feat: implement MCP 2025-11-25 spec compliance (18 tickets)

Brings the framework up to date with the latest MCP specification
(2025-11-25), closing a gap of two full spec revisions. All new features
are backwards-compatible — existing tools, prompts, and resources
continue to work without changes.

Implementation summary (TICKET-00 through TICKET-17):

**Security (Phase 1):**
- Origin header validation for DNS rebinding protection
- Default localhost binding (127.0.0.1) for HTTP/SSE transports
- Protocol version header support (handled by SDK 1.29.0)

**Schema evolution (Phase 2):**
- Title and icons on tools, prompts, resources, and templates
- Tool annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, etc.)
- Structured content with outputSchema and structuredContent

**Content types (Phase 3):**
- Audio content (type: "audio")
- Resource links (type: "resource_link")
- Embedded resources (type: "resource")
- Content annotations (audience, priority, lastModified)

**Protocol utilities (Phase 4):**
- Logging protocol (logging/setLevel + notifications/message)
- Progress tracking (progressToken + notifications/progress)
- Cancellation (notifications/cancelled + AbortSignal)

**Client features (Phase 5):**
- Elicitation form mode (elicit user input with schema)
- Elicitation URL mode (out-of-band sensitive interactions)
- Roots support (getRoots for filesystem boundaries)
- Sampling with tools (tools + toolChoice in sampling requests)

**Advanced features (Phase 6):**
- Tasks (experimental) — async tool execution with polling

Includes spec audit, implementation plan, 18 detailed tickets,
and 13 new test files (127 tests).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: QuantGeekDev

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md

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+# MCP Specification Compliance Audit
+
+**Audit Date:** 2026-04-01
+**Framework Version:** mcp-framework@0.2.19
+**SDK Version (installed):** @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.11.0
+**SDK Version (latest):** @modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.29.0
+**Latest MCP Spec:** 2025-11-25
+**Codebase Spec Target:** ~2025-03-26 (HTTP Stream) / 2024-11-05 (SSE)
+
+---
+
+## Executive Summary
+
+The mcp-framework is **significantly behind** the current MCP specification. The codebase
+targets approximately the 2025-03-26 spec era, missing two full spec revisions
+(2025-06-18 and 2025-11-25). The SDK dependency is 18 minor versions behind (1.11.0 vs
+1.29.0). Roughly **25+ spec features** are missing or incomplete.
+
+The core primitives (tools, prompts, resources, sampling, completions, subscriptions) work
+well, but the framework lacks most features introduced in the June and November 2025 spec
+releases: tool annotations, structured content, elicitation, tasks, logging protocol,
+progress tracking, audio content, resource links, and several auth enhancements.
+
+---
+
+## Feature Matrix
+
+### Legend
+
+| Symbol | Meaning |
+|--------|---------|
+| :white_check_mark: | Fully implemented |
+| :large_orange_diamond: | Partially implemented |
+| :x: | Not implemented |
+| N/A | Not applicable to server frameworks |
+
+---
+
+### Core Protocol
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| JSON-RPC 2.0 message format | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Via SDK |
+| Capability negotiation | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Auto-detected from loaded items |
+| Protocol version negotiation | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Via SDK |
+| `MCP-Protocol-Version` HTTP header | 2025-11-25 | :x: | New requirement for Streamable HTTP |
+| `Implementation.description` field | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Optional description in init |
+| Ping (`ping`) | 2024-11-05 | :large_orange_diamond: | SSE keep-alive only, not as protocol-level handler |
+
+---
+
+### Server Features: Tools
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| `tools/list` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | With pagination |
+| `tools/call` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | With argument validation |
+| `notifications/tools/list_changed` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Capability declared |
+| `inputSchema` (JSON Schema) | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Via Zod conversion |
+| Text content in results | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| Image content in results | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Base64 encoding |
+| `isError` flag | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| **Tool `title` field** | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Human-readable display name |
+| **Tool `icons` array** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Icon metadata for UI display |
+| **Tool Annotations** (`readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint`, `idempotentHint`, `openWorldHint`) | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Behavior hints for clients |
+| **`outputSchema`** (JSON Schema for output) | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Structured output validation |
+| **`structuredContent`** in results | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Typed JSON output alongside unstructured |
+| **Audio content** in results | 2025-06-18 | :x: | `type: "audio"` with base64 data |
+| **Resource links** in results | 2025-06-18 | :x: | `type: "resource_link"` with URI |
+| **Embedded resources** in results | 2025-06-18 | :x: | `type: "resource"` with inline data |
+| **Content annotations** (audience, priority, lastModified) | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Metadata on content blocks |
+| **Tool naming guidance** (1-128 chars, allowed chars) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Validation not enforced |
+| **`execution.taskSupport`** declaration | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Task-augmented execution opt-in |
+| Input validation errors as Tool Execution Errors (not Protocol Errors) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | For LLM self-correction |
+
+---
+
+### Server Features: Resources
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| `resources/list` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | With pagination |
+| `resources/read` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Text and blob content |
+| `resources/templates/list` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | URI templates |
+| `resources/subscribe` / `unsubscribe` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| `notifications/resources/list_changed` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| `notifications/resources/updated` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| **Resource `title` field** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Human-readable display name |
+| **Resource `icons` array** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Icon metadata |
+| **Resource `size` field** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Size in bytes |
+| **Resource annotations** (audience, priority, lastModified) | 2025-06-18 | :x: | On resources and content |
+| **Resource template `title`** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | |
+| **Resource template `icons`** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | |
+
+---
+
+### Server Features: Prompts
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| `prompts/list` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| `prompts/get` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | With argument support |
+| `notifications/prompts/list_changed` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| **Prompt `title` field** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Human-readable display name |
+| **Prompt `icons` array** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Icon metadata |
+
+---
+
+### Server Features: Completions
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| `completion/complete` | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | For prompt and resource args |
+| Paginated completion results | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | `hasMore` flag |
+
+---
+
+### Client Features (Server -> Client requests)
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| **Sampling** (`sampling/createMessage`) | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Via `MCPTool.samplingRequest()` |
+| **Sampling with tools** (`tools` + `toolChoice` params) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Tool calling within sampling |
+| **Sampling audio content** | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Audio in sampling messages |
+| **Elicitation** (`elicitation/create`) - Form mode | 2025-06-18 | :x: | Server requests user input via forms |
+| **Elicitation** - URL mode | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Server redirects user to external URL |
+| **Elicitation** - `notifications/elicitation/complete` | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Completion notification for URL mode |
+| **Roots** (`roots/list`) | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Server queries filesystem boundaries |
+| **Roots** - `notifications/roots/list_changed` | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Root change notifications |
+
+---
+
+### Utilities
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| **Logging** (`logging/setLevel`) | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Client sets server log level |
+| **Logging** (`notifications/message`) | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Server sends structured log to client |
+| **Progress** (`notifications/progress` via `progressToken`) | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Progress tracking for long operations |
+| **Cancellation** (`notifications/cancelled`) | 2024-11-05 | :x: | Cancel in-progress requests |
+| **Tasks** (`tasks/get`, `tasks/result`, `tasks/list`, `tasks/cancel`) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Experimental: durable async execution |
+| **Tasks** - `notifications/tasks/status` | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Task status change notifications |
+| **Tasks** - Tool-level task negotiation (`execution.taskSupport`) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Per-tool task support declaration |
+| Pagination | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Via `nextCursor` |
+
+---
+
+### Transports
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| **stdio** | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| **SSE** (HTTP+SSE, deprecated) | 2024-11-05 | :white_check_mark: | Maintained for backward compat |
+| **Streamable HTTP** (POST + optional SSE) | 2025-03-26 | :white_check_mark: | Via SDK's StreamableHTTPServerTransport |
+| Session management (`MCP-Session-Id`) | 2025-03-26 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| Stream resumability (`Last-Event-ID`) | 2025-03-26 | :large_orange_diamond: | Configurable but depends on SDK |
+| Batch vs stream response modes | 2025-03-26 | :white_check_mark: | |
+| CORS support | 2025-03-26 | :white_check_mark: | SSE + HTTP Stream |
+| **Origin header validation** (DNS rebinding protection) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | MUST validate, return 403 |
+| **`MCP-Protocol-Version` header** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Required on all HTTP requests |
+| **HTTP DELETE for session termination** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Client-initiated session cleanup |
+| **SSE polling** (server disconnect + client reconnect) | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Server-initiated SSE disconnect with `retry` |
+| **HTTP GET stream** for server-initiated messages | 2025-03-26 | :large_orange_diamond: | Depends on SDK impl |
+| Localhost-only binding for local servers | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Default 0.0.0.0 should be 127.0.0.1 |
+
+---
+
+### Authentication & Authorization
+
+| Feature | Spec Version | Status | Notes |
+|---------|-------------|--------|-------|
+| API Key auth | Custom | :white_check_mark: | |
+| JWT auth (HS256, RS256) | Custom | :white_check_mark: | |
+| OAuth 2.1 (JWT validation) | 2025-06-18 | :white_check_mark: | JWKS + audience/issuer |
+| OAuth 2.1 (Token introspection) | 2025-06-18 | :white_check_mark: | RFC 7662 |
+| Protected Resource Metadata (`/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`) | 2025-06-18 | :white_check_mark: | RFC 9728 |
+| Per-endpoint auth toggle | Custom | :white_check_mark: | |
+| `WWW-Authenticate` challenge headers | 2025-06-18 | :white_check_mark: | RFC 6750 |
+| **OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Auth server discovery enhancement |
+| **Incremental scope consent** via `WWW-Authenticate` | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Progressive scope requests |
+| **OAuth Client ID Metadata Documents** | 2025-11-25 | :x: | Recommended client registration |
+
+---
+
+### SDK & Dependencies
+
+| Item | Current | Latest | Gap |
+|------|---------|--------|-----|
+| `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk` | 1.11.0 | 1.29.0 | 18 minor versions behind |
+| Target MCP spec version | ~2025-03-26 | 2025-11-25 | 2 spec revisions behind |
+
+---
+
+## Priority Recommendations
+
+### P0 - Critical (Spec Compliance / Security)
+
+1. **Upgrade SDK** to `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@^1.29.0` - Many features may come for
+   free from the SDK upgrade, and security fixes are included.
+2. **Origin header validation** on Streamable HTTP transport - Security requirement to
+   prevent DNS rebinding attacks. Return HTTP 403 for invalid origins.
+3. **`MCP-Protocol-Version` header** support - Required on all HTTP requests per spec.
+4. **Localhost binding** - Local servers should bind to `127.0.0.1` by default, not `0.0.0.0`.
+
+### P1 - High (Key June 2025 Features)
+
+5. **Tool Annotations** - Allow tools to declare `readOnlyHint`, `destructiveHint`,
+   `idempotentHint`, `openWorldHint`. Clients rely on these for safety decisions.
+6. **Structured Content** - Support `outputSchema` on tools and `structuredContent` in
+   `CallToolResult`. This is a major adoption driver.
+7. **Tool/Resource/Prompt `title` and `icons`** - Display metadata for client UIs.
+8. **Logging protocol** - Implement `logging/setLevel` handler and `notifications/message`
+   sending. Currently only internal file logging exists.
+9. **Elicitation** (Form mode) - Enable servers to request user input mid-operation. Core
+   agentic feature from June 2025 spec.
+
+### P2 - Medium (November 2025 Features + Completeness)
+
+10. **Progress tracking** - Support `progressToken` in `_meta` and send
+    `notifications/progress` for long-running tool calls.
+11. **Cancellation** - Handle `notifications/cancelled` to abort in-progress requests.
+12. **Audio content type** - Support `type: "audio"` in tool results and sampling.
+13. **Resource links** (`type: "resource_link"`) and **embedded resources** (`type: "resource"`)
+    in tool results.
+14. **Content annotations** (audience, priority, lastModified) on all content blocks.
+15. **Roots** support - Allow tools to query `roots/list` for filesystem boundaries.
+16. **Sampling with tools** - Add `tools` and `toolChoice` to sampling requests.
+17. **Resource `size` field** and **annotations**.
+
+### P3 - Low (Experimental / Advanced)
+
+18. **Tasks** (experimental) - Durable async execution with polling. Complex but enables
+    long-running operations.
+19. **Elicitation URL mode** - Out-of-band user interaction via external URLs.
+20. **OpenID Connect Discovery** for auth server discovery.
+21. **OAuth Client ID Metadata Documents**.
+22. **Incremental scope consent**.
+23. **HTTP DELETE for session termination**.
+24. **Tool naming validation** (1-128 chars, allowed character set).
+
+---
+
+## Feature Count Summary
+
+| Category | Implemented | Partial | Missing | Total |
+|----------|------------|---------|---------|-------|
+| Core Protocol | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
+| Tools | 6 | 0 | 12 | 18 |
+| Resources | 6 | 0 | 6 | 12 |
+| Prompts | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
+| Completions | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
+| Client Features | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 |
+| Utilities | 1 | 0 | 7 | 8 |
+| Transports | 7 | 2 | 5 | 14 |
+| Auth | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
+| **Totals** | **36** | **3** | **44** | **83** |
+
+**Compliance Rate: ~47%** (39/83 features implemented or partially implemented)
+
+---
+
+## Spec Version Changelog Reference
+
+### 2025-06-18 (Missing)
+- Tool annotations, structured content, output schemas
+- Elicitation (form mode)
+- Audio content type
+- Resource/content annotations
+- OAuth 2.1 auth specification (partially implemented)
+- Resource links and embedded resources in tool results
+
+### 2025-11-25 (Missing)
+- Tasks (experimental)
+- Icons on tools, resources, prompts, templates
+- Title field on tools, resources, prompts, templates
+- URL mode elicitation
+- Sampling with tools
+- OpenID Connect Discovery
+- Incremental scope consent
+- OAuth Client ID Metadata Documents
+- MCP-Protocol-Version header
+- Origin validation (DNS rebinding protection)
+- SSE polling support
+- Tool naming guidance
+- Enhanced ElicitResult and EnumSchema
+
+---
+
+## Sources
+
+- [MCP Specification 2025-11-25](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25)
+- [MCP Changelog 2025-11-25](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/changelog)
+- [MCP Anniversary Blog Post](https://blog.modelcontextprotocol.io/posts/2025-11-25-first-mcp-anniversary/)
+- [MCP GitHub Releases](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/releases)
+- [Auth0 MCP Spec Updates](https://auth0.com/blog/mcp-specs-update-all-about-auth/)

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+# MCP Spec Compliance Tickets
+
+Implementation tickets for bringing mcp-framework into compliance with MCP spec 2025-11-25.
+See [IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md](../IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md) for the full strategy document.
+
+## Execution Order
+
+```
+Phase 0 ──► Phase 1 ──► Phase 2 ──► Phase 3 ──┐
+                                     Phase 4 ──┼──► Phase 6
+                                     Phase 5 ──┘
+```
+
+## Ticket Index
+
+| Ticket | Title | Phase | Priority | Breaking | Depends On |
+|--------|-------|-------|----------|----------|------------|
+| [TICKET-00](TICKET-00-sdk-upgrade.md) | SDK Upgrade (1.11→1.29) | 0 | P0 | Yes | — |
+| [TICKET-01](TICKET-01-origin-validation.md) | Origin Header Validation | 1 | P0 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-02](TICKET-02-protocol-version-header.md) | MCP-Protocol-Version Header | 1 | P0 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-03](TICKET-03-localhost-binding.md) | Localhost Binding Default | 1 | P0 | Yes | — |
+| [TICKET-04](TICKET-04-title-icons.md) | Title & Icons | 2 | P1 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-05](TICKET-05-tool-annotations.md) | Tool Annotations | 2 | P1 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-06](TICKET-06-structured-content.md) | Structured Content & Output Schemas | 2 | P1 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-07](TICKET-07-audio-content.md) | Audio Content Type | 3 | P2 | No | T-06 |
+| [TICKET-08](TICKET-08-resource-links-embedded.md) | Resource Links & Embedded Resources | 3 | P2 | No | T-06 |
+| [TICKET-09](TICKET-09-content-annotations.md) | Content Annotations | 3 | P2 | No | T-06 |
+| [TICKET-10](TICKET-10-logging-protocol.md) | Logging Protocol | 4 | P1 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-11](TICKET-11-progress-tracking.md) | Progress Tracking | 4 | P2 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-12](TICKET-12-cancellation.md) | Cancellation Support | 4 | P2 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-13](TICKET-13-elicitation-form.md) | Elicitation (Form Mode) | 5 | P1 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-14](TICKET-14-roots-support.md) | Roots Support | 5 | P2 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-15](TICKET-15-sampling-with-tools.md) | Sampling with Tools | 5 | P2 | No | T-00 |
+| [TICKET-16](TICKET-16-tasks.md) | Tasks (Experimental) | 6 | P3 | No | T-00,11,12 |
+| [TICKET-17](TICKET-17-elicitation-url-mode.md) | Elicitation URL Mode | 6 | P3 | No | T-13 |
+
+## Summary Stats
+
+- **Total tickets:** 18
+- **Breaking changes:** 2 (SDK upgrade, localhost binding)
+- **P0 Critical:** 4 tickets
+- **P1 High:** 5 tickets
+- **P2 Medium:** 6 tickets
+- **P3 Low:** 3 tickets
+
+## Test Coverage Plan
+
+Each ticket includes:
+- Unit tests for the specific feature
+- Backwards compatibility tests (existing tests must pass)
+- Integration/acceptance tests for end-to-end validation
+
+Total new test files planned: ~15-18 new test files across all tickets.