## Why
MCP servers can share an OAuth callback URL. Without a validated issuer or a
server-specific callback path, an authorization response could be associated
with the wrong server.
## What changed
- Use stable callbacks when authorization metadata advertises issuer-bound
responses, and validate the returned issuer before exchanging the code.
- Retain server-specific callback IDs for providers without issuer support,
including fallback to the global or default callback for legacy registered
clients.
- Persist registered callback URLs for MCP servers and plugins, and insert the
active listener port into portless loopback redirects.
## Testing
Add coverage for issuer validation, callback-mode discovery, registered and
legacy clients, plugin OAuth, CLI persistence, and loopback listener ports.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2878c92e237fc17fd3def0bd2e1cce3e104a3db8
## Why
MCP inventory can be cached or collected separately from a thread's live
connections, so tool availability alone does not describe the current runtime
state.
## What changed
- Add a nullable `runtimeStatus` to `mcpServerStatus/list` for thread-scoped
requests, covering not-started, starting, connected, authentication-required,
failed, cancelled, and disabled connections.
- Observe published connection state without starting or reconnecting servers,
and return an unknown status when no thread is supplied or the active
configuration no longer matches the published registration.
- Show connection state and tool counts in the compact `/mcp` view while
retaining the detailed inventory in `/mcp verbose` and compatibility with
servers that omit `runtimeStatus`.
## Testing
- Cover runtime status transitions, deferred and disabled servers, closed
transports, configuration changes, protocol compatibility, and TUI rendering.
GitOrigin-RevId: e3bb6efe652f0fa8b3c97d5c53e4729b3a87cd91
## Why
An authorization server discovered for an MCP server can change. A stored refresh token must not be sent to a different issuer than the one that originally granted it.
## What changed
- Persist the discovered authorization server issuer with new OAuth credentials and preserve it across refreshes.
- Validate that issuer against a single pinned metadata snapshot before refreshing or adopting stored refresh credentials.
- Require reauthentication when refresh credentials have no issuer or the issuer changed. An unexpired access token can still be used without exposing its refresh token.
## Testing
Add coverage for issuer persistence, missing and changed issuers, metadata changes during startup, and refresh-token preservation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 07e48ba892f627428a28bbed5cca4ad703e2a5fd
## What changed
- Add environment-provided MCP restrictions for configured and plugin-provided servers.
- Disable attachment-scoped servers while their environment configuration is pending, failed, or unselected, while preserving selected-plugin access and the controller-owned Apps server.
- Apply the resolved policy to runtime startup, model tool exposure, telemetry, OAuth flows, and skill dependency installation.
## Testing
- Cover policy filtering for configured and plugin servers, environment state transitions, Apps ownership, and managed OAuth rejection.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7ca5d4dda14068e758497f88835d5cba685e159e
## Why
`codex-http-client` is the intended owner of `reqwest`, while direct first-party
dependencies are tracked as migration debt.
## What changed
- Build app-server test HTTP clients through `HttpClientBuilder`.
- Use `http` and `url` types directly where only protocol types are needed.
- Remove `reqwest` from `codex-app-server` and its temporary dependency-policy
exception.
GitOrigin-RevId: ff9f14a54bc20ec1ea39050bbe08c381ee376119
## What changed
- Add `http_headers_helper` configuration for local streamable HTTP MCP servers. The configured shell command runs once per connection and returns a JSON object of headers that is cached across requests.
- Apply helper headers to MCP startup and OAuth flows while restricting them to the server origin, stopping redirects, rejecting reserved or duplicate headers, and enforcing output and execution limits.
- Reject helpers for remote or managed-disabled servers, use the local environment working directory, and redact helper commands from `codex mcp list` and `codex mcp get` output.
## Testing
- Cover configuration validation, helper lifecycle and output parsing, origin isolation, OAuth discovery and token refresh, managed requirements, environment selection, and CLI redaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 84e0e26ce75520b0869d37c72b1678e033bd6818
## What changed
- Make automatic MCP OAuth registration prefer Client ID Metadata Documents
(CIMD) when the authorization server advertises support for public clients and
Codex is using its native loopback callback. Fall back to advertised Dynamic
Client Registration (DCR) otherwise.
- Add explicit `cimd` and `dcr` registration overrides to the CLI and app-server
OAuth login API. Validate CIMD metadata and callback URLs before starting the
authorization flow.
- Use a callback-specific Codex client metadata URL for CIMD and retain the
exact redirect URI through authorization and token exchange.
## Testing
- Cover automatic and forced CIMD selection, DCR fallback, invalid metadata and
redirects, token refresh, authenticated MCP requests, and conformance
regression checks.
GitOrigin-RevId: 4238372ca53b0f38e781e141ab5da97e0a6ddf45
## What changed
- Add `pluginId` to each `mcpServerStatus/list` result.
- Populate it for MCP servers contributed by installed or selected plugins, and
return `null` for servers from other sources.
- Update the generated protocol schemas, TypeScript bindings, and app-server
documentation.
## Testing
- Cover plugin-owned servers in plugin installation and executor flows.
- Verify non-plugin servers and protocol serialization return a null
`pluginId`.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0e4b912252cf51be56dcb63e0c1c7365a5e870ee
## What changed
- Update the `rmcp` model and transport integrations for `3.0.0-beta.3`.
- Preserve legacy `elicitation/create` form requests, schema defaults, metadata, and wire-format compatibility while adopting the new elicitation types.
- Harden OAuth discovery by using GET-first discovery without starting an MCP session, preventing cross-origin header redirects, validating authorization-server and callback issuers, and retaining compatibility with metadata that omits an issuer.
- Keep stored OAuth credentials readable and avoid requiring reauthorization after transient refresh failures.
## Testing
- Add coverage for legacy elicitation round trips, OAuth discovery variants, callback issuer validation, credential migration, and refresh failures.
GitOrigin-RevId: 756197d26f3fd347c28c400228f6b3d06ed493b7
## What changed
- Add typed helpers for initialized app-server instances, JSON-RPC requests,
responses, notifications, and thread startup.
- Add a composable `MockResponsesConfig` builder while preserving the existing
mock config writers.
- Migrate the app-server integration suite to the shared helpers, removing
repeated request ID management, deserialization, initialization, and config
assembly.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for composing mock provider, feature, and extra config, and
for compatibility of the existing mock config writer.
GitOrigin-RevId: 62da177c1d6e8299400de64bd6766567bf1ba3d8
## Why
Cached MCP tool catalogs must not substitute stale session state for the live
server connection.
## What changed
- Verify `mcpServerStatus/list` waits for replacement stdio server metadata
before combining it with cached tools.
- Verify configurations with remotely sourced environment variables bypass the
tool catalog cache.
- Assert that calls made from cached definitions return output from the live
replacement process.
- Make the stdio test server available to Windows Bazel integration tests.
GitOrigin-RevId: 0e518cd46f0d89af28e3a4e256023b5872e6e2fb
## Why
We should be running as many integrations tests as possible against the
split cross-OS configuration.
## What
- migrate eligible thread starts and builders to auto env
- keep explicit custom/local-executor cases local with rationale
comments
- keep auto-env coverage where possible and add narrow `TODO(anp)` skips
for fixtures that are not target-native yet
This PR brought to you via VS Code rather than Codex...
- opened `codex-rs/app-server/tests/common/mcp_process.rs`
- put the cursor on `McpServer`
- hit `F2` and renamed the symbol to `TestAppServer`
- went to the file tree
- hit enter and renamed `mcp_process.rs` to `test_app_server.rs`
- ran **Save All Files** from the Command Palette
- ran `just fmt`
The End
(Admittedly, most of the local variables for `TestAppServer` are still
named `mcp`, though.)
WIll make it easier to uprev when the new draft spec is supported.
Also updates reqwest where needed for compatibility but doesn't update
it everywhere since this is already a large diff.
The new version of rmcp handles certain kinds of authentication failures
differently, this patch includes support for identifying the failing scope
in a WWW-Authenticate header.
## Summary
`/mcp` in the TUI should reflect the current loaded thread, including
project-local MCP servers from that thread config. Before this change,
`mcpServerStatus/list` only read the latest global MCP config, so the
active chat could miss project-local servers.
This adds optional `threadId` to `mcpServerStatus/list`. When present,
app-server resolves the loaded thread and lists MCP status from the
refreshed effective config for that thread; when omitted, existing
global config behavior stays unchanged.
The TUI now sends the active chat thread id for `/mcp` and `/mcp
verbose`, carries that origin through the async inventory result, and
ignores stale completions if the user has switched threads before the
fetch returns. The app-server schemas were regenerated.
## Follow-up
Once this app-server API change lands, the desktop app should make the
same `threadId` plumbing so its MCP inventory also uses the current
thread config.
Fixes#23874
- [x] Expand tool search to custom MCPs.
- [x] Rename several variables/fields to be more generic.
Updated tool & server name lifecycles:
**Raw Identity**
ToolInfo.server_name is raw MCP server name.
ToolInfo.tool.name is raw MCP tool name.
MCP calls route back to raw via parse_tool_name() returning
(tool.server_name, tool.tool.name).
mcpServerStatus/list now groups by raw server and keys tools by
Tool.name: mod.rs:599
App-server just forwards that grouped raw snapshot:
codex_message_processor.rs:5245
**Callable Names**
On list-tools, we create provisional callable_namespace / callable_name:
mcp_connection_manager.rs:1556
For non-app MCP, provisional callable name starts as raw tool name.
For codex-apps, provisional callable name is sanitized and strips
connector name/id prefix; namespace includes connector name.
Then qualify_tools() sanitizes callable namespace + name to ASCII alnum
/ _ only: mcp_tool_names.rs:128
Note: this is stricter than Responses API. Hyphen is currently replaced
with _ for code-mode compatibility.
**Collision Handling**
We do initially collapse example-server and example_server to the same
base.
Then qualify_tools() detects distinct raw namespace identities behind
the same sanitized namespace and appends a hash to the callable
namespace: mcp_tool_names.rs:137
Same idea for tool-name collisions: hash suffix goes on callable tool
name.
Final list_all_tools() map key is callable_namespace + callable_name:
mcp_connection_manager.rs:769
**Direct Model Tools**
Direct MCP tool declarations use the full qualified sanitized key as the
Responses function name.
The raw rmcp Tool is converted but renamed for model exposure.
**Tool Search / Deferred**
Tool search result namespace = final ToolInfo.callable_namespace:
tool_search.rs:85
Tool search result nested name = final ToolInfo.callable_name:
tool_search.rs:86
Deferred tool handler is registered as "{namespace}:{name}":
tool_registry_plan.rs:248
When a function call comes back, core recombines namespace + name, looks
up the full qualified key, and gets the raw server/tool for MCP
execution: codex.rs:4353
**Separate Legacy Snapshot**
collect_mcp_snapshot_from_manager_with_detail() still returns a map
keyed by qualified callable name.
mcpServerStatus/list no longer uses that; it uses
McpServerStatusSnapshot, which is raw-inventory shaped.
Addresses #16244
This was a performance regression introduced when we moved the TUI on
top of the app server API.
Problem: `/mcp` rebuilt a full MCP inventory through
`mcpServerStatus/list`, including resources and resource templates that
made the TUI wait on slow inventory probes.
Solution: add a lightweight `detail` mode to `mcpServerStatus/list`,
have `/mcp` request tools-and-auth only, and cover the fast path with
app-server and TUI tests.
Testing: Confirmed slow (multi-second) response prior to change and
immediate response after change.
I considered two options:
1. Change the existing `mcpServerStatus/list` API to accept an optional
"details" parameter so callers can request only a subset of the
information.
2. Add a separate `mcpServer/list` API that returns only the servers,
tools, and auth but omits the resources.
I chose option 1, but option 2 is also a reasonable approach.
Addresses #16671 and #14927
Problem: `mcpServerStatus/list` rebuilt MCP tool groups from sanitized
tool prefixes but looked them up by unsanitized server names, so
hyphenated servers rendered as having no tools in `/mcp`. This was
reported as a regression when the TUI switched to use the app server.
Solution: Build each server's tool map using the original server name's
sanitized prefix, include effective runtime MCP servers in the status
response, and add a regression test for hyphenated server names.