## Motivation and Context
The MCP 2025-03-26 authorization spec predates Protected Resource Metadata:
the MCP server itself acted as the authorization base URL, its RFC 8414 metadata was fetched from
the server origin, and the spec's "Fallbacks for Servers without Metadata Discovery" section
required clients to use the default endpoints `/authorize`, `/token`, and `/register` relative to
the authorization base URL when no metadata was published. Both the TypeScript SDK
(`discoverOAuthServerInfo` falls back to the server base URL on PRM failure; `startAuthorization` /
`executeTokenRequest` / `registerClient` default the endpoint paths) and the Python SDK
(`build_oauth_authorization_server_metadata_discovery_urls(None, ...)` plus the same endpoint defaults)
keep this as client-side backwards compatibility, and the `auth/2025-03-26-oauth-metadata-backcompat` and
`auth/2025-03-26-oauth-endpoint-fallback` conformance scenarios exercise it.
The Ruby flow previously raised as soon as PRM discovery failed, so both scenarios were
expected conformance failures. This change adds the same fallback:
- `Flow#locate_authorization_server` first attempts PRM discovery; on any discovery failure
(404s, network errors, malformed documents, matching the TypeScript and Python SDKs' broad fallback)
the MCP server's origin becomes the legacy authorization base URL. The Communication Security check
(HTTPS or loopback) still applies to that origin, and PRM documents that parse correctly keep
their strict shape validation.
- `Flow#authorization_server_metadata` fetches RFC 8414 metadata from the base URL.
On the legacy path the `issuer` byte-match is skipped: the 2025-03-26 spec predates that requirement,
and a pre-PRM server may host its OAuth endpoints under a path prefix whose `issuer` legitimately differs
from the discovery origin (neither reference SDK validates the issuer on this path). On the modern path
the byte-match is unchanged.
- When even the metadata document is absent, synthetic metadata carrying the legacy spec's default endpoints
is used, with PKCE S256 assumed (the legacy spec mandates PKCE; the TypeScript and Python SDKs hardcode S256
on this path too). Endpoint HTTPS checks still apply.
- `run!` and `refresh!` share the new discovery helpers, and both 2025-03-26 scenarios are removed from
`conformance/expected_failures.yml`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb`:
- the metadata-backcompat shape: no PRM, AS metadata at the server origin with `/oauth`-prefixed endpoints
and a mismatched `issuer` completes the flow against those endpoints (no issuer error)
- the endpoint-fallback shape: no metadata at all registers, authorizes, and exchanges the code at `/register`,
`/authorize`, and `/token` on the origin, still sending `code_challenge` (S256) and `code_verifier`
- a remote plain-http origin is rejected as the legacy authorization base
- strict-mode regression: with PRM present, a mismatched `issuer` still aborts the flow
- a malformed PRM (top-level JSON array) now selects the legacy path instead of leaking a `TypeError`,
and surfaces a domain error when that path also dead-ends
Two existing tests that asserted PRM failure was terminal were updated to dead-end the legacy path explicitly,
preserving their original intent (single flow attempt, domain error type).
## Breaking Changes
None for spec-compliant 2025-06-18+ servers, whose PRM-based discovery and issuer validation are unchanged.
Servers that previously failed hard during PRM discovery now get one legacy discovery attempt before the flow errors,
which can only turn previously failing flows into working ones.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP specification constrains `Annotations.priority` to the 0–1 range
(`@minimum 0`, `@maximum 1`), but the Ruby SDK accepts any value. The other
official SDKs already enforce this (TypeScript, Python, and PHP).
This follows the existing pattern in `MCP::Icon`, which validates its
constrained `theme` value in the constructor and raises `ArgumentError`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added tests in `test/mcp/annotations_test.rb`:
- valid `priority` at the lower (0) and upper (1) bounds is accepted
- out-of-range `priority` (above 1, below 0) raises `ArgumentError`
The full unit suite and RuboCop pass locally.
## Breaking Changes
Strictly speaking yes: a caller that currently passes an out-of-range
`priority` (e.g. `priority: 99`) will now get an `ArgumentError`. Such values
already violate the MCP specification, and `nil` / in-range values are
unaffected.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2133 (modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2133, merged for
the 2026-07-28 spec release) establishes the extensions framework for MCP:
both `ClientCapabilities` and `ServerCapabilities` gain an optional `extensions`
member keyed by reverse-DNS extension identifiers
(e.g. `"io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks"`, `"com.example/feature"`), with arbitrary
extension-defined configuration objects as values and an empty object meaning
"supported with no settings". Official extensions such as MCP Apps (SEP-1865)
and the Tasks extension (SEP-2663) are layered on this field.
This mirrors the shape the TypeScript SDK merged (typescript-sdk#1630):
plain declaration and passthrough, no registrar API and no key-format validation
(the naming convention is documented instead).
- `MCP::Server::Capabilities` gains `support_extensions` (repeated calls merge),
accepts an `:extensions` key in its constructor hash, and includes `extensions`
in `to_h`. The class was previously dead code: it was never required and
`Server.new` only took plain hashes. It is now required by `lib/mcp/server.rb`,
and `Server.new(capabilities:)` accepts either a plain Hash (as before) or
a `Capabilities` instance.
- Server-declared extensions appear in the `initialize` result;
extensions the client declares during `initialize` were already stored verbatim and
are readable via `Server#client_capabilities[:extensions]` and
`ServerSession#client_capabilities[:extensions]` (now covered by tests).
- `MCP::Client#connect(capabilities:)` already passes capabilities through verbatim;
its documentation now covers the `extensions` member.
Resolves#378.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- New `test/mcp/server/capabilities_test.rb` covers the previously untested
`Capabilities` class: empty default, constructor round-trip, extensions via
constructor and `support_extensions`, merge semantics, nil tolerance,
and omission from `to_h` when never declared.
- New tests in `test/mcp/server_test.rb` assert that the `initialize` result
carries declared extensions (from both a plain hash and a `Capabilities` instance)
and that client-declared extensions are readable via `Server#client_capabilities`
and `ServerSession#client_capabilities`.
## Breaking Changes
None. `extensions` is additive and appears on the wire only when declared;
servers constructed with plain capability hashes behave exactly as before.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP specification defines an optional `annotations` field on both the
`Resource` and `ResourceTemplate` types, but the Ruby SDK is the only official
SDK that does not wire it up — TypeScript, Python, and PHP all implement it.
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/server/resources#annotations
The `MCP::Annotations` class already exists; this commit connects it. The field
accepts an `MCP::Annotations` instance rather than a raw hash, for consistency
with other typed fields and to get `lastModified` key normalization for free.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added tests in `test/mcp/resource_test.rb` and
`test/mcp/resource_template_test.rb`:
- `#to_h` omits `annotations` when nil
- `#to_h` includes `annotations` when present (also asserting that
`last_modified` is serialized as `lastModified`)
The full unit suite and RuboCop pass locally.
## Breaking Changes
None. `annotations:` is a new optional keyword argument defaulting to `nil`,
and it is omitted from `#to_h` output when not set.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2164 (modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2164, merged for the 2026-07-28 spec release)
standardizes the resource-not-found error on the JSON-RPC Invalid Params code (-32602),
dropping the legacy -32002 code, and both reference SDK implementations attach the requested URI
as structured error data (typescript-sdk#2267 throws `InvalidParams` with `data: { uri }`;
python-sdk#2344 adds a `ResourceNotFoundError` that maps to `code=-32602, data={"uri": ...}`).
The Ruby server already used -32602 (via `error_type: :invalid_params`) for its built-in not-found path
(`completion/complete` with an unknown `ref/resource` URI), but the response carried no structured data
and the generic "Invalid params" message, and there was no public error class for `resources_read_handler`
blocks to raise. The Ruby client never special-cased -32002, so nothing needed removal there.
- New public `MCP::Server::ResourceNotFoundError` (modeled on the `URLElicitationRequiredError` precedent):
code -32602, message `"Resource not found: <uri>"`, and `data: { uri: <uri> }`.
Custom `resources_read_handler` blocks raise it for unknown URIs; the README documents the pattern.
- The `completion/complete` `ref/resource` not-found path now raises this class,
so its error response gains `data: { uri: }` and a descriptive message instead of
the generic "Invalid params" text.
- The default `resources/read` behavior (returning empty contents for unknown URIs
when no handler is registered) is intentionally unchanged; raising there would
alter existing wire behavior.
Resolves#379.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/server_test.rb`:
- `resources/read` with a handler raising `ResourceNotFoundError` responds
with code -32602, message `"Resource not found: file:///missing.txt"`,
and `data: { uri: "file:///missing.txt" }`
- `completion/complete` with an unknown `ref/resource` URI carries the same code,
message, and structured data
New test in `test/mcp/client_test.rb` asserts `Client#read_resource` surfaces
the -32602 code and the `data` hash unmodified through `Client::ServerError`
(regression: no special-casing swallows it).
The pre-existing completion error-code tests pass unchanged.
`bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes.
## Breaking Changes
None at the JSON-RPC code level (-32602 before and after).
The `completion/complete` resource-not-found error response changes shape within
the error object: `message` becomes `"Resource not found: <uri>"` instead of
`"Invalid params"`, and `data` becomes `{ uri: <uri> }` instead of the message string.
Both members are advisory per JSON-RPC 2.0.
## Motivation and Context
Resolves#398.
`JsonRpcHandler` returned `"id": null` for JSON-RPC envelope errors
(wrong or missing `jsonrpc` version, non-string `method`) even when
the incoming payload carried a concrete, valid request id.
From the client's perspective the original request stayed pending forever,
since no response with the matching id ever arrived:
```
{"jsonrpc":"1.0","id":3,"method":"ping","params":{}}
=> {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"error":{"code":-32600,...}}
```
Per JSON-RPC 2.0 (Response object, `id`), the response id MUST be
the same as the request's id; null is reserved for requests whose id
could not be detected (e.g. Parse error). The envelope validation in
`process_request` runs after JSON parsing with the request hash in
hand, so the id is detectable - it was simply discarded by passing
the `:unknown_id` sentinel unconditionally.
The fix passes the request's id to `error_response` whenever
the request carries one. The existing guards keep every other case intact:
`error_response` already nils out ids that fail validation
(so a type-invalid or pattern-violating id still yields `"id": null`,
preserving the XSS-prevention policy on echoed ids), and the `:unknown_id`
sentinel is kept for requests without an id so an Invalid Request error
still produces a null-id response, matching the spec's own example.
Parse errors and non-object requests are unchanged (null is correct there),
and batch entries pick up the fix automatically since each entry goes through
`process_request`.
For reference, the TypeScript and Python SDKs currently respond with
`"id": null` in these cases as well, because both validate the whole
message against a schema (zod / pydantic) before extracting the id.
This change is driven by the JSON-RPC 2.0 requirement rather than
parity; the Ruby transport layer already echoes the request id where
recoverable (`invalid_request_response(request_id:)` in
`StreamableHTTPTransport`), and this closes the remaining gap in
`JsonRpcHandler`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- Reproduced the three payloads from #398 before and after the fix;
they now return `"id":3`, `"id":4`, and `"id":8` respectively
- New and updated unit tests covering: id preserved for wrong version,
missing `jsonrpc`, numeric `method`, and `rpc.`-prefixed `method`;
id preserved for an invalid entry inside a batch; null id kept for
requests without an id, with an explicit null id, and with an id
that fails validation
## Breaking Changes
None in the protocol sense - this aligns the error responses with
JSON-RPC 2.0. Clients that matched `"id": null` on these envelope
errors will now see the request's own id, which is what allows them
to correlate the error with the pending request.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP authorization specification and SEP-1046 allow confidential clients to
obtain tokens through the OAuth 2.1 `client_credentials` grant: a machine-to-machine flow
with no user, no browser redirect, and no authorization code. The Ruby SDK
previously supported only the interactive authorization-code flow, so it could not
authenticate against a server that requires `client_credentials`. This makes
the `auth/client-credentials-basic` conformance scenario pass and is removed from
the expected failures list.
Following the TypeScript SDK (`ClientCredentialsProvider`) and the Python SDK
(`ClientCredentialsOAuthProvider`), the grant gets its own provider class rather than
overloading the authorization-code provider. The change adds:
- `MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider`, a dedicated provider
for the grant. `client_id` and `client_secret` are mandatory
(the grant is for confidential clients), `token_endpoint_auth_method` is
`client_secret_basic` (default) or `client_secret_post` -- `none` is
rejected because an unauthenticated `client_credentials` request is
meaningless. It has no redirect arguments, so a credentials-only
client never supplies the redirect URI / handlers that grant has no use for.
- `MCP::Client::OAuth::StorageBackedProvider`, an internal module that
shares the token / client-information persistence between the two provider classes
so `Flow` can treat any provider uniformly.
- `Provider#authorization_flow` (`:authorization_code`) and
`ClientCredentialsProvider#authorization_flow` (`:client_credentials`).
`Flow#run!` dispatches on this rather than inspecting
`client_metadata[:grant_types]`, which is protocol metadata for
the authorization server, not an SDK control signal.
- `run_client_credentials!` shares the same PRM / AS metadata discovery
and Communication Security checks as the interactive flow, then
exchanges `grant_type=client_credentials` at the token endpoint via
the existing `post_to_token_endpoint` (which already applies
`client_secret_basic`). There is no PKCE, redirect, or `offline_access`
augmentation, because the grant does not issue a refresh token
(OAuth 2.1 Section 4.3.3).
- `conformance/client.rb` builds a `ClientCredentialsProvider` for
the `auth/client-credentials-*` scenarios, reusing the harness-injected
`client_id` / `client_secret`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New `ClientCredentialsProvider` tests cover: credentials are stored as
client information; `authorization_flow` is `:client_credentials`;
`client_secret_post` is accepted; missing `client_id` / `client_secret`
and `token_endpoint_auth_method: "none"` are rejected; and the token helpers
delegate to storage.
New `Flow` tests cover: a `client_credentials` provider exchanges
`grant_type=client_credentials` with HTTP Basic auth, saves the token,
and never contacts the authorization or registration endpoint;
the requested scope is taken from PRM `scopes_supported`; and a standard
`Provider` runs the authorization-code grant regardless of what its
`client_metadata[:grant_types]` lists. A `Provider` test asserts
`authorization_flow` is `:authorization_code`.
Conformance: `auth/client-credentials-basic` now passes 7/7 with no failures.
## Breaking Changes
None. `ClientCredentialsProvider` is a new class; the existing `Provider` keeps
its required `redirect_uri` / `redirect_handler` / `callback_handler` arguments
and its behaviour is unchanged. Existing interactive clients are unaffected.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-414 (modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#414, merged for
the 2026-07-28 spec release) documents OpenTelemetry trace context propagation
conventions for MCP: the un-prefixed `_meta` keys `traceparent`,
`tracestate`, and `baggage` are reserved (an explicit exception to
the reverse-DNS prefix rule) so trace context can flow between MCP clients and
servers per the W3C Trace Context and Baggage specifications.
This follows the TypeScript SDK's approach (typescript-sdk#2270):
guarantee `_meta` passthrough, export constants for the reserved key names,
and lock the behavior in with regression tests and documentation, without adding
an OpenTelemetry dependency (the Python SDK's python-sdk#2381 makes
`opentelemetry-api` a hard dependency instead, which conflicts with
this SDK's keep-dependencies-minimal policy):
- New `MCP::TraceContext` module exposing `TRACEPARENT_META_KEY`,
`TRACESTATE_META_KEY`, `BAGGAGE_META_KEY`, and `META_KEYS`.
- The server side already passes incoming request `_meta` to tool and prompt
handlers untouched via `server_context[:_meta]`; new regression tests pin
that guarantee for the three reserved keys.
- Every `MCP::Client` request method (`call_tool`, `read_resource`,
`get_prompt`, `complete`, `ping`, and the `list_*` methods) gains
a `meta:` keyword so Ruby clients can inject trace context (or any other
`_meta` entries) into outgoing requests; per SEP-414, trace context
should flow on every request, not only tool calls. The caller's hash is
never mutated. On `call_tool`, `progress_token` takes precedence over
a `progressToken` entry in `meta`, and an empty merge result omits `_meta`
entirely, preserving the existing wire format.
- README documents the convention and how to bridge the values to a tracing
system such as the `opentelemetry-ruby` gems.
Scope is intentionally client-to-server: server-initiated requests
(`sampling/createMessage`, `roots/list`, `elicitation/create`) do not accept
`meta:` yet; propagating trace context on those is a separate follow-up.
Resolves#374.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- New `test/mcp/trace_context_test.rb` pins the exact reserved key names and
the frozen `META_KEYS` list.
- New tests in `test/mcp/server_test.rb` assert that `tools/call` and
`prompts/get` deliver `traceparent`, `tracestate`, and `baggage` (alongside
`progressToken`) to handlers through `server_context[:_meta]` unchanged.
- New tests in `test/mcp/client_test.rb` cover the `meta:` keyword: the
trace keys are sent in `_meta` on `call_tool` and `read_resource`,
a table-driven test exercises the remaining request methods (`tools/list`,
`resources/list`, `resources/templates/list`, `prompts/list`,
`prompts/get`, `completion/complete`, `ping`), `progress_token` overrides
a `progressToken` entry in `meta` without duplicating the key,
the caller's `meta` hash is not mutated, and requests without `meta:`
serialize exactly as before (wire-format regressions for both the empty `meta`
hash and the no-params list request).
## Breaking Changes
None. `MCP::TraceContext` and the `meta:` keyword are purely additive, and
requests without `meta:` serialize exactly as before.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP authorization specification (2025-11-25 scope-selection-strategy)
and RFC 6750 Section 3.1 describe OAuth 2.0 step-up authentication:
the client already holds a valid access token, but the server returns a 403
with `WWW-Authenticate: Bearer error="insufficient_scope", scope="..."`
to demand a higher-privileged scope for a specific operation.
The client is expected to run a fresh authorization request with
the escalated scope and retry.
Until now the Ruby SDK only ran the OAuth flow on 401 responses.
A 403 surfaced unchanged as a `RequestHandlerError` and the operation
that needed the escalated scope failed permanently, even with a valid token
in storage. This lined up with the `auth/scope-step-up` conformance
scenario being listed in `conformance/expected_failures.yml`.
The change adds:
- `MCP::Client::HTTP#send_request` recognises a 403 carrying
an `insufficient_scope` Bearer challenge as a step-up signal,
re-runs a full authorization request with the scope from the challenge,
and retries the original request. Retries are capped at
one per `send_request` call so a server that repeatedly demands more
scope cannot loop the transport.
- `run_step_up_flow!` deliberately bypasses the refresh-token path that
`run_oauth_flow!` uses on 401. Refreshing would re-issue the same
scope set the existing token already has and the server already
rejected. Only a fresh `authorization_code` grant with the escalated
scope can succeed.
- A plain 403 with no `insufficient_scope` challenge continues to
surface as `RequestHandlerError` with `error_type: :forbidden`.
- `conformance/client.rb` invokes a tool for the `auth/scope-step-up`
scenario; the scenario's authorization middleware only requires
the escalated scope on `tools/call`, so the previous `tools/list`-only
client could never trigger the second authorization.
- `auth/scope-step-up` is removed from `conformance/expected_failures.yml`.
Resolves#383.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New `HTTPOAuthTest` cases cover: the 403 insufficient_scope path
re-authorizes with the escalated scope from the challenge and retries
the original request with the new bearer token; a plain 403 without
the `insufficient_scope` challenge is surfaced as
`error_type: :forbidden` with no OAuth side effects; repeated
`insufficient_scope` responses retry at most once and then surface the 403;
a provider with a saved `refresh_token` still goes through
the full authorization request rather than exchanging the refresh token,
because the existing scope set is precisely what was rejected.
Conformance: `auth/scope-step-up` now passes 22/22 with no warnings.
`bundle exec rake test`, `bundle exec rake rubocop`, and
`bundle exec rake conformance` are all green.
## Breaking Changes
None. Behaviour on 401 is unchanged. A 403 without the `insufficient_scope`
Bearer challenge still raises the same `RequestHandlerError` as before.
The new retry only fires when both the WWW-Authenticate header signals step-up
and the transport was constructed with an OAuth provider.
`#tools`, `#resources`, `#resource_templates`, and `#prompts` each repeated
the same loop to follow `next_cursor` and collect every page, differing only
in the `list_*` method called and the items field read from each page. Move
that loop into a single private `fetch_all_pages` helper so the four methods
are one-liners and the cursor-cycle guard lives in one place.
Behavior is unchanged; the existing `MCP::Client` list tests cover it.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2351 (modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2351, merged for the 2026-07-28 spec release)
makes explicit that MCP uses the default `oauth-authorization-server` well-known URI suffix from
RFC 8414 Section 3.1 and defines no application-specific suffix.
`MCP::Client::OAuth::Discovery.authorization_server_metadata_urls` already conforms:
it probes the RFC 8414 default suffix first (path-inserted form for path issuers) and
otherwise uses only the OpenID Connect Discovery `openid-configuration` suffix.
Neither the Python SDK nor the TypeScript SDK needed a behavior change for this SEP either;
their tracking issues (python-sdk#2799, typescript-sdk#2256) remain documentation-level.
This change documents the SEP-2351 guarantee in the discovery helper and locks the behavior
in with regression tests so a future refactor cannot silently introduce a non-default suffix.
Resolves#384.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New regression tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/discovery_test.rb`:
- the first probed candidate for a root issuer is exactly `/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server`
- every generated candidate uses only the `oauth-authorization-server` or `openid-configuration` suffix
- the RFC 8414 path-inserted `oauth-authorization-server` candidate comes first for issuers with a path component
- an issuer URL with a trailing slash is treated as a root issuer
## Breaking Changes
None. Documentation and regression tests only; no behavior change.
## Motivation and Context
The MCP specification defines an optional `size` field on the `Resource`
type, added in spec revision 2025-06-18 and retained in 2025-11-25:
https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/server/resources
> The size of the raw resource content, in bytes (i.e., before base64
> encoding or any tokenization), if known. This can be used by Hosts to
> display file sizes and estimate context window usage.
`MCP::Resource` was missing this field, so servers had no way to declare a
resource's byte size. Without it, hosts cannot show file sizes or estimate
context window usage before reading the resource contents.
This aligns the Ruby SDK with the spec, matching the TypeScript SDK
(modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk#1574).
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added tests in `test/mcp/resource_test.rb`:
- `#to_h` omits `size` when nil
- `#to_h` includes `size` when present
- `#to_h` includes `size` when zero (distinguishes an unset size from a
0-byte resource)
The full unit suite and RuboCop pass locally.
## Breaking Changes
None. `size:` is a new optional keyword argument defaulting to `nil`, and it
is omitted from `#to_h` output when not set, so existing callers are unaffected.
## Motivation and Context
MCP 2025-11-25 (basic/transports#protocol-version-header) specifies:
> For backwards compatibility, if the server does not receive an
> `MCP-Protocol-Version` header, and has no other way to identify the
> version - for example, by relying on the protocol version negotiated
> during initialization - the server SHOULD assume protocol version `2025-03-26`.
PR #347 satisfied only the MUST requirement (reject invalid/unsupported
values with 400). The SHOULD requirement to default a missing header to
`2025-03-26` was deferred to this follow-up.
This change brings the Ruby SDK in line with the Python SDK
(`src/mcp/server/streamable_http.py`), which falls back to
`DEFAULT_NEGOTIATED_VERSION` and then revalidates against the supported list.
## Behavior
A new constant `MCP::Configuration::DEFAULT_NEGOTIATED_PROTOCOL_VERSION`
holds `"2025-03-26"`. `validate_protocol_version_header` now substitutes
this value when the `MCP-Protocol-Version` header is absent, then runs
the same supported-version check. Because `"2025-03-26"` is currently in
`SUPPORTED_STABLE_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS`, missing headers continue to pass
through as before. Once `"2025-03-26"` is dropped from the supported
list in a future change, missing headers will start returning 400 with
a message naming the defaulted value.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Existing test `POST request without MCP-Protocol-Version header
succeeds` continues to pass (observable behavior unchanged today).
Added a focused regression test that stubs the supported-version list
to exclude `"2025-03-26"` and verifies that a header-less request is
rejected with the defaulted value reported in the error message;
this exercises the fallback branch directly.
## Breaking Changes
None today. The fallback is future-proofing: when `"2025-03-26"` is
eventually dropped, header-less requests will start returning 400.
That is the intended spec-driven behavior.
## Motivation and Context
The README documents that request-level `_meta` becomes available to tools
and prompts under `server_context[:_meta]`.
However, `Server#server_context_with_meta` only merges `_meta` when
`server_context` is a `Hash` (or `nil`, in which case a new `{ _meta: ... }` hash
is synthesized). When a non-`Hash` value is assigned to `server_context`, `_meta`
is silently dropped and tools will not see it under `server_context[:_meta]`.
This adds a note clarifying that `server_context` must be kept as a `Hash`
if tools need access to `_meta`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Documentation-only change, no behavioral modification.
## Breaking Changes
None.
## Motivation and Context
PR #347 introduced a single JSON-RPC error envelope response for
unsupported `MCP-Protocol-Version` headers, while the rest of the
transport-level error responses (Accept, Content-Type, Invalid JSON,
session management, method not allowed, internal server error) still
returned plain JSON of the form `{ "error": "..." }`. The Python SDK
(`src/mcp/server/streamable_http.py`) and TypeScript SDK
(`packages/server/src/server/streamableHttp.ts`) consistently use
a JSON-RPC error envelope for all transport-level errors.
Unify the Ruby SDK with them.
## Behavior
All transport-level error responses now return a JSON-RPC error envelope:
```json
{
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": null,
"error": {
"code": -32600,
"message": "..."
}
}
```
Affected helpers in `lib/mcp/server/transports/streamable_http_transport.rb`:
- `validate_content_type` (HTTP 415)
- `not_acceptable_response` (HTTP 406)
- `parse_request_body` error (HTTP 400, `PARSE_ERROR` `-32700`)
- `method_not_allowed_response` (HTTP 405)
- `missing_session_id_response` (HTTP 400)
- `session_not_found_response` (HTTP 404)
- `session_already_connected_response` (HTTP 409)
- Internal server error fallback in `handle_post` (HTTP 500, `INTERNAL_ERROR` `-32603`)
- `validate_protocol_version_header` (HTTP 400, dedup with shared helper)
A new private helper `json_rpc_error_response(status:, code:, message:)`
centralizes the envelope construction.
The "Invalid JSON" message wording is updated to "Parse error: Invalid JSON"
to match the JSON-RPC 2.0 `PARSE_ERROR` semantics.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Updated all affected tests in `test/mcp/server/transports/streamable_http_transport_test.rb` to
assert the new envelope shape (`body["error"]["message"]` instead of `body["error"]`).
## Breaking Changes
Clients that parsed the previous plain `{"error": "..."}` shape will need to read
`body["error"]["message"]` (or `body["error"]["code"]`).
The HTTP status codes are unchanged, only the response body structure changed.
## Motivation and Context
The README's Exception Reporting section claimed that `server_context` includes
`{ tool_name: "name", arguments: { ... } }` for tool calls. This matched
the implementation in 0.3.0 through 0.5.0, but the `{ tool_name:, arguments: }`
context was removed in 0.5.1 when exception reporting was consolidated into
the centralized `{ request: request }` path. The README was never updated to reflect this.
`Server#report_exception` is now only called with `{ request: request }`
(from `handle_request`) or `{ notification: "..." }` (from notification delivery rescues),
and tool call failures flow through the `{ request: ... }` path after being wrapped in
a `RequestHandlerError`.
The stale description misled users into expecting `tool_name` and `arguments`
in their exception reporter callbacks.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Documentation-only change. No behavioral modification.
## Breaking Changes
None.
## Motivation and Context
`MCP::Tool::Schema` previously used the pure-Ruby `json-schema` gem for
both construction-time metaschema validation and runtime argument /
result validation. For deep schemas this cost ~32-100ms per
construction (see issue #364).
`json_schemer` (https://rubygems.org/gems/json_schemer, v2.5.0) is
an actively maintained alternative that is much faster on this workload.
Switching reduces cold-start warming pressure in horizontally scaled
multi-tenant deployments (the scenario raised in #364) and brings
runtime data validation down to sub-millisecond per call once
the per-instance schemer is memoized.
The implementation preserves the legacy behavior of the `json-schema`
based code. Metaschema is pinned to draft-04 (`meta_schema:` option);
the `$schema` dialect URI is still emitted in `to_h` as 2020-12
but runtime validation continues to use draft-04, exactly as before.
Moving the runtime validator itself to 2020-12 is out of scope for
this PR and warrants its own discussion. `format` keywords are not enforced
(`format: false` option), matching what `json-schema`'s draft-04 path did.
Malformed schemas (e.g. an invalid `pattern` regex) continue to
surface as `ArgumentError, "Invalid JSON Schema: ..."`;
the `RegexpError` `json_schemer` raises during construction is wrapped.
`Symbol` values in argument data are coerced to strings inside
the internal `stringify` helper so they validate against `type: "string"`
the same way they did before.
The public `Schema#schema` accessor is dropped. It was a refactor
artifact from #198 (the consolidation of `InputSchema`'s
`properties` / `required` readers into a single hash) with no callers
in `lib/`; tests that needed the merged hash now read it through
`to_h`. The accessor's only remaining role would have been to expose
a mutation path that could desynchronize the memoized `@schemer`,
which this change removes.
Runtime dependency delta: drops `json-schema` (and `addressable`),
adds `json_schemer`, `hana`, `regexp_parser`, and `simpleidn`. Each added
gem is a single-purpose library tied to JSON Schema spec compliance.
Closes#364.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Side-by-side benchmark on representative schemas (simple, with `$ref` /
`additionalProperties`, nested, depth 20, depth 40):
construction-time metaschema validation is 4.7x to ~100x faster;
runtime data validation with the memoized schemer is sub-millisecond
across all sizes.
Four existing tests had their stub targets or message assertions updated
to track the new validator while preserving the original test intent.
The "unexpected errors bubble up" tests in `input_schema_test.rb`
and `output_schema_test.rb` now stub `JSONSchemer::Schema#validate`
instead of `JSON::Validator.fully_validate`. The cache tests in
`schema_test.rb` now stub `JSONSchemer::Schema#validate_schema`.
The two "detailed error message" tests in `tool_test.rb` switched from
asserting `json-schema`'s exact wording to format-agnostic substrings
(`"properties/count/minimum"`, `"number"`). The "required arguments are
converted to strings" test in `input_schema_test.rb` now reads the result
through `to_h[:required]` instead of the removed `schema` accessor.
Regression tests added for the legacy-behavior preservations above:
`format` keyword is not enforced, invalid `pattern` raises `ArgumentError`
(not `RegexpError`), and `Symbol` values validate against `type: "string"`.
## Breaking Changes
`Schema#schema` is no longer a public method. The accessor had no callers
outside the test suite, but anyone reading the internal representation
directly (rather than through `to_h`) will need to switch.
`Schema` / `InputSchema` / `OutputSchema` otherwise keep
their constructor signatures, `to_h` output, `ValidationError` /
`ArgumentError` raise points, and the `$schema` dialect emission.
The validator error message wording inside `ArgumentError` and
`ValidationError` now comes from `json_schemer` and still includes
the JSON pointer path and a description of the mismatch.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2207 describes how an OAuth client obtains refresh tokens: it
declares the `refresh_token` grant type in its client metadata and
requests the `offline_access` scope, but only when the authorization
server advertises `offline_access` in its metadata `scopes_supported`.
Requesting `offline_access` when the server does not list it is forbidden.
The Ruby SDK already supports the refresh grant (`Flow#refresh!`) but never
requested `offline_access`, so it could not obtain a refresh token from a server
that gates it behind that scope. This aligns the SDK with the Python and TypeScript SDKs
and makes the `auth/offline-access-scope` conformance scenario pass
(previously it reported one warning, `sep-2207-client-metadata-grant-types`,
and was listed in the expected-failures baseline).
The change adds:
- `Flow#augment_scope_with_offline_access`, called from `run!` after
`resolve_scope`, appends `offline_access` to the requested scope when
both the client opted into refresh tokens (its registered
`grant_types` include `refresh_token`) and the authorization server
advertises `offline_access` in its metadata `scopes_supported`.
Already-present `offline_access` is not duplicated. Gating on the server
advertisement keeps the SDK from ever requesting the scope where it is not supported.
- `conformance/client.rb` declares `refresh_token` in `grant_types`, an honest reflection
of the SDK's refresh support, which clears the SEP-2207 grant-types warning.
- `auth/offline-access-scope` is removed from `conformance/expected_failures.yml`.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New `Flow` tests cover: `offline_access` is requested when the server advertises it
and the client declared the `refresh_token` grant; `offline_access` is NOT requested
when the client did not declare the grant; `offline_access` is NOT requested
when the server does not advertise it (even with the grant declared);
and `offline_access` is not duplicated when it is already part of the resolved scope.
Conformance: `auth/offline-access-scope` now passes 14/14 with no warnings,
and `auth/offline-access-not-supported` still passes 13/13 (no regression).
`bundle exec rake test`, `bundle exec rake rubocop`, and `bundle exec rake conformance`
are all green.
## Breaking Changes
None. `offline_access` is appended only when the client's own `grant_types` opt
into refresh tokens and the authorization server advertises the scope, so existing clients
that do neither see no change in the scope they request.
## Motivation and Context
`MCP::Tool::Schema#initialize` validated every instance against the draft-04 metaschema
via `JSON::Validator.fully_validate`, costing ~32ms for deep schemas (up to ~100ms).
When schemas are built dynamically and repeatedly, this work is wasted because
the result depends only on the schema content.
This caches successful validations by a content digest, so an identical schema is validated
once and subsequent constructions skip the traversal (~100ms to ~0.1ms on a cache hit).
The cache is bounded and thread-safe. It supersedes the `validate: false` escape hatch proposed
in #362, which would have added permanent public interface and allowed invalid schemas
to reach clients.
Python and TypeScript SDKs do not metaschema-validate schema definitions, so this cost is specific
to the Ruby SDK; caching reduces it without weakening the default or changing validation semantics.
## How Has This Been Tested?
Added regression tests in `test/mcp/tool/schema_test.rb`: identical schemas validate only once,
distinct schemas validate separately, a cache hit still yields a usable and correctly validated schema,
invalid schemas raise on every construction and are not cached, a schema at the normalization depth limit
is cached without a nesting error, and `ValidationCache` evicts the oldest entry beyond its max size.
The full suite (`rake test`) and `rake rubocop` pass.
## Breaking Changes
None. Validation safety is preserved: every distinct schema is still validated, and invalid schemas
continue to raise. The initializer signature and validation semantics are unchanged.
