feat(mcp): dual-era outbound client + a logging-deprecation offramp carrier (#777) - #790
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… carrier (#777) Spec 2026-07-28 splits MCP into two eras: legacy (`initialize` handshake) and modern (stateless core, per-request `_meta`). Both will coexist for a >=12-month offramp. This lands the two pieces that stand on their own and defers the server-side stateless core with evidence. **Outbound client is now dual-era.** It hardcoded `protocolVersion: "2025-06-18"` into `initialize`. `NegotiateEra` implements the spec's stdio backward-compat rule instead: probe `server/discover` with a modern `_meta`; a `DiscoverResult` or a `-32022` identifies a modern server (a recognized modern error is a modern marker, so it resolves the version rather than falling back); anything else -- including silence -- is legacy and the handshake runs unchanged. `_meta` is stamped in `SendRequest`, the single funnel, so no future request can ship without it. MRTR `input_required` is refused loudly rather than forwarded as if it were the answer; an absent `resultType` still means "complete". **The `logging` capability now has a successor running beside it.** The diagnostics event stream rides `notifications/message`, and `logging` is deprecated -- the one place OloEngine was structurally tied to a removed feature. The replacement carrier was forced, not preferred: under 2026-07-28 the GET stream is gone, `notifications/message` becomes request-scoped, and the `subscriptions/listen` filter is a closed set of four types, so a custom notification has nowhere to live there. `notifications/resources/updated` on a subscribed URI is the only carrier that fits *and* exists today -- so the same notification, resource and payload work in both eras and only the subscription plumbing moves later. `logging` and the existing push are untouched: dropping them early would break every client speaking a 2025-* revision, which is all of them. A resource opts into subscriptions with a `ChangeToken`; one that cannot honestly report a change is refused, naming the ones that can, rather than accepting a subscription that could never fire. The token is baselined at subscribe time, not on the stream's first poll, so a change arriving before the client opens its stream is not silently swallowed. **The server-side stateless core is deliberately deferred**, with the reasoning in docs/agent-rules/mcp-protocol-eras.md: the real requirement set is a second transport shape, not a field addition; the benefit (round-robin load balancing) is structurally inapplicable to one localhost instance; and `server/discover` cannot be added as a cheap first slice -- answering it is a client's proof the server is modern, so shipping it alone turns a working legacy fallback into a broken modern conversation while every test stays green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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…777) notes-mcp-tool-authoring.md §1 said the test binary "deliberately does not link McpTools.cpp". It does -- McpTools.cpp and the per-domain McpTools*.cpp family have been in tests/CMakeLists.txt's explicit source list since the McpHeadlessAttachTest work (#316), and §2 of the same file already said the concern was handler *invocation* rather than linking. Found the hard way on this branch: registering the new olo://events/recent resource changed what the headless tests see, which a doc saying those sources are absent gives you no reason to expect. A wrong doc is worse than a missing one -- it gets believed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe MCP client now negotiates legacy or modern protocol eras. The server now supports change-token resource subscriptions and diagnostic event updates. Tests cover negotiation, fallback, metadata, result handling, subscription lifecycle, and capability advertisement. Documentation describes migration and diagnostics-resource usage. ChangesMCP protocol-era negotiation
Resource subscription notifications
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant McpClientConnection
participant McpServer
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MCPClient->>McpClientConnection: Connect
McpClientConnection->>McpServer: server/discover
McpServer-->>McpClientConnection: protocol revision
MCPClient->>McpServer: resources/subscribe
McpServer->>EventLog: read ChangeToken
EventLog-->>McpServer: updated token
McpServer-->>MCPClient: notifications/resources/updated
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In `@docs/agent-rules/mcp-protocol-eras.md`:
- Around line 147-149: Update the “first poll cycle after a subscribe”
description to reflect that HandleResourcesSubscribe captures the baseline token
at subscription time; the first poll compares the current token against that
baseline and emits an update if the resource changed before polling, rather than
seeding the token. Retain the existing unsubscribe/resubscribe behavior
description.
In `@docs/agent-rules/notes-mcp-tool-authoring.md`:
- Around line 38-43: Revise the “A green test run does not mean your handler
compiles” section to acknowledge that the test target build compiles
McpTools.cpp and per-domain handler sources, while clarifying that passing tests
do not prove handler execution or OloEditor-specific compilation and linkage.
Keep the instruction to build OloEditor for live verification.
In `@docs/guides/mcp-diagnostics-server.md`:
- Around line 1639-1641: Update the event-count statement in the diagnostics
documentation to remove the unsupported “4 entity_spawn” claim or replace it
with a reproducible scenario consistent with the documented Play-mode bulk-spawn
suppression.
In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpClient.cpp`:
- Around line 233-244: Update the server/discover response handling in the MCP
client around OffersModernVersion and the legacy fallback so recognized
DiscoverResult or UnsupportedProtocolVersionError responses that omit
kModernProtocolVersion return a version-mismatch error instead of proceeding to
the legacy initialize handshake. Preserve legacy fallback only for unrecognized
errors or probe timeouts.
In `@OloEditor/src/MCP/McpTools.cpp`:
- Around line 105-109: Update the resource.Description for the recent
engine-events resource to state that the JSON payload contains up to
kEventsResourceMaxCount (200) events, matching the sibling olo://logs/recent
description while preserving the existing event and subscription details.
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- mcp-protocol-eras.md: the baseline is captured in HandleResourcesSubscribe, not seeded on the stream's first poll. The doc described the pre-review-fix behaviour and was stale against its own code. - notes-mcp-tool-authoring.md: the section heading still claimed a test run does not prove the handler *compiles*. It does -- the test target compiles McpTools.cpp. What it does not prove is handler execution and the OloEditor target's own compile/link. My earlier correction fixed the body and left the headline wrong. - mcp-diagnostics-server.md: qualify the measured event count as scene-specific, and say explicitly that it is not the suppressed whole-scene-copy path, so it cannot be read as contradicting the suppression note above it. - McpTools.cpp: state the 200-event window and the lastId cursor in the resource description -- an agent that thinks one read returns the whole history has no reason to resume, and silently misses older events. - McpClient.cpp: keep falling back to the handshake when a modern reply advertises only handshake-era revisions (that IS selecting a mutually supported version -- those revisions can only be spoken via initialize), but carry the era context into the error if that fallback then fails. A bare "initialize failed" pointed at the wrong problem. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second self-review round, covering the code the first review predated.
**The probe could regress bridging to real servers.** `server/discover` is a
request sent BEFORE `initialize`, and every 2025-* revision forbids exactly that
("the client MUST NOT send requests other than pings before the server has
responded to the initialize request"). Most legacy children answer -32601 and the
fallback works, but a strict one -- the Python SDK raises on any pre-init request
-- can tear its session down, and then the `initialize` we fall back to fails
against a child that is already gone. That child bridged fine before this branch.
So recover instead of reporting: when the probe got no recognized modern reply
and the handshake then failed, spawn a clean child and run the legacy handshake
with no probe to poison it. Suppressed when the probe DID get a DiscoverResult or
-32022 -- that child is demonstrably alive and modern-aware, so a second spawn
would fail identically and cost the user another process launch to learn nothing.
**`server/discover` now checks `resultType`.** MRTR applies to it like any other
request. Without the check an `input_required` reply read as a complete discovery
with an empty version list, fell back to the handshake against a modern-only
server, and failed for a reason nobody could see.
**Split the fallback flag.** One flag was doing two jobs, and the error message
was wrong for one of them: the dual-era case (child advertised `2025-11-25`, which
we CAN speak) claimed the server "advertised no protocol version OloEditor can
speak". Now `m_ProbeAnsweredByModernServer` gates the respawn and
`m_ModernReplyOfferedNoUsableVersion` -- set only for an absent/empty list --
drives the message.
Also replaced a static that would have raced concurrent connects with an
out-parameter.
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Advances #777 (MCP: adopt the 2026-07-28 specification). Lands the two items that stand on their own; the server-side stateless core is deliberately deferred with evidence — so this is intentionally not
Closes #777(that tracker also carries standing deprecation clocks).Spec
2026-07-28splits MCP into two eras — legacy (initializehandshake) and modern (stateless core, per-request_meta) — and both coexist for a ≥12-month offramp.1. The outbound
McpClientis now dual-eraIt hardcoded
protocolVersion: "2025-06-18"intoinitialize(McpClient.cpp:72-75).McpClientConnection::NegotiateEranow implements the spec's stdio backward-compatibility rule:server/discovercarrying a modern_meta.DiscoverResultor a-32022 UnsupportedProtocolVersionErroridentifies a modern server — a recognized modern error is a modern marker, so it resolves the version rather than falling back.initialize/notifications/initializedhandshake runs unchanged._meta(protocolVersion+clientInfo+ an empty, required, per-requestclientCapabilities), stamped inSendRequest— the single funnel — so no future request can ship without it.Also: a separate short
DiscoverProbeTimeout(3 s, clamped toHandshakeTimeout) bounds the fallback cost; the negotiated legacy revision is read back from the handshake rather than reporting what we asked for; and MRTRresultType: "input_required"is refused with a clear tool error instead of being forwarded to the agent as if it were the answer (an absentresultTypestill means"complete", per the spec's own backward-compat rule). Era + revision surface inClientStatuses(), the MCP panel and the connect log.2. The
loggingcapability has a successor running beside itWe push the whole diagnostics event stream as
notifications/messageover the GET SSE stream, andloggingis deprecated (SEP-2577) — the one place OloEngine was structurally tied to a removed feature.The replacement carrier was forced, not preferred. Under
2026-07-28the GET stream is removed,notifications/messagebecomes scoped to the request that triggered it, andSubscriptionFilter— everythingsubscriptions/listencan deliver — is a closed set of four notification types with a MUST-NOT on anything the client didn't request. So a bespoke custom notification has nowhere to live in the modern era.notifications/resources/updatedon a subscribed URI is the only carrier on that list that fits and it exists today — which is exactly why it's the answer: the same notification, resource and payload work in both eras; only the subscription plumbing moves (resources/subscribe→subscriptions/listen).Shipped:
olo://events/recent(200 newest events +lastId, entries byte-identical toolo_events_tail's),resources/subscribe/resources/unsubscribe, andcapabilities.resources.subscribe: true.loggingand the existingnotifications/messagepush are unchanged and stay for the whole offramp — dropping them early would break every client speaking a2025-*revision, which today is all of them. Pinned by an assertion.ResourceDef::ChangeTokenis subscribable. One that cannot honestly report a change is refused with-32602naming the URIs that can, rather than accepting a subscription that could never fire.3. The stateless core: a documented no-go
docs/agent-rules/mcp-protocol-eras.mdcarries the evidence. Short version: read against the normativeschema.tsand transport pages rather than the announcement, advertising2026-07-28also requires header↔body validation with-32020, method-not-found becoming HTTP 404, removal of the GET SSE stream,subscriptions/listen, cancellation-by-stream-close,Mcp-Session-Id/Last-Event-IDignored, MRTR, andresultTypeon every result. That is a second transport shape served from one endpoint — with zero benefit to a single localhost instance, and with the blast radius landing on the instrument every other engine task uses to verify itself.The trap worth knowing:
server/discovercannot be added as a cheap first slice. A modern client treats a successfulDiscoverResultas proof the peer is modern and then sends modern requests — so answering it while still requiringinitializeconverts a working legacy fallback into a broken modern conversation, and every test stays green.Review guide
Where I'd look hardest
OloEditor/src/MCP/McpClient.cpp→NegotiateEra— a five-way classification of an untrusted child's reply where every wrong branch is silent. The asymmetry to check: an uninformative version list (absent/empty) falls back to legacy on both theDiscoverResultand-32022paths; only a populated list naming nothing we speak hard-fails.OloEditor/src/MCP/McpServer.cpp→ the SSE subscription block — a per-streamlastSeenmap seeded from the server-side subscribe-time baseline, not from the live token. Seeding from "now" is the bug that swallows updates, and it is invisible in any unit test that doesn't drive the stream.OloEditor/src/MCP/McpClient.cpp→SendRequest's_metastamping — it copiesparamson every request now. Correct, but it is on the bridged-call hot path.What I verified, and how
OloEngine-Testsfull suite: 5723/5728 passed; MCP slice 672 passed, 1 skipped, 0 failed (673 tests). New cases:McpClientStdio.{ModernChildSkipsTheHandshakeAndStampsMetaOnEveryRequest, SilentProbeFallsBackToTheLegacyHandshake, ModernChildOfferingOnlyLegacyVersionsFallsBackToTheHandshake, UnsupportedProtocolVersionErrorIsAModernMarkerNotAFallback, ModernMarkerWithNoUsableVersionListFallsBackInsteadOfFailing, NoMutuallySupportedVersionFailsWithAnActionableError, InputRequiredResultIsRefusedRatherThanForwarded, AbsentResultTypeStillCountsAsComplete}andMcpDispatchTest.{ResourcesSubscribe*, ResourcesUnsubscribe*, SubscribeBaselinesTheChangeTokenAtSubscribeTime, ResubscribingKeepsTheOriginalBaselineButUnsubscribeResetsIt}. Both eras are pinned side by side on purpose — the legacy path is the load-bearing one.run-oloengine attach, driven over HTTP):initializereturnsresources.subscribe: trueand stilllogging;olo://events/recentreads back real events; subscribe onolo://logs/recentis refused namingolo://events/recent. Then, on one open GET stream, entering Play produced both carriers side by side — onenotifications/resources/updatedand the existingnotifications/messageframes. Afterresources/unsubscribe, 5 further diagnostics events produced zeroresources/updatedwhile thenotifications/messagepush kept working. That is the check that would have failed if the carrier swap were wrong.OloEditortarget builds —McpTools.cpp's registration is not proven by the test binary alone.Least confident about — the era classification against a real third-party modern server. Every modern case here is driven by a fake transport, because no MCP server in the wild speaks
2026-07-28yet. The legacy path is exercised against real children; the modern path is spec-conformance-by-reading. If a real modern server disagrees with my reading ofDiscoverResult, the failure mode is a connect that falls back toinitializeand fails — loud, not silent, which is why I picked that default.Deliberately not tested — the SSE delivery loop has no unit test (it needs a live httplib stream); it is covered by the live check above instead. The
ResourceDef::ChangeTokencontract that it must be cheap and never touch the game thread is a comment, not a mechanism.Note on CI
The full local suite had one unrelated failure,
EASUVisualEvidenceTest.GTAOSurvivesRuntimeUpscaleSwitch(upscaled frame read back black). It passes in isolation on the same binary, and this diff contains no renderer or engine code at all — it is confined toOloEditor/src/MCP/**,OloEngine/tests/MCP/**and docs. Flagging it rather than dismissing it silently.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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