## Motivation and Context
The MCP Streamable HTTP specification defines that servers can return POST responses
as SSE streams and send server-to-client JSON-RPC requests and notifications through them:
> If the input is a JSON-RPC request, the server MUST either return
> `Content-Type: text/event-stream`, to initiate an SSE stream, or
> `Content-Type: application/json`, to return one JSON object.
If the server initiates an SSE stream:
> The server MAY send JSON-RPC requests and notifications before
> sending the JSON-RPC response. These messages SHOULD relate to the
> originating client request.
See: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/transports#sending-messages-to-the-server
Previously, when a GET SSE stream was connected, the Ruby SDK sent POST response bodies through
the GET stream and returned a 202 HTTP status for the POST itself. When no GET SSE stream was
connected, the SDK correctly returned `application/json` responses. The 202 behavior with GET SSE
was non-compliant with the specification, which requires POST requests to return `text/event-stream`
or `application/json`. Additionally, since GET SSE is optional per the specification, clients that
did not establish a GET SSE connection could not receive server-to-client messages (e.g.,
`sampling/createMessage`, log notifications) during request processing.
With this change, `handle_regular_request` always returns the POST response as an SSE stream for stateful sessions.
Each POST response stream is stored in `session[:post_request_streams]` keyed by `related_request_id` (the JSON-RPC request ID),
enabling correct routing when multiple POST requests are processed concurrently on the same session.
Server-to-client messages with a `related_request_id` are routed to the originating POST response stream only;
when `related_request_id` is nil, the GET SSE stream is used.
The TypeScript and Python SDKs already support this pattern.
### Internal Changes
`JsonRpcHandler.handle` and `JsonRpcHandler.handle_json` now pass both `method_name` and `request_id` to the method finder block.
This allows `Server#handle_request` to receive `related_request_id` directly from the protocol layer.
Without this, `related_request_id` would need to be relayed as a keyword argument through `Server#handle_json`,
`ServerSession#handle_json`, and `dispatch_handle_json`, unnecessarily exposing it on public method signatures.
This follows the same design as the TypeScript and Python SDKs, where the protocol layer extracts the request ID
and propagates it to the handler context.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added tests for POST response stream:
- `send_request` via POST response stream (sampling with and without GET SSE)
- `send_notification` via POST response stream (logging without GET SSE)
- `progress` notification via POST response stream (without GET SSE)
- POST request returns SSE response even with GET SSE connected
- Session-scoped notifications (log, progress) are sent to POST
response stream, not GET SSE stream
- `active_stream` does not fall back to GET SSE when
`related_request_id` is given but request stream is missing
Updated existing tests to handle SSE response format where applicable.
## Breaking Changes (spec compliance fix)
POST responses for JSON-RPC requests in stateful sessions now return `Content-Type: text/event-stream`
instead of being sent through the GET SSE stream with a 202 HTTP status. Clients that relied on receiving responses
via the GET SSE stream will need to read the POST response body instead. This is a spec compliance fix:
the MCP specification requires POST requests to return `text/event-stream` or `application/json`,
not 202 with the response on a separate GET stream.
## Motivation and Context
`Server#notify_progress` broadcasts progress notifications to all connected clients.
Progress notifications are tied to a specific request's `progressToken` and have no
meaningful broadcast use case. Neither the Python SDK nor the TypeScript SDK provides
a server-level progress broadcast capability.
The MCP specification requires that progress notifications only reference tokens
provided in an active request:
> Progress notifications MUST only reference tokens that:
> - Were provided in an active request
> - Are associated with an in-progress operation
Ref: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/utilities/progress
Broadcasting progress to all clients does not comply with this requirement,
since clients that did not originate the request have no matching `progressToken`.
The introduction of `ServerSession` for per-connection state (#275) made
this removal possible: `Progress` and `ServerContext` now use `notification_target:`
(a `ServerSession`) to route notifications to the originating session only.
### Changes
- Removed `Server#notify_progress` entirely. The method is no longer needed as
`notification_target` in `call_tool_with_args` now passes `session` directly
(nil when no session is available, in which case `Progress#report` and
`ServerContext#notify_log_message` are no-ops).
- Removed `ServerContext#notify_progress` as well. Progress notifications should
only be sent via `server_context.report_progress`, which enforces the correct
`progressToken` from the originating request.
- Added nil guards to `Progress#report` and `ServerContext#notify_log_message`
for when no session is available.
- Rewrote progress tests to use `ServerSession#handle` instead of
`Server#handle`, reflecting that progress notifications are always session-scoped.
- Removed 4 tests that called `server.notify_progress` directly as a public broadcast API.
- Removed `notify_progress` from the README.md notification methods list.
- Removed the "Server-Side: Direct `notify_progress` Usage" section from the README.md.
Progress notifications should be sent via `server_context.report_progress` inside tool handlers,
which automatically scopes them to the originating client session.
## Breaking Changes
Progress notifications are scoped to a specific request via `progressToken` per the MCP specification,
so the broadcast behavior of `Server#notify_progress` was a spec violation.
This is treated as a bug fix and is made without a deprecation period.
This aligns the Ruby SDK with the Python and TypeScript SDKs, neither of which provides
a server-level progress broadcast API.
`Server#notify_progress` and `ServerContext#notify_progress` are no longer available.
Users should use `server_context.report_progress` inside tool handlers instead, which
provides session-scoped delivery with the correct `progressToken`.
This feature was only recently introduced in mcp 0.9.0:
https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk/releases/tag/v0.9.0
So an early release should help limit its impact on adoption.
## Motivation and Context
The Ruby SDK uses a 1-Server-to-many-sessions model where session-specific state
(`@client`, `@logging_message_notification`) is stored on the shared `Server` instance.
This causes the last client to connect to overwrite state for all sessions,
and requires `session_id` to be threaded through method signatures for session-scoped notifications.
The Python SDK avoids this by creating a `ServerSession` per connection that wraps a shared `Server`.
Each session holds its own state and naturally scopes notifications through its own stream.
### Changes
- Added `MCP::ServerSession` class holding per-session state: client info,
logging configuration, and a `transport` reference for session-scoped
notification delivery.
- `StreamableHTTPTransport#handle_initialization` creates a `ServerSession`
per `initialize` request and stores it in the session hash.
- `handle_regular_request` routes requests through the session's
`ServerSession` instead of the shared `Server` directly.
- `Server#handle` and `Server#handle_json` accept an optional `session:`
keyword (`ServerSession` instance).
- `Server#init` stores client info on the session when available.
- `Server#configure_logging_level` stores logging config on the session.
- `ServerContext` and `Progress` accept a `notification_target:` which
can be either a `ServerSession` (session-scoped) or a `Server` (broadcast).
No `session_id:` parameter needed.
- `ServerContext#notify_progress` and `#notify_log_message` delegate to
the `notification_target` without `session_id` threading.
- `StdioTransport` creates a single `ServerSession` on `open`,
making the session model transparent across both transports.
### Design Decision
This follows the Python SDK's "shared `Server` + per-connection `Session`" pattern.
The `Server` holds configuration (tools, prompts, resources, handlers).
Each `ServerSession` holds per-connection state (client info, logging level, stream writer).
Notifications from `ServerSession` go only to that session's stream.
## How Has This Been Tested?
All existing tests pass. All conformance tests pass. Added tests verifying:
- Session-scoped log notification is sent only to the originating session.
- Session-scoped progress notification is sent only to the originating session.
- Each session stores its own client info independently.
- Each session stores its own logging level independently.
- `StdioTransport#open` creates a `ServerSession` and stores client info on it.
## Breaking Change
None for end users.
The public API (`Server.new`, `define_tool`,`server_context.report_progress`,
`server_context.notify_log_message`, etc.) is unchanged. The following internal API
changes affect only SDK internals:
- `ServerContext.new` now requires `notification_target:` instead of just`progress:`.
- `Progress.new` now takes `notification_target:` instead of `server:`.
- `Server#handle` and `Server#handle_json` accept an optional `session:` keyword.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP specification defines `notifications/progress` for reporting incremental progress
during long-running tool operations. The Ruby SDK did not yet support this, so tools had no way to
send progress updates to clients. This caused the `tools-call-with-progress` conformance test to fail.
This adds an `MCP::ServerContext` wrapper that provides a `report_progress` method on
`server_context`. Tools call `server_context.report_progress(value, total:, message:)` to send
notifications back to the client. The method is a no-op when no `progressToken` was provided,
so tools can call it unconditionally without checking for a token.
This design is consistent with the TypeScript and Python SDKs, which provide progress
reporting through a context object rather than a separate parameter.
On the client side, `Client#call_tool` now accepts a `progress_token:` parameter that sets
`_meta.progressToken` in the request.
Ref: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest/server/utilities/progress
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added comprehensive tests in `test/mcp/server_progress_test.rb` covering `notify_progress`,
tool integration with progress, block-defined tools, `**kwargs` tools, and no-op behavior
without a token.
Added client tests for `progress_token:` parameter inclusion and omission.
Added `test/mcp/server_context_test.rb` test for non-Hash `server_context` preservation
when `_meta` is present.
Conformance: `tools-call-with-progress` removed from expected failures.
## Breaking Change
`server_context` is now always an `MCP::ServerContext` instance when passed to tools,
even if the server has no context configured. Code that checks `server_context ?` to
detect a nil context will need to be updated, as `ServerContext` is always truthy.
`ServerContext` delegates method calls to the underlying context object via
`method_missing`, so `server_context[:key]` and other accessor patterns continue to work.
In practice, this is unlikely to affect users. A tool that declares `server_context:`
is opting in to use the context; if the server has no context configured, that is a
server configuration issue rather than something the tool should handle with a nil check.
Koichi ITO