Title: how to return images from an mcp server · Issue #2557 · modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk · GitHub
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Description: Question i understand that i can base64 encode the image and return it using ImageContent type, but there seems to be a limit of the size of the image i can move. what is this limit? is there a better way to do this? Additional Context N...
Open Graph Description: Question i understand that i can base64 encode the image and return it using ImageContent type, but there seems to be a limit of the size of the image i can move. what is this limit? is there a bet...
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