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Add support for a stdio testing

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
48/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active

Research direction

Start with the conformance CLI entry point that handles server and the proposed --stdio ./my_server invocation. Compare the existing SSE flow with the Go SDK SSE examples, then check the official documentation examples mentioned in the issue. Done means stdio servers can run conformance checks and the relevant examples provide passing reports.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

It would be helpful when I'm running a MCP server in stdio mode to have the option to check that the conformance tests are passing.

Describe the solution you'd like

npx @modelcontextprotocol/conformance server --stdio ./my_server

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've tried the run a server in a SSE fashion using the examples of official go-sdk but it didn't worked:

Additional context

It would be helpful to have consistant and conformance friendly examples in all SDKs. Could you ensure that the examples in the official documentation are passing the conformance test and show casing report for them?

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