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feat(ai-mcp): reuse a saved server/discover result with createMCPClient prior - #1850
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MCPClient.getDiscoverResult() returns the spec 2026-07-28
server/discover result of the connection. createMCPClient({ prior })
passes a saved result to the SDK Client.connect, so a host that
connects to the same server many times skips the discover round trip.
DiscoverResult and PriorDiscovery are exported as types.
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- Line 119: Update the connect function’s prior discovery reuse to enforce
saved-result freshness using a savedAt timestamp and each result’s ttlMs; pass
prior only while the cached result remains valid, then refresh saved and savedAt
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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sed -n '100,137p' docs/tools/mcp-manual.md
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sed -n '248,275p' packages/ai-mcp/src/client.tsRepository: TanStack/ai
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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- documentation block ---'
nl -ba docs/tools/mcp-manual.md | sed -n '108,132p'
printf '%s\n' '--- repository references to prior and freshness ---'
rg -n -F --glob '!node_modules/**' --glob '!dist/**' -e 'PriorDiscovery' -e 'getDiscoverResult' -e 'ttlMs' -e 'cacheScope' -e 'prior:' packages testing docs package.json pnpm-lock.yaml 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- MCP package version declarations ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'package.json' -e '@modelcontextprotocol/client' -e 'version' packages package.json
printf '%s\n' '--- lockfile SDK entries ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'pnpm-lock.yaml' -e '@modelcontextprotocol/client' -e '@modelcontextprotocol' pnpm-lock.yaml || true
printf '%s\n' '--- available local SDK source/artifacts ---'
find . -path '*/node_modules/@modelcontextprotocol/client/*' -o -path '*/probeClassifier.*' -o -path '*/client/client.*' | head -80
printf '%s\n' '--- relevant tests ---'
rg -n -F --glob '*.{ts,tsx,md}' -e 'skips server/discover' -e 'reuses a saved discover result as prior' -e 'prior' testing packages/ai-mcp 2>/dev/null || trueRepository: TanStack/ai
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Model Context Protocol TypeScript SDK 2.1.0 PriorDiscovery ttlMs cacheScope Client.connect prior freshness
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<title>typescript-sdk/docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md at main · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; * On a 2026-07-28 connection the cacheable verbs honour the server-stamped `ttlMs` / `cacheScope` (SEP-2549) and may return a still-fresh cached entry without a round trip. ... New exported types `ConnectOptions` (extends `RequestOptions` with `prior?: PriorDiscovery`) and `PriorDiscovery` — a cached era verdict: the modern arm wraps a `DiscoverResult` (zero round trips), the legacy arm (`{ kind: 'legacy' }`) skips the probe and runs the plain `initialize` handshake for servers known to be pre-2026.
Expose `sessionId` only after the first request has been sent.
* The typed verbs dispatch after async pre-work. `Protocol.request()` itself still hands the frame to the transport before its first `await` (v1-compatible). The typed verbs on top of it — `callTool()` and the cacheable list verbs — perform async work first (header-mirroring scan, response-cache freshness, output-validator resolution), so an abort fired in the same tick can land before the frame is ever sent: the call rejects with `SdkError(RequestTimeout, reason)` and no `notifications/cancelled` is emitted (nothing was in flight). v1 sent the frame synchronously from these verbs. Once the frame is on the wire, aborting still sends `notifications/cancelled` before rejecting.
* Protocol-version pinning is a first-class option. `ProtocolOptions.supportedProtocolVersions` pins the legacy `initialize` handshake: the first pre-2026 entry in the list is offered (list order is preference order), a counter-offer is accepted only if it is one of the list's pre-2026 entries, and a list with no pre-2026 entry makes the handshake throw. Under `versionNegotiation: 'auto'` the modern probe candidates are the list's modern entries when it has any (otherwise the SDK's default modern set); a `{ pin }` is honored as given and is not checked against the list (see support-2026-07-28.md). v1 had no public equivalent (`SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS` was a fixed constant) — replace any workaround that patched the offered version with this option.
* Also unchanged: HTTP 405 tolerances. A `405` answering the standalone GET stream open is benign (the client proceeds without the stream), and a `405` answering the session DELETE resolves `terminateSession()` normally — stateless-topology servers that decline both verbs keep working without changes, as in v1.
## Enhancements
### Automatic JSON Schema validator selection by runtime
The SDK auto-selects the validator: Node.js → AJV; Cloudflare Workers (workerd) → `@cfworker/json-schema`. Cloudflare Workers users can remove explicit `jsonSchemaValidator` configuration. You don't need to install `ajv`, `ajv-formats`, or `@cfworker/json-schema` for the default path. To customize the built-in backend, import the named class from the explicit subpath (`@modelcontextprotocol/{client,server}/validators/ajv` or `…/cf-worker`) — importing from a subpath means the corresponding peer dep must be in your `package.json`.
### `Client.connect(transport, { prior })` — connect from a cached era verdict
Probe once, persist `client.getDiscoverResult()` (`JSON.stringify`), and feed it to every worker as `client.connect(transport, { prior: { kind: 'modern', discover } })`. New exported types `ConnectOptions` (extends `RequestOptions` with `prior?: PriorDiscovery`) and `PriorDiscovery` — a cached era verdict: the modern arm wraps a `DiscoverResult` (zero round trips), the legacy arm (`{ kind: 'legacy' }`) skips the probe and runs the plain `initialize` handshake for servers known to be pre-2026. Freshness is the supplying host's responsibility — date cached legacy verdicts in your own storage and stop supplying them past your policy horizon (a stale one succeeds silently against an upgraded server).
### Serving the 2026-07-28 revision
`createMcpHandler`, `serveStdio`, `versionNegotiation`, multi-round-trip requests (`requestState`), client…[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>typescript-sdk/packages/client/src/index.ts at main · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/client/src/index.ts</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search1 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; // Public API for @modelcontextprotocol/client. ... export type { PriorDiscovery } from './client/probeClassifier';
// Public API for @modelcontextprotocol/client.
//
// This file defines the complete public surface. It consists of:
// - Package-specific exports: listed explicitly below (named imports)
// - Protocol-level types: re-exported from @modelcontextprotocol/core-internal/public
// Any new export added here becomes public API. Use named exports, not wildcards.
export type {
AddClientAuthentication,
AuthOptions,
AuthProvider,
AuthResult,
ClientAuthMethod,
OAuthClientInformationContext,
OAuthClientProvider,
OAuthDiscoveryState,
OAuthServerInfo
} from './client/auth';
export {
assertSecureTokenEndpoint,
auth,
buildDiscoveryUrls,
computeScopeUnion,
discoverAuthorizationServerMetadata,
discoverOAuthMetadata,
discoverOAuthProtectedResourceMetadata,
discoverOAuthServerInfo,
exchangeAuthorization,
extractResourceMetadataUrl,
extractWWWAuthenticateParams,
fetchToken,
isHttpsUrl,
isStrictScopeSuperset,
parseErrorResponse,
prepareAuthorizationCodeRequest,
refreshAuthorization,
registerClient,
export type { PriorDiscovery } from './client/probeClassifier';
export type {
CacheEntry,
CacheKey,
CacheMode,
CacheScope,
InMemoryResponseCacheStoreOptions,
MaybePromise,
ResponseCacheStore
} from './client/responseCache';
export { InMemoryResponseCacheStore, MAX_CACHE_TTL_MS } from './client/responseCache';
export type { SSEClientTransportOptions } from './client/sse';
export { SSEClientTransport, SseError } from './client/sse';
export type { VersionNegotiationMode, VersionNegotiationOptions, VersionNegotiationProbeOptions } from './client/versionNegotiation';
// StdioClientTransport, getDefaultEnvironment, DEFAULT_INHERITED_ENV_VARS, StdioServerParameters are exported from
// the './stdio' subpath to keep the root entry free of process-spawning runtime dependencies (child_process, cross-spawn).
export type {
ReconnectionScheduler,
StartSSEOptions,
StreamableHTTPClientTransportOptions,
StreamableHTTPReconnectionOptions
} from './client/streamableHttp';
export { StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from './client/streamableHttp';
// runtime-aware wrapper (shadows core/public's fromJsonSchema with optional validator)
export { fromJsonSchema } from './fromJsonSchema';
// Multi-round-trip requests (protocol revision 2026-07-28): the client-side
// auto-fulfilment knobs (ClientOptions.inputRequired) and the manual-mode
// schema wrapper for callers that opt out of auto-fulfilment per call.
export type { InputRequiredOptions } from '@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal';
export { withInputRequired } from '@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal';
// Explicit opt-in to eager wire-schema construction, for platforms that bill
// request CPU but not module evaluation (isolate-based edge/serverless
// runtimes). The package's workerd build calls it automatically at module
// scope; other builds stay lazy unless the application calls it itself.
export { preloadSchemas } from '@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal';
// re-export curated public API from core
export * from '@modelcontextprotocol/core-internal/public';</excerpt>
</source>
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<title>typescript-sdk/docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md at main · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md</location>
<excerpt>citeturn1search0 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; Under `versionNegotiation: 'auto'` the modern probe candidates are the list's modern entries when it has any (otherwise the SDK's default modern set); a `{ pin }` is honored as given and is not checked against the list (see support-2026-07-28.md). v1 had no public equivalent (`SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS` was a fixed constant) — replace any workaround that patched the offered version with this option. ... To customize the built-in backend, import the named class from the explicit subpath (`@modelcontextprotocol/{client,server}/validators/ajv` or `…/cf-worker`) — importing from a subpath means the corresponding peer dep must be in your `package.json`. ... * `McpServer` constructor, `server.connect(transport)`, `server.close()`, and the `McpServer.server` accessor — still the supported way to call the low-level `Server`'s push verbs (`createMessage` / `listRoots` / `sendLoggingMessage` — ⚠ `@deprecated`, see §Deprecated in v2) outside a handler context. ... * All TypeScript type definitions from `types.ts` (except the aliases listed under Removed type aliases and the `experimental` capability payload narrowing — see Types & schemas).
## Enhancements
### Automatic JSON Schema validator selection by runtime
The SDK auto-selects the validator: Node.js → AJV; Cloudflare Workers (workerd) → `@cfworker/json-schema`. Cloudflare Workers users can remove explicit `jsonSchemaValidator` configuration. You don't need to install `ajv`, `ajv-formats`, or `@cfworker/json-schema` for the default path. To customize the built-in backend, import the named class from the explicit subpath (`@modelcontextprotocol/{client,server}/validators/ajv` or `…/cf-worker`) — importing from a subpath means the corresponding peer dep must be in your `package.json`.
### `Client.connect(transport, { prior })` — connect from a cached era verdict
Probe once, persist `client.getDiscoverResult()` (`JSON.stringify`), and feed it to every worker as `client.connect(transport, { prior: { kind: 'modern', discover } })`. New exported types `ConnectOptions` (extends `RequestOptions` with `prior?: PriorDiscovery`) and `PriorDiscovery` — a cached era verdict: the modern arm wraps a `DiscoverResult` (zero round trips), the legacy arm (`{ kind: 'legacy' }`) skips the probe and runs the plain `initialize` handshake for servers known to be pre-2026. </excerpt>
</source>
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<title>typescript-sdk/examples/guides/advanced/gateway.examples.ts at main · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/examples/guides/advanced/gateway.examples.ts</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search2 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: last week; import type { DiscoverResult, PriorDiscovery } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
);
return server;
});
const realFetch = globalThis.fetch;
globalThis.fetch = (async (input: string | URL | Request, init?: RequestInit) => {
const request = new Request(input, init);
if (new URL(request.url).host === 'localhost:3000') return handler.fetch(request);
return realFetch(input, init);
}) as typeof fetch;
// ## Connect with a prior discover result
//#region connect_prior
import { Client, StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
const url = new URL('http://localhost:3000/mcp');
// Probe once …
const bootstrap = new Client({ name: 'gateway', version: '1.0.0' }, { versionNegotiation: { mode: 'auto' } });
await bootstrap.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url));
const persisted = JSON.stringify(bootstrap.getDiscoverResult());
// … then every other client connects with zero round trips.
const worker = new Client({ name: 'worker', version: '1.0.0' });
await worker.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url), { prior: { kind: 'modern', discover: JSON.parse(persisted) } });
//#endregion connect_prior
// ## Probe once at bootstrap
//#region bootstrap_probe
console.log(bootstrap.getDiscoverResult());
//#endregion bootstrap_probe
// ## Persist the advertisement
//#region persist_advertisement
import type { DiscoverResult, PriorDiscovery } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
const discover = JSON.parse(persisted) as DiscoverResult;
const prior: PriorDiscovery = { kind: 'modern', discover };
//#endregion persist_advertisement
// ## Fan out to workers
//#region fan_out
const fleet = await Promise.all(
['worker-a', 'worker-b', 'worker-c'].map(async name => {
const replica = new Client({ name, version: '1.0.0' });
await replica.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url), { prior });
return replica;
})
);
const proof = await worker.callTool({ name: 'request_count' });
console.log(proof.structuredContent);
//#endregion fan_out
// ## Open a listen stream when a worker needs notifications
//#region listen_worker
const subscription = await worker.listen({ toolsListChanged: true });
console.log(subscription.honoredFilter);
//#endregion listen_worker
await subscription.close();
// ## Handle a stale or incompatible advertisement
//#region prior_stale
import { SdkError, SdkErrorCode } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
const stale: DiscoverResult = { ...discover, supportedVersions: ['2025-06-18'] };
const late = new Client({ name: 'worker-d', version: '1.0.0' }, { versionNegotiation: { mode: 'auto' } });
try {
await late.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url), { prior: { kind: 'modern', discover: stale } });
} catch (error) {
if (!(error instanceof SdkError) || error.code !== SdkErrorCode.EraNegotiationFailed) throw error;
console.log(error.code);
// Fall back to a fresh probe, then re-persist getDiscoverResult().
await late.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url));
console.log('re-probed:', late.getNegotiatedProtocolVersion());
}
//#endregion prior_stale
// ## Skip the probe for a known-legacy server
//#region prior_legacy
const pinnedLegacy = new Client({ name: 'worker-e', version: '1.0.0' }, { versionNegotiation: { mode: 'auto' } });
await pinnedLegacy.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(url), {
prior: { kind: 'legacy' }
});
console.log(pinnedLegacy.getProtocolEra());
//#endregion prior_legacy
// ## Caching discovery verdicts
//#region prior_cache
// Host-side verdict cache. A real deployment keeps this in Redis (a key TTL
// does the dating: an expired read is no prior) or a database row with a
// created_at column; the Map …[truncated]</excerpt>
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<title>typescript-sdk/examples/gateway/client.ts at main · modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk · GitHub</title>
<location>https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/examples/gateway/client.ts</location>
<excerpt>citeturn0search3 [wordlim: 200] Crawled: 2 weeks ago; import type { DiscoverResult, PriorDiscovery } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
/**
* Gateway / distributed-client pattern: probe once, persist the
* `DiscoverResult`, feed it to every worker for a zero-round-trip connect.
*
* 1. A "bootstrap" client connects with `versionNegotiation: { mode: 'auto' }`
* — one `server/discover` round trip — and reads `getDiscoverResult()`.
* 2. The result is `JSON.stringify`-ed (the "persist" step — in a real gateway
* you would write this to Redis, a config map, or a process-local cache).
* 3. Three fresh worker clients connect with
* `connect(transport, { prior: { kind: 'modern', discover: JSON.parse(persisted) } })`:
* each connect() sends nothing on the wire, and `callTool` works immediately.
* 4. The server's `request_count` tool proves it: after three worker connects
* the count is unchanged (no extra discover/initialize from the workers).
*
* **Security:** the persisted advertisement is what the server returned for the
* bootstrap client's credential. Only reuse it across workers that present the
* SAME authorization context — here every client speaks to the same
* unauthenticated endpoint, so the constraint holds trivially. Do not share a
* `DiscoverResult` across principals.
*/
import { check, parseExampleArgs } from '@mcp-examples/shared';
import type { DiscoverResult, PriorDiscovery } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
import { Client, StreamableHTTPClientTransport } from '@modelcontextprotocol/client';
async function requestCount(client: Client): Promise<number> {
const r = await client.callTool({ name: 'request_count' });
return Number((r.content?.[0] as { text: string }).text);
}
const { url } = parseExampleArgs();
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
// Step 1: bootstrap — one server/discover probe.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
const bootstrap = new Client({ name: 'gateway-bootstrap', version: '1.0.0' }, { versionNegotiation: { mode: 'auto' } });
await bootstrap.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(new URL(url)));
check.equal(bootstrap.getNegotiatedProtocolVersion(), '2026-07-28');
// round trips each. Every worker presents the same authorization context
// as the bootstrap (unauthenticated here), so reuse is safe.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
const prior: PriorDiscovery = { kind: 'modern', discover: JSON.parse(persisted) as DiscoverResult };
const workers = await Promise.all(
['worker-a', 'worker-b', 'worker-c'].map(async name => {
const worker = new Client({ name, version: '1.0.0' });
await worker.connect(new StreamableHTTPClientTransport(new URL(url)), { prior });
// Adopted directly from prior — no probe, no initialize.
check.equal(worker.getNegotiatedProtocolVersion(), '2026-07-28');
check.deepEqual(worker.getServerVersion(), { name: 'gateway-target', version: '1.0.0' });
return worker;
})
);
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
// Step 4: prove it. Three connect() calls and the count is unchanged
// (still 2 from the bootstrap leg + this request_count call = 3). Had
// each worker probed/initialized, this would read 6.
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
check.equal(await requestCount(workers[0]!), 3);
// Each worker can callTool immediately.
for (const [i, worker] of workers.entries()) {
const echoed = await worker.callTool({ name: 'echo', arguments: { text: `hello from ${i}` } });
check.equal((echoed.content?.[0] as { text: string }).text, `hello from ${i}`);
}
// 3 (above) + 3 echo calls + this request_count call = 7.
check.equal(await requestCo…[truncated]</excerpt>
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Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/upgrade-to-v2.md?utm_source=openai
- 2: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/packages/client/src/index.ts?utm_source=openai
Enforce discovery-result freshness before reuse.
Client.connect(..., { prior }) leaves freshness enforcement to the host. This example passes saved after its ttlMs expires, and saved ??= never replaces an existing result. A stale discovery result can therefore be reused indefinitely after the server changes.
Suggested fix
--- "a/docs/tools/mcp-manual.md"
+++ "b/docs/tools/mcp-manual.md"
@@ -111,16 +111,24 @@
import type { DiscoverResult } from '@tanstack/ai-mcp'
const transport = { type: 'http' as const, url: process.env.MCP_URL! }
let saved: DiscoverResult | undefined
+let savedAt: number | undefined
export async function connect() {
+ const prior =
+ saved &&
+ savedAt !== undefined &&
+ Date.now() - savedAt < saved.ttlMs
+ ? { kind: 'modern' as const, discover: saved }
+ : undefined
const mcp = await createMCPClient({
transport,
- prior: saved ? { kind: 'modern', discover: saved } : undefined,
+ prior,
})
- saved ??= mcp.getDiscoverResult?.()
+ saved = mcp.getDiscoverResult?.()
+ savedAt = saved ? Date.now() : undefined
return mcp
}
```
- `getDiscoverResult()` returns the `server/discover` result of the connection. It is `undefined` when the server speaks spec 2025.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Update the connect function’s prior discovery reuse to enforce saved-result
freshness using a savedAt timestamp and each result’s ttlMs; pass prior only
while the cached result remains valid, then refresh saved and savedAt from
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Resolve conflicts with TanStack#1848 (MCPClient.request) by keeping both sides. Review fixes: - getDiscoverResult is required on MCPClient (request already made the interface break hand-rolled clients); drop the ?.() calls. - Pass prior straight to Client.connect. - Docs sample keys the saved result by token with its own max age; drop ttlMs/cacheScope wording (not on the DiscoverResult type); say that connect with prior sends no request. - E2E counts server/discover requests and asserts the second connect sends none. - Unit tests: a prior with no shared version throws MCPConnectionError before any request; a spec 2025 server has no discover result.
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Thanks @argjentsahiti! Checked against the SDK 2.1.0 prior/getDiscoverResult API; I merged main, made getDiscoverResult required, keyed the docs cache by token, and added tests that prove the skip and that a bad prior fails as MCPConnectionError.
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- Around line 150-151: Update the saved cache lifecycle so entries are removed
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Remove expired token-keyed cache entries.
If tokens rotate or users accumulate, saved retains every bearer token and its result after the five-minute reuse window ends. A long-lived host retains those credentials indefinitely and grows the map without a bound. Evict entries when their lifetime ends; checking age only when the same token returns does not remove abandoned entries.
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| * `{ kind: 'legacy' }` prior. | ||
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Keep getDiscoverResult optional on MCPClient.
This required member makes existing hand-written MCPClient implementations fail type-checking. The PR objective explicitly preserves those implementations by making the accessor optional. Make the interface member optional, and update typed callers to use optional chaining. (github.com)
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| // nothing here, so a dead or unauthorized server fails on first use. |
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Qualify the request-free connection claim.
If a modern server advertises tools.listChanged, connect() subsequently awaits #listenForToolListChanges(). That method opens a subscriptions/listen request and waits for its acknowledgement. A modern prior therefore skips server/discover but does not always remove a connection-time round trip. State this limitation in the API documentation and the new examples. (ts.sdk.modelcontextprotocol.io)
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A host can save the
server/discoverresult of anMCPClientand pass it back ascreateMCPClient({ prior }). The next connect then skips theserver/discoverrequest. This saves one round trip per connect for hosts that open a new client for each request.🎯 Changes
Why: the author's agent runs in a serverless worker and opens a new
MCPClientto the same server for each run. On protocol2026-07-28, each connect sendsserver/discoverbefore the first real request.createMCPClient({ prior })passespriorto the SDKClient.connect(transport, { prior }). The type is the SDKPriorDiscovery.MCPClient.getDiscoverResult()returns the SDKClient.getDiscoverResult(). It isundefinedon a protocol2025-11-25server. It is a required member, likerequestfrom feat(ai-mcp): serve and call MCP extensions with createMCPServer setup and MCPClient.request #1848. Both ship in the same minor.DiscoverResultandPriorDiscoveryare exported as types from@tanstack/ai-mcp.docs/tools/mcp-manual.md. The sample keys the saved result by token and expires it. The package skill is updated too.@tanstack/ai-mcp.Behavior to know:
prior, connect sends no request. A dead server or a revoked token fails on the first call, not on connect.MCPConnectionErrorbefore any request.getInfo()does not keepprior, so app call handler reconnects runserver/discoveragain.Sources:
ConnectOptions.prior,PriorDiscovery,getDiscoverResult(). All are in@modelcontextprotocol/client2.1.0, the lockfile version. The SDK says freshness is the host's job.✅ Checklist
pnpm run test:pr, or these tests do not apply to this pull request.docs/for this change, or this change is not user-facing.pnpm changeset), or this PR does not change a published package.🚀 Release Impact
Testing
Commands run:
pnpm test:prand the MCP e2e specs on the first commit.pnpm test:typesinpackages/ai-mcppassed.vitest run tests/client.test.ts tests/apps/call-handler.test.ts -t "discover|prior"passed (6 tests).kiira check docs/tools/mcp-manual.mdpassed. The fulltest:prand the e2e suite were not run locally. CI runs them.Manual test:
packages/ai-mcp, runpnpm exec vitest run tests/client.test.ts -t "discover|prior". Expect the skip, bad prior, and 2025 tests to pass.client.ts, changeimpl.connect(transport, options.prior)toimpl.connect(transport, undefined). Run step 1 again. Expect the skip test to fail.pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-e2e test:e2e -- --grep "skips server/discover". ExpectfirstDiscovers: 1andnextDiscovers: 0.How this PR makes testing easy:
packages/ai-mcp/tests/client.test.tscount JSON-RPC methods through an injectedfetch.testing/e2e/tests/mcp-typed.spec.tscountsserver/discoverrequests on a real server.Risk / rollback
Low. Without
prior, connect works as before. A hand-rolledMCPClientmust addgetDiscoverResult, the same asrequestfrom #1848. Revert the PR to undo.Public API change
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