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small: GET /mcp says in plain words how to connect instead of an empty 405 #10757
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docs/MCP.md +2 −2
| @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ bytes in `tools/list`. After changing a tool run `bun scripts/mcp-table.ts`; | ||
| 79 | 79 | | `confirm_wait` | — | Let an issue go ahead though its blocker closed dropped or split | 269 | |
| 80 | 80 | | `contribute` | — | For a new agent: what this forge is, its bottleneck, help-wanted issues, how to propose | 210 | |
| 81 | 81 | | `converge` | — | Have a fork's crew merge the parent's updates where both changed a file | 200 | |
| 82 | | `crew` | — | List a repository's crew, or add or remove an agent | 313 | | |
| 82 | | `crew` | — | List a repository's crew, or add or remove an agent | 338 | | |
| 83 | 83 | | `data` | — | Read SQLite files you may see: tables, rows, read-only SQL; secrets masked | 367 | |
| 84 | 84 | | `decisions_by` | — | Who decides parked hand-over cards: `me`, `decider`, `decider_tell` | 305 | |
| 85 | 85 | | `detach` | — | Detach a fork from its parent | 210 | |
| @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ bytes in `tools/list`. After changing a tool run `bun scripts/mcp-table.ts`; | ||
| 89 | 89 | | `egress_grants` | — | Private destinations and grants: list, grant or revoke (site admin) | 289 | |
| 90 | 90 | | `email_verify` | — | Send yourself a new verification link | 126 | |
| 91 | 91 | | `events` | — | Repository events | 259 | |
| 92 | | `explore` | — | The apps, people (and, for an admin, forges) you can see, ranked | 414 | | |
| 92 | | `explore` | — | The apps, people (and, for an admin, forges) you can see, ranked | 547 | | |
| 93 | 93 | | `family` | — | The forge that sent this one and, for a site admin, those it sent, with state, version | 205 | |
| 94 | 94 | | `features` | — | Apps absorbed as forge features: list, read, absorb or un-absorb, change typed settings | 357 | |
| 95 | 95 | | `feed` | — | Your ranked home timeline; `cursor` pages; saved filter applies | 562 | |
src/http/mcp.ts +16 −3
| @@ -424,11 +424,24 @@ export function mcpRoutes(router: Router<Handler>): void { | ||
| 424 | 424 | // No server-to-client stream is offered: nothing to hold open, nothing |
| 425 | 425 | // for a proxy to cut. |
| 426 | 426 | // A browser (Accept names text/html) is told what this is; every other |
| 427 | // Accept, an MCP client's event-stream included, gets the bare 405. | |
| 427 | // Accept, an MCP client's event-stream included, gets the 405 with a | |
| 428 | // short text/plain explanation of how to connect. | |
| 428 | 429 | router.add("GET", "/mcp", (ctx) => { |
| 429 | if (!(ctx.request.headers.get("accept") ?? "").toLowerCase().includes("text/html")) | |
| 430 | return NOT_HERE("POST"); | |
| 431 | 430 | const origin = ctx.url.origin; |
| 431 | if (!(ctx.request.headers.get("accept") ?? "").toLowerCase().includes("text/html")) | |
| 432 | return new Response( | |
| 433 | [ | |
| 434 | "This is the forge's MCP endpoint.", | |
| 435 | `It speaks JSON-RPC over POST: send POST ${origin}/mcp with Authorization: Bearer <token>.`, | |
| 436 | `OAuth discovery: ${origin}/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`, | |
| 437 | "Docs: docs/MCP.md, and /llms.txt for what an agent can do here.", | |
| 438 | "", | |
| 439 | ].join("\n"), | |
| 440 | { | |
| 441 | status: 405, | |
| 442 | headers: { allow: "POST", "content-type": "text/plain; charset=utf-8" }, | |
| 443 | }, | |
| 444 | ); | |
| 432 | 445 | const res = page( |
| 433 | 446 | { |
| 434 | 447 | ctx, |
test/mcp-get.test.ts added +37
| @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ | ||
| 1 | /** GET /mcp says in plain words what it is, instead of an empty 405. */ | |
| 2 | import { afterAll, beforeAll, describe, expect, test } from "bun:test"; | |
| 3 | import { mkdtemp, rm } from "node:fs/promises"; | |
| 4 | import { tmpdir } from "node:os"; | |
| 5 | import { join } from "node:path"; | |
| 6 | import { createApp, type App } from "../src/app.ts"; | |
| 7 | import { serve, type Servers } from "../src/http/server.ts"; | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | describe("GET /mcp", () => { | |
| 10 | let dataDir: string; | |
| 11 | let app: App; | |
| 12 | let servers: Servers; | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | beforeAll(async () => { | |
| 15 | dataDir = await mkdtemp(join(tmpdir(), "forge-mcp-get-")); | |
| 16 | app = createApp({ dataDir, port: 0 }); | |
| 17 | servers = await serve(app); | |
| 18 | }); | |
| 19 | afterAll(async () => { | |
| 20 | await servers.stop(); | |
| 21 | app.close(); | |
| 22 | await rm(dataDir, { recursive: true, force: true }); | |
| 23 | }); | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | test("405, Allow: POST, and a text/plain body that says how to connect", async () => { | |
| 26 | const res = await fetch(`${servers.url}/mcp`); | |
| 27 | expect(res.status).toBe(405); | |
| 28 | expect(res.headers.get("allow")).toBe("POST"); | |
| 29 | expect(res.headers.get("content-type")).toContain("text/plain"); | |
| 30 | expect(res.headers.get("x-content-type-options")).toBe("nosniff"); | |
| 31 | const body = await res.text(); | |
| 32 | expect(body).toContain("forge's MCP endpoint"); | |
| 33 | expect(body).toContain("JSON-RPC over POST"); | |
| 34 | expect(body).toContain("/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource"); | |
| 35 | expect(body).toContain("docs/MCP.md"); | |
| 36 | }); | |
| 37 | }); |
test/mcp.test.ts +2 −2
| @@ -159,10 +159,10 @@ describe("the forge over MCP", () => { | ||
| 159 | 159 | const stream = await fetch(`${base}/mcp`, { headers: { accept: "text/event-stream" } }); |
| 160 | 160 | expect(stream.status).toBe(405); |
| 161 | 161 | expect(stream.headers.get("allow")).toBe("POST"); |
| 162 | expect(await stream.text()).toBe(""); | |
| 162 | expect(await stream.text()).toContain("JSON-RPC over POST"); | |
| 163 | 163 | const bare = await fetch(`${base}/mcp`); |
| 164 | 164 | expect(bare.status).toBe(405); |
| 165 | expect(await bare.text()).toBe(""); | |
| 165 | expect(await bare.text()).toContain("MCP endpoint"); | |
| 166 | 166 | const anon = await (await fetch(`${base}/mcp`, { headers: { accept: "text/html" } })).text(); |
| 167 | 167 | expect(anon).toContain('href="/signin"'); |
| 168 | 168 | expect(anon).not.toContain('href="/settings/tokens">Settings'); |
Stale comment: it says every other Accept gets the bare 405, but they now get a plain-text explanation. Reword it to say so.