Authenticate MCP requests through the same logic as the REST API gate - #5272
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMCP server creation and route mounting are now separate. MCP authentication uses shared JWT verification and revocation checks. Authenticated security context is passed to MCP handlers. Server startup builds the guard after revocation initialization. ChangesShared MCP authentication
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to MCP now shares REST token authentication and revocation handling, but unresolved discovery, compatibility, and documentation concerns can prevent standards-based clients or existing self-issued tokens from working as intended. The JWT-verification failure path also lacks direct test coverage, so these issues should be addressed before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
participant MCPGuard
participant BearerAuthenticator
participant JWTService
participant RevocationEnforcer
participant MCPHandler
MCPClient->>MCPGuard: Send bearer token
MCPGuard->>BearerAuthenticator: Authenticate token
BearerAuthenticator->>JWTService: Verify bearer token
BearerAuthenticator->>RevocationEnforcer: Check revocation
BearerAuthenticator-->>MCPGuard: Return SecurityContext
MCPGuard->>MCPHandler: Attach SecurityContext and forward request
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In `@backend/internal/system/security/bearer_authenticator.go`:
- Around line 30-47: Update the MCP documentation in mcp-server.mdx to describe
shared REST/MCP token verification, revocation enforcement, and that the
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| func (a *BearerAuthenticator) Authenticate(ctx context.Context, token string) (*SecurityContext, error) { | ||
| securityCtx, err := AuthenticateBearerToken(ctx, a.jwtService, token) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
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| // Revoked tokens are rejected as invalid, not disclosed as specifically revoked — same as the | ||
| // REST gate's securityService.Process. | ||
| if err := a.revocationEnforcer.EnsureNotRevoked(ctx, RevocationIdentity{ | ||
| JTI: securityCtx.revocationID, | ||
| TokenFamilyID: securityCtx.tokenFamilyID, | ||
| Subject: securityCtx.revocationSubject, | ||
| EstablishedAt: securityCtx.establishedAt, | ||
| }); err != nil { | ||
| return nil, errInvalidToken | ||
| } | ||
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| return securityCtx, nil |
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This commit changes the /mcp authentication contract, but includes no documentation update under docs/.
Missing documentation:
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docs/content/working-with-ai/mcp-server.mdxto document shared REST/MCP token verification, revocation enforcement, and removal of the previous MCP audience requirement.
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In `@backend/internal/system/security/bearer_authenticator.go` around lines 30 -
47, Update the MCP documentation in mcp-server.mdx to describe shared REST/MCP
token verification, revocation enforcement, and that the previous MCP audience
requirement no longer applies. Keep the documentation aligned with the
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In `@backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go`:
- Around line 28-52: Update the MCP documentation to cover the
protected-resource metadata discovery endpoint, resource URL, authorization
server, and required root permission scope in docs/content/apis.mdx; add a guide
under docs/content/guides/ documenting MCP’s shared REST token authentication
policy, including revocation enforcement and trusted external issuer behavior.
Apply the documentation changes for both cited MCP initialization sites; no
direct code changes are required in backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go at lines
28-52 or 79-109.
- Line 66: Update backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go lines 66-66 so
resourceMetadataURL derives from MCPEndpointPath, producing the RFC 9728
resource-specific path for /mcp; update line 47 to mount
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| // Initialize mounts mcpServer's routes on mux, securing them with the given guard. resourceMeta, if | ||
| // non-nil, is published at OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath for MCP client discovery; callers | ||
| // that pass a guard with no discoverable authorization server (e.g. one that accepts every | ||
| // request) should pass nil. | ||
| func Initialize( | ||
| mux *http.ServeMux, | ||
| jwtService jwt.JWTServiceInterface, | ||
| ) *mcpsdk.Server { | ||
| mcpServer *mcpsdk.Server, | ||
| guard func(http.Handler) http.Handler, | ||
| resourceMeta *oauthex.ProtectedResourceMetadata, | ||
| ) { | ||
| httpHandler := mcpsdk.NewStreamableHTTPHandler(func(*http.Request) *mcpsdk.Server { | ||
| return mcpServer | ||
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| securedHandler := guard(httpHandler) | ||
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| // Register protected resource metadata endpoint, if the guard has an authorization server to | ||
| // advertise. | ||
| if resourceMeta != nil { | ||
| mux.Handle(OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath, auth.ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler(resourceMeta)) | ||
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| // Register MCP routes | ||
| mux.Handle(MCPEndpointPath, securedHandler) | ||
| mux.Handle(MCPEndpointPath+"/", securedHandler) |
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This PR introduces user-facing changes that are not covered by documentation updates under docs/.
Please update the relevant documentation before merging.
Missing documentation:
- MCP protected-resource metadata: Document the MCP discovery endpoint, resource URL, authorization server, and required root permission scope in
docs/content/apis.mdx. - MCP authentication policy: Document that MCP now accepts tokens under the shared REST authentication policy, including revocation enforcement and trusted external issuer behavior, in
docs/content/guides/.
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In `@backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go` around lines 28 - 52, Update the MCP
documentation to cover the protected-resource metadata discovery endpoint,
resource URL, authorization server, and required root permission scope in
docs/content/apis.mdx; add a guide under docs/content/guides/ documenting MCP’s
shared REST token authentication policy, including revocation enforcement and
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| baseURL := config.GetServerURL(&cfg.Server) | ||
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| mcpURL := baseURL + MCPEndpointPath | ||
| resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath |
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Publish metadata at the resource-derived RFC 9728 path.
mcpURL identifies the protected resource as /mcp, but Lines 66 and 47 use the host-level metadata path. For a resource with a path component, RFC 9728 derives the metadata path as /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/mcp. Clients that use standard discovery will request that path and receive 404. (rfc-editor.org)
backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go#L66-L66: appendMCPEndpointPathtoresourceMetadataURL.backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go#L47-L47: mountProtectedResourceMetadataHandlerat the same path.
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- resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath
+ resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath + MCPEndpointPath
- mux.Handle(OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath, auth.ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler(resourceMeta))
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| resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath | |
| mux.Handle(OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath+MCPEndpointPath, auth.ProtectedResourceMetadataHandler(resourceMeta)) |
| resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath | |
| resourceMetadataURL := baseURL + OAuthProtectedResourceMetadataPath + MCPEndpointPath |
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In `@backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go` at line 66, Update
backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go lines 66-66 so resourceMetadataURL derives
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In `@backend/internal/system/mcp/init.go`:
- Line 82: Update the security.NewBearerAuthenticator call in the MCP
initialization flow to pass an empty expected audience instead of mcpURL,
allowing valid REST API tokens without an MCP-specific audience. Adjust the
VerifyJWT-related test expectation to reflect that no MCP audience is enforced.
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| The endpoint follows the [MCP Authorization Specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/authorization). The MCP server publishes protected resource metadata at `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`, advertising <ProductName /> as the OAuth authorization server. Spec-compliant MCP clients discover this automatically and run an OAuth authorization code + PKCE flow: you sign in through the browser, and the client obtains and refreshes tokens on its own. There is no manual token handling. | ||
| The endpoint follows the [MCP Authorization Specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18/basic/authorization). The MCP server publishes protected resource metadata at `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`, advertising <ProductName /> as the OAuth authorization server — or, if a [trusted issuer](../../guides/trusted-issuer) is configured, that issuer instead. Spec-compliant MCP clients discover this automatically and run an OAuth authorization code + PKCE flow: you sign in through the browser, and the client obtains and refreshes tokens on its own. There is no manual token handling. |
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Remove the em dash from the authentication text.
Split the sentence or use a comma. The documentation guidelines prohibit em dashes in MDX copy.
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| mockJWTService.On("VerifyJWT", mock.Anything, testToken, mcpURL, issuer).Return(&tidcommon.ServiceError{ | ||
| ErrorDescription: tidcommon.I18nMessage{DefaultValue: "invalid token"}, | ||
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Make this test trigger VerifyJWT failure.
jwtAuthenticator.authenticateToken calls VerifyJWT before payload decoding. With the malformed payload and a nil mock result, the test fails at the later decode step instead of covering VerifyJWT error mapping to auth.ErrInvalidToken. Use encodeTestToken(...) and return a non-nil error from VerifyJWT.
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Purpose
The MCP server authenticated requests with its own, independent implementation instead of going
through the same logic the REST API gate uses. Comparing them directly, and then implementing the
fix, turned up real divergence beyond duplicated code:
revoked token; MCP never checked revocation at all, so a revoked token still worked against every
MCP tool.
discovery. The REST gate can verify tokens from a configured trusted external issuer via JWKS and
MCP could not; MCP's published RFC 9728 discovery metadata also always advertised this server's own
issuer, even when a trusted issuer was configured, which would misdirect a spec-compliant MCP
client to the wrong authorization server.
one fixed scope via the go-sdk's own scope check, so refinements to REST's permission model never
applied to MCP.
aud == mcpURL, RFC 8707) had no way to surviveunification unless explicitly preserved, since REST's own authentication path never restricted by
audience.
This also unblocks an in-progress effort to split ThunderID into a Designer binary (authoring only,
intentionally no authentication) and a Runtime binary (serves protocol traffic, full auth) — MCP's
auth previously couldn't be made binary-specific because it was constructed internally rather than
injected.
Approach
security.BearerAuthenticator(new) is the single shared entry point: verify (self-issued, or aconfigured trusted issuer via JWKS — same routing the REST gate already had) plus revocation, in
one call. The REST gate's
jwtAuthenticator.Authenticatenow delegates to the same extractedauthenticateTokenthis uses, so REST behavior is provably unchanged, not just similarlyre-implemented.
mcpauth.NewTokenVerifieris rewritten to callBearerAuthenticator.Authenticateand round-tripthe resulting
SecurityContextthrough the go-sdk'sTokenInfo.Extrafield, since itsTokenVerifiertype can't attach anything to the outgoing request context itself.mcp.Initializeis split intoNewServer()(still called early during startup, so other packagescan register tools on it) and
Initialize(mux, mcpServer, guard, resourceMeta)(route mounting).This is needed because the guard now depends on the token-revocation enforcer, which isn't
constructed until later in
main.gothan where MCP used to wire itself up.mcp.Initialize's guard is now injected rather than built internally, so a future Designer binarycan pass a no-auth guard without any change to the
mcppackage itself.mcp.DefaultGuardnow advertises the configured trustedissuer (instead of this server's own issuer) in the RFC 9728 protected resource metadata when
server.security.trusted_issueris set, so MCP clients doing proper discovery are pointed at thecorrect authorization server.
docs/content/working-with-ai/mcp-server.mdxto describe that MCP's publishedauthorization server can be the configured trusted issuer instead of this server's own.
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