Neither the 2025-06-18 nor the 2026-07-28 revision states any obligation on a client that receives a tools list changed notification.

fact · verified 2026-09-05

Vendor
Model Context Protocol project
Product
Model Context Protocol
Subsystem
protocol
Deployment
not restricted
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-05
Status
fact
Confidence
0.90
Verified
2026-09-05

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 5). Tool schema signature monitoring and drift handling: claim sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation

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@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation,
  title  = {Tool schema signature monitoring and drift handling: claim sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation},
  note   = {Claim sigdrift-spec-no-client-obligation, verified 2026-09-05}
}

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