Add optional description field to Implementation struct#649
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Motivation and Context
The MCP spec 2025-11-25 added an optional description field to the
Implementationinterface in modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/pull/1817. This provides a human-readable description of what an implementation does, giving clients and servers richer context during the initialization handshake.The Rust SDK already supports the other
Implementationmetadata fields (title,icons,websiteUrl) but was missingdescription.How Has This Been Tested?
Updated the exiting tests to account for the changes.
Breaking Changes
Deserialization is not affected; existing JSON without
descriptionwill still parse correctly.However, code that constructs
Implementationwith struct literal syntax without..Default::default()will need to adddescription: None(or a value). This is the same kind of breakage that occurred whentitle,icons, andwebsite_urlwere added.Types of changes
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