test0r deb73d129e v1.0.0-rc1: full MCP 2025-06-18 surface
Closes 14 issues; lmcp now implements the complete client-facing
surface of MCP spec 2025-06-18.

New primitives:
  - fetch (#3)              HTTP GET/HEAD with bounded body + render chain
  - web_search (#4)         pluggable backend (SearXNG/DDG/Tavily/Brave)
  - Resources (#5)          resources/list, /read, /templates/list + list_changed
  - Prompts (#6)            prompts/list, /get + list_changed
  - Completion (#7)         completion/complete for prompt/template args
  - Logging (#8)            logging/setLevel + notifications/message
  - Sampling (#9)           server-initiated sampling/createMessage
  - Roots (#10)             roots/list + cache + path_in_roots helper

Protocol / wire:
  - Pagination (#12)        cursor on tools|resources|prompts/list
  - Structured tool output (#13)  structuredContent + _meta + protoV bump to 2025-06-18
  - Tool annotations (#14)  readOnlyHint/destructive/idempotent/openWorld on all tools
  - stdio transport (#15)   LMCP_TRANSPORT=stdio for Claude Desktop / IDE clients
  - Streamable HTTP (#16)   select()-based event loop, sessions, persistent SSE,
                            DELETE, heartbeat, server-initiated request helper
  - ping (#19)              now emits result:{} not result:[] via json.empty_object

Cross-cutting fixes:
  - json.lua: UTF-16 surrogate pair combination (emoji/non-BMP CJK round-trip)
  - json.lua: json.empty_object sentinel for spec-correct {} emission
  - handle_request: generic notification suppression (id==nil → return nil)
    eliminates malformed -32601 with id:null on stdio and HTTP transports

Tool annotations backfilled across all registrations:
  - server.lua: 10 tools (shell, shell_bg, read_file, write_file, edit_file,
    list_dir, search_files, fetch, web_search, systeminfo)
  - hub.lua:   8 remote_* tools
  - example_server.lua: 4 demo tools + 3 sample resources + 1 sample prompt
                        + 1 sample completer

Honest limits, filed as follow-up issues:
  - #11 progress + cancellation — gated on #20 (handler concurrency)
  - #18 windows/pkg sync         — stale April-2026 snapshot, packaging decision
  - #20 concurrent handler dispatch — select() loop concurrencies I/O, not
                                      handler execution; synchronous tool
                                      handlers still serialise (shell sleep 3
                                      blocks a parallel ping)

Backwards compatible: every previously-deployed lmcp client (sessionless
POST, HTTP-only, no Mcp-Session-Id awareness) keeps working unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-17 17:15:54 +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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Lightweight MCP server in pure Lua. 2MB RSS. Zero deps beyond luasocket.
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