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Enhanced Context and Tools sections with documentation of Context object injection, properties, and methods.

Motivation and Context

The context object was magically injected, but wasn't well documented as to when, and what it can do.

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  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
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  • I have read the MCP Documentation
  • My code follows the repository's style guidelines
  • New and existing tests pass locally
  • I have added appropriate error handling
  • I have added or updated documentation as needed

@jbkkd jbkkd requested review from a team and ochafik July 26, 2025 18:48
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Enhanced Context and Tools sections with documentation of Context object injection, properties, and methods.
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Add missing sections to the Table of Contents
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Some of them unrelated to this PR, but were just missing
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@dsp-ant dsp-ant merged commit d475928 into modelcontextprotocol:main Aug 5, 2025
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[GMLP-5458] Sync upstream (#5)
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* Add regression test for stateless request memory cleanup (modelcontextprotocol#1140)

* Implement RFC9728 - Support WWW-Authenticate header by MCP client (modelcontextprotocol#1071)

* Add streamable HTTP starlette example to Python SDK docs (modelcontextprotocol#1111)

* fix markdown error in README in main (modelcontextprotocol#1147)

* README - replace code snippets with examples - add lowlevel to snippets (modelcontextprotocol#1150)

* README - replace code snippets with examples - streamable http (modelcontextprotocol#1155)

* chore: don't allow users to create issues outside the templates (modelcontextprotocol#1163)

* Tests(cli): Add coverage for helper functions (modelcontextprotocol#635)

* Docs: Update CallToolResult parsing in README (modelcontextprotocol#812)

Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <fweinberger@anthropic.com>

* docs: add pre-commit install guide on CONTRIBUTING.md (modelcontextprotocol#995)

Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <fweinberger@anthropic.com>

* fix flaky fix-test_streamablehttp_client_resumption test (modelcontextprotocol#1166)

* README - replace code snippets with examples -- auth examples (modelcontextprotocol#1164)

* Support falling back to OIDC metadata for auth (modelcontextprotocol#1061)

* Add CODEOWNERS file for sdk (modelcontextprotocol#1169)

* fix flaky test test_88_random_error (modelcontextprotocol#1171)

* Make sure `RequestId` is not coerced as `int` (modelcontextprotocol#1178)

* Fix: Replace threading.Lock with anyio.Lock for Ray deployment compatibility (modelcontextprotocol#1151)

* fix: fix OAuth flow request object handling (modelcontextprotocol#1174)

* update codeowners group (modelcontextprotocol#1191)

* fix: perform auth server metadata discovery fallbacks on any 4xx (modelcontextprotocol#1193)

* server: skip duplicate response on CancelledError (modelcontextprotocol#1153)

Co-authored-by: ihrpr <inna@anthropic.com>

* Unpack settings in FastMCP (modelcontextprotocol#1198)

* chore: Remove unused prompt_manager.py file (modelcontextprotocol#1229)

Co-authored-by: Tapan Chugh <tapanc@cs.washington.edu>

* Improved supported for ProtectedResourceMetadata (modelcontextprotocol#1235)

Co-authored-by: Paul Carleton <paulcarletonjr@gmail.com>

* chore: Remove unused variable notification_options (modelcontextprotocol#1238)

* Improve README around the Context object (modelcontextprotocol#1203)

* fix: allow to pass `list[str]` to `token_endpoint_auth_signing_alg_values_supported` (modelcontextprotocol#1226)

* Remove strict validation on `response_modes_supported` member of `OAuthMetadata` (modelcontextprotocol#1243)

* Add pyright strict mode on the whole project (modelcontextprotocol#1254)

* Consistent casing for default headers Accept and Content-Type (modelcontextprotocol#1263)

* Update dependencies and fix type issues (modelcontextprotocol#1268)

Co-authored-by: Marcelo Trylesinski <marcelotryle@gmail.com>

* fix: prevent async generator cleanup errors in StreamableHTTP transport (modelcontextprotocol#1271)

Co-authored-by: David Soria Parra <167242713+dsp-ant@users.noreply.github.com>

* chore: uncomment .idea/ in .gitignore (modelcontextprotocol#1287)

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: clarify streamable_http_path configuration when mounting servers (modelcontextprotocol#1172)

* feat: Add CORS configuration for browser-based MCP clients (modelcontextprotocol#1059)

Co-authored-by: Marcelo Trylesinski <marcelotryle@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <fweinberger@anthropic.com>

* Added Audio to FastMCP (modelcontextprotocol#1130)

* fix: avoid uncessary retries in OAuth authenticated requests (modelcontextprotocol#1206)

Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <fweinberger@anthropic.com>

* Add PATHEXT to default STDIO env vars in windows (modelcontextprotocol#1256)

* fix: error too many values to unpack (expected 2) (modelcontextprotocol#1279)

Signed-off-by: San Nguyen <vinhsannguyen91@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <fweinberger@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <3823880+felixweinberger@users.noreply.github.com>

* SDK Parity: Avoid Parsing Server Response for non-JsonRPCMessage Requests (modelcontextprotocol#1290)

* types: Setting default value for method: Literal (modelcontextprotocol#1292)

* changes structured temperature to not deadly (modelcontextprotocol#1328)

* Update simple-resource example to use non-deprecated read_resource return type (modelcontextprotocol#1331)

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs: Update README to include link to API docs for modelcontextprotocol#1329 (modelcontextprotocol#1330)

* Allow ping requests before initialization (modelcontextprotocol#1312)

* Python lint: Ruff rules for pylint and code complexity (modelcontextprotocol#525)

* Fix context injection for resources and prompts (modelcontextprotocol#1336)

* fix(fastmcp): propagate mimeType in resource template list (modelcontextprotocol#1186)

Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <3823880+felixweinberger@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix: allow elicitations accepted without content (modelcontextprotocol#1285)

Co-authored-by: Olivier Schiavo <olivier.schiavo@wengo.com>

* Use --frozen in pre-commit config (modelcontextprotocol#1375)

* Return HTTP 403 for invalid Origin headers (modelcontextprotocol#1353)

* Add test for ProtectedResourceMetadataParsing (modelcontextprotocol#1236)

Co-authored-by: Paul Carleton <paulcarletonjr@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Marcelo Trylesinski <marcelotryle@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <3823880+felixweinberger@users.noreply.github.com>

* Fastmcp logging progress example (modelcontextprotocol#1270)

Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <3823880+felixweinberger@users.noreply.github.com>

* feat: add paginated list decorators for prompts, resources, and tools (modelcontextprotocol#1286)

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

* Remove "unconditionally" from conditional description (modelcontextprotocol#1289)

* Use streamable-http consistently in examples (modelcontextprotocol#1389)

* feat: Add SDK support for SEP-1034 default values in elicitation schemas (modelcontextprotocol#1337)

Co-authored-by: Tapan Chugh <tapanc@cs.washington.edu>
Co-authored-by: Felix Weinberger <3823880+felixweinberger@users.noreply.github.com>

* Implementation of SEP 973 - Additional metadata + icons support (modelcontextprotocol#1357)

* Merge upstream/main with custom filtering

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