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implements the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks extension as defined in SEP-2663, while preserving full backward compatibility with existing 2025-11-25 clients.
the SEP-2663 redesigns async tasks as a proper MCP extension. rather than requiring clients to opt-in per-request via params.task, the server decides whether to create a task based on whether the client declared the extension in per-request _meta.
three structural problems in the 2025-11-25 experimental spec are resolved: the fragile per-request opt-in, the blocking tasks/result SSE trap, and the security risk of tasks/list without sessions.
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The PR adds SEP-2663 task support with modern and legacy wire formats. It adds client tasks/update support, task result parsing, capability checks, server input-response handling, task notifications, and update-specific hooks. It also updates the task example and adds documentation and tests for task authorization and lifecycle behavior.
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Tasks Extension
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Summary
Protocol contracts and wire formats mcp/result.go, mcp/tasks.go, mcp/types.go
Adds task methods, extension identifiers, capability lookup, modern and legacy task result serialization, input-required fields, cancellation acknowledgements, and update request/result types.
Client requests and result parsing client/client.go, mcp/utils.go, mcp/task_status_parsing_test.go
Adds Client.UpdateTask and parsing support for modern timing fields and task response data.
Server task lifecycle and notifications server/server.go, server/sep2663_test.go, server/task_response_format_test.go, server/task_test.go, server/task_tool_test.go
Adds extension advertisement, protocol-dependent task execution, input-response storage and signaling, enriched task results, modern cancellation acknowledgements, and task notifications. Tests cover modern and legacy formats, retrieval, cancellation, updates, and notification fields.
Capability-gated routing and update hooks server/request_handler.go, server/hooks.go
Checks task capabilities by protocol, restricts tasks/update to modern requests, dispatches update handlers, and adds before and after update hooks.
Task example, authorization, and lifecycle validation examples/task_tool/main.go, README.md, server/task_auth_contract_test.go, server/task_http_lifecycle_test.go
Enables and revises the task example. Documents task handler context lifetime and task authorization. Adds tests for session access, middleware and hook identity, and task lifecycle across HTTP and in-process requests.
mark3labs/mcp-go#1054: Both changes address task execution context lifetime and cancellation.
mark3labs/mcp-go#1162: Client capability metadata affects the task capability contract used by this change.
mark3labs/mcp-go#1093: Both changes modify task lifecycle hooks and cancellation behavior.
Suggested reviewers: ezynda3
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 97197
Resolve the task input-flow and wire-compatibility defects before merging: affected clients can lose interactive tool functionality or reject task responses. Task retention and misleading authorization guidance also need attention. Legacy status notifications remain available.
Security architecture risk: High · up to 552d4
A client that knows a task ID may be able to retrieve another client's task result or cancel its work through the new protocol path. The new automatic task route can also skip configured tool-input validation. Exposure depends on how the server is deployed and whether task IDs become known to other clients.
Retained concerns
High · security · inferred: Modern task access relies on a session-ownership check that accepts empty requester IDs. A caller knowing another client's task ID can use the new result-bearing tasks/get path; update is additionally reachable if that task enters input_required. Modern cancellation also uses this lookup, although cancellation was already reachable in some legacy-capability configurations.
Medium · security · observed: Declaring the tasks extension now automatically routes eligible tool calls around configured input-schema validation before their handlers execute. The task path already omitted that validation, but previously required per-request task selection.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — A known task ID can address task state within the same server instance across session boundaries. The maximum exposure depends on which clients and tenants share that instance; no cross-instance store is established by the inspected evidence.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — A modern caller can self-declare task support and supply a known task ID. The empty-session lookup then permits result retrieval regardless of a nonempty creator session; modern cancellation uses the same lookup. Different nonempty session IDs are rejected, and task IDs are generated as UUID v4.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Extension declaration checks protocol support, not task ownership. Modern HTTP validates protocol headers and version but does not create a persistent session ID for ownership checks.
observed — Task-status notifications include IDs and are broadcast to initialized sessions rather than filtered by owner. This disclosure path already existed for the legacy status method; active subscription filters block the inspected task notification methods.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Completion and cancellation serialize terminal-state changes under the task lock and guard against double completion. That control does not establish requester ownership or consumption of updated input.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Bind task access and notifications to a verified caller identity suitable for sessionless modern requests, and enforce that binding for reads, updates, and cancellation.
proposed — Apply configured input-schema validation before either synchronous or task execution, with validation failures represented in the appropriate task contract.
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The title "feat: add SEP-2663 Tasks Extension" names the main change. The changeset implements the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks extension from SEP-2663, including server-directed task creation, the t…
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The description follows the template structure. It has a Description section that explains the SEP-2663 change and links issue #980. It also fills in the Type of Change, Checklist, and MCP Spec Compli…
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[#980] Requirement: implement SEP-2663 with a dual-path design that keeps 2025-11-25 clients working. The reviewed summary shows this implementation across the whole PR (merge base 8824682 to head 97…
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The reviewed changes map to #980 or to the SEP-2663 task feature this PR implements: - Protocol types and parsers (mcp/types.go, mcp/utils.go, mcp/result.go, mcp/tasks.go) add SEP-2663 fields,…
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The title "feat: add SEP-2663 Tasks Extension" names the main change. The changeset implements the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks extension from SEP-2663, including server-directed task creation, the tasks/update method, and the new wire format. The title is short, specific, and uses a conventional commit prefix.
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The description follows the template structure. It has a Description section that explains the SEP-2663 change and links issue #980. It also fills in the Type of Change, Checklist, and MCP Spec Compliance sections with the spec link. The checklist leaves two items unchecked: adding tests and updating documentation. The author notes that test cases will be added soon. The Additional Information section still contains template comments only. The README changes in the summary suggest documentation was added, so the unchecked documentation box is inconsistent with the changes. The description is mostly complete, so the check passes, but the author should reconcile the checklist.
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Consider these updates before merge: check the test and documentation checklist items once the tests and README changes are confirmed, or explain why they remain unchecked. Remove the template comment in Additional Information if it does not apply. Replace the statement that test cases will be added soon with a list of the test files that now exist.
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[#980] Requirement: implement SEP-2663 with a dual-path design that keeps 2025-11-25 clients working. The reviewed summary shows this implementation across the whole PR (merge base 8824682 to head 97197e7):
Modern detection: ClientCapabilities.HasExtension in mcp/types.go checks for the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks key. server/server.go uses it to decide server-directed task creation for modern requests. server/sep2663_test.go covers this path.
Legacy path: legacy params.task handling and nested task wire format are kept. CreateTaskResult unmarshals both nested legacy and inline SEP-2663 fields.
Modern responses: tasks/get inlines results, failures, and input requests. tasks/cancel returns an acknowledgement. tasks/update is added for modern requests only. Legacy requests get METHOD_NOT_FOUND for tasks/update.
Notifications: notifications/tasks is used, with both legacy and SEP-2663 TTL and poll-interval field names.
Tests: server/sep2663_test.go, updated task wire-format and task tests, and HTTP lifecycle tests cover modern and legacy behavior.
The PR description says tests will be added. The summary shows test files, so this is not a gap. server/internal/gen/data.go and server/internal/gen/request_handler.go.tmpl are in ignored_files (rule !**/gen/**) and were not inspected. The tasks/update and tasks/get behavior is established by reviewable summaries of server/request_handler.go and server/server.go, so the result does not depend on the excluded files. One point is unverified: NewCreateTaskResult now sets Legacy: true, and the summary notes the SEP wire format uses Legacy=false. The modern wire-format tests in server/sep2663_test.go cover the resulting behavior, so this does not establish a failure.
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The reviewed changes map to #980 or to the SEP-2663 task feature this PR implements:
Protocol types and parsers (mcp/types.go, mcp/utils.go, mcp/result.go, mcp/tasks.go) add SEP-2663 fields, tasks/update types, ExtensionTasks, and ResultTypeTask. The client UpdateTask method is the client side of tasks/update.
Server changes (server/server.go, server/request_handler.go, server/hooks.go) add the modern task handling, options (WithTasksExtension, WithDefaultTaskTTL), and update hooks.
Test changes cover the new behavior. The auth contract tests and README authorization notes document task access behavior, which the SEP security section requires. These are supporting changes, not unrelated product behavior.
examples/task_tool/main.go is a task example. The PR objectives list task examples as part of this work. Its changes to input validation and helper code are part of that example, not separate product behavior.
No change is shown to be unrelated to #980 or the task feature. The excluded server/internal/gen files were not inspected, and no out-of-scope conclusion depends on them.
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Require an exact session match for session-owned tasks.
Modern requests use an empty session ID. The current predicate rejects only a different non-empty session, so a known task ID can access a session-owned task through tasks/get, tasks/update, or tasks/cancel. Require entry.sessionID == sessionID whenever entry.sessionID is non-empty.
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In `@server/server.go` around lines 3019 - 3021, Update the session ownership
check around getSessionID(ctx) so any task with a non-empty entry.sessionID
requires an exact match with sessionID, including when the request session is
empty; preserve access for tasks without an owning session.
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In `@mcp/types.go` at line 1969, Rename the exported UpdateTaskParams field TaskId
to TaskID while preserving the json tag as taskId, and update any references to
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In `@mcp/types.go`:
- Line 1819: Update CreateTaskResult.UnmarshalJSON to decode and assign the
embedded common Result fields, including _meta and resultType, before selecting
and decoding the Task or Legacy wire format. Preserve those Result fields during
both modern and legacy round trips while keeping the existing task-format
selection behavior unchanged.
- Around line 1848-1946: Apply the staticcheck fixes by converting the
compatible inline task value directly with Task(inline) in the surrounding task
unmarshalling method, using the promoted TaskId selector in
CancelTaskResult.MarshalJSON, and replacing the flat struct literal with flat(r)
for JSON marshaling.
In `@mcp/utils.go`:
- Around line 1256-1260: Update the JSON decoding block around json.Unmarshal so
decode failures for SEP-2663 fields, including error or inputRequests, return a
wrapped error instead of being silently ignored. Preserve assigning TaskResult,
TaskError, and InputRequests only after successful decoding.
In `@server/hooks.go`:
- Around line 125-126: Update the generated hook template to add name-prefixed
GoDoc comments for OnBeforeUpdateTaskFunc, OnAfterUpdateTaskFunc,
AddBeforeUpdateTask, and AddAfterUpdateTask, then regenerate server/hooks.go.
Add a name-prefixed GoDoc comment for (*UnsupportedTaskResultError).Error
directly in mcp/tasks.go.
In `@server/server.go`:
- Line 3201: Update sendTaskStatusNotification and its callers to pass the
task’s owning session ID from createTask, then replace both broadcast
notification calls with SendNotificationToSpecificClient targeting that session.
Preserve both notification formats while ensuring only the owner receives task
status metadata.
- Around line 2136-2328: The asynchronous calls in handleTaskAugmentedToolCall
currently pass the request-scoped ctx, which may be canceled when the handler
returns. Create a detached context that preserves required request values, then
pass it to executeTaskTool and executeRegularToolAsTask while leaving
synchronous request handling unchanged.
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In `@server/server.go`:
- Around line 3019-3021: Update the session ownership check around
getSessionID(ctx) so any task with a non-empty entry.sessionID requires an exact
match with sessionID, including when the request session is empty; preserve
access for tasks without an owning session.
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In `@mcp/types.go`:
- Line 1969: Rename the exported UpdateTaskParams field TaskId to TaskID while
preserving the json tag as taskId, and update any references to the field
accordingly.
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🟡 Minor · Set Legacy to false in NewCreateTaskResult. · tasks.go:98-103
mcp/tasks.go:98-103 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Set Legacy to false in NewCreateTaskResult.
CreateTaskResult.MarshalJSON uses the legacy nested format when Legacy is true. This exported constructor therefore emits nested task JSON instead of the modern inline Tasks-extension format. Callers using the constructor cannot produce modern task results.
Suggested fix
- Legacy: true,+ Legacy: false,
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In `@mcp/tasks.go` around lines 98 - 103, Update NewCreateTaskResult to set Legacy
to false so results created by the exported constructor use the modern inline
Tasks-extension format when marshaled.
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Reachability: External Exploitability: Moderate CWE:CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Add an owner-scoped notification case.
The existing multi-session case creates the task with the sessionless ctx, so both-session delivery does not test owner scoping. Create a second task with server.WithContext(ctx, session1). Assert that session1 receives mcp.MethodNotificationTasks and session2 does not receive that method. Keep the existing case for sessionless behavior.
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select {
case notification := <-notifyChan2:
assert.Equal(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)
case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):
t.Fatal("Expected notification on session2")
}
++ // Verify that an owner-scoped task does not notify an unrelated session.+ for len(notifyChan1) > 0 {+ <-notifyChan1+ }+ for len(notifyChan2) > 0 {+ <-notifyChan2+ }++ ownerCtx := server.WithContext(ctx, session1)+ ownerEntry, err := server.createTask(ownerCtx, "task-notify-owner", "test-tool", nil, nil)+ require.NoError(t, err)+ server.completeTask(ownerEntry, "result", nil)++ select {+ case notification := <-notifyChan1:+ assert.Equal(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)+ case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):+ t.Fatal("Expected owner notification on session1")+ }++ select {+ case notification := <-notifyChan2:+ assert.NotEqual(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)+ case <-time.After(100 * time.Millisecond):+ // Expected when the unrelated session receives no notification.+ }
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In @server/task_test.go at line 1132, Extend the existing multi-session
notification test using createTask and completeTask to create a second task with
context scoped to session1 via server.WithContext(ctx, session1). Assert
session1 receives the task notification and session2 does not; keep the existing
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Review comments at @server/request_handler.go:
- Line 533: Update the tasks/get and tasks/cancel guards in the request handler
so modern clients advertising mcp.ExtensionTasks reach request parsing and
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🟡 Minor · Serialize modern task hints with SEP-2663 field names. · server.go:2592-2646
server/server.go:2592-2646 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Serialize modern task hints with SEP-2663 field names.
When IsModernRequest(ctx) is true, this route returns mcp.GetTaskResult with the embedded mcp.Task. That type serializes TTL as ttl and PollInterval as pollInterval. SEP-2663 requires ttlMs and pollIntervalMs, so compliant clients can miss task hints when either value is set. Apply a modern-only response representation and retain the existing legacy representation.
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Review comment at @server/server.go around lines 2592 - 2646:
Update the modern `IsModernRequest(ctx)` response in the task retrieval handler
to serialize task hints using SEP-2663 field names `ttlMs` and `pollIntervalMs`,
while preserving the task result, error, and input-request fields. Keep the
legacy response representation unchanged.
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Please document the accepted asynchronous-task request-context limitation for HTTP transports and add an HTTP lifecycle test showing what happens after the initial response completes, including cancellation behavior and supported transport guidance.
Thanks for picking this up. We'd like to build on it for long-running tool calls behind an MCP gateway, so we tried it against the spec and hit a few things that look related to the maintainer's request above:
Task context ends with the request. The task context derives from the request context (server/server.go:2347, 2439). Over Streamable HTTP, a 500 ms tool ends cancelled ("context canceled") right after the POST returns. A context detached from the request (e.g. context.WithoutCancel plus its own cancel func for tasks/cancel) would let the work outlive the response, which is the point of a task.
No authorization on tasks/*. The only check is the session-ID comparison (server.go:2990, 3020), which passes when either ID is empty, so on stateless HTTP any caller with a task ID can get, update or cancel it. The SEP requires an auth check on every task request. A hook that receives the request context when a task is created and on each tasks/* call would let servers bind tasks to their own identity.
tasks/get field names. The embedded Task serialises ttl / pollInterval instead of ttlMs / pollIntervalMs (mcp/types.go:1869).
AddTaskTool result.json.Marshal(storedResult) (server.go:2616) serialises the *CreateTaskResult, so a completed task returns "result":{"task":{}} and the content is lost.
tasks/cancel on a terminal task returns an error (server.go:3114); the SEP says the server acks it.
Mcp-Name isn't set or checked for tasks/* (mcp/headers.go is untouched).
Smaller: there's no way to update statusMessage from running work, and modern-mode tasks get no TTL, so they're never evicted. Happy to help test a revision.
Please document the accepted asynchronous-task request-context limitation for HTTP transports and add an HTTP lifecycle test showing what happens after the initial response completes, including cancellation behavior and supported transport guidance.
while working on the examples/task_tool demo, I discovered that executeTaskTool derives its context from the per-request ctx passed by HandleMessage, not from s.serverCtx.
because HandleMessage defers a cancel on that ctx, task goroutines are cancelled immediately after the response is written on every transport, not just Streamable HTTP.
updated the comments and readme, and added test cases to cover the changes.
Task context ends with the request. The task context derives from the request context (server/server.go:2347, 2439). Over Streamable HTTP, a 500 ms tool ends cancelled ("context canceled") right after the POST returns. A context detached from the request (e.g. context.WithoutCancel plus its own cancel func for tasks/cancel) would let the work outlive the response, which is the point of a task.
No authorization on tasks/*. The only check is the session-ID comparison (server.go:2990, 3020), which passes when either ID is empty, so on stateless HTTP any caller with a task ID can get, update or cancel it. The SEP requires an auth check on every task request. A hook that receives the request context when a task is created and on each tasks/* call would let servers bind tasks to their own identity.
tasks/get field names. The embedded Task serialises ttl / pollInterval instead of ttlMs / pollIntervalMs (mcp/types.go:1869).
AddTaskTool result.json.Marshal(storedResult) (server.go:2616) serialises the *CreateTaskResult, so a completed task returns "result":{"task":{}} and the content is lost.
tasks/cancel on a terminal task returns an error (server.go:3114); the SEP says the server acks it.
Mcp-Name isn't set or checked for tasks/* (mcp/headers.go is untouched).
fixed issue 1 and 3. issue 2 and 6 appear to be by design. I'll look into issue 4 and 5 shortly.
Thanks for resolving the conflicts and task-lifecycle issues! Modern tasks/get still appears to emit ttl/pollInterval rather than ttlMs/pollIntervalMs. Could you check that? We’ll also need to settle the task-ownership contract before merging.
Sorry—that wording was mine, not terminology from SEP-2663. I meant the SDK’s rules for deciding who may access or modify a task, rather than ownership of the background goroutine or its context.
Auth binding. Servers MUST perform authentication and authorization checks on each task-related request to ensure that the client has permission to access a task.
The SEP leaves the application’s permission model open and explicitly permits sufficiently unguessable task IDs to serve as bearer tokens. So I’m not asking for a new protocol field, mandatory user identity, or session binding.
What we need to make explicit is how this implementation supports that requirement. Currently, the task lookup checks session IDs only when both IDs are nonempty. Without a session, possession of the task ID effectively grants access.
Before merging, let’s clarify whether that bearer-token behavior is the intended default, and how applications needing user- or tenant-bound access can enforce authorization on every task operation. That could be through existing middleware or an authorization callback; it doesn’t necessarily require a new API. We should document the chosen behavior and test the relevant allowed/denied access cases.
That’s what I meant by settling the “contract”—making the SDK/application security responsibilities explicit, not introducing an additional SEP requirement.
Sorry—that wording was mine, not terminology from SEP-2663. I meant the SDK’s rules for deciding who may access or modify a task, rather than ownership of the background goroutine or its context.
Auth binding. Servers MUST perform authentication and authorization checks on each task-related request to ensure that the client has permission to access a task.
The SEP leaves the application’s permission model open and explicitly permits sufficiently unguessable task IDs to serve as bearer tokens. So I’m not asking for a new protocol field, mandatory user identity, or session binding.
What we need to make explicit is how this implementation supports that requirement. Currently, the task lookup checks session IDs only when both IDs are nonempty. Without a session, possession of the task ID effectively grants access.
Before merging, let’s clarify whether that bearer-token behavior is the intended default, and how applications needing user- or tenant-bound access can enforce authorization on every task operation. That could be through existing middleware or an authorization callback; it doesn’t necessarily require a new API. We should document the chosen behavior and test the relevant allowed/denied access cases.
That’s what I meant by settling the “contract”—making the SDK/application security responsibilities explicit, not introducing an additional SEP requirement.
understood, thanks for the detailed clarification. I'll look into this.
currently I am working on aligning ttlMs/pollIntervalMs with SEP-2663.
Hi @ezynda3 , I have documented the task authorization in the README and updated the test cases accordingly. Could you please take a look at the commit when you get a chance? Thanks.
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Minor · Return the analysis in the task result. · main.go:163-164
examples/task_tool/main.go:163-164 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Return the analysis in the task result.
handleAnalyzeData builds summary and only logs it. It returns mcp.NewCreateTaskResult(mcp.Task{}), which sets no Content. tasks/result therefore returns no analysis text. Set r.Content to the summary before returning.
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Review comment at @examples/task_tool/main.go around lines 163 - 164:
Update handleAnalyzeData to include its computed summary as text content in the
result returned by mcp.NewCreateTaskResult, assigning r.Content before returning
r. Keep the existing summary logging and return flow unchanged.
Add a wire-level test for a positive ttlMs in the modern create response.
The modern create-response test in server/task_response_format_test.go sends no task TTL. It only checks that ttlMs is absent. No test in this file asserts that a positive task TTL appears as ttlMs in the resultType: "task" response. A regression that drops the TTL from this response would not fail a test.
Add a case that configures a positive task TTL for the modern create path. Assert that result["ttlMs"] equals that value.
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Review comment at @server/task_response_format_test.go around lines 116 - 117:
Extend the modern create-response test using the existing create path to
configure a positive task TTL, then assert that the wire-level task response’s
result contains that value under ttlMs. Preserve the existing assertion that
ttlMs is omitted when no TTL is specified.
Add a Streamable HTTP test for SEP-2663 _meta task creation.
The HTTP lifecycle tests create tasks only through the legacy params.task field. No HTTP test sends a task-creating request with SEP-2663 _meta. No HTTP test covers task completion or cancellation on that path. The _meta creation test in server/sep2663_test.go:29-46 runs in-process through HandleMessage.
Add a test that:
Creates the server with WithTasksExtension(), as server/sep2663_test.go:32 does.
Sends a task-creating request over HTTP with modernTaskMeta() as _meta, using postModernWithMeta (server/streamable_http_modern_test.go:44).
Checks that the task completes and that tasks/cancel moves it to a terminal status.
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Review comment at @server/task_http_lifecycle_test.go around lines 31 - 37:
Add an HTTP lifecycle test for SEP-2663 task creation using `_meta`. Create the
server with `WithTasksExtension()`, send the task-creating request through
`postModernWithMeta` with `modernTaskMeta()`, and verify the task completes and
a `tasks/cancel` request leaves it in a terminal status.
Block the lifecycle test handlers until the test releases them.
Both tests pass if executeTaskTool runs synchronously. The working snapshot is taken before the handler starts. The handler finishes within the 2-second wait, so the first test passes. In the in-process test, HandleMessage returns only after the handler completes. The later cancelReq() then has no effect. Neither test checks that the response returns while the handler is still running.
Gate the first handler on a release channel. The handler then cannot complete before the test reads the response:
If the response is synchronous, the POST blocks until the test timeout. The request-context cancellation check still applies. If the request context ends before release, the ctx.Done() branch returns and handlerCompleted never closes.
Apply the same gate to the in-process test. Call HandleMessage in a goroutine, and require that it returns before the handler is released. Then cancel the request context and release the handler:
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return nil, ctx.Err()
- case <-time.After(200 * time.Millisecond):+ case <-release:
close(handlerCompleted)
- srv.HandleMessage(sessionCtx, msg)+ handlerReturned := make(chan struct{})+ go func() {+ srv.HandleMessage(sessionCtx, msg)+ close(handlerReturned)+ }()+ select {+ case <-handlerReturned:+ case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):+ t.Fatal("HandleMessage did not return while the task handler was blocked")+ }
// Cancel the request context immediately.
cancelReq()
+ close(release)
A synchronous implementation then fails with a clear message, and it no longer depends on the 200 ms timer.
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Review comment at @server/task_http_lifecycle_test.go around lines 103 - 106:
Update the HTTP and in-process lifecycle tests so their task handlers wait on a
release channel instead of a timer, ensuring the response is verified while the
handler is still blocked. In the in-process test, run HandleMessage
asynchronously and require it to return before releasing the handler; then
cancel the request context and release the handler, preserving the existing
cancellation checks.
TestTaskHTTPLifecycle_CancelViaTasksCancel waits only for a terminal task status. cancelTaskEntry sets the status under tasksMu and then calls entry.cancelFunc after unlocking. If that cancel() call were removed, the status check would still pass, and the test would pass while the handler remains blocked on <-ctx.Done(). Wait for the handler to return after the status check. The sibling lifecycle test already uses a completion signal for its handler.
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handlerRunning := make(chan struct{})
+ handlerExited := make(chan struct{})
tool := mcp.NewTool("cancellable_task",
mcp.WithDescription("A task that can be cancelled via tasks/cancel"),
mcp.WithTaskSupport(mcp.TaskSupportRequired),
)
srv.AddTaskTool(tool, func(ctx context.Context, req mcp.CallToolRequest) (*mcp.CreateTaskResult, error) {
+ defer close(handlerExited)
close(handlerRunning)
<-ctx.Done()
return nil, ctx.Err()
})
@@
}, 3*time.Second, 100*time.Millisecond, "task status: %s", lastStatus)
++ select {+ case <-handlerExited:+ case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):+ t.Fatal("task handler did not exit after tasks/cancel")+ }
}
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Review comment at @server/task_http_lifecycle_test.go around lines 185 - 205:
Update TestTaskHTTPLifecycle_CancelViaTasksCancel to verify the task handler
exits after the terminal status check. Add a completion signal around the
handler’s wait on ctx.Done(), then wait for that signal with a bounded timeout
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Review comments at @examples/task_tool/main.go:
- Around line 113-115: Update handleProcessBatch to reject missing or empty
items before processing, since the task path does not validate inputs and a nil
slice currently succeeds with zero items processed. Preserve the existing
handling of non-empty items.
- Line 98: Replace the AddTaskTool registration for analyzeData with AddTool so
analyze_data supports synchronous calls as well as optional task execution.
Ensure handleAnalyzeData conforms to the handler signature expected by AddTool.
Review comments at @mcp/types.go:
- Line 2090: Add a legacy-response selector to CancelTaskResult, set it in the
legacy branch of handleCancelTask, and update CancelTaskResult.MarshalJSON to
emit ttl and pollInterval for legacy responses. Follow
CreateTaskResult.MarshalJSONLegacyTask while preserving the existing SEP-2663
field names for non-legacy responses.
- Around line 1932-1933: Update the SEP-2663 branch of
CreateTaskResult.UnmarshalJSON to reset Legacy to false when assigning the
decoded fields, so reusing a value cannot cause MarshalJSON to emit the legacy
nested task format; preserve the legacy decoding path.
- Around line 1975-1976: Update the legacy tasks/get response serialization
around r.TTL to always include the ttl field, preserving the existing non-nil
value and emitting null when r.TTL is nil.
- Around line 1875-1877: Update marshalTaskToMap to always include ttlMs,
preserving the TTL value when present and emitting null when t.TTL is nil.
Update the no-expiration assertion in the task response format test to verify
that ttlMs is present with a null value.
- Around line 2016-2019: Update ListTasksResult.MarshalJSON to emit legacy ttl
and pollInterval field names for each task instead of ttlMs and pollIntervalMs
from marshalTaskToMap. Always include ttl, including when unset, and include
pollInterval only when it is set; preserve the other task fields.
Review comments at @mcp/utils.go:
- Around line 1334-1336: Update ParseGetTaskResult, ParseListTasksResult, and
ParseCancelTaskResult so ttlMs and pollIntervalMs are decoded without first
converting JSON numbers to float64; preserve integer precision and reject values
that cannot be represented as int64. Adjust jsonToTask as needed to consume the
precise numeric representation, and add a modern-name input to the parsing test.
Review comments at @README.md:
- Line 422: Update the task-context lifetime statement in the README to remove
the unsupported `s.serverCtx` reference and clarify that the context survives
`HandleMessage` returning, then ends when `tasks/cancel` is called or the task’s
TTL expires; state that server shutdown does not cancel running tasks.
- Line 575: Update the HTTP middleware description in the README to state that
credentials are validated on each request and are not bound to sessions, so a
session ID does not identify the caller. Remove the cited tests from this
paragraph and explain that limiting a session to one caller requires the
application to store the authenticated identity for that session and reject
requests with a different identity.
- Around line 581-587: Remove the non-enforcing authorization logic from the
OnBeforeGetTask example, including the invalid ctx.Value type use and empty
denial branch. Clarify that hooks cannot reject requests; only show
authorization as an incomplete example unless it demonstrates enforcement before
the MCP handler runs.
Review comments at @server/server.go:
- Around line 2320-2323: Update the task-routing decision in the
shouldExecuteAsTask logic so an input_required result from an optional tool
remains answerable: either implement a task flow that transitions to
input_required and accepts the client’s response through tasks/update, or route
these results through the synchronous CallTool flow. Preserve task execution for
results that do not require input.
- Around line 2334-2339: Update the taskToolOnly routing logic using
RequestProtocolInfoFromContext so modern requests set shouldExecuteAsTask only
when the client declared the Tasks extension; consult request.Params.Task only
for legacy requests.
- Around line 2812-2816: Update the modern tasks/get branch that marshals
storedResult so a json.Marshal failure is reported to the client or prevents the
task from being reported as completed; do not silently leave TaskResult empty.
Preserve the successful serialization path that assigns the JSON result to
TaskResult.
- Around line 2504-2506: Update the `createTask` TTL fallback so tasks without a
client TTL receive a bounded server-side retention period even when
`WithDefaultTaskTTL` is unset. Preserve client-provided and explicitly
configured TTLs; establish an appropriate default using the existing
task-expiration mechanism.
---
Minor comments:
Review comments at @examples/task_tool/main.go:
- Around line 163-164: Update handleAnalyzeData to include its computed summary
as text content in the result returned by mcp.NewCreateTaskResult, assigning
r.Content before returning r. Keep the existing summary logging and return flow
unchanged.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @server/task_http_lifecycle_test.go:
- Around line 31-37: Add an HTTP lifecycle test for SEP-2663 task creation using
`_meta`. Create the server with `WithTasksExtension()`, send the task-creating
request through `postModernWithMeta` with `modernTaskMeta()`, and verify the
task completes and a `tasks/cancel` request leaves it in a terminal status.
- Around line 103-106: Update the HTTP and in-process lifecycle tests so their
task handlers wait on a release channel instead of a timer, ensuring the
response is verified while the handler is still blocked. In the in-process test,
run HandleMessage asynchronously and require it to return before releasing the
handler; then cancel the request context and release the handler, preserving the
existing cancellation checks.
- Around line 185-205: Update TestTaskHTTPLifecycle_CancelViaTasksCancel to
verify the task handler exits after the terminal status check. Add a completion
signal around the handler’s wait on ctx.Done(), then wait for that signal with a
bounded timeout and fail the test if the handler remains blocked.
Review comments at @server/task_response_format_test.go:
- Around line 116-117: Extend the modern create-response test using the existing
create path to configure a positive task TTL, then assert that the wire-level
task response’s result contains that value under ttlMs. Preserve the existing
assertion that ttlMs is omitted when no TTL is specified.
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Route input_required results on the task path to a supported input flow.
Optional tools called by extension-declaring modern clients now run through executeRegularToolAsTask. That function stores a returned input_required result as a completed task. The task never enters input_required, so tasks/update rejects the client's answer. Before this change, the synchronous path let the client's CallTool loop answer the request. Fix this by implementing the input_required task flow, or by returning such results synchronously.
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Update the task-routing decision in the shouldExecuteAsTask logic so an
input_required result from an optional tool remains answerable: either implement
a task flow that transitions to input_required and accepts the client’s response
through tasks/update, or route these results through the synchronous CallTool
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Require the Tasks extension before routing task-only tools for modern requests.
For a modern request without the Tasks extension, the task-only branch still sends a call with params.task to task creation. The created task cannot be read or cancelled by that client, because tasks/get and tasks/cancel require the extension. Only the legacy case should use the params.task check.
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--- "a/server/server.go"+++ "b/server/server.go"@@ -2331,13 +2331,13 @@
// Task-only tools (AddTaskTool) must always go through the task path.
// On modern protocol with extension declared, or legacy with task param set.
// Otherwise fall through to the error below.
if taskToolOnly {
- if info := RequestProtocolInfoFromContext(ctx); info != nil && info.Modern && clientDeclaredExtension {- shouldExecuteAsTask = true- } else if request.Params.Task != nil {+ if info := RequestProtocolInfoFromContext(ctx); info != nil && info.Modern {+ shouldExecuteAsTask = clientDeclaredExtension+ } else if request.Params.Task != nil {
shouldExecuteAsTask = true
}
}
if shouldExecuteAsTask {
// Route to task-augmented execution handler
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Report encoding failures for completed task results.
When json.Marshal fails in the modern tasks/get branch, TaskResult stays empty and the task still reports completed. No error reaches the client, so tool output disappears silently. Reject or report non-encodable results before the task completes, or return an error from this branch.
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Review comment at @server/server.go around lines 2812 - 2816:
Update the modern tasks/get branch that marshals storedResult so a json.Marshal
failure is reported to the client or prevents the task from being reported as
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Register analyze_data with AddTool so its optional task support has a synchronous path.
analyze_data declares TaskSupportOptional, but AddTaskTool registers only the task handler. Calls without params.task fail with "does not support synchronous execution" from legacy clients and from modern clients that do not declare the tasks extension. Modern clients that declare the extension are routed to the task path even without params.task.
Registering the tool with AddTool serves both modes. A regular tool with optional task support runs through the same registered handler in both the synchronous path and the task path. AddTool and AddTaskTool cannot register the same name, so replace the call instead of adding a second registration.
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--- "a/examples/task_tool/main.go"+++ "b/examples/task_tool/main.go"@@ -92,10 +92,7 @@
mcp.WithString("text", mcp.Required()),
mcp.WithBoolean("thorough", mcp.DefaultBool(false)),
)
- // For optional-task tools the handler only runs when the tool is invoked- // as a task. Synchronous calls go to a separate handler if registered via- // AddTool.- srv.AddTaskTool(analyzeData, handleAnalyzeData)+ srv.AddTool(analyzeData, handleAnalyzeData)
// Tool 3: plain synchronous tool, no task support.
quickCheck := mcp.NewTool("quick_check",
The handler must use the ToolHandlerFunc signature. Update its declaration and return value to match that type. Remove the comment at lines 145-146 that describes the task-only registration.
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Replace the AddTaskTool registration for analyzeData with AddTool so
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A run_in_background bash call from a client that declares the MCP tasks
extension (io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks, protocol 2026-07-28) is now
answered with a task: the client follows it, is told when it finishes
with its exit code, output file, and the end of its output, and stops it
with tasks/cancel. Claude Code shows such commands in /tasks and wakes
the agent when they end. kill_shell and list_shells are hidden from such
a client; every other client keeps the shell id reply and those tools.
mcp-go does not release the extension yet, so go.mod replaces it with
the gartnera/mcp-go fork (upstream main + mark3labs/mcp-go#987 +
server.WithTaskDecision, which keeps foreground calls synchronous).
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* Upgrade mcp-go to v1.5.0
v1.5.0 speaks MCP protocol revision 2026-07-28 (server/discover,
per-request _meta capabilities), which Claude Code's v2 MCP runtime
negotiates and which its MCP tasks support requires. Groundwork for
surfacing background bash commands as MCP tasks.
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* Run background bash commands as MCP tasks for clients that support them
A run_in_background bash call from a client that declares the MCP tasks
extension (io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks, protocol 2026-07-28) is now
answered with a task: the client follows it, is told when it finishes
with its exit code, output file, and the end of its output, and stops it
with tasks/cancel. Claude Code shows such commands in /tasks and wakes
the agent when they end. kill_shell and list_shells are hidden from such
a client; every other client keeps the shell id reply and those tools.
mcp-go does not release the extension yet, so go.mod replaces it with
the gartnera/mcp-go fork (upstream main + mark3labs/mcp-go#987 +
server.WithTaskDecision, which keeps foreground calls synchronous).
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* e2e: cover background commands on every agent; bump Claude Code to 2.1.319
TestBackgroundCommands runs a background command through each agent and
follows it with list_shells: none of the non-interactive runs gets MCP
tasks, so each must keep the shell id reply and the control tools.
Claude Code 2.1.319 (which has MCP tasks) turns on tool search behind an
ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL gateway, so a user's MCP server that launch does not
mark always-load is announced as a deferred tool rather than offered
outright; the layering test accepts either. The Agent SDK used by the
real-model suite is bumped to 0.2.179, which bundles the same CLI.
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* Document background commands as MCP tasks; add a real-model e2e test
test_background_task_e2e runs a background command through Claude Code
with MCP tasks on and checks that it runs as a task: the session is not
offered kill_shell or list_shells, the call is not answered with a shell
id, and Claude reports the output once the task completes. conftest now
also clears the variables a surrounding Claude Code cloud session sets,
which would otherwise keep the CLI under test from using MCP tasks.
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* Tighten background task tests; start output tails on a character boundary
- The real-model task test now requires output Claude can only know from
the task's result: the command computes it, and only text after the
completion notification counts. It catches asyncio.TimeoutError, which
is not the builtin TimeoutError on Python 3.10.
- The mocked background test no longer races list_shells against the
background echo finishing.
- OutputTail starts a single long line on a character boundary, and
avoids copying the buffer to find a newline.
- Document that subagents in a task session aren't offered the control
tools, and that refused commands fail on the task's first poll.
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Description
implements the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks extension as defined in SEP-2663, while preserving full backward compatibility with existing 2025-11-25 clients.
the SEP-2663 redesigns async tasks as a proper MCP extension. rather than requiring clients to opt-in per-request via params.task, the server decides whether to create a task based on whether the client declared the extension in per-request _meta.
three structural problems in the 2025-11-25 experimental spec are resolved: the fragile per-request opt-in, the blocking tasks/result SSE trap, and the security risk of tasks/list without sessions.
Fixes #980
Type of Change
Checklist
MCP Spec Compliance
Additional Information
Test cases will be added soon.
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