Architecture

Master System Architecture & Specifications

System Status: Production Hardened & Grounded
Specification Version: v4.2.0-STRICT

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🏗️ Architectural Topology

The Google Notebook MCP Gateway bridges AI coding clients to private Google Notebooks without exporting user credentials.

flowchart TD
    subgraph Clients ["AI Coding Agents (MCP Clients)"]
        IDE["Claude Code / Cursor / Windsurf / Antigravity"]
    end

    subgraph Broker ["Local Policy & Session Broker (broker.py)"]
        MCPFacade["MCP Stdio Facade<br/>(JSON-RPC 2.0 newline-delimited)"]
        Catalog["Closed 9-Tool Catalog<br/>(extra='forbid', additionalProperties: false)"]
        FSM["ADR-011 Session Lock FSM<br/>(DISCOVERY_ONLY → ACTIVE_DISPATCH)"]
        SessMutex["Session TOCTOU Mutex<br/>(_session_mutex) [M-01]"]
        IPCScottyMutex["Scotty IPC Mutex<br/>(_companion_ipc_mutex) [M-02]"]
        Journal["Mutation Journal (SQLite WAL)<br/>(prepared → sent → confirmed / unknown) [M-08, ADR-005]"]
        CoordTrans["Citation Normalizer<br/>(UTF-16 → Unicode Code Points) [ADR-004]"]
        Scrubber["Secret Scrubber<br/>(Zero Credential Export)"]
    end

    subgraph NativeHost ["Dedicated Native Messaging Host (native_host.py)"]
        NHMain["Standalone Host (Standard Library Only)"]
        OSRedir["C-Level fd 2 Redirection [M-07]<br/>& Windows os.O_BINARY Mode"]
        Heartbeat["15s Bidirectional Keepalive Ping/Pong"]
        Framer["Framing Converter ('>I' ↔ '=I')"]
        Slicer["Chunk Slicer Engine (≤512 KiB Slices) [M-02]"]
    end

    subgraph BrowserExt ["Browser Companion (Chrome MV3 Extension)"]
        SW["Background Service Worker (service_worker.js)"]
        Ceiling["240s Hard Execution Ceiling [M-03]"]
        DiscardDef["Tab Discard Defense [M-04]<br/>(autoDiscardable: false, TAB_DISCARDED drain)"]
        ScottyCacheStore["Scotty Session URL Cache [P-02]<br/>(chrome.storage.session & query offset)"]
        PortExport["globalThis.ensureNativePort Export"]
    end

    subgraph InPage ["In-Page Execution (MAIN World on notebook.google.com)"]
        PageExecutor["Injected Executor (page-main.js)"]
        IDGuard["Pre-Flight Account Identity Guard [P-03]<br/>(WIZ_global_data.oM1Kwf assertion)"]
        SafeInterceptor["Safe Fetch Interceptor [M-09]<br/>(Zero Stream Consumption, bodyUsed check)"]
        WIZData["WIZ_global_data Extractor<br/>(SNlM0e CSRF & FdrFJe Session ID)"]
        NativeFetchExec["In-Browser fetch(credentials: 'include')<br/>(Hardware TPM / DBSC / App-Bound Encryption)"]
    end

    subgraph GoogleEndpoints ["Google LabsTailwindUi Endpoints"]
        BatchEndpoint["POST /_/LabsTailwindUi/data/batchexecute<br/>(wXbhsf, rLM1Ne, izAoDd, CYK0Xb, tGMBJ, o4cbdc)"]
        ScottyEndpoint["POST /upload/_/LabsTailwindUi/...<br/>(Scotty 3-Step Resumable Upload)"]
        StreamEndpoint["POST .../GenerateFreeFormStreamed<br/>(Server-Streaming gRPC-Web & Mid-Stream Error Delta [P-01])"]
    end

    IDE <-->|stdio JSON-RPC 2.0| MCPFacade
    MCPFacade --- Catalog
    Catalog --- FSM
    FSM --- SessMutex
    FSM --- IPCScottyMutex
    Catalog --- Journal
    Catalog --- CoordTrans
    Catalog --- Scrubber

    Broker <-->|Local IPC: Unix Domain Socket (0o600) / Named Pipe<br/>32-bit Big-Endian '>I'| NativeHost

    NHMain --- OSRedir
    NHMain --- Heartbeat
    NHMain --- Framer
    NHMain --- Slicer

    NativeHost <-->|Chrome Native Messaging Protocol<br/>32-bit Native-Endian '=I' Binary Stdio| BrowserExt

    SW --- Ceiling
    SW --- DiscardDef
    SW --- ScottyCacheStore
    SW --- PortExport

    BrowserExt <-->|Chrome Scripting / postMessage Bridge| InPage

    PageExecutor --- IDGuard
    PageExecutor --- SafeInterceptor
    PageExecutor --- WIZData
    PageExecutor --- NativeFetchExec

    NativeFetchExec <-->|HTTPS Form POST f.req| BatchEndpoint
    NativeFetchExec <-->|HTTPS Resumable Chunk Stream| ScottyEndpoint
    NativeFetchExec <-->|HTTPS Server-Streaming gRPC-Web| StreamEndpoint

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🛡️ Core Mitigations (M-01 to M-10) & Operational Polish (P-01 to P-04)

Identifier	Domain	Description	Enforcement Invariant
M-01	Session	TOCTOU Race on Session Lock: Title resolution race under concurrent agent calls.	Wrapped in _session_mutex = asyncio.Lock() in BrokerDaemon.
M-02	Transport	IPC Framing Corruption: Interleaved frames during file chunk uploads corrupt transport.	Wrapped in _companion_ipc_mutex = asyncio.Lock() during $\le 512\text{ KiB}$ slices.
M-03	Lifecycle	MV3 300s Hard Execution Ceiling: Chrome kills service workers after 300s.	Clamped RPC calls to 240s; incremental stream chunking resets timer.
M-04	Lifecycle	Silent Background Tab Discard: Memory Saver discards tabs; promises hang indefinitely.	Sets autoDiscardable: false; listens to onUpdated.discarded, draining promises with TAB_DISCARDED.
M-05	Schema	Silent Upstream Schema Drift: Missing array bounds silently returns empty lists.	Enforces loud UPSTREAM_SCHEMA_DRIFT failure canary on array shape anomalies.
M-06	Grounding	Ungrounded Model Response: Answers with zero citations violating grounding.	Enforces strict barrier: zero citations returns ok: false, code: "UNGROUNDED_RESPONSE".
M-07	Framing	Native Host Stderr Wire Corruption: C prints to fd 2 corrupt Chrome stdio binary framing.	C-level os.dup2(log_file.fileno(), 2) at early boot; os.O_BINARY on Windows.
M-08	Database	Non-Atomic SQLite Migrations: Schema alterations crash under edge memory pressure.	Atomic transactions under PRAGMA user_version < 2 with BEGIN IMMEDIATE TRANSACTION.
M-09	Interceptor	Stream Consumption Panic: Reading streams in fetch interceptor triggers TypeError: Already read.	Interceptor inspects only strings/URLSearchParams with strict bodyUsed protection.
M-10	Readiness	Broad Pre-Query Readiness Blocking: Unhealthy untargeted sources block targeted queries.	Scoped pre-query readiness checks exclusively to targeted source_ids.
P-01	Streaming	Mid-Stream Transport Severance: Abrupt disconnect causes agent client hang.	Emits structured STREAM_SEVERED error delta frame before closing stream.
P-02	Upload	Scotty Multi-Part Slicing Inefficiency: Upload disconnect forced restart from byte 0.	Caches session URL in chrome.storage.session; queries offset via X-Goog-Upload-Command: query.
P-03	Auth	Multi-Account Identity Mutation Drift: Silent fallback to account 0 mutates wrong profile.	Asserts window.WIZ_global_data.oM1Kwf === payload.expectedEmail before mutating RPCs.
P-04	Tracing	Correlation ID vs Hash Ambiguity: Internal SHA256 obscured client request keys.	Preserves un-hashed request_key as _meta.mcp_correlation_id across all responses.

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📜 Architectural Decision Records (ADR Summary)

• ADR-001: Browser-Resident Execution Broker over Disk Cookie Extraction (DBSC / TPM Containment).
• ADR-002: Decoupled Process IPC Topology (Native Messaging stdio vs MCP stdio).
• ADR-003: Context-Optimized Closed Tool Surface & Parameter Scrubbing (additionalProperties: false).
• ADR-004: UTF-16 Code Unit to Python Unicode Coordinate Translation.
• ADR-005: Conservative Mutation Journaling FSM & Ambiguity Freeze (SQLite WAL).
• ADR-006: Full Jitter Exponential Backoff for Source Readiness Polling.
• ADR-007: Multi-Account Isolation & Email Identity Verification (authuser + oM1Kwf).
• ADR-008: Edge Hardware Profile & Resource-Constrained System Governance (taskset -c 0-5).
• ADR-009: Windows Native Framing, Binary Mode Stdio & 108-Character Path Bounds.
• ADR-010: Standardized MCP Error Taxonomy & Distributed Tracing.
• ADR-011: Mandatory Interactive Single-Notebook Session Lock FSM.
• ADR-012: Session Transition Mutex & Handshake Serialization (M-01, M-02).
• ADR-013: Scotty Multi-Part IPC Serialization & Resumability (M-02, P-02).
• ADR-014: MV3 Watchdog & Tab Discard Supervised Lifecycle (M-03, M-04).
• ADR-015: Strict Grounding Citation Barrier & Loud Schema Canaries (M-05, M-06).
• ADR-016: C-Level Descriptor Redirection & Atomic SQLite Migrations (M-07, M-08).
• ADR-017: Project-Level Notebook Binding (.notebook_mcp.json) & In-Chat Confirmation Protocol.
• ADR-018: Zero-Friction Autonomous Onboarding Orchestrator & Standalone RFC 6455 CDP Engine.