## TL;DR

How to mCPToolset ignores auth_scheme/auth_credential during initialization and tool listing.

## Steps

1. MCPToolset wasn't sending auth during MCP initialization and tool listing: auth_scheme and auth_credential were only wired into individual tool calls, so the Bearer token never went out during tools/list and authenticated MCP servers returned 401. Fixed in ADK v1.24.0. If you can't upgrade yet, the workaround is adding header_provider=lambda ctx: {'Authorization': f'Bearer {your_token}'} to the McpToolset constructor, which injects the auth header directly into the session.

## When to use

You are seeing this: Issue google/adk-python#2168 (closed, 24 comments): Describe the bug When passing auth_scheme and auth_credential to MCPToolset, the authentication is not performed during the MCP initialization and tool listing phases. Use this skill when you run into "MCPToolset ignores auth_scheme/auth_credential during initialization and tool listing".

## When not to use

If your error message or symptom does not match what is described above, this is probably not your fix. Search for your exact error text instead of forcing this one to fit.

## Versions

Versions mentioned in the source: ADK v1.24.0. If you are on something much newer or older, the details may have shifted.

## Why this happens

The original report does not dig into a root cause. It documents the symptom and the fix that resolved it.

## Sources

- https://github.com/google/adk-python/issues/2168

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