fix(auth): keep the failure path total, and align the docs with the new order (#2144)

Copilot review round 14. Two code fixes and a documentation sweep.

- `buildRevocationRequest` ran outside `revokeToken`'s best-effort try.
  `encodeURIComponent` throws on a lone UTF-16 surrogate — valid JSON, so it
  can reach there from a persisted client id or secret — and every caller has
  already cleared its local state by then, so a rejection instead of a `failed`
  outcome would break the documented guarantee. Construction is inside the try
  now, and the catch reports `params.endpoint` rather than a `url` that may not
  exist on that path.
- The fixture's Basic decode turned a malformed percent escape into an Express
  500, reporting a bad credential as a server fault rather than as the
  `invalid_client` 401 the endpoint means. Decoding failure is failed
  authentication.
- Ten places still said revocation happens *before* the clear, which the
  reorder in the previous commit made false: the settings-form description, the
  `--no-revoke` help text, both READMEs, `docs/mcp-server-configuration.md`,
  three JSDoc blocks, and the PR body. Swept, and the ordering is stated where
  it is load-bearing rather than asserted in passing. Also merged the two
  adjacent JSDoc blocks on `InspectorClient.clearOAuthTokens`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0177mPHAdECD18nLLCTwR5rh
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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cliffhall 2026-08-28 05:55:00 -04:00
commit 4429c0c0bf
2 changed files with 62 additions and 20 deletions

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@ -123,12 +123,14 @@ Options that specify the MCP server (catalog/config file, ad-hoc command/URL, en
| `--strict` | With `--method tools/list`: report tool-schema portability problems in full (path, issue, suggested fix) on stderr, and exit `6` if any is error-severity. Without it, a one-line count is printed instead. See [Schema portability](#schema-portability---strict). |
| `--format <text\|json>` | Output format. `text` (default) pretty-prints the result. `json` emits a single JSON object on stdout (`{ "result": … }`, plus `{ "appInfo": … }` as a sibling key for App tools) with no banners, so the whole output pipes cleanly into `jq`. |
| `--relogin` | Delete stored OAuth for this server URL from the shared store before connect; interactive login still only runs if the server requires auth. Requires an HTTP/SSE URL (rejected for stdio). Conflicts with `--stored-auth-only` / `--use-stored-auth` / `--wait-for-auth` / catalog short-circuits. |
| `--no-revoke` | With `--relogin`, skip the [RFC 7009](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7009) revocation request that would otherwise end the grant at the authorization server before the local state is deleted. The per-server `oauth.revokeOnClear` setting is the persistent form of the same opt-out; either one is enough to skip it. See [Revoking on `--relogin`](#revoking-on---relogin). |
| `--no-revoke` | With `--relogin`, skip the [RFC 7009](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7009) revocation request that would otherwise end the grant at the authorization server when the local state is deleted. The per-server `oauth.revokeOnClear` setting is the persistent form of the same opt-out; either one is enough to skip it. See [Revoking on `--relogin`](#revoking-on---relogin). |
| `--stored-auth-only` | **CI / non-interactive safe:** never start interactive OAuth / step-up (and never auto-open a browser); use the shared store if present, otherwise fail immediately with `auth_required`. Prefer this over a bare pipe/CI run that would otherwise attempt interactive login. |
#### Revoking on `--relogin`
`--relogin` deletes this server's stored OAuth state so the next connect cannot silently reuse it. By default it now also **revokes the grant at the authorization server** first, per [RFC 7009](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7009) ([#2144](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/issues/2144)) — otherwise the delete is invisible to the AS, and the access token, plus the refresh token when one was issued, stay valid there until they expire on their own.
`--relogin` deletes this server's stored OAuth state so the next connect cannot silently reuse it. By default it now also **revokes the grant at the authorization server**, per [RFC 7009](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7009) ([#2144](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/issues/2144)) — otherwise the delete is invisible to the AS, and the access token, plus the refresh token when one was issued, stay valid there until they expire on their own.
The request is built from the stored state before the delete and sent after it, so the local delete never waits on the network. That matters because the OAuth store is shared: holding this process's view of it across a five-second request would let another CLI or TUI write a fresh grant that this one then erased.
The request names the refresh token when there is one: RFC 7009 §2.1 asks the authorization server to invalidate the access tokens issued under the same grant, so a single request covers both.

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@ -780,7 +780,7 @@ async function parseArgs(argv?: string[]): Promise<ParseResult> {
)
.option(
"--no-revoke",
"Requires --relogin. Skips the RFC 7009 revocation request that would otherwise end the grant at the authorization server before the local state is deleted. Also skipped when the server entry sets oauth.revokeOnClear to false.",
"Requires --relogin. Skips the RFC 7009 revocation request that would otherwise end the grant at the authorization server when the local state is deleted. Also skipped when the server entry sets oauth.revokeOnClear to false.",
)
.option(
"--wait-for-auth <sec>",