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Pairs with dAppCore/agent#24, which deletes agent's copy. Methods and tests land here first, so the behaviour exists in one place before it stops existing in the other.

One class name, two owners

Core\Front\Mcp\McpContext was declared in both packages — here and in agent's php/Mcp/Transport/McpContext.php. Which one a consumer loads is decided by autoload order, and this copy wins. So agent's scope support was unreachable exactly where it mattered: a caller reaching hasScope() on the loaded class would have hit an undefined method.

getScopes() and hasScope() come across with their helpers, and the constructor gains an optional $scopeSource as its last parameter, so no existing call site changes. Scopes resolve from an explicit source, the current plan, or the authenticated request's mcp_workspace_context attribute — how the HTTP transport carries it.

A bug fixed rather than carried across

extractObjectValue() called property_exists() before reading a property. That answers true for private and protected properties too, so reading one from outside raised "Cannot access private property" for any scope source holding its data privately — the commonest shape there is. get_object_vars(), which from outside the class returns only what is reachable, is now asked first.

Not a regression introduced by the port: agent's own McpContextTest fails the same way today, four of its eight tests, and those failures are part of that repo's open count.

Coverage follows ownership

Agent held the only tests for this class while this package shipped the copy consumers load — tested on one side, shipped from the other. All of it moves:

  • 6 scope cases — session scopes, empty session, no source at all, present scope, missing scope, scopes off the authenticated request
  • 6 more — session/plan getters, callbacks optional, callbacks forwarding notifications and logs, handler schema shape, handler receiving the context, and McpToolHandler exposing exactly its two methods

Twelve tests now cover this class here, where before there were none.

Verification

result
suite 21 failed, 315 passed — main is 21 / 303
delta exactly the 12 added; existing failures unchanged

One commit in this branch is a correction: I first reported the delta against a stale baseline captured several merged PRs earlier, and claimed four existing tests started passing. Re-measuring against main showed 303, not 299, and no such four — those four failures are agent's. The arithmetic was wrong; the fix and tests were not. Corrected in a follow-up rather than an amend, since the branch was pushed.

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Snider and others added 3 commits August 8, 2026 13:22
Core\Front\Mcp\McpContext was declared in two packages at once — here and in
dappcore/agent's php/Mcp/Transport/McpContext.php. Which one a consumer loads
is decided by autoload order, and this copy wins, so agent's scope support was
unreachable exactly where it mattered: a caller reaching hasScope() on the
loaded class would have hit an undefined method.

getScopes() and hasScope() come across with the helpers they need —
scopeCandidates, resolveScopes, extractObjectValue, getterNames,
currentRequest, normaliseScopes, canonicalScope — and the constructor gains an
optional $scopeSource as its last parameter, so no existing call site changes.

The scope source is resolved from whichever of these is available: an explicit
source, the current plan, or the authenticated request's mcp_workspace_context
attribute, which is how the HTTP transport carries it.

One bug is fixed on the way rather than carried across. extractObjectValue()
asked property_exists() before reading a property, and that answers true for
private and protected properties as well — so reading one from out here raised
"Cannot access private property" for any scope source holding its data
privately, which is the commonest shape there is. get_object_vars(), which from
outside the class returns only what is reachable, is now asked first. This is
not a regression I introduced in the port: agent's own McpContextTest fails the
same way today, four of its eight tests, and those failures are part of that
repo's open count.

The tests come with the methods. Coverage follows ownership — agent testing a
class it does not own proves nothing about the copy a consumer actually loads —
so six cases land here covering session scopes, an empty session, no source at
all, a present scope, a missing scope, and scopes read off the authenticated
request.

Agent's file is deleted separately, in dAppCore/agent, so the methods exist
here before they stop existing there.

Suite: 21 failed, 309 passed, from 21 failed, 299 passed — six new tests plus
four that were failing on the old code path, no change to the existing
failures.

Co-Authored-By: Virgil <virgil@lethean.io>
The previous message said "21 failed, 309 passed, from 21 failed, 299 passed —
six new tests plus four that were failing on the old code path". Both halves
were wrong, and I only caught it by re-measuring against main instead of
trusting the baseline file I had been comparing with.

299 was stale, captured several merged PRs ago. Main is 21 failed / 303 passed,
so this branch's 21 / 309 is exactly the six tests it adds and nothing else.

There were no "four that were failing on the old code path" — not in this
package. The four failures the visibility fix addresses are in dAppCore/agent's
McpContextTest, against agent's copy of this class. This package had no test
exercising that path at all, which is precisely why the bug survived: the copy
that had the tests was the copy nobody loads.

The fix and the tests stand as committed; only the arithmetic was wrong. A
follow-up rather than an amend, because the branch was already pushed.

Co-Authored-By: Virgil <virgil@lethean.io>
The scope tests came over with getScopes()/hasScope(). These are the rest, and
leaving them behind would have deleted coverage rather than moved it: agent
held the only tests for McpContext's session, plan and transport-callback
behaviour and for the McpToolHandler contract, while this package owns the copy
a consumer actually loads. Tested on one side, shipped from the other.

Six cases: session and plan getters, callbacks being optional, callbacks
forwarding notifications and session logs, the handler schema shape, a handler
receiving the transport-agnostic context, and the interface exposing exactly
its two contract methods.

Twelve tests now cover this class here, where before there were none.

Co-Authored-By: Virgil <virgil@lethean.io>
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Snider deleted the feat/mccontext-scopes branch August 8, 2026 12:34
Snider added a commit to dAppCore/agent that referenced this pull request Aug 8, 2026
php/Mcp/Transport/McpContext.php and its McpToolHandler contract declared
Core\Front\Mcp\McpContext and Core\Front\Mcp\Contracts\McpToolHandler — a
namespace this package maps nowhere. composer.json declares Core\Mcp\,
Core\Mod\Agentic\ and Core\Service\Agentic\, and nothing else, so
class_exists('Core\Front\Mcp\McpContext') is false here and always has been.

Their tests only ran because they hand-loaded the files:

    mcpRequire('Mcp/Transport/McpContext.php');

which is the third manual-require-around-broken-autoload found in this repo
today, after loadAgenticPhpClass() and LivewireTestCase::livewireComponent().
The pattern is reliable evidence that a file cannot be reached the normal way.

dappcore/mcp declares the same two FQCNs and, unlike this package, actually
maps them — so in any consumer application mcp's copies are what load. Two
packages owning one class name is settled by autoload order, silently, and this
side lost twice over: shadowed where both were installed, unloadable where only
this one was.

The reference check found nothing else touching them. The fifty-odd other
toMcpContext hits in this repo are a model method of the same name on
AgentPlan, BrainMemory and friends — unrelated, and worth stating because a
careless grep would have read them as callers.

Agent's copy carried getScopes() and hasScope() that mcp's lacked. Those, and
every test in both files, moved to dAppCore/mcp#22 first, so the behaviour
exists in one place before it stops existing here. That PR also fixes a
property_exists() visibility bug in the scope helpers, which is why four of the
eight McpContextTest cases removed here were failing rather than passing.

Suite 127 failed / 1190 passed, from 131 / 1197 on a freshly measured main —
eleven tests removed, of which four were failing, and no other change.
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