fix(mcp): keep conversation_id across later user messages

[gesh]

💡 Motivation and Context

In ChatGPT, every new user message started a new MCP analytics session, even though the tool schema carried conversation_id.

• GPT read "echo the conversation_id from the server's previous response" as scoped to one message's tool calls, and dropped the handle on the next message.
• The conversation_id description now adds: "Keep passing the same conversation_id for the rest of the conversation, including after later user messages or on a different task; do not reset it when the user starts a new request."
• "Echo" becomes "pass … unchanged", so the verb names the parameter value.
• The text is identical to the TypeScript SDK change in fix(mcp): keep conversation_id across later user messages posthog-js#5112, so both SDKs tell agents the same thing.

💚 How did you test it?

• The wording was validated manually in fix(mcp): keep conversation_id across later user messages posthog-js#5112, from ChatGPT, Claude chat and Claude Code: each chat stayed on one conversation_id across messages, and a new chat got its own.
• test_add_conversation_id_adds_property asserts the cross-message clause, so removing it from the description fails the test.

📝 Checklist

• I reviewed the submitted code.
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.

If releasing new changes

• Ran sampo add to generate a changeset file

🤖 Agent context

Autonomy: Human-driven (agent-assisted)

Claude Code, Opus 5.5, with the /writing-pr-descriptions skill. A mirror of the TypeScript change, kept character-for-character identical.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

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posthog-python Compliance Report

Date: 2026-09-25T14:28:05.455342+00:00
Duration: 259828ms

✅ All Tests Passed!

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[greptile-apps]

[Medium risk] Updates agent instructions for conversation session handling.

The PR appears safe to merge.

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