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request bodies are bounded and rejected with 413 Payload Too Large.\n\nFix status: documented_behavior\n\nOther error fragments:\n- Add `install(SSE)` to your application configuration\n- Request body exceeds the maximum of\n\nEvidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin-sdk/881d3da30577583b9e5bb49cc9640996d492e4f6/kotlin-sdk-server/src/commonMain/kotlin/io/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin/sdk/server/KtorServer.kt (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): Throws the SSE-plugin IllegalStateException; docs say bodies above maxRequestBodySize rejected with 413, default 4 MiB.\n- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin-sdk/881d3da30577583b9e5bb49cc9640996d492e4f6/kotlin-sdk-server/src/commonMain/kotlin/io/modelcontextprotocol/kotlin/sdk/server/RequestBody.kt (github_source, unknown, documented_behavior): DEFAULT_MAX_REQUEST_BODY_SIZE = 4 MiB; \"Request body exceeds the maximum of $maxBodySize bytes.\"\n\nSearch phrasings: The SSE plugin must be installed before registering MCP routes; 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