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Glossary: Agent Tools and MCP

MCP request headers

Also written: MCP-Protocol-Version, Mcp-Method, Mcp-Name

HTTP headers that repeat key parts of an MCP message so proxies can route without reading the body. A header that disagrees with the body gets HTTP 400 and code -32020.

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Streamable HTTPHTTP status codes