quickstart-resources/mcp-client-go/README.md
olaservo 84ffd2d7d2 Add structured output to the Go weather server and client
Both tools declare an OutputSchema and return StructuredContent alongside the
text.

get_alerts returns []Alert, so it answers with a top-level JSON array rather
than an array nested in an object, which protocol revision 2026-07-28 is the
first to allow. "No alerts" is simply []. get_forecast returns an object, for
contrast. The declared schema narrows the inferred ["null","array"] root to
"array": jsonschema-go infers the nullable form because a nil slice is valid
Go, but the handler always builds a slice.

Error paths return an error: a tool declaring an OutputSchema MUST return
conforming structured content, so a path with no data has to fail.

The client compiles every declared OutputSchema at connect time and validates
results against it, using jsonschema-go - already an SDK dependency, so no new
one. Each channel goes to its stated reader: Content is forwarded to the
model, StructuredContent is used as data, reporting how many items came back.

The client no longer treats a missing .env as fatal and checks for
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY after connecting rather than before, matching the Python and
TypeScript clients, so the connection can be exercised without credentials.

Requires go-sdk v1.7.0-pre.3: non-object output schema support (SEP-2106)
landed after v1.6.1 and is in no stable release. Model identifier moves to
claude-sonnet-5; the second call in the tool loop used a hardcoded
ModelClaude3_7SonnetLatest while the first used the package variable, so both
now use the same one.

Note that the SDK sends an array-rooted schema as written on every connection
rather than projecting it down, so an older client rejects the tool list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-09 15:36:32 -07:00

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# An LLM-Powered Chatbot MCP Client written in Go
See the [Build an MCP client](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/docs/develop/build-client) tutorial for more information.
## Structured output
The SDK does not validate tool output, so this client compiles each declared `outputSchema` at connect time and checks results against it — the spec's client-side SHOULD. It uses [`jsonschema-go`](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/jsonschema-go/jsonschema), already an SDK dependency.
The two channels go to different readers: `Content` is forwarded to the model, while `StructuredContent` is used as data — the client counts the items it returns. See [Structured Content](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/server/tools#structured-content).