fix(mcp): bound tool responses so one call cannot exhaust an agent context - #1352
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…ntext Two tools returned their whole backing collection, which for an MCP consumer means the response does not merely arrive slowly, it consumes the one budget the caller cannot expand. memory_sessions was kv.list(KV.sessions) verbatim: every session row, pretty-printed. On a 3,646-session store that is 7.7 MB, and the tool declared no arguments at all despite promising recent sessions, so a caller had no way to ask for less. The summary field alone was 76 percent of those bytes. It now accepts limit, project and status and returns a projected summary row, newest first, with total and truncated alongside. memory_graph_query inherited the REST default of 500 nodes, which suits the viewer and is far too large for an agent. It defaults to 25 and leaves provenance projected out unless includeSources is passed. Adds one response ceiling applied to every tool on the way out, so a tool added later cannot reintroduce the same failure, and drops pretty-printing from 57 responses where it was roughly 13 percent pure whitespace. Measured through the MCP shim on that install: memory_sessions 8,062,197 to 5,715 characters, memory_graph_query 14,792,717 to 30,872. Deliberately excludes two adjacent fixes already open as PRs: the /sessions REST limit param is rohitg00#1034, and the slot-tool guard is rohitg00#894 and rohitg00#1149. This is only the MCP payload shaping, so it should not conflict with either. Signed-off-by: reddeye1337 <reddeye1337@users.noreply.github.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 2 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMCP responses now use compact JSON, configurable UTF-8 byte limits, bounded session results, and bounded graph queries. Tool and prompt dispatch applies response capping before returning results. ChangesMCP response controls
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to MCP responses are now bounded and compact, reducing oversized tool payloads while preserving configurable limits and explicit argument validation. No current merge-blocking risk is identified. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant MCPServer
participant dispatch
participant capMcpResponse
MCPClient->>MCPServer: call tool
MCPServer->>dispatch: dispatch request
dispatch-->>MCPServer: return tool result
MCPServer->>capMcpResponse: apply UTF-8 byte budget
capMcpResponse-->>MCPServer: return bounded result
MCPServer-->>MCPClient: send response
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src/mcp/server.ts#L43-L47: remove the response-cap rationale comment.src/mcp/server.ts#L311-L315: remove the session-pagination rationale comment.src/mcp/server.ts#L546-L549: remove the graph-query rationale comment.As per coding guidelines,
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In `@src/mcp/server.ts`:
- Around line 59-60: Update capMcpResponse so responses without a body.content
array, including body.error responses, are capped based on the serialized
response body rather than returned unchanged. Preserve content-specific handling
while applying the response-size limit to the fallback path and arbitrary tool
names.
- Line 1804: Update the mcp::prompts::get response construction around the
prompt text template to pass the final prompt response through capMcpResponse,
ensuring taskDesc and interpolated search results are limited to
AGENTMEMORY_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES while preserving the existing response
content.
- Around line 81-89: Update the truncation handling around the notice appended
by the tool response flow so the notice itself is included within the
AGENTMEMORY_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES limit. Reserve sufficient byte space before
retaining the payload, and validate the final serialized response byte length
before returning it, preserving the notice and valid UTF-8 behavior.
- Around line 316-318: Validate explicit MCP arguments before applying defaults
or building requests: in the handler around src/mcp/server.ts lines 316-318,
reject non-string project/status values and non-integer limit values with a 400
response; around lines 549-550, likewise reject non-integer limit and
non-boolean includeSources values. Preserve defaults only for omitted arguments,
and ensure invalid values never become undefined, coerced values, or silently
broaden the request.
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In `@src/mcp/server.ts`:
- Around line 43-47: Remove the explanatory rationale comments from
src/mcp/server.ts at lines 43-47, 311-315, and 546-549; leave the surrounding
response-cap, session-pagination, and graph-query implementations unchanged.
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Four issues from review on this PR. capMcpResponse only touched content arrays, so an error body passed through uncapped - including the default branch, which echoed a caller-supplied tool name. Error bodies are now capped and the reflected name is bounded at the source. The truncation notice was appended after the budget was already spent, so a response one character over the limit came back larger than the ceiling it advertises. The notice is reserved up front. memory_sessions and memory_graph_query coerced malformed arguments instead of rejecting them: a non-string project or status silently dropped the filter and widened the query to everything. Both now return 400, per the input-validation guideline for MCP handlers. mcp::prompts::get bypassed the ceiling entirely and can echo a caller-supplied task_description. Its dispatch now routes through the same cap. Adds test/mcp-response-bounds.test.ts covering projection, filtering, argument rejection, the ceiling holding on a truncated response, and the bounded unknown-tool error. Signed-off-by: reddeye1337 <reddeye1337@users.noreply.github.com>
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In `@test/mcp-response-bounds.test.ts`:
- Around line 129-131: Update the response-size calculation in the test to
measure UTF-8 byte length of the serialized MCP body rather than JavaScript
string length, and add multibyte content to the fixture. Align the cap
enforcement in the MCP server response handling with this same UTF-8 byte
metric, using the existing response-limit symbols and relevant serialization
path.
- Line 95: Strengthen the assertion for the first parsed session’s startedAt
value in the relevant test so it verifies the newest session, expecting
“2026-02-27T10:00:00Z” instead of only checking that the value is defined.
- Around line 3-5: Update the test setup around registerMcpEndpoints to mock
iii-sdk with Vitest instead of passing local mockSdk and mockKV objects. Provide
mocked sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list implementations through the
module mock, while preserving the existing test behavior and logger mock.
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Mock iii-sdk with Vitest.
test/mcp-response-bounds.test.ts defines and passes local mockSdk and mockKV objects to registerMcpEndpoints. Replace these with vi.mock("iii-sdk"), including mocks for sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and kv.list, as required for test/**/*.test.ts.
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In `@test/mcp-response-bounds.test.ts` around lines 3 - 5, Update the test setup
around registerMcpEndpoints to mock iii-sdk with Vitest instead of passing local
mockSdk and mockKV objects. Provide mocked sdk.trigger, kv.get, kv.set, and
kv.list implementations through the module mock, while preserving the existing
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Source: Coding guidelines
AGENTMEMORY_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES is named in bytes but the cap counted String.length, which is UTF-16 code units. CJK or emoji content passed the check at roughly three times the advertised limit, and slicing on the same metric could cut a multibyte sequence in half. Measures with Buffer.byteLength and cuts on a code-point boundary, dropping a trailing partial sequence rather than emitting a replacement character the caller never sent. Applies to content parts, the reserved notice and error bodies. Test now measures bytes rather than characters, adds a multibyte fixture that fails on the previous metric, and asserts newest-first ordering as an ordering rather than mere presence. From the second review round on this PR. Signed-off-by: reddeye1337 <reddeye1337@users.noreply.github.com>
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Second round — one real bug in my own fix, now pushed. Fixed: the ceiling was measured in the wrong unit. Added a multibyte fixture that fails on the previous metric, and the test now measures bytes rather than characters. Fixed: the ordering assertion. Right — checking that Not changed: |
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Problem
Two MCP tools returned their whole backing collection. For an MCP consumer that is not merely slow — the response consumes the one budget the caller cannot expand.
memory_sessionswaskv.list(KV.sessions)verbatim, pretty-printed, and declared no arguments at all:despite the description promising recent sessions. On a 3,646-session store that is 7.7 MB in a single tool response, with no way for the caller to ask for less. The
summaryfield alone was 76% of those bytes, and it is exactly the field a list view does not need.memory_graph_queryinherited the REST default of 500 nodes, which suits the viewer and is far too large for an agent: 14.8 MB on the same install.What this changes
memory_sessionstakeslimit(default 20, max 200),projectandstatus, and returns a projected summary row — id, project, status, timestamps, observation count, title — newest first, withtotal/returned/truncatedalongside. The full row is onememory_recallaway.memory_graph_querydefaults to 25 nodes and leaves provenance projected out unlessincludeSourcesis passed.AGENTMEMORY_MCP_MAX_RESPONSE_BYTES, default 256 KB), so a tool added later cannot reintroduce the same failure. When it truncates it says so, and says which argument to narrow — a cut JSON payload is otherwise silently unparseable.Result
Measured through the MCP shim, not the REST endpoint:
memory_sessionsmemory_graph_queryScope
Deliberately excludes two adjacent fixes already open, so this should not conflict with either:
/sessionsRESTlimitparam is fix(api): honour limit query param on /sessions and /replay/sessions (#1022) #1034 (issue GET /agentmemory/sessions ignores the limit query param, always returns full history #1022)This is only the MCP payload shaping.
Verification
Exercised against a live server by driving the shim over stdio:
initialize,tools/list, then every read-only tool with schema-valid arguments.Summary by CodeRabbit
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