diff --git a/crates/aisix-mcp/tests/protocol_generations.rs b/crates/aisix-mcp/tests/protocol_generations.rs
index 2f14d6c27..48b8caa43 100644
--- a/crates/aisix-mcp/tests/protocol_generations.rs
+++ b/crates/aisix-mcp/tests/protocol_generations.rs
@@ -172,6 +172,32 @@ async fn non_loopback_host_is_served() {
     );
 }
 
+/// The sessionless serving posture means only `POST` carries MCP
+/// protocol messages: `GET` (the SSE stream a stateful server would
+/// offer) and `DELETE` (session teardown) are not served. The gateway
+/// gets this from its `legacy_session_mode = false` + no-event-store
+/// configuration rather than from its own code, so pin it here — an SDK
+/// upgrade that starts serving either verb by default would otherwise
+/// change the endpoint's wire surface with nothing failing.
+#[tokio::test]
+async fn get_and_delete_are_not_served() {
+    let addr = spawn_gateway().await;
+    let client = reqwest::Client::new();
+    for method in [reqwest::Method::GET, reqwest::Method::DELETE] {
+        let response = client
+            .request(method.clone(), format!("http://{addr}/mcp"))
+            .header("accept", "application/json, text/event-stream")
+            .send()
+            .await
+            .expect("send");
+        assert_eq!(
+            response.status(),
+            405,
+            "{method} /mcp must not be served on a sessionless endpoint"
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 /// `server/discover` advertises exactly the supported list — the same list
 /// `initialize` negotiates against and the proxy header gate enforces.
 #[tokio::test]
diff --git a/crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs b/crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs
index 99bf0485a..dfa1e6deb 100644
--- a/crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs
+++ b/crates/aisix-proxy/src/mcp.rs
@@ -2417,6 +2417,51 @@ mod tests {
         }
     }
 
+    /// Method handling sits BEHIND authentication: an unauthenticated
+    /// `GET`/`DELETE` on `/mcp` is rejected as unauthorized, and only an
+    /// authenticated one reaches the sessionless endpoint's `405`. The
+    /// order matters — answering `405` first would tell an anonymous
+    /// caller which paths exist.
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn get_and_delete_are_authenticated_before_method_handling() {
+        for method in ["GET", "DELETE"] {
+            let anonymous = HttpRequest::builder()
+                .method(method)
+                .uri("/mcp")
+                .header("host", "mcp.aisix.example.com")
+                .header("accept", "application/json, text/event-stream")
+                .body(Body::empty())
+                .unwrap();
+            let response = router_with(snapshot_with_key())
+                .oneshot(anonymous)
+                .await
+                .expect("router responds");
+            assert_eq!(
+                response.status(),
+                StatusCode::UNAUTHORIZED,
+                "{method} /mcp must authenticate before it decides on the method"
+            );
+
+            let authenticated = HttpRequest::builder()
+                .method(method)
+                .uri("/mcp")
+                .header("host", "mcp.aisix.example.com")
+                .header("accept", "application/json, text/event-stream")
+                .header("authorization", format!("Bearer {TOKEN}"))
+                .body(Body::empty())
+                .unwrap();
+            let response = router_with(snapshot_with_key())
+                .oneshot(authenticated)
+                .await
+                .expect("router responds");
+            assert_eq!(
+                response.status(),
+                StatusCode::METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED,
+                "an authenticated {method} /mcp is not served on a sessionless endpoint"
+            );
+        }
+    }
+
     /// Hostile header values cannot abuse the rejection envelope: an
     /// overlong value is truncated to 64 echoed characters, a non-ASCII
     /// (obs-text) value gets the static message (never echoed), and an