") and
split event lines on "\n". Servers that terminate SSE lines with CRLF therefore
never produced a recognised event: the response accumulated in the buffer, no
message was ever dispatched, and connect() failed with "Initialization failed:
Request timed out".
This affects every MCP server built on the Python SDK. FastMCP's
streamable_http_app() returns sse_starlette's EventSourceResponse without a sep
argument, and its DEFAULT_SEPARATOR is "\r\n". The bug is invisible from within
this repository because the PHP server implementation emits LF, so client and
server agree in the test suite while disagreeing with most servers in the wild.
The SSE specification requires a parser to accept CRLF, LF or CR, so the
previous behaviour was non-compliant rather than merely unlucky.
Event extraction now accepts all three terminators, choosing whichever appears
first so a buffer split mid-sequence is handled correctly, and line splitting
uses the same set. A stream that ends without a trailing blank line now
dispatches its final event instead of discarding it.
Adds the first tests for src/Client/Transport/, covering LF, CRLF and CR
framing, an id field, a comment preamble, and a missing trailing blank line.
Without the fix four of the six fail with the timeout above.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
processInput() appended every 8 KiB stdout chunk to $inputBuffer and only
drained it on a "\n". A spawned server that streams stdout without ever
emitting a newline grew the buffer without bound, exhausting client
memory (GHSA-6vrr-g4hw-f3hj).
Cap the buffer (default 4 MiB, configurable via the constructor). When
appending the next chunk would exceed the cap before a newline is seen,
abort the read and resolve the in-flight request with an error
immediately, so the caller fails fast instead of spinning until its
request timeout.
Based on localden's suggested fix in the advisory: makes the cap
configurable, but resolves the pending request with an error (keeping
runRequest's Response|Error contract) instead of throwing a
TransportException out of the read loop, and leaves connection teardown
to the caller. Adds regression tests.
Co-authored-by: localden <53200638+localden@users.noreply.github.com>
processSSEStream() appended every 4 KiB chunk to $sseBuffer and only
flushed on the "\n\n" SSE event delimiter. A server streaming data
without ever sending the delimiter grew the buffer without bound,
exhausting client memory (GHSA-7m52-jw36-44r3).
Cap the buffer (default 8 MiB, configurable via the constructor). When
appending the next chunk would exceed the cap before a complete event is
seen, abort the stream and resolve the in-flight request with an error
immediately, so the caller fails fast instead of spinning until its
request timeout.
Reimplements tonghuaroot's advisory fix: makes the cap configurable
rather than a hardcoded constant, fails the pending request fast instead
of relying on the timeout, and adds regression tests.
Co-authored-by: tonghuaroot <23011166+tonghuaroot@users.noreply.github.com>
* [Client] Add client-side elicitation support
The SDK could send elicitation/create requests from a server tool via
ClientGateway::elicit(), but the client could not receive them: there was
no request handler, and ElicitRequest was not registered in MessageFactory,
so incoming elicitation/create messages failed to parse.
This adds the client half, mirroring the existing Sampling pattern:
- Register ElicitRequest in MessageFactory so elicitation/create parses.
- ElicitationRequestHandler wraps a user callback and returns an
ElicitResult (accept/decline/cancel) or an Error.
- ElicitationCallbackInterface defines the callback contract.
- ElicitationException forwards a specific message to the server; any
other throwable returns a generic error.
Includes unit tests, a runnable client example against the elicitation
demo server, and client docs/README updates.
* [Client] Simplify elicitation example labelFor() per review
Type the parameter as AbstractSchemaDefinition and read ->title directly
instead of matching on each concrete definition type. title is a required
non-null string on the base class, so the match and the $name fallback were
redundant.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
