test0r 55ead8041f v1.1.0/#11: progress + cancellation notifications
ctx augmentation:
- ctx.progress(p, total?, message?) emits notifications/progress on
  the session's notify_q. No-op when the original request omitted
  _meta.progressToken (per spec: only emit when client opted in).
  Type-checks numeric args; passes progressToken through unchanged
  (spec allows number OR string keys).
- ctx.cancelled() returns true once the client has sent a
  notifications/cancelled for this request's id.

handle_request:
- New side-effect in the id==nil branch: notifications/cancelled
  scans the module-level _ctx_by_co for an in-flight ctx whose
  request_id matches; flips self._cancelled_ids[rid_str] only when
  found. Unknown rids drop silently (no map growth).
- Pre-handler short-circuit: if cancel arrived before dispatch
  reached tools/call, skip the handler entirely.

Cross-module ctx lookup:
- Module-level weak _ctx_by_co table in lmcp.lua keyed by
  coroutine. lmcp.current_ctx() returns the ctx of the running
  coroutine. server.lua's run() lazy-requires lmcp and uses it
  to opt into auto-cancellation without depending on lmcp internals.

server.lua:run():
- After each sleep_ms cycle, check ctx.cancelled(); exit poll loop
  with cancelled=true if set.
- Poll interval capped at 500ms when a ctx is present so worst-case
  cancel latency stays ≤500ms (vs. 2s default growth).
- Returns "(cancelled)" sentinel; handler propagates normally.

_finalise_dispatch:
- Single cleanup site for both _cancelled_ids and _ctx_by_co (per
  Phase 5 review).
- When was_cancelled: emit JSON-RPC -32800 "Request cancelled"
  (deviation from Phase 4 plan; documented).

Phase 4 deviation explained: plan was silent TCP close (per spec
"SHOULD NOT respond"). Empirically: os.execute's fork+exec
inherits the parent's TCP socket FD into the spawned shell, so
sock:close() doesn't actually deliver FIN until the subshell exits
(i.e. the long-running command completes anyway). Verified
luasocket close() works on bare sockets (curl exits with RST in
511ms). The fix would be FD_CLOEXEC on accepted sockets, which
luasocket doesn't expose — needs a C shim or luaposix. Deferred.
Captured in memory project_fd_inheritance_in_run.

Practical UX with the deviation: client receives a structured
-32800 error within ~420ms of POSTing the cancel notification.

Measurements (Phase 7):
  cancel timing (3 runs, sleep 10 with cancel at 0.4s):
    run 1: t=0.42s code=-32800
    run 2: t=0.42s code=-32800
    run 3: t=0.42s code=-32800
  progress: 3/3 events arrived on SSE; spec-shaped payload
  concurrent fast+slow (#20 regression): unchanged (fast 0.01s)
  all previously-closed issues regression-test green

Zero handler source-code changes. Existing tools (shell, fetch,
web_search, hub remote_*) get cancellation for free via run().

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-17 19:29:00 +00:00
2026-04-14 19:58:40 +00:00

lmcp — Lua MCP server

Lightweight Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in pure Lua.

Runtime dependencies

  • Lua 5.1+
  • luasocket — needed for the TCP listener. Packaged as lua-socket on Arch/ALARM, lua-socket on Debian.

Files

File Role
lmcp.lua library: protocol handling, tool registration
server.lua HTTP server loop
json.lua vendored JSON encoder/decoder
example_server.lua sample server with a couple of tools

Install

Packaged as lmcp in the marfrit overlay repo:

# Arch / ALARM
sudo pacman -S lmcp

# Debian
sudo apt install lmcp

Files land under /usr/share/lua/5.4/ (Lua LUA_PATH). The example server installs as /usr/bin/lmcp-example.

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