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What does this PR do?

Remote MCP OAuth can select an unusable browser, lose protected-resource information, or leave callback workers behind after timeout/cancellation. This backports the OAuth fixes from dev/tui: resource propagation through authorization and token requests, state validation, reliable manual callbacks and registration retries, and bounded callback-server cleanup.

Unexpected callback-worker failures now wake the OAuth caller and report the actual failure instead of waiting for a misleading timeout. Expected socket-close races during shutdown remain suppressed.

This PR is independently based on main cf28719f, including the latest reasoning controls, summarizer lifecycle, and #328. OAuth changes have been removed from #330.

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Latest review follow-up e00e89c9 preserves the legacy positional OAuthConfig signature and closes callback resources on cancellation/timeout during registration or browser opening. 138 MCP tests pass, including six new cases that reproduced the review findings before the fix.

  • 132 MCP tests passed after rebase, including three new worker-failure regressions for OSError, ValueError and RuntimeError. All three reproduced the bug before the fix. They verify prompt failure reporting, no uncaught worker error, a closed listener, and a retired thread.
  • Existing timeout/cancellation race and client-credentials resource-form regressions pass.
  • Repository Ruff lint/format and diff checks pass.
  • Independent rebase review approved the exact candidate; no patch changes were introduced by replaying onto main.

Related issues

Independent OAuth extraction from dev/tui; #330 carries the shared coding/session implementation separately.

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  • Code follows project style
  • Relevant tests pass
  • New source files carry an SPDX license header

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • OAuth resource indicators are supported across authorization, token, refresh-token, and client-credentials flows.
    • Protected-resource discovery carries resource information into OAuth configuration and token refreshes.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved authorization-state validation, callback security, redirect handling, and registration retries.
    • Applied timeouts consistently across loopback authorization and improved cancellation cleanup.
    • Improved browser detection in headless, sandboxed, and SSH environments.
    • Preserved compatibility for existing positional OAuth configuration usage.

Wren review follow-up (6d6814f): invalid-state loopback requests are rejected without ending the pending login; matching-state callbacks without a code report a malformed response instead of a timeout; failed browser launches display the authorization URL; pasted callback URLs with a query but no code are rejected. Seven regression cases failed before these fixes and pass afterward. Latest validation: all 144 MCP tests pass, Ruff lint and formatting pass.

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OAuth now preserves positional configuration compatibility, propagates protected-resource values, validates authorization state, bounds manual and loopback operations, improves cleanup, and rejects unsuitable browser environments. Tests cover these changes.

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OAuth flow updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Protected-resource propagation
src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py, tests/test_mcp/test_oauth_discovery.py
OAuthConfig retains positional compatibility. Discovery propagates the advertised resource to authorization, token, refresh-token, and client-credentials requests.
Authorization state and manual flow
src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py, tests/test_mcp/test_oauth_discovery.py
Authorization requests generate and validate state values. Manual flows normalize callbacks, preserve registered redirects, retry dynamic registration, and enforce prompt timeouts.
Loopback callback lifecycle
src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py, tests/test_mcp/test_oauth_discovery.py
Loopback callbacks validate state and bound socket waits. Registration, browser launch, and callback waiting share one timeout. Cleanup closes the server and joins workers.
Browser selection and fallback behavior
src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py, tests/test_mcp/test_browser_detection.py, tests/test_mcp/test_oauth_discovery.py
Browser detection rejects headless SSH and sandbox sessions. Tests cover environment isolation, launcher detection, forwarded display metadata, and fallback behavior.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OAuthHandler
  participant AuthorizationServer
  participant CallbackServer
  participant CallbackThread
  OAuthHandler->>AuthorizationServer: send state and resource
  AuthorizationServer-->>OAuthHandler: return authorization response
  OAuthHandler->>CallbackServer: start loopback callback
  CallbackServer->>CallbackThread: accept callback with timeout
  CallbackThread->>OAuthHandler: provide validated state and code
  OAuthHandler->>AuthorizationServer: exchange code with resource
  AuthorizationServer-->>OAuthHandler: return tokens
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Users whose browser launcher returns failure can wait until OAuth times out without receiving a URL to open manually. Add the fallback before merging.

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In `@src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py`:
- Around line 632-633: Update the serve() callback worker to catch and safely
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- Around line 124-125: Update _clear_remote_runtime_signals to delete
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737-745: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert resource in the client-credentials form.

test_client_credentials_token_success creates OAuthConfig without resource, so it does not cover the resource form field. A removal or rename of that field can pass the test even though handle_mcp_oauth() populates it from protected-resource metadata before calling client_credentials_token(). Add resource="https://maas.example/confluence/mcp" to the config and assert captured["data"]["resource"] has that value.

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In `@src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py` around lines 737 - 745, Add
resource="https://maas.example/confluence/mcp" to the OAuthConfig in
test_client_credentials_token_success and assert captured["data"]["resource"]
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In `@src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py`:
- Around line 737-745: Add resource="https://maas.example/confluence/mcp" to the
OAuthConfig in test_client_credentials_token_success and assert
captured["data"]["resource"] matches that value, covering the resource field
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Addressed the client-credentials resource-propagation suggestion from review 5197910611 in 49da882. The success test now configures the protected resource and asserts its exact value in the posted token form. All 129 MCP tests pass. The earlier two inline findings remain resolved.

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632-641: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate exceptions that escape server.handle_request().

serve() re-raises OSError and ValueError while done is unset, and other unexpected exceptions also escape the worker. The worker then stops without setting done or error_info. _capture_code_via_local_server() waits until its timeout and reports a misleading callback timeout. Store the worker exception in the existing error state and signal done before cleanup.

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In `@src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py` around lines 632 - 641, Update the local callback
server worker around server.handle_request() so any exception that escapes it is
stored in the existing error_info state and done is signaled before cleanup,
including OSError, ValueError, and unexpected exceptions. Preserve the existing
timeout handling and ensure _capture_code_via_local_server() observes the worker
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- Around line 632-641: Update the local callback server worker around
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Addressed the outside-diff callback-worker finding in review 5198349747. Commit 4b48035 records unexpected worker exceptions in the OAuth error state and wakes the caller through the event loop; expected socket-close shutdown races remain suppressed. Three regression cases (OSError, ValueError, RuntimeError) reproduced the timeout bug before the fix and now verify prompt error reporting and full thread/socket cleanup. All 132 MCP tests pass on the rebased branch. Independent rebase review approved this head. OAuth remains isolated in this PR and has been removed from #330.

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I reviewed commit 49da8823 and ran the MCP suite locally: 129 tests passed. Two additional checks reproduced the following:

  1. New regression: OAuthConfig.resource changes existing positional arguments.
    In oauth.py:60, resource is inserted before client_secret. An existing call such as OAuthConfig(auth_endpoint, token_endpoint, client_id, redirect_uri, scope, client_secret) now assigns the secret to resource and leaves client_secret=None. I verified that the supplied secret then appears in the authorization URL as the resource query parameter. This breaks authentication and can expose the secret through browser URLs and URL logging. Repository callers use keyword arguments, but external positional callers of this exported config class are affected. I would fix this before merging: append resource after all existing fields, or make only the new field keyword-only, and cover the old positional signature in a regression test.

  2. Pre-existing cleanup gap: cancellation during browser_open still leaks the callback worker.
    The hook is awaited at oauth.py:617, before the new cleanup try/finally begins. With a pending browser hook, cancelling the authorization task leaves the callback worker alive and its listener open; I reproduced the worker remaining alive more than two seconds after cancellation. The configured callback timeout also does not cover this hook. This is a moderate reliability issue already present before this PR, rather than a new regression, so I would not block this PR solely on it. To complete the cleanup guarantee, cover the entire bound-server lifetime with cleanup, including registration and browser opening, and test cancellation while the hook is pending.

The overall direction looks useful, particularly preserving registered redirect URIs, validating callback state, and propagating resource indicators.

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Addressed both findings in Alessio's review in e00e89c.

  • Appended resource after every existing OAuthConfig field, preserving both the six-argument and full eight-argument positional signatures. Regression checks verify the client secret remains a secret and never appears in the authorization URL.
  • Cleanup now spans the entire bound callback-server lifetime, including cancellation during registration before thread startup and during a pending browser hook. A single timeout covers registration, browser-hook opening and callback receipt; cleanup only joins a thread if it actually started.

All six new positional/cancellation/timeout cases failed before the fix and pass afterward. The full MCP suite passes: 138 tests. Ruff lint/format and diff checks pass. OAuth remains isolated from #330.

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- Around line 633-634: Update the OAuth browser-launch flow around
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LGTM 🙏

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furgalep force-pushed the backport/mcp-oauth-reliability branch from f06deb5 to 6d6814f Compare September 14, 2026 15:36
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Brings main up to the merge of PR #341, which makes stable-prefix
caching automatic for Responses clients, plus the MCP OAuth
reliability backport (#329) and the SnapshotVars fix.

Conflict resolution:
- src/nooa/mcp/oauth.py, tests/test_mcp/test_oauth_discovery.py: take
  main. PR #329 is the backport of this branch's own OAuth fixes with
  later hardening (stray callbacks ignored, worker failures reported,
  thread guard); nothing from dev/tui is lost.
- src/nooa/slash_dispatch.py, tests/test_mcp/test_browser_detection.py:
  take main (superset of the dev/tui line).
- packages/nooa-cli/tests/test_coding_slash_commands.py: keep dev/tui's
  markdown-discovery and quoted-argument tests, take main's
  parametrised string-annotation test.

Verified on the merged tree with the checkout's own environment:
tests/test_mcp, tests/unifiedllm, tests/context_blocks, tests/storage,
packages/nooa-cli/tests (see merge report).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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