Serve input_required handlers on 2025-era connections via a legacy fulfilment shim (#2381)

.changeset/add-request-state-codec.md

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 '@modelcontextprotocol/server': minor
 ---
 
-Add `createRequestStateCodec({ key, ttlSeconds?, bind? })`, an opt-in HMAC-SHA256 sealing helper for the multi-round-trip `requestState`: `mint` seals a JSON-serializable payload (with TTL and optional context binding) and `verify` drops directly into `ServerOptions.requestState.verify`. WebCrypto-based and runtime-neutral; verification is fail-closed and constant-time. The `ServerOptions.requestState.verify` hook's return type is widened to `unknown | Promise<unknown>` (the seam already discarded the return value) so the codec's `verify` is directly assignable.
+Add `createRequestStateCodec({ key, ttlSeconds?, bind? })`, an opt-in HMAC-SHA256 sealing helper for the multi-round-trip `requestState`: `mint` seals a JSON-serializable payload (with TTL and optional context binding) and `verify` drops directly into `ServerOptions.requestState.verify`. WebCrypto-based and runtime-neutral; verification is fail-closed and constant-time. The `ServerOptions.requestState.verify` hook's return type is widened to `unknown | Promise<unknown>` so the codec's `verify` is directly assignable; the seam captures the hook's resolved value (the decoded payload) and hands it to handlers via the typed `ctx.mcpReq.requestState<T>()` accessor.

.changeset/legacy-input-required-shim.md

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+---
+'@modelcontextprotocol/server': minor
+'@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal': minor
+---
+
+Serve `input_required` handlers on 2025-era connections: the legacy shim (on by default) converts each embedded request of an `input_required` return into a real server→client request (`elicitation/create`, `sampling/createMessage`, `roots/list`) over the live session — stamped with the originating request's id for stream association — and re-enters the handler with the collected `inputResponses` until a final result. Handlers are written once in the 2026 `inputRequired(...)` style and serve both eras; the previous loud `-32603` failure remains available via `ServerOptions.inputRequired.legacyShim: false`. Knobs: `inputRequired.maxRounds` (default 8) and `inputRequired.roundTimeoutMs` (default 600 000 ms per leg; legs carry a progressToken so a client reporting progress mid-leg resets the leg timeout). Semantics mirror the modern client driver exactly: per-round replaced `inputResponses`, byte-exact `requestState` echo with the verify hook running every round, paced requestState-only rounds, and elicitation accepted content passed through UNVALIDATED (the handler validates via the schema-aware `acceptedContent` overload, exactly as on the 2026 era). URL-mode legs synthesize the `elicitationId` the 2025-11-25 wire requires. Failures surface per family (`tools/call` → `isError` tool result; `prompts/get` / `resources/read` → JSON-RPC error); stateless legacy HTTP degrades to a clean capability refusal; the shim emits no progress of its own (the originating progressToken is the handler's single must-increase stream — the shim never adds a second author to it).
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+`ctx.mcpReq.requestState` is now a typed accessor: `ctx.mcpReq.requestState<T>()` returns the payload the configured `requestState.verify` hook resolved with (e.g. `createRequestStateCodec.verify` — the hook's return value is now load-bearing; verifiers that are not also decoders should resolve `undefined`), the raw wire string when no hook is configured, or `undefined` when the round carried no state. Code that read the property directly becomes a call: `ctx.mcpReq.requestState` → `ctx.mcpReq.requestState<string>()`. Note the member is now always present (a function), so truthiness no longer means "has state", and it is dropped by JSON serialization of the context.
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+New typed readers for `inputResponses`, exported from `@modelcontextprotocol/server`: a schema-aware `acceptedContent(responses, key, schema)` overload (validates untrusted accepted content against any synchronous Standard Schema) and `inputResponse(responses, key)` (discriminated `missing | elicit | sampling | roots` view, for decline/cancel detection and the non-elicitation kinds). Content conveniences like text extraction stay in application code as one-liners over the discriminated view.

.changeset/mrtr-server-seam.md

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 Add the server side of multi round-trip requests (protocol revision 2026-07-28, SEP-2322). Handlers for `tools/call`, `prompts/get`, and `resources/read` can return the value built by `inputRequired()` (exported from the server package together with `acceptedContent()`)
 to request additional client input in-band; the structured-content requirement and the tools/call result-schema validation are skipped for that return, the encode seam emits it as `resultType: 'input_required'`, and the handler reads the responses on re-entry from
 `ctx.mcpReq.inputResponses` (with non-bare entries reported via `ctx.mcpReq.droppedInputResponseKeys`). The seam re-checks the at-least-one rule for hand-built results, checks every embedded request against the capabilities the client declared on that request's envelope
-(answering the typed `-32021` error on violation), and fails loudly — never emitting a mis-typed result — when an input-required value is returned from any other method or toward a 2025-era request. A `UrlElicitationRequiredError` escaping a handler on a 2026-era request
+(answering the typed `-32021` error on violation), and fails loudly — never emitting a mis-typed result — when an input-required value is returned from any other method. Toward a 2025-era request the return is served by the default-on legacy shim (real server→client requests plus handler re-entry); the loud failure for that case remains available via `ServerOptions.inputRequired.legacyShim: false`. A `UrlElicitationRequiredError` escaping a handler on a 2026-era request
 fails as an internal error with a clear steer to `inputRequired.elicitUrl(...)`, so the `-32042` error never reaches the 2026-07-28 wire; 2025-era serving keeps today's `-32042` behavior
 exactly. The typed local error raised when push-style server-to-client request APIs are used while serving a 2026-era request now steers to `inputRequired(...)`. Tool, prompt, and resource callback types accept the new return alongside their existing result types; 2025-era
 wire behavior is unchanged. An optional `ServerOptions.requestState.verify` hook lets a server integrity-check the echoed `requestState` before the handler runs — a throw answers the wire-level `-32602` Invalid Params error with `data.reason: 'invalid_request_state'`; the SDK provides no default verification.