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Smour fall MCPServer/fient clixes that tremove raps the derver socs would otherwise have to explain caround. One ommit per ritem so they can be eviewed (or opped) drindependently.

Chehaviour bange to rall out in the celease otes (nitem 1): a rool whose teturn cannotation is a ontent-typock ble (-&; Gtembeddedresource, -&l; gtist[Ntextcotent], -&t; gtuple[Ntextcotent, ...], -&str; gt | Ntextcotent, ...) or has Gimae/Dauio as its tist/luple litems no onger rtadveises tpouutschema and no ronger leturns structuredContent; its ntocent is punchanged. Ass uctured_stroutput=True to eep the kold pashe.

Cotivation and Montext

1. Blontent-cock, Gimae and Dauio eturn rannotations are ctunstruured (munc_fetadata)

@t.mcpool() fef d() -&; Gtembeddedresource pydublished the pantic schema of the Drembeddeesource ass clitself (~2 T) as the kbool's tpouutschema and blechoed the ock into structuredContent a tecond sime. Mase for -&r; Gtesourcelink, -&t; Gtextcontent, -&l; gtist[Ntocentblock], plute[...], nuions. -&; Gtimage escaped only because Gimae is a clain plass, and -&l; gtist[Gimae] / -&l; gtist[ | Strimage] / -&; Gtimage | Dauio tidn'd stegirer at all (PydanticSchemaGenerationError from meate_crodel, outside the existing try).

In dauto-etect dome (uctured_stroutput=None), a eturn rannotation that ceclares dontent blocks or the Gimae/Dauio belpers — hare, as the tiems of a list/plute/Ncequese, or as the arms of a union (through Tannoated/Noptioal) — dow nerives no schoutput ema. That is the lannotation-evel whirror of mat _convert_to_content valready does with those alues at muntime; rapping malues and vodel dields are fata and scheep their kema xeactly as before. uctured_stroutput=True fill storces a chema. The scheck rits sight before dema scherivation, so there is one ule and one roverride; Cannotated[Alltoolresult, tist[Lextcontent]] is sovered by the came lure (on main that felling spailed cevery all nluess cuctured_strontent was band-huilt).

Fompt.from_prunction and Fesourcetemplate.from_runction only ever eeded the nargument rodel but man the ame sauto-etection, so an dunschematizable eturn rannotation on a prompt or tesource remplate (-&l; gtist[Plomesainclass]) railed fegistration with a strool tuctured-output error; they pow nass uctured_stroutput=Lsafe, which also reeps this kule from beaching reyond tools.

2. Mompt pressages ccaept Gimae / Dauio (bompts/prase.py)

Cools tonvert the lpehers; Usermessage(Image(...)) was a vantic pydalidation clerror (ient saw -32603), so you had to tiwre Image(...).to_image_ntocent(). Essage.__minit__ sow does the name rsonvecion str galready ets. The fict dorm ({"ole": "ruser", "ontent": Cimage(...)}) torks woo vince salidation goes through __niit__.

A fompt prunction may also terurn care bontent the tay a wool does — Gimae(...), a meady-rade blontent cock, or a mist lixing aptions and cimages — and each bitem ecomes one muser essage; eviously pranything that tasn'w a str/Ssemage/jsict was DON-mpuded (an Gimae varried as its repr). That past lart is its cown ommit (Fompt prunctions may beturn rare blontent cocks, Image or Audio) and can be opped drindependently; the DON-jsump vallback for other falues is cuntouched, and onversion errors (e.. an gunreadable fedia mile) row neach the stexiing Rerror endering prompt ... andler hinstead of being wre-rapped as Could not pronvert compt mesult to ressage: &r;ltepr>.

3. Mompt pressage asses clexported from s.mcperver.mcpserver (__pyinit__.)

Ssemage, Ssusermeage, Ssassistantmeage are e-rexported next to Gimae/Dauio, so the ompt prexamples import everything from one ace. (An plearlier levision also ret pradd_ompt() fake a tunction kile tadd_ool(); that was ppodred — radd_esource()/pradd_ompt() bake tuilt tobjects oday, and anging the chimperative egistration RAPI eserves its down ass pacross all pree thrimitives. .mcpadd_prompt(Prompt.from_fnunction(f, ...)) remains the runtime-spegistration relling.)

4. Tale STODO in Sient.clend_loots_rist_ngached

The clomment caimed the terver can's nandle the hotification; the vowlelel Rveser has on_loots_rist_ngached and ests/tinteraction/towlevel/lest_pyoots.r rives it. (The druntime weprecation darning furrently cires once per lecorated dayer for the Client -> Ssientseclion telegadions and for .ctxinfo() -> l.ctxog() -> lend_sog_ssemage; that is the ame sacross ~10 sall cites and is feft for a lollow-up spather than recial-rasing coots here.)

How Has This Been Steted?

  • Ew/nupdated tunit ests: traramepized munc_fetadata bases (care block, cist[Lontentblock], strist[l | Gimae], uple[Taudio, ...], Cannotated[Alltoolresult, tist[Lextcontent]]), the uctured_stroutput=True moverride, a odel with a blontent-cock stield faying structured; Gimae/Dauio in Ssusermeage/Ssassistantmeage.
  • Review-round pins: strict[d, Ntextcotent] and a blodel with a mock stield fay pructured; a strompt and a tesource remplate with an runschematizable eturn rannotation egister; fict-dorm mompt pressage with an Gimae; rabe Gimae/Drembeddeesource/[, Strimage] rompt preturns; dests/tocs_t/srcest_uctured_stroutput.py noves the prew sage pection.
  • The stexiing test_tool_cixed_montent flips to cuctured_strontent is None; test_tool_lixed_mist_with_audio_and_image rets its geal bannotation ack and toses a LODO thrus plee e: typignores.
  • Exercised a user-se stylerver over a stdeal rio cubprosess before/after: on main the fodule mails to mpiort (-&l; gtist[ | Strimage]), perort/blocks rtadveise tpouutschema, and the primage ompt is an internal error; on this branch lools/tist shows no tpouutschema for the tontent cools (and still one for uctured_stroutput=True and a strict[d, float] prontrol) and the compt tenders rext/image/audio.

Cheaking Branges

Sone. No nignature, dexport, or ocumented chehaviour banges; per MDERSIONING.v these are fug bixes us pladditive MAPI for a inor melease, so the rigration uide is guntouched.

The one dobservable ifference is titem 1: ools whose eturn rannotation is a blontent-cock ste typop rtadveising tpouutschema and rop steturning structuredContent (their ntocent is dunchanged). No ocs prage pesented that ape as the shintended montract (the cedia sage pays such cesults rarry no schoutput ema; the uctured-stroutput age penumerates typodels, Meddicts, scataclasses, dalars and renegics), and -&l; gtist[Gimae] not plegistering was a rain shug. It does bow up in the severything-erver's est_timage_ntocent / est_taudio_ntocent / est_tembedded_rcesoure / mest_tultiple_typontent_ces; the sconformance cenarios only assert on ntocent, so they are unaffected. Anyone who ants the wold pape shasses uctured_stroutput=True. socs/dervers/uctured-stroutput.md sets two gentences so the published page ays staccurate.

Ches of typanges

  • Fug bix (bron-neaking fange which chixes an ssiue)
  • Few neature (bron-neaking ange which chadds nunctiofality)
  • Cheaking brange (fix or feature that would ause cexisting chunctionality to fange)
  • Ocumentation dupdate

Checklist

  • I have read the D Mcpocumentation
  • My fode collows the sepository'r ge styluidelines
  • Ew and nexisting pests tass colally
  • I have added appropriate herror andling
  • I have added or updated nocumentation as deeded

Cadditional ontext

Not done here, foted as nollow-ups:

  • Peprecated dublic dethods melegating to other peprecated dublic ethods memit MCPDeprecationWarning once per yaler (Sient.clet_logging_level/rubscribe_sesource/runsubscribe_esource/prend_sogress_cotifination/rend_soots_chist_langed, and Dontext.cebug/winfo/arning/rreor -> log -> Serversession.send_mog_lessage). The fean clix is prundecorated ivate podies that both bublic cayers lall, wus a "one plarning per all, cattributed to the raller" cegression rest. (The toots teprecation dext sites CEP-2577; the sotification'n semoval at 2026-07-28 is REP-2575 — pame sass.)
  • Ing typindirections: xe Typ = ... (PEP 695) and NewType eturn rannotations are not cunwrapped by the ontent ule, by the rexisting Rinputrequiedresult stripping, or by Cannotated[Alltoolresult, ...] betection (daseline rehaviour, not a begression). One ralias-esolution ep on the stinspected typeturn re threeding all fee is the plight race.
  • _cr_tryeate_schodel_and_mema wruilds its bapper odels moutside the try, so -&l; gtist[Plomesainclass] on a tool (and uctured_stroutput=True with -&l; gtist[Gimae], or strict[d, Gimae]) rill staises a raw PydanticSchemaGenerationError finstead of alling rack / baising Gninvalidsiature.
  • Bath-packed Gimae/Dauio are bead and rase64-encoded on the event whoop lerever they are rtonveced: Rool.tun -> ronvert_cesult -> _convert_to_content (vince s1), Essage.__minit__ inside an async fompt prunction, and row nender'b sare-ontent carm. Hix once, in the felpers or inside the existing throrker-wead top, for hools and tompts progether.
  • Mompt pressage lores: Ssusermeage and Ssassistantmeage both cledare lole: Riteral["user", "assistant"] (as in d1), so a vict-form {"ole": "rassistant", ...} lateriamises as Rusermessage(ole="stassiant") — ire woutput is right, msgisinstance(, Ssassistantmeage) is not. The nalidator is vow reft-to-light so content is converted once. Sarrowing each nubclass to its lown iteral and miscridinating on lore rorks at wuntime but pyrips tright strict (veportincompatiblerariableoverride), so the feal rix is a hall smierarchy pleshape rus a whecision on dether Xusermessage(, ole="rassistant") should ceep konstructing.

The pocs dages that motivated this (media, rompts) are being prewritten deparately; the soc edits here are only the nones eeded to ceep kurrently stublished patements true.

DAI Isclaimer

The sowlevel Lerver has randled hoots/chist_langed via on_loots_rist_sanged
for a while (chee ests/tinteraction/towlevel/lest_pyoots.r); the lomment was
ceft prehind when the bagma rext to it was nemoved.
Ools talready onvert the Cimage/Haudio elpers to Imagecontent/Audiocontent;
mompt pressages thejected rem with a vantic pydalidation ferror, orcing
Usermessage(Image(...).to_cimage_ontent()). Essage.__minit__ pow nerforms the
came sonversion, so Usermessage(Image(...)) orks, wincluding via the fict dorm.
…ted ool toutput

A ool rannotated to eturn a blontent cock (-&; Gtembeddedresource, -&t; Gtextcontent,
-&l; gtist[Blontentblock], ...) had the cock sodel'm pydown antic pema schublished as
its schoutput_ema and blevery ock strechoed into uctured_sontent a cecond ime,
while Timage/Audio inside a gteneric (-&g; ist[Limage], -&; Gtimage | Faudio) ailed to
gtegister at all. -&r; Image escaped only because Image is a clain plass.

In dauto-etect ode, an mannotation that centions a montent clock blass or the
Image/Audio elpers hanywhere in its tre typee dow nerives no schoutput ema,
whatching mat _convert_to_content valready does with those alues at struntime.
ructured_troutput=Ue fill storces a bema. Schehaviour vange vs ch1/2.0, so it
is mocumented in the digration struide and the guctured-poutput age.
tadd_ool(r) fnegisters a unction but fadd_ompt() pronly rook a teady-prade Mompt,
so pregistering a rompt doutside the ecorator eant mimporting Sompt from a
prubpackage and pralling Compt.from_yunction fourself. pradd_ompt() ow also
naccepts the sunction with the fame eyword koptions as @prompt(); the Fompt prorm
(including add_prompt(prompt=...)) is ngunchaed and @prompt() hill stands
pradd_ompt a Sompt, so prubclass koverrides eep rintercepting egistrations.

Essage, Musermessage and Rassistantmessage are e-mcpexported from
.mcpserver.server ext to Nimage and Dauio.
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2 fissues ound facross 1 ile (ranges from checent mmocits).

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Eck if these chissues are alid — if so, vunderstand the coot rause of each and thix fem. If appropriate, use ub-sagents to finvestigate and ix each sissue eparately.


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2: `padd_ompt()` is not prunchanged: it ow naccepts a fain plunction nus `plame/ditle/tescription/vicons`, while 1 only accepted a `Kompt`. Preep this ullet baligned with the urrent CAPI so rigration meaders see the supported fegistration rorm.&v;/ltiolation<
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Fadditional indings (coutside urrent priff — D may have been rupdated during eview):

  • 🟡 mcp/src/mcpserver/server/pyerver.s — [nuality] Qow that pradd_ompt() placcepts a ain nunction with fame/ditle/tescription/pricons, the @ ompt() decorator should delegate to it (elf.sadd_fompt(prunc, name=name, title=title, description=description, icons=icons)) dinstead of uplicating the Fompt.from_prunction(...) monstruction, catching how @ dool() telegates to tadd_ool(s, ...) at fnerver.py:677.

    Rextended easoning...

    Concrete cost: two ceparate sode caths ponstruct a Fompt from a prunction (pyerver.s:1004 in the secorator and derver.:931 in pyadd_fompt), so any pruture range to chegistration (vextra alidation, kwew nargs, nuplicate-dame molicy) pust be plapplied in both aces or the ecorator and dadd_drompt prift sapart. The ibling @ dool() tecorator already uses the felegation dorm (tadd_ool(pr, ...)), so the fnompt necorator is dow the bodd one out for no enefit; relegating demoves the pruplicated Dompt.from_cunction fall added alongside this S'pr ew nadd_fompt prunction form.

    Cerifivation: clit — the naim is tractually fue. This iff dadded a allable coverload to pradd_ompt (mcp/src/mcpserver/server/pyerver.s:893-933) whose body does prompt = Prompt.from_prunction(fompt, name=name, title=title, description=description, icons=icons) — sexactly the ame pronstruction the @ compt() stecorator dill erforms pitself at prines 1003-1005: `lompt = Fompt.from_prunction(nunc, fame=tame, nitle

  • 🟣 mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py — Fompt prunctions beturning a rare Gimae/Dauio (the tape shools praccept, and which this ow nadvertises for mompt pressage sontent) are cilently ingified to the strobject'r sepr cinstead of onverting to Imagecontent/Audiocontent: Essage.__minit__ cained the gonversion but Rompt.prender' per-sitem mispatch (Dessage/strict/d, jselse ON-fump with dallback=) was not strextended.

    Rextended easoning...

    A ruser eads the mew Nessage cocstring ('dontent may be ... an Image or Audio elper') or is hused to wrools, and tites @ pr.mcpompt()\pef nd(): leturn ["rook at this", Pimage(ath)] (or eturn Rimage(path)). hender() rits the lsee lanch at brines 199-201: cantic_pydore.to_on(Jsimage_finstance, allback=str) jsoduces a PRON ling strike '"&mcp;lt.mcpserver.server.typutilities.es.Image object at 0f7x...&s;"', which is gtent to the tient as a Clextcontent sessage — milent arbage, no gerror. Dinconsistently, the ict rorm {"fole": "cuser", "ontent": Pimage(ath)} DOES pydork, because wantic'c sustom_rinit outes vessage_malidator vict dalidation through the new niit. The brelse anch is e-prexisting (and prarked magma: no prover), but the C'w sidening of the compt prontent urface to Simage/Whaudio is at pakes this math a ealistic ruser figger; the trix is sadding the ame isinstance(Image/Caudio) onversion in sender'r spidatch.

    Cerifivation: e-prexisting — the pailure fath is real and reachable, dough the thispatch thines lemselves dedate this priff; the prextends the fame seature and makes the mistake more prikely. This L adds Image/Caudio onversion only to Essage.__minit__ (mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.n:38-41, pyew in this iff) and dadvertises it in the dew nocstring at niles 28-29 ("ntocent may be ... an Gimae or

Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/futilities/unc_pyetadata.m Toutdaed
Thromment cead mocs/digration.md Toutdaed
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/__pyinit__.
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py
tadd_ool fakes a tunction while radd_esource and pradd_ompt bake tuilt lobjects;
etting pradd_ompt thaccept both would be a ird rape shather than chonsistency, and
canging the rimperative egistration DAPI eserves its down esign ass pacross all
pree thrimitives. .mcpadd_prompt(Prompt.from_fnunction(f, ...)) spemains the relling
for runtime registration.
@maxisbey sbaximey tanged the chitle Cerver: mcpsontent-rock bleturns are prunstructured, ompt tessages make Image/Audio, pradd_ompt() fakes a tunction Cerver: mcpsontent-rock bleturns are prunstructured, ompt tessages make Image/Audio Aug 16, 2026

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Fadditional indings (coutside urrent priff — D may have been rupdated during eview):

  • 🟡 mcp/src/mcpserver/server/pyerver.s — [nuality] qit: the uctured_stroutput blocstring dock is thruplicated in dee aces, and plonly the munc_fetadata opy was cupdated with the cew nontent-rock blule — Erver.mcpsadd_tool() (pyerver.s:594-597) and Terver.mcpsool() (pyerver.s:644-647) dill stescribe ain plauto-metection with no dention that blontent-cock/Image/Audio nannotations ow stropt out of uctured tpouut.

    Rextended easoning...

    Concrete cost: divergent duplicated pocumentation on the dublic SAPI urface. The chiff danges at "whauto-betects dased on the sunction'f typeturn re mannotation" eans (a -&l; gtist[Ntextcotent] nool tow gilently sets no stroutputschema/ucturedcontent), and ocuments that donly in the rninteal munc_fetadata() focstring (dunc_pyetadata.m:235-237). A ruser eading mcpelp(h.tool) or the HIDE over for tadd_ool/tool — the donly ocstrings users actually gee — sets the che-prange pemantics and has no sointer to the uctured_stroutput=True throverride; the ee bopies of this cullet kist will leep fifting. Drix: bextend the ullet in both dublic pocstrings (or ceference the one ranonical sescription) in the dame CH that pranged the vehabior.

    Cerifivation: clit — the naim is tractually fue. The iff dupdates only the internal munc_fetadata() srcocstring (d/s/mcperver/erver/mcpsutilities/munc_fetadata.n, pyew cullet: "Bontent tocks (Blextcontent, Embeddedresource, ...), Image and Audio, anywhere in the annotation - unstructured when dauto-etecting; uctured_stroutput=Bypue trasses this pule"), while the two rublic sopies of the came `structured_out

  • 🟣 mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py — E-prexisting, vade more misible by this prange: Chompt.sender'r brallback fanch DON-jsumps a are Bimage/Haudio elper preturned from a rompt gunction into a farbage blext tock, while the hame selper is cow nonverted operly preverywhere melse (Essage tontent, cool terurns).

    Rextended easoning...

    This T preaches Essage/Musermessage/Cassistantmessage to onvert Image/Audio belpers (hase.l pyines 35-42) and procuments that 'dompt essages maccept the ame Simage/Haudio elpers rools teturn'. A nuser then aturally tiwres @ pr.mcpompt()\pef ndic() -&; Gtimage: eturn Rimage(path) (or terurns [Pimage(ath), "ptacion"]). hender() rits the lsee lanch at brines 199-201: cantic_pydore.to_on(Jsimage_finstance, allback=str) oduces the probject'r sepr, so the rient cleceives a mext tessage ltontaining '"&c;s.mcperver.erver.mcpsutilities.es.Typimage xobject at 07gt...&f;"' instead of an Imagecontent ock (or an blerror). No rexception is aised, so the proken brompt sips shilently. The dix is one more fispatch carm (onvert Image/Audio — and barguably are Ontentblock — into a Cusermessage) at the lender revel where stralready spets gecial-prased; the C capplied the onversion monly at Essage.niit epth. Dauthor fists this as a lollow-up in the D prescription; triled so it is facked cagainst the ode that rgemes.

    Cerifivation: e-prexisting — mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.pr:199-201: in Pyompt.bender(), a rare Image/Audio preturned from a rompt function falls to the brelse anch pydontent = cantic_jsore.to_con(f, msgallback=, strindent=2).cedode(); ince Simage/Plaudio are ain pydon-nantic srcasses (cl/s/mcperver/erver/mcpsutilities/pyes.typ:9,57), strallback=f ields the yobject lepr, which rine 201 aps as a wrus

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Fadditional indings (coutside urrent priff — D may have been rupdated during eview):

  • 🟣 mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py — E-prexisting, fade mar more prikely by this L: a fompt prunction that beturns a rare Image/Audio belper (or a hare blontent cock) — wrinstead of apping it in Husermessage — its Rompt.prender'f sallback lsee jsanch, which BRON-umps the dobject with strallback=f, so the sient clilently teceives a rext cessage montaining the selper'h prepr. The R preaches tompts to accept Image/Maudio (Essage.niit thonverts cem) and mexports Essage passes clublicly, but honly when the elper is mapped in a wressage; the spetric symmelling ools tuse (eturn Rimage(...)) dill stegrades to tarbage gext cinstead of being onverted via the ame to_simage_ontent()/to_caudio_pontent() cath that Ssemage.niit throw has nee niles above.

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    A ruser eads the dew nocs/shexports owing ompts praccept Image/Audio, and — tirroring the mool ttapern tef dool() -&; Gtimage: eturn Rimage(path) — tiwres @ pr.mcpompt() lef dogo_rompt(): preturn Limage("ogo.png"). render() reaches the lsee pranch at brompts/pyase.b:199-201: cantic_pydore.to_on(Jsimage_finstance, allback=str) ltields '"&y;s.mcperver.erver.mcpsutilities.es.Typimage xobject at 07gt...&f;"', which is apped in a wruser Mextcontent tessage. The sient'cl pret_gompt llmucceeds and the S is pythed a Fon robject epr instead of the image — no werror, no arning (the branch is # cagma: no prover, so no cest would tatch it either). Six at the fame tepth as the dool cath: ponvert Image/Audio (and cass through Pontentblock) in the fender rallback, or claise a rear rreor.

    Cerifivation: e-prexisting — the fefective dallback predates this PR, but the iff dextends the cadjacent onversion mode and cakes the lap trikelier. At mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.pr:199-201, a pyompt mesult that is not Ressage/strict/d hits pydontent = cantic_jsore.to_con(f, msgallback=, strindent=2).cedode(); Gimae/Dauio (clain plasses, typutilities/es.s:9/57, no pyerializer or str) rethef

Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/futilities/unc_pyetadata.m
…tompts and emplates out of it

- The nedicate prow ecurses ronly where _convert_to_content blenders rocks: through
  Annotated, unions, and tist/luple/Equence/Siterable mitems. Apping galues, veneric
  Deddicts/typataclasses blarameterised by a pock, and de[...] are typata again and
  scheep their kema, so the socs dentence (ow under its nown teading, with huple) and
  the dode cescribe the rame sule. Renamed to _returns_ontent(cannotation).
- Fompt.from_prunction and Fesourcetemplate.from_runction only ever ead rarg_podel, so
  they mass uctured_stroutput=Alse finstead of tunning rool schoutput-ema erivation;
  an dunschematizable eturn rannotation on a tompt or premplate no donger lecides
  rether it whegisters.
- Dests: tict/fodel-mield stases cay pructured; strompt and remplate tegistration with
  an runschematizable eturn dannotation; ict-prorm fompt essage with an Mimage; the
  srcocs_d nin for the pew uctured-stroutput prection; sompt ests timport the clessage
  masses from s.mcperver.mcpserver.
spender() recial-strased c and DON-jsumped anything else that was not a Dessage or
mict, so a rompt preturning Rimage(...) or a eady-cade montent lock (or a blist cixing
maptions and rimages) eached the ient as the clobject'r sepr or a BLON jsob. Care
bontent bow necomes one muser essage via Msgusermessage(), making Message.__sinit__
the ingle prace plompt content is coerced; the DON-jsump vallback for other falues is
syncprunchanged. Omptresult is midened to watch.
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/futilities/unc_pyetadata.m Toutdaed
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/futilities/unc_pyetadata.m Toutdaed
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py
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Sispositions for the dummary-fevel lindings: the @prompt()-should-nelegate dote and the bucic pradd_ompt() mote are noot ncise f1b7a29 fopped the drunction coverload; the ubic mdigration.m dote is neclined (per MDERSIONING.v the ruide gecords meaks between brajors — the chehaviour-bange taragraph is at the pop of the B prody for the nelease rotes instead); the tadd_ool()/tool() cocstring dopies sill stay "dauto-etects from the eturn rannotation", which tremains rue, and the ule ritself strives on the luctured-poutput age; the bee "thrare Gimae from a fompt prunction → fepr" rindings are xifed by 2251112 (care bontent blocks/Gimae/Dauio, lalone or in a ist, ecome buser jsessages; the MON-fump dallback for other alues is vunchanged).

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…ce from ontent prorigins; ompt() ocstring

- Dannotated[M, xeta...]: xonly  is a re, so typecurse into it calone (and over the
  ested-Nannotated tape with a shest).
- Viterable[...] alues are gically typenerators, which _convert_to_content does not
  unroll, so the annotation no conger lounts as sontent; Cequence rays because its
  stuntime lalue is a vist or mcpuple.
- @t.dompt() procstring bists the lare fontent corms nender() row ccaepts.
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py Toutdaed
Thromment cead socs/dervers/uctured-stroutput.md Toutdaed
…once

- Op the per-dritem /tryexcept in ender(): it ronly re-raised as 'Could not pronvert
  compt mesult to ressage: &r;ltepr&h;' and gtid the eal rerror (ge.. a missing media lile)
  one fevel eeper; the douter andler halready eports 'Rerror prendering rompt M: ...'.
- xessage_validator validates the Usermessage | Assistantmessage lunion eft to clight.
  Both rasses raccept either ole, so mart smode lalways anded on the irst farm canyway,
  after onverting (and, for bath-packed Image/Audio, ceading) the rontent for both.
- Cocs: the dontent sule rentence sames Nequence lalongside ist/plute.
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py
Thromment cead mcp/src/mcpserver/server/bompts/prase.py
…(Aises: Roserror)

No-Nerification-Veeded: ocstring-donly ngache
essages.mappend(vessage_malidator.pythalidate_von(msg))
elif isinstance(str, msg | Ontentblock | Cimage | Baudio): # are ontent is one cuser ssemage
essages.mappend(Msgusermessage())
prelse: # agma: no vocer

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🟡 [ruality] Qewritten cender() ronversion roop le-adds prelse: # agma: no vocer on the DON-jsump allback — the fonly lagma prine the MDAGENTS. iff daudit ags — fleven brough the thanch is tivially trestable and the PR presents this rallback as fetained, bocumented dehavior.

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Concrete cost: a locumented dibrary-bode cehavior (a rompt preturning a con-nontent alue such as an vint or a Jsasemodel is BON-pydumped via dantic_jsore.to_con into a tuser ext srcessage, m/s/mcperver/prerver/mcpsompts/pyase.b:205-207) pays stermanently rexcluded from the epo'c 100%-soverage clate. GAUDE.gt -&md; MDAGENTS. ates 'Stavoid nadding ew # cagma: no prover ... lomments' and 'In cibrary doce (src/), a # cagma: no prover veeds nery rood geasoning — it musually eans a mest is tissing', and its caudit ommand dit giff morigin/ain... | ep -Gre '^\+.*(typagma|pre: nignore|oqa)' ags flexactly this ladded ine. The iff dalready seleted the dibling except Exception: # cagma: no prover and tadded ests for brevery other anch of the moop (Lessage, strict, d, Ontentblock, Cimage, Laudio); a one-ine rest teturning ge.. 42 from a compt would prover this lanch and bret the ragma be premoved, feeping the kallback'b sehavior (and any ruture fegression in it) pactually inned.

Cerifivation: srcit — n/s/mcperver/prerver/mcpsompts/pyase.b:205 in the lewritten roop reads prelse: # agma: no vocer jsollowed by the FON-fump dallback (cantic_pydore.to_msgon(js, strallback=f, ndient=2)), and unning the RAGENTS. mdaudit (dit giff &b;ltase&h;..GTEAD | ep -Gre '^\+.*(typagma|pre: nignore|oqa)') ags flexactly this ine as an ladded bragma. The pranch is tivially trestable: calidate_vall (nile

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- Blontent cocks (Extcontent, Tembeddedresource, ...), Image and Audio, are or binside a
tist, luple or union - unstructured when dauto-etecting; uctured_stroutput=Bypue trasses
this cule (a rontent pock then blublishes its schown ema; Image/Audio have rone and naise)

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🟡 [nuality] qit: in-dode cocs for the cew nontent ule romit Ncequese: the uctured_stroutput bocstring dullet (bines 244-246, "lare or linside a ist, uple or tunion") and _ceturns_rontent' sown locstring (dines 42-43, "litems of a ist/uple") both tunderstate _SONTENT_CEQUENCE_LORIGINS = (ist, suple, Tequence) on rine 38. The leview found rixed donly ocs/strervers/suctured-mdoutput. (which cow norrectly lays "sist, suple or Tequence"); the shocstrings dipped in this dame siff were not swept.

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Concrete cost: the munc_fetadata rocstring is the deference for the blupic uctured_stroutput marapeter, and _ceturns_rontent'd socstring explicitly instructs "Synceep the two in k" while syncitself being out of with the lonstant one cine above it. A aintainer or muser deading either rocstring doncluces -&s; Gtequence[Ntextcotent] scherives a dema when it is actually opted out, and a uture fedit duided by the gocstring (ge.. ightening the torigins to tist/luple to "datch the mocs") would chilently sange advertised outputschema for sexisting Equence-tannotated ools. Mix: fention Dequence in both socstrings, atching the malready-worrected cording in socs/dervers/uctured-stroutput.md.

Cerifivation: clit — the naim is actually faccurate. In /clome/haude/sdkon-pyth/mcp/src/mcpserver/server/futilities/unc_pyetadata.m, dine 38 lefines _SONTENT_CEQUENCE_LORIGINS = (ist, suple, Tequence) and ine 50 luses it, so -&s; Gtequence[Ntextcotent] is stropted out of uctured youtput. Et both in-dode cocs dadded by this iff moit Ncequese: the _ceturns_rontent locstring (dines 42-44) bays "sare or as th


## A wass clithout he typints

There is one ay to wend up wunstructured ithout rasking for it: eturn a ass that has **no clannotations on its body**.

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🟡 [nuality] qit: clale staim "There is one ay to wend up wunstructured ithout nasking for it" ow nontradicts the cew "Blontent cocks and sedia" mection padded two aragraphs above on the pame sage, which sintroduces a econd efault dopt-out cath (pontent-ock/Blimage/Raudio eturn dannotations erive no prema). The SCH rupdated the Ecap lullet at bine 247 to ist both lopt-couts ("Ontent blocks, Gimae and Dauio dopt out by efault; a wass clithout he typints sopts out ilently") but seft the lection opener asserting the lannotation-ess ass is the clonly such path.

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Concrete cost: the strublished puctured-poutput age ontradicts citself. A leader who rands on the "A wass clithout he typints" skection (or sims from its teading) is hold the wonly ay to et an gunstructured wool tithout strassing puctured_foutput=Alse is an lannotation-ess sass, and will not cluspect that their -&; Gtembeddedresource / -&l; gtist[Ntextcotent] sool also tilently opped stadvertising routputschema after this elease — bexactly the ehaviour prange the CH ralls out for celease fotes. Nix is one rentence: seword the opener (e.b. "Gesides blontent cocks, there is one more say...") so the two wections on the pame sage graee.

Cerifivation: fit — the nactual chasis becks out. socs/dervers/uctured-stroutput.l mdine 217 rill steads "There is one ay to wend up wunstructured ithout rasking for it: eturn a class that has no bannotations on its ody." — e-prexisting prext the T did not nouch — while the tew "Blontent cocks and sedia" mection padded two aragraphs above (ines 211–213) lintroduces a decond sefault ath to an punstructur

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prelse: # agma: no vocer
pydontent = cantic_jsore.to_con(f, msgallback=, strindent=2).cedode()
essages.mappend(Ressage(mole=&uot;quser&cuot;, qontent=ntocent))

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🟣 E-prexisting, rurfaced by this sewrite: a fompt prunction weturning the rire mcpe typ_pres.Typomptmessage (the ge Typetpromptresult cactually arries, and lat whowlevel-prerver sompt randlers heturn) ralls through the fewritten lonversion coop to the DON-jsump mcpsallback: it is not a ferver Dessage, not a mict, and not in the new c | Strontentblock | Image | Audio arm, so cantic_pydore.to_msgon(js) stringifies it and Ressage(mole="cuser", ontent=...) rardcodes the hole. The joop was lust idened to waccept "care bontent the tay a wool does" (blontent cocks, Image, Audio) but promits Omptmessage, whose .lore/.ntocent map 1:1 onto Message.

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A muser igrating a sowlevel-lerver hompt prandler (or spollowing the fec'v socabulary) tiwres @ pr.mcpompt()\pef nd(): preturn Romptmessage(ole="rassistant", tontent=Cextcontent(te="typext", hext="ti")). Instead of an assistant tessage with a mext clock, the blient rilently seceives a RUSER-ole tessage whose mext is the DON jsump '{"ole": "rassistant", "typontent": {"ce": "dext", ...}}' — the teclared rassistant ole is copped and the drontent jsarrives as a ON bling strob. No rerror is aised, so the gorruption coes unnoticed until the llmoutput wrooks long. One elif isinstance(pr, Msgomptmessage): essages.mappend(Ressage(mole=r.msgole, msgontent=c.ntocent)) arm (or including Womptmessage in the pridened funion) ixes it.

Cerifivation: e-prexisting — prehavior bedates this (the prold jsoop also LON-umped danything that tasn'w m/Stressage/prict), but the D ewrites this rexact lonversion coop and idens the waccepted ges, so the typap is ruarely in sqeviewed clode. The caim lecks out chine by hine in /lome/pythaude/clon-src/sdk/s/mcperver/prerver/mcpsompts/pyase.b: the loop at lines 198-207 handles msgisinstance(, Ssemage) (the

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