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The Inspector half of the universal project–server connection flow. Pairs with MCPJam/mcpjam-backend#955 — neither works without the other, and the backend should land first.

This gives #3941's two dormant modules (the discovery preflight and the inbound service-token guard) something to do, and builds the rest of the path from a URL to a connected server.

The SSRF fix is the part worth reviewing first

server-connection-discovery.ts imported the SDK's SSRF classifier while dialling through the local createGuardedFetch — the safe half without the half that makes it safe.

That guard validates the DNS answer and then lets the HTTP client resolve a second time (its own docblock says so), which leaves the check-vs-connect window open: name a host you control, pass the classifier with a public address, and serve 169.254.169.254 to the connection that actually happens. @mcpjam/sdk/oauth/node resolves once and pins the surviving addresses into the socket, re-validating every redirect hop.

That entry shipped in #3899, one day before the discovery module — so this was a wiring gap, not a disagreement about what's correct. utils/pinned-fetch.ts closes it for discovery and for validation, which dials the same attacker-supplied hostname while carrying a bearer token.

What's here

The worker (server-connection-worker.ts) takes a lease, runs the step the lease named, reports, releases. It never chooses its own step — it branches on the status the backend returned, because that routing rule lives in the transition table where it can be enforced; inferring it from what turned up on the wire would be a second copy free to disagree.

The failure taxonomy is where the care went. Three outcomes look alike in a stack trace and mean opposite things:

outcome means consequence of getting it wrong
retryable the network misbehaved wrong call costs seconds
authentication-failed the stored token was rejected wrong call throws away a working grant
terminal the endpoint isn't MCP wrong call tells a user their working server is broken

terminal is therefore the narrowest arm and anything ambiguous is retryable. Validation probes through @mcpjam/sdk's probeMcpServer rather than the MCP SDK directly — check:mcp-v1-runtime-imports forbids that import in server code, and the prober already accepts both an access token and a custom fetch.

REST (/api/v1/server-connections, four routes) forwards the caller's own bearer to the backend's public functions. The Inspector adds no authority of its own, which is what makes the flow identical for a signed-in user, an API key, and a guest. Guest rules are added to the v1 allowlist deliberately — writes included — because a person with no account connecting a server is the flow working as designed; the backend ownership-checks every call, and creation is braked per-user and (more tightly) per-guest-IP.

The handoff back end (/api/web/server-connections) is built so the browser never holds a token. Claim trades the single-use handoff token for a continuation token that goes straight into a __Host- HttpOnly cookie; every later step authenticates with that cookie, so page JS never sees a credential and an XSS here can't lift the capability.

  • Claim is a POST, not a GET. A GET would be claimed by anything that follows links — a preview crawler in the channel the handoff was posted to, a prefetching browser, a mail scanner. It's single-use, so one of those consuming it leaves the real user with a dead link and no explanation.
  • SameSite=Lax, not Strict. The OAuth provider returns the user with a top-level GET navigation, and Strict withholds the cookie on exactly that hop. An Origin check covers the cross-site POST that Lax already blocks.
  • routes/web/shared/cookies.ts is one builder instead of a fourth hand-rolled copy (guest-session-shared, surface-link, slack-link each have their own). The existing three are deliberately left alone — retrofitting them is a separate change with its own regression surface. It carries the local-http carve-out, because __Host- requires Secure, browsers refuse Secure over plain http, and the Inspector really does run on http://localhost — without it, every cookie-authenticated flow fails silently in local dev and works in staging.

SDK operations + CLI. connect_project_server and get_project_server_connection_status, defined once and adapted per surface. resolveProject is called only when a project was supplied: its no-selector arm falls back to the most-recently-updated project, and adopting that would connect a server to whichever project the caller last touched. Absent means absent.

The CLI's projects server connect prints the link even when it opens one — a browser that fails to launch, or launches on the wrong machine over SSH, otherwise leaves the user with a request they can't finish. Ctrl-C stops the polling, not the request, and says so.

Agent tier is direct, with the reasoning in the entry, since the registry's own rule gates anything reaching outside MCPJam. What gating buys is a human deciding before the effect — and this flow already has that, in a better place: the operation can't connect anything itself, and the person opening the handoff sees the hostname, project, and credential owner before choosing, with no auto-redirect. A second in-channel approval asks for the same decision twice, on less information the first time. What does need enforcing is that the link stays private, which is the adapter's job, not the tier's.

Notes for review

  • @mcpjam/sdk is consumed via the workspace symlink, so no npm publish is needed for any of this. The still-unreleased oauth/node entry is already in sdk/src.
  • Not in this PR, and the flow is not end-to-end without them: the SPA handoff page, the /oauth/callback server_connection branch, the hosted-MCP encrypted session envelope, and the Slack/Discord adapters. The operations, the REST surface, and the worker are complete and independently testable; handoffUrl currently points at a route the SPA doesn't serve yet.
  • Two golden lists in agent-op-registry.test.ts moved (the idempotency set is five writes now, and two prompt notes were added) — worth eyeballing the note wording, since it's what the model actually reads.

Testing

npm run test:checks (all four grep gates), sdk 4,254 passing, mcp 47, plus the CLI binding partition, the agent and workspace partitions, openapi-drift, sdk-coverage, entrypoint-parity, and the guest v1 allowlist. 13 new worker tests cover the failure taxonomy, the lease refusals, and that the credential reaches the probe and nothing else; the 31 existing discovery tests pass unchanged on the pinned transport.


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Connects MCP servers to projects end to end with an Origin‑verified browser handoff. Replaces the SSRF‑prone flow with DNS‑pinned transport, per‑hop validation, Inspector‑side OAuth with PKCE, and an HttpOnly __Host- continuation cookie.

  • Transport and worker

    • Adds createPinnedFetch over @mcpjam/sdk/oauth/node: resolve once, pin per hop, re‑validate redirects, derive loopback permission from the initial URL/chain, follow spec method rewrites, compose caller AbortSignal with a single deadline across hops, and return 204/205/304 cleanly; preserves SSRF refusals as BlockedEgressTargetError.
    • Worker leases a step from the backend and never infers routing; records guard verdicts, classifies failures narrowly (retryable vs auth‑failed vs terminal), and bounds discovery/validation with a step deadline.
  • Handoff and REST

    • New web routes (/api/web/server-connections/*): require and validate the browser Origin against a configured allowlist; claim is POST‑only and swaps a single‑use token for a __Host- HttpOnly cookie (SameSite=Lax; localhost Secure carve‑out). Optional‑actor middleware forwards a verified user id when present without blocking guests. Per‑IP budgets for claim/authorize/state return accurate Retry‑After, and a dedicated poll limiter meters status GETs by identity and address.
    • Public REST (/api/v1/server-connections): forwards the caller’s bearer; handoffUrl appears only in create; translates connection‑specific backend codes (e.g. RATE_LIMITED, ACTIVE_REQUEST_LIMIT, FEATURE_DISABLED, AMBIGUOUS_SERVER with candidates); a backend 401 is treated as a 500 misconfiguration. Guest paths include writes; backend enforces ownership.
    • Internal doorbell (/api/internal/server-connections) accepts a service token and returns 202; carved out of session auth so its own guard answers; mounted in both entrypoints.
  • Client, SDK, CLI, and registry

    • Adds the client handoff page: trades the token, removes it from the URL, uses a strict callback marker (state‑bound, finite expiry), polls only when appropriate, and never exposes credentials.
    • SDK adds connect_project_server and get_project_server_connection_status, validates URLs early, binds response body reads to the same timeout and abort as the request, and extends types/OpenAPI.
    • CLI adds projects server connect and projects server connect-status; resolves global --api-key/--api-url/--project across the servers group; prints the link even when opening; SIGINT cancels in‑flight polls; clears process.exitCode per run; fixes option collisions.
    • Agent registry moves connect_project_server to the gated tier; workspace and MCP catalogs updated.
  • Security fixes that matter

    • Origin taken from the browser Origin header (not internal socket URL) for CSRF and redirect URI derivation.
    • Loopback allowances derived per‑chain, not per‑hop; redirects re‑validated hop‑by‑hop with correct method rewrites; credentials dropped on origin changes.
    • Backend SSRF refusals remain terminal; validation does not misclassify outages; 204/205/304 treated as definitive answers.
  • Rollout

    • Deploy backend connection APIs first, set INSPECTOR_SERVICE_TOKEN, and configure the trusted Origin allowlist for the handoff routes. Update consumers to the new SDK/OpenAPI.

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claude added 3 commits August 13, 2026 03:30
Gives the merged discovery preflight and the dormant inbound service-token
guard something to do, and adds the validation step beside them.

THE SSRF FIX IS THE IMPORTANT PART. server-connection-discovery.ts imported the
SDK's SSRF classifier while dialling through the local createGuardedFetch —
the safe half without the half that makes it safe. That guard validates the DNS
answer and then lets the HTTP client resolve a second time (its own docblock
says so), leaving the check-vs-connect window open: name a host you control,
pass the classifier with a public address, serve 169.254.169.254 to the
connection that actually happens. `@mcpjam/sdk/oauth/node` resolves once and
PINS the surviving addresses into the socket, re-validating every redirect hop.
It shipped one day before the discovery module, so this was a wiring gap rather
than a disagreement — utils/pinned-fetch.ts closes it, for discovery and for
validation, which dials the same attacker-supplied hostname while carrying a
bearer token.

The worker never chooses its own step. It branches on the `status` the lease
returned, because the routing rule ("no project yet ⇒ wait", "OAuth ⇒ consent",
"no auth ⇒ validate") lives in the backend's transition table where it can be
enforced; inferring it from what turned up on the wire would be a second copy
free to disagree.

The failure taxonomy is where the care went. Three outcomes look alike in a
stack trace and mean opposite things: a network blip keeps the credential and
retries, a rejected token sends the user back to consent, and an endpoint that
answers but is not MCP stops immediately. Classifying a blip as an auth failure
throws away a working grant; classifying a bad endpoint as retryable burns five
attempts before admitting it. `terminal` is therefore the narrowest arm, and
anything ambiguous is retryable.

Validation probes through @mcpjam/sdk's probeMcpServer rather than the MCP SDK
directly — check:mcp-v1-runtime-imports forbids that import in server code, and
the prober already accepts both an access token and a custom fetch, which is
exactly the shape needed.

The dispatch route answers 202 without awaiting the job: the backend's push is
a five-second best-effort doorbell, and holding it open would make a slow
third-party server look like a failed dispatch. Delivery is guaranteed by
nextAttemptAt and the re-dispatch cron instead, so a dropped ping costs a
minute rather than a request. Mounted in BOTH entrypoints, ahead of /api/web so
it never inherits that family's bearer middleware.

13 worker tests cover the taxonomy, the lease refusals, and that a credential
reaches the probe and nothing else.

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…ge's back end

Two surfaces, and the difference between them is where the credential lives.

/api/v1/server-connections — four thin routes that forward the CALLER'S OWN
bearer to the backend's public connection functions. The Inspector adds no
authority of its own, which is what makes the flow identical for a signed-in
user, an API key, and a guest: a guest JWT is a registered Convex auth provider,
so the backend resolves the same actor either way and does the ownership check
itself. Guest rules are added to the v1 allowlist deliberately, WRITES included
— a person with no account connecting a server is the flow working as designed,
and creation is braked by both a per-user and a tighter per-guest-IP budget
because a guest identity is free to mint.

`handoffUrl` appears in the create response and nowhere else. The raw token
exists exactly once and nothing stores it, so a status read cannot rebuild the
link — a URL a caller could re-fetch at will would be a 60-minute browser
credential sitting behind a pollable endpoint.

/api/web/server-connections — the handoff page's back end, where THE BROWSER
NEVER HOLDS A TOKEN. The claim trades the single-use handoff token for a
continuation token that goes straight into a `__Host-` HttpOnly cookie; every
later step authenticates with that cookie, so page JavaScript never sees a
credential and an XSS on this origin cannot lift the capability. The Inspector
forwards only the digest onward, so the raw value never leaves the process.

The claim is a POST, not a GET, because a GET would be claimed by anything that
follows links — a preview crawler in the channel the handoff was posted to, a
prefetching browser, a mail scanner. It is single-use, so one of those consuming
it would leave the real user with a dead link and nothing to explain it.

SameSite is Lax rather than Strict: the OAuth provider returns the user with a
top-level GET navigation, and Strict withholds the cookie on exactly that hop.
An Origin check covers the cross-site POST that Lax already blocks, because the
cost is one comparison and the failure is silent.

routes/web/shared/cookies.ts is one builder and parser instead of a fourth
hand-rolled copy (guest-session-shared, surface-link, and slack-link each have
their own). The existing three are left alone on purpose — retrofitting them is
a separate change with its own regression surface, and burying it inside a
feature commit would hide both. It carries the local-http carve-out: `__Host-`
requires Secure, browsers refuse Secure over plain http, and the Inspector
really does run on http://localhost, so without the rewrite every
cookie-authenticated flow fails silently in local dev and works in staging.

Error translation is connection-specific rather than the generic Convex
translator, which does not know RATE_LIMITED, ACTIVE_REQUEST_LIMIT, or
FEATURE_DISABLED and would flatten all three into a 400 — telling a caller to
fix their input when the honest answer is "wait", "finish one you already
started", or "this is not on yet". AMBIGUOUS_SERVER carries its candidates
through to the response details, so the refusal stays actionable.

Ratchets satisfied: sdk-coverage (with real PlatformApiClient methods, not just
a map entry), openapi-drift (four documented operations plus the DTO schemas),
the guest v1 allowlist, and entrypoint parity for both new mounts.

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…artitions

connect_project_server and get_project_server_connection_status, defined once in
the SDK and adapted by every surface — which is what stops Slack and Discord
from each growing their own client.

THE OPERATION USUALLY CANNOT FINISH, and its description says so. A server
needing OAuth needs a human at a browser, so the honest successful result is
often `awaiting_authorization` plus a link, not a connected server. Callers
present the link and poll.

`resolveProject` is called ONLY when a project was supplied. Its no-selector arm
falls back to the most recently updated project, and adopting that here would
connect a server to whichever project the caller last touched. Absent means
absent: the request becomes `awaiting_project` and a person chooses.

Agent tier is DIRECT, and the entry carries the reasoning because the registry's
own rule gates anything reaching outside MCPJam. What gating buys is a human
deciding before the effect; this flow already has that, in a better place — the
operation cannot connect anything on its own, and the person who opens the
handoff sees the hostname, the project, and whose credential it will be before
choosing, with no auto-redirect. A second in-channel approval would ask for the
same decision twice, on less information the first time, and would train people
to click through the one that matters. What does need enforcing is that the link
stays private, and that is the adapter's job, not the tier's.

The prompt notes tell the model to say a private button will be shown and never
to write the URL into a reply — repeating it in a channel would let anyone there
authorize on the requester's behalf.

CLI: `mcpjam projects server connect --url … [--project] [--server] [--name]
[--reauthorize] [--no-browser] [--no-wait]`. It prints the link even when it
opens one, because a browser that fails to launch — or launches on the wrong
machine over SSH — otherwise leaves the user with a request they cannot finish
and no link to finish it with. Polling backs off 2s→10s, since after the first
few seconds the flow is waiting on a human. Ctrl-C stops the polling, not the
request, and the help says so rather than letting someone assume they cancelled.

Five partitions updated: MCP catalog (a module-load throw, not a test) plus the
README table, CLI bindings, the agent registry, workspace tools, and the SDK's
own catalog fixtures. connect_project_server joins the non-destructive writes
everywhere — it creates a request and possibly a DISABLED server row, destroys
nothing, and enables nothing without a person completing the flow.

Verified: sdk 4,254 passing, mcp 47, the CLI binding partition, the agent and
workspace partitions, and all four repo-wide grep gates.

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Preview worker mcpjam-mcp-pr-3958 deleted — the preview URL no longer resolves.
Merged changes are live on mcpjam-mcp-staging via deploy-mcp-staging.yml.

`build:server` failed with "Could not resolve
/home/user/.../sdk/dist/index.js/oauth/node", which took down E2E Smoke and the
Railway preview.

The bare `@mcpjam/sdk` alias is a PREFIX replacement, so a subpath specifier
needs its own entry — the same trap `server/vitest.config.ts` documents for the
test-side aliases. Every other SDK subpath already has one; `oauth/node` did
not.

WHY IT ONLY BROKE NOW. `server-connection-discovery.ts` has imported this
subpath since #3941, and the build was green the whole time: nothing referenced
that module, and esbuild never resolves a file it does not reach. Wiring
discovery into the worker made the import live and the missing alias real. So
this is a latent config gap that my change was the first to touch, not a
regression in the SDK or in #3941.

Verified: build:server and the full build:inspector both succeed.

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<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-discovery.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-discovery.ts:59">
P2: When an HTTPS MCP endpoint redirects to HTTP, the pinned fetch follows the downgrade because discovery checks HTTPS only before probing. Enforce HTTPS on every redirect hop, while retaining the explicit loopback HTTP exception.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-discovery.ts:361">
P1: A pin/egress refusal now classifies as retryable instead of terminal. The default transport is `createPinnedFetch`, whose `OAuthProxyError` (fired for a private/reserved address found at connect time, i.e. a DNS-rebinding target) is rethrown as a plain `Error`. This `fetchFn` wrapper only records `refusal.blocked = error` when `error instanceof BlockedEgressTargetError`, so refusal bookkeeping never fires for the pinned transport; `refusalOutcome()` stays null and the probe reports `status: "error"`, which `classifyDiscoveryResult` maps to `retryable`. That puts an SSRF attempt on the retry schedule — exactly what this module's own docblock and the correction history say must not happen. The `assertOutboundOAuthUrlAllowed` upfront check only catches *literal* private/loopback URLs; a bare public hostname that resolves to 169.254.169.254 at dial time is the case that falls through.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/app.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/app.ts:283">
P0: The doorbell route is unreachable: `sessionAuthMiddleware` runs globally (`app.use("*", ...)` in the security stack) before this mount, and `/api/internal/` is not in its `UNPROTECTED_ROUTES`/`UNPROTECTED_PREFIXES` allowlists. The backend forwards only `x-inspector-service-token`, never `X-MCP-Session-Auth` or `_token`, so every POST to `/api/internal/server-connections/dispatch` is answered with 401 "Session token required" before `internalServiceAuthMiddleware` ever runs, and the connection job never executes. Add `/api/internal/server-connections` to the session-auth bypass (its authorization already lives in `internalServiceAuthMiddleware`), matching how `/api/web/` and bearer-authenticated families are carved out. Same ordering exists in server/index.ts, so the mirror must be fixed too.</violation>
</file>

<file name="sdk/src/platform/operations.ts">

<violation number="1" location="sdk/src/platform/operations.ts:4830">
P1: When this operation is exposed through the MCP catalog, the private `handoffUrl` is delivered directly to the model and any host handling the tool result. Anyone who obtains that capability can complete authorization, so redact it from model-visible text and structured content while retaining it only in the requester-private delivery path used by the CLI or handoff UI.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts:413">
P1: Because this direct operation is now treated as an idempotent write, agent retries send a key that the server-connections route drops. Forward the derived key through the route and backend action before relying on this entry for retry safety; otherwise a retried turn can create another connection request or hit the active-request limit.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/index.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/index.ts:130">
P2: Because this route is intentionally bearer-free, an attacker can submit unlimited arbitrary handoff tokens and make the Inspector perform an authenticated backend call for each attempt. Add an IP-based limit for claim attempts before forwarding to the backend, while retaining the capability check for valid handoff tokens.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts:153">
P1: The claim endpoint requires page JavaScript to read and POST the raw handoff bearer, so an XSS can steal it before the single-use claim. Move token consumption into a server-side handler, or otherwise submit it without exposing it to page JavaScript; return only the HttpOnly continuation cookie to the page.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts:191">
P2: The continuation capability leaves the Inspector as a raw bearer, exposing it to backend request logging or tracing and violating the digest-only design. Hash the continuation token before each backend call and make the backend compare the digest rather than accepting the raw value.</violation>
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// request id in the body is a selector, not authorization. Mounted ahead of
// /api/web so it never inherits that family's bearer middleware.
// Mirror of the mount in server/index.ts.
app.route("/api/internal/server-connections", internalServerConnections);

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P0: The doorbell route is unreachable: sessionAuthMiddleware runs globally (app.use("*", ...) in the security stack) before this mount, and /api/internal/ is not in its UNPROTECTED_ROUTES/UNPROTECTED_PREFIXES allowlists. The backend forwards only x-inspector-service-token, never X-MCP-Session-Auth or _token, so every POST to /api/internal/server-connections/dispatch is answered with 401 "Session token required" before internalServiceAuthMiddleware ever runs, and the connection job never executes. Add /api/internal/server-connections to the session-auth bypass (its authorization already lives in internalServiceAuthMiddleware), matching how /api/web/ and bearer-authenticated families are carved out. Same ordering exists in server/index.ts, so the mirror must be fixed too.

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<comment>The doorbell route is unreachable: `sessionAuthMiddleware` runs globally (`app.use("*", ...)` in the security stack) before this mount, and `/api/internal/` is not in its `UNPROTECTED_ROUTES`/`UNPROTECTED_PREFIXES` allowlists. The backend forwards only `x-inspector-service-token`, never `X-MCP-Session-Auth` or `_token`, so every POST to `/api/internal/server-connections/dispatch` is answered with 401 "Session token required" before `internalServiceAuthMiddleware` ever runs, and the connection job never executes. Add `/api/internal/server-connections` to the session-auth bypass (its authorization already lives in `internalServiceAuthMiddleware`), matching how `/api/web/` and bearer-authenticated families are carved out. Same ordering exists in server/index.ts, so the mirror must be fixed too.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -274,6 +275,12 @@ export async function createHonoApp() {
+  // request id in the body is a selector, not authorization. Mounted ahead of
+  // /api/web so it never inherits that family's bearer middleware.
+  // Mirror of the mount in server/index.ts.
+  app.route("/api/internal/server-connections", internalServerConnections);
   app.route("/api/web", webRoutes);
   // Computer terminal WebSocket + file upload (Project Computers). Registered
</file context>

projectId = project.id;
}

return await client.createServerConnection(

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P1: When this operation is exposed through the MCP catalog, the private handoffUrl is delivered directly to the model and any host handling the tool result. Anyone who obtains that capability can complete authorization, so redact it from model-visible text and structured content while retaining it only in the requester-private delivery path used by the CLI or handoff UI.

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<comment>When this operation is exposed through the MCP catalog, the private `handoffUrl` is delivered directly to the model and any host handling the tool result. Anyone who obtains that capability can complete authorization, so redact it from model-visible text and structured content while retaining it only in the requester-private delivery path used by the CLI or handoff UI.</comment>

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@@ -4732,6 +4733,140 @@ export const unpublishScenarioOperation: PlatformOperation<
+      projectId = project.id;
+    }
+
+    return await client.createServerConnection(
+      {
+        body: {
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Agreed on the boundary, and it is owned by a phase that is not in this PR — so here is what landed now and what is explicitly still open.

Now: connect_project_server requires host approval (APPROVAL_REQUIRED_IDS), so on a host with requireToolApproval the call does not happen without a person, and the operation's description instructs that the link be presented privately and never repeated in a shared channel.

Not now, and not silently: stripping handoffUrl from what reaches the model, and giving the surfaces a structured private-delivery channel (a Slack ephemeral message, a Discord button with the URL in the payload rather than the body). That is the surface-adapter phase's job — there is no adapter to deliver privately through yet, so a stripping rule added here would remove the link from the only path that currently exists and leave the flow unfinishable rather than safer.

The ordering is deliberate: private delivery has to exist before the public path can be closed. Tracked with the adapter work, along with the sibling finding on the agent route.


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// adapter's job, not the tier's: the agent adapter strips `handoffUrl` from
// model-visible text and moves it into a structured part, so the surfaces
// deliver it ephemerally instead of a model pasting it into a thread.
operation: connectProjectServerOperation,

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P1: Because this direct operation is now treated as an idempotent write, agent retries send a key that the server-connections route drops. Forward the derived key through the route and backend action before relying on this entry for retry safety; otherwise a retried turn can create another connection request or hit the active-request limit.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts, line 413:

<comment>Because this direct operation is now treated as an idempotent write, agent retries send a key that the server-connections route drops. Forward the derived key through the route and backend action before relying on this entry for retry safety; otherwise a retried turn can create another connection request or hit the active-request limit.</comment>

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@@ -391,6 +393,31 @@ export const AGENT_OP_REGISTRY: readonly AgentOpEntry[] = [
+    // adapter's job, not the tier's: the agent adapter strips `handoffUrl` from
+    // model-visible text and moves it into a structured part, so the surfaces
+    // deliver it ephemerally instead of a model pasting it into a thread.
+    operation: connectProjectServerOperation,
+    tier: "direct",
+    promptNotes: [
</file context>

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Confirmed and left open deliberately, because the fix spans a boundary this PR does not cross.

The gap is real: the agent route derives an idempotency key for a direct write, POST /v1/server-connections accepts no such header, and serverConnectionsPublic:createConnection has no field for one — so a retried agent action creates a second request rather than returning the first. The consequence is bounded (the owner's ACTIVE_REQUEST_LIMIT catches a runaway, and duplicates expire), but "bounded" is not "handled".

Closing it properly means a field on the Convex action, a uniqueness index on the requests table, and a route that forwards the key — a backend schema change alongside the Inspector change. Half-wiring it here (accepting the header and dropping it, or de-duplicating in the Inspector where there is no shared state across replicas) would look like idempotency without being it, which is worse than the current honest absence.

It lands with the phase that already touches both repos for the surface adapters, where the retry path it protects actually exists.


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serverConnections.get("/state", async (c) => {
const token = requireContinuation(c);
try {
const state = await fetchHandoffState(token);

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P2: The continuation capability leaves the Inspector as a raw bearer, exposing it to backend request logging or tracing and violating the digest-only design. Hash the continuation token before each backend call and make the backend compare the digest rather than accepting the raw value.

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<comment>The continuation capability leaves the Inspector as a raw bearer, exposing it to backend request logging or tracing and violating the digest-only design. Hash the continuation token before each backend call and make the backend compare the digest rather than accepting the raw value.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,253 @@
+serverConnections.get("/state", async (c) => {
+  const token = requireContinuation(c);
+  try {
+    const state = await fetchHandoffState(token);
+    return c.json(state, 200, { "cache-control": "no-store" });
+  } catch (error) {
</file context>

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Answering rather than implementing this one.

The backend does not store the continuation token — it stores a digest peppered with SERVER_CONNECTION_TOKEN_PEPPER, and the lookup (requestForContinuation) is by that peppered hash. The Inspector does not hold the pepper, so a SHA-256 computed here would never match the stored digest and every post-claim step would 404. Making it match means shipping the pepper to the Inspector, which widens the blast radius of a secret that currently lives in exactly one place, to buy a property the channel already has.

The raw token crosses an authenticated service channel — x-inspector-service-token, TLS, no third party in between. That is the same trust model as handoffToken on /claim, which this review accepts, and as every other body on /internal/v1/*. If that channel is where the exposure is, the fix is not to hash one field on it.

The digest-only design is about what is at REST. It is intact: the backend never persists a raw continuation token, and the Inspector never persists one at all — it mints, forwards once, and puts it in an HttpOnly cookie.


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Added asynchronous MCP server-connection workflows across the SDK, REST API, browser handoff routes, and backend worker. The workflow supports discovery, validation, OAuth authorization, project selection, cancellation, retry, lease handling, and status polling. Added DNS-pinned transport handling and connection outcome classification. Added CLI commands, MCP platform operations, workspace tool registration, agent operation metadata, API documentation, and related tests.


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Actionable comments posted: 13

🧹 Nitpick comments (7)
cli/src/commands/projects.ts (1)

367-381: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Parse through the operation schema, as the sibling commands do.

create, update, and delete in this file all call operation.inputSchema.parse(...) before executing, and all use the ...(x === undefined ? {} : { x }) idiom. This command passes raw Commander values straight into execute, and connectProjectServerOperation.execute performs no parsing of its own. So --name " " or --url " " slips past the .trim().min(1) constraints and fails at the API instead of at the keyboard.

♻️ Align with the neighbours
+      const input = connectProjectServerOperation.inputSchema.parse({
+        url: options.url,
+        ...(options.project === undefined ? {} : { project: options.project }),
+        ...(options.server === undefined ? {} : { serverId: options.server }),
+        ...(options.name === undefined ? {} : { name: options.name }),
+        ...(options.reauthorize === undefined
+          ? {}
+          : { reauthorize: options.reauthorize }),
+      });
       const created = await runPlatformCommand(
         options,
         globalOptions.timeout,
         ({ client, signal }) =>
-          connectProjectServerOperation.execute(
-            {
-              url: options.url,
-              project: options.project,
-              serverId: options.server,
-              name: options.name,
-              reauthorize: options.reauthorize,
-            },
-            { client, signal }
-          )
+          connectProjectServerOperation.execute(input, { client, signal })
       );
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@cli/src/commands/projects.ts` around lines 367 - 381, Update the command
invoking connectProjectServerOperation.execute to first pass its options through
connectProjectServerOperation.inputSchema.parse, matching the create, update,
and delete commands. Build the parsed input with the existing undefined-omitting
spread idiom for optional values so validation rejects blank --name and --url
arguments before the API call.
mcpjam-inspector/server/index.ts (1)

148-148: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Align the router import specifiers.

The server uses bundler resolution in development and bundles server/index.ts for production, so the extensionless import does not cause a runtime failure. Use the same .js specifier in both production entries for consistency.

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/index.ts` at line 148, Update the
internalServerConnections import in the server entrypoint to use the .js
extension, matching the router import specifiers used by both production entries
while preserving the existing module target.
sdk/src/platform/operations.ts (1)

4737-4741: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Enforce an HTTP(S) URL at the input boundary.

The schema accepts non-URLs and non-HTTP schemes. Use z.string().trim().min(1).pipe(z.url()), then refine the parsed URL to allow only http: and https:. Do not chain .trim() directly after top-level z.url().

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@sdk/src/platform/operations.ts` around lines 4737 - 4741, Update the URL
schema in the MCP server configuration to pipe the trimmed, non-empty string
through z.url(), then refine the parsed URL so only http: and https: protocols
are accepted. Keep trimming before URL parsing and avoid chaining trim directly
on top-level z.url().
mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts (1)

90-108: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider a secure flag instead of removing the attribute from the built string.

.replace("; Secure", "") works today because exactly one such substring exists. It is a load-bearing detail of a formatting function, though, and it would silently misbehave if sameSite: "None" ever arrived — that combination requires Secure, and the twin would be emitted as an invalid cookie rather than an obviously wrong one.

Building the attribute conditionally keeps the intent in one place.

♻️ Optional refactor
-export interface CookieOptions {
+export interface CookieOptions {
+  /** Internal: omit `Secure` for the loopback twin. Defaults to true. */
+  secure?: boolean;
   /** Cookie lifetime. Omit for a session cookie. */
   maxAgeSeconds?: number;
   const parts = [
     `${name}=${value}`,
     `Path=${options.path ?? "/"}`,
     "HttpOnly",
-    "Secure",
     `SameSite=${options.sameSite ?? "Lax"}`,
   ];
+  if (options.secure !== false) parts.splice(3, 0, "Secure");
-      c.header(
-        "Set-Cookie",
-        buildCookie(local, value, options).replace("; Secure", ""),
-        { append: true }
-      );
+      c.header("Set-Cookie", buildCookie(local, value, { ...options, secure: false }), {
+        append: true,
+      });
🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts` around lines 90 - 108,
Update setCookie and the cookie-building flow to pass an explicit secure flag or
equivalent option when creating the local cookie, rather than removing ";
Secure" from the serialized string. Ensure the local HTTP cookie omits Secure
while preserving valid Secure behavior for configurations such as sameSite:
"None".
mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts (1)

66-109: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Two error-handling branches in the worker are untested.

The taxonomy coverage here is genuinely good. Two branches with real logic are still unexercised, and both are the kind that fail quietly:

  • runConnectionJob lines 93-99: a ServerConnectionBackendError with isConflict or isGone must be swallowed and returned as skipped: "not-leased", with the lease released first. A regression that lets it throw reaches a route that already answered 202.
  • runDiscoveryStep lines 136-141: when reportValidation rejects because the request is still in discovering, the lease must be released rather than left held. Nothing asserts that today.

Add a case for each. I can draft them.

As per coding guidelines: "All changes should include tests, covering happy paths, validation errors, error handling, and edge cases such as null and empty values."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts`
around lines 66 - 109, Extend the lease-handling tests with cases for the two
untested error branches: make runConnectionJob handle a
ServerConnectionBackendError marked isConflict or isGone by releasing the lease
and returning skipped: "not-leased" without throwing, and make runDiscoveryStep
release the lease when reportValidation rejects while the request remains
discovering. Assert the relevant release call and returned behavior.

Source: Coding guidelines

mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/server-connections.ts (1)

107-189: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add route tests for this new public surface.

The four routes carry the request-validation contract, the guest path, and the whole CODE_MAP translation. No test in this cohort exercises them. The mapping table is the part most likely to drift: a backend code that loses its entry silently becomes a 500, and nothing fails.

Cover the happy path, an invalid JSON body, a rejected schema, an AMBIGUOUS_SERVER refusal with candidates, and an unmapped code. I can draft that suite if you want it.

As per coding guidelines: "All changes should include tests, covering happy paths, validation errors, error handling, and edge cases such as null and empty values."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/server-connections.ts` around lines 107 -
189, Add route tests for the four handlers registered by the serverConnections
router: POST /server-connections, GET /:requestId, POST /:requestId/cancel, and
POST /:requestId/retry-validation. Cover successful responses, invalid JSON,
schema rejection, AMBIGUOUS_SERVER errors preserving candidates, and unmapped
backend codes producing the intended fallback response; include null and
empty-value edge cases where applicable, and mock the Convex client and
bearer-token flow consistently with existing route tests.

Source: Coding guidelines

mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts (1)

137-251: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add tests for the handoff routes.

These five routes hold the cookie contract: the claim mints and sets it, three steps require it, and cancel clears it. Nothing in this cohort exercises that. A regression that drops HttpOnly, widens SameSite, or forgets requireContinuation on one route would be invisible.

Cover a successful claim, a claim with an invalid JSON body, a missing cookie on /state, a cross-origin POST, and a backend 409 through translate. Tell me if you want the suite drafted.

As per coding guidelines: "All changes should include tests, covering happy paths, validation errors, error handling, and edge cases such as null and empty values."

🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts` around lines 137 -
251, Add route tests covering the handoff cookie contract: a successful /claim
must mint and set the continuation cookie with HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax,
invalid JSON on /claim must return the validation error, /state without the
continuation cookie must be rejected, cross-origin POST requests must be
rejected, and a backend 409 from /claim must pass through translate. Use the
existing route test patterns and mock dependencies such as claimHandoff and
requireContinuation as needed; include coverage for the cancel cookie-clearing
behavior if the suite exercises all five routes.

Source: Coding guidelines

🤖 Prompt for all review comments with AI agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the
rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate.

Inline comments:
In `@cli/src/commands/projects.ts`:
- Around line 476-492: Update pollConnection so the deadline path explicitly
informs the user that watching stopped while the cloud request remains active,
rather than silently returning a non-terminal status. Check the deadline
immediately after the delay and before calling runPlatformCommand, while
preserving the existing terminal-status return and last-observed-state behavior
as appropriate.

In `@docs/reference/openapi.json`:
- Line 5229: Resolve the rate-limit documentation contradiction for the
connection-request operation description and its repeated SDK wording in the
relevant client symbol. Align the text with the actual behavior: either document
that the per-key budget is exempt while the guest limiter can still return 429,
or remove the 429 response documentation if this path is fully exempt; state the
chosen behavior consistently in both OpenAPI and SDK descriptions.
- Around line 5169-5175: Add "Server connections" to the root-level tags array
in the OpenAPI document, preserving the existing tag declarations and operation
definitions for the four server-connection endpoints.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/internal/server-connections.ts`:
- Around line 34-62: Add route tests covering the /dispatch handler: a valid
authenticated request returns 202, malformed JSON and missing, null, or empty
requestId values return 400, and a rejected runConnectionJob is handled without
changing the 202 response. Mock or spy on runConnectionJob and console.error as
needed, and assert the background failure is logged without affecting the
accepted response.
- Around line 52-58: Replace the console.error call in the route catch-site with
reportRouteFailure, passing requestId as safe context and avoiding direct
serialization of the arbitrary job error. Preserve the existing failure handling
flow while routing the error through the centralized handler.

Apply the same fix in `@mcpjam-inspector/server/app.ts` at line 283: This comment
points to the mounted route; the actionable logging change is at the shared
dispatch catch site.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/server-connections.ts`:
- Around line 131-137: Update the clientIpKey resolution near the guest budget
to use the trusted edge-provided client IP in hosted mode and the socket peer
address in direct mode. Remove the client-supplied x-forwarded-for fallback
while preserving the _unknown sentinel when neither trusted source is available.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts`:
- Around line 125-139: Update readCookie so the localCookieName(name) fallback
is included and checked only when isLocalHttpRequest(c.req.url) is true,
matching setCookie’s write behavior; continue accepting the original cookie name
in all environments and preserve the existing parsing and return behavior.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts`:
- Around line 201-251: Add an overall validation deadline in attemptInitialize
around the probeMcpServer call, racing the probe promise against a timer as
server-connection-discovery.ts does. Keep the existing per-request timeout and
result classification, and ensure deadline expiration is converted through
classifyInitializeFailure so a stalled target cannot extend the lease across
multiple requests.
- Around line 77-80: Update the discovering branch in the lease worker before
calling runDiscoveryStep: detect a missing lease.serverUrl and handle it as a
retryable internal condition rather than passing an empty string to discovery.
Preserve the lease row and avoid recording a terminal URL_NOT_ALLOWED or
unsupported-auth outcome; only invoke runDiscoveryStep when a valid server URL
is present.
- Around line 262-295: Update the worker’s probe-result handling to recognize
the `@mcpjam/sdk` success status "ready" and align all related tests with the SDK
status values. In classifyInitializeFailure, inspect
probe.transport.attempts[*].response?.status for authentication failures before
falling back to regex matching on probe.error, so incidental 401/403 text does
not misclassify structured responses. Add or update tests covering successful
"ready" probes and misleading error text without structured authentication
responses.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connections-backend.ts`:
- Around line 103-110: Update the response body-read handling in the backend
call so an AbortError from response.json() is re-thrown instead of being
consumed by the null fallback, allowing the surrounding timeout handling to
produce ServerConnectionBackendError with status 504. Preserve the null fallback
for non-abort body-read failures, and add a test covering an aborted body read.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts`:
- Around line 91-101: Forward PinnedFetchOptions.allowLoopback in
createPinnedFetch’s executeOAuthProxy request using the field defined by
OAuthProxyRequest. Do not change server-connection-discovery.ts lines 56-63; it
is corrected by honoring the existing option. Also update
server-connection-worker.ts line 209 to pass allowLoopback during authenticated
loopback validation if local development requires that path, and verify loopback
requests no longer return URL_NOT_ALLOWED.
- Around line 108-117: Update the catch handling in the pinned fetch adapter to
preserve a dedicated blocked-target error type instead of converting
OAuthProxyError to a plain Error, so server-connection-discovery.ts can classify
it as refusal.blocked. Reuse or expose the established BlockedEgressTargetError
type, and add a regression test covering a pinned fetch to a private or reserved
target.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@cli/src/commands/projects.ts`:
- Around line 367-381: Update the command invoking
connectProjectServerOperation.execute to first pass its options through
connectProjectServerOperation.inputSchema.parse, matching the create, update,
and delete commands. Build the parsed input with the existing undefined-omitting
spread idiom for optional values so validation rejects blank --name and --url
arguments before the API call.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/index.ts`:
- Line 148: Update the internalServerConnections import in the server entrypoint
to use the .js extension, matching the router import specifiers used by both
production entries while preserving the existing module target.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/server-connections.ts`:
- Around line 107-189: Add route tests for the four handlers registered by the
serverConnections router: POST /server-connections, GET /:requestId, POST
/:requestId/cancel, and POST /:requestId/retry-validation. Cover successful
responses, invalid JSON, schema rejection, AMBIGUOUS_SERVER errors preserving
candidates, and unmapped backend codes producing the intended fallback response;
include null and empty-value edge cases where applicable, and mock the Convex
client and bearer-token flow consistently with existing route tests.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts`:
- Around line 137-251: Add route tests covering the handoff cookie contract: a
successful /claim must mint and set the continuation cookie with HttpOnly and
SameSite=Lax, invalid JSON on /claim must return the validation error, /state
without the continuation cookie must be rejected, cross-origin POST requests
must be rejected, and a backend 409 from /claim must pass through translate. Use
the existing route test patterns and mock dependencies such as claimHandoff and
requireContinuation as needed; include coverage for the cancel cookie-clearing
behavior if the suite exercises all five routes.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts`:
- Around line 90-108: Update setCookie and the cookie-building flow to pass an
explicit secure flag or equivalent option when creating the local cookie, rather
than removing "; Secure" from the serialized string. Ensure the local HTTP
cookie omits Secure while preserving valid Secure behavior for configurations
such as sameSite: "None".

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts`:
- Around line 66-109: Extend the lease-handling tests with cases for the two
untested error branches: make runConnectionJob handle a
ServerConnectionBackendError marked isConflict or isGone by releasing the lease
and returning skipped: "not-leased" without throwing, and make runDiscoveryStep
release the lease when reportValidation rejects while the request remains
discovering. Assert the relevant release call and returned behavior.

In `@sdk/src/platform/operations.ts`:
- Around line 4737-4741: Update the URL schema in the MCP server configuration
to pipe the trimmed, non-empty string through z.url(), then refine the parsed
URL so only http: and https: protocols are accepted. Keep trimming before URL
parsing and avoid chaining trim directly on top-level z.url().
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  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts
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  • mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-discovery.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connections-backend.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/mcpjam-built-in-tools.test.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/built-in-tools/mcpjam.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts
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internalServerConnections.post("/dispatch", async (c) => {
const body = (await c.req.json().catch(() => null)) as {
requestId?: unknown;
} | null;
const requestId =
typeof body?.requestId === "string" && body.requestId
? body.requestId
: null;

if (!requestId) {
return c.json({ ok: false, error: "requestId is required" }, 400);
}

// Deliberately not awaited. See the note above: the caller is a doorbell.
void runConnectionJob(requestId).catch((error: unknown) => {
// Nothing upstream is listening by now, so this is the last place the
// failure can be seen. The request id is safe to log; nothing else from the
// job is, which is why only this is logged.
console.error(
"[server-connections] job failed",
JSON.stringify({
requestId,
error: error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error),
})
);
});

return c.json({ ok: true, accepted: true }, 202);
});

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Add route tests for /dispatch.

Add tests for a valid authenticated dispatch, malformed JSON, missing and empty requestId, and a rejected background job. Confirm that a rejected job does not change the 202 response.

As per coding guidelines: All changes should include tests, covering happy paths, validation errors, error handling, and edge cases such as null and empty values.

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34 - 62, Add route tests covering the /dispatch handler: a valid authenticated
request returns 202, malformed JSON and missing, null, or empty requestId values
return 400, and a rejected runConnectionJob is handled without changing the 202
response. Mock or spy on runConnectionJob and console.error as needed, and
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Three defects, each of which alone stopped the feature working end to end,
plus the SSRF gap the last of them exposed.

Dispatch was unreachable. Both entrypoints mount `sessionAuthMiddleware` on
`*` before mounting the internal router, and it 401s any unrecognized
`/api/*` path. The backend has no browser session to present — it sends
`x-inspector-service-token` and nothing else — so a correctly authenticated
dispatch was refused by a gate never meant to judge it. Carve the prefix out
so the route's own `internalServiceAuthMiddleware` answers instead;
authorization is not waived, only relocated, and the new tests assert the
refusal body to prove which gate spoke.

The worker branched on `probe.status === "ok"`, a value `probeMcpServer`
cannot return. Every successful validation fell through to the generic
retryable arm, so no request could ever reach `ready`. Map the real union —
ready / oauth_required / reachable / error — exhaustively, with `default:
assertNever` so the next such drift fails typecheck instead of shipping as a
feature that silently never completes. Two details matter: `reachable` is
about the socket, not the protocol, so a 403 there is a rejected credential
rather than a non-MCP endpoint; and `ready` over SSE carries no protocol
version, so requiring one would mark every SSE server terminally non-MCP.

Classification now prefers the status codes the target actually sent over a
regex across `probe.error`, which is prose and can carry an incidental "401"
from a URL or an echoed header. Only the OAuth-discovery attempts are
excluded — they routinely hit a different host, and revoking a working grant
over someone else's metadata 403 is the expensive direction. The regex
survives for the case where nothing answered at all.

The pinned-fetch adapter flattened every `OAuthProxyError` into a plain
`Error`. Discovery decides terminal-vs-retryable by `instanceof
BlockedEgressTargetError`, so that erasure put refused SSRF targets back on a
retry schedule — the exact outcome its bookkeeping exists to prevent.
Refusals now keep their class, DNS outages become `EgressResolutionError`,
and genuine transport failures stay retryable.

Writing the regression test for that surfaced a live hole: `allowLoopback`
was declared, documented, and forwarded to nothing. `OAuthProxyRequest` has
no such field — the SDK infers loopback permission from the URL whenever
`httpsOnly` is false — so production would dial `http://127.0.0.1:...` with
the stored bearer, and opting in changed nothing. The tests confirmed it by
getting ECONNREFUSED where a refusal belonged. Gate the literal target in the
adapter. `httpsOnly: true` would have been the tempting fix and is wrong: it
also forces `redirect: "manual"`, turning an ordinary trailing-slash redirect
into "not an MCP server".

The worker suite passed throughout all of this while asserting `status: "ok"`
and `status: "unauthorized"`, neither of which exists. That is how the
contract break shipped green, so the fixtures are now typed as
`ProbeMcpServerResult` and a test can no longer describe a contract that does
not exist.

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mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts (1)

254-330: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The validation step still has no overall deadline.

attemptInitialize passes timeoutMs to createPinnedFetch and to probeMcpServer, and nothing else. That value bounds one request. The probe makes several. server-connection-discovery.ts states this explicitly and races its probe against a step deadline for exactly this reason. Validation dials the same attacker-supplied hostname and holds a work lease while it does, so a target that stalls every request holds that lease for the sum of the requests rather than for VALIDATION_TIMEOUT_MS.

Race the probe against a step deadline here, as discovery does, and route an expired deadline through classifyInitializeFailure so it stays retryable.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts` around lines
254 - 330, Update attemptInitialize to enforce an overall validation deadline
around the entire probeMcpServer operation, not just each request. Reuse the
step-deadline pattern from discovery, and when the deadline expires, pass that
timeout error through classifyInitializeFailure so the result remains retryable.
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mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts (1)

115-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

This case depends on the runner's resolver.

The suite drives the real transport on purpose, and the reasoning at lines 10-17 justifies it. This particular test also depends on real DNS behaviour: .invalid is reserved by RFC 2606, but a captive portal or a wildcard-answering resolver returns an address for it. The request then proceeds and the error is no longer an EgressResolutionError, so the test fails for a reason that has nothing to do with the adapter.

Consider marking this file as a network-dependent partition so an offline developer and a sandboxed runner do not read a resolver quirk as a regression. No change to the assertions is needed.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts` around lines
115 - 127, Mark the pinned-fetch test suite containing the “outages stay
retryable” case as network-dependent, using the repository’s established
network-test partition mechanism. Keep the real transport and existing
assertions unchanged, including the EgressResolutionError and
BlockedEgressTargetError checks.
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Inline comments:
In
`@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/internal/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts`:
- Around line 165-178: Replace the route handler’s console.error catch-site with
reportRouteFailure, preserving the 202 response for rejected background jobs.
Update the test for the affected route to mock and assert reportRouteFailure
after the rejection settles, removing the console.error spy and assertion.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts`:
- Around line 327-329: Preserve refused-target failures during validation: in
server-connection-worker.ts lines 327-329, check for BlockedEgressTargetError
before classifyInitializeFailure and return the terminal refusal outcome used by
discovery. Add coverage in
mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts
lines 479-497 by rejecting probe.probeMcpServer with BlockedEgressTargetError
and asserting the terminal outcome instead of VALIDATION_FAILED.

Apply the same fix in
`@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts`
around lines 479 - 497: Adds the required regression test for the same
blocked-egress error path.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts`:
- Around line 129-147: Add a regression test in the pinned-fetch test suite
covering requestPinnedOAuthHop when an initially public URL redirects to a
loopback address such as 127.0.0.1. Assert the redirect target is rejected
before any socket connection is opened, using the existing
BlockedEgressTargetError behavior and test utilities.

---

Duplicate comments:
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts`:
- Around line 254-330: Update attemptInitialize to enforce an overall validation
deadline around the entire probeMcpServer operation, not just each request.
Reuse the step-deadline pattern from discovery, and when the deadline expires,
pass that timeout error through classifyInitializeFailure so the result remains
retryable.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts`:
- Around line 115-127: Mark the pinned-fetch test suite containing the “outages
stay retryable” case as network-dependent, using the repository’s established
network-test partition mechanism. Keep the real transport and existing
assertions unchanged, including the EgressResolutionError and
BlockedEgressTargetError checks.
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… real

Six gaps where a documented protection did not exist, plus the review
findings on the previous commit.

The claim route's docblock promised that "a link that leaked into a channel
cannot be adopted by a different account". It read `c.get("mcpjamUserId")`,
which nothing on that path ever set, so every claim forwarded `undefined` and
the backend's ownership check had nothing to compare. `bearerAuthMiddleware`
cannot fill the gap — it 401s on a missing header, and a signed-out visitor is
the normal case here. A new optional-actor middleware resolves a VERIFIED
AuthKit subject when there is one and does nothing when there is not.
Verification matters because this route does not forward the bearer to Convex:
the Inspector asserts the actor over the service channel and the backend
believes it, so an asserted identity would be one anyone could claim. Failing
to resolve stays quiet rather than 401ing, since the backend already fails
closed on the other side.

The create route keyed its guest rate-limit bucket on a hand-rolled
`cf-connecting-ip ?? x-forwarded-for` read, skipping the `x-real-ip` that the
trusted proxy sets. Behind Railway that let a caller pick their own bucket.
It now uses `getClientIp`, like every other rate-limited route.

The claim route is credential-free by design and nothing bounded it, so it now
carries a per-IP ceiling — 20 in five minutes, above anything a real visitor
does.

`connect_project_server` dials a caller-supplied URL and creates a server row,
which is exactly what its create/update/delete siblings require approval for.
It now sits with them.

A lease in `discovering` with no URL fed `""` into the guard, which threw,
which reported `unsupported` — permanently telling someone their URL was
refused when the truth was a backend row with nothing in it. It is now
reported as the retryable contract break it is.

`readCookie` accepted the de-prefixed twin unconditionally while `setCookie`
only writes it on loopback, which handed back the single property `__Host-`
was chosen for: a subdomain could set `mcpjam_server_connection` and be
believed. Reading is now symmetric with writing. `Secure` also stopped being
a substring deleted from a formatter's output after the fact.

From the review of the previous commit:

A `BlockedEgressTargetError` raised during validation was classified as
retryable, putting a refused target back on a retry schedule from the
validation side — the same hole that was just closed on the discovery side.
Refusals are terminal here too, and a resolver outage stays retryable.

A 401 or 403 was read as "the stored grant was rejected" even when no grant
had been sent. That routed a request with no discovered authorization server
to `awaiting_authorization`, a state whose next step cannot be performed. The
reading now requires that a credential was actually offered; without one the
answer is `UNSUPPORTED_AUTH_METHOD`, which is what a server demanding
credentials it never advertised actually means.

Validation had no overall deadline. `timeoutMs` bounds one request and the
probe makes several, so a target stalling each in turn held the work lease for
the sum. It now races a step deadline, as discovery does.

The dispatch route's background failure went to `console.error`, which is the
one call `logger.ts` tells route handlers not to make. It goes through
`reportRouteFailure` as `user_server_hop`, so it reaches Axiom without paging
anyone for a third-party server's outage — and since the 202 has already gone
out, that report is the only record the failure will ever have.

Two prefix and test-robustness fixes: the session-auth carve-out gets a
trailing slash so it cannot exempt a future `…-admin` sibling, and the two
network-touching assertions no longer depend on port 9 being closed or on a
resolver refusing `.invalid`.

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2 issues found across 13 files (changes from recent commits).

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<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts:350">
P2: When the deadline wins, this function reports retryable while the probe continues running, so a retry can overlap the previous credential-bearing probe. Add abort propagation to the probe or wait for the probe to settle before releasing the lease and scheduling another attempt.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts:75">
P1: When hosted traffic can reach this route without a proxy rewriting forwarding headers, a caller can supply a new IP value on every request, bypass the per-IP limit, and fill the map. The fail-closed cap then rejects legitimate new users for up to the cleanup interval; derive the key only from a trusted socket or edge-authenticated header and add a fleet-safe admission limit.</violation>
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): Promise<Response | void> {
if (!HOSTED_MODE) return next();

const ip = getClientIp(c);

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P1: When hosted traffic can reach this route without a proxy rewriting forwarding headers, a caller can supply a new IP value on every request, bypass the per-IP limit, and fill the map. The fail-closed cap then rejects legitimate new users for up to the cleanup interval; derive the key only from a trusted socket or edge-authenticated header and add a fleet-safe admission limit.

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<comment>When hosted traffic can reach this route without a proxy rewriting forwarding headers, a caller can supply a new IP value on every request, bypass the per-IP limit, and fill the map. The fail-closed cap then rejects legitimate new users for up to the cleanup interval; derive the key only from a trusted socket or edge-authenticated header and add a fleet-safe admission limit.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
+): Promise<Response | void> {
+  if (!HOSTED_MODE) return next();
+
+  const ip = getClientIp(c);
+  // No attributable IP means no bucket to charge. Falling through matches the
+  // other limiters' posture rather than collapsing every such caller into one
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Two halves here; I took one and am declining the other with reasoning.

Taken: the limiter now skips non-POST, so cross-site image GETs cannot spend a visitor's claim budget. That was the concrete denial-of-service, and it is fixed in f542c34 with a test.

Declined, for scope rather than disagreement: keying only on a socket or edge-authenticated header. getClientIp deliberately retains an x-forwarded-for fallback, and that is not an oversight in this file — it is the contract every rate-limited route in this server shares, including conformance-run-rate-limit.ts, guest-rate-limit's callers, and the per-key limiters. The fallback exists for direct-hit runtimes (npx @mcpjam/inspector), where no proxy injects anything and the socket peer is the only truth; hosted deployments behind Cloudflare or Railway never reach it, because cf-connecting-ip and x-real-ip are checked first and are not client-settable.

Removing it in one new file would make this limiter disagree with its neighbours about who the client is, which is worse than the gap: two limiters bounding different populations under the same name is how a ceiling silently stops meaning anything. If the fallback should go, it should go from utils/client-ip.ts in one sweep, with every limiter re-tested — a cross-cutting change that does not belong in a feature PR.

On the map filling: the fail-closed cap is the same trade conformance-run-rate-limit.ts documents and was reviewed with. Evicting the oldest entry would bound memory but hand a churner a way to reset their own exhausted bucket, which defeats the ceiling exactly where it matters. Refusing new keys when full keeps both properties; the cost is that a genuinely new address can be refused while the map is saturated, which is the direction to err.


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]);

if (raced === "deadline") {

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P2: When the deadline wins, this function reports retryable while the probe continues running, so a retry can overlap the previous credential-bearing probe. Add abort propagation to the probe or wait for the probe to settle before releasing the lease and scheduling another attempt.

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<comment>When the deadline wins, this function reports retryable while the probe continues running, so a retry can overlap the previous credential-bearing probe. Add abort propagation to the probe or wait for the probe to settle before releasing the lease and scheduling another attempt.</comment>

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@@ -253,27 +311,54 @@ function isCredentialRejection(statuses: readonly number[]): boolean {
+      deadline,
+    ]);
+
+    if (raced === "deadline") {
+      // The probe keeps running — `ProbeMcpServerConfig` takes no abort signal,
+      // so there is nothing to cancel from here — but its result is dropped and
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Right about the overlap, and partly fixed in f542c34 — with one limit that is worth stating plainly rather than papering over.

What the deadline can do now: attemptInitialize sets an expired flag when it fires, and the fetchFn the probe was handed refuses every subsequent call. So the probe cannot open another credential-bearing request after the lease is released. That bounds the overlap to at most one in-flight request rather than the whole remaining probe sequence (initialize, SSE fallback, resource metadata, authorization-server metadata).

What it cannot do: cancel the request already on the wire. ProbeMcpServerConfig takes no AbortSignal, and OAuthProxyRequest does not either — executeOAuthProxy builds its own from timeoutMs. Threading one through is an SDK API change across two public interfaces, which is not this PR's to make; server-connection-discovery.ts carries the same limitation and says so at its deadline.

The residual exposure is bounded by VALIDATION_TIMEOUT_MS (20s), because that single outstanding request has its own timeout and dies on its own. The next attempt is scheduled with backoff, so the practical overlap window is one request against a target that was already stalling.


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mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts (2)

249-282: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

The re-imported limiter is a second module instance; keep the resets paired.

vi.resetModules() gives this test its own copy of the middleware, with its own ipWindows map and its own module-level setInterval. The interval is unref'd, so nothing hangs, and the test resets the new instance at both ends, so the isolation holds today. The subtlety is that the resetServerConnectionClaimRateLimitForTests bound at line 62 and called in beforeEach addresses the first instance only. A future test added to this describe that forgets rest.reset… would inherit a warm bucket and fail for a reason unrelated to its subject. A short comment on that pairing, or a local beforeEach that calls rest.reset…, removes the trap.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts`
around lines 249 - 282, Add a local beforeEach within the “claim rate limiting”
describe block that calls the re-imported module’s
resetServerConnectionClaimRateLimitForTests function, ensuring each test starts
with a clean limiter instance; retain the existing final reset for cleanup.

186-207: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add two neighbouring actor cases.

This suite is the only place the optional-actor middleware is exercised, and it covers the two interesting verdicts: a verified bearer becomes an actor, an unverifiable one does not. Two adjacent inputs remain untested, and both reach different branches:

  • deps.resolveUser rejecting, which is the identity-service outage path. The middleware swallows it, so a signed-in user silently becomes a guest and the backend answers 403. A test pins that this is the intended degradation rather than an accident.
  • An Authorization: Bearer header with an empty token, which must short-circuit before any JWKS round trip.

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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts`
around lines 186 - 207, Add adjacent tests for the optional-actor middleware
covering identity-service failure and an empty bearer token. Mock
deps.resolveUser to reject and assert the request degrades to guest behavior,
including the backend’s 403 response; also send Authorization: Bearer with no
token and assert verification/JWKS lookup is skipped and no actor is forwarded.
Keep the existing verified and unverifiable bearer cases unchanged.

Source: Coding guidelines

mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts (1)

94-115: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Reach for releaseLease directly instead of an illegal report.

The comment on line 108 states the rule plainly: reportValidation is legal only from validating, and this request is in discovering. The code then calls it anyway and treats the inevitable rejection as the trigger for the real remedy. Every occurrence of this contract break therefore costs one authenticated backend round trip and one recorded 4xx before the lease is released.

Two further consequences follow from the .catch shape. It swallows genuine backend outages along with the expected refusal, so the outer catch never classifies conflict or gone. And if the backend ever accepts the report, the row is stamped with a validation failure it never reached.

Releasing the lease is the whole intent, so state it directly.

♻️ Proposed simplification
       if (!lease.serverUrl) {
-        await reportValidation({
-          requestId,
-          leaseId,
-          outcome: "retryable",
-          errorCode: "VALIDATION_FAILED",
-          errorMessage:
-            "The connection request arrived without a server URL to discover.",
-        }).catch(async () => {
-          // `reportValidation` is only legal from `validating`; a request in
-          // `discovering` cannot take it. Release and let the retry cron bring
-          // it back around.
-          await releaseLease(requestId, leaseId).catch(() => {});
-        });
-        return { requestId, ran: true, status: lease.status };
+        // A lease in `discovering` with no URL is our contract broken. There is
+        // no legal report from this state, so release and let the retry cron
+        // bring the row back around.
+        await releaseLease(requestId, leaseId).catch(() => {});
+        return { requestId, ran: false, skipped: "not-actionable" };
       }

Note that the accompanying test at services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts lines 607-620 asserts the current report, so it moves with this change.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts` around lines 94
- 115, In the missing-serverUrl branch of the server connection worker, remove
the invalid reportValidation call and invoke releaseLease directly, preserving
the existing best-effort error handling and retryable return behavior. Update
the related test around the missing URL case to assert lease release rather than
validation reporting.
mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts (1)

531-555: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the message, not only the verdict.

The assertion checks outcome and errorCode, which is the right pair and survives refactoring. The fixture message on line 543 carries 169.254.169.254, and that value currently travels onward as the reported errorMessage — the concern raised at server-connection-worker.ts lines 457-465. Once the worker substitutes fixed text, add the negative assertion here so the property cannot regress silently:

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     expect(backend.reportValidation).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       expect.objectContaining({
         outcome: "terminal",
         errorCode: "URL_NOT_ALLOWED",
       })
     );
+    // The resolved address must not travel back to whoever submitted the
+    // hostname; that would make this verdict a resolution oracle.
+    expect(
+      backend.reportValidation.mock.calls[0][0].errorMessage
+    ).not.toContain("169.254.169.254");
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts`
around lines 531 - 555, Update the refused-target test around runConnectionJob
and reportValidation to assert that the reported errorMessage uses fixed,
non-sensitive text rather than propagating the BlockedEgressTargetError message
containing the private IP address. Keep the existing terminal outcome and
URL_NOT_ALLOWED assertions unchanged.
mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts (1)

73-79: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add tests for the two exemption paths.

The hosted-mode ceiling has coverage in routes/web/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts. The two escape hatches do not. Add one test that asserts local mode never refuses, and one that asserts a request with no attributable IP passes through. Both are cheap, and both guard behaviour that a future change to getClientIp could silently invert.

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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts`
around lines 73 - 79, Add tests for the server connection claim rate limiter
covering both exemption paths: verify local mode always calls through without
refusing, and verify requests with no attributable IP also call next without
consuming or enforcing a bucket. Place the cases alongside the existing
hosted-mode coverage in the server connection tests and use the middleware’s
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Inline comments:
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts`:
- Around line 457-465: Update classifyInitializeFailure’s
BlockedEgressTargetError branch to return a fixed, non-sensitive errorMessage
instead of error.message. Preserve the URL_NOT_ALLOWED outcome and errorCode,
while keeping the detailed exception available only through existing logging.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts`:
- Around line 117-133: Update the pinnedFetch test so a successful Response is
treated as an acceptable outcome for an unresolvable host: retain the hard
assertion that no BlockedEgressTargetError is returned, and only require an
Error when the result is not a Response. Preserve the specific
EgressResolutionError assertion for genuine resolution failures.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts`:
- Around line 73-79: Add tests for the server connection claim rate limiter
covering both exemption paths: verify local mode always calls through without
refusing, and verify requests with no attributable IP also call next without
consuming or enforcing a bucket. Place the cases alongside the existing
hosted-mode coverage in the server connection tests and use the middleware’s
visible behavior as the assertion.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts`:
- Around line 249-282: Add a local beforeEach within the “claim rate limiting”
describe block that calls the re-imported module’s
resetServerConnectionClaimRateLimitForTests function, ensuring each test starts
with a clean limiter instance; retain the existing final reset for cleanup.
- Around line 186-207: Add adjacent tests for the optional-actor middleware
covering identity-service failure and an empty bearer token. Mock
deps.resolveUser to reject and assert the request degrades to guest behavior,
including the backend’s 403 response; also send Authorization: Bearer with no
token and assert verification/JWKS lookup is skipped and no actor is forwarded.
Keep the existing verified and unverifiable bearer cases unchanged.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts`:
- Around line 531-555: Update the refused-target test around runConnectionJob
and reportValidation to assert that the reported errorMessage uses fixed,
non-sensitive text rather than propagating the BlockedEgressTargetError message
containing the private IP address. Keep the existing terminal outcome and
URL_NOT_ALLOWED assertions unchanged.

In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts`:
- Around line 94-115: In the missing-serverUrl branch of the server connection
worker, remove the invalid reportValidation call and invoke releaseLease
directly, preserving the existing best-effort error handling and retryable
return behavior. Update the related test around the missing URL case to assert
lease release rather than validation reporting.
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  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/internal/__tests__/server-connections.test.ts
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  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/services/__tests__/server-connection-worker.test.ts
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  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/server-connections.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/server-connections.ts
  • mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/web/shared/cookies.ts

Comment thread mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-worker.ts
Comment thread mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts
…iding

The load-bearing fix is a hole the previous commit only half-closed.
`probeMcpServer` CATCHES whatever its `fetchFn` throws and reports
`status: "error"`, so the `BlockedEgressTargetError` the pinned transport
raises never reached the worker's catch at all — a refused SSRF target was
still being classified as retryable and rescheduled, with a live credential
attached. Validation now records the guard's verdict on the way past and
consults it before the probe's own account of what happened, exactly as
discovery does. Both paths are kept, and only the recording one fires in
practice.

The refusal message was also leaking. `BlockedEgressTargetError` carried the
SDK's text — "example.com resolves to a private/reserved IP address
(169.254.169.254)" — and that string is reported back to whoever submitted the
hostname, which turns a refusal into a resolution oracle: submit a name, read
back what our resolver saw, repeat. The adapter now raises fixed text naming
only the host they typed, with the detail on `cause` for logs.

The deadline could not cancel the probe (its config takes no abort signal),
so a retry could overlap a credential-bearing request from the attempt before
it. It cannot cancel the request in flight, but it now stops the next one,
which bounds the traffic to the lease that authorized it.

The dispatch route reported its background failures as `user_server_hop`,
which suppresses the page. That reads plausibly and is backwards: everything
the target does is classified and reported to the backend inside
`runConnectionJob`, so what reaches that catch is our own residue — a lease,
report, or context call that failed. Those are the ones worth waking someone
for.

A body read cut short by the request timeout surfaced as
`Backend call failed (200)` — a timeout wearing a status code from a call that
delivered nothing. Aborts are re-thrown and recognized through a cause chain;
an unparseable body still degrades to the status line.

The missing-serverUrl branch called `reportValidation` knowing the backend
cannot accept it from `discovering`, then used the refusal as the trigger for
the real remedy. That spent a round trip and a recorded 4xx to reach the same
place, and swallowed genuine outages on the way. It releases the lease
directly and logs the contract break.

Also: the claim limiter no longer lets cross-site GETs spend a visitor's
budget; the status poll gets a budget shaped for polling instead of half the
shared guest bucket; `SameSite=None` can no longer be emitted without
`Secure`; the connect URL is validated at the keyboard rather than at the API;
and the CLI gained `connect-status`, a SIGINT handler that says the request
continues in the cloud, a deadline taken from the server's own `expiresAt`,
and an exit code that lets a script tell "it finished" from "I stopped
watching".

Docs follow the code: `Server connections` is a declared tag, and the status
route no longer claims to be unmetered while documenting a 429.

New coverage for the two public surfaces, the dispatch route, the backend
client, and the pinned adapter — including the CODE_MAP drift case, where a
new backend code silently becomes a 500.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Phase I4, server side — the authorization step now exists

The flow could not get past awaiting_authorization: the transition out of it had nowhere to run. startOAuthAttempt and completeOAuthAttempt existed on the backend, but nothing reachable called either, so a request that needed OAuth sat there until it expired.

The open question is settled by the schema, not by me. I had flagged one architectural choice as blocking: whether the connection flow gets continuation-token-authorized OAuth endpoints, or whether the handoff page materializes a bearer for the request's owner. The codebase already answered it — hostedOAuthSessions carries flowKind: 'server_connection', connectionRequestId, expectedStateHash, and a by_expectedStateHash index, plus an unused getConnectionOAuthSessionByStateHash. That machinery is only needed if a callback is resolved by state digest through the service channel. A bearer-materializing design would reuse the ordinary bearer-authorized /web/oauth/* routes and need none of it — and would break the invariant routes/web/server-connections.ts states in its first paragraph.

So: continuation-authorized, and the browser still never holds a token.

What landed

Backend (c0121f4, PR #955) — three routes, all authorized by the continuation digest:

route does
oauth/context returns what the inspector needs to run discovery
oauth/start records the prepared attempt, moves to authorizing
oauth/complete redeems the callback via the same internalCompleteHostedOAuth the Inspector's own flow uses

The subject is never asked for — it is read off ownerUserId, which was fixed at request creation and which no browser input can influence. A visitor can authorize the request they hold and nothing else.

Completion requires three bindings, because state comes back from a third party through a URL and alone proves only that somebody finished a consent screen: the continuation cookie (which browser session), the state digest (which attempt), and activeOAuthSessionId (that the request still expects this attempt). Tests cover both replays those refuse — a live state belonging to a neighbouring request, and a first tab's callback after a second tab started over.

Inspector (e74bf40) — prepareAuthorization runs discovery, DCR, and PKCE through the pinned transport, and /authorize returns the authorization URL and nothing else. The verifier goes straight to Convex; a verifier the page could read is one an XSS on this origin could pair with a stolen code. That assertion bites: adding codeVerifier to the response was tried, and the suite failed.

One thing worth flagging

discoverOAuthServerInfo swallows everything but a TypeError on its resource-metadata leg. My first draft carried a wrapper recording refusals at the transport to compensate. Checking rather than assuming: the refusal does still reach us, because the authorization-server walk that follows is outside that catch and fetchWithCorsRetry re-throws non-TypeErrors, and its fallback URL derives from the same server URL. The wrapper covered nothing reachable, so it is gone and the reasoning is a comment.

Still open

The SPA page at /connect/server/<token> and the server_connection branch in /oauth/callback. Every endpoint they need now exists; what remains is the UI that calls them. Tracked, not quietly dropped — and #8 (server-side claim-on-first-GET) still lands with that page as noted earlier.

Verified: root typecheck 0, build:server succeeds with the new @mcpjam/sdk/browser import, 41 tests across the two inspector suites, 153 across the backend's five.


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<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-authorize.ts:191">
P2: This forces `client_secret_post` for every provider, so servers supporting only another token authentication method reject registration. Select a method advertised by the authorization server and preserve the returned method for token exchange.</violation>
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redirect_uris: [input.redirectUri],
grant_types: ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
response_types: ["code"],
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P2: This forces client_secret_post for every provider, so servers supporting only another token authentication method reject registration. Select a method advertised by the authorization server and preserve the returned method for token exchange.

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<comment>This forces `client_secret_post` for every provider, so servers supporting only another token authentication method reject registration. Select a method advertised by the authorization server and preserve the returned method for token exchange.</comment>

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@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+        redirect_uris: [input.redirectUri],
+        grant_types: ["authorization_code", "refresh_token"],
+        response_types: ["code"],
+        token_endpoint_auth_method: "client_secret_post",
+      },
+      fetchFn,
</file context>

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… not believe

Two commits' worth of endpoints had no caller. This adds the page that uses
them and fixes five review findings against the authorization service, one of
which made a security check decorative.

The page renders in its own tree, without AuthKit or Convex. That is the point
rather than an optimization: its visitor may be signed out or a guest, so
mounting the authenticated shell would start a WorkOS refresh for a user who
does not exist, to obtain a credential the page has no use for. It
authenticates every call with an HttpOnly cookie it cannot read.

The handoff token leaves the address bar the moment it is spent —
`replaceState` to the request path, so a share, a bookmark, or a `Referer`
carries only a `scr_…` id, which is printable by design. Across the OAuth
redirect the one thing kept is that same request id, in `sessionStorage`, so
the callback can find its way home; the authority to finish is the cookie the
browser sends on its own. `/oauth/callback` is shared with the Inspector's own
OAuth flow, so the connection branch claims it only when this tab started a
connection authorization AND the query carries an authorization server's
answer — a marker alone would swallow the other flow's callbacks.

The page polls only while the outstanding step belongs to someone else, and
stops on the two statuses where a user has to act. Writing that test correctly
mattered more than it looks: advancing fake timers outside `act` means React
never flushes the state the poll effect depends on, so no interval is ever
created and the "does not poll" case passes without exercising anything. Both
polling tests now share one `act`-wrapped tick.

The four findings against the metadata, each one a thing we were believing:

  issuer      recorded verbatim as the RFC 9207 trust anchor, which made the
              later `iss` check compare an assertion with itself — metadata
              naming any issuer it liked would validate perfectly. Now held to
              RFC 8414 §3.3: the issuer IS the address the document was
              published at. Removing this check fails two tests.
  resource    the advertised RFC 8707 indicator was passed through, so a
              target's own metadata could obtain a token valid against a
              DIFFERENT resource than the user approved. Now through the SDK's
              strict binding rather than a second copy of the rule.
  auth method `client_secret_post` was asserted for every provider. Now picked
              from what the server advertises, and omitted entirely when it
              advertises nothing — it knows its own default better than we do.
  deadline    the 45s race abandoned the caller but not the work, so a
              timed-out attempt could still finish registering an OAuth client
              with a third party. The signal now reaches the transport.

And `error_description`: the strict schema accepted only the camelCase
spelling, so forwarding a callback's own parameters — the obvious way to call
that route — turned every declined consent into a 400. A user pressing "no"
got an error page instead of the offer to try again. Both spellings are
accepted now; strictness stays where it earns its keep, which is that
`continuationToken` cannot be smuggled in through the body.

Verified: root typecheck 0, 74 tests across the four suites.

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All five findings on e74bf40 were valid. Fixed in ef65509, along with the SPA page that turns the last two commits' endpoints into something a user can actually reach.

The P1 was the one that mattered. metadata.issuer was being recorded verbatim as the RFC 9207 trust anchor — the value the redemption step compares the callback's iss against. That made the check compare an assertion with itself: metadata naming any issuer it liked would validate perfectly, and the protection was decorative. RFC 8414 §3.3 says the issuer identifier is the URL the document was published at, which is a comparison we can actually make, so it is now made — trailing slash normalized, mismatch refused, missing issuer refused. Removing the check fails two tests, which I confirmed rather than assumed:

× refuses an issuer that is not the address the metadata came from
× refuses metadata with no issuer at all

Resource indicator — right, and I took the suggestion literally: evaluateResourceIndicator from the SDK rather than re-deriving the rule. A second copy of a security rule is a second chance to get it wrong. A target advertising https://other.example.com/mcp for itself is now refused instead of obtaining a token valid against a resource the user never approved.

token_endpoint_auth_method — now picked from token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported, preferring client_secret_post, and omitted entirely when the server advertises nothing. Asserting a capability on a provider's behalf is a guess; its own default is not.

The deadline — correct, the race abandoned the caller but not the work, so a timed-out attempt could still finish registering an OAuth client with a third party. An AbortController now reaches the transport through the fetchFn seam (the SDK's discovery and registration helpers take a fetchFn but no signal, so that is the only place to thread one). The test hangs every request and asserts the signal is aborted; without the change there is no signal at all.

error_description — a good catch with a worse consequence than the finding states. Forwarding a callback's own parameters is the obvious way to call that route, so the strict schema turned every declined consent into a 400: a user pressing "no" got an error page instead of the offer to try again. Both spellings are accepted now. Strictness stays where it earns its keep — there is a test that continuationToken still cannot be smuggled in through the body, because widening by one known key must not widen the schema generally.

Also in this commit: the handoff page

/connect/server/<token> renders without AuthKit or Convex — its visitor may be signed out or a guest, so mounting the authenticated shell would start a WorkOS refresh for a user who does not exist. The token leaves the address bar the moment it is spent, and the only thing kept across the OAuth redirect is the request id, which is printable by design.

One note on a test that was passing for the wrong reason. Advancing fake timers outside act means React never flushes the state the polling effect depends on, so no interval is ever created — and the "does not poll on awaiting_project" case passed without exercising anything. Both polling tests now share one act-wrapped tick, so the negative one is load-bearing.

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<file name="mcpjam-inspector/client/src/components/server-connections/__tests__/ServerConnectionHandoff.test.tsx">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/client/src/components/server-connections/__tests__/ServerConnectionHandoff.test.tsx:153">
P3: "shows the redacted url...without revealing it" never feeds a secret into the data, so its negative assertion is vacuous. `stateBody`'s `displayUrl` is already the backend-redacted `https://target.example.com/mcp?key=REDACTED` — the literal string "secret" is absent from the page simply because no secret was ever present, not because the page hid it. The comment frames the whole point as proving a keyed endpoint's query is not shown; that requires setting `displayUrl` to a value containing an actual secret and asserting that secret is absent from the page.</violation>
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expect(container.textContent).toContain("query parameters");
// The whole reason `displayUrl` exists: a keyed endpoint's query IS the
// credential, so the page tells the user it is there without showing it.
expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("secret");

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P3: "shows the redacted url...without revealing it" never feeds a secret into the data, so its negative assertion is vacuous. stateBody's displayUrl is already the backend-redacted https://target.example.com/mcp?key=REDACTED — the literal string "secret" is absent from the page simply because no secret was ever present, not because the page hid it. The comment frames the whole point as proving a keyed endpoint's query is not shown; that requires setting displayUrl to a value containing an actual secret and asserting that secret is absent from the page.

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<comment>"shows the redacted url...without revealing it" never feeds a secret into the data, so its negative assertion is vacuous. `stateBody`'s `displayUrl` is already the backend-redacted `https://target.example.com/mcp?key=REDACTED` — the literal string "secret" is absent from the page simply because no secret was ever present, not because the page hid it. The comment frames the whole point as proving a keyed endpoint's query is not shown; that requires setting `displayUrl` to a value containing an actual secret and asserting that secret is absent from the page.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,297 @@
+    expect(container.textContent).toContain("query parameters");
+    // The whole reason `displayUrl` exists: a keyed endpoint's query IS the
+    // credential, so the page tells the user it is there without showing it.
+    expect(container.textContent).not.toContain("secret");
+  });
+
</file context>

…med too much

All nine were valid. The one that mattered most is the callback marker.

`/oauth/callback` is shared with the Inspector's own OAuth flow, and the
connection branch claimed it whenever a marker existed and the query looked
like an answer. A user who abandoned a handoff left that marker in the tab, and
the next ordinary Inspector authorization in the same tab got swallowed by the
wrong branch — no error, no obvious cause. The marker now carries the `state`
this attempt sent (read back out of the authorization URL) and an expiry, and
the branch claims a callback only when the returning `state` is that one. Both
values already travel in the open, so nothing secret moved into storage.

The rest, in the order they bite:

  issuer typing        `issuer?.trim()` on metadata from a host the user named.
                       A number there is a TypeError and a 500, from the one
                       function whose whole job is to answer "is this metadata
                       trustworthy" — crashing is not an answer.
  auth method          `supported[0]` registered a method we cannot perform,
                       failing one step later at the token exchange with an
                       error about credentials rather than capability. Now a
                       refusal at the point where it is still cheap.
  resource ordering    the RFC 8707 check ran AFTER `registerClient`, so a
                       refused authorization left a real client record on the
                       provider. Moved ahead of registration; a test watches
                       that no registration request is made.
  NO_AUTHORIZATION_    was 400, which tells the page never to retry. But it
  SERVER               means "metadata unreadable", and the discovery walk
                       cannot tell "publishes none" from "503 right now". 502.
  marker clearing      cleared BEFORE `/authorize/complete`, so a transient
                       failure stranded the user on `/oauth/callback` with the
                       one thing that could route them home already gone, and a
                       reload did nothing. Cleared after success.
  cancel               `/cancel` clears the continuation cookie, then the shared
                       action helper called `/state` with nothing to
                       authenticate — 401, and an error shown for an action
                       that worked. Cancel now uses its own response.

Two test findings were right that the assertions were vacuous, and both are
now two-sided. The redaction test fed no secret, so `not.toContain("secret")`
passed because none existed; it now injects a `serverUrl` the payload does not
have and asserts the page never renders it — the actual regression, someone
widening the state interface. The retry-hint test asserted only the negative
branch, so a page that never showed the hint would pass; both directions are
pinned.

Verified: root typecheck 0, 82 tests across the four suites.

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All nine findings on ef65509 were valid. Fixed in 02b9d2d.

The callback marker was the one that mattered. /oauth/callback is shared with the Inspector's own OAuth flow, and the connection branch claimed it whenever a marker existed and the query looked like an answer. Abandon a handoff, then start an ordinary Inspector authorization in the same tab, and the wrong branch swallows the callback — silently. The marker now carries the state this attempt sent (parsed back out of the authorization URL) plus an expiry, and the branch claims a callback only when the returning state is that one. Both values already travel in the open — the request id is printed in tool output, state goes to the provider in a query string — so nothing secret moved into storage.

The rest:

finding what it actually did
non-string issuer .trim() on attacker-supplied JSON → TypeError → 500, from the function whose whole job is to answer "is this metadata trustworthy". Crashing is not an answer.
supported[0] auth method registered a method we cannot perform, failing a step later at the exchange with an error about credentials rather than capability. Now refused where it's still cheap.
resource checked after registration a refused authorization left a real client record on the provider. Moved ahead of registerClient; a test watches that no registration request is made.
NO_AUTHORIZATION_SERVER → 400 correct call. It means "metadata unreadable", and the discovery walk can't tell "publishes none" from "503 right now". Now 502.
marker cleared before completion a transient /authorize/complete failure stranded the user on /oauth/callback with the one thing that could route them home already gone — and a reload, the obvious move, did nothing. Cleared after success.
post-cancel refresh /cancel clears the continuation cookie, then the shared action helper called /state with nothing to authenticate. 401, and an error shown for an action that worked. Cancel uses its own response now.

The two test findings were right, and worth saying plainly

Both assertions were vacuous, in the specific way that is worst: they looked like guards.

The redaction test fed no secret at all — displayUrl was already ?key=REDACTED, so not.toContain("secret") passed because no secret existed, not because the page hid one. It now injects a serverUrl the payload does not carry and asserts the page never renders it, which is the actual regression: someone widening the state interface and wiring the operational URL through.

The retry-hint test asserted only the negative branch, so a page that never showed the hint would have passed. Both directions are pinned now.

Verified: root typecheck 0, 82 tests across the four suites, and both build:server and build:client succeed.


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All reported issues were addressed across 8 files (changes from recent commits).

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`typeof expiresAt === "number"` accepts `Infinity`, and nothing is ever
`<= Infinity`, so a marker written that way outlived the one-hour TTL entirely
and kept claiming `/oauth/callback` — the exact thing the expiry exists to
stop. `Number.isFinite` is the check that was meant.

Reachable only through an overflowing JSON literal, and that detail is what
made the first version of this test worthless. Built through the object form,
`JSON.stringify(Infinity)` is `null`, which the type check already rejected —
so the test passed against the unfixed code and proved nothing. It now writes
the marker as raw JSON with `1e999`, which is valid JSON that overflows to
`Infinity` on parse, and it fails without the fix:

    × rejects an expiry that would never arrive

That is the second vacuous assertion this branch has produced, both caught
rather than shipped. The pattern is the same each time: asserting on a value
the code path could not actually receive.

Verified: root typecheck 0, 30 tests across the two client suites.

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…nect, real transport aborts

The flow-killer: the handoff routes derived both the CSRF origin check and the
OAuth redirect URI from c.req.url, whose scheme is the internal socket's http
behind the hosted TLS edge and whose host is the server's port behind the dev
proxy — every POST in the family 403'd in both real deployment shapes, and DCR
registered a cleartext http:// redirect URI in hosted. Both now come from the
browser's Origin header, validated against the deployment allowlist (the same
one the global origin middleware enforces), which is by definition the origin
the __Host- continuation cookie lives on. The header is now required on every
POST in the family: these are browser-only routes and browsers always send it.

Security:
- connect_project_server moves to the gated tier. Its auth-method-none path
  with a project supplied connects a server with no handoff page and no human
  step, which is the registry's own definition of a gated action; in-app chat
  already required approval for it. The entry's comment records why the old
  direct rationale was wrong.
- authorization_endpoint from AS metadata is now scheme-checked (https only,
  loopback http carve-out) before the browser is navigated to it — it comes
  from an attacker-authored document and fed window.location.assign on the
  handoff origin. Not an origin check: providers legitimately host consent on
  a different origin than the issuer.
- The pinned fetch's loopback allowance now belongs to the CHAIN, derived from
  the initial URL: with the opt-in set, a public target could previously
  answer 302 Location: http://127.0.0.1:… and have the hop dialled.
- /state and /authorize get their own per-IP windows (authorize does outbound
  discovery + DCR before any backend budget can refuse); 429s carry
  Retry-After; the claim forwards the client IP so the backend's claimPerIp
  budget has a trustworthy key.

Correctness:
- createPinnedFetch honors init.signal: composed with the per-hop timeout in
  the SDK transport (OAuthProxyRequest.signal, additive), checked between
  hops, and a caller abort surfaces as AbortError rather than a retryable
  "timeout". Previously withDeadline raced a promise while the request it
  meant to kill ran to completion — a DCR registration could finish at the
  provider after the caller reported failure.
- 204/205/304 come back as Responses instead of throwing (empty string is
  still a body to new Response()), so a definitive non-MCP answer is terminal
  rather than retryable churn.
- The worker's retryable discovery report no longer swallows every failure:
  the backend accepts retryable from `discovering` (its retryable arm leaves
  the status alone), so the blanket catch guarded against a refusal that
  cannot happen while hiding genuine backend outages. Stale comments fixed.

Tests: 37 web-route (incl. absent-Origin refusal), 29 + 4 pinned-fetch (204,
in-flight abort, chain semantics against a mocked transport), 20 authorize
(hostile endpoint schemes), 39 registry, full touched suites green; sdk oauth
817 passing; test:checks exit 0.

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8 issues found across 13 files (changes from recent commits).

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts:96">
P2: A cross-site page can send 600 cookie-less GETs to `/state` and exhaust the victim IP's bucket before `requireContinuation` rejects them. This can block legitimate status polling for that address; run the limiter after continuation authentication or skip requests without a valid continuation.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts:427">
P2: When two MCP endpoints share a host, this approval text hides the scheme and pathname, so the clicker cannot verify which URL will receive credentials. Include the URL origin and pathname while omitting query parameters that may contain secrets.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts:372">
P3: The null-body test only exercises 204, but `toBodyInit` deliberately treats 205 and 304 as null-body statuses too — `new Response("", { status: 205 })` and `new Response("", { status: 304 })` both throw for the same reason as 204. A future change that drops 205/304 from the carve-out would regress the very behavior this test describes without any test failing. Parameterize the test over statuses 204/205/304 and assert the body comes back empty for each.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connections-backend.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connections-backend.ts:227">
P3: The new comment claims `clientIpKey` is "Trustworthy because this process authenticates with the service token." That rationale is misleading: the service token authenticates the Inspector→backend channel, not the value, which is derived from client-controllable request headers via `getClientIp`. The codebase's own claim limiter (`server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts`) documents the same chain as "a client-supplied forwarding header" and bounds the map specifically because a client can churn it. Trust here rests on `getClientIp` preferring non-spoofable `cf-connecting-ip`/`x-real-ip` from a trusted proxy, not on the token. Say so, so a future reader doesn't treat the value as safely attacker-invariant.</violation>
</file>

<file name="sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts">

<violation number="1" location="sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts:114">
P1: On Node 20.0–20.2, requests with both `timeoutMs` and `signal` fail before opening a socket because `AbortSignal.any` is unavailable. Feature-detect `AbortSignal.any` and provide the same forwarding fallback used elsewhere in the SDK.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts:561">
P2: If the timeout wins and the caller aborts before the catch executes, these guards report `AbortError` instead of the retryable timeout. Check that the composite signal’s reason matches `req.signal.reason`, and apply the same source check in all three catches.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-authorize.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-authorize.ts:238">
P2: When `allowLoopback` is false, this still accepts `http://localhost/...`, while the earlier `https:` branch accepts `https://127.0.0.1/...` from metadata. Pass the opt-in into this validator and reject loopback endpoints unless it is enabled.</violation>
</file>

<file name="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts">

<violation number="1" location="mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts:244">
P2: When a `Request` input has a signal and the caller explicitly passes `{ signal: null }`, this line still propagates the `Request` signal and can abort unexpectedly. Respect the explicit `signal` member before falling back to the input request’s signal.</violation>
</file>

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return AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs);
const timeout =
timeoutMs === undefined ? undefined : AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs);
if (timeout && external) return AbortSignal.any([timeout, external]);

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P1: On Node 20.0–20.2, requests with both timeoutMs and signal fail before opening a socket because AbortSignal.any is unavailable. Feature-detect AbortSignal.any and provide the same forwarding fallback used elsewhere in the SDK.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts, line 114:

<comment>On Node 20.0–20.2, requests with both `timeoutMs` and `signal` fail before opening a socket because `AbortSignal.any` is unavailable. Feature-detect `AbortSignal.any` and provide the same forwarding fallback used elsewhere in the SDK.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -99,12 +102,17 @@ export async function validateUrl(
-  return AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs);
+  const timeout =
+    timeoutMs === undefined ? undefined : AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs);
+  if (timeout && external) return AbortSignal.any([timeout, external]);
+  return timeout ?? external;
 }
</file context>
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if (timeout && external) return AbortSignal.any([timeout, external]);
if (timeout && external) {
const nativeAny = (
AbortSignal as unknown as {
any?: (signals: Iterable<AbortSignal>) => AbortSignal;
}
).any;
if (typeof nativeAny === "function") {
return nativeAny.call(AbortSignal, [timeout, external]);
}
const controller = new AbortController();
const onTimeout = () => abort(timeout);
const onExternal = () => abort(external);
const cleanup = () => {
timeout.removeEventListener("abort", onTimeout);
external.removeEventListener("abort", onExternal);
};
const abort = (source: AbortSignal) => {
cleanup();
controller.abort(source.reason);
};
if (timeout.aborted) onTimeout();
else if (external.aborted) onExternal();
else {
timeout.addEventListener("abort", onTimeout, { once: true });
external.addEventListener("abort", onExternal, { once: true });
}
return controller.signal;
}

): Promise<Response | void> => {
if (!HOSTED_MODE) return next();

if (c.req.method !== options.method) return next();

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P2: A cross-site page can send 600 cookie-less GETs to /state and exhaust the victim IP's bucket before requireContinuation rejects them. This can block legitimate status polling for that address; run the limiter after continuation authentication or skip requests without a valid continuation.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/middleware/server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts, line 96:

<comment>A cross-site page can send 600 cookie-less GETs to `/state` and exhaust the victim IP's bucket before `requireContinuation` rejects them. This can block legitimate status polling for that address; run the limiter after continuation authentication or skip requests without a valid continuation.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -40,65 +46,132 @@ const CLAIM_WINDOW_MS = 5 * 60_000;
+  ): Promise<Response | void> => {
+    if (!HOSTED_MODE) return next();
+
+    if (c.req.method !== options.method) return next();
+
+    const ip = getClientIp(c);
</file context>

const url = named(input, "url");
let host: string | undefined;
try {
host = url ? new URL(url).host : undefined;

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P2: When two MCP endpoints share a host, this approval text hides the scheme and pathname, so the clicker cannot verify which URL will receive credentials. Include the URL origin and pathname while omitting query parameters that may contain secrets.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/agent-op-registry.ts, line 427:

<comment>When two MCP endpoints share a host, this approval text hides the scheme and pathname, so the clicker cannot verify which URL will receive credentials. Include the URL origin and pathname while omitting query parameters that may contain secrets.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -394,24 +394,49 @@ export const AGENT_OP_REGISTRY: readonly AgentOpEntry[] = [
+        const url = named(input, "url");
+        let host: string | undefined;
+        try {
+          host = url ? new URL(url).host : undefined;
+        } catch {
+          host = undefined;
</file context>
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host = url ? new URL(url).host : undefined;
const parsed = url ? new URL(url) : undefined;
host = parsed ? `${parsed.origin}${parsed.pathname}` : undefined;

Comment thread sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts
if (signal?.aborted) {
// The CALLER's abort is a cancellation, not an outage: surface it as the
// AbortError they triggered so it is never classified as retryable.
if (req.signal?.aborted) {

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P2: If the timeout wins and the caller aborts before the catch executes, these guards report AbortError instead of the retryable timeout. Check that the composite signal’s reason matches req.signal.reason, and apply the same source check in all three catches.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts, line 561:

<comment>If the timeout wins and the caller aborts before the catch executes, these guards report `AbortError` instead of the retryable timeout. Check that the composite signal’s reason matches `req.signal.reason`, and apply the same source check in all three catches.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -548,6 +556,11 @@ async function executePinnedOAuthRequest(req: OAuthProxyRequest): Promise<{
     if (signal?.aborted) {
+      // The CALLER's abort is a cancellation, not an outage: surface it as the
+      // AbortError they triggered so it is never classified as retryable.
+      if (req.signal?.aborted) {
+        throw new DOMException("This operation was aborted", "AbortError");
+      }
</file context>

);
}
if (url.protocol === "https:") return;
if (url.protocol === "http:" && isLoopbackOAuthUrl(url.toString())) return;

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P2: When allowLoopback is false, this still accepts http://localhost/..., while the earlier https: branch accepts https://127.0.0.1/... from metadata. Pass the opt-in into this validator and reject loopback endpoints unless it is enabled.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/services/server-connection-authorize.ts, line 238:

<comment>When `allowLoopback` is false, this still accepts `http://localhost/...`, while the earlier `https:` branch accepts `https://127.0.0.1/...` from metadata. Pass the opt-in into this validator and reject loopback endpoints unless it is enabled.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -213,6 +214,34 @@ function requireTrustworthyIssuer(
+    );
+  }
+  if (url.protocol === "https:") return;
+  if (url.protocol === "http:" && isLoopbackOAuthUrl(url.toString())) return;
+  throw new AuthorizationPrepareError(
+    `That authorization server's metadata names an authorization endpoint this flow will not navigate to (${url.protocol}//…).`,
</file context>

// racing a promise while the request it meant to kill ran to completion,
// able to finish a client registration at the provider after the caller
// had already reported failure.
const signal = init?.signal ?? (input as Request)?.signal ?? undefined;

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P2: When a Request input has a signal and the caller explicitly passes { signal: null }, this line still propagates the Request signal and can abort unexpectedly. Respect the explicit signal member before falling back to the input request’s signal.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/pinned-fetch.ts, line 244:

<comment>When a `Request` input has a signal and the caller explicitly passes `{ signal: null }`, this line still propagates the `Request` signal and can abort unexpectedly. Respect the explicit `signal` member before falling back to the input request’s signal.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -227,25 +235,40 @@ export function createPinnedFetch(
+    // racing a promise while the request it meant to kill ran to completion,
+    // able to finish a client registration at the provider after the caller
+    // had already reported failure.
+    const signal = init?.signal ?? (input as Request)?.signal ?? undefined;
+    signal?.throwIfAborted();
+
</file context>
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const signal = init?.signal ?? (input as Request)?.signal ?? undefined;
const signal =
init && Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(init, "signal")
? init.signal ?? undefined
: (input as Request)?.signal ?? undefined;

timeoutMs: 5_000,
})(`${origin}/mcp`);

expect(res.status).toBe(204);

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P3: The null-body test only exercises 204, but toBodyInit deliberately treats 205 and 304 as null-body statuses too — new Response("", { status: 205 }) and new Response("", { status: 304 }) both throw for the same reason as 204. A future change that drops 205/304 from the carve-out would regress the very behavior this test describes without any test failing. Parameterize the test over statuses 204/205/304 and assert the body comes back empty for each.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At mcpjam-inspector/server/utils/__tests__/pinned-fetch.test.ts, line 372:

<comment>The null-body test only exercises 204, but `toBodyInit` deliberately treats 205 and 304 as null-body statuses too — `new Response("", { status: 205 })` and `new Response("", { status: 304 })` both throw for the same reason as 204. A future change that drops 205/304 from the carve-out would regress the very behavior this test describes without any test failing. Parameterize the test over statuses 204/205/304 and assert the body comes back empty for each.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -336,3 +336,101 @@ describe("a refusal does not describe the internal network", () => {
+      timeoutMs: 5_000,
+    })(`${origin}/mcp`);
+
+    expect(res.status).toBe(204);
+    expect(await res.text()).toBe("");
+  });
</file context>

Comment on lines +227 to +229
/** Client IP for the backend's per-IP claim budget. Trustworthy because this
* process authenticates with the service token; optional because a missing
* forwarding header must not fail a legitimate claim. */

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P3: The new comment claims clientIpKey is "Trustworthy because this process authenticates with the service token." That rationale is misleading: the service token authenticates the Inspector→backend channel, not the value, which is derived from client-controllable request headers via getClientIp. The codebase's own claim limiter (server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts) documents the same chain as "a client-supplied forwarding header" and bounds the map specifically because a client can churn it. Trust here rests on getClientIp preferring non-spoofable cf-connecting-ip/x-real-ip from a trusted proxy, not on the token. Say so, so a future reader doesn't treat the value as safely attacker-invariant.

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<comment>The new comment claims `clientIpKey` is "Trustworthy because this process authenticates with the service token." That rationale is misleading: the service token authenticates the Inspector→backend channel, not the value, which is derived from client-controllable request headers via `getClientIp`. The codebase's own claim limiter (`server-connection-claim-rate-limit.ts`) documents the same chain as "a client-supplied forwarding header" and bounds the map specifically because a client can churn it. Trust here rests on `getClientIp` preferring non-spoofable `cf-connecting-ip`/`x-real-ip` from a trusted proxy, not on the token. Say so, so a future reader doesn't treat the value as safely attacker-invariant.</comment>

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@@ -224,6 +224,10 @@ export async function claimHandoff(input: {
   handoffToken: string;
   continuationToken: string;
   actorUserId?: string;
+  /** Client IP for the backend's per-IP claim budget. Trustworthy because this
+   * process authenticates with the service token; optional because a missing
+   * forwarding header must not fail a legitimate claim. */
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/** Client IP for the backend's per-IP claim budget. Trustworthy because this
* process authenticates with the service token; optional because a missing
* forwarding header must not fail a legitimate claim. */
/** Client IP for the backend's per-IP claim budget. Trustworthy on hosted
* deployments because getClientIp prefers non-spoofable cf-connecting-ip /
* x-real-ip from the trusted proxy; optional because a missing/failed
* attribution must not fail a legitimate claim. */

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Verified the AbortSignal.any P1 on sdk/src/oauth-proxy.ts:114 against the source. It is real, it is invisible to CI, and the suggested patch on that thread leaks listeners — details below so whoever takes it does not inline that version.

The finding is correct. sdk/package.json declares "node": ">=20.0.0"; AbortSignal.any landed in Node 20.3.0. On 20.0–20.2 every executeOAuthProxy call carrying both timeoutMs and signal throws TypeError: AbortSignal.any is not a function before a socket opens — which, after the per-hop signal work, is the whole server-connection probe path.

CI will never catch this. The runners are on 22, and mcpjam-inspector itself requires >=22. Only the published SDK's floor is 20.0.0, so there is no red check that will force the issue.

The codebase already made this decision once. sdk/src/mcp-client-manager/elicitation-timeout.ts carries a private composeAbortSignals whose docblock states the invariant verbatim — engines floor is >=20.0.0, AbortSignal.any is 20.3.0+, "so this feature-detects and hand-rolls forwarding on older runtimes rather than raising the floor (which would be a breaking change to a published package)." oauth-proxy.ts bypasses it. The fix is to extract that helper to a shared module and call it from both, not to add a second copy.

Where the suggested patch goes wrong. It removes its listeners only inside abort(), which runs only if one of the two signals fires. On the normal path — request completes, neither aborts — both listeners stay attached to the caller-owned req.signal. requestTimeoutSignal is called per request at oauth-proxy.ts:506, so a long-lived caller signal accumulates two listeners per request. The native path has no such problem (AbortSignal.any holds its sources weakly), which is why the existing helper returns a dispose() alongside the signal.

That disposal is the part that needs care rather than a copy-paste: at :506 the composed signal escapes the function (return { response, signal }) and is used downstream for the body read, so it cannot be disposed when executePinnedOAuthRequest returns — the teardown has to hang off whoever finishes with the response.

Two smaller notes from the same read, offered without a claim either way on the rest of the round:

  • The { signal: null } finding on pinned-fetch.ts:244 is spec-correct — an explicitly-null init.signal is meant to override the Request's signal, and ?? cannot distinguish "absent" from "explicitly null." hasOwnProperty is the right discriminator.
  • The /state limiter finding is real, and the suggested ordering fixes it cleanly: requireContinuation rejects before any backend round trip, so moving the limiter after authentication costs nothing and stops a cookie-less flood from spending a victim address's budget.

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