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Stack 6 of 7, based on #923 (perf/1.10.x-stdio-single-protocol). Merge in order.

What and why

A stdio server loaded the MCP SDK's Node Streamable HTTP transport at startup, and with it @hono/node-server, which reads the global Request and Response when it loads and so makes Node load its bundled undici (about 740 KB of source). Two things did it:

  • @frontmcp/protocol's CommonJS root required #mcp-streamable-http when it loaded.
  • The SDK's RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport extends StreamableHTTPServerTransport ran when its module initialized, which the SDK's root barrel triggered (export { createInMemoryServer, ... } from './transport' initializes every module transport/index.ts re-exports).

Changes:

  • #mcp-streamable-http gets a require variant, lazy-mcp-streamable-http.js, whose getters load StreamableHTTPServerTransport and WebStandardStreamableHTTPServerTransport the first time each is read, and a types entry ahead of it. worker, browser and default resolve as before, so ESM, browser and Worker builds are unchanged.
  • TransportStreamableHttpAdapter imports RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport as a type only and loads it with loadStreamableHttpTransport(), a bundled dynamic import(). TransportService awaits it in the four places that create a LocalTransporter, all of them already async, before constructing it.
  • The SDK root imports createInMemoryServer, the web-fetch handler, the web-standard MCP helpers and the transport types from their own modules instead of from ./transport, so loading the SDK no longer initializes the whole barrel. @frontmcp/sdk/transport exports the same names.

What moves: an HTTP server loads the transport (and @hono/node-server, undici) when it creates its first session, which is part of the first initialize, instead of at startup. A stdio server never loads them.

Results

Apple M4 Pro (14 cores, 48 GiB), macOS 15.6.1, Node.js 24.18.1, on AC power, with the machine's normal background load (an IDE and other jobs). The server is the benchmark's FrontMCP implementation (frontmcp build --target node), run with node and no flags, against npm packed builds of each branch of this stack and of release/1.10.x, installed into scratch copies of the implementation and built with npm run build, all measured in one session in randomized, interleaved rounds with the benchmark's own harness functions. Cold start is the time from spawning node to the first tools/call response, initialize included: one discarded start per server, then 8 rounds of 4 starts per transport in random order. The 100-tool startup is spawn to the first full tools/list, 5 rounds of 2 starts. Throughput is the benchmark's closed-loop tools/call at concurrency 1, 16 and 64 (3 s warmup, 10 s measured, 5 rounds); RSS after startup is read 1 s after the first call, RSS after load after the last level, median of the 5 rounds. Heap used is process.memoryUsage().heapUsed 700 ms after start (after the first call, no forced GC), median of 10 interleaved starts in a separate run right after. MB is 10^6 bytes. The 1-minute load average was 3.7 to 15.9 during the session (median 5.3); the stdio heap run, 10 interleaved stdio starts with the same preload, ran at 5.0 to 8.6.

Base (perf/1.10.x-stdio-single-protocol) This PR
Cold start, stdio, p50 / p90 210.0 / 233.9 ms 196.6 / 205.4 ms
Cold start, HTTP, p50 / p90 264.2 / 279.1 ms 267.0 / 291.6 ms
100 tools, spawn to first full tools/list, p50 271.1 ms 271.4 ms
Heap used after startup, stdio 32.3 MB 30.1 MB
RSS after startup, stdio (read in-process) 132.4 MB 125.5 MB
RSS after startup, HTTP 147.3 MB 139.5 MB
RSS after load (HTTP) 479.8 MB 483.1 MB
Throughput, c=1 / 16 / 64 5,931 / 8,993 / 8,805 rps 5,930 / 8,982 / 8,768 rps

Per round, the median stdio cold start moved by -11.6 ms. An HTTP server's cold start includes the first initialize, which now loads the transport; per round its median moved by +4.3 ms (from -13.1 to +17.6 ms), within the noise of this run.

Tests

  • New case in libs/sdk/src/transport/__tests__/transport.registry.spec.ts: the registry loads the Streamable HTTP transport only for streamable-http and stateless-http sessions, so an SSE-only server never loads it either (from review).

  • New: libs/protocol/src/__tests__/lazy-mcp-streamable-http.spec.ts (requiring the require variant loads the Node transport only when it is read; it exports the same two classes as the eager module).

  • src/transport tests in the SDK (991 tests in 75 suites) pass; transport.adapters.console-quiet.spec.ts now loads the transport class before calling createTransport() directly.

  • Loaded modules of the benchmark's stdio server: no @hono/node-server, server/streamableHttp.js or webStandardStreamableHttp.js, and Node no longer loads internal/deps/undici/undici.
    Run on the top of this stack (perf/1.10.x-sdk-semver-subpaths), which contains this change:

  • nx run-many -t test,lint,typecheck --projects=tag:scope:publishable (27 projects): all pass, no lint errors. SDK 7,131 tests, auth 2,810, cli 2,105, utils 1,909, plugin-codecall 1,208, adapters 1,011, react 758, uipack 537, plugin-remember 515, observability 496, ui 488, nx-plugin 424, plugin-skilled-openapi 407, testing 377 (8 skipped), and the rest.

  • node --test scripts/*.test.mjs: 83 pass.

  • e2e: bundle-size 8, stdio-transport 26, transport-recreation 40, direct 77, esm 26 (and test:e2e 26), cloudflare 16 (5 skipped), serverless 17, cli-exec 198, dts-consumer 7, remote 31, remote-proxy 3, testing 21, local-auth 73, standalone 49, mcpb 19, unix-socket 20, codecall 37, skills 188 (2 skipped), browser-bundle (Playwright) 11 pass. demo-e2e-public passes 11 of 12, in two runs: the other test could not bind 127.0.0.1:50000 to 50002 (listen EADDRINUSE: address already in use 127.0.0.1:50000), which WebStorm on this machine listens on, inside the suite's port range. The suite takes no port or base-port override (the port registry's free-port check binds the wildcard address, so it doesn't see those three), so that test is left to CI, which has nothing on those ports.

  • The benchmark's correctness gate (HTTP, stdio and the 100-tool server) passes against the build of every branch in the stack.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Performance

    • Streamable HTTP transport components now load on demand, reducing initial loading overhead.
    • Transport components load automatically when needed for standard and stateless HTTP connections.
  • Reliability

    • Improved safeguards prevent transport creation before required components finish loading.
    • Initialization diagnostics now handle unloaded transport components more safely.
  • Compatibility

    • Streamable HTTP transport exports are available through CommonJS and ESM build targets.
    • Node.js and browser-compatible transport mappings remain supported.

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The protocol package adds lazy Streamable HTTP exports and build mappings. The SDK dynamically loads and caches the transport, then loads it before creating local transporters.

Changes: Streamable HTTP lazy loading

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Protocol lazy exports and resolution
libs/protocol/src/lazy-mcp-streamable-http.ts, libs/protocol/package.json, libs/protocol/project.json, libs/protocol/src/__tests__/lazy-mcp-streamable-http.spec.ts
The protocol package adds enumerable lazy getters for two Streamable HTTP transport classes, configures package resolution and build entry points, and tests deferred loading and export identity.
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libs/sdk/src/transport/adapters/transport.streamable-http.adapter.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/transport.registry.ts, libs/sdk/src/index.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/adapters/__tests__/transport.adapters.console-quiet.spec.ts, libs/sdk/src/transport/__tests__/transport.registry.spec.ts
The SDK adds a cached asynchronous transport loader. Registry paths load the transport before creating local transporters. SDK transport exports resolve from dedicated modules, and tests cover conditional loading and initialization.

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  participant TransportRegistry
  participant loadStreamableHttpTransport
  participant MCP SDK module
  participant LocalTransporter
  TransportRegistry->>loadStreamableHttpTransport: Load transport for streamable-http or stateless-http
  loadStreamableHttpTransport->>MCP SDK module: Dynamically import transport constructor
  MCP SDK module-->>loadStreamableHttpTransport: Return transport constructor
  loadStreamableHttpTransport-->>TransportRegistry: Complete loading
  TransportRegistry->>LocalTransporter: Create local transporter
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Project Tests Passed Warnings Failed Leaks
✅ demo-e2e-agents 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-cache 11 11 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-codecall 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-config 4 4 0 0 0
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✅ demo-e2e-elicitation 1 1 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-errors 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-hooks 3 3 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-multiapp 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-notifications 3 3 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-openapi 2 2 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-providers 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-public 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-redis 15 15 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-remember 4 4 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-remote 5 5 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-serverless 2 2 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-skills 15 15 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-standalone 2 2 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-transport-recreation 3 3 0 0 0
✅ demo-e2e-ui 4 4 0 0 0

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…e first HTTP session

A stdio server loaded the MCP SDK's Node Streamable HTTP transport at startup,
and with it @hono/node-server, which reads the global Request and Response
when it loads and so makes Node load its bundled undici. Two things did it:
@frontmcp/protocol's CommonJS root required #mcp-streamable-http, and the
SDK's RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport, which extends the MCP SDK
class, was defined when the SDK's root initialized the transport barrel.

- #mcp-streamable-http gets a require variant whose getters load each
  transport the first time it is read, and a types entry ahead of it.
- TransportStreamableHttpAdapter imports the recreateable transport as a type
  and loads it with loadStreamableHttpTransport(); TransportService awaits it
  where it creates a LocalTransporter, which it already did asynchronously.
- The SDK root imports the in-memory server, web-fetch handler, web-standard
  helpers and transport types from their modules instead of the barrel, which
  initialized every module transport/index.ts re-exports.

An HTTP server now loads the transport with its first session; a stdio server
never does.
…P and stateless HTTP sessions

An SSE session uses TransportSSEAdapter, which never touches the Streamable HTTP class, so an SSE-only server no longer loads it either.
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…e first HTTP session (#924)

* perf(sdk,protocol): load the Streamable HTTP server transport with the first HTTP session

A stdio server loaded the MCP SDK's Node Streamable HTTP transport at startup,
and with it @hono/node-server, which reads the global Request and Response
when it loads and so makes Node load its bundled undici. Two things did it:
@frontmcp/protocol's CommonJS root required #mcp-streamable-http, and the
SDK's RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport, which extends the MCP SDK
class, was defined when the SDK's root initialized the transport barrel.

- #mcp-streamable-http gets a require variant whose getters load each
  transport the first time it is read, and a types entry ahead of it.
- TransportStreamableHttpAdapter imports the recreateable transport as a type
  and loads it with loadStreamableHttpTransport(); TransportService awaits it
  where it creates a LocalTransporter, which it already did asynchronously.
- The SDK root imports the in-memory server, web-fetch handler, web-standard
  helpers and transport types from their modules instead of the barrel, which
  initialized every module transport/index.ts re-exports.

An HTTP server now loads the transport with its first session; a stdio server
never does.

* perf(sdk): load the Streamable HTTP transport only for Streamable HTTP and stateless HTTP sessions

An SSE session uses TransportSSEAdapter, which never touches the Streamable HTTP class, so an SSE-only server no longer loads it either.

(cherry picked from commit 4129311)
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 to #925, #932) (#931)

* perf(build): publish ASCII-only JavaScript, which V8 keeps at one byte per character (#919)

V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and
stores it with two bytes per character when one character is above U+00FF.
esbuild escapes non-ASCII characters in strings and identifiers but copies the
comments it keeps as they are, so an em dash or a box-drawing rule in a comment
doubled the memory the SDK bundle's source takes (6 MB instead of 3 MB); tsc
output (the CLI, @frontmcp/nx) keeps them in strings too.

Each publishable package's build now ends with scripts/escape-non-ascii.mjs,
which rewrites every non-ASCII character in its .js, .mjs and .cjs output as a
\uXXXX escape. A file is rewritten only when esbuild compiles the escaped text
to the same program as the original, so a raw template string or a character
after a backslash stops the build instead. CI checks the built output with
--check.

(cherry picked from commit 12cfece)

* perf(protocol): load the MCP client and its transports on first use under require() (#920)

* perf(protocol): load the MCP client and its transports on first use under require()

@frontmcp/protocol's root re-exported the MCP SDK's Client,
StreamableHTTPClientTransport, SSEClientTransport and StdioClientTransport,
so every CommonJS server loaded the SDK's client, its OAuth client, the SSE and
streamable HTTP client transports, eventsource and cross-spawn (31 files) at
startup, though a server only uses them for remote apps.

The client exports now come from a #client subpath import. Under the require
condition it resolves to lazy-client.js, whose getters load each MCP SDK module
the first time the export is read; worker, browser and ESM importers get the
same static re-exports as before (an ESM importer gets esm/client.mjs, which
strip-dist now maps for an `import` target, so the client still comes from the
MCP SDK's ESM build). The public exports don't change.

* test(protocol): cover the package's exports, now that it has tests and so a coverage threshold

lazy-client.spec.ts is @frontmcp/protocol's first test file, so CI's protocol:test --coverage now applies the package's 95% threshold, and the re-export modules nobody had tested left it at 21%. exports.spec.ts checks that the Node modules hand back the MCP SDK's classes, that the browser stand-ins throw their errors, and the 2026-07-28 version helpers. index.ts is left out of coverage, as in most of the libraries here.

(cherry picked from commit 0f7c402)

* perf(utils): take the ReDoS analyzer from @enclave-vm/ast/redos, which loads none of the parser (#921)

@frontmcp/utils imported analyzeForReDoS and REDOS_THRESHOLDS from the @enclave-vm/ast root, which loads the whole AST validator and its parser (acorn, acorn-walk, astring), so every FrontMCP server loaded them at startup. @enclave-vm/ast 2.17.0 exports the analyzer alone as @enclave-vm/ast/redos (agentfront/enclave#104). @enclave-vm/core moves to 2.17.0 with it in the root and plugin-codecall, since core pins ast exactly; the tree keeps one @enclave-vm/ast.

(cherry picked from commit 0ac0461)

* perf(build): publish whitespace-minified CommonJS and ESM builds and no source maps (#922)

* perf(build): publish whitespace-minified CommonJS and ESM builds and no source maps

V8 keeps the source of every loaded script for the life of the process, and
parses all of it at load. The SDK's CommonJS bundle was 3.07 million
characters, of which comments and indentation are about a third.

Every package's build-cjs and build-esm now set esbuild's minifyWhitespace:
comments and whitespace go, identifiers and syntax stay. The SDK's index.js
drops from 3.07 MB to 2.0 MB. The tsc-built packages (frontmcp, @frontmcp/nx,
@frontmcp/skills) stop emitting .js.map files, so no package ships source maps.

minifyWhitespace also drops the comments bundlers read. The one that changes
behavior is the webpackIgnore / @vite-ignore pair on the ESM loader's import()
of a computed specifier: without it, rspack (the CLI's lambda and vercel
bundler) replaces the import with a context that throws "Cannot find module".
That function now lives in its own module, reached through the #import-computed
subpath import and built unminified, so the comments stay. The browser builds
(dist/browser) are not minified, so the @__PURE__ annotations their per-module
tree-shaking relies on stay too.

* perf(build): keep the browser-facing packages unminified, so bundlers keep their pure annotations

esbuild's minifyWhitespace drops /* @__PURE__ */ annotations, which bundlers use to tree-shake @frontmcp/react, @frontmcp/ui and @frontmcp/plugin-webmcp out of browser apps. Servers don't load those packages for their own startup, so minifying them saved nothing this stack measures.

(cherry picked from commit 86bccf8)

* perf(sdk): start a stdio server with the protocol module it already loaded (#923)

runStdio() took McpServer and StdioServerTransport from
`await import('@frontmcp/protocol')`. In a CommonJS process that import
resolves the package's `import` condition, so a stdio server loaded a second,
ESM copy of @frontmcp/protocol and, through it, of the MCP SDK (types.js and
its zod schemas, the client, shared/protocol.js, zod-to-json-schema), on top of
the CommonJS copy the SDK had already required.

runStdio() now uses the statically imported @frontmcp/protocol, as the HTTP
transport already does, so a CommonJS stdio server uses one copy of the MCP
SDK. In an ESM process the import resolves the same ESM module as before.

(cherry picked from commit 9201f8a)

* perf(sdk,protocol): load the Streamable HTTP server transport with the first HTTP session (#924)

* perf(sdk,protocol): load the Streamable HTTP server transport with the first HTTP session

A stdio server loaded the MCP SDK's Node Streamable HTTP transport at startup,
and with it @hono/node-server, which reads the global Request and Response
when it loads and so makes Node load its bundled undici. Two things did it:
@frontmcp/protocol's CommonJS root required #mcp-streamable-http, and the
SDK's RecreateableStreamableHTTPServerTransport, which extends the MCP SDK
class, was defined when the SDK's root initialized the transport barrel.

- #mcp-streamable-http gets a require variant whose getters load each
  transport the first time it is read, and a types entry ahead of it.
- TransportStreamableHttpAdapter imports the recreateable transport as a type
  and loads it with loadStreamableHttpTransport(); TransportService awaits it
  where it creates a LocalTransporter, which it already did asynchronously.
- The SDK root imports the in-memory server, web-fetch handler, web-standard
  helpers and transport types from their modules instead of the barrel, which
  initialized every module transport/index.ts re-exports.

An HTTP server now loads the transport with its first session; a stdio server
never does.

* perf(sdk): load the Streamable HTTP transport only for Streamable HTTP and stateless HTTP sessions

An SSE session uses TransportSSEAdapter, which never touches the Streamable HTTP class, so an SSE-only server no longer loads it either.

(cherry picked from commit 4129311)

* perf(sdk): import only the semver functions the ESM loader uses (#925)

semver.utils.ts imported the semver package root, which loads all 46 of its
files, at startup. It uses seven functions; importing them from their own
modules (semver/functions/*.js, semver/ranges/*.js) loads 23 files, with the
same results.

(cherry picked from commit f9bf70c)

* fix(sdk): create one stateless transport when the first requests for its key arrive together (#932)

* fix(sdk): create one stateless transport when the first requests for its key arrive together

getOrCreateAnonymousStatelessTransport and getOrCreateAuthenticatedStatelessTransport checked lookupLocal(key), then awaited the transport's creation and ready() before insertLocal(key). Concurrent first requests could each create one; the later insert replaced the earlier, and the earlier one's disposal then evicted the replacement by key. Both now go through the creationMutex createTransporter already uses.

(cherry picked from commit 21c4da8)

* build(scripts): say why escape-non-ascii stops on a regular-expression literal or tagged template, and how to fix it

esbuild keeps non-ASCII characters in regular-expression literals and tagged templates as written, so it can't confirm that an escape there leaves the program the same, and after a backslash an escape doesn't. The script still stops the build, now naming both cases and the fix: write the character as a \\uXXXX escape in the source.

(cherry picked from commit 998f5d5)

* build(scripts): tell how to write a tagged template without non-ASCII, since an escape changes its raw text

A tag that reads raw text, like String.raw, gets the escape's backslash and letters, so the advice to write \uXXXX escapes only holds for regular-expression literals. For a tagged template the error now says to write it without them, for example with an interpolation under String.raw.

(cherry picked from commit 26a3aab)
alexmercerpo pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2026
A stdio server initializes the scope's TransportService, and with it
TransportSSEAdapter, which defined RecreateableSSEServerTransport at startup.
Its base class reads POST bodies with raw-body and content-type, so a stdio
server loaded raw-body, content-type, iconv-lite, http-errors and their
dependencies (16 files) that it never uses.

TransportSSEAdapter now imports the transport as a type and loads it with
loadSseTransport(), which TransportService awaits where it creates the
LocalTransporter of an SSE session, as it does for the Streamable HTTP
transport since #924.
alexmercerpo pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Oct 21, 2026
* perf(sdk): serve in-memory, direct-client and web-standard MCP with the loaded protocol module (#934)

createInMemoryServer(), the direct client's notification and elicitation
handlers, and runWebStandardMcp() took their classes and schemas from
`await import('@frontmcp/protocol')`. In a CommonJS process that import
resolves the package's `import` condition, so connect(), create() clients and
createFetchHandler() loaded a second, ESM copy of @frontmcp/protocol and,
through it, of the MCP SDK, on top of the CommonJS copy the SDK had already
required.

They now use the statically imported @frontmcp/protocol, as runStdio() does
since #923. In an ESM process the import resolves the same ESM module as before.

(cherry picked from commit 5b54191)

* perf(sdk): load js-yaml, semver and the uipack renderer on first use under require() (#935)

A server loaded js-yaml (25 files), semver (23) and the @frontmcp/uipack root
at startup, for code most servers never run: SKILL.md and YAML config parsing,
the ESM loader's version ranges, and the auth-UI pages.

They now come through three subpath imports, #js-yaml, #semver and
#uipack-render, whose `require` variant reads each function from its package
the first time it is used, like @frontmcp/protocol's #client. The CommonJS
build keeps them external and ships both variants; the ESM and browser builds
resolve them at build time to the static variant, so those bundles import the
packages as before.

(cherry picked from commit b7ee831)

* perf(sdk): load the SSE transport with the first SSE session (#937)

A stdio server initializes the scope's TransportService, and with it
TransportSSEAdapter, which defined RecreateableSSEServerTransport at startup.
Its base class reads POST bodies with raw-body and content-type, so a stdio
server loaded raw-body, content-type, iconv-lite, http-errors and their
dependencies (16 files) that it never uses.

TransportSSEAdapter now imports the transport as a type and loads it with
loadSseTransport(), which TransportService awaits where it creates the
LocalTransporter of an SSE session, as it does for the Streamable HTTP
transport since #924.

(cherry picked from commit f13b8af)
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