this is interesting, i need to read the code more to grok what's going, but i see that foo: bar | undefined is frequently preferred over the usual foo?: bar here, and I suspect it's intentional, and my current guess is it has to do with zodToJsonSchema, where this is a distinction with a difference, apparently, because in the generated JSONSchema, list will be included in "required" if you use the bar | undefined syntax, whereas it will not be required with the foo?: syntax... I don't know how all these pieces fit together, and my interpretation does not comport well with the the comment about forgetting things, but my suspicion is there is (or was thought to be) a good reason for this. So far I haven't found how JSONSchema is used in this repo, maybe there is validation against schema.ts to check compliance(?). Obviously someone more directly involved in writing this should probably weigh in but without further context about the issues discussed above, I don't think it's so simple.

Basically, the way it is currently, you have to include the callback object with a list property even if you can't list your resources and you must set it to undefined.

@jspahrsummers was the original author of this code, and no explanation was given other than the comment in the code. I do not think other SDKs have this same requirement. But in any case, I don't think supplying an undefined callback should be required.

Basically, the way it is currently, you have to include the callback object with a list property even if you can't list your resources and you must set it to undefined.

Right, so from what I gleaned, this makes a difference if you use something like zodToJsonSchema, because it means the schema will put "list" in the "required" properties array (even if the value is undefined, which I'm not sure if that's recommended anyway). But, either way, you can see this style repeated in the file, so it appears deliberate to me, so I'll just defer to someone who's more intimate with the codebase. But in any case, I hope you see my point, I just don't know how zodToJsonSchema is being leveraged in this repo.

EDIT: If I had to speculate (which I don't), I'd guess it might enable you to generate a JSONSchema and then validate it against the protocol's JSONSchema...