docs(readme): MCP gateway protocol-generation support in the feature list

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What

Updates the README's MCP gateway feature bullet to reflect what shipped in the rmcp 3.x upgrade series (#980, #981):

• serves every current MCP protocol revision — 2025-03-26 through the stateless 2026-07-28 — negotiated per client, sessionless on every generation;
• per-server upstream protocol selection: the default initialize handshake, or protocol_version: "2026-07-28" for handshake-free server/discover against modern-only servers;
• the tool surface is validated against the official MCP conformance suite in CI (merge-blocking job).

Docs pages land separately in the docs repository (protocol version matrix on the MCP overview + endpoint facts in the proxy API reference; the setup guide's pin section already shipped there).

README-only change; every claim traces to crates/aisix-mcp/src/gateway.rs (SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSION_NAMES), crates/aisix-mcp/src/bridge.rs (McpProtocol), and .github/workflows/ci.yml (mcp-conformance job).

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• Documentation
  • Updated MCP gateway documentation to cover Streamable HTTP revisions 2025-03-26 through 2026-07-28.
  • Documented gateway-managed credentials, per-server namespaces, and caller-specific access.
  • Clarified upstream initialization and server discovery flows.
  • Added details about tools-only conformance scenarios and REST-to-MCP tool exposure.

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README.md now documents MCP gateway support for Streamable HTTP revisions 2025-03-26 through stateless 2026-07-28, gateway-held credentials, per-server namespaces, caller access, discovery flows, tools-only conformance scenarios, and REST-to-MCP tool exposure.

Changes

MCP gateway documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document MCP gateway capabilities README.md	The MCP gateway description now covers protocol revisions, stateless downstream handling, gateway-held credentials, namespaces, caller access, upstream discovery, tools-only conformance scenarios, and REST-to-MCP tool exposure.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~2 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1a0ca

The README may mislead users by presenting legacy protocol revisions as sessionless like the 2026-07-28 revision, which could result in incompatible routing or handshake configuration. The PR remains mergeable with explicit owner awareness or a follow-up wording correction.

Possibly related PRs

• api7/aisix#843: Updates related README documentation for MCP gateway capabilities.
• api7/aisix#980: Implements Streamable HTTP revision support documented by this change.
• api7/aisix#981: Implements MCP initialization and server/discover flows documented by this change.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the README change to document MCP gateway protocol-generation support.
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Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
E2e Test Quality Review	✅ Passed	PR changes only README.md; no test or runtime behavior changed. Existing MCP tests and the CI conformance job cover real gateway/upstream flows, so no introduced E2E quality issue exists.
Security Check	✅ Passed	The PR changes only README.md; the added text contains no code, logging, persistence, authorization, TLS, or secret-resolution behavior, so categories 1–7 are not triggered.

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Pull request overview

Updates the README’s MCP gateway feature bullet to reflect the current MCP protocol-generation capabilities and CI validation posture after the rmcp 3.x upgrade series.

Changes:

• Documents the exact set of MCP protocol revisions served by /mcp (from 2025-03-26 through 2026-07-28).
• Documents per-upstream protocol_version selection to enable handshake-free server/discover for 2026-07-28-only upstreams.
• Notes that the MCP tool surface is validated via the official MCP conformance suite in CI.

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State that the MCP conformance suite is merge-blocking.

The conformance job is wired into the required e2e-gate, but “validated in CI” does not communicate that it gates merges.

-  validated against the official MCP conformance suite in CI.
+  validated by a merge-blocking CI job against the official MCP conformance suite.

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• README.md#L187-L188

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In `@README.md` around lines 184 - 186, Update the README MCP conformance
description to explicitly state that the conformance suite is merge-blocking and
enforced through the required e2e-gate.

Apply the same fix in `@README.md` around lines 187 - 188.