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Proposal items 3.1 (provider lifecycle phases) and 3.2 (the providers of a server without the server).
3.1: providers had no lifecycle. A provider could do async setup only in an AsyncProvider factory, and nothing
ever told it the server was serving or shutting down. The two scope callbacks did not fill the gap: scope.onServerStarted() fires only from start() (the HTTP server and the Unix socket), never under stdio, createDirect() or connect(), and scope.onDispose() needs a factory that injects ScopeEntry. The catalog
told users to give providers a close() and call it themselves. A GLOBAL provider can now implement three hooks,
found by method name as in NestJS, with exported interfaces:
onBootstrap() (OnBootstrap) runs right after the provider is built, in dependency order: a provider's
dependencies, in its own registry or above it, are built and bootstrapped before it is constructed. It runs before
any tool, resource or prompt is enumerated. A throw fails the start with ProviderBootstrapError
(PROVIDER_BOOTSTRAP_FAILED), naming the provider and the cause; the providers that bootstrapped before it are shut
down by the failed start's release.
onReady() (OnReady) runs once the server serves, on every entry point: the HTTP server or Unix socket
listening (start(), so bootstrap() and runUnixSocket()), stdio connected, createDirect() (and so create())
before it returns, connect() before its client is returned (once per shared server), the serverless and fetch
handlers once they are built, and @frontmcp/edge's createEdgeMcp() (the worker and each session Durable Object)
when its first request builds the server. Order: the server-level providers, then each app's, plugin's and agent's,
in build order. A throw is logged as an error and the other hooks still run: the server is already serving, so
failing would leave a listening server or an attached stdio transport behind. The hooks are awaited, so an onReady() that never settles holds the entry point (and, under HTTP and stdio, the installation of the signal
handlers), as a hanging async factory or onBootstrap() holds the start; the catalog says to start long work there
without awaiting it.
onShutdown() (OnShutdown) runs in reverse: the registries below first (an app's providers before the
server's), and within a registry the reverse of build order, so a provider shuts down before its dependencies. Each
hook is awaited for at most lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs (default 3000 ms; the SIGTERM deadlines are 10 s for
HTTP and 5 s for stdio); a throw or a timeout is logged as a warning and shutdown moves on. It runs in Scope.dispose(), after the scope's onDispose() callbacks (which may still use providers) and before the registries
are released, so every path that disposes a scope runs it: the graceful HTTP and socket shutdown (after the requests
in flight finish), createDirect().dispose(), the last connect() client's close(), and a failed start.
The value a factory returns gets the hooks too, and so does a useValue object, once even when it is registered in
more than one registry of the same server. Matching by name, as NestJS does, rather than by a marker keeps that working
for values and factory results, which have no decorator to carry one; the cost is that a third-party client registered
as a value with an onReady(callback) of its own gets it called with no arguments, which the catalog calls out. CONTEXT-scoped providers get none (a request builds them).
3.2: no way to use a server's providers without the server.createContainer({ providers, apps?, logging?, lifecycle? }) returns { get, tryGet, dispose }. It builds the graph a server would, with the same tokens, scopes and onBootstrap() order: a root with the framework's logger (so FrontMcpLogger can be injected) and FrontMcpConfig
(the object passed, so a provider reading info or redis from it sees the server's values), the server-level
providers below it, and each local @App's providers below those. It builds no tool, resource, prompt or skill
registries, no flows and no transport, and never runs onReady(). A @FrontMcp config object is accepted as is: its
other options, remote apps and plugins are ignored, without a warning: every server option would warn, and a provider
that injects a plugin's token fails with ProviderDependencyError naming it. get() searches the server-level providers, then each app's in
order, and throws ProviderNotAvailableError; tryGet() returns undefined instead; a CONTEXT-scoped provider throws ProviderScopedAccessError from both. dispose() runs the shutdown phase and releases the registries. A failing onBootstrap() rejects with ProviderBootstrapError after shutting down what bootstrapped. It uses only the provider
and logger registries, so it runs wherever the SDK's direct mode runs, the browser build included, when the providers
do.
Code layout: the hook runners live in provider/provider.lifecycle.ts; ProviderRegistry records the instances it
builds and walks its existing tree of child registries (runReadyHooks(), runShutdownHooks()). Each phase runs once
per registry, and a caller that arrives while it runs (two concurrent connect() calls, two dispose() calls) waits for
the same run. scope.instance.ts gains one line in dispose(); FrontMcpInstance gains a public emitProvidersReady() and one call
per entry point, and @frontmcp/edge calls it once its server is built (public because the edge build compiles against
the SDK's declarations, which drop @internal members; a host assembled from createForGraph() calls it the same way).
Merge note for the 1.10.x cherry-picks: PR 05 replaces the stdio SIGINT/SIGTERM handler with exitOnShutdownSignals(() => frontMcp.shutdown()). This PR adds a loop to the old handler that runs every scope's runShutdownHooks() (the old
handler shuts down only the primary scope), so that hunk conflicts; resolve it by taking PR 05's handler, whose frontMcp.shutdown() disposes every scope and so runs the hooks (checked: this PR's stdio spec and PR 05's run-stdio-dispose.spec.ts both pass on the resolved file). The stdio onReady() call sits above that hunk and merges
cleanly. No change here avoids the conflict, since PR 05 rewrites the whole handler. A three-way merge of every file this PR
shares with PRs 01-07 was checked: that hunk is the only conflict. (The dts-consumer fixture is named provider-lifecycle-must-compile.ts because PR 07 adds a providers-must-compile.ts.)
Not changed: the init() method the registry already calls on a class provider after construction, and scope.onServerStarted(), which still fires for HTTP only. Found while reading the registry, not fixed here: RegistryAbstract.asyncTimeoutMs is declared (asyncTimeoutMs: 30000; is a type annotation) but never assigned, so
the timeout meant for async factories, with() and init() never applies.
User-facing change
What changed:
New provider hooks onBootstrap(), onReady(), onShutdown(), with the interfaces OnBootstrap, OnReady and OnShutdown exported from @frontmcp/sdk.
New option @FrontMcp({ lifecycle: { shutdownHookTimeoutMs } }): a positive whole number of milliseconds, default
3000. Validated at boot; unknown keys under lifecycle are refused (lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs must be greater than 0, ... must be a whole number of milliseconds).
New error ProviderBootstrapError (code: 'PROVIDER_BOOTSTRAP_FAILED', originalError), message Provider "<token>" failed in onBootstrap(): <cause>.
New export createContainer(options) and the types CreateContainerOptions and FrontMcpContainer.
New public method FrontMcpInstance.emitProvidersReady(), for a host assembled from createForGraph().
New log lines: Provider "<token>" failed in onReady(): <cause> (error), Provider "<token>" failed in onShutdown(): <cause> and Provider "<token>" onShutdown() did not finish within <ms> ms (warnings).
Before → after:
A provider method named onBootstrap, onReady or onShutdown was never called → it is called at the phases
above. A provider that already had a method with one of these names for another purpose (for example an onReady(callback) subscription) now has it called with no arguments: rename it.
Releasing a provider's connections meant exposing close() and calling it from the host, or registering scope.onDispose() from a factory that injects ScopeEntry → implement onShutdown().
A post-startup step for a provider ran only over HTTP (scope.onServerStarted()) → onReady() runs on every
transport, the edge module's included.
Building a server's providers outside a server meant createDirect(), with every registry, flow and in-memory
transport → createContainer().
Unchanged: scope.onServerStarted() and scope.onDispose(), the shutdown order and deadlines, the init() call.
frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known): the provider reference (/reference/sdk/provider: lifecycle hooks, createContainer()), the scope reference (/reference/sdk/scope: onReady() versus onServerStarted()), the @FrontMcp configuration reference (lifecycle), the errors reference (ProviderBootstrapError), the direct and
SDK usage pages (createContainer(), dispose() running onShutdown()), and the graceful shutdown and production
pages, and the edge (@frontmcp/edge) page (onReady() on the first request).
Skills catalog entries updated:
frontmcp-development: references/create-provider.md (new Provider Lifecycle section with the hook table and lifecycle option, notes on matching by name, awaited onReady(), hooks once per server and emitProvidersReady(), new createContainer() section with FrontMcpConfig, patterns, checklist and
troubleshooting rows), examples/create-provider/basic-database-provider.md (pool closed in onShutdown()), examples/create-provider/config-and-api-providers.md, references/create-plugin-hooks.md (pointer from the scope
callbacks to the provider hooks), SKILL.md.
frontmcp-production-readiness: SKILL.md, references/production-node-sdk.md, examples/production-node-sdk/multi-instance-cleanup.md (rewritten to onReady() / onShutdown()), examples/production-node-server/graceful-shutdown.md (the HTTP shutdown sequence, which the example described as
the stdio one), examples/production-node-server/redis-session-scaling.md, examples/production-cli-daemon/graceful-shutdown-cleanup.md, examples/common-checklist/caching-and-performance.md, examples/production-vercel/cold-start-optimization.md, examples/production-lambda/cold-start-connection-reuse.md, examples/production-lambda/scaling-and-monitoring.md (serverless never runs onShutdown()).
frontmcp-guides: SKILL.md, references/example-task-manager.md, examples/example-task-manager/redis-provider-with-di.md (Redis quit in onShutdown()).
frontmcp-extensibility/SKILL.md (async setup in onBootstrap(), not onInit()), frontmcp-testing/SKILL.md, frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-sdk.md; skills-manifest.json regenerated.
Tests
Unit (libs/sdk), written first and run red:
provider/__tests__/provider-lifecycle.spec.ts (12): bootstrap before dependents are constructed; onReady() down
the registry tree, once; a caller arriving during a ready or shutdown run waits for it; onShutdown() in reverse with
the registries below first, once; a factory's value and a useValue object registered twice; values without hooks and
CONTEXT providers ignored; ProviderBootstrapError (class, code, message, originalError); the providers
bootstrapped before a failure are shut down, the failed one is not; an onReady() failure is logged; an onShutdown() failure and timeout are logged and shutdown moves on; the timeout is inherited by child registries;
providers a plugin adds at runtime are bootstrapped.
front-mcp/__tests__/provider-lifecycle-transports.spec.ts (10): phase order with a server-level provider and an
app-level one that depends on it, over HTTP start() / shutdown(), runUnixSocket() / close(), createDirect() / dispose(), two connect() clients sharing a server (ready once, shut down when the last closes), createHandler() and createFetchHandler(); a boot failure with ProviderBootstrapError; lifecycle. shutdownHookTimeoutMs; the three refused lifecycle values.
front-mcp/__tests__/run-stdio-provider-lifecycle.spec.ts (1): with a standalone app next to a regular one, onReady() for both scopes once stdio is connected, onShutdown() for both on SIGTERM, exit 0 (it waits for the
exit, not for a fixed delay).
provider/__tests__/create-container.spec.ts (9): get() across server and app providers with their dependencies
(FrontMcpLogger included) and no onReady(); dispose() order and idempotence; tryGet() / get() on an unknown
token; CONTEXT providers refused; a server config with a remote app accepted; a provider that injects FrontMcpConfig reads the config's info and redis (getGlobalStoreConfig); bootstrap failure; the timeout
option; an invalid option.
direct/__tests__/connect.spec.ts: its FrontMcpInstance stub gains emitProvidersReady.
libs/edge/src/__tests__/provider-lifecycle.spec.ts (2): the edge worker and a session Durable Object run onReady() once, on the first request, and not again on the next one (both fail without the edge call); index-wiring.spec.ts's stub instance gains emitProvidersReady.
Coverage of the new modules: 100% lines and functions.
E2E:
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-providers/e2e/provider-lifecycle.e2e.spec.ts (3): a server-level LifecycleJournal provider and
an app-level factory that depends on it write their phases to a file. Over HTTP (TestServer, stopped with SIGTERM),
stdio (a spawned runStdio() process sent SIGTERM, exit 0) and createDirect(), the journal reads bootstrap:journal, bootstrap:probe, ready:journal, ready:probe while serving and ends with shutdown:probe, shutdown:journal. Polling
treats a journal caught mid-rewrite as not yet written. Against the SDK without this change, stdio and direct fail
(HTTP runs from the built dist).
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-direct/e2e/create-container.e2e.spec.ts (1): src/container-script.ts reads the notes app's NotesArchive factory provider with createContainer(serverConfig), sees it bootstrapped, disposes it, and exits 0
on its own without serving. Fails without this change.
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/provider-lifecycle-must-compile.ts: the hook interfaces, the lifecycle
option (a string timeout is a type error), createContainer() and its types, against the built declarations with skipLibCheck off.
Run:
nx test sdk: 567 suites, 7228 tests; nx test edge: 9 suites, 74 tests.
nx run-many -t test build for the 18 affected libraries (sdk, plugins and every plugin, observability, adapters,
testing, cli, skills, edge, nx-plugin, react): all pass.
nx test for demo-e2e-providers (30), demo-e2e-direct (78), demo-e2e-dts-consumer (8), demo-e2e-stdio-transport (26), demo-e2e-cloudflare (16, 5 skipped by the suite), demo-e2e-unix-socket, demo-e2e-standalone, demo-e2e-serverless: all pass.
nx test skills (249); nx run-many -t lint for sdk, edge and skills: no errors, no new warnings; tsc --noEmit -p libs/sdk/tsconfig.spec.json: no errors; prettier and fix-unused-imports on the changed files.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Providers can run bootstrap, ready, and shutdown hooks, with configurable shutdown-hook timeouts.
Added createContainer() to access providers and dispose of them without starting a server.
Lifecycle hooks run across server, direct, stdio, and edge workflows. Bootstrap failures now report a provider-specific error.
Documentation
Updated guides and examples with lifecycle behavior, graceful shutdown, and resource-cleanup guidance.
Tests
Added coverage for hook ordering, failures, timeouts, and container disposal across supported workflows.
GLOBAL providers can implement onBootstrap(), onReady() and onShutdown().
onBootstrap() runs in dependency order before anything is enumerated and a
throw fails the start with ProviderBootstrapError. onReady() runs once the
server serves, on every entry point. onShutdown() runs in reverse order when a
scope is disposed, each within lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs (default 3000 ms).
createContainer({ providers, apps }) builds the provider graph of a server
without its registries, flows or transport, and returns get, tryGet and
dispose.
… stdio scope
A second caller of runReadyHooks() or runShutdownHooks() returned while the
first run was still going, so a concurrent connect() could return before
onReady() finished. The stdio SIGTERM handler ran onShutdown() for the primary
scope only, so a standalone app's providers were readied but never shut down.
…) providers the config passed
- @frontmcp/edge builds its server with createForGraph() and never ran the providers' onReady(); the
worker and each session Durable Object now run them once, when their first request builds the server.
FrontMcpInstance.emitProvidersReady() is public so a host built from createForGraph() can run them.
- createContainer() registered FrontMcpConfig as { logging } only, so a provider that reads the config
(info, redis via getGlobalStoreConfig) failed or saw nothing; it now gets the object passed.
- The lifecycle e2e tolerates reading the journal while it is rewritten, and the stdio unit spec waits
for the exit instead of a fixed delay.
- create-provider: onReady() is awaited before the entry points return and the signal handlers are
installed; the name match covers third-party values; hooks run once per server; edge and FrontMcpConfig.
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Walkthrough
The SDK adds GLOBAL provider bootstrap, ready, and shutdown hooks with configurable shutdown-hook timeouts. It adds a standalone provider container and integrates lifecycle execution with registries, transports, and scope disposal. Tests, E2E examples, and lifecycle documentation are updated.
Adds lifecycle interfaces and validated timeout options. Registries bootstrap GLOBAL providers, run ready hooks in registry order, and run shutdown hooks in reverse order. Bootstrap failures use ProviderBootstrapError; ready and shutdown hook failures are logged. App initialization waits for all readiness promises to settle before reporting the first rejection in registry order.
Lifecycle integration across transports libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/front-mcp.ts, libs/sdk/src/direct/connect.ts, libs/sdk/src/scope/scope.instance.ts, libs/edge/src/index.ts, libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/__tests__/*lifecycle.spec.ts, libs/edge/src/__tests__/*lifecycle.spec.ts
Runs provider-ready hooks during server, handler, direct, and stdio startup. Scope disposal runs provider shutdown hooks. Tests cover lifecycle ordering across transports, connected clients, and edge requests.
Adds the exported createContainer API with provider lookup and disposal. It initializes server and class-based app providers but does not run ready hooks. The demo records a provider’s state before and after disposal.
Lifecycle E2E and type coverage apps/e2e/demo-e2e-providers/*, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/*
Adds lifecycle checks for HTTP, stdio, and direct modes. TypeScript fixtures check lifecycle hooks, timeout settings, and container access.
Updates developer guides and examples to describe provider lifecycle hooks, createContainer(), and cleanup through onShutdown().
Production and testing guidance libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-production-readiness/*, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-testing/SKILL.md, libs/skills/catalog/skills-manifest.json
Updates production examples and guidance for graceful shutdown, resource cleanup, serverless behavior, and lifecycle testing.
sequenceDiagram
participant FrontMcpInstance
participant ProviderRegistry
participant Provider
FrontMcpInstance->>ProviderRegistry: initialize provider registries
ProviderRegistry->>Provider: run onBootstrap()
FrontMcpInstance->>ProviderRegistry: emit provider-ready hooks
ProviderRegistry->>Provider: run onReady()
FrontMcpInstance->>ProviderRegistry: dispose scopes
ProviderRegistry->>Provider: run onShutdown()
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Possibly related PRs
agentfront/frontmcp#996: Adds a storage provider that uses OnShutdown and createContainer(), both introduced here.
agentfront/frontmcp#987: Changes provider token naming, which affects provider names used in lifecycle errors and logging.
agentfront/frontmcp#984: Changes stdio shutdown behavior, which intersects with this PR’s lifecycle execution and stdio tests.
Suggested reviewers:alexmercerpo
Merge Risk: Low · up to 72f3d
The lifecycle implementation has no newly established blocking defect, but four guidance issues remain. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness and documentation follow-up.
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Review comments at @libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/front-mcp.ts:
- Around line 939-941: Update the provider shutdown flow around
shutdownProviders and the instanceScope provider-hook loop so cumulative hook
timeouts cannot prevent server closure before the applicable shutdown deadline;
also ensure a rejected scope.shutdown does not skip provider hooks. Establish
and preserve the configured timeout budget across providers and scopes, or make
hooks best-effort without blocking closure, and apply the same guarantee to the
shared signal path.
Review comments at @libs/sdk/src/provider/provider.lifecycle.ts:
- Around line 62-75: Update outlasts to accept a late-error callback and track
whether the deadline has won; if run rejects afterward, invoke the callback,
while continuing to propagate rejections that occur before the timeout. At the
shutdownProviders call site, pass a callback that logs the late error with
provider and onShutdown() context.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-sdk.md:
- Line 233: Update the `server.dispose()` lifecycle description to limit its
`onShutdown()` cleanup claim to GLOBAL providers; preserve the surrounding
shutdown details without implying that CONTEXT-scoped providers are cleaned up.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-development/references/create-provider.md:
- Line 357: Update the lifecycle example’s apps entry so it references a
declared or imported SearchApp; if the example does not need an app, remove the
entry. Ensure the example compiles without an undefined SearchApp reference.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-guides/references/example-task-manager.md:
- Around line 152-153: Clarify the lifecycle note around `onShutdown()` to state
that cleanup applies to long-lived Node runtimes and is not guaranteed in
serverless or edge deployments. Keep the existing triggers accurate without
implying that serverless handlers invoke shutdown cleanup.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-production-readiness/examples/common-checklist/caching-and-performance.md:
- Line 25: Update the lifecycle note about GLOBAL providers and onShutdown() to
distinguish HTTP and Unix-socket shutdown from stdio: document the 5-second
in-flight request drain and 10-second signal-handler deadline for
HTTP/Unix-socket modes, clarify that provider hooks run during shutdown without
waiting for the drain, and state that stdio has no HTTP drain, runs hooks before
mcpServer.close(), and has a 5-second forced-exit deadline.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-production-readiness/examples/production-lambda/cold-start-connection-reuse.md:
- Line 24: Update the cold-start guidance to say normal serverless termination
does not guarantee that onShutdown() runs, while preserving that failed-start
cleanup may call it for providers already bootstrapped if a later provider
fails. Apply the same correction to the Vercel example and manifest; do not
claim serverless shutdown hooks never run.
Review comments at
@libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-production-readiness/references/production-node-sdk.md:
- Line 34: Update the cleanup checklist so `onShutdown()` with
`server.dispose()` applies only to GLOBAL providers, and clarify that CONTEXT
providers must release timers and connections with their context lifetime.
Review comments at @libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-testing/SKILL.md:
- Line 90: Update the Provider row in the testing guidance table to classify
createContainer() as unit or integration coverage, not provider E2E coverage.
Keep E2E coverage tied to a real server/client test that exercises readiness and
the MCP path.
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- Line 932: Move SIGTERM handler installation ahead of awaited ready hooks,
including the emitProvidersReady flow and the corresponding HTTP and Unix socket
paths. Coordinate shutdown with any pending ready operation so a signal received
during a slow or hanging hook still triggers provider shutdown hooks.
Review comments at @libs/sdk/src/scope/scope.instance.ts:
- Line 1924: Update the scope shutdown flow around runShutdownHooks so shared
providers remain active until every scope using them has disposed its dependent
providers; coordinate shutdown across scopes and run each shared provider’s
shutdown hook only after its dependents are finished.
- Line 1924: Update the shutdown flow around scopeProviders.runShutdownHooks to
settle or cancel all in-flight provider builds before traversing lifecycle
hooks, ensuring providers whose onBootstrap() completes late are included in
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…cope that holds it
Under splitByApp, a server-level useValue provider is held by every app scope,
and the first scope to build it ran its onShutdown() when that scope was
disposed, before the providers of later scopes that depend on it. Each
registry of the tree now counts as a holder: the first runs the bootstrap and
ready hooks, and the last to shut down runs onShutdown().
A registry that held the same hook-bearing value under two tokens released it
at its second token, so onShutdown() ran on it before the providers built
between the two tokens that depend on it. A registry now holds each instance
once, at its first token.
Also complete the multi-instance-cleanup example's feature sentence.
…he server down
When one app failed while another was still running a provider's onBootstrap(),
the server shut down at once and that provider finished bootstrapping after it,
so its onShutdown() never ran. The app registry now waits for every app to
settle before it reports the first failure.
Distinguish direct disposal from HTTP and Unix-socket shutdown.
The no-drain exception applies to DirectMcpServerImpl.dispose(), not to the public HTTP or Unix-socket shutdown paths. Those paths call ExpressHostAdapter.stop(), which performs a bounded drain before provider disposal. The drain can finish early or force-close remaining connections at its deadline.
Update both descriptions to make this distinction clear.
Suggested documentation update
- // Runs at shutdown, after the requests in flight and every provider that depends on this one+ // Runs during shutdown after adapter-backed HTTP or Unix-socket draining, when applicable.+ // Direct dispose() does not perform an adapter drain.
-| `onShutdown()` | `OnShutdown` | At shutdown (SIGTERM / SIGINT, `shutdown()`, `dispose()`, `close()`), over HTTP or a socket after the requests in flight finish. In reverse order: an app's providers before the server's, a provider before its dependencies | Logged as a warning; after `lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs` (default 3000 ms) shutdown moves on |+| `onShutdown()` | `OnShutdown` | At shutdown (SIGTERM / SIGINT, `shutdown()`, `dispose()`, `close()`). HTTP and Unix-socket shutdown waits for the bounded in-flight request drain; direct `dispose()` does not. Remaining connections, including non-finishing streams, may be force-closed at the drain deadline. In reverse order: an app's providers before the server's, a provider before its dependencies | Logged as a warning; after `lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs` (default 3000 ms) shutdown moves on |
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Update the `onShutdown()` comment and table entry to distinguish adapter-backed
HTTP and Unix-socket shutdown from direct `dispose()`: HTTP and socket shutdown
perform a bounded in-flight request drain before provider disposal, while direct
disposal does not. Clarify that the drain may finish early or force-close
remaining connections, including streams, at its deadline; preserve the existing
shutdown ordering and hook-timeout details.
…tstrap
Sibling registries that hold the same value shared a holder count but not its
onBootstrap() run, so a registry that was not the first holder built and
bootstrapped the providers that depend on the value before the value finished
bootstrapping. The tree now shares the bootstrap run, and every holder awaits
it, so a failure reaches the dependents too.
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First PR of the feature stack (base
main).What and why
Proposal items 3.1 (provider lifecycle phases) and 3.2 (the providers of a server without the server).
3.1: providers had no lifecycle. A provider could do async setup only in an
AsyncProviderfactory, and nothingever told it the server was serving or shutting down. The two scope callbacks did not fill the gap:
scope.onServerStarted()fires only fromstart()(the HTTP server and the Unix socket), never under stdio,createDirect()orconnect(), andscope.onDispose()needs a factory that injectsScopeEntry. The catalogtold users to give providers a
close()and call it themselves. A GLOBAL provider can now implement three hooks,found by method name as in NestJS, with exported interfaces:
onBootstrap()(OnBootstrap) runs right after the provider is built, in dependency order: a provider'sdependencies, in its own registry or above it, are built and bootstrapped before it is constructed. It runs before
any tool, resource or prompt is enumerated. A throw fails the start with
ProviderBootstrapError(
PROVIDER_BOOTSTRAP_FAILED), naming the provider and the cause; the providers that bootstrapped before it are shutdown by the failed start's release.
onReady()(OnReady) runs once the server serves, on every entry point: the HTTP server or Unix socketlistening (
start(), sobootstrap()andrunUnixSocket()), stdio connected,createDirect()(and socreate())before it returns,
connect()before its client is returned (once per shared server), the serverless and fetchhandlers once they are built, and
@frontmcp/edge'screateEdgeMcp()(the worker and each session Durable Object)when its first request builds the server. Order: the server-level providers, then each app's, plugin's and agent's,
in build order. A throw is logged as an error and the other hooks still run: the server is already serving, so
failing would leave a listening server or an attached stdio transport behind. The hooks are awaited, so an
onReady()that never settles holds the entry point (and, under HTTP and stdio, the installation of the signalhandlers), as a hanging async factory or
onBootstrap()holds the start; the catalog says to start long work therewithout awaiting it.
onShutdown()(OnShutdown) runs in reverse: the registries below first (an app's providers before theserver's), and within a registry the reverse of build order, so a provider shuts down before its dependencies. Each
hook is awaited for at most
lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs(default 3000 ms; the SIGTERM deadlines are 10 s forHTTP and 5 s for stdio); a throw or a timeout is logged as a warning and shutdown moves on. It runs in
Scope.dispose(), after the scope'sonDispose()callbacks (which may still use providers) and before the registriesare released, so every path that disposes a scope runs it: the graceful HTTP and socket shutdown (after the requests
in flight finish),
createDirect().dispose(), the lastconnect()client'sclose(), and a failed start.The value a factory returns gets the hooks too, and so does a
useValueobject, once even when it is registered inmore than one registry of the same server. Matching by name, as NestJS does, rather than by a marker keeps that working
for values and factory results, which have no decorator to carry one; the cost is that a third-party client registered
as a value with an
onReady(callback)of its own gets it called with no arguments, which the catalog calls out. CONTEXT-scoped providers get none (a request builds them).3.2: no way to use a server's providers without the server.
createContainer({ providers, apps?, logging?, lifecycle? })returns{ get, tryGet, dispose }. It builds the graph a server would, with the same tokens, scopes andonBootstrap()order: a root with the framework's logger (soFrontMcpLoggercan be injected) andFrontMcpConfig(the object passed, so a provider reading
infoorredisfrom it sees the server's values), the server-levelproviders below it, and each local
@App's providers below those. It builds no tool, resource, prompt or skillregistries, no flows and no transport, and never runs
onReady(). A@FrontMcpconfig object is accepted as is: itsother options, remote apps and plugins are ignored, without a warning: every server option would warn, and a provider
that injects a plugin's token fails with
ProviderDependencyErrornaming it.get()searches the server-level providers, then each app's inorder, and throws
ProviderNotAvailableError;tryGet()returnsundefinedinstead; a CONTEXT-scoped provider throwsProviderScopedAccessErrorfrom both.dispose()runs the shutdown phase and releases the registries. A failingonBootstrap()rejects withProviderBootstrapErrorafter shutting down what bootstrapped. It uses only the providerand logger registries, so it runs wherever the SDK's direct mode runs, the browser build included, when the providers
do.
Code layout: the hook runners live in
provider/provider.lifecycle.ts;ProviderRegistryrecords the instances itbuilds and walks its existing tree of child registries (
runReadyHooks(),runShutdownHooks()). Each phase runs onceper registry, and a caller that arrives while it runs (two concurrent
connect()calls, twodispose()calls) waits forthe same run.
scope.instance.tsgains one line indispose();FrontMcpInstancegains a publicemitProvidersReady()and one callper entry point, and
@frontmcp/edgecalls it once its server is built (public because the edge build compiles againstthe SDK's declarations, which drop
@internalmembers; a host assembled fromcreateForGraph()calls it the same way).Merge note for the 1.10.x cherry-picks: PR 05 replaces the stdio SIGINT/SIGTERM handler with
exitOnShutdownSignals(() => frontMcp.shutdown()). This PR adds a loop to the old handler that runs every scope'srunShutdownHooks()(the oldhandler shuts down only the primary scope), so that hunk conflicts; resolve it by taking PR 05's handler, whose
frontMcp.shutdown()disposes every scope and so runs the hooks (checked: this PR's stdio spec and PR 05'srun-stdio-dispose.spec.tsboth pass on the resolved file). The stdioonReady()call sits above that hunk and mergescleanly. No change here avoids the conflict, since PR 05 rewrites the whole handler. A three-way merge of every file this PR
shares with PRs 01-07 was checked: that hunk is the only conflict. (The dts-consumer fixture is named
provider-lifecycle-must-compile.tsbecause PR 07 adds aproviders-must-compile.ts.)Not changed: the
init()method the registry already calls on a class provider after construction, andscope.onServerStarted(), which still fires for HTTP only. Found while reading the registry, not fixed here:RegistryAbstract.asyncTimeoutMsis declared (asyncTimeoutMs: 30000;is a type annotation) but never assigned, sothe timeout meant for async factories,
with()andinit()never applies.User-facing change
onBootstrap(),onReady(),onShutdown(), with the interfacesOnBootstrap,OnReadyandOnShutdownexported from@frontmcp/sdk.@FrontMcp({ lifecycle: { shutdownHookTimeoutMs } }): a positive whole number of milliseconds, default3000. Validated at boot; unknown keys under
lifecycleare refused (lifecycle.shutdownHookTimeoutMs must be greater than 0,... must be a whole number of milliseconds).ProviderBootstrapError(code: 'PROVIDER_BOOTSTRAP_FAILED',originalError), messageProvider "<token>" failed in onBootstrap(): <cause>.createContainer(options)and the typesCreateContainerOptionsandFrontMcpContainer.FrontMcpInstance.emitProvidersReady(), for a host assembled fromcreateForGraph().Provider "<token>" failed in onReady(): <cause>(error),Provider "<token>" failed in onShutdown(): <cause>andProvider "<token>" onShutdown() did not finish within <ms> ms(warnings).onBootstrap,onReadyoronShutdownwas never called → it is called at the phasesabove. A provider that already had a method with one of these names for another purpose (for example an
onReady(callback)subscription) now has it called with no arguments: rename it.close()and calling it from the host, or registeringscope.onDispose()from a factory that injectsScopeEntry→ implementonShutdown().scope.onServerStarted()) →onReady()runs on everytransport, the edge module's included.
createDirect(), with every registry, flow and in-memorytransport →
createContainer().scope.onServerStarted()andscope.onDispose(), the shutdown order and deadlines, theinit()call./reference/sdk/provider: lifecycle hooks,createContainer()), the scope reference (/reference/sdk/scope:onReady()versusonServerStarted()), the@FrontMcpconfiguration reference (lifecycle), the errors reference (ProviderBootstrapError), the direct andSDK usage pages (
createContainer(),dispose()runningonShutdown()), and the graceful shutdown and productionpages, and the edge (
@frontmcp/edge) page (onReady()on the first request).frontmcp-development:references/create-provider.md(new Provider Lifecycle section with the hook table andlifecycleoption, notes on matching by name, awaitedonReady(), hooks once per server andemitProvidersReady(), newcreateContainer()section withFrontMcpConfig, patterns, checklist andtroubleshooting rows),
examples/create-provider/basic-database-provider.md(pool closed inonShutdown()),examples/create-provider/config-and-api-providers.md,references/create-plugin-hooks.md(pointer from the scopecallbacks to the provider hooks),
SKILL.md.frontmcp-production-readiness:SKILL.md,references/production-node-sdk.md,examples/production-node-sdk/multi-instance-cleanup.md(rewritten toonReady()/onShutdown()),examples/production-node-server/graceful-shutdown.md(the HTTP shutdown sequence, which the example described asthe stdio one),
examples/production-node-server/redis-session-scaling.md,examples/production-cli-daemon/graceful-shutdown-cleanup.md,examples/common-checklist/caching-and-performance.md,examples/production-vercel/cold-start-optimization.md,examples/production-lambda/cold-start-connection-reuse.md,examples/production-lambda/scaling-and-monitoring.md(serverless never runsonShutdown()).frontmcp-guides:SKILL.md,references/example-task-manager.md,examples/example-task-manager/redis-provider-with-di.md(Redis quit inonShutdown()).frontmcp-extensibility/SKILL.md(async setup inonBootstrap(), notonInit()),frontmcp-testing/SKILL.md,frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-sdk.md;skills-manifest.jsonregenerated.Tests
Unit (
libs/sdk), written first and run red:provider/__tests__/provider-lifecycle.spec.ts(12): bootstrap before dependents are constructed;onReady()downthe registry tree, once; a caller arriving during a ready or shutdown run waits for it;
onShutdown()in reverse withthe registries below first, once; a factory's value and a
useValueobject registered twice; values without hooks andCONTEXT providers ignored;
ProviderBootstrapError(class, code, message,originalError); the providersbootstrapped before a failure are shut down, the failed one is not; an
onReady()failure is logged; anonShutdown()failure and timeout are logged and shutdown moves on; the timeout is inherited by child registries;providers a plugin adds at runtime are bootstrapped.
front-mcp/__tests__/provider-lifecycle-transports.spec.ts(10): phase order with a server-level provider and anapp-level one that depends on it, over HTTP
start()/shutdown(),runUnixSocket()/close(),createDirect()/dispose(), twoconnect()clients sharing a server (ready once, shut down when the last closes),createHandler()andcreateFetchHandler(); a boot failure withProviderBootstrapError;lifecycle. shutdownHookTimeoutMs; the three refusedlifecyclevalues.front-mcp/__tests__/run-stdio-provider-lifecycle.spec.ts(1): with a standalone app next to a regular one,onReady()for both scopes once stdio is connected,onShutdown()for both on SIGTERM, exit 0 (it waits for theexit, not for a fixed delay).
provider/__tests__/create-container.spec.ts(9):get()across server and app providers with their dependencies(
FrontMcpLoggerincluded) and noonReady();dispose()order and idempotence;tryGet()/get()on an unknowntoken; CONTEXT providers refused; a server config with a remote app accepted; a provider that injects
FrontMcpConfigreads the config'sinfoandredis(getGlobalStoreConfig); bootstrap failure; the timeoutoption; an invalid option.
direct/__tests__/connect.spec.ts: itsFrontMcpInstancestub gainsemitProvidersReady.libs/edge/src/__tests__/provider-lifecycle.spec.ts(2): the edge worker and a session Durable Object runonReady()once, on the first request, and not again on the next one (both fail without the edge call);index-wiring.spec.ts's stub instance gainsemitProvidersReady.E2E:
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-providers/e2e/provider-lifecycle.e2e.spec.ts(3): a server-levelLifecycleJournalprovider andan app-level factory that depends on it write their phases to a file. Over HTTP (
TestServer, stopped with SIGTERM),stdio (a spawned
runStdio()process sent SIGTERM, exit 0) andcreateDirect(), the journal readsbootstrap:journal, bootstrap:probe, ready:journal, ready:probewhile serving and ends withshutdown:probe, shutdown:journal. Pollingtreats a journal caught mid-rewrite as not yet written. Against the SDK without this change, stdio and direct fail
(HTTP runs from the built
dist).apps/e2e/demo-e2e-direct/e2e/create-container.e2e.spec.ts(1):src/container-script.tsreads the notes app'sNotesArchivefactory provider withcreateContainer(serverConfig), sees it bootstrapped, disposes it, and exits 0on its own without serving. Fails without this change.
apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/provider-lifecycle-must-compile.ts: the hook interfaces, thelifecycleoption (a string timeout is a type error),
createContainer()and its types, against the built declarations withskipLibCheckoff.Run:
nx test sdk: 567 suites, 7228 tests;nx test edge: 9 suites, 74 tests.nx run-many -t test buildfor the 18 affected libraries (sdk, plugins and every plugin, observability, adapters,testing, cli, skills, edge, nx-plugin, react): all pass.
nx testfordemo-e2e-providers(30),demo-e2e-direct(78),demo-e2e-dts-consumer(8),demo-e2e-stdio-transport(26),demo-e2e-cloudflare(16, 5 skipped by the suite),demo-e2e-unix-socket,demo-e2e-standalone,demo-e2e-serverless: all pass.nx test skills(249);nx run-many -t lintfor sdk, edge and skills: no errors, no new warnings;tsc --noEmit -p libs/sdk/tsconfig.spec.json: no errors; prettier andfix-unused-importson the changed files.Summary by CodeRabbit
createContainer()to access providers and dispose of them without starting a server.