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thingctx MCP Server

Drive devices and APIs from their W3C Thing Description. You gate every operation.

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Published as thingctx on pypi. Runs locally.

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Port the MCP bridge to mcp 2.0

Port the MCP bridge to mcp 2.0

mcp 2.0 redesigned the server API and the bridge has not been ported. There is no version cap, so pip install thingctx[mcp] already resolves 2.x and build_mcp_server() raises AttributeError: 'Server' object has no attribute 'list_tools'. The module still imports; it breaks when you build the server.

All of it lives in src/thingctx/integrations/mcp.py.

What changed

1.x 2.0
@server.list_tools() and the other eight decorators c

Read the thread · 2026-08-02 · open · 6 comments

Authorize each bridged call against the caller on the request, not the server's identity

What is this

build_mcp_server takes one ThingClient, so the bridge decides every call against the same identity for the life of the server. Two people on one bridged server get the same answer, even when one should be able to write and the other only read.

Over stdio that is unavoidable: there is no request to read a caller from. Over streamable HTTP it is not. MCP wants an Authorization header on every request, and the SDK hands you the validated token per request. We ignore it.

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 2 comments

Port MCP baseline examples to MCP 2 APIs

The production MCP bridge and integration tests are being ported to MCP 2 in #121, but two examples still depend on MCP 1 APIs:

Once the dependency floor moves to mcp>=2, the MCP-specific paths in these examples become stale.

They currently rely on APIs that changed or were removed in MCP 2, including the old in-memory connection helper, MCP 1-style model fields, and older server/client lifecycle assumptions.

This issue is to port th

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · open · external user · 1 comment

Validate runtime action and property inputs against TD schemas

What are you trying to do

While working on #121, I found that ThingCtx does not currently apply general runtime JSON Schema validation to action inputs or writable property values before they reach a binding.

MCP 1 happened to validate listed tool arguments against each tool's inputSchema before invoking the bridge. During the MCP 2 port that exposed a wider gap: outside that MCP-specific behavior, ThingCtx itself does not enforce the TD schema on runtime values.

For example, if an acti

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · open · external user · 1 comment

Redis Transport Issue

What happened

get_message(timeout=None) blocks forever, so a silently dead connection hangs with no health check and no way out.

I'll work on fixing this.

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

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