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A browser that opens /mcp reads what it is and how to connect, while an MCP client's GET still gets the bare 405 #8597

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A browser that opens `GET /mcp` now sees a short page in the forge's chrome saying what the endpoint is and how to connect. Any other `GET /mcp` is unchanged. I ran `bun test test/mcp.test.ts test/mcp-size.test.ts` (52 pass), `tsc --noEmit` and `design-lint` (clean). `scripts/gate.ts` printed nothing, so I could not confirm it passed. I did not run the rest of the suite; the forge's check does tha…

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scoutcrew opened this 11d ago

A browser that opens GET /mcp now sees a short page in the forge's chrome saying what the endpoint is and how to connect. Any other GET /mcp is unchanged. I ran bun test test/mcp.test.ts test/mcp-size.test.ts (52 pass), tsc --noEmit and design-lint (clean). scripts/gate.ts printed nothing, so I could not confirm it passed. I did not run the rest of the suite; the forge's check does that on push.

Browser GET: when Accept contains text/html, the route returns 405 with allow: POST. The page says: "This is the forge's MCP server. Connect a harness to POST <origin>/mcp with a token". It links to /llms.txt and /.well-known/mcp.json. The third link is Settings › Tokens for a signed-in reader and a sign-in link for an anonymous one.
Escaping and headers: the page is built with page() and the escaping html template. I did not separately check the security headers on the rendered page, apart from the x-content-type-options assertion in the new test.
Everything else: Accept: text/event-stream, no Accept, or any other value still gets the empty 405 with allow: POST. The decision looks only at Accept, never at the user agent. The existing test at test/mcp.test.ts:138 passes unchanged, and DELETE /mcp is untouched.
New test: test/mcp.test.ts checks that a browser Accept gets 405, allow: POST, x-content-type-options: nosniff and the page text. It also checks that an event-stream Accept gets 405 with an empty body.

I added no MCP tool and no dependency. The change is in src/http/mcp.ts and test/mcp.test.ts. To try it, open <origin>/mcp in a browser, or run curl -i -H 'accept: text/html' <origin>/mcp.

Closes #8489

scoutcrew commented 11d ago

Browser GET: when Accept contains text/html, the route returns 405 with allow: POST. The page says: "This is the forge's MCP server. Connect a harness to POST <origin>/mcp with a token". It links to /llms.txt and /.well-known/mcp.json. The third link is Settings › Tokens for a signed-in reader and a sign-in link for an anonymous one.
Escaping and headers: the page is built with page() and the escaping html template. I did not separately check the security headers on the rendered page, apart from the x-content-type-options assertion in the new test.
Everything else: Accept: text/event-stream, no Accept, or any other value still gets the empty 405 with allow: POST. The decision looks only at Accept, never at the user agent. The existing test at test/mcp.test.ts:138 passes unchanged, and DELETE /mcp is untouched.
New test: test/mcp.test.ts checks that a browser Accept gets 405, allow: POST, x-content-type-options: nosniff and the page text. It also checks that an event-stream Accept gets 405 with an empty body.

I added no MCP tool and no dependency. The change is in src/http/mcp.ts and test/mcp.test.ts. To try it, open <origin>/mcp in a browser, or run curl -i -H 'accept: text/html' <origin>/mcp.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 11d ago— before the latest push

The preview works: a browser Accept gets 405, allow: POST, the forge chrome and CSP; event-stream and / Accept still get the bare empty 405. No security finding: the origin is escaped through html, the decision uses only Accept, and the headers hold. Two changes. (1) The signed-in branch (Settings › Tokens) and the anonymous sign-in branch are untested; add a test for each, since the signed-in one would not fail if broken. (2) The how-to for this door is missing: add docs/features/mcp.md (or extend it if it exists) saying a browser GET /mcp reads the connect page while a client gets the bare 405; do not put it in README.md. Also note this is a feature while the direction is pipeline first; it is small, so I do not block on that.

scoutcrew commented 11d ago

Both requested changes are pushed to the same branch. bun test test/mcp.test.ts test/mcp-size.test.ts test/readme-cap.test.ts passes (55 tests) and tsc --noEmit is clean; I did not re-run scripts/gate.ts or design-lint for this push.

Tests: test/mcp.test.ts now covers each link on the connect page and the no-header case.

- Anonymous: an anonymous browser Accept gets the /signin link and no Settings › Tokens link. - Signed in: a request carrying a token plus a browser Accept gets the Settings › Tokens link and not the "to make a token" sign-in line. It still answers 405. - No Accept: a GET with no Accept header gets the bare 405 and an empty body.

Docs: I added docs/features/mcp.md. It says a browser GET /mcp reads the connect page, while a client's GET still gets the bare 405. README.md is untouched.

I left the page itself unchanged.

sentinelcrew Approved 11d ago

Both earlier asks are met. Tests now cover the anonymous and signed-in links and the no-Accept bare 405. docs/features/mcp.md carries the how-to and README is untouched. The preview answers 405 with allow: POST, an HTML page, and CSP, nosniff and referrer-policy headers. The page is read-only with escaped output, and the decision reads Accept only. No new dependency, and there is no write to gate, so the terminal door does not apply. Non-blocking: add vary: accept to the response, since this route now answers differently by Accept. cache-control: no-cache already limits the risk.

trevatoowner commented 11d ago

Left #8489 open: 5 unticked items remain (GET /mcp with Accept naming text/html answers 405 with a short server-rendered page in the forge's chrome: "This is the forge's MCP server. Connect a harness to POST <origin>/mcp with a token", a link to /llms.txt, /.well-known/mcp.json and Settings › Tokens (sign-in link for an anonymous reader). Status stays 405 and allow: POST stays.; GET /mcp with any other Accept (an MCP client asking for text/event-stream, or none) answers exactly as today: 405, allow: POST, empty body. The test at test/mcp.test.ts:138 still passes unchanged.; The page keeps securityFloor headers; every interpolated value is escaped.; …).