[Bug]: initializing MCP client: unsupported protocol version: "2025-11-25
Author: leh-ppiCreated Dec 7, 2025Updated Sep 9, 2026
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Environment:
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04
- kubectl-ai version: 0.0.28
- LLM provider: OpenRouter via "openai" provider
- LLM model: anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
Describe the bug
When configuring recent MCP servers https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp and https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-mcp-server-py, kubectl-ai just logs the following on startup and does not load the MCP servers:
E1207 16:48:34.524404 31438 manager.go:123] connecting to MCP server "gitlab": initializing connection: initializing MCP client: unsupported protocol version: "2025-11-25"
E1207 16:48:36.564726 31438 manager.go:123] connecting to MCP server "opensearch-mcp-server": initializing connection: initializing MCP client: unsupported protocol version: "2025-11-25"To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Setup https://github.com/zereight/gitlab-mcp/releases/tag/v2.0.13 or https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-mcp-server-py/releases/tag/0.5.2 in
~/.config/kubectl-ai/mcp.yaml - Start
kubectl-aiwith--mcp-client - See error
Expected behavior MCP servers can be loaded.
Additional context
N/A
Source: GoogleCloudPlatform/kubectl-ai