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feat(auth): revoke OAuth tokens at the authorization server on clear (#2144)

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Clearing the Inspector's OAuth state deleted the local copy of the tokens
and stopped there. The access token — and the refresh token, which is
long-lived by design — stayed valid at the authorization server until they
expired on their own, so a day of connect/disconnect iteration left it
holding grants for sessions that ended hours ago. RFC 7009 §1 describes
exactly that case, and nothing in the repo constructed a revocation
request, so a server author implementing `revocation_endpoint` had no way
to exercise it with the tool that exists to exercise this.

core/auth/revocation.ts builds and sends the request; the three clear paths
call it, so the behavior is written once — web's "Clear OAuth state and
disconnect" (both the active and stored-only paths), the TUI's Auth tab,
and the CLI's --relogin. It runs BEFORE the local clear, because the token,
the client credentials and the discovered `revocation_endpoint` all live in
the store the clear is about to empty. The request names the refresh token
when there is one: §2.1 asks the AS to also invalidate the access tokens
issued under the same grant, so one request covers both halves.

Best-effort by construction. Every path returns a TokenRevocationOutcome
rather than throwing: no advertised endpoint means nothing is sent and that
authorization server behaves exactly as before, and a network error, a
non-2xx, a 5s timeout or an unreadable store is reported and nothing more.
Forgetting the tokens is what the user asked for. `lost_authorization_state`
recovery deliberately skips it — it clears a half-finished flow to retry it,
and an authorization that never completed has no grant to revoke.

Client authentication resolves the preregistered slot first, mirroring
BaseOAuthClientProvider.clientInformation; reading only the dynamic slot
would send no authentication for a server configured with `oauth.clientId`.
The Basic credential is byte-identical to the SDK's applyBasicAuth so this
request and the token request cannot present the same secret differently.

Opt out per server with `oauth.revokeOnClear` (default on, only `false`
written to disk) or per CLI run with --no-revoke. Read at clear time rather
than connect time, so toggling needs no reconnect. Turning it off is a
testing affordance: a client that walks away still holding live tokens is a
case a server author may want to reproduce.

test-servers now advertises `revocation_endpoint` and serves POST
/oauth/revoke, faithful on §2.2 (an unknown token is a success) and §2.1
(revoking a refresh token invalidates the access tokens under the same
grant), with oauth-revocation-http.json / oauth-no-revocation-http.json as
showcase configs.

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 00:48:57 -04:00
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@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ OAuth redirect URIs must match **exactly** what you register on the authorizatio
1. Select an HTTP/SSE server and press **C** to connect.
2. If authorization is required, the TUI starts OAuth automatically (browser opens for sign-in).
3. After the callback completes, connect finishes without a second **C**.
4. Use the **Auth** tab to inspect OAuth state (same fields as web Connection Info) or **Clear OAuth state** (disconnects when connected).
4. Use the **Auth** tab to inspect OAuth state (same fields as web Connection Info) or **Clear OAuth state** (disconnects when connected). Clearing also revokes the grant at the authorization server when it advertises an RFC 7009 `revocation_endpoint` — best-effort, with any failure reported in the status line and the local clear finishing regardless. Set `oauth.revokeOnClear: false` on the server entry to skip it ([#2144](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/inspector/issues/2144)).
See also [EMA / enterprise-managed auth](../../specification/v2_auth_ema.md) and [OAuth smoke testing](../../specification/v2_auth_smoke_testing.md) for staging servers and verification steps.