# mcp-ts-core MCP Server

Agent-native TypeScript framework for building MCP servers with declarative definitions.

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## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/mcp-ts-core` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**331 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### bug(tool): error structuredContent fails strict SDK clients' output-schema validation on isError

When a tool declares an `output` schema, an `isError: true` response carrying `structuredContent: { error: … }` makes a validating MCP client throw `-32602 "Structured content does not match the tool's output schema"` instead of returning the `isError` result. The client validates the error envelope against the **success** schema, which it can never satisfy.

Exposure is every tool on every consuming server: `output` is required on `ToolDefinition`, so every tool advertises an `outputSchema`, an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/241) · 2026-06-18 · closed · 11 comments

### feat(sdk): TypeScript SDK v2 / protocol 2026-07-28 — adoption impact audit

The framework pins [`@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk) `^1.29.0` (v1, current `latest`). Upstream has split v2 into `@modelcontextprotocol/server` / `client` / `node` (GA — `2.0.0`, published 2026-07-27) and published the migration path for the **2026-07-28 protocol revision**: [support-2026-07-28.md](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/blob/main/docs/migration/support-2026-07-28.md) (prerequisite: [upgrade-to-v2.md](https://gi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/305) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 7 comments

### feat(canvas): prevent auth-none enumeration and capacity starvation

### Use case

Related: #225, #275, #305

Under `MCP_AUTH_MODE=none`, every request intentionally resolves to the `default` tenant. A stateful HTTP session ID is not an authentication or tenant boundary, and two serving modes carry no session ID at all: stateless legacy HTTP, and every request under the per-request 2026-07-28 protocol revision. Session-derived tenancy therefore cannot promise confidentiality.

The collapsed tenant still creates two framework-level problems:

1. **Ambient enumerat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/253) · 2026-07-02 · open · 7 comments

### bug(transport): HTTP per-request McpServer cleanup leaks ~30 KB/req on heap

### mcp-ts-core version

0.6.10 (reproduced against 0.6.16 — `src/mcp-server/transports/http/httpTransport.ts` cleanup path is unchanged between the two)

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.3.2 (`oven/bun:1` production image)

### Transport

http (Streamable HTTP)

### OS

Debian 13 (Docker container)

### Description

The HTTP transport's per-request cleanup path — a fire-and-forget `queueMicrotask` calling `transport.close()` and `server.close()` after non-SSE responses — leaves ~30 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/50) · 2026-04-24 · closed · 7 comments

### Error-path parity: auto-mirror `data.recovery.hint` into error `content[]` text

## Problem

The framework enforces parity on success responses via the `format-parity` linter rule: every field in `output` must appear in `format()`'s rendered `content[]`, so `structuredContent`-readers and `content[]`-readers see the same data.

**Errors have no equivalent guarantee.** Handler-thrown errors are converted at `src/mcp-server/tools/utils/toolHandlerFactory.ts:196–205`:

```ts
return {
  isError: true,
  content: [{ type: 'text', text: `Error: ${mcpError.message}` }],
  _meta: {

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/84) · 2026-04-29 · closed · 6 comments

### Most recent

### feat(exports): advertisedOutputSchema is unreachable from any export subpath, so consumers cannot snapshot advertised wire shapes

Related: #241, #232

### Use case

[0.12.0](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/blob/main/changelog/0.12.x/0.12.0.md) changed the bytes a tool advertises: `inputSchema` gained `additionalProperties: false`, the dialect moved to JSON Schema 2020-12, and `outputSchema` now declares the error envelope with success fields widened to optional. Its `agent-notes` tells downstream servers that "wire-shape snapshots need re-recording" as step 7 of the upgrade.

A consumer cannot actually do that. `a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/396) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### bug(landing): connect card's curl snippet returns 400 — modern protocol header paired with a legacy initialize body

The landing page's `curl` tab publishes a request that fails on first paste. `connect.js` interpolates `manifest.protocol.latestVersion` into **both** the `MCP-Protocol-Version` header and the `initialize` body's `protocolVersion`. Now that `latestVersion` is `2026-07-28`, that pairs a modern header with a legacy handshake — a combination the transport explicitly rejects.

There is a second, independent defect in the same snippet: it omits `Accept`.

## Reproduction

Verified against a stock HTT

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/395) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### bug(tool): strictening a default-mode input silently discards its .meta(), dropping anyOf from the advertised inputSchema

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

1.4.0

### Transport

http

### Description

Related: #232

`tool()` applies `.strict()` to a default-mode input. Zod's `.strict()` returns a **fresh schema instance**, and that instance is not in the metadata registry, so anything attached with `.meta()` is silently lost. The advertised `inputSchema` loses the metadata with no error, no warning, and no lint finding.

The failure is invisible in the obvious place. Registrati

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/394) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### bug(skills): git-wrapup's version-sync list omits .claude-plugin/.codex-plugin plugin.json, so releases silently leave them behind

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

### Transport

N/A (release tooling)

### OS

macOS 15 (darwin arm64)

### Description

`skills/git-wrapup/SKILL.md` enumerates the files a release must re-version, and the list omits `.claude-plugin/plugin.json` and `.codex-plugin/plugin.json` — both of which declare a `version` that is expected to track `package.json`.

The list appears three times, consistently incomplete:

- the version-sync section names `pac

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/393) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### bug(templates): multi-arch Docker build fails on linux/amd64 under Bun 1.4.0

### Description

`templates/Dockerfile` runs its build stage on the target platform. Since the template moved to `oven/bun:1.4.0`, the `linux/amd64` leg of a multi-arch `docker buildx build` on an arm64 host aborts partway through `bun run build`: Bun's JavaScriptCore runs out of memory under QEMU x86_64 emulation and dies with SIGABRT.

The same Dockerfile shape built cleanly on `oven/bun:1.3.14`, so adopting the 1.4.0 pin is what exposes it. Any server that takes the template pin and publishes

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/392) · 2026-08-25 · open · 1 comment

### bug(skills): field-test helper aborts on a stateless server — a missing Mcp-Session-Id is read as init failure

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

### Transport

http

### OS

macOS 15 (darwin arm64)

### Description

`skills/field-test/SKILL.md`'s `mcp_start` treats a missing `Mcp-Session-Id` response header as a fatal init failure:

```bash
local sid; sid=$(grep -i '^mcp-session-id:' "$hdr" | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d '\r\n')
if [ -z "$sid" ]; then
  echo "init failed — HTTP $code, no Mcp-Session-Id header returned" >&2
```

A server running `MCP_SESSION_MO

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/391) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### bug(devcheck): audit classifier splits paths on U+203A, but Bun 1.4 emits ASCII '>' — every transitive advisory reads as direct

### mcp-ts-core version

0.12.3

### Runtime

Bun

### Runtime version

Bun 1.4.0

### Transport

N/A (build tooling)

### OS

macOS 15 (darwin arm64)

### Description

`classifyAuditVulns` in `scripts/devcheck.ts` decides direct-vs-transitive by looking for `›` (U+203A) in each dependency path:

```ts
const isDirect = DIRECT_DEPS.has(pkgName) || paths.some((p) => !p.includes('›'));
```

Bun 1.4.0 emits ASCII `>` as the path separator, not `›`. Every path therefore fails the `includes` check, `i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cyanheads/mcp-ts-core/issues/390) · 2026-08-25 · open · 2 comments

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