docs: generate llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and markdown page renditions (#2407)

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@ -4,8 +4,14 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
import { defineConfig, type DefaultTheme } from 'vitepress';
import { generateLlmsArtifacts } from './llms';
import { guideSidebar } from './nav';
const docsDir = resolve(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
/** Absolute site URL (origin + base), the single copy every consumer derives from. */
const siteUrl = 'https://ts.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/v2';
/**
* The API Reference sidebar is generated by `pnpm docs:api` (typedoc + typedoc-vitepress-theme)
* into docs/api/typedoc-sidebar.json. When it is missing (e.g. `docs:dev` before `docs:api`),
@ -25,7 +31,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
description: 'The TypeScript SDK implementation of the Model Context Protocol specification.',
base: '/v2/',
srcExclude: ['v1/**', '_meta/**', 'behavior-surface-pins.md'],
sitemap: { hostname: 'https://ts.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/v2/' },
sitemap: { hostname: `${siteUrl}/` },
markdown: {
config(md) {
// Spec-generated JSDoc (packages/core-internal/src/types/spec.types.*.ts) carries
@ -42,6 +48,9 @@ export default defineConfig({
};
}
},
buildEnd(siteConfig) {
generateLlmsArtifacts(docsDir, siteConfig.outDir, siteUrl);
},
themeConfig: {
nav: [
{ text: 'Get started', link: '/get-started/first-server', activeMatch: '^/get-started/' },
@ -52,82 +61,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
{ text: 'V1 Docs', link: 'https://ts.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/' }
],
sidebar: [
{
text: 'Get started',
items: [
{ text: 'Build a server', link: '/get-started/first-server' },
{ text: 'Plug into a real host', link: '/get-started/real-host' },
{ text: 'Build a client', link: '/get-started/first-client' },
{ text: 'Packages', link: '/get-started/packages' },
{ text: 'Examples', link: '/get-started/examples' }
]
},
{
text: 'Servers',
items: [
{ text: 'Tools', link: '/servers/tools' },
{ text: 'Resources', link: '/servers/resources' },
{ text: 'Prompts', link: '/servers/prompts' },
{ text: 'Completion', link: '/servers/completion' },
{ text: 'Logging, progress, cancellation', link: '/servers/logging-progress-cancellation' },
{ text: 'Elicitation', link: '/servers/elicitation' },
{ text: 'Sampling (sunset)', link: '/servers/sampling' },
{ text: 'Input required', link: '/servers/input-required' },
{ text: 'Notifications', link: '/servers/notifications' },
{ text: 'Errors', link: '/servers/errors' }
]
},
{
text: 'Serving',
items: [
{ text: 'stdio', link: '/serving/stdio' },
{ text: 'HTTP', link: '/serving/http' },
{ text: 'Express', link: '/serving/express' },
{ text: 'Hono', link: '/serving/hono' },
{ text: 'Fastify', link: '/serving/fastify' },
{ text: 'Web-standard runtimes', link: '/serving/web-standard' },
{ text: 'Sessions, state, scaling', link: '/serving/sessions-state-scaling' },
{ text: 'Authorization', link: '/serving/authorization' },
{ text: 'Legacy clients', link: '/serving/legacy-clients' }
]
},
{
text: 'Clients',
items: [
{ text: 'Connect', link: '/clients/connect' },
{ text: 'Calling', link: '/clients/calling' },
{ text: 'Handle server requests', link: '/clients/server-requests' },
{ text: 'Roots (sunset)', link: '/clients/roots' },
{ text: 'Subscriptions', link: '/clients/subscriptions' },
{ text: 'OAuth', link: '/clients/oauth' },
{ text: 'Machine auth', link: '/clients/machine-auth' },
{ text: 'Middleware', link: '/clients/middleware' },
{ text: 'Caching', link: '/clients/caching' }
]
},
{ text: 'Protocol versions', link: '/protocol-versions' },
{
text: 'Advanced',
collapsed: true,
items: [
{ text: 'Low-level server', link: '/advanced/low-level-server' },
{ text: 'Custom methods', link: '/advanced/custom-methods' },
{ text: 'Schema libraries', link: '/advanced/schema-libraries' },
{ text: 'Custom transports', link: '/advanced/custom-transports' },
{ text: 'Wire schemas', link: '/advanced/wire-schemas' },
{ text: 'Gateway', link: '/advanced/gateway' }
]
},
{ text: 'Testing', link: '/testing' },
{ text: 'Troubleshooting', link: '/troubleshooting' },
{
text: 'Migration',
items: [
{ text: 'Overview', link: '/migration/' },
{ text: 'Upgrade to v2', link: '/migration/upgrade-to-v2' },
{ text: '2026-07-28 protocol support', link: '/migration/support-2026-07-28' }
]
},
...guideSidebar,
{
text: 'API Reference',
collapsed: true,

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import { mkdirSync, readFileSync, writeFileSync } from 'node:fs';
import { dirname, join, posix } from 'node:path';
import type { DefaultTheme } from 'vitepress';
import { guideSidebar } from './nav';
/**
* LLM-facing renditions of the docs, generated into the site output at build
* time (wired into `buildEnd` in config.mts), following https://llmstxt.org
* and the Python SDK's equivalent:
*
* - `<page>.md` next to every guide page's HTML — the page as plain markdown,
* frontmatter stripped, links absolutized (cross-page links point at the
* `.md` renditions so an agent can keep fetching markdown).
* - `llms.txt` — the index: one line per page, grouped like the sidebar.
* - `llms-full.txt` — every guide page concatenated in sidebar order.
*
* The generated API reference stays out of all three (linked, not inlined):
* it would swamp the prose that answers most questions.
*/
interface Page {
/** Sidebar title. */
title: string;
/** Path of the markdown source relative to the docs dir, e.g. `servers/tools.md`. */
sourcePath: string;
/** Absolute URL of the markdown rendition. */
mdUrl: string;
}
interface Section {
title: string;
pages: Page[];
}
function toPage(site: string, title: string, route: string): Page {
const sourcePath = route === '/' ? 'index.md' : route.endsWith('/') ? `${route.slice(1)}index.md` : `${route.slice(1)}.md`;
return { title, sourcePath, mdUrl: `${site}/${sourcePath}` };
}
/** Flatten the sidebar into ordered sections, preserving sidebar order exactly. */
function sections(site: string): Section[] {
const out: Section[] = [{ title: 'Overview', pages: [toPage(site, 'MCP TypeScript SDK', '/')] }];
for (const entry of guideSidebar as (DefaultTheme.SidebarItem & { items?: DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[] })[]) {
if (entry.items) {
out.push({ title: entry.text!, pages: entry.items.map(i => toPage(site, i.text!, i.link!)) });
} else {
out.push({ title: entry.text!, pages: [toPage(site, entry.text!, entry.link!)] });
}
}
return out;
}
/** Read a `description:` frontmatter value, if present. */
function frontmatterDescription(markdown: string): string | undefined {
if (!markdown.startsWith('---\n')) return undefined;
const end = markdown.indexOf('\n---\n', 4);
if (end === -1) return undefined;
const match = /^description:\s*(.+)$/m.exec(markdown.slice(4, end));
return match?.[1].trim().replace(/^(['"])(.*)\1$/, '$2');
}
/** Strip `--- ... ---` frontmatter. */
function stripFrontmatter(markdown: string): string {
if (!markdown.startsWith('---\n')) return markdown;
const end = markdown.indexOf('\n---\n', 4);
return end === -1 ? markdown : markdown.slice(end + 5).replace(/^\n+/, '');
}
/** Drop the `source="…"` wiring attribute from fence info lines. */
function stripFenceAttributes(markdown: string): string {
return markdown.replace(/^```(\w+)\s+source="[^"]*"\s*$/gm, '```$1');
}
/**
* Absolutize every link for a page living at `pageDir` (docs-relative, '' for
* the root). Relative `.md` links stay `.md` so they resolve to the markdown
* renditions; `/specification/…` goes to modelcontextprotocol.io, mirroring
* the render-time rewrite in config.mts.
*/
function absolutizeLinks(markdown: string, pageDir: string, site: string, sourcePath: string): string {
// Runs over the raw markdown, code fences included — fine while no code
// sample contains a relative markdown link (none do; a false rewrite would
// show up in review of the rendition).
return markdown.replace(/\]\(([^)\s]+)\)/g, (match, target: string) => {
if (/^(https?:|mailto:|#)/.test(target)) return match;
if (target.startsWith('/specification/')) return `](https://modelcontextprotocol.io${target})`;
if (target.startsWith('/')) return `](${site}${target})`;
const hashIndex = target.indexOf('#');
const path = hashIndex === -1 ? target : target.slice(0, hashIndex);
const hash = hashIndex === -1 ? '' : target.slice(hashIndex);
let resolved = posix.normalize(posix.join(pageDir, path));
if (resolved.startsWith('..')) {
throw new Error(`${sourcePath}: relative link escapes the docs root: ${target} — use the site URL or a GitHub URL`);
}
if (resolved.startsWith('api/')) {
// The generated API reference has no markdown renditions — link its HTML.
resolved = resolved.replace(/\.md$/, '.html');
}
return `](${site}/${resolved}${hash})`;
});
}
function renderPage(docsDir: string, page: Page, site: string): { markdown: string; description?: string } {
const raw = readFileSync(join(docsDir, page.sourcePath), 'utf8');
const pageDir = posix.dirname(page.sourcePath);
return {
markdown: absolutizeLinks(stripFenceAttributes(stripFrontmatter(raw)), pageDir === '.' ? '' : pageDir, site, page.sourcePath),
description: frontmatterDescription(raw)
};
}
/** First prose sentence after the H1, markdown stripped, for the llms.txt index line. */
function describe(rendered: string): string {
const lines = rendered.split('\n');
let inFence = false;
let inContainer = false;
let past = false;
const paragraph: string[] = [];
for (const line of lines) {
if (line.startsWith('```')) {
inFence = !inFence;
continue;
}
if (inFence) continue;
if (line.startsWith(':::')) {
inContainer = line.trim() !== ':::';
continue;
}
if (inContainer) continue;
if (line.startsWith('# ')) {
past = true;
continue;
}
if (!past) continue;
if (line.trim() === '' || /^[#>|]|^[-*] /.test(line)) {
if (paragraph.length > 0) break;
continue;
}
paragraph.push(line.trim());
}
const plain = paragraph
.join(' ')
.replace(/\[([^\]]*)\]\([^)]*\)/g, '$1')
.replace(/[*`]/g, '')
.trim();
const sentence = /^(.*?[.!?])(\s|$)/.exec(plain);
const blurb = sentence ? sentence[1] : plain;
return blurb.length > 220 ? `${blurb.slice(0, 217).replace(/\s+\S*$/, '')}…` : blurb;
}
/**
* Generate llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and the per-page markdown renditions into
* `outDir`. `site` is the absolute site URL without a trailing slash
* (origin + base), owned by config.mts.
*/
export function generateLlmsArtifacts(docsDir: string, outDir: string, site: string): void {
const groups = sections(site);
const rendered = new Map<string, { markdown: string; blurb: string }>();
for (const section of groups) {
for (const page of section.pages) {
const { markdown, description } = renderPage(docsDir, page, site);
rendered.set(page.sourcePath, { markdown, blurb: description ?? describe(markdown) });
const outPath = join(outDir, page.sourcePath);
mkdirSync(dirname(outPath), { recursive: true });
writeFileSync(outPath, markdown);
}
}
const header = [
'# MCP TypeScript SDK',
'',
'> The official TypeScript SDK for the Model Context Protocol (MCP): build MCP servers and clients on Node.js, Bun, Deno, and Workers. This is the v2 beta documentation, tracking the 2026-07-28 spec revision.',
'',
'Every page below is also served as plain markdown at its `.md` URL — fetch any page directly.',
''
];
const index = [...header];
for (const section of groups) {
index.push(`## ${section.title}`, '');
for (const page of section.pages) {
const blurb = rendered.get(page.sourcePath)!.blurb;
index.push(`- [${page.title}](${page.mdUrl})${blurb ? `: ${blurb}` : ''}`);
}
index.push('');
}
index.push(
'## Optional',
'',
`- [llms-full.txt](${site}/llms-full.txt): every page above concatenated into one file`,
`- [API reference](${site}/api/): generated per-package API reference`,
'- [MCP specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/latest)',
'- [v1 documentation](https://ts.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io/)',
''
);
writeFileSync(join(outDir, 'llms.txt'), index.join('\n'));
// A separator no page body contains ('---' appears in the guides as a
// thematic break, so it cannot delimit pages unambiguously).
const separator = '='.repeat(80);
const full = [...header];
for (const section of groups) {
for (const page of section.pages) {
full.push(separator, `Source: ${page.mdUrl}`, separator, '', rendered.get(page.sourcePath)!.markdown.trimEnd(), '');
}
}
writeFileSync(join(outDir, 'llms-full.txt'), full.join('\n'));
console.log(`[docs] llms.txt, llms-full.txt, and ${rendered.size} markdown renditions written`);
}

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import type { DefaultTheme } from 'vitepress';
/**
* The guide sidebar: every hand-written page, in reading order. Shared by the
* site config (which appends the generated API Reference group) and the
* llms.txt generator (which mirrors these groups and this order).
*/
export const guideSidebar: DefaultTheme.SidebarItem[] = [
{
text: 'Get started',
items: [
{ text: 'Build a server', link: '/get-started/first-server' },
{ text: 'Plug into a real host', link: '/get-started/real-host' },
{ text: 'Build a client', link: '/get-started/first-client' },
{ text: 'Packages', link: '/get-started/packages' },
{ text: 'Examples', link: '/get-started/examples' }
]
},
{
text: 'Servers',
items: [
{ text: 'Tools', link: '/servers/tools' },
{ text: 'Resources', link: '/servers/resources' },
{ text: 'Prompts', link: '/servers/prompts' },
{ text: 'Completion', link: '/servers/completion' },
{ text: 'Logging, progress, cancellation', link: '/servers/logging-progress-cancellation' },
{ text: 'Elicitation', link: '/servers/elicitation' },
{ text: 'Sampling (sunset)', link: '/servers/sampling' },
{ text: 'Input required', link: '/servers/input-required' },
{ text: 'Notifications', link: '/servers/notifications' },
{ text: 'Errors', link: '/servers/errors' }
]
},
{
text: 'Serving',
items: [
{ text: 'stdio', link: '/serving/stdio' },
{ text: 'HTTP', link: '/serving/http' },
{ text: 'Express', link: '/serving/express' },
{ text: 'Hono', link: '/serving/hono' },
{ text: 'Fastify', link: '/serving/fastify' },
{ text: 'Web-standard runtimes', link: '/serving/web-standard' },
{ text: 'Sessions, state, scaling', link: '/serving/sessions-state-scaling' },
{ text: 'Authorization', link: '/serving/authorization' },
{ text: 'Legacy clients', link: '/serving/legacy-clients' }
]
},
{
text: 'Clients',
items: [
{ text: 'Connect', link: '/clients/connect' },
{ text: 'Calling', link: '/clients/calling' },
{ text: 'Handle server requests', link: '/clients/server-requests' },
{ text: 'Roots (sunset)', link: '/clients/roots' },
{ text: 'Subscriptions', link: '/clients/subscriptions' },
{ text: 'OAuth', link: '/clients/oauth' },
{ text: 'Machine auth', link: '/clients/machine-auth' },
{ text: 'Middleware', link: '/clients/middleware' },
{ text: 'Caching', link: '/clients/caching' }
]
},
{ text: 'Protocol versions', link: '/protocol-versions' },
{
text: 'Advanced',
collapsed: true,
items: [
{ text: 'Low-level server', link: '/advanced/low-level-server' },
{ text: 'Custom methods', link: '/advanced/custom-methods' },
{ text: 'Schema libraries', link: '/advanced/schema-libraries' },
{ text: 'Custom transports', link: '/advanced/custom-transports' },
{ text: 'Wire schemas', link: '/advanced/wire-schemas' },
{ text: 'Gateway', link: '/advanced/gateway' }
]
},
{ text: 'Testing', link: '/testing' },
{ text: 'Troubleshooting', link: '/troubleshooting' },
{
text: 'Migration',
items: [
{ text: 'Overview', link: '/migration/' },
{ text: 'Upgrade to v2', link: '/migration/upgrade-to-v2' },
{ text: '2026-07-28 protocol support', link: '/migration/support-2026-07-28' }
]
}
];

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---
shape: how-to
description: 'Authenticate a client with no user present: client credentials, private-key JWT, and cross-app access.'
---
# Authenticate without a user

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---
shape: how-to
description: 'Sign an end user in from a client you build with the OAuth authorization-code flow.'
---
# Authenticate a user with OAuth

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@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ per-member declarations; per-member is recommended, since the v2 package split m
actual needs explicit. To answer "which packages does this member need" directly, run
the codemod against that member's directory with `--dry-run`: the manifest summary is
computed from that member's own imports. (The authoritative import-path routing lives
in the codemod's [mapping file](../../packages/codemod/src/migrations/v1-to-v2/mappings/importMap.ts).)
in the codemod's [mapping file](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/codemod/src/migrations/v1-to-v2/mappings/importMap.ts).)
The framework adapter packages declare their framework as a **peer dependency**
(`express`, `hono`, `fastify`); v1 shipped them as direct deps. The codemod adds the

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---
shape: how-to
description: 'Require a bearer token on a server you run: verification, protected-resource metadata, and per-tool scopes.'
---
# Require authorization