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# Client Communication
MCP supports various ways a server can communicate back to a server on top of the main request-response flow.
## Table of Contents
- [ClientGateway](#client-gateway)
- [Sampling](#sampling)
- [Logging](#logging)
- [Notification](#notification)
- [Progress](#progress)
## ClientGateway
Every communication back to client is handled using the `Mcp\Server\ClientGateway` and its dedicated methods per
operation. To use the `ClientGateway` in your code, you need to use method argument injection for `RequestContext`.
Every reference of a MCP element, that translates to an actual method call, can just add an type-hinted argument for the
`RequestContext` and the SDK will take care to include the gateway in the arguments of the method call:
```php
use Mcp\Capability\Attribute\McpTool;
use Mcp\Server\RequestContext;
class MyService
{
#[McpTool('my_tool', 'My Tool Description')]
public function myTool(RequestContext $context): string
{
$context->getClientGateway()->log(...);
```
## Sampling
With [sampling](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/client/sampling) servers can request clients to
execute "completions" or "generations" with a language model for them:
```php
$result = $clientGateway->sample('Roses are red, violets are', 350, 90, ['temperature' => 0.5]);
```
The `sample` method accepts four arguments:
1. `message`, which is **required** and accepts a string, an instance of `Content` or an array of `SampleMessage` instances.
2. `maxTokens`, which defaults to `1000`
3. `timeout` in seconds, which defaults to `120`
4. `options` which might include `system_prompt`, `preferences` for model choice, `includeContext`, `temperature`, `stopSequences` and `metadata`
[Find more details to sampling payload in the specification.](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/client/sampling#protocol-messages)
## Logging
The [Logging](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/server/utilities/logging) utility enables servers
to send structured log messages as notifcation to clients:
```php
use Mcp\Schema\Enum\LoggingLevel;
$clientGateway->log(LoggingLevel::Warning, 'The end is near.');
```
## Progress
With a [Progress](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/utilities/progress#progress)
notification a server can update a client while an operation is ongoing:
```php
$clientGateway->progress(4.2, 10, 'Downloading needed images.');
```
## Notification
Lastly, the server can push all kind of notifications, that implement the `Mcp\Schema\JsonRpc\Notification` interface
to the client to:
```php
$clientGateway->notify($yourNotification);
```