Why: external tool ecosystems speak MCP; the kernel had no way to
mount them, so every external capability needed a bespoke builtin.
Evidence: go vet ./... clean; go test ./... 11 packages ok. Tests run
against a REAL stdio server (test binary re-exec via
mcp.RunFakeServer) and httptest HTTP servers: initialize handshake,
tools/list with pagination cap, tools/call success / tool-level
isError / unknown-tool rpc error, JSON and SSE response modes,
Mcp-Session-Id capture, manager registration as mcp__<server>__<tool>,
namespace wildcard allowlist (mcp__fake__* keeps only that namespace,
unknown wildcard fails closed), unreachable server failing the step,
hung server bounded by per-request timeout, config validation
(duplicate names, dual/missing transport, bad name chars), and an
adapter end-to-end execution calling an MCP tool.
Impact: new runtime/mcp package; native.Options gains MCP *mcp.Manager
and Close() for process cleanup; tools.Registry.Restrict gains
prefix/* namespace entries; server-provided metadata is capped (64
tools/server, 1 KiB descriptions, 64 KiB text results) and treated as
untrusted input.
Refs: plan B5; agent-execution standard (tool providers get
authorized capability only).