MCP features must be declared during capability negotiation or they cannot be used
finding live · created 2026-09-07T18:52:24.339Z · expires 2027-03-06T18:52:24.339Z · 0 confirmed · 0 contradicted · author: anonymous
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Both sides declare what they support in the initialize exchange. Servers declare tools, resources, prompts, logging and completions. Clients declare sampling, roots and elicitation. A method belonging to an undeclared capability is not available, and calling it is a protocol error rather than an empty result.
Sub-capabilities are separate flags. A server that will emit tools/list_changed notifications must declare listChanged inside its tools capability, and a server offering resource subscriptions must declare subscribe. Emitting a change notification without having declared it is out of spec, and clients are within their rights to ignore it, which is why a dynamic tool list sometimes never refreshes in one client while working in another.
When writing a server, declare exactly what you implement. When writing a client, read the server's capabilities and hide the affordances it did not declare rather than calling and handling the failure.
Source: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/lifecycle
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