feat(mcp): upgrade rmcp 1.8.0 → 3.1.2 — serve MCP 2026-07-28, pin MRTR/cache/version defaults - #980
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The 2026-07-28 MCP revision is final (released 2026-07-28) and the SDK's 3.x line implements it end to end, passing the official conformance suite's dated core suites. This upgrade brings the stateless revision to /mcp while pinning every SDK default that would have silently changed gateway behavior: - MRTR (SEP-2322): the bridge calls call_tool_once, never the auto-retry helper - one inbound tools/call is exactly one upstream request; an input_required or task response surfaces as a clean tool error instead of up to 10 hidden upstream round trips outside quota/budget accounting. - Client response cache (SEP-2549): disabled at connect. The bridge is shared across callers, so the SDK's default-enabled per-peer cache is a cross-tenant leak vector; the gateway keeps cache hints wire-level only. - Protocol versions: supported_protocol_versions() is pinned to 2025-03-26/2025-06-18/2025-11-25/2026-07-28 (Streamable HTTP era only) instead of the SDK's KNOWN_VERSIONS default, and the legacy initialize fallback is pinned to 2025-11-25 rather than riding the LATEST alias. The proxy layer now rejects MCP-Protocol-Version headers outside that set with the JSON-RPC envelope (previously: SDK plain-text 400, and 2024-11-05 was silently admitted). - tools/list answers the 2026-07-28-required cache hints honestly: ttlMs 0 + cacheScope private (the list is per-key ACL-filtered). - The deliberate allowed_hosts opt-out survives the rename (stateful_mode -> legacy_session_mode) with a regression test. Verified: workspace suite green; two-generation contract tests (raw wire pins + SDK modern Discover lifecycle client); official conformance suite passes all scenarios applicable to the tools-only surface (13/13; the non-passes are prompts/resources scenarios we do not advertise, server-initiated relay scenarios the aggregator defers, and the Host-allowlist check whose no-auth-localhost premise does not match this API-key-gated endpoint).
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participant rmcp_client as rmcp client
participant mcp_dispatch as MCP dispatch
participant mcp_gateway as McpGateway
participant upstream as MCP upstream
rmcp_client->>mcp_dispatch: Send MCP request with protocol version
mcp_dispatch->>mcp_dispatch: Validate protocol version
mcp_dispatch->>mcp_gateway: Dispatch accepted request
mcp_gateway->>upstream: List tools or call tool
upstream-->>mcp_gateway: Return MCP response
mcp_gateway-->>rmcp_client: Return negotiated response
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Pull request overview
This PR upgrades the MCP Rust SDK dependency (rmcp) from 1.8.0 to 3.1.2 to support the MCP 2026-07-28 protocol revision on the gateway’s /mcp surfaces, while explicitly pinning/overriding SDK defaults that could otherwise alter cost/isolation behavior.
Changes:
- Adds an early proxy-layer gate that rejects unsupported
MCP-Protocol-Versionheaders using the gateway’s JSON-RPC error envelope (instead of rmcp’s transport-leveltext/plain400 behavior). - Centralizes and pins the served MCP protocol version set (and related negotiation/discovery behavior) and adds dual-generation contract tests.
- Disables rmcp 3.x client-side defaults that are unsafe for a shared gateway bridge (MRTR auto-retry and the response cache), with regression tests.
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| crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs | Adds proxy-side protocol-version header gating with JSON-RPC error envelope + tests for supported/unsupported versions. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/src/bridge.rs | Disables rmcp response cache on connect; switches to call_tool_once and rejects non-final tool responses (MRTR/tasks) deterministically. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/src/gateway.rs | Pins supported protocol versions + legacy fallback version; adds cache-hint fields on tools/list; updates server config rename; adds lockstep tests for version lists. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/src/lib.rs | Re-exports SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION_NAMES for proxy consumers. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/tests/upstream_roundtrip.rs | Updates tests for rmcp 3.x model type changes (CallToolResponse, ContentBlock). |
| crates/aisix-mcp/tests/gateway_scoped.rs | Updates tests for rmcp 3.x model type changes and legacy server identity handling. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/tests/gateway_aggregation.rs | Updates tests for rmcp 3.x model type changes (CallToolResponse, ContentBlock). |
| crates/aisix-mcp/tests/upstream_defaults.rs | New regression tests pinning “no MRTR retry” and “no response cache” bridge behavior against a counting raw HTTP stub upstream. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/tests/protocol_generations.rs | New dual-generation contract tests for negotiation/discover, stateless modern flow, header/body mismatch rejection, and legacy shape invariants. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/examples/conformance_server.rs | New example wiring the production gateway chain for running the official MCP conformance suite locally. |
| crates/aisix-mcp/Cargo.toml | Bumps rmcp to =3.1.2, adjusts features, and adds reqwest for raw-wire tests. |
| Cargo.lock | Locks the rmcp upgrade (and transitive updates like base64 and sse-stream). |
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193-201: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueDocument the positional address argument.
mainreads the listen address from the first positional argument, but the module documentation shows only the no-argument invocation and the fixed port3111. A reader who follows the documented command cannot discover the override. Add the argument to the usage block, or drop the argument and keep the fixed address.📝 Proposed documentation fix
//! ```text //! cargo run -p aisix-mcp --example conformance_server +//! # optional: bind a different address +//! cargo run -p aisix-mcp --example conformance_server -- 127.0.0.1:4000 //! npx -y `@modelcontextprotocol/conformance` server --url http://127.0.0.1:3111/mcp //! ```🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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rmcp strips only resultType for legacy peers, not ttlMs/cacheScope — setting the hints unconditionally would have added two never-before-seen fields to legacy responses. Gate on the request's negotiated protocol version (per-request _meta for modern, handshake state for legacy) so the legacy wire shape stays byte-identical to the 1.8-era one; the legacy wire-shape test now pins the absence of both fields.
…velope hardening Two more rmcp 3.x transport defaults pinned (both verified against the vendored SDK sources), plus test-coverage and envelope hardening from the independent audit pass on PR #980: - reinit_on_expired_session = false on every upstream transport: the SDK default re-initializes AND replays the in-flight request on a session-expired 404 — a silent second execution of a possibly side-effectful tool, the session-layer sibling of the MRTR auto-retry. Test pins one upstream tools/call and a surfaced error. - max_request_body_bytes threaded from the deployment's request body limit (0 = unlimited): rmcp 3.x added its own 4 MiB inbound cap under the gateway's limit middleware, silently overriding configured limits. - max_sse_event_size = usize::MAX on upstream transports: 3.x introduced a 16 MiB per-SSE-event cap 1.8 never had; large tool results over SSE would fail while identical JSON responses succeed. - Version-gate rejection envelope: echo only valid JSON-RPC ids (string/number; object ids sanitize to null); hardening tests pin the 64-char echo truncation and the never-echo path for non-UTF8 header bytes. - New tests: Task-response arm (one round trip + clean error), legacy wire shape table-driven across all three legacy generations for both list and call, modern Discover client through the real EphemeralBridge + live upstream chain, and a literal pin of the four-version served set.
What
Upgrades the MCP SDK from rmcp 1.8.0 to 3.1.2, bringing the final MCP
2026-07-28revision (stateless protocol,server/discover,resultType, SEP-2243 mirrored headers, SEP-2549 cache hints) to/mcpand/mcp/{server}— while explicitly pinning every SDK default that would otherwise have changed gateway behavior silently. Spec: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28 · SDK migration guide: modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk#969.Internal tracking:
AISIX-Cloud#1144(upgrade + dangerous defaults) and the version-handling half ofAISIX-Cloud#1148.The two dangerous defaults, pinned
call_tooltransparently re-sends a request when the upstream answersinput_required— up toDEFAULT_MRTR_MAX_ROUNDS = 10upstream round trips for ONE inbound call, all outside AISIX quota/budget accounting. The bridge now usescall_tool_onceand maps a non-final response to a clean tool error. Test pins exactly one upstream request per inbound call via a counting stub upstream (tests/upstream_defaults.rs).serve_stale_on_error: true), honoring upstreamttlMs. A pooled or persistent bridge session is shared across every AISIX caller reaching the same upstream, making any cached entry a cross-tenant leak vector; today'sEphemeralBridgereconnects per operation, so this pins the posture before connection pooling (an explicitly planned optimization) ever lands. Disabled outright at connect (ClientCacheConfig::disabled()); the gateway's caching story stays wire-hint-only, no cache engine. Test: twotools/liston ONE session against an upstream advertisingttlMs: 3600000both hit the upstream.Version-set convergence
supported_protocol_versions()overridden to{2025-03-26, 2025-06-18, 2025-11-25, 2026-07-28}— the Streamable-HTTP-era versions this endpoint actually serves — instead of the SDK'sKNOWN_VERSIONSdefault (which would also advertise the HTTP+SSE-only2024-11-05). One authoritative list, consumed byinitializenegotiation,server/discover, and the proxy header gate, with a lockstep test.initializefallback pinned to2025-11-25(the endpoint's historical answer) instead of riding the SDK's movableLATESTalias.MCP-Protocol-Versionheaders outside the supported set with the JSON-RPC error envelope (HTTP 400,-32600, supported list inerror.data, request id echoed). Previously the SDK's transport check admitted anything inKNOWN_VERSIONSand answered violations with a baretext/plain400 outside every gateway envelope.tools/listnow carries the2026-07-28-required cache hints with honest values:ttlMs: 0,cacheScope: "private"— the list is filtered per caller's key ACL and upstream tool sets drift, so "do not cache" is the only correct statement.allowed_hostsopt-out (this endpoint is server-to-server and API-key-gated; rmcp's loopback allowlist would 403 real deployments) survives thestateful_mode→legacy_session_moderename, now with a regression test.Ecosystem comparison (per repo rule 7)
Two independent gateway implementations have shipped this revision. The conservative one uses explicit per-upstream protocol configuration, refuses automatic cross-generation fallback, and treats cache hints as wire-level statements without introducing a cache engine — this PR lands on the same posture. The auto-bridging one has open regressions where downstream version/session context crossed the protocol boundary to upstreams; those three failure shapes informed the counter-example tests here (no synthetic-initialize skip on our legacy bridge path, no version-header forwarding, no silent fallback). Brand-specific detail stays in the internal tracking issue.
Test evidence
cargo test --workspace: green (0 failures; largest suites 907 + 577 + 92 + 90).tests/protocol_generations.rs): every supported version echoes exactly oninitialize;2024-11-05/unknown fall back to2025-11-25;server/discoveradvertises exactly the pinned list; modern stateless list+call with no handshake, noMcp-Session-Id,resultType: "complete"; SEP-2243 header/body mismatch → 400; legacy result shape unchanged (noresultType); SDK modernDiscover-lifecycle client works end to end; non-loopbackHostserved.@modelcontextprotocol/conformance, Node ≥ 22) against the shipped scoped-gateway chain (examples/conformance_server.rs: conformance client → scopedMcpGateway→EphemeralBridge→ in-process upstream):server-initialize,ping,completion-complete,tools-list,tools-call-{simple-text,image,audio,embedded-resource,mixed-content,error},server-sse-multiple-streams,resources-list,prompts-list.prompts-get-*/resources-read|templates|subscribe|unsubscribe(capabilities not advertised — tools-only gateway);tools-call-with-{logging,progress}/tools-call-{sampling,elicitation}/elicitation-sep*/logging-set-level(server-initiated frames a cross-upstream aggregator does not relay;logging/setLevelis also deleted by2026-07-28); theHost-allowlist half ofdns-rebinding-protection(the scenario's own scope is "localhost servers without authentication" — this endpoint is API-key-gated at the proxy layer, and the opt-out is documented in code + pinned by test).cargo run -p aisix-mcp --example conformance_serverthennpx -y @modelcontextprotocol/conformance server --url http://127.0.0.1:3111/mcp.Deferred (tracked, not in this PR)
Modern↔legacy upstream bridging strategy, guardrail-aware header fast path, OAuth resource-server work, MRTR/Tasks relay —
AISIX-Cloud#1151/#1143carry the breakdown.Audit triage (two independent auditors, per repo rule 8)
Auditor A (cold-context) — verdict MERGE-READY, 0 HIGH/MEDIUM. Two LOW fixes folded in: a rustdoc block that had been split from
jsonrpc_guardrail_blockby the inserted gate function (relocated), and the over-broad "bridge is shared" framing above (reworded here and in the code comment). Its third note — legacyinitializenow echoing 2025-03-26/06-18 exactly, and2024-11-05headers now rejected — is assessed as near-zero blast radius, intended, and regression-pinned.Auditor B (independent toolchain) — initial verdict BLOCKED on five MEDIUMs; every finding verified against the vendored rmcp 1.8.0/3.1.2 sources and closed in the follow-up commit:
reinit_on_expired_session: true): real — though the same default existed in rmcp 1.8 (pre-existing hazard, not a 3.x regression), it contradicted this PR's one-call-one-execution contract, so it is pinned off with a session-bearing 404 test proving no replay.0= unlimited), removing the silent override.supported_version_set_is_pinnedasserts the exact four-version list, so growing/shrinking the served set must be a deliberate, test-visible act.modern_client_through_real_bridge_and_upstreamdrives aDiscover-lifecycle client through the productionEphemeralBridgeagainst a live upstream MCP server.Its three LOWs (Task-arm test, legacy table-drive across all three generations for list+call, envelope id-sanitization + echo-hardening tests) are all folded in as well.