fix(v1): resolve the installation reference before connecting a Checks repo - #4600
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`POST /v1/organizations/:organizationId/eval-check-repos` refused every
connect on production with "Repository is not accessible to the MCPJam
GitHub App." — while the GET on the same route file listed that exact
repository as `connectable` one request earlier.
`connectVerifiedRepo` reads an ABSENT `installationRef` as a selector, not
as "pick one for me": it chooses the pinned compatibility branch, which
resolves the deployment-level `GITHUB_CHECKS_INSTALLATION_ID` env var. That
var is a deliberately retired migration pin and is unset on the production
Convex deployment, so the branch resolved null and threw. The web picker
never landed there because it sends the `installationRef` and `repositoryId`
it read out of the repository listing; every agent surface did, because it
has no picker to read.
The POST now resolves the repository through the same
`checkRepoConfigsNode:listInstallationRepos` the GET already exposes, and
forwards both selectors.
- Matching is trim + lowercase, mirroring the backend's
`canonicalizeRepoFullName` — the spelling a connected row is stored and
looked up under, so `Acme/Widgets` is no longer refused for a listing
that spells it `acme/widgets`.
- A repository the listing does not hold is refused with the route's
existing flat sentence and no candidate names. "Does not exist" and
"the App cannot see it" must read identically or the endpoint is an
oracle for private repository names.
- Two entries matching one name is refused rather than resolved by
guessing. The backend deduplicates its cross-binding fan-out by NUMERIC
repository id, not by name, so one name across two bindings is a real
shape; picking either would stamp the row with an installation that may
not be the one the caller meant.
- A failed listing fails the request instead of falling through to the
retired branch, which would have turned a GitHub blip into that same
misleading refusal. Translated with the write translator and the
connect's own options, so the backend's "Could not list repositories
from GitHub." keeps its retry advice and no new copy is invented.
Nothing else about the endpoint moves: same schema, same status codes, same
response shape, same one backend function it is allowed to call.
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WalkthroughThe POST eval-check-repos route now lists installation repositories before connecting. It matches trimmed, lowercased repository names and forwards valid Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The route now resolves repository selectors before connecting, but malformed selector values from the listing could still cause a listed repository to be rejected or send invalid identifiers to the connection operation. This is a bounded correctness risk that is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up validation tests. Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out. Comment |
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/__tests__/eval-checks.test.ts`:
- Around line 319-351: Add tests around the connect route and its
listInstallationRepos handling for null and empty results, plus entries whose
installationRef is null or an empty string. Assert each case succeeds as
appropriate and the connectVerifiedRepo action receives neither selector field,
matching the existing no-reference test.
In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/eval-checks.ts`:
- Around line 358-360: Update the repositoryId validation in the selected
repository selector to require a positive integer by adding
selected.repositoryId > 0 alongside the existing numeric and integer checks. Add
regression coverage for repositoryId values 0 and -1 while preserving the
current valid-repository behavior.
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| it("sends NEITHER selector for a listing entry that carries no reference", async () => { | ||
| // The pinned compatibility branch lists repositories without an | ||
| // `installationRef`. That branch only produces entries at all when the pin | ||
| // IS set, so sending nothing is correct AND functional there — and the | ||
| // backend documents "no reference" as a byte-identical path, which a | ||
| // stray `repositoryId` would quietly stop being. | ||
| answer( | ||
| {}, | ||
| { | ||
| listInstallationRepos: [ | ||
| { fullName: "acme/widgets", repositoryId: 4242 }, | ||
| ], | ||
| connectVerifiedRepo: { configId: "cfg_9" }, | ||
| }, | ||
| ); | ||
| const res = await connect({ | ||
| projectId: "proj_1", | ||
| suiteId: "suite_1", | ||
| repo: "acme/widgets", | ||
| outagePolicy: "fail_closed", | ||
| }); | ||
| expect(res.status).toBe(201); | ||
| expect(actionMock).toHaveBeenCalledWith( | ||
| "github/checkRepoConfigsNode:connectVerifiedRepo", | ||
| { | ||
| organizationId: ORG, | ||
| projectId: "proj_1", | ||
| suiteId: "suite_1", | ||
| repoFullName: "acme/widgets", | ||
| outagePolicy: "fail_closed", | ||
| }, | ||
| ); | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Add null and empty selector coverage.
The new tests cover valid and omitted selectors. They do not cover null or empty values returned by listInstallationRepos. Add cases for a null or empty listing and for installationRef: null and installationRef: "". Assert the route does not forward invalid selectors.
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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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/__tests__/eval-checks.test.ts` around lines
319 - 351, Add tests around the connect route and its listInstallationRepos
handling for null and empty results, plus entries whose installationRef is null
or an empty string. Assert each case succeeds as appropriate and the
connectVerifiedRepo action receives neither selector field, matching the
existing no-reference test.
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| typeof selected.repositoryId === "number" && | ||
| Number.isInteger(selected.repositoryId) | ||
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Require a positive repositoryId.
Number.isInteger accepts 0 and negative values. If a listing returns either value with a valid installationRef, this route forwards an invalid selector and the verified action can reject an otherwise listed repository. Require selected.repositoryId > 0, and add regression cases for 0 and -1.
Proposed fix
installationRef !== undefined &&
typeof selected.repositoryId === "number" &&
- Number.isInteger(selected.repositoryId)
+ Number.isInteger(selected.repositoryId) &&
+ selected.repositoryId > 0
? selected.repositoryId
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In `@mcpjam-inspector/server/routes/v1/eval-checks.ts` around lines 358 - 360,
Update the repositoryId validation in the selected repository selector to
require a positive integer by adding selected.repositoryId > 0 alongside the
existing numeric and integer checks. Add regression coverage for repositoryId
values 0 and -1 while preserving the current valid-repository behavior.
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The bug
POST /v1/organizations/:organizationId/eval-check-reposrefused every connect on production with:…while the GET on the same route file listed that exact repository as
connectableone request earlier. Reproduced live against production withmcpjam cloud eval checks list(repo present inconnectable) followed immediately bymcpjam cloud eval checks connect(refused). Two commands, one truth, and they disagreed.Root cause
connectVerifiedRepo(mcpjam-backend,convex/github/checkRepoConfigsNode.ts) takes two optional args the route was not sending:An absent
installationRefis a selector, not "pick one for me" — its handler opens withif (args.installationRef === undefined)and takes the pinned compatibility branch, which resolves the deployment-levelGITHUB_CHECKS_INSTALLATION_IDenv var. That var is a deliberately retired migration pin and is unset on the production Convex deployment, so the branch resolvednulland threwRepoNotAccessibleError.The web UI never landed there: its repository picker sends the
installationRefandrepositoryIdit read out of the repository listing. Every agent surface (CLI and MCP) did, because it has no picker to read.The fix
The POST now resolves the repository through the same
github/checkRepoConfigsNode:listInstallationReposthe GET already exposes, and forwards both selectors. Inspector route only — no SDK, CLI or backend change; the route already had everything it needed.The listing call grants the caller nothing new: the GET beside it already enumerates exactly this, so the same actor could already read it. It just stops making them the one who has to carry infrastructure identifiers around.
Decisions
Matching — case-insensitive, on
fullName. Comparison istrim().toLowerCase(), mirroring the backend's owncanonicalizeRepoFullNameexactly. That is not a guess about GitHub semantics: it is the spelling a connected row is stored and looked up under (assertGithubAddressableRepoFullName→assertValidRepoFullName→canonicalizeRepoFullName). Matching case-sensitively would refuse a correctly-typedAcme/Widgetsfor a listing that spells itacme/widgets— the same repository, under the same stored key — and an agent types the name a human gave it, not one it copied out of a picker. No separate exact-match tier: the backend cannot represent two repositories differing only in case, since they collapse to one key.No match — the route's existing flat sentence, 404. Refused with
REPO_NOT_CONNECTABLE_MESSAGE, extracted from thenotFoundMessagethat was already inline on theconnectVerifiedRepocatch, so the local refusal and the translated backend refusal are now literally one string and cannot drift into two distinguishable answers. A repository that does not exist, one in someone else's account, and one this org's installations cannot see all read the same, on purpose. The candidate list is never echoed back — an error that helpfully named the alternatives would be the same oracle by another route.Ambiguity — refused, not resolved. I checked what the listing guarantees rather than assuming:
listInstallationReposdeduplicates its cross-binding fan-out by numericrepositoryId, not by name (const seen = new Set<number>()). So two entries can legitimately carry onefullName— a renamed repository whose freed name was taken in another account the App is also installed on, or one binding serving a stale listing. Picking one would stamp the row with an installation that may not be the one the caller meant, and the row's key is the name, so the mistake would only ever surface as checks that silently never run. Two matches ⇒ the same flat refusal, plus alogger.warn(Axiom-only, no page) so an operator can actually diagnose an otherwise baffling refusal.Listing failure — fails hard, with the backend's own wording. On the GET this call fails soft to
connectable: nullbecause the connected list costs no GitHub round trip and must survive an outage. Here there is nothing left to preserve, and continuing without a reference would take the retired branch and produce exactly the misleading "not accessible" this PR exists to remove — sending an admin off to re-install an App that is installed fine. Translated withtranslateConvexWriteErrorand the connect's own options, so no new copy is invented: the backend'sGithubChecksRefusal("Could not list repositories from GitHub.")keeps its retry advice via the string-data branch, a membership or availability refusal maps exactly as the connect below would have mapped it, and a transport failure still answers 5xx. The read translator was the wrong tool — it would flatten the first of those into a generic 502 and page on somebody else's outage.A listing entry with no
installationRef(the pinned compatibility branch's own output) sends neither selector. That branch only produces entries at all when the pin is set, so sending nothing there is both correct and functional — and it keeps "no reference" the byte-identical path the backend explicitly documents it as, rather than a second, slightly different way to write a verified row.repositoryIdis gated on the ref for the same reason (the action only consults it on the reference path).Preserved: request schema,
.strict()rejection of unknown keys, the required explicitoutagePolicy, 201 + response shape, the guest boundary, and the rule that this route calls the verified action and never the deprecatedcheckRepoConfigs:connectRepo.Verification
Red-test probe (done). Stashed only
eval-checks.ts, kept the test file, re-ran:The five that failed are the five new behaviour claims:
installationRef/repositoryIdabsentrepoFullName: " Acme/Widgets ", no selectorsexpected 201 to be 404expected 201 to be 404expected 201 to be greater than or equal to 400The sixth new test ("sends NEITHER selector for a listing entry that carries no reference") passes without the fix by construction — it pins the compat shape, which is what the old code always produced. Called out rather than dressed up as red.
Unstashed; all 17 pass.
Other checks
npx tsc --noEmit -p server/tsconfig.json— clean for both touched files (the repo has a pre-existing error baseline elsewhere; none of it is ineval-checks*).mcpjam-inspector/.prettierrcexists (v2.8.8,trailingComma: "all"). Every line I added is prettier-clean under it. Both files were already non-conformant atorigin/main, and I reverted the six pre-existing lines an accidental whole-file--writehad swept, so the diff contains only lines I actually changed..changeset/.One thing that did not run:
server/routes/v1/__tests__/sdk-coverage.test.ts(andagent-op-registry.test.ts) fail at collection in my worktree —Cannot find module '@ai-sdk/harness/agent'— and they fail identically on a pristineorigin/maintree in the same worktree, which I verified by stashing everything and re-running. It is the known symlinked-node_modulesworktree artifact, not this change. On the substance they assert:sdk-coveragemaps route paths to SDK method names andagent-op-registrymaps the op to its proposal copy; this PR adds no route and changes no request shape, soconnectEvalCheckRepoparity is untouched. (server/services/plugins/shim/PluginShim.bundled.tswas also missing until I rannode scripts/bundle-plugin-shim.mjs— that one is just thepreteststep, skipped when invokingvitestdirectly.)Notes on the brief
connectVerifiedRepocall" is precisely thenotFoundMessagecomment inside the catch'stranslateConvexWriteErroroptions. That is the string I reused. Worth knowing that the sentence the CLI actually saw in production was the backend'sREPO_NOT_ACCESSIBLE_MESSAGE, delivered as a 400 through the write translator's string-data branch — not this 404. So the no-match refusal changes status from 400 to 404 relative to today's (always-broken) behaviour. I judged that correct: 404 is the honest answer for "the resource you named is not among the ones you may connect", and the distinction it introduces — in your installation listing vs. not — is one the caller can already make with a GET on the same org, so it is not a new oracle.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Medium Risk
Changes org-scoped GitHub Checks connect behavior and error semantics (404 vs prior misleading 400) on a security-sensitive integration path, though scope is limited to the v1 eval-checks POST route and aligns with existing GET listing data.
Overview
Fixes CLI/MCP GitHub Checks connect when the GET on the same route already listed the repo as connectable but POST returned “not accessible.” The POST handler now calls
listInstallationRepos(same source as GET), matches the requestedowner/repowith trim + lowercase (aligned with backend storage), and passesinstallationRefandrepositoryIdintoconnectVerifiedRepo—matching what the web picker already sent. Without those fields, the backend took a retired env-pin path that fails in production.New refusal behavior on POST: no listing match or ambiguous duplicate names → 404 with a single shared
REPO_NOT_CONNECTABLE_MESSAGE(no candidate repo names leaked). Listing errors fail the request with the backend’s “Could not list repositories from GitHub.” wording instead of falling through to the broken no-reference connect. Compatibility-listed repos with noinstallationRefstill connect without selectors.Tests cover selector forwarding, case-insensitive match, unknown/ambiguous repos, and listing failure; changeset notes the inspector patch.
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Fixes
POST /v1/organizations/:organizationId/eval-check-reposso connecting a Checks repo from the CLI and MCP works again. The route previously sent noinstallationReforrepositoryId, which made the backend take its retired compatibility branch and refuse every connect even when the GET on the same route listed the repo as connectable; it now resolves the repository through that same listing and forwards both selectors.Acme/Widgetsmatches a listing that spells itacme/widgets.Written for commit e8d7f67. Summary will update on new commits.