## Motivation and Context
`Flow#locate_authorization_server` treated every failure to fetch Protected Resource Metadata as "the server publishes none"
and took the legacy 2025-03-26 path, where the MCP server's origin becomes the authorization base URL.
A request that never reached the server, or a `5xx` or `429`, says nothing about what the server publishes,
so a transient failure moved the flow to a different authorization server, discarded client information
and tokens bound to the real one on the way, and surfaced as an unrelated error, such as a failed registration at the origin,
rather than as the fetch failure itself. The comment claimed both reference SDKs behave that way, which is not so:
outside browsers the TypeScript SDK propagates network errors from discovery, and the Python SDK propagates them
and refuses the legacy path after a `5xx` or `429` from any candidate.
Discovery now keeps trying candidate URLs until one serves a JSON object and classifies the outcome once they are exhausted.
Like the Python SDK, it remembers a `5xx` or `429` from any candidate before deciding on the legacy path;
moving on to the next candidate after a network error is what the loop already did. `MetadataNotPublishedError`
(a `4xx` other than `429`, or a body that is not a JSON object) is the only failure that selects the legacy path;
`MetadataUnreachableError` (a network error, or a `5xx` or `429`, from any candidate) is raised instead.
Both subclass `AuthorizationError`, so callers rescuing that class keep working, and `MCP::Client::HTTP` still falls back from
a failed refresh to the full flow, which repeats discovery and raises the same way unless the server has recovered.
A body over the response cap is refused outright with a plain `AuthorizationError`, as it already was on the modern path.
The message lists every candidate's failure, with the URL stripped of userinfo, query and fragment and cut to a fixed length,
but otherwise spelled as requested, and with transport and parser messages bounded, as token endpoint diagnostics already are.
The default legacy endpoints for an origin whose own metadata document is absent are unchanged.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` and `test/mcp/client/oauth/discovery_test.rb`. Against the library
before this change, discovery in the scenarios these tests set up took the legacy path instead of raising.
## Breaking Changes
When no Protected Resource Metadata candidate serves a JSON object, a request that failed to reach the server,
or returned a `5xx` or `429`, now raises instead of attempting the legacy 2025-03-26 discovery at the MCP server's origin,
and a Protected Resource Metadata body over the response cap is refused instead of triggering that fallback.
## Motivation and Context
`MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow` takes an `http_client_factory:`, but `MCP::Client::HTTP` builds
the flow itself and passes none, so an application using `oauth:` could not add middleware to
the requests the flow makes: Protected Resource Metadata and authorization server metadata discovery,
dynamic client registration, and every token request.
The block that customizes the transport's Faraday connection does not help,
because that connection is bound to the MCP server URL and carries the `headers:` meant for that server,
and the authorization server is a different origin. The TypeScript SDK hands the transport's `fetch` to `auth()`
and the Python SDK sends the provider's requests through the transport's httpx client, so both let
an application instrument these requests; this SDK did not. (#558)
Providers now take `http_client_customizer:`, a callable invoked with the Faraday connection
the flow builds for its own requests, next to the other callables a provider already holds.
It runs after the SDK's defaults (`Accept: application/json`, no redirect following) and
between two middlewares of the SDK's own: `Flow::RequestedURLStamp`, registered before the customizer is invoked,
records the URL the flow asked for on the request environment, and `Flow::RequestedOriginGuard`, registered last,
sees what the customizer's middleware did to the request after that record. A request that would leave that origin,
by following a redirect or rewriting the URL, or that arrives without the record, is refused with
`Flow::DestinationMismatchError` before it reaches the adapter. The record lives on the environment rather than
in `env.request.context`, which stays the application's to fill or replace. The error is an `ArgumentError`
rather than an `AuthorizationError` so neither discovery nor the transport's refresh fallback can absorb
a configuration mistake. The boundary resembles the one the Python SDK keeps for its own requests,
which follows a redirect only within the origin; this flow follows none itself.
`Flow.build_http_client` assembles that connection and `Flow.new(http_client_factory:)` keeps replacing it whole.
Following done inside an adapter cannot be seen by any guard, so the documentation keeps that, `Accept-Encoding`,
and `raise_error` off the list of things a customizer may add, and notes that a recording middleware sees
client credentials and tokens.
Fixes#558.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb`, `test/mcp/client/oauth/http_oauth_test.rb`,
and the three provider test files. Against the library before this change, every one of them fails,
on the unknown keyword or on the missing reader.
## Breaking Changes
None. The customizer is opt-in, and the guard cannot fire on the SDK's own middleware-free connection.
## Motivation and Context
`Flow#refresh!` reads `client_id_metadata_document_url` from the provider unconditionally, once to decide whether
a provider without stored `client_information` may still refresh and once to build the CIMD `client_id`.
Only `Provider` defines that reader: `CrossAppAccessProvider` and `ClientCredentialsProvider`
raise `NoMethodError` once a stored `refresh_token` is found. `MCP::Client::HTTP` calls `refresh!` on any `401` while
a `refresh_token` is stored, so a `jwt-bearer` client whose authorization server issued one fails with
`NoMethodError` on the first expired token instead of refreshing. The error is not an `AuthorizationError`,
so the transport does not fall back to the grant either. RFC 7521 Section 4.1 makes a refresh token unusual
for an assertion grant, not forbidden, and one in storage must not crash the client.
The flow now reads the URL through a duck-typed helper, like `authorization_flow` and `client_assertion`,
so a provider without the reader has no CIMD URL and refreshes with its stored `client_information`:
the `refresh_token` grant is sent with the stored client authentication, and no new ID-JAG assertion is obtained.
The authorization-code registration path reads the URL through the same helper.
The docs now say that a refresh token issued anyway is used on the next `401`, and that the assertion provider
is not called again on refresh.
A refresh token stored without the `issuer` the SDK records is refused for these two providers before any request:
unlike `Provider`, they have no tokens that predate the record, and a refresh asks no validator, so such a token
would be presented to whatever authorization server discovery names. The refusal is an `AuthorizationError`,
which sends the transport back through the grant, and the grant asks.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` refresh through a `CrossAppAccessProvider` and
a `ClientCredentialsProvider` holding a `refresh_token`, asserting the `refresh_token` grant, the Basic credentials,
and that the assertion provider is not called. A transport test in `test/mcp/client/oauth/http_oauth_test.rb` sends
a `401` to a `CrossAppAccessProvider` with a stored `refresh_token` and expects the refreshed bearer token on the retry.
All three raise `NoMethodError` against the previous library.
Further tests pin the issuer stamp on the refreshed tokens, the refusal of an authorization server that did not issue them
for a `CrossAppAccessProvider`, a clean `AuthorizationError` for a provider with neither the reader
nor stored `client_information`, and registration through DCR for a provider without the reader.
A refresh token without a recorded issuer is refused for both providers before any request is sent.
## Breaking Changes
None.
## Motivation and Context
When a server publishes no Protected Resource Metadata, discovery takes the legacy 2025-03-26 path and `prm` is `nil`.
The authorization-code branch of `run!` allowed for that by passing `prm || {}` to `resolve_scope`,
but `run_client_credentials!` and `run_jwt_bearer!` passed `prm` as is, and `resolve_scope` then
called `prm["scopes_supported"]` on `nil`. Without a non-empty challenge scope, a `ClientCredentialsProvider` or
`CrossAppAccessProvider` pointed at such a server therefore failed with `NoMethodError` after discovery and before
the token request or the ID-JAG callback, instead of running its grant against the legacy authorization base
the way `Provider` does.
`resolve_scope` now treats a missing PRM as advertising no scopes, so the challenge scope or the provider's own scope applies,
and the authorization-code branch passes `prm` unchanged like the other two.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` run the `client_credentials` grant against a PRM-less server with metadata
at the origin, checking the provider's scope, the `resource`, and the recorded issuer, and run the `jwt-bearer` grant against
a server without any metadata, checking the default token endpoint, the assertion audience, the `resource`, and the recorded
issuer. Both raise `NoMethodError` against the previous library.
## Breaking Changes
None.
## Motivation and Context
On the legacy 2025-03-26 path, taken when a server publishes no Protected Resource Metadata,
the authorization server metadata is fetched from the MCP server's origin, which that spec names
as the authorization base URL, but its `issuer` was never compared with that origin.
RFC 8414 Section 3.3 requires the comparison, the 2025-03-26 spec makes RFC 8414 a MUST for clients,
and the TypeScript and Python SDKs both compare on this path, tolerating only a trailing slash.
The flow nevertheless used the unverified `issuer` as the authorization server's identity everywhere:
tokens were stamped with it, stored client information was matched against it, the `private_key_jwt`
and ID-JAG assertions took it as their audience, and `authorization_request_validator` was shown it.
A server on that path could therefore claim any issuer. Claiming the one that minted the stored tokens made
`refresh!` send the refresh token and the stored client secret to the server's own token endpoint, claiming
the one that issued stored client information made the flow reuse those credentials there, and a validator
allow-listing the claimed issuer approved the request.
The legacy path now applies the same check as the modern one: the document's `issuer` must be the origin,
rendered with or without a trailing slash, and any other document is refused before registration, redirect,
or token request. A server without a metadata document still gets the spec's default endpoints.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` serve legacy metadata at the MCP server origin that claims
`https://auth.example.com` and check that the flow, a refresh of tokens issued by that server,
and a flow holding client information bound to it are all refused before any request, with the validator never asked
and the credentials never presented. Metadata naming the origin, with or without a trailing slash and with
endpoints under a path prefix, completes the flow, including the RFC 9207 `iss` check. The former test
of a path-prefix issuer now expects the refusal. The refusal tests fail against the previous library.
## Breaking Changes
A server without Protected Resource Metadata whose authorization server metadata names an issuer other than
its origin is refused instead of used. The TypeScript and Python SDKs already refuse such a server,
and the 2025-03-26 spec places the metadata at the origin.
## Motivation and Context
`ClientCredentialsProvider` builds a fixed `client_credentials` token request: `grant_type`, `scope`,
`resource`, and the client authentication that `Flow#post_to_token_endpoint` adds. An authorization server
that requires further parameters, such as Auth0's `audience`, cannot be used through `oauth:` at all,
and giving up `oauth:` also gives up the bearer header and the 401-driven retry that the transport provides.
RFC 6749 Section 8.2 allows extension parameters on the token request, and the TypeScript SDK lets
a provider shape its token request through `prepareTokenRequest`. `ClientCredentialsProvider.new` now takes
`token_request_params:`, a Hash of String keys and values added to every token request the provider makes,
and `Flow#post_to_token_endpoint` reads the same name by duck typing, so a `Provider` or `CrossAppAccessProvider`
subclass that defines the method gets the same treatment on its authorization code exchange, refresh,
or `jwt-bearer` request.
`Provider.new` and `CrossAppAccessProvider.new` take the same keyword, held by `StorageBackedProvider` like
`authorization_request_validator`, so every bundled provider refuses a bad value before anything is stored.
The parameters go underneath the flow's own, so the SDK's values always win, and a key the SDK sets itself
(`Flow::RESERVED_TOKEN_REQUEST_PARAMS`) is refused rather than silently overridden: with `ArgumentError`
from the constructor, before any `client_information` is written, and again with `ArgumentError` from the flow,
before the token request is sent. Only Strings are accepted because `URI.encode_www_form` encodes other scalars
and Arrays in ways the caller did not write, and the provider keeps a frozen copy so a later change to
the caller's Hash cannot alter what is sent.
A Hash comparing keys by identity is refused too, since two equal keys are two entries there, sent twice
by a provider method or silently collapsed into one by the copy. The flow raises `ArgumentError` rather than
`AuthorizationError` because `MCP::Client::HTTP` treats a failed refresh as a reason to run the interactive flow,
which would then fail the same way after the user signed in.
Both refusals raise `Flow::InvalidTokenRequestParamsError`, a subclass of `ArgumentError`, so a caller can tell them
from an unknown keyword, and the copy duplicates keys as well as values, since `Hash` copies only keys
whose class is exactly `String`.
Fixes#554.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests cover every token request the parameters can ride (the `client_credentials` grant under
all three client authentication methods, the authorization code exchange, refresh, and `jwt-bearer`),
both refusal boundaries (the constructors of all three providers, and the flow for a provider defining the method),
and the transport surfacing a refused hook from a refresh attempt without starting the interactive flow.
All of them fail against the previous library.
## Breaking Changes
None. The keyword is optional and the hook is opt-in; a provider that does not define `token_request_params` sends
the same requests as before.
This release keeps the HTTP client working with json 3.0, which accepts the options of `JSON.parse`
as keywords only. Faraday's JSON response middleware, through 2.14.3, passes them as a positional Hash
that Ruby 3 no longer converts, so every JSON body the client received failed as an internal error.
The client now parses response bodies itself, the way it already handled streamed ones, and no longer
registers the middleware.
The one visible difference: a malformed JSON body delivered whole by an adapter without streaming support
now raises `RequestHandlerError` with `error_type: :parse_error`, as the streamed path already did,
instead of `:internal_error` wrapping a `Faraday::ParsingError`.
## Motivation and Context
json 3.0, released on 2026-09-07, accepts the options of `JSON.parse` as keywords only, and Faraday's json response middleware,
through 2.14.3, hands them over as a positional Hash, which Ruby 3 no longer converts. With both installed, every JSON body
the client receives fails inside that middleware, and `MCP::Client::HTTP` reports each request as an internal error.
Faraday's main branch passes the options as keywords, but no release carries that yet.
The client already parses streamed bodies and buffered SSE bodies itself; only a JSON body delivered
whole by an adapter without streaming support still went through the middleware. The client now parses that body too
and no longer registers the middleware, so every body takes `parse_json_buffer` and a malformed one answers
`:parse_error` whichever way it arrived. A JSON middleware added through the Faraday customizer block still works,
since a body it has parsed already is used as is.
## How Has This Been Tested?
A new test drives a buffered JSON response through a stand-in `JSON.parse` with the json 3.0 signature, options as keywords only,
so on Ruby 3 it failed with the middleware registered whatever json version is installed and passes now.
The existing buffered-body test keeps covering the plain path. The full suite passes on Ruby 3.0.7 with json 3.0.1 and faraday 2.14.3,
where five client tests failed before.
## Breaking Changes
None. A malformed JSON body delivered by an adapter without streaming support now raises `RequestHandlerError` with `error_type: :parse_error`,
as the streamed path already did, instead of `:internal_error` wrapping a `Faraday::ParsingError`.
This release makes the client answer a server's `ping` with the empty result the specification requires:
earlier clients replied with Method not found over Streamable HTTP and stayed silent over stdio,
so a server that checks liveness dropped their long-lived sessions. On the OAuth side,
the embedding application can refuse an authorization request through `authorization_request_validator`,
and stored tokens are refreshed only against the authorization server that issued them.
The validator is what makes this a minor release. The refresh check is the one behavior change:
when the authorization server named for a session differs from the one that issued the stored tokens,
the client reauthorizes instead of refreshing, and tokens stored by earlier releases, which carry no issuer,
keep refreshing.
## Motivation and Context
The ping utility says the receiver "MUST respond promptly with an empty response",
and a server may treat a missing answer as a stale connection and drop it. Both reference SDKs honor
that on the client side (the TypeScript protocol layer installs an automatic pong,
and the Python session answers `PingRequest` with an empty result), but this client answered
a server ping with Method not found over Streamable HTTP and ignored it entirely over stdio,
leaving long-lived legacy sessions vulnerable to a liveness-checking server.
Over HTTP, an unhandled `ping` is now answered with the empty result in `dispatch_server_request`.
The default deliberately does not live in `@server_request_handlers`: that registry's `any?` opens
the GET listening stream on connect, and a built-in pong must not change listener behavior -
a server can only ping on a stream that is already open. A handler registered via
`on_server_request("ping")` still wins.
Over stdio, the read loop now answers a ping frame inline and keeps waiting for its response.
Frames are told apart by shape rather than id: one carrying `method` is a request or notification,
never the awaited response, so a server-chosen ping id that collides with the awaited one is still answered -
and a request frame can no longer be returned to the caller as if it were the response.
Between requests nothing reads stdout, so a queued ping is answered when the next request starts reading,
which is inherent to the single-threaded stdio client. Other server-to-client requests over stdio stay
unsupported as documented.
The pong is best effort on both transports, in the ways the reference SDKs imply: a pong that cannot be written
over a broken stdin is dropped instead of failing the unrelated request whose response the loop is reading,
and a ping whose id is not a String or a Number - a shape the TypeScript and Python schemas reject outright -
is not answered with a pong: over stdio it is skipped entirely, and over HTTP it falls through to Method not found,
exactly as before this change.
The modern lifecycle removes `ping` altogether (SEP-2575), so this applies to handshake-lifecycle connections only.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New transport tests: over HTTP, a ping delivered on the SSE stream results in a POSTed empty-result response with
the ping's id, and a user-registered `"ping"` handler overrides the default; over stdio, a ping injected while
a response is awaited is answered on stdin and the original response still returns. Both fail without the change
(Method not found / no answer). Further tests cover the best-effort edges: a pong write failure over
a closed stdin leaves the awaited response intact, and a malformed-id ping is skipped over stdio
and answered with Method not found over HTTP. `bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes.
## Breaking Changes
None. A server ping that previously received Method not found (or nothing) now receives the empty result
the specification requires.
## Motivation and Context
An MCP server chooses the authorization server its users sign in to. It names one in `authorization_servers`
in its Protected Resource Metadata, and states the scopes it wants in `scopes_supported`
or in the `WWW-Authenticate` challenge. Nothing binds either choice to the server's own identity.
No origin rule can settle this, because an authorization server is legitimately a different origin
from the resource it protects. Validating that a token was issued for the intended audience is a responsibility
the specification places on MCP servers rather than on clients, and there is no portable way for a client
to perform it either: access tokens are frequently opaque, and an authorization server is not required to honor
the `resource` parameter or to report an audience in the token response.
Two things follow from that, and they are separate.
The first is a judgement, and it belongs to whoever embeds this SDK, because an application often knows
which providers its users deal with. `authorization_request_validator` is handed an `AuthorizationRequest` describing
the authorization server, the scopes, the MCP server, and the RFC 8707 resource, and can refuse.
It is one object rather than keyword arguments so that later revisions of the specification can add to it
without changing the shape implementers wrote. It runs on all three grants, and on the authorization-code grant it
runs before dynamic client registration, which is why scope resolution moved above `ensure_client_registered`:
a refusal must not leave this client registered at an authorization server the host just rejected.
The second is not a judgement and is enforced here rather than asked about. `refresh!` rediscovers
the authorization server on every call, so the server named for a session can differ from the one
the stored tokens came from. SEP-2352 already binds client credentials to their issuer,
but that check passes when the issuer was never recorded and is deliberately skipped for a Client ID Metadata Document URL,
which is portable across authorization servers. The issuer that minted the tokens is now recorded with them,
and `refresh!` refuses to present them to a different one. The transport answers that refusal by running
a full authorization, which brings the new authorization server to the validator above. Tokens stored before
this carry no issuer and keep refreshing.
The hook decides whether to proceed, not what to ask for. The scopes reach the authorization server unchanged either way,
because the specification requires a client to treat the scopes in the challenge as authoritative for the operation,
and narrowing them silently would break that.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` assert what the validator receives, that a refusal raises
before any registration request is sent and before the redirect handler runs, and that the `client_credentials`
and `jwt-bearer` grants consult it too. Others cover the issuer recorded on authorization, the refusal to refresh against
a different one, and that tokens stored without an issuer still refresh. A test in `test/mcp/client/oauth/http_oauth_test.rb`
drives the two halves together: a stale issuer makes the refresh fail, the transport reauthorizes, and the validator sees
the newly named authorization server while no refresh token is ever posted to it. Each of them fails with its half of
this change removed. `bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes.
## Breaking Changes
Refreshing now fails when the authorization server named for a session differs from the one that issued the stored tokens,
and the caller reauthorizes instead. Tokens stored before this change carry no recorded issuer and are unaffected
until their next authorization. The validator itself is additive: it defaults to `nil`, and a provider that does not offer
it authorizes as before.
This release repairs the `subscriptions/listen` stream: a host that buffers its responses,
the documented Rails controller pattern among them, can decline the method with
`serve_subscriptions_listen: false` instead of answering a modern client with a streaming body
it cannot render, and the stream's ordering guarantees are enforced - no notification before
the acknowledgement, none after the graceful closing result.
The new keyword argument is what makes this a minor release; everything else is a bug fix.
The controller-pattern crash is a regression from 1.2.0, where the modern lifecycle began
answering `subscriptions/listen` that earlier versions had refused as an unknown method,
and it fails quietly: only the notification stream breaks, so tool calls keep working.
## Motivation and Context
On graceful teardown (`transport.close`), each open `subscriptions/listen` stream receives
its `SubscriptionsListenResult` response before closing, signaling a clean end the client can distinguish
from an abrupt disconnect. But a delivery that snapshotted the stream from the registry
before teardown cleared it performs its write outside the lock, so a change notification could land after the final result.
Each subscription entry now carries a per-stream write mutex. Teardown marks the entry closed and writes
the result under that mutex; a racing delivery either lands before the result or observes `closed` and skips,
keeping the graceful result the stream's final message. The mutex is per stream and held only around the single write call,
so deliveries to different streams stay as parallel as before, and no path nests it inside the transport mutex
(delivery snapshots release `@mutex` first, and the write-error cleanup takes `@mutex` only after the write mutex is released),
ruling out lock-order inversions. Keepalive pings stay outside the mutex: they are SSE comment frames, which clients ignore by
specification, so one landing after the result is harmless.
## How Has This Been Tested?
With a new regression test pinning the race (an entry captured before teardown and re-presented to delivery afterwards writes
nothing after the result), the full suite, RuboCop, and the conformance suite, all green.
## Breaking Changes
None. The write mutex is internal to the listen registry; the wire only gains the ordering guarantee.
## Motivation and Context
The documented Rails controller pattern builds a fresh transport per request and renders `body.first`,
but a modern client's `subscriptions/listen` made `handle_request` return the streaming `Proc` body,
so exactly the documented configuration answered every notification-stream request with a 500 - quietly,
since tool calls and listings kept working. Nothing gated the route: `serves_subscriptions_listen?` was
hardcoded `true` and consulted only by `Server#discover` for capability stripping,
and the modern path deliberately ignores `stateless:`.
`StreamableHTTPTransport.new` now accepts `serve_subscriptions_listen:` (default `true`, behavior unchanged).
When `false`, the transport skips the listen interception so the method falls through the dispatcher as
unimplemented - the spec's 404 with JSON-RPC `-32601`, in an Array body the controller pattern can render - and
`serves_subscriptions_listen?` reflects the setting, so `Server#discover` stops advertising the `listChanged`/`subscribe`
capability flags through its existing wiring and the advertisement agrees with the actual behavior.
The documented controller example passes the flag and explains why; refusing implicitly in `stateless:` mode
was rejected because a stateless transport mounted as a long-lived Rack app serves listen streams correctly
(listen delivery deliberately precedes the stateless notification guard).
On the default streaming side, the listen body is now a small streaming-body object rather than a bare `Proc`:
it still responds to `call` and deliberately not to `each` (Rack would otherwise classify it as enumerable
and break the streaming), while `first` raises an error naming `serve_subscriptions_listen: false`
and pointing at the transports documentation, so a host that buffers the body the documented way fails with
guidance instead of a bare `NoMethodError`.
Fixes#531.
## How Has This Been Tested?
With the issue's reproduction script (default: a streaming body whose `body.first` raises the guidance;
with the flag: 404, `application/json`, and an Array body whose first element is the `-32601` error),
new transport tests covering the refusal shape, the capability stripping on `server/discover`, and the guidance
raise with the body's streaming classification, the full suite, RuboCop, and the conformance suite, all green;
the docs build passes every internal link and anchor check.
## Breaking Changes
None. The keyword defaults to the current behavior; refusal is opt-in.
## Motivation and Context
Per SEP-2575, the server MUST NOT send any notification on a subscription before `notifications/subscriptions/acknowledged`.
The listen stream was registered in the delivery registry before its acknowledgement was written (the write happens outside
the lock so a stalled reader cannot block the transport), so a change notification published concurrently from another thread
could be written to the stream ahead of the acknowledgement.
The entry is now inserted inactive - still reserving the id and the cap slot atomically - and becomes eligible for delivery only
after the acknowledgement write has completed. A concurrent notification inside the window skips the inactive entry,
which is indistinguishable from the change happening just before the subscription opened.
## How Has This Been Tested?
With a new regression test pinning the window (an entry injected in the registered-but-unacknowledged state receives nothing until activation),
the full suite, RuboCop, and the conformance suite, all green.
## Breaking Changes
None. Activation happens synchronously inside the same response body proc, so an acknowledged stream behaves exactly as before.
This release adds a `resources_list_handler` so `resources/list` can be served per-connection,
passes handler-returned `_meta` through subscription results, and moves the user-facing documentation
from README.md to the documentation site at https://ruby.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io.
Two entries under "Changed" are incompatible with 1.2.0 and ship in a minor release under
the exceptions in VERSIONING.md: OAuth endpoint responses larger than 4 MiB are refused,
and a request whose id is already in flight on the same session is answered with Invalid Request.
IMPORTANT: The documentation moves with #523, and the site deploys only through the release workflow,
so #523 needs to be merged immediately before this release.
Move the documentation that had grown to 3000+ lines in README.md onto https://ruby.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io
and slim the README down to a quick start and feature overview, following the Python SDK layout:
- Add 21 server pages as the docs/_server/ collection (overview plus transports, discovery, tools, prompts, resources,
roots, sampling, elicitation, multi round-trip results, notifications, notification subscriptions, cancellation, progress,
ping, completions, logging, pagination, server context, configuration, and custom methods), 8 client pages as
the docs/_client/ collection (overview, transports, lifecycle, multi round-trip results, cancellation, ping, pagination,
and authorization), and 3 extension pages as the docs/_extensions/ collection (overview, capability extensions, and MCP Apps,
following the Extensions Overview recommendation that SDK documentation list the supported extensions) -
one page per topic, ordered to match the sidebar of the 2026-07-28 specification, with the client-side APIs
(pinging, cancelling, and paginating from MCP::Client) documented under Building Clients
- Add top-level Examples and Protocol Versions pages after Installation, linking the runnable examples in examples/
and summarizing the supported protocol versions, the era model, and client negotiation
- Render the three sections as just-the-docs collections, which list every page beneath a plain category heading in
the sidebar with no folding, and serve every page at an extensionless URL under /server/, /client/, and /extensions/,
matching the sibling SDK documentation sites
- Replace docs/building-servers.md and docs/building-clients.md with redirects to the new section overview pages via
jekyll-redirect-from, redirect the previously published /installation.html to its extensionless URL, fold their content
that was missing from README.md into the new pages, and update the Tool argument keys reference comment in lib/mcp/server.rb to
the relocated Tools page
- Reduce README.md to the badges, a compact feature overview in the Python SDK style, installation instructions, a stdio
server and client quick start, and a License section, using absolute URLs for the remaining repository links
so they resolve on rubygems.org
- Adapt formatting where GitHub rendering habits break on the site: convert the numbered "three ways to define" lists into headings,
since kramdown restarts numbering at 1 when code blocks split list items, convert GitHub-style alerts into just-the-docs callouts
with the SEP-2260 server-to-client association note raised to a red warning, merge the duplicated Exception Reporting
and Configuration Block Data sections into the Configuration page, and relocate the Streamable HTTP settings that were nested under
the Logging section into the Transports page
- Refresh the migrated content against the current implementation: correct stale claims and broken samples the README carried,
note on each session-era feature how it relates to the modern lifecycle of MCP 2026-07-28, and point spec links at the latest revision,
keeping deliberate 2025-11-25 pins for pages the modern revision removed
- Style the site after the Rails API documentation palette (red links and accents on neutral surfaces) with matching
light and dark color schemes, center the sidebar and content as one block, add a Previous/Next footer pager following
the sidebar order, open external links in a new tab, and serve the MCP logo as the favicon
Every code block and heading from the previous README was verified to have a home in the new docs pages or the slimmed README before
the reduction; a few samples were corrected rather than copied, as noted above.
## Motivation and Context
A request id is the only key that routes request-scoped messages back to the request that caused them:
progress and log notifications, server-to-client requests such as sampling and elicitation,
and `notifications/cancelled` all resolve through it. Nothing checked that the id was free,
so a second request arriving under an id already in flight took the routing entry over.
From that point the first request's notifications were written to the second request's SSE stream,
and whichever finished first removed the shared entry, leaving the survivor's messages nowhere to go.
The spec puts the uniqueness obligation on the sender, and 2026-07-28 draws it at exactly
the window this change enforces: "The request ID MUST NOT match the ID of any other request the sender
has issued and not yet received a response for". Earlier revisions worded it as never reusing an id within
the session. Neither says what a receiver does with a duplicate, but the Streamable HTTP rules require
that messages the server sends before the response "SHOULD relate to the originating client request",
and two live requests sharing one id make that impossible to honor for either of them.
Answering the second one is the only option that stays correct, so it is refused the same way
a duplicate `initialize` is, and for the same reason: a repeated id must not silently displace state
the first one established.
The reference SDKs currently accept the duplicate and let the newer request take the entry.
That is not a settled design: the Python SDK carries a TODO naming rejection with `INVALID_REQUEST`
as the revisit, so this moves toward where they expect to end up rather than away from them.
`ServerSession#register_in_flight` now claims the id atomically and reports a collision instead of overwriting,
which `Server` turns into an Invalid Request for every transport. `StreamableHTTPTransport` refuses
the colliding POST with 409 before it registers a stream, since the stream is registered ahead of dispatch
and would otherwise take over the routing entry for as long as the rejection takes.
Removal is now guarded by identity everywhere the registry is keyed by request id, so a request that loses
a race cannot retire a registration it does not own. `initialize` never registers, so its `ensure` no longer unregisters:
a refused duplicate `initialize` reusing an in-flight id used to evict that registration on the way out,
silently disabling cancellation for the request that owned it (Streamable HTTP refuses such a POST before dispatch;
stdio reached this path). `drop_broken_stream` had a sharper form of the same bug: it removed whichever stream held
the id while closing the one passed in, which are not necessarily the same stream.
Only ids that are in flight are refused, which is the scope the current spec draws.
Enforcing the older "never within the session" wording would instead mean remembering every id a session ever used,
and the in-flight window is the part routing depends on either way. Sequential reuse keeps working,
and neither this SDK's client (`SecureRandom.uuid`) nor a client built on the TypeScript SDK (a per-connection counter)
can produce a collision.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/server/transports/streamable_http_transport_test.rb` reproduce the collision:
a tool parked mid-request, a second POST reusing its id, and assertions that the second POST is refused
and that the first request still receives the progress frame it emits afterwards. Others cover
the identity-guarded removal and confirm that an id can be reused once the earlier request has finished.
New tests in `test/mcp/server_cancellation_test.rb` cover the registry directly, including
the transport-independent Invalid Request and the survival of an in-flight registration across
a refused duplicate `initialize` under the same id. All of them except the sequential-reuse guard fail
without this change. `bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes.
## Breaking Changes
A request whose id is already in flight on the same session is now answered with Invalid Request
(HTTP 409 on Streamable HTTP) instead of being processed. A client that reuses ids concurrently was
already violating the specification and was already having its notifications misrouted.
## Motivation and Context
`MCP::Client::HTTP` caps a single message from the server at 4 MiB, but the OAuth flow talks to
authorization endpoints over its own Faraday connection, and that one had no cap. Discovery,
dynamic client registration, and token responses were buffered in full and handed to `JSON.parse`,
so a server that answered an OAuth request with an endless body grew the client's memory for as
long as it kept sending.
`Flow` and `IDJAGTokenExchange` each build their own connection, so both needed the bound.
The new `BoundedBody` counts bytes in a Faraday `on_data` callback and refuses the response once
it passes `MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES`, which matches the 4 MiB of `MCP::Client::HTTP::MAX_MESSAGE_BYTES`
and `MCP::Client::Stdio::MAX_LINE_BYTES`. It hands back the status paired with the bounded body
rather than the Faraday response, so no later caller can reach the unbounded `response.body`.
Those bytes are counted after decompression. The default Net::HTTP adapter negotiates `Accept-Encoding`
itself and reads the body through `Net::HTTPResponse#inflater`, so a small compressed body that expands past
the cap is refused partway through the expansion. That holds only while the connection leaves
`Accept-Encoding` alone, which is now recorded in a comment on both `default_http_client` definitions.
An over-cap response is refused rather than truncated: a partial discovery or token document cannot be validated.
Protected resource metadata is the one place where refusing is not fatal, since any PRM discovery failure
already selects the legacy authorization path by design.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New unit tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/bounded_body_test.rb` cover the streaming path,
the at-limit boundary, and the fallback for adapters that ignore `on_data`. One of them serves
a gzip body over a real socket rather than through WebMock, which returns a stubbed body verbatim
and never runs the inflater; it fails if the cap ever starts measuring compressed bytes. New tests in
`test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` and `test/mcp/client/oauth/id_jag_token_exchange_test.rb` drive each of
the four request wrappers end to end with an over-cap body; all five fail without the cap in place.
## Breaking Changes
An OAuth endpoint response larger than 4 MiB is now rejected instead of parsed.
This release completes the SEP-2575 stateless lifecycle of the 2026-07-28 specification,
together with the SEP-2322, SEP-2549, and SEP-2243 features that revision builds on.
Several entries under "Changed" are incompatible with 1.1.0 and ship in a minor release
under the spec-conformance and security exceptions in VERSIONING.md.
Servers no longer echo 2026-07-28 from `initialize` and counter-offer 2025-11-25 instead,
`Configuration` accepts only handshake versions for its `protocol_version` pin,
server-to-client requests are bounded by a timeout and refused outright on the modern lifecycle,
the client bounds automatic pagination and its total SSE reconnection wait,
and `prompts/get` answers Invalid Params where it used to answer Internal Error.
Closes#512.
An unknown prompt name and a missing required prompt argument are client input errors, but prompts/get raised them with the default Internal Error (-32603). The tools/call, resources/read, and completion/complete siblings already return Invalid Params (-32602) for the same not-found and missing-input conditions (resources/read via ResourceNotFoundError, per SEP-2164).
Add an explicit error_code so both map to -32602 while keeping the descriptive message and the existing instrumentation labels.
## Motivation and Context
Follow-up to https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk/issues/512#issuecomment-5285679761
A comment on #512 reported that results stay unstamped when a client negotiates `2026-07-28` through
the legacy `initialize` handshake: the SEP-2322 `resultType` stamp and the SEP-2549 cache hints are
both gated on the per-request `_meta` envelope, which such a connection never carries,
so strictly validating clients reject every result as missing the REQUIRED `resultType`.
The root cause sits upstream of the stamp. Per the SEP-2575 era model, an era is a property of
the protocol version itself: legacy versions establish a session via `initialize`
(`2025-11-25` and earlier), and modern versions carry their version on every request in `_meta` with
no handshake at all - the 2026-07-28 schema defines no `initialize`, and a request without the envelope
is malformed. The negotiation list of this server still contained `2026-07-28`, producing a hybrid state
the spec does not define and the reference SDKs refuse to construct: the TypeScript server negotiates
from `SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS`, which stops at `2025-11-25`, and counter-offers its first entry;
the Python server negotiates from `HANDSHAKE_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS`, which stops there too,
and counter-offers `LATEST_HANDSHAKE_VERSION`.
`initialize` now negotiates from a new `SUPPORTED_HANDSHAKE_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS` list
(`2025-11-25` and earlier): a request for `2026-07-28`, or for a version this server does not know,
is counter-offered `2025-11-25`, exactly as both reference SDKs answer. A counter-offered client proceeds on
`2025-11-25`, where `resultType` does not exist and its absence is the correct shape,
resolving the reported rejection. `2026-07-28` stays reachable through `server/discover` and
the per-request envelope, where the stamps already apply. The `envelope &&` stamp gates are
intentionally unchanged: with the handshake capped, an envelope-less `2026-07-28` connection is
no longer constructible, so the gates are correct by construction.
The client side is symmetrized the same way, matching both reference SDKs:
the legacy handshake offers `LATEST_HANDSHAKE_PROTOCOL_VERSION` by default,
passing an explicitly modern `protocol_version` to the legacy connect raises `ArgumentError`
(validated before the stdio transport spawns its child process), and a server answering `initialize` with
a modern version is rejected like an unknown one. `:auto` forwards an explicitly modern version to
the discovery probe and never downgrades it into the legacy fallback: the probe's failure is
the real answer and propagates, instead of the fallback dying on the handshake guard.
The handshake rule itself lives in one place (`Configuration.reject_modern_handshake_version!`),
and the handshake list is derived from the stable and modern lists so the era partition cannot drift
when the next revision lands.
Two consequences are worth naming. The roots/sampling deprecation warnings move to the modern connect
on the client, the revision where SEP-2577 actually deprecates them, since the handshake can no longer land
on a deprecating version and the call site the warnings used to sit on had become unreachable.
On the server the answer is removal: `Configuration#protocol_version` scopes the handshake,
so it now accepts handshake versions only and rejects a modern pin with `ArgumentError` at construction.
Accepting one would configure nothing (a modern version has no handshake to pin),
and neither reference SDK carries a config value that is accepted but inert:
Python's negotiation has no knob at all, and every entry of the TypeScript server's `supportedProtocolVersions`
is consumed by its own era's mechanism. With no path left onto a deprecating revision,
the server-side deprecation warning plumbing became unreachable and is removed along with it.
Keying those warnings on a modern-era session instead was tried and rejected,
because `notify_log_message` is the SEP-2575 sanctioned delivery path on that wire and every log line
would then carry a deprecation warning for doing exactly what the revision prescribes
(a single test file produced over a thousand of them).
A session-bound request may still stamp `MCP-Protocol-Version: 2026-07-28` after being counter-offered,
and such a request continues to be served at the negotiated revision rather than rejected.
Sending the negotiated version is a SHOULD on the client, and the spec's `400 Bad Request` rule
covers a version the server does not support, which is not the case here: this server does serve `2026-07-28`,
through the other lifecycle. The session it is bound to decides, and a test now pins that reading along with
its consequence, which is that no `resultType` appears on those results.
Two details follow from the pin being handshake-scoped. Reading it back when nothing is set
now answers `LATEST_HANDSHAKE_PROTOCOL_VERSION` rather than the newest version of any era,
so the getter no longer hands out a value its own writer rejects and round-tripping
the setting keeps working; only `Server#validate!` reads that default,
through three comparisons that answer the same for either value, so nothing else moves.
And the rejection names its reason instead of listing the accepted versions,
because this is the error an upgrade from a release that accepted the value lands on,
which makes it the migration note a bare list would not be.
`MCP::ProtocolDeprecations` says in its own documentation that only the client emits these warnings now,
and that `LOGGING_MESSAGE` has no caller left. It stays public and callable: removing it would be
a breaking change for no gain.
The handshake examples in `docs/building-clients.md` and the shared `initialize_params` test helper
now use the handshake version as well, and the README section on `protocol_version` describes the pin as
handshake-scoped: handshake versions only, `ArgumentError` for a modern one, the handshake version as the default,
and `2026-07-28` reached through `server/discover` with no configuration needed.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New regression tests pin the reported scenario end to end: an `initialize` requesting `2026-07-28` is
counter-offered `2025-11-25`, locks the legacy era, and subsequent results carry no `resultType`
(the correct shape at that revision). Client-side tests cover the default `2025-11-25` offer,
the `ArgumentError` for an explicitly modern version on the legacy connect
(asserting no child process is spawned on the stdio transport), the rejection of a modern `InitializeResult`
on both transports, the `:auto` probe failure propagating for an explicitly modern version instead of
falling back, and the deprecation warning firing on modern connects declaring roots/sampling capabilities.
Counter-offer adoption gets its own test on both transports, since the server-side fix only resolves anything for
clients that honor a counter-offer, and this client is one of them: the offer is the latest handshake version,
the answer is an older one, and the connection speaks the answer afterwards
(over HTTP the next request's `MCP-Protocol-Version` header carries it). The existing tests could not tell adoption
from an echo, because every one of them had the server answer with the version the client had just offered.
Both new tests were confirmed to fail when the client is made to report its own offer instead.
Tests that pinned the previous dual-lifecycle negotiation were inverted or reworked:
the server tests asserting `2026-07-28` echoes and fallbacks now assert the counter-offer,
and the deprecation warning tests keyed on a legacy-negotiated `2026-07-28` now assert no warning fires.
The server-side deprecation tests that reached their state by calling `mark_initialized!` with a modern version,
or by pinning one in `Configuration`, were replaced by tests asserting no warning fires on those paths,
since no code path can produce the warning state any more; `Configuration` rejecting a modern pin has its own tests
on the constructor and the setter, asserting the reason in the message rather than the list of accepted values.
The default-pin test now also round-trips what it reads back into a fresh `Configuration`,
which is what the old default could not do. The default move was checked for neutrality outside
the suite as well, by building a server that uses every feature `Server#validate!` gates on that value
(`description`, `title`, `website_url`, `instructions`, a `$ref` input schema, and tool annotations)
and confirming all of them are still accepted.
## Breaking Changes
Servers no longer echo `2026-07-28` from `initialize`: clients that negotiated it through
the handshake are counter-offered `2025-11-25` and are served at that revision, matching
the TypeScript and Python servers. `Configuration.new(protocol_version: "2026-07-28")` now
raises `ArgumentError` (the pin scopes the handshake, which cannot land there);
the value was only accepted since v1.1.0, whose handshake behavior this change replaces anyway.
Reading `Configuration#protocol_version` with no pin set answers `2025-11-25` instead of `2026-07-28`;
nothing in this SDK behaves differently for either value, but code comparing that reader against
a literal will see the change. The client no longer offers modern versions on the legacy handshake
and rejects a modern `InitializeResult`. Server-side deprecation warnings for SEP-2577 features
no longer fire at all, because no negotiation or configuration path can put a connection on a deprecating revision;
the client-side warning on a modern connect replaces them.
## Motivation and Context
`MCP::Client#tools`, `#resources`, `#resource_templates`, and `#prompts` follow `nextCursor`
until the server stops offering one. The `seen` set in `fetch_all_pages` catches a server that
repeats or cycles cursors, but a fresh cursor on every response walks past that guard, and
the client keeps requesting and retaining pages for as long as the server keeps producing them.
The transports' per-message limits do not help here, since each individual page can be small.
`MCP::Client.new` now takes `max_pages:`, defaulting to `MAX_PAGES` (1000). Reaching it raises
`PaginationLimitError` rather than truncating the collection silently, since a short array would
be indistinguishable from a server that genuinely ran out of items. The single-page `list_*` methods
are unchanged, so callers who need their own policy still have one.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client_test.rb` cover a server that returns a distinct cursor per page,
the boundary where a server stops exactly at `max_pages`, and the argument validation.
The existing repeat-cursor and cycling-cursor tests are unaffected.
`bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes.
## Breaking Changes
An all-pages call against a server offering more than 1000 pages now raises
`MCP::Client::PaginationLimitError` instead of continuing. Pass a larger `max_pages:` to
`MCP::Client.new` if that is expected.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2322 handlers return `InputRequiredResult` instead of issuing in-flight server-to-client requests,
but that result type exists only on the 2026-07-28 wire: pre-2026 clients treat an unknown `resultType`
as a final result, so the server rejected `input_required` on legacy requests with an internal error.
That forced authors to keep two handler styles, one per era.
This adds the dual-era authoring shim both reference implementations converged on:
the TypeScript SDK's default-on legacy fulfilment shim (typescript-sdk#2381)
and the Python SDK's version-negotiating resolver (python-sdk#2986).
When a `tools/call`, `prompts/get`, or `resources/read` handler returns an `InputRequiredResult` on
the legacy wire, the server fulfills it in place of the client's driver:
- Every `inputRequests` entry is sent verbatim as the equivalent real server-to-client request through
a new `ServerSession#fulfill_input_request` (per the spec, clients treat each embedded entry exactly like
the standalone request), stamped with the originating request id so the association requirement of
SEP-2260 holds and Streamable HTTP delivery rides the originating POST stream. One exception to
the verbatim forwarding: a URL-mode elicitation leg gains a synthesized `elicitationId` when
the handler supplied none, since the 2025-11-25 wire requires the field and the 2026-07-28 in-band
shape dropped it (correlation rides `requestState` there) - matching the TypeScript shim.
- The answers are collected under the same keys and the handler re-runs with `inputResponses`
and the raw `requestState` merged into the original params - the same deterministic replay contract
the modern client driver follows, read through the existing `server_context.input_responses`/`request_state` accessors.
Only the current round's responses are sent, matching the client driver; handlers carry earlier answers through `requestState`.
- `requestState` round-trips in-process as the value the handler wrote. `RequestStateSecurity` sealing is
wire hardening against a tampering client and does not apply to the in-process replay.
- The embedded-capability gate still runs each round against the session's declared client capabilities;
a violation fails before any client contact. The `-32021` code is 2026-only, so the legacy wire gets
an internal error naming the missing capabilities.
- Rounds are capped at 8 (`LEGACY_INPUT_REQUIRED_MAX_ROUNDS`), matching the TypeScript shim's `maxRounds` default;
exhaustion fails with an explanatory internal error, which also bounds the `requestState`-only load-shedding form
that cannot make progress in-process.
The shim is on by default, matching the TypeScript SDK; `Server.new(input_required_legacy_shim: false)` restores
the strict rejection. Requests without a session (no notification path back to a client) and all modern requests
are untouched: the modern wire keeps returning the `input_required` result for the client driver.
Resolves#382.
## How Has This Been Tested?
`bundle exec rake` passes: 1691 test runs / 4381 assertions with zero failures and RuboCop clean.
The conformance baseline check passes on both legs (the frozen 2025-11-25 wire is where the shim lives),
and the modern `input-required-result-*` scenarios stay green, confirming the modern path is untouched.
New `test/mcp/server_input_required_legacy_shim_test.rb` covering: completion through
a real elicitation with the SEP-2260 association asserted on the transport, replay exposing
the collected responses and the raw `requestState`, sealing bypass under `RequestStateSecurity`,
`prompts/get` and `resources/read` shimming, multi-round collection, the round cap, the capability gate failing
before client contact, the URL-mode leg gaining a synthesized `elicitationId` (and a handler-supplied
one riding unchanged), a client answering a fulfilment leg with an error failing the original request,
the opt-out, session-less rejection, and modern requests staying untouched.
The pre-existing legacy rejection test (session-less) and all modern MRTR serialization tests pass unchanged.
## Breaking Changes
Only for handlers that returned `InputRequiredResult` to legacy clients THROUGH A SESSION and relied
on the internal-error rejection: those now drive a real fulfilment round trip by default.
No such handler could have worked end to end before (the request always failed), so this is the intended upgrade;
`input_required_legacy_shim: false` restores the previous behavior. Everything else is unchanged.
## Motivation and Context
Final step of SEP-2322 (modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#2322) for the 2026-07-28 MCP spec release.
The client so far only recognized `input_required` results by raising `InputRequiredError`; this adds the resume loop,
mirroring the Python SDK's high-level `Client` driver and the TypeScript SDK's `runInputRequiredDriver`.
- The driver answers embedded requests with the handlers already registered through `on_elicitation`,
`on_sampling`, and the new `on_roots`. There is no second registration path: a server can ask for input two
ways, as a real request mid-call and as an entry in an `input_required` result, and one registration covers
both. This follows the TypeScript driver, which dispatches "to the client's already-registered handlers
(elicitation, sampling, roots - one generic engine, no per-feature API)".
- `on_elicitation` and `on_sampling` no longer refuse a transport without `on_server_request`. They record
the handler either way and wire it to the transport only when it can carry server-to-client requests. Refusing
would have locked stdio clients, and every 2026-07-28 connection, out of the only route the spec leaves:
the modern lifecycle forbids server-to-client requests, so an embedded request is how it asks.
- `MCP::Client.new` gains `input_required_max_rounds:` (default 10, the TypeScript and Python default).
- Once a handler is registered, `call_tool`, `get_prompt`, and `read_resource` resume automatically:
each `inputRequests` entry is fulfilled by the matching handler and the ORIGINAL request is re-issued with
`inputResponses` under the same keys plus the byte-exact echoed `requestState`, on a fresh JSON-RPC id per leg
(modern envelope stamping happens in the transports per send, so every leg carries the SEP-2575 triple).
A `requestState`-only result (load shedding) retries after an exponential backoff from 50ms to a 250ms cap,
matching the Python SDK; every leg counts against the round cap, whose exhaustion raises `InputRequiredError`
carrying the last result.
- A requested kind without a matching handler falls back to the manual path by raising `InputRequiredError`,
and clients with no handlers keep the exact pre-existing behavior. For manual driving,
`call_tool` / `get_prompt` / `read_resource` gain `input_responses:` and `request_state:` keyword arguments
that ride at the params top level. Non-MRTR methods such as `tools/list` keep raising unconditionally.
The conformance client rides the same change: it derives its lifecycle from the wire version the harness names per run
(`MCP_CONFORMANCE_PROTOCOL_VERSION`), connecting with `mode: :modern` for the 2026 draft and keeping the pinned legacy
handshake through 2025-11-25, retrying a modern connect once when the server rejects the first request with `-32022`
naming its supported versions. New scenario branches drive `sep-2322-client-request-state` through this driver
(an accepting `on_elicitation` handler plus the four `test_mrtr_*` tools), `request-metadata`, both SEP-2243 header
scenarios, and `json-schema-ref-no-deref`. The expected-failures baseline drops the six scenarios this stack resolves,
leaving only the not-scored extensions and the post-anchor `json-schema-2020-12-preservation`.
Verified end-to-end over stdio: a modern connection (`connect(mode: :modern)` with declared form-elicitation capability)
against a server whose tool returns `InputRequiredResult` under `RequestStateSecurity` sealing completes in two legs with
the handler supplying the answer, and a handler-less client receives `InputRequiredError` with the sealed opaque state.
Part of #382.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/client_test.rb` (Mocha sequenced transports) cover: the two-leg happy path asserting preserved original params,
key-matched `inputResponses`, byte-exact `requestState` echo, and a fresh id per leg; the exponential backoff sequence for
`requestState`-only legs (stubbed `sleep`); round-cap exhaustion raising `InputRequiredError` with the last state; the unhandled-kind
fallback; the manual `input_responses:`/`request_state:` keyword arguments; and the `prompts/get` driver path. The existing SEP-2322
recognition tests pin the no-handler behavior unchanged.
Three tests cover the shared-registration design specifically: the driver resolving an embedded request on a transport that
has no `on_server_request` at all, an `on_roots` handler answering an embedded `roots/list`, and `on_elicitation` and
`on_sampling` accepting a registration on such a transport rather than raising, which replaces the two tests that pinned
the old refusal.
`bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes, plus the stdio end-to-end script described above.
With the separate SEP-2243 mirroring change applied alongside, every scored scenario of the frozen 2026-07-28 client leg passes
(`sep-2322-client-request-state` 5/5, `request-metadata` 5/5 with no version-retry warning, `http-custom-headers` 18/18,
`http-invalid-tool-headers` 11/11), and the `--requirements` client legs at both revisions report failures only
in not-scored scenarios. The full conformance task passes its baseline check on both legs.
## Breaking Changes
`on_elicitation` and `on_sampling` no longer raise `ArgumentError` on a transport without `on_server_request`; they
register the handler for the `input_required` route instead. Code that relied on the refusal to detect an unsuitable
transport needs another check. Everything else is additive: the new keyword arguments default to `nil`, and with no
handler registered every code path is identical to before.
## Motivation and Context
The modern lifecycle removes server-initiated JSON-RPC requests: a stateless server has no connection to send them on,
and SEP-2322 multi round-trip `input_required` results replace what sampling and elicitation covered before.
`StdioTransport#send_request` already says so, refusing outright when its session is modern.
`StreamableHTTPTransport#send_request` says nothing, so a modern handler that reaches for elicitation
or sampling falls through to the session lookup and is told `Session not found: <uuid>` against a session id it never chose.
Failing is right, the explanation is not: `handle_modern` mints a session per request without ever registering it in `@sessions`,
so that lookup cannot succeed for a modern request no matter what the handler does.
`send_request` now refuses a modern-era session up front with the message `StdioTransport` uses, which turns
an incidental registration detail into a stated rule and leaves the rest of the method a legacy-only path by construction.
Callers see the same `RuntimeError` class as before, only with a message naming the actual constraint.
## How Has This Been Tested?
A new test in `test/mcp/server/transports/streamable_http_transport_test.rb` sends `elicitation/create` from
a session constructed with `era: :modern` and asserts the SEP-2575 message. It sits with the existing guard tests for stateless mode,
a missing `session_id`, and an unknown session, which still pass unchanged.
`bundle exec rake` is green, and both conformance legs pass their baseline check.
## Breaking Changes
None. The call already failed; only the message changes.
## Motivation and Context
The specification asks implementations to establish timeouts for all sent requests,
"to prevent hung connections and resource exhaustion", to cancel the request once the deadline passes,
and to let SDK users configure the deadline per request. This SDK did none of the three: `send_request` blocked
on `Queue#pop` with no deadline, so a client that opens a session, triggers a handler that elicits input,
and then simply never answers holds that worker thread for good. A handful of such requests exhausts
a Rack server's thread pool. The existing escape hatches are weak: the idle reaper waits 1800 seconds
by default and refreshes on any traffic for the session, so a client that keeps sending other requests never trips it,
and only the GET stream has a keepalive to notice a vanished peer.
`StreamableHTTPTransport` now waits `server_to_client_request_timeout:` seconds
(`DEFAULT_SERVER_TO_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT`, 600) for a response, and `timeout:` overrides it per request through
`ServerContext` and `ServerSession` down to the transport. The option spells out its direction because
the same constructor already takes `max_request_bytes:` for the requests arriving the other way.
Ten minutes matches the TypeScript SDK, which raises its uniform 60-second request default to 600 seconds for
the legs of its legacy `input_required` shim because they are "human-paced, so the 60s protocol default is wrong".
Every request this transport can send is that kind of leg: someone answering an elicitation prompt, or the client's
own model producing a sample. The Python SDK leaves the deadline unset and bounds nothing by default.
On expiry the transport sends `notifications/cancelled` for the request it stopped waiting on, so a late answer
does not act on something the server abandoned, and raises the new `MCP::Server::RequestTimeoutError`.
Both reference SDKs send the same courtesy cancel on timeout, and it is what the revision governing this path asks
for: 2025-11-25 lets either side cancel and tells the sender to "issue a cancellation notification for that request
and stop waiting". Only that revision and earlier reach the wait, since the modern lifecycle forbids these requests
and its sessionless requests never register the session `send_request` looks up.
Uncaught in a handler, the error answers the client's originating request with `-32001` rather than a generic
internal error. The code is not spec-allocated, but it sits in the implementation-defined server range and is what
the Python SDK reports for this condition, so a peer that recognizes it there reads the same meaning here.
The wait itself moves from `Queue` to a small `MCP::Server::PendingResponse`: `Queue#pop` only accepts a `timeout:`
on Ruby 3.2 and later and this gem supports 2.7, so the wait is a `ConditionVariable` with a monotonic deadline.
It keeps the `push`/`pop` names, leaving the three resolving call sites (a client response, a cancellation, session teardown)
unchanged, and keeps first-writer-wins so a cancellation racing a real response still cannot overwrite it.
The expiry block runs after the lock is released, since it cancels the request and would otherwise re-enter
the same non-reentrant mutex.
stdio is untouched and ignores `timeout:`, which the README now states. Its `send_request` waits inside
a `$stdin.gets` loop rather than on a queue, and the process model differs enough (the server owns the client
process, whose exit surfaces as EOF) that it deserves its own change; `forward_to_transport` already filters
`timeout:` out for transports that do not declare it, so custom transports and stdio keep their existing signatures.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/server/transports/streamable_http_transport_test.rb` cover a request timing out with
the transport default, `timeout:` overriding it per request, the error code it reports, expiry reaching the peer
as `notifications/cancelled`, a response arriving before the deadline still returning normally, and
the constructor rejecting a non-positive `server_to_client_request_timeout`.
`test/mcp/server_session_request_timeout_test.rb` covers the deadline reaching the transport from all five
`ServerSession` entry points, and being dropped for transports that never declared it.
`test/mcp/server_context_test.rb` covers the same through `ServerContext`, including an omitted `timeout:`
not being forwarded at all. The pre-existing `send_request` tests (the response path, cross-session rejection,
cancellation, the cancel/response race, client errors, and session teardown) pass unchanged against the new
wait primitive.
`bundle exec rake` is green, and both conformance legs pass their baseline check. `PendingResponse` was exercised
directly on Ruby 2.7.0, the minimum this gem supports and the reason the wait avoids `Queue#pop(timeout:)`:
the deadline fires on time, a pushed value is delivered, the first writer wins, and the expiry block can resolve
the same object without deadlocking.
## Breaking Changes
Server-to-client requests that previously waited forever now fail after ten minutes by default. This is
the incompatible-but-required kind of change VERSIONING.md admits into a minor release: the unbounded wait deviates from
the specification and is the resource-exhaustion path it exists to prevent. Handlers that legitimately wait longer pass
a larger `timeout:`; the release notes and CHANGELOG entry need to call this out and point at that knob.
## Motivation and Context
The OAuth client checked the scheme of every discovery URL but never checked where it pointed.
`Discovery.secure_url?` returns true for any `https` URL regardless of host, and the `resource_metadata` URL from
a `WWW-Authenticate` challenge is placed first in the candidate list, so a server answering
`401 Bearer resource_metadata="https://169.254.169.254/..."` had the client issue that request during discovery,
before the user approves anything. The same gap applied one hop deeper: a server that serves its own
Protected Resource Metadata can name any host in `authorization_servers`, and the endpoints in the document fetched
from there receive the dynamic client registration and the token request that carries the client credentials.
Two rules now apply to those URLs. Both run before the request is sent, and neither is configurable.
The `resource_metadata` URL must be on the MCP server's own origin. Protected Resource Metadata describes that server,
so a real deployment publishes it there, and requiring it means a challenge cannot aim the first request of the flow at
an unrelated host. RFC 9728 does not itself require this, so the SDK is deliberately stricter than the specification:
the range check below cannot recognize an internal host that is named rather than addressed, and this is the one URL
a server supplies directly.
The PRM `authorization_servers` entry and the `authorization_endpoint`, `token_endpoint`, and `registration_endpoint`
from Authorization Server metadata must not be IP literals in a private, loopback, link-local, or unique-local range,
which is the precaution RFC 9728 Section 7.7 asks clients to take. That check is skipped when the configured MCP server URL
is itself on such an address. Pointing a client at a private network is a deliberate act and its authorization server
usually lives on the same network, so `http://localhost` development and deployments that never leave a corporate network
keep working. Only a server reachable on the public internet is barred from steering the client inward.
A range check is only as good as its reading of the address, so the second rule also refuses hosts written in
the numeric IPv4 grammar `inet_aton` accepts and `IPAddr` rejects: one to four dot-separated parts, each hexadecimal,
octal, or decimal, with the last part filling the remaining bytes. `2130706433`, `127.1`, and `0x7f000001` all reach
127.0.0.1, and `0xa9fea9fe` reaches the cloud metadata address, so reading only the dotted-decimal spelling would refuse
`169.254.169.254` while admitting every alias of it. Those hosts are refused outright rather than decoded and
range-checked, because their value is resolver-dependent: a leading zero reads as octal on one platform and decimal on
another, which is the difference between 8.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.1 for `010.0.0.1`. Choosing a reading here would leave
whichever one was not taken as a way through, and nothing is legitimately addressed in this notation.
Hostnames are not resolved. A lookup here would be a second network request driven by the same untrusted input,
and the address it returned need not be the one the HTTP client connects to a moment later, so the check would read as
a guarantee it cannot make. `MCP::Client::OAuth::Flow` also documents why its Faraday connection has no redirect-following
middleware: every check runs against the URL as written, so a connection that follows a `3xx` on its own would reach hosts
these rules just refused.
## How Has This Been Tested?
- New unit tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/discovery_test.rb` cover `same_origin?` (case-insensitive scheme and host,
explicit default ports, differing port/host/scheme, subdomains, malformed and hostless input) and `private_network_host?`
(every blocked range, IPv4-mapped IPv6 spellings, bracketed IPv6, `localhost` matched exactly, and public addresses and names).
One test documents that a named internal host reads as public, which is the deliberate limit of the predicate.
- Further unit tests cover the numeric spellings: packed integers, hexadecimal, and short forms that reach a blocked range,
and the ambiguous leading-zero forms whose value depends on the resolver. Removing the rule leaves them addressable,
which is what those tests fail on.
- New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` and `test/mcp/client/oauth/http_oauth_test.rb` drive both rules through `run!`,
`refresh!`, and the transport. They assert with `assert_not_requested` that no request was issued rather than only that an error
was raised, since nothing downstream can un-send one. One of them names the authorization server `https://0xa9fea9fe`, which
without the rule above is fetched. A further test runs a complete flow with the MCP server and the authorization server on
two loopback ports, which is what the carve-out exists for.
- `rake conformance` passes with all 22 auth scenarios green. Its harness runs the MCP server and the authorization server on
separate loopback ports and publishes PRM on the server's own origin, so it exercises exactly the shapes these rules must not break.
## Breaking Changes
A client whose MCP server is reachable on the public internet no longer follows a `resource_metadata` URL on a different origin,
and no longer contacts an authorization server or OAuth endpoint at a private IP literal or at a host written in the numeric
IPv4 notation above. All were previously allowed. Local development, private-network deployments, and the conformance suite
are unaffected.
## Motivation and Context
SEP-2575 removes `initialize`, `ping`, `logging/setLevel`, `resources/subscribe`,
and `resources/unsubscribe` from the modern lifecycle, and the server answers them with `-32601` there.
The check consulted `ServerSession#era` alone, but `StdioTransport` locks the era in `lock_modern_era_on_success`,
which runs after a response is produced. The first frame of a stdio connection therefore reached
the server with `era == nil`, and a request carrying the modern `_meta` envelope was served instead of refused.
All five methods leaked, one request per connection:
```
initialize a full InitializeResult
ping {resultType: "complete"}
logging/setLevel {resultType: "complete"}
resources/subscribe {resultType: "complete"}
resources/unsubscribe {resultType: "complete"}
```
`initialize` is the worst of the five because it also mutates the session: serving it negotiated
the legacy lifecycle for a request that had declared the modern one, pinning the connection to
`:legacy` and marking it initialized. The Streamable HTTP transport was never affected,
since it routes sessionless modern traffic to `handle_modern` and rejects a modern envelope on every other path.
The era is the wrong thing to consult on its own: a request declares which lifecycle it belongs to
through its own envelope, independently of connection state that settles later. The Python SDK gates
on exactly that, testing each request's `_meta` before dispatch rather than a negotiated connection
mode. `modern_request?` now does the same here, treating a locked `:modern` era as authoritative and
falling back to the request's envelope while the era is still undetermined. A legacy-locked session is left alone:
`lift_request_envelope` already answers a modern envelope there with the lifecycle violation,
which names the cause better than Method not found.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/server_test.rb` cover all five removed methods being refused with `-32601` when
they carry the envelope on an era-less session, an enveloped `initialize` no longer locking the era
or marking the session initialized, a method the modern lifecycle keeps still being served under the same
conditions, and a legacy `initialize` negotiating 2026-07-28 still succeeding and locking `:legacy` - negotiating
a dual-era version through the handshake is not the same as carrying the envelope. A test in
`test/mcp/server/transports/stdio_transport_test.rb` drives the case end to end,
sending an enveloped `resources/subscribe` as a connection's first frame.
One existing assertion changed. "modern results carry resultType complete" used `ping` as one of its
stamped examples, which only passed because of this defect; `ping` is absent from the 2026-07-28 schema,
so a modern request naming it is refused rather than stamped. It now uses `prompts/list`, with a note
on why `ping` cannot appear there. The existing legacy counterpart, which pings without an envelope,
is unchanged and still expects no stamp.
`bundle exec rake` (tests, RuboCop, and conformance baseline) passes. The conformance suite exercises
the HTTP transport, which this does not change, so its baseline is unaffected.
## Breaking Changes
None for a conforming client. A request that both carries the 2026-07-28 envelope and names a method
that revision removed now receives `-32601` instead of a result, which is the answer the spec already
required once the era was known.
## Motivation and Context
`resources/subscribe` and `resources/unsubscribe` answered with a hardcoded `{}`, discarding whatever
the registered handler returned. A server had no way to attach anything to the response - not even `_meta`,
which the specification allows on every result. The handler docstring justified the discard as "always
an empty result `{}` per the MCP specification", but the spec does not require an empty object here:
the subscribe result is an `EmptyResult`, and every result may carry `_meta`.
The one field that is interoperable is `_meta`. The TypeScript SDK validates the subscribe result against
`EmptyResultSchema.strict()`, which rejects any member other than `_meta`, so a top-level field like
a bespoke `subscriptionId` would be refused by a TypeScript client. The Python SDK passes the handler's `EmptyResult`
return through, `_meta` included. Passing `_meta` matches both while staying within what the spec defines.
The subscribe and unsubscribe handlers now pass a returned `_meta` hash through to the result and drop anything else.
`subscription_result` reads `_meta` under a symbol or string key and includes it only when it is itself
a hash; every other return shape - a non-hash, or a hash without a usable `_meta` - keeps the empty `{}` result it
produced before. Advisory data such as a subscription identifier goes under `_meta`, namespaced, rather than
at the top level. This affects only 2025-11-25 and earlier connections, since `resources/subscribe`
and `resources/unsubscribe` are removed from the modern lifecycle.
Fixes#508.
## How Has This Been Tested?
New tests in `test/mcp/server_test.rb` cover a `_meta` hash passing through on both `resources/subscribe`
and `resources/unsubscribe`, a non-`_meta` field being dropped, a string `_meta` key working, a non-hash `_meta`
being ignored, and a non-hash return keeping the empty result. The existing subscribe and unsubscribe tests,
which return `{}` and assert an empty result, are unchanged.
## Breaking Changes
None. A handler that does not return a hash carrying a `_meta` hash - which is every handler written against
the previous "return value is ignored" contract - still produces the empty `{}` result.
