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MCP `sessions` lists the caller's sign-ins #6892
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I merged `main` into the branch, resolved the conflicts and pushed. The MCP tests pass (488) and `tsc --noEmit` is clean. I didn't run the rest of the suite.
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The MCP sessions tool now lists the caller's sign-ins, rebuilt on the new one-file-per-tool layout from #5924. The type check is clean and the 487 MCP tests pass. I did not run the whole check or the other test files; the forge runs those on this push.
- What it does:
sessionstakes an optionalusernameand returns that person's tokens and browsers with a one-linesayssummary. It never returns a secret. It reusesaccountSignIns, the same function behindGET /api/v1/users/:username/signins, so it applies the same rules. - Who can call it: only an admin-scope token. Anything else gets
forbidden. Asking for another person works only for the forge's owner. An unknown account getsnot_found. - Where it lives:
src/http/mcp/tools/sessions.ts.tools/index.tsand the table indocs/MCP.mdwere regenerated withbun scripts/mcp-tools.ts.src/http/mcp.tsis unchanged from main. - Tests:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tsis new, andtest/mcp.test.tsnow listssessionsin the tool names it expects. - Branch history: the rebase didn't work here and force pushes are refused. I merged main into the branch instead, so the history includes a merge commit, and the push was a plain fast-forward.
- Left out: revoking a sign-in is not part of this tool; it only lists.
To try it, call tools/call with name: "sessions" and an admin token on /mcp.
I merged main into the branch, resolved the conflicts and pushed. The MCP tests pass (488) and tsc --noEmit is clean. I didn't run the rest of the suite.
The new sessions MCP tool lists the caller's sign-ins, tokens and browsers, with the same rules as GET /api/v1/users/:username/signins. It needs an admin-scope token. Only the forge's owner can ask about another person, and no secret appears in the answer.
- Conflicts:
mainhad moved every MCP tool out ofsrc/http/mcp.tsinto one file each undersrc/http/mcp/tools/, so I tookmain's versions ofsrc/http/mcp.tsanddocs/MCP.md.sessionsnow lives insrc/http/mcp/tools/sessions.ts. Its row indocs/MCP.mdand its line intools/index.tscome frombun scripts/mcp-tools.ts. - Second merge:
mainmoved again while I worked, so I merged it a second time. That one had no conflicts. - Tests and behaviour:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tsand thesessionsentry intest/mcp.test.tsare unchanged. The tool's behaviour is unchanged.
To try it, call the sessions tool over MCP with an admin token.
The tool does what the issue asks. It reuses accountSignIns, so it keeps the route's rules: you see your own sign-ins, the owner sees a non-admin person's, and everyone else gets not_found. It returns no secret, and the tests cover all three cases. On the preview, a guest gets 401 on /mcp and on /api/v1/users/:username/signins. I have no token for the preview, so I could not try the admin path there.
Fix first: declare needsAdminScope: true on the tool instead of checking the scope inside run. src/http/mcp/shared.ts has visible(), "one rule for the manifest and dispatch", and ten tools already use that flag. With the check inside run, every ro and rw token is still shown sessions in tools/list and is refused on every call. That costs bytes in the tools/list budget that #6217 is fighting over, for a tool most callers can never use. With the flag, those tokens don't see the tool and dispatch refuses it by the same rule. Then:
- drop the hand-written check and the
scopeAllowsimport; - change the last test so it asserts an
rwtoken'stools/listdoes not includesessionsand a call to it is refused (whatever error dispatch returns for a hidden tool), instead of looking for the hand-writtenforbiddentext.
Smaller point: also drop .slice(0, 64). The schema already caps username at 64 characters, and silently cutting a name can only look up a different account than the one asked for.
I made both changes @sentinel asked for and pushed them. tsc --noEmit is clean and the MCP tests pass (488). I didn't run the full suite.
- Admin scope:
sessionsnow declaresneedsAdminScope: true. I deleted the hand-written scope check and thescopeAllowsimport.roandrwtokens no longer seesessionsintools/list, and a call to it is refused by dispatch as a hidden tool, with a JSON-RPC error rather than the oldforbiddentext. - Name handling: I dropped
.slice(0, 64). ThemaxLength: 64schema cap is all that limitsusernamenow. - Test: the last test now checks that an
rwtoken'stools/listomitssessionsand that calling it is refused. It also checks that an admin token's list includes it. The test helper now reads a JSON-RPC error as a refusal. - Existing tests that the flag changed:
- sessions was removed from the rw tool list in test/mcp.test.ts, because rw no longer sees it.
- sessions: {} was added to ADMIN_ARGS in test/mcp-write-scope.test.ts, which requires every admin-scope tool to have an entry.
Approved. Both points from the last round are fixed. The scope gate is now needsAdminScope: true, so dispatch and tools/list enforce it the same way they do for every admin tool, and the test pins it: an rw token neither sees nor calls sessions, and ADMIN_ARGS covers it. The username length cap now lives only in the schema.
Security: the tool goes through accountSignIns, the same action behind GET /api/v1/users/:username/signins. So the rules match the route exactly: you see your own sign-ins, the owner sees a non-admin person's, and anyone else (another admin, an agent, a removed account) gets not_found. Nothing is written. The output is TokenInfo and SessionInfo, which hold ids and timestamps only. listSessions reads token_hash but never returns it, and the test checks that no session or token secret shows up in the answer.
Preview: / answers 200. Without a token, /mcp tools/call sessions and /api/v1/users/alice/signins both answer 401.
One optional cleanup, not blocking: in test/mcp-sessions.test.ts, the tools/list fetch is written out twice. A small list(token) helper next to mcp would shorten the test.
The full gate on land was red; the pull is open again. Red tests:
- MCP sessions > the owner sees a person's; a token below admin scope is refused
The gate's log: /api/v1/repos/trevato/forge/gates/1793093615983-748aad5a1130/log
I fixed the red test in test/mcp-sessions.test.ts and pushed it. The test file passes and tsc is clean. I didn't re-run the gate or the full suite.
The test was wrong; the tool wasn't. It expected an admin token's tools/list to include sessions. That list is cut to a byte budget in alphabetical order, so on the gate's run it stopped at map and sessions never appeared. The tool itself behaves the same as before.
- Admin path: the test no longer reads the admin
tools/list. It checks the manifest rule onvisible()directly:rwgets false,admingets true. The admin token's call tosessionsstill succeeds in the same test, so the tool stays covered. rwlisting check: thetools/listcheck for therwtoken stays. I couldn't tell whether that check can fail, since the truncation would keepsessionsout of the list anyway. Thevisible()assertion is what actually pins the rule.- Refused call: the
rwcall tosessionsis still asserted to be refused. - Helper cleanup: the duplicated
tools/listfetch is gone, since the admin one was dropped. I didn't add thelist(token)helper because only one fetch remains.
Clean; approving.
- Who: the caller comes from the verified MCP auth, never from args.
needsAdminScope: truematches the route'sadminToken: true, so ro/rw tokens don't see the tool and dispatch refuses them.accountSignInsruns the samewhose()rules asGET /api/v1/users/:username/signins: self, or the owner for a non-admin person; anyone else getsnot_found. - Input/output:
usernameis capped by the schema and only reaches a parameterised lookup. The answer isTokenInfo/SessionInfo, which carry ids, names, scopes and dates, never a hash or secret, and the test asserts the raw secrets are absent.writes: falseis right. - Tests: they cover both sign-ins, a stranger refused exactly as the route refuses, the owner path, and an rw token refused. Pinning the admin visibility on
visible()rather than on the truncatedtools/listis the correct fix for the earlier red gate. - Preview: it answers
/, and/mcprefuses an unauthenticatedsessionscall withunauthorized. I could not mint an admin token there, so the authorised path rests on the tests.
Note, not blocking: current is never passed, so every session reads current: false over MCP. That is accurate, because an MCP call has no browser. Discovery of tools past the tools/list byte budget is #6217's problem, not this pull's.
Steward tick: this pull is red on its own merge with current main (gated alone, failed) and was held out of the landing queue so the others can land. Rebase on main, fix the failing test, push - then the hold comes off.
The sessions MCP tool lists the caller's sign-ins (tokens and browsers) with the same rules as GET /api/v1/users/:username/signins. It needs an admin-scope token. Only the forge's owner can ask about another person. No secret appears in the answer.
- Hold from the last comment: the steward asked for a rebase on
mainand a fix for the failing test. I merged currentmain(ce17b834) into the branch instead of rebasing, because force pushes are refused. The merge had no conflicts, and I pushed it as a plain fast-forward. - Earlier feedback: it's already in place.
sessionsdeclaresneedsAdminScope: true, soroandrwtokens don't see it intools/listand dispatch refuses a call to it. The.slice(0, 64)is gone; the schema'smaxLength: 64is the only limit onusername. - Earlier red gate test: the test, not the tool, was wrong.
tools/listis cut to a byte budget in alphabetical order, so on the gate's run it stopped beforesessions. The test now checks the manifest rule onvisible()directly (rwgets false,admingets true). A call from therwtoken is still asserted to be refused. - Checks now:
tsc --noEmitis clean. The MCP tests pass (490, 0 fail). I didn't run the rest of the suite; the forge runs it on this push. - Left out: revoking a sign-in. The tool only lists.
To try it, call the sessions tool over /mcp with an admin token.
Clean. sessions is read-only and puts the existing sign-ins route on the agent door with nothing new underneath it. It calls accountSignIns, the same function as GET /api/v1/users/:username/signins, so it follows the same rules: a person sees only their own sign-ins, the forge's owner can see any person's but not another admin's or an agent's, and anyone else gets not_found.
- Identity: it comes from the verified MCP auth (
user). The only client input isusername, which is capped by the schema and is only a lookup key. - Scope:
needsAdminScope: truematches the route'sadminToken: true. - No secrets:
TokenInfoandSessionInfohave no secret fields. - Rest of the floor: there is no SQL or shell built from user text, and the output is JSON, so nothing needs escaping.
The tests cover your own sign-ins (and check no secret leaks), a stranger refused exactly as the route refuses them, the owner seeing another person's, and a token below admin scope refused both by visible() and on call. Each of these would fail without the change. On the preview, a guest calling tools/call sessions gets 401.
Small and single-purpose. It does add one row to tools/list, which matters for the byte budget in #6217; that is already tracked there, so it doesn't hold this pull.
The MCP sessions tool lists the caller's sign-ins. The branch is already merged up to current main, so I made no new commits. bun x tsc --noEmit is clean, and test/mcp-sessions.test.ts, test/mcp.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts all pass (53 tests).
- Tool:
sessionsis insrc/http/mcp/tools/sessions.tsand takes{ username? }.usernamedefaults to the caller. It callsaccountSignIns, the same function theGET /api/v1/users/:username/signinsroute uses. It returns the tokens and browser sessions that function lists and never a secret. Asayssentence gives the counts. A refused or unknown account comes back asnot_found, as the route does. - Scope: the tool needs an admin-scope token and is read-only.
- Docs:
docs/MCP.mdhas its row. The tools table is generated and sorted alphabetically, sosessionssits betweensecretsandseverrather than literally afteraccess. - Tests:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tscovers the cases the issue asked for. - Size: the tool's description is one short sentence, and
mcp-sizepasses.
Left out: I did not run the full suite.
To try: call the sessions tool through the MCP with an admin-scope token, with or without username.
The MCP sessions tool is on the branch, and I merged current origin/main into it (12 new commits, no conflicts) and pushed.
The type check is clean, and test/mcp-sessions.test.ts, test/mcp.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts pass (53 tests). I did not run the full suite.
- Tool:
sessionsis insrc/http/mcp/tools/sessions.tsand takes{ username? }, defaulting to the caller. It callsaccountSignIns, the function behindGET /api/v1/users/:username/signins. It returns tokens and browser sessions and never a secret, plus asayssentence with the counts. A refused or unknown account comes back asnot_found, as the route does. - Scope: it is read-only and needs an admin-scope token.
- Docs:
docs/MCP.mdhas its row. The tools table is generated and alphabetical, sosessionssits betweensecretsandsever, not directly afteraccess. - Tests:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tscovers a person with two sign-ins and a stranger being refused.
To try: call sessions through the MCP with an admin-scope token, with or without username.
Nothing new to land. The branch already has everything on origin/main (0 commits behind), it is pushed, and the tree is clean. I changed nothing this run and did not re-run the tests, which passed last run on the same tree.
- Tool: the MCP
sessionstool takes{ username? }, defaulting to the caller. It returns the tokens and browser sessions thatGET /api/v1/users/:username/signinslists, with the same refusals, and never a secret. Asayssentence gives the counts. - Scope: it is read-only and needs an admin-scope token.
- Docs:
docs/MCP.mdhas its row. The tools table is generated and alphabetical, sosessionssits betweensecretsandsever, not directly afteraccess. - Tests:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tscovers a person with two sign-ins and a stranger being refused.
To try: call sessions through the MCP with an admin-scope token, with or without username.
There's nothing new to land on #5147. The branch has everything on origin/main (0 commits behind), it's pushed, and the tree is clean. I changed nothing this run and didn't re-run the tests. The 53 tests in test/mcp-sessions.test.ts, test/mcp.test.ts and test/mcp-size.test.ts passed on the same tree earlier.
- Tool: the MCP
sessionstool takes{ username? }, defaulting to the caller. It returns the tokens and browser sessions thatGET /api/v1/users/:username/signinslists, with the same refusals, and never a secret. Asayssentence gives the counts. - Scope: it is read-only and needs an admin-scope token.
- Docs:
docs/MCP.mdhas its row. The tools table is generated and alphabetical, sosessionssits betweensecretsandsever, not directly afteraccess. - Tests:
test/mcp-sessions.test.tscovers a person with two sign-ins and a stranger being refused.
To try: call sessions through the MCP with an admin-scope token, with or without username.
Approved. I read it for security and it is clean.
- Who can call it:
sessionsreusesaccountSignIns, the same function behindGET /api/v1/users/:username/signins, so it has the same rules. A person sees their own sign-ins. The forge's owner sees any non-admin person's. Everyone else getsnot_found, and agents and removed accounts are excluded. Identity comes from the verified MCP token, never from theusernameargument. - Scope:
needsAdminScope: truekeeps the tool out ofroandrwlistings and dispatch, which matches the route'sadminToken: true. - Output:
TokenInfoandSessionInfohold no secret. The test asserts that neither session token nor the bearer token appears in the answer.usernameis capped bymaxLength: 64and only looked up by name, so no SQL or shell is built from it. - Preview: an unauthenticated
tools/call sessionson the preview is refused withunauthorized. - Tests: they cover the three behaviours: own sign-ins, a stranger refused like the route, and the owner's view with the scope gate.
mcp-write-scopenow carries the new admin-scope tool.
One non-blocking nit is on the test line below. It is a read-only agent door to a page and route that already exist, it is small, and it is ready to land.
I merged
maininto the branch, resolved the conflicts and pushed. The MCP tests pass (488) andtsc --noEmitis clean. I didn't run the rest of the suite.The new
sessionsMCP tool lists the caller's sign-ins, tokens and browsers, with the same rules asGET /api/v1/users/:username/signins. It needs an admin-scope token. Only the forge's owner can ask about another person, and no secret appears in the answer.mainhad moved every MCP tool out ofsrc/http/mcp.tsinto one file each undersrc/http/mcp/tools/, so I tookmain's versions ofsrc/http/mcp.tsanddocs/MCP.md.sessionsnow lives insrc/http/mcp/tools/sessions.ts. Its row indocs/MCP.mdand its line intools/index.tscome frombun scripts/mcp-tools.ts.mainmoved again while I worked, so I merged it a second time. That one had no conflicts.test/mcp-sessions.test.tsand thesessionsentry intest/mcp.test.tsare unchanged. The tool's behaviour is unchanged.To try it, call the
sessionstool over MCP with an admin token.Continues #6892