pyjwt[crypto] as an unconditional dependency blocks installation on platforms without a cryptography wheel (e.g. Windows on ARM)

Summary

pyjwt[crypto] is declared as an unconditional Requires-Dist in mcp's package metadata, even though the crypto extra (and the jwt import it enables) is only used by one file: mcp/client/auth/extensions/client_credentials.py, an OAuth client-credentials flow. Every consumer of this package — including a pure MCP server implementation that never acts as an OAuth client — is forced to install pyjwt[crypto], which pulls in cryptography as a hard dependency.

Why this matters

cryptography ships prebuilt wheels for most platforms, but not all — e.g. there is currently no PyPI wheel for win_arm64 (Windows on ARM). On a platform without a prebuilt wheel, pip/uv fall back to building cryptography from source via maturin/cargo/rustc, which additionally requires a working Rust toolchain and the MSVC linker (link.exe, part of Visual Studio Build Tools) to be present. A user with a plain Python install (no Visual Studio, no Rust) hits a hard installation failure:

error: linker `link.exe` not found
note: the msvc targets depend on the msvc linker but `link.exe` was not found
note: please ensure that Visual Studio 2017 or later, or Build Tools for
Visual Studio were installed with the Visual C++ option

This blocks installing mcp (and anything depending on it) entirely on that platform, for a feature (OAuth client-credentials auth) the user may never use — in our case, a Community-Edition-facing MCP server package that has no OAuth-client code path at all.

Suggested fix

mcp already uses the extras pattern for other optional functionality (cli, rich in the current metadata). Moving the OAuth client-credentials code's pyjwt[crypto] requirement behind its own extra (e.g. oauth or similar) would let server-only/non-OAuth-client consumers install mcp without pulling in cryptography at all, while OAuth-client users opt in explicitly with mcp[oauth].

Environment where this was found

• Windows on ARM64 (win_arm64), Python 3.14 (win_arm64 build)
• Both pip (venv fallback) and uv sync hit the identical build failure
• Confirmed cryptography has no win_arm64 wheel on PyPI as of writing; only win_amd64 prebuilt wheels exist for this release
• No Visual Studio / Build Tools installed (a normal state for an end user who is not a C/C++ developer)

Happy to provide the full build log if useful.

Ispeziona la dichiarazione dei metadati del pacchetto e mcp/client/auth/extensions/client_credentials.py, quindi riproduci l'installazione con pip o uv sulla piattaforma interessata. Il lavoro è completato quando l'installazione del solo server non richiede più cryptography, mentre gli utenti del client OAuth possono sceglierlo tramite un extra dedicato; verifica il comportamento risultante del packaging e dell'installazione.