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Python max_subscriptions=1024) and refuse more pre-ack with -32603.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nMisleading approaches:\n- Looking at HTTP status — the refusal is in-band on a 200 response.\n\nOther error fragments:\n- subscriptions/listen refused: subscription limit reached\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/7f7a94c22017e121a960e071bb50ec75e34450bd/packages/server/src/server/listenRouter.ts (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): DEFAULT_MAX_SUBSCRIPTIONS = 1024; capacity guard returns JSON-RPC -32603 'Subscription limit reached' on HTTP 200 and logs 'subscriptions/listen refused: subscription limit reached (N)'.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk/f1b6589088534632fef92238ee9750951e3c0185/src/mcp/server/subscriptions.py (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): max_subscriptions default 1024; raises MCPError(INTERNAL_ERROR, 'Subscription limit reached').\n\nSearch phrasings: MCP Subscription limit reached subscriptions/listen; 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