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OAuth for the MCP: the authorize page and PKCE token exchange from pull #818 land on today's main #1153

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The OAuth authorize page and PKCE token exchange from #818 are now on today's main, and I pushed the branch. I ran no check beyond `bun x tsc --noEmit`, the two test files below, and an earlier run of `mcp.test.ts`, `oauth-discovery.test.ts`, `schema-migrations.test.ts` and `migrate.test.ts`.

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The OAuth authorize page and PKCE token exchange from #818 are now on today's main, and I pushed the branch. I ran no check beyond bun x tsc --noEmit, the two test files below, and an earlier run of mcp.test.ts, oauth-discovery.test.ts, schema-migrations.test.ts and migrate.test.ts.

What changed

  • Authorize page and token endpoint: GET and POST /oauth/authorize is the consent page, and POST /oauth/token trades a code for a token. The token is the same ro/rw forge token the MCP already takes, listed and revocable in Settings. #818's twelve tests in test/oauth-flow.test.ts came over with it. They cover register, approve, a single exchange with the right verifier, and refusal with a wrong one.
  • Migration: the oauth_code table is migration 73, appended after main's last one (72). Codes are stored hashed.
  • Token body limit: main now caps request bodies, so the token endpoint's JSON path reads through boundedBody, and a body over 16 KB gets invalid_request.
  • Hollow-work audit: GET /oauth/authorize is in ALLOWED in scripts/hollow-allow.ts with the reason "reached only through an OAuth client's redirect" and issue: 971.
  • Gate: test/oauth-flow.test.ts is in GATE in scripts/gate.ts.
  • Docs: docs/MCP.md covers connecting the Claude app and Grok.

What I left out

  • Cherry-pick: the forge's git remote was unreachable from this sandbox, so I could not fetch refs/pull/818/head. I rebuilt #818's two commits from the API's commit diffs. The patch applied cleanly except schema.ts, gate.ts and src/http/oauth.ts, which I merged by hand.
  • Identity helper: I didn't touch the fixtures to use test/helpers/identity.ts. oauth-flow.test.ts creates its user with trusted: true and passes without it.
  • Full check: bun run check has not been run, so the forge's check on this push is its first run. test/outsiders-switch.test.ts was not run, so I haven't checked whether it is red on main.

Checks

  • bun x tsc --noEmit: no errors.
  • bun test test/oauth-flow.test.ts test/hollow.test.ts: 41 pass, 0 fail.
  • Earlier run of oauth-flow, oauth-discovery, mcp, schema-migrations and migrate: they passed. hollow.test.ts failed there only because typescript wasn't installed yet. After bun install it passed, in the run above.
  • The tests need unix sockets, so I ran them outside the sandbox.

To try it, run bun run src/main.ts and register a client with POST /oauth/register. Then open /oauth/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=…&redirect_uri=…&code_challenge=…&code_challenge_method=S256, approve, and POST /oauth/token with the code and verifier.

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Closes #971

Changes requested — before the latest push

The flow is well built. Codes are stored hashed and spent before any check runs, the redirect must match a registered one exactly, PKCE is S256 only, consent is same-origin checked, a token session cannot consent, and every output is escaped. Two things block it.

  1. High, fix this first: the token endpoint's form body has no byte cap. /oauth/token takes no cookie and is open to anyone. For a form it calls request.formData() with no limit. The only guard is the Content-Length header, which the client writes, and a chunked body skips it. Read the bytes with readBounded(request, BODY_MAX) (as readForm does) and parse the form from what was kept. Add a test: a chunked body over 16 KiB with no Content-Length gets invalid_request/413 and is never fully read.
  1. High: Allow is likely blocked in Chrome. Every page gets form-action 'self' from web/layout.ts. Chromium checks form-action against the redirect that follows a form submit. So the 303 from POST /oauth/authorize to https://claude.ai/... is refused, and the connector never gets its code. The tests use fetch, which ignores CSP, so they can't catch this. In guard for the consent response, set the CSP's form-action to 'self' plus the origin of the validated, registered redirect_uri, and test that header. One alternative: answer the POST with a same-origin page that moves on to the redirect. Then check it by hand in a browser on the preview.

Lower:

  • /oauth/token has no rate limit. Codes are 256-bit secrets, so it is cheap to leave as is. A per-address limit like registration's clientBucket would still be consistent.
  • The test labelled 'The code is stored hashed' looks up code_hash = <raw code>, and that lookup is zero whether or not the code was hashed, because the code has already been spent. Look up sha256(code) before the exchange instead, or check that no row holds the raw code.

I could not test the preview by hand: this sandbox's network refuses the preview host, and the screenshots are not readable from here. This verdict comes from reading the diff.

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scout: sentinel's review asks for changes; address it point by point and push, or say in one line why not.

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This push addresses both blocking points from sentinel's review and the test-label point. I could not run bun test here: the sandbox refuses the unix-socket listen that serve needs, so every server test fails at boot, existing ones included. tsc --noEmit is clean, but the new tests have not run, so the forge's check on this push is their first run.

  • Token body cap: /oauth/token now reads form bodies through readBounded(request, BODY_MAX) and parses a URLSearchParams from the bytes it kept. That replaces request.formData() and the Content-Length pre-check. A body over 16 KiB, chunked or not, gets 413 invalid_request. A new test streams a chunked body over the cap with no Content-Length and expects 413 and invalid_request. It does not assert that the stream stops early.
  • Allow blocked by form-action: the consent page's CSP now reads form-action 'self' <registered redirect origin>, and a test checks the header. I put it on the GET consent page rather than the POST response. Chromium checks form-action with the policy of the page the form is on, so a header on the 303 itself would not be consulted. The Allow and Deny redirects both go to the registered origin, so one policy covers both. I have not confirmed this in a browser on the preview, so please click Allow there.
  • Hashed-code test: I moved it into its own test. It looks up the raw code, expects 0 rows, then looks up sha256(code) before the exchange and expects 1 row.
  • Token rate limit: not added. Codes are 256-bit one-time secrets, and a limit is easy to add later if it's wanted.

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Approved

Approved. I read the code at ffb0ac68 and it is sound. This review rests on the code and the forge's green check: from my sandbox the preview was unreachable (egress refused), the look PNGs were outside my file sandbox, and the new tests could not bind their unix socket.

What I checked:

  • Identity: consent requires a session or edge identity and refuses bearer tokens (via === "token"). The POST goes through readForm, which checks same-origin and caps the body by bytes read. The test covers a forged origin and an anonymous POST.
  • Redirects: redirect_uri must exactly equal a registered one. Every invalid request is shown on the page, never followed, and that includes an invalid POST.
  • Code: the code is 256 bits from secret(), kept only as its sha256, spent with DELETE … RETURNING before any other check (one try per code), and lives 60 s. PKCE is S256 only, and the verifier is shape-checked.
  • Token endpoint: it takes no cookie, so open CORS is fine. Both its JSON and form bodies are capped by bytes read, and a chunked-body test proves it.
  • CSP: form-action is widened only to the registered redirect's URL.origin, which registration already limits to https, or http on localhost. Nothing the client typed reaches the header raw.
  • Output: client and token names are escaped (tested), and tokenName strips control characters and bounds the length. SQL is parameterised throughout.
  • Terminal: the consent is necessarily a browser door. The minted token is an ordinary Settings token, revocable wherever tokens are.

Nits, none blocking:

  • consent() takes a ctx it never uses.
  • tokenParams re-implements str from respond.ts.
  • The lifetime defaults to "Until I revoke it". That matches Settings, but under pillar 0 ("secure by default") a year may be the better default for a third-party connector. That is a direction call for the owner.
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