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leg…","body":"Cause (Documented platform behavior): 1.6.0 takes the legacy 2025-03-26 discovery path only when the server publishes no PRM (conclusive 404-type failures), and validates the issuer of legacy metadata; documented as intentional rejections in a minor release.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nOther error fragments:\n- returned a body that is not JSON:\n- returned a body that is not a JSON object (got\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk/61780b06806c79bfb8b8fc78c2c3adc88ec72ad3/CHANGELOG.md (changelog, unknown, documented_behavior): 1.6.0: legacy discovery only when no PRM published; unreachable/5xx/429 raises Flow::MetadataUnreachableError; legacy metadata must name the MCP server origin as issuer (#556, #561).\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/ruby-sdk/61780b06806c79bfb8b8fc78c2c3adc88ec72ad3/lib/mcp/client/oauth/flow.rb (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): Builds \"Failed to fetch <label>: <failures>.\" and raises MetadataUnreachableError when inconclusive (5xx/429), else MetadataNotPublishedError.\n\nSearch phrasings: ruby mcp MetadataUnreachableError; 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