{ "SchemaVersion": "1", "Kind": "DirectoryIssues", "Slug": "mcp-stdio", "Name": "MCP Stdio", "CanonicalUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/mcp-stdio/issues", "ServerUrl": "https://askpod.ai/mcp/mcp-stdio", "IssueTotal": 72, "Held": 19, "Issues": [ { "Title": "Design: dual-mode Streamable HTTP for the MCP 2026-07-28 draft revision (stateless transport, SEP-2575)", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe next MCP spec revision — draft dated **2026-07-28** — rewrites the Streamable HTTP transport into a stateless, per-request-metadata model ([draft changelog](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/changelog)). Most of the changes land squarely on gateway code paths. This issue captures the design for supporting both the current revision (2025-11-25, sessioned) and the draft revision (stateless) side by side.\n\n> **Revised — see [the design revision comment](https://git", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/270", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-01T23:35:51.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 26, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Firestore token store: revoked-family tokens can be resurrected by a stale concurrent writer (residual to #406)", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nWhile implementing the #406 fix (union-merge inside a Firestore transaction for `--token-store-firestore`'s blind-overwrite race), I audited every place that removes an entry from one of `_OAuthProvider`'s six in-memory stores (`src/mcp_stdio/server.py`). Two categories exist:\n\n1. **Expiry-driven deletes** (`_gc_locked`, the lazy expiry check in `_live_entry`, the expired-token branch of `_token_refresh`) — safe to resurrect via merge, because expiry is re-checked independently on ev", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/428", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-23T00:24:48.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 3, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Phase 3.5-C′: modern pool polish (reaper, --modern-only, advisories, docs truth-up)", "Excerpt": "Phase 3.5-C′ per the #270 Phase 3 Re-scope (pool polish + carried advisories).\n\n## Scope\n\n- Idle-TTL/eviction reaper for modern pool children (today: cap-based eviction only, no reaper — the cap is a soft policy that can be exceeded when every child is pending/busy, by design).\n- `--modern-only` posture flag (re-scope decision D2): opt-in 405 on GET/DELETE for deployments with no legacy clients (405 is SHOULD-strength and scoped to modern-only servers; a dual-era default must keep GET/SSE + DELE", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/376", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T22:58:51.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 3, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Phase 3.5-E: reverse MRTR bridge (child-initiated sampling/elicitation/roots on the modern face)", "Excerpt": "Phase 3.5-E per the #270 Phase 3 Re-scope (deferred from Phase 3 by decision D4).\n\n## Scope\n\nThe reverse MRTR bridge: a pooled legacy child's server-initiated `sampling`/`elicitation`/`roots` requests, translated to `InputRequiredResult` + client retry on the modern face — the mirror of the relay's Phase 2 PR C.\n\n- O14 obligations: server-to-client requests ONLY via MRTR; `InputRequiredResult` only on `tools/call`/`resources/read`/`prompts/get`; `requestState` is attacker-controlled input — inte", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/375", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T22:58:50.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 3, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Phase 3.5-D: serve-side subscriptions/listen (modern notification channel)", "Excerpt": "Phase 3.5-D per the #270 Phase 3 Re-scope (deferred from Phase 3 by decision D4 — not required by AC1/AC2/AC4).\n\n## Scope\n\nServe-side `subscriptions/listen`: the modern face's notification channel, mirroring what the relay's client side consumes (Phase 2 PR A).\n\n- O17 obligations (spec-verified in the re-scope): `notifications/subscriptions/acknowledged` MUST be the first message; `io.modelcontextprotocol/subscriptionId` stamping on every stream message; filter honoring (echo the honored subset)", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/374", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T22:58:49.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 3, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Integration test harness: python-sdk v2.0.0 (MCPServer) as the 2026-07-28 reference peer", "Excerpt": "## Motivation\n\nPhase 2 of #270 (PRs #352 / #356 / #358 / #362, shipped v0.32.0–v0.35.0) is pinned by 1,635 unit tests — every one of them against hand-built mocks shaped by our own reading of the 2026-07-28 spec. That blind spot is not hypothetical: PR B initially placed `resourceSubscriptions` at the top level of `params`, the relay and its mocks agreed with each other, every test was green — and a compliant server would have silently ignored the filter while the relay read the ack echo as \"not", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/367", "PublishedAt": "2026-07-31T09:19:52.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 3, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "serve: a legacy GET SSE stream leaves its client hanging when the child dies", "Excerpt": "Found while reviewing #382 (Copilot's first finding on that PR, followed through).\n\n## The bug\n\n`do_GET`'s SSE loop is `while not backend.closed:`, so it ends **server-side** when the session's child process dies. But the response sends `Connection: keep-alive`, and `BaseHTTPRequestHandler.send_header` treats that header as a *command* — it sets `close_connection = False` as a side effect.\n\nAn SSE body has neither `Content-Length` nor chunked framing, so **the connection close is its delimiter**", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/383", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T05:37:19.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Phase 3.5-D2: serve-side resourceSubscriptions + child subscribe driving (+ O16 decision)", "Excerpt": "Split out of #374 by its Final Design (§1.1 — see the design comment there): #374 ships the listChanged trio only; this issue tracks the second half of serve-side subscriptions.\n\n## Scope\n\n- **`resourceSubscriptions` honoring**: read the URI list at `params.notifications.resourceSubscriptions` (A9 nesting), echo the honored subset in the ack at the same path, route `notifications/resources/updated` per-URI per-stream.\n- **Child-side subscribe driving**: the gateway sends legacy `resources/subscr", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/381", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T04:03:49.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 2, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "top", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Firestore token store: cap-eviction and client-recycling resurrection (residual to #428)", "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nFollow-up to #406/#428/#429: while adding per-token tombstones for `_revoke_family_locked` (#428, closing the security-relevant residual — a family-wide revocation is now protected the same way an individual rotation/code-redemption already was), two lower-severity bare-delete paths were deliberately left out to keep that fix focused:\n\n1. **Cap-based eviction** (`_evict_to_capacity_locked`, called from `_issue()` on `access`/`refresh`/`consumed_codes`/`consumed_refresh`/`consumed_acc", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/433", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-23T06:18:16.000Z", "State": "open", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "OAuth HTTP traffic (oauth.py, cli.py) is not covered by --max-message-size", "Excerpt": "## Background\n\nPR #417 (`--max-message-size`, closing #416) bounds unbounded response reads in `relay.py`'s MCP JSON-RPC traffic and `serve.py`'s incoming request body. `/code-review medium` on that PR found the same CWE-770 class is still open on a different code path: the OAuth HTTP client traffic never goes through `_read_bounded`/`_iter_text_bounded` or gets the `Accept-Encoding: identity` default.\n\nConcretely, unbounded (buffered `client.get()`/`client.post()`) reads remain in:\n\n- `src/mcp_", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/419", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T11:49:06.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Support bounded (zip-bomb-resistant) decompression for --max-message-size", "Excerpt": "## Background\n\nPR #417 (`--max-message-size`, closing #416) bounds how much of an upstream response `relay` buffers before parsing, and how large a request body `serve` accepts. During review, [ai-review flagged](https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/pull/417) that the cap can be bypassed: `httpx.Client()` advertises `Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate` by default, and `resp.iter_bytes()`/`resp.iter_text()` transparently decompress a `Content-Encoding`-compressed response before the byte count is ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/418", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T10:15:14.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Unbounded response/request body reads can OOM the gateway (relay + serve)", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nNeither direction of the gateway bounds the size of a message it reads into memory before parsing:\n\n- **`relay` (client side)**: every response-consuming call site — `resp.read()` (used by `_post_probe`, `_post_and_stream`'s JSON path, `_post_parsed`, and the initial probe reader) and `resp.iter_text()` (used by every SSE-consuming path, including `run_sse`'s long-lived reader and the modern era's `subscriptions/listen` stream) — buffers the remote MCP server's response with no upper", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/416", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-22T09:12:59.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "test_poison_cancel_lines_log_once fails on CPython 3.14.7 (passed on 3.14.6)", "Excerpt": "## Symptom\n\n`tests/test_relay.py::TestRunModernStdinHandoff::test_poison_cancel_lines_log_once`\nfails on the `test (ubuntu-latest, 3.14)` job:\n\n```\nFAILED tests/test_relay.py::TestRunModernStdinHandoff::test_poison_cancel_lines_log_once\n - AssertionError: assert 0 == 1\n1 failed, 1941 passed\n```\n\nThe assertion is `err.count(\"cancel detection failed\") == 1`, and it\ngets 0 — the failure path never fires at all, so nothing is logged.\n\n## Root cause: a CPython patch bump, not a code change\n\nThe runn", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/411", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T01:56:35.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "--token-store-firestore: blind overwrite races during Cloud Run instance overlap", "Excerpt": "## Context\n\n\\`--token-store-firestore\\`'s own \\`--help\\` text documents \"no lock against two processes sharing one document -- safe ONLY when exactly one serve process ever writes to a given document at a time.\" A caller can approximate that with Cloud Run's \\`min/max-instances=1\\`, but that setting only bounds *concurrent* instances of a single revision -- it does not prevent the outgoing and incoming instance from running simultaneously during Cloud Run's normal instance lifecycle (a redeploy'", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/406", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-09T04:23:46.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "ci(docs): PR runs can evict a queued Pages deployment (shared concurrency group)", "Excerpt": "Found by AI review on shigechika/zapi-mcp#54, where `docs.yml` was copied verbatim from here. The template is the right place to fix it.\n\n## Problem\n\n`docs.yml` declares the concurrency group at workflow level:\n\n```yaml\non:\n push:\n branches: [main]\n paths: [...]\n pull_request:\n paths: [...]\n\nconcurrency:\n group: pages\n cancel-in-progress: false\n```\n\nBoth event types share the group `pages`. GitHub keeps **only one pending run per group** — a newly queued run replaces the previously ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/397", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-06T05:39:40.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "Feature request: lightweight FastMCP-free server helper (companion to serve mode)", "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nmcp-stdio's `serve` mode is a great way to publish an existing stdio MCP server over HTTP, but it doesn't help with *writing* that stdio server in the first place. Most small MCP servers reach for `mcp.server.fastmcp.FastMCP` for that job, which means they inherit a real risk: a major-version bump of the `mcp` SDK removed `mcp.server.fastmcp` outright, breaking every FastMCP-based server on the machine in one shot (this actually happened to a fleet of stdio servers I run behind `mcp-", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/395", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-03T07:53:02.000Z", "State": "open", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "ai-review: rendered comment silently drops malformed severity lines, hiding why a finding was mis-classified", "Excerpt": "Split out of the code review on #392, which fixed the counting/verdict half of PR #363's bot finding R2F1 but not this half.\n\n## Background\n\nR2F1 (from #363's AI review) had two clauses:\n1. The unanchored `severity: blocking` grep miscounted `severity: blockingish` as blocking, inverting the verdict.\n2. \"the rendering filter also removes the invalid severity line, hiding why the finding was classified as blocking.\"\n\nIssue #365 (closed by #392) only carried clause 1 forward into its \"Fix:\" text, ", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/393", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T08:19:04.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 1, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "test: test_backend_timeout_returns_504 is load-flaky — its monkeypatch also covers its own initialize", "Excerpt": "Found while gating #384 (the #383 fix). **Pre-existing and unrelated to that change** — it lives in `tests/test_server.py`, which #384 does not touch.\n\n## Symptom\n\n```\nFAILED tests/test_server.py::test_backend_timeout_returns_504 - assert 404 == 504\n```\n\nSeen once during a full-suite run on a loaded machine (that run took 479 s; an unloaded run of the same suite takes ~197 s). Passes in isolation and on re-runs.\n\n## Mechanism — reproduced deterministically\n\n```python\ndef test_backend_timeout_ret", "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/shigechika/mcp-stdio/issues/386", "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T09:39:35.000Z", "State": "closed", "Comments": 0, "Reporter": "Maintainer", "Rank": "recent", "Extractor": "github_issue" }, { "Title": "serve: no session reaping when --session-idle-ttl is unset (dead-child sessions linger)", "Excerpt": "Split out of #383 per its final design §4 / §6 Q3, so a narrow provable bug fix does not carry a policy change.\n\n## The gap\n\n`SessionRegistry.reap_idle()` checks `backend.closed` **unconditionally**, independent of the TTL math — so a session whose child has died is a reap candidate whenever the reaper runs at all. 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