modelcontextprotocol / modelcontextprotocol/ext-apps

Properly clarify content model visibility - content vs structuredContent vs _meta

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Description

There were questions from the community about the proper field to use for passing data to the UI without the passing through the model.

The spec mentions (in a somewhat hard-to-find location) that content is passed to the model, and that both structuredContent and _meta are not added to the context. This needs further clarification.
In addition - it's not clear whether content needs to be shown in addition to the UI.

As a comparison - Apps SDK spec clearly specifies that content and structuredContent are being passed to the model, while _meta isn't.

We should probably make it clearer in the spec.

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