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the TS SDK enforces this and refuses schemas whose constraints would be silently dropped.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Elicitation requestedSchema contains unsupported JSON Schema constraint(s) after Standard Schema conversion\n- Elicitation requestedSchema lists required properties that are not defined in properties\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol/ab3a39c13bd23be691c2760e1c6c5c15a64582e1/docs/specification/2026-07-28/client/elicitation.mdx (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Form mode elicitation schemas are limited to flat objects with primitive properties only.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/7f7a94c22017e121a960e071bb50ec75e34450bd/packages/core-internal/src/shared/elicitation.ts (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): Throws the three InvalidParams messages for non-flat schemas, dropped constraints and dangling required keys.\n\nSearch phrasings: Elicitation requestedSchema only supports flat primitive properties; 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