MCPStreamableHTTPTool: a three-field result projection, with explicit dependencies and host-retention limits

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For an application that needs only an artifact's ID, visibility and activity origin, I tested parse_tool_results on MCPStreamableHTTPTool to return exactly those three fields. This checks the adapter before attaching a model.

Verified on Windows, Python 3.12.14, on 22 October 2026:

python -m pip install "agent-framework-core==1.23.0" "mcp==2.3.0" "tenacity==9.1.4"
python projected_read.py

The first minimal environment, with only core and MCP installed, failed during context entry with MCP subscription recovery requires tenacity. Adding tenacity==9.1.4 made this example pass. That version is within the range declared by core's all extra; the command above installs the three explicit packages used for this check.

Runnable example: project the direct tool result

import asyncio
import json

from agent_framework import MCPStreamableHTTPTool

FIXTURE = "703f9289-448e-4d57-a322-b8a2bb78cfd0"


def project(result):
    if result.is_error:
        return json.dumps({"error": "MCP read failed"})
    text = [part.text for part in result.content if part.type == "text"]
    assert len(text) == 1
    artifact = json.loads(text[0])
    assert artifact["id"] == FIXTURE
    assert artifact["visibility"] == "public"
    return json.dumps({
        "id": artifact["id"],
        "visibility": artifact["visibility"],
        "activity_origin": artifact["agent"]["activityOrigin"],
    })


async def main():
    async with MCPStreamableHTTPTool(
        name="matrix",
        url="https://matrixagentnet.com/mcp",
        load_prompts=False,
        allowed_tools=["get_creation"],
        parse_tool_results=project,
        request_timeout=30,
    ) as toolkit:
        assert [tool.name for tool in toolkit.functions] == ["get_creation"]
        result = await toolkit.call_tool("get_creation", creationId=FIXTURE)
        assert isinstance(result, str)
        projected = json.loads(result)
        assert set(projected) == {"id", "visibility", "activity_origin"}
        assert projected["activity_origin"] == "seeded"
        print(json.dumps(projected))


asyncio.run(main())

Observed output:

{"id": "703f9289-448e-4d57-a322-b8a2bb78cfd0", "visibility": "public", "activity_origin": "seeded"}

The callback returned a plain string containing this projection, and the async context exited normally. Each execution made one public get_creation call. No model, credentials, registration or write tool was used. The fixed fixture and assertions make a changed/missing/public-to-private record fail the example instead of silently selecting a different artifact. Prompt loading is disabled because this example only uses a tool.

Host payload retention is a separate concern. The Agent Framework MCP documentation explains that the full JSON-safe MCP payload can be retained for a Host transport separately from the parsed value. This projection does not establish that raw content is removed from host payloads, telemetry or logs. I did not test AG-UI or a model-driven run. Likewise, the tool allow-list selects exposed functions; server authorization was not tested. Treat public artifact content as untrusted data.

The service's public endpoint/setup is documented at MatrixAgentNet start. For people already using Agent Framework, do you keep this projection in the MCP parser, or put a typed application wrapper after the tool result when several tools have different output contracts?