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implements the io.modelcontextprotocol/tasks extension as defined in SEP-2663, while preserving full backward compatibility with existing 2025-11-25 clients.

the SEP-2663 redesigns async tasks as a proper MCP extension. rather than requiring clients to opt-in per-request via params.task, the server decides whether to create a task based on whether the client declared the extension in per-request _meta.
three structural problems in the 2025-11-25 experimental spec are resolved: the fragile per-request opt-in, the blocking tasks/result SSE trap, and the security risk of tasks/list without sessions.

Fixes #980

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  • MCP spec compatibility implementation
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  • This PR implements a feature defined in the MCP specification
  • Link to relevant spec section: 2663-tasks-extension
  • Implementation follows the specification exactly

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  • New Features
    • Added support for asynchronous tool tasks, including task status polling and submitting responses when a task requests input.
    • Task status can report completed results, errors, pending input requests, cancellation acknowledgements, and timing information.
    • Servers can advertise Tasks support and register hooks for task input updates.
  • Compatibility
    • Supports modern and legacy task formats and protocol clients.
    • Modern task-aware calls use declared Tasks capabilities, while legacy clients retain their existing task flow.

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🟠 Major · Require an exact session match for session-owned tasks. · server.go:3019-3021

server/server.go:3019-3021
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CWE: CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (IDOR)

Require an exact session match for session-owned tasks.

Modern requests use an empty session ID. The current predicate rejects only a different non-empty session, so a known task ID can access a session-owned task through tasks/get, tasks/update, or tasks/cancel. Require entry.sessionID == sessionID whenever entry.sessionID is non-empty.

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In `@server/server.go` around lines 3019 - 3021, Update the session ownership
check around getSessionID(ctx) so any task with a non-empty entry.sessionID
requires an exact match with sessionID, including when the request session is
empty; preserve access for tasks without an owning session.
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mcp/types.go (1)

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Rename TaskId to TaskID before release.

The repository naming guideline requires uppercase initialisms in exported Go names. Keep the wire name as json:"taskId".

Proposed fix
 type UpdateTaskParams struct {
-	TaskId         string         `json:"taskId"`
+	TaskID         string         `json:"taskId"`
 	InputResponses InputResponses `json:"inputResponses"`
 }
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In `@mcp/types.go` at line 1969, Rename the exported UpdateTaskParams field TaskId
to TaskID while preserving the json tag as taskId, and update any references to
the field accordingly.

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In `@mcp/types.go`:
- Line 1819: Update CreateTaskResult.UnmarshalJSON to decode and assign the
embedded common Result fields, including _meta and resultType, before selecting
and decoding the Task or Legacy wire format. Preserve those Result fields during
both modern and legacy round trips while keeping the existing task-format
selection behavior unchanged.
- Around line 1848-1946: Apply the staticcheck fixes by converting the
compatible inline task value directly with Task(inline) in the surrounding task
unmarshalling method, using the promoted TaskId selector in
CancelTaskResult.MarshalJSON, and replacing the flat struct literal with flat(r)
for JSON marshaling.

In `@mcp/utils.go`:
- Around line 1256-1260: Update the JSON decoding block around json.Unmarshal so
decode failures for SEP-2663 fields, including error or inputRequests, return a
wrapped error instead of being silently ignored. Preserve assigning TaskResult,
TaskError, and InputRequests only after successful decoding.

In `@server/hooks.go`:
- Around line 125-126: Update the generated hook template to add name-prefixed
GoDoc comments for OnBeforeUpdateTaskFunc, OnAfterUpdateTaskFunc,
AddBeforeUpdateTask, and AddAfterUpdateTask, then regenerate server/hooks.go.
Add a name-prefixed GoDoc comment for (*UnsupportedTaskResultError).Error
directly in mcp/tasks.go.

In `@server/server.go`:
- Line 3201: Update sendTaskStatusNotification and its callers to pass the
task’s owning session ID from createTask, then replace both broadcast
notification calls with SendNotificationToSpecificClient targeting that session.
Preserve both notification formats while ensuring only the owner receives task
status metadata.
- Around line 2136-2328: The asynchronous calls in handleTaskAugmentedToolCall
currently pass the request-scoped ctx, which may be canceled when the handler
returns. Create a detached context that preserves required request values, then
pass it to executeTaskTool and executeRegularToolAsTask while leaving
synchronous request handling unchanged.

---

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In `@server/server.go`:
- Around line 3019-3021: Update the session ownership check around
getSessionID(ctx) so any task with a non-empty entry.sessionID requires an exact
match with sessionID, including when the request session is empty; preserve
access for tasks without an owning session.

---

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In `@mcp/types.go`:
- Line 1969: Rename the exported UpdateTaskParams field TaskId to TaskID while
preserving the json tag as taskId, and update any references to the field
accordingly.

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🟡 Minor · Set Legacy to false in NewCreateTaskResult. · tasks.go:98-103

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Set Legacy to false in NewCreateTaskResult.

CreateTaskResult.MarshalJSON uses the legacy nested format when Legacy is true. This exported constructor therefore emits nested task JSON instead of the modern inline Tasks-extension format. Callers using the constructor cannot produce modern task results.

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-		Legacy: true,
+		Legacy: false,
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In `@mcp/tasks.go` around lines 98 - 103, Update NewCreateTaskResult to set Legacy
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Tasks-extension format when marshaled.

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server/task_test.go (1)

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Add an owner-scoped notification case.

The existing multi-session case creates the task with the sessionless ctx, so both-session delivery does not test owner scoping. Create a second task with server.WithContext(ctx, session1). Assert that session1 receives mcp.MethodNotificationTasks and session2 does not receive that method. Keep the existing case for sessionless behavior.

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 		select {
 		case notification := <-notifyChan2:
 			assert.Equal(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)
 		case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):
 			t.Fatal("Expected notification on session2")
 		}
+
+		// Verify that an owner-scoped task does not notify an unrelated session.
+		for len(notifyChan1) > 0 {
+			<-notifyChan1
+		}
+		for len(notifyChan2) > 0 {
+			<-notifyChan2
+		}
+
+		ownerCtx := server.WithContext(ctx, session1)
+		ownerEntry, err := server.createTask(ownerCtx, "task-notify-owner", "test-tool", nil, nil)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		server.completeTask(ownerEntry, "result", nil)
+
+		select {
+		case notification := <-notifyChan1:
+			assert.Equal(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)
+		case <-time.After(1 * time.Second):
+			t.Fatal("Expected owner notification on session1")
+		}
+
+		select {
+		case notification := <-notifyChan2:
+			assert.NotEqual(t, mcp.MethodNotificationTasks, notification.Method)
+		case <-time.After(100 * time.Millisecond):
+			// Expected when the unrelated session receives no notification.
+		}
 	})
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In @server/task_test.go at line 1132, Extend the existing multi-session
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context scoped to session1 via server.WithContext(ctx, session1). Assert
session1 receives the task notification and session2 does not; keep the existing
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- Line 1132: Extend the existing multi-session notification test using
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- Line 533: Update the tasks/get and tasks/cancel guards in the request handler
so modern clients advertising mcp.ExtensionTasks reach request parsing and
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🟡 Minor · Serialize modern task hints with SEP-2663 field names. · server.go:2592-2646

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Serialize modern task hints with SEP-2663 field names.

When IsModernRequest(ctx) is true, this route returns mcp.GetTaskResult with the embedded mcp.Task. That type serializes TTL as ttl and PollInterval as pollInterval. SEP-2663 requires ttlMs and pollIntervalMs, so compliant clients can miss task hints when either value is set. Apply a modern-only response representation and retain the existing legacy representation.

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-		return &result, nil
+		return &mcp.GetTaskResult{
+			Task: mcp.Task{
+				TaskId:        result.TaskId,
+				Status:        result.Status,
+				CreatedAt:     result.CreatedAt,
+				LastUpdatedAt: result.LastUpdatedAt,
+				TTL:           result.TTL,
+				PollInterval:  result.PollInterval,
+			},
+			TaskResult:     result.TaskResult,
+			TaskError:      result.TaskError,
+			InputRequests:  result.InputRequests,
+		}, nil
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Review comment at @server/server.go around lines 2592 - 2646:
Update the modern `IsModernRequest(ctx)` response in the task retrieval handler
to serialize task hints using SEP-2663 field names `ttlMs` and `pollIntervalMs`,
while preserving the task result, error, and input-request fields. Keep the
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- Around line 2592-2646: Update the modern `IsModernRequest(ctx)` response in
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Please document the accepted asynchronous-task request-context limitation for HTTP transports and add an HTTP lifecycle test showing what happens after the initial response completes, including cancellation behavior and supported transport guidance.

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Thanks for picking this up. We'd like to build on it for long-running tool calls behind an MCP gateway, so we tried it against the spec and hit a few things that look related to the maintainer's request above:

  1. Task context ends with the request. The task context derives from the request context (server/server.go:2347, 2439). Over Streamable HTTP, a 500 ms tool ends cancelled ("context canceled") right after the POST returns. A context detached from the request (e.g. context.WithoutCancel plus its own cancel func for tasks/cancel) would let the work outlive the response, which is the point of a task.
  2. No authorization on tasks/*. The only check is the session-ID comparison (server.go:2990, 3020), which passes when either ID is empty, so on stateless HTTP any caller with a task ID can get, update or cancel it. The SEP requires an auth check on every task request. A hook that receives the request context when a task is created and on each tasks/* call would let servers bind tasks to their own identity.
  3. tasks/get field names. The embedded Task serialises ttl / pollInterval instead of ttlMs / pollIntervalMs (mcp/types.go:1869).
  4. AddTaskTool result. json.Marshal(storedResult) (server.go:2616) serialises the *CreateTaskResult, so a completed task returns "result":{"task":{}} and the content is lost.
  5. tasks/cancel on a terminal task returns an error (server.go:3114); the SEP says the server acks it.
  6. Mcp-Name isn't set or checked for tasks/* (mcp/headers.go is untouched).

Smaller: there's no way to update statusMessage from running work, and modern-mode tasks get no TTL, so they're never evicted. Happy to help test a revision.

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Please document the accepted asynchronous-task request-context limitation for HTTP transports and add an HTTP lifecycle test showing what happens after the initial response completes, including cancellation behavior and supported transport guidance.

while working on the examples/task_tool demo, I discovered that executeTaskTool derives its context from the per-request ctx passed by HandleMessage, not from s.serverCtx.
because HandleMessage defers a cancel on that ctx, task goroutines are cancelled immediately after the response is written on every transport, not just Streamable HTTP.
updated the comments and readme, and added test cases to cover the changes.

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alin with SEP-2663: server MUST acknowledge the request with an empty result

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