Land the Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration as a transport binding,
not a built-in feature. Six Lua functions plus userdata methods expose
the substance of three MCP feature areas (resources, tools, prompts), a
notification dispatcher, and a non-trivial AI-assistance example package
that meets the architectural ship gate (spec/pmacs-spec.tex:1572): zero
direct calls into the Rust core, zero special-cased MCP handling outside
the public API, source under 2000 lines of Lua.
The M9.5 -> M9.6 -> M9.7 -> M9.8 layered composition validates the claim
"AI is a transport binding, not a feature" -- pmacs-mcp-ai composes with
pmacs-mcp-prompts.render and inherits notification handling transitively
through M9.7's package, demonstrating that the AI domain is a layer
above MCP, not a thread woven through the core.
Subtask shape:
M9.1 stdio transport + initialize handshake + restart policy
M9.2 resources with in-flight + settled cache and per-uri invalidation
M9.3 tools with isError-vs-JSON-RPC-error semantics + cancellation
M9.4 prompts with required-argument validation
M9.5 notification dispatcher (on_notification, off_notification)
M9.6 tools-as-commands fixture package + 12 audit findings disposed
M9.7 prompts-as-result-buffers fixture package + tree-sitter-md grammar
M9.8 AI-assistance fixture package (363+ LoC; 17/17 acceptance tests)
M9.9 formal package audit -- PASS on all three criteria
M9.10 release: TRANSITION-M9.md + MCP-for-package-authors guide
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Levi Neuwirth
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