An ad-hoc --server-url / command launch always negotiated the legacy era,
because protocolEra was only settable per server in mcp.json. A wrapper
that mints a short-lived bearer token therefore had to write that token to
disk to exercise a server under auto or modern.
--protocol-era <legacy|auto|modern> now feeds settings.protocolEra in all
three clients through a shared parseProtocolEra coercer:
- CLI/TUI overlay it in loadServerEntries alongside --header, onto an
ad-hoc target and onto a --catalog/--config entry for that run.
- Web stamps it on the in-memory ad-hoc entry, which the backend lifts
into settings like headers; as with --header it is rejected alongside
--catalog/--config, but unlike --header it applies to stdio too.
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- Launcher README: narrow "does not interpret env vars" to server and
client configuration, so it no longer contradicts MCP_DEBUG.
- Document HOME / USERPROFILE as the base of every ~/.mcp-inspector
default, including the cwd fallback when neither is set.
- SERVER_PORT is the sandbox fallback whenever MCP_SANDBOX_PORT is not
a valid port (unset, empty or invalid), not only when unset.
- MCP_INSPECTOR_OAUTH_STATE_PATH is read by the CLI and TUI only; the
web backend always uses <MCP_STORAGE_DIR>/oauth.json.
- MCP_DEBUG / DEBUG are also read by the standalone TUI entry point.
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Every variable that changes runtime behavior now lives on one page,
docs/environment-variables.md: which client reads it, its default, and
its effect. It covers three variables that were undocumented
(MCP_LOG_FILE, MCP_INSPECTOR_LOG_DIR, LOG_LEVEL), the secret-store
variables previously only in the Docker guide, and the Node TLS
variables that answer #1936 (a self-signed https://localhost server).
The README docs table, the migration guide, docker.md and the four
client READMEs link to it.
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`local:gate` ran every client's unit suite bare inside `validate` and
again instrumented inside `coverage` — ~80s of a ~370s run re-executing
exactly the files the coverage pass runs a few minutes later. CI pays
nothing for that duplication because its two jobs run in parallel; the
gate runs serially, so it paid all of it.
The gate's first stage is now `local:validate`: the same `validate:guards`
and `validate:core`, then each client's new `check` script (`format:check`
+ `lint` + `typecheck` + `build`) instead of its `validate`, which is now
literally `check && test`. `npm run validate` and both CI jobs are
unchanged; `local:validate` sits in the `local:` namespace so the
workflow guard keeps it out of CI by construction.
The "strict superset" claim in AGENTS.md is reworded to what is now
true — every CI *check*, not every CI *invocation* — with the reasoning:
`@vitest/coverage-v8` reads V8's precise-coverage profiler and rewrites
no source, so the instrumented pass runs byte-identical code and is only
slower, the stricter direction for the failure class this repo sees.
Measured on the same worktree: 370s -> 262s wall (EXIT=0 both), the
four removed legs summing to 78.5s in the baseline run's own profile.
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Adds a third entry to `DEFAULT_SEED_CONFIG`, `example-server-default`, a
Streamable HTTP card pointing at the MCP org's own feature-reference server
(https://example-server.modelcontextprotocol.io/mcp). Until now every seeded
server was a local stdio process and every remote example in the docs was a
placeholder, so trying a remote connection meant finding or standing up a
server first.
The endpoint is protected by OAuth, but its authorization server advertises
Dynamic Client Registration and fronts a *mock* upstream IdP, so the whole
round trip completes with no account, no API key and no pre-registered client
— which is what makes it viable as a shipped default. Verified end to end
against a prod build: the card connects, negotiates MCP 2025-11-25 and lists
the reference server's tools.
The seed carries no `protocolEra`. That is not a default-by-omission: the
server answers the plain `initialize` handshake and rejects `server/discover`,
so it has no modern (SEP-2663) era to negotiate — `"auto"` would only buy a
failed probe and `"modern"` would fail the connection outright.
Docs updated alongside: the seeded-catalog block and per-client table in
`docs/mcp-server-configuration.md`, the Streamable HTTP example there (which
now leads with the live endpoint and keeps a placeholder to illustrate
`headers`), and the seed description in `clients/launcher/README.md`.
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- skill-manifest: the closing `---` fence must occupy a whole line. `---oops`
was accepted as a terminator, silently truncating the frontmatter and passing
validation — the exact failure the guard exists to catch. Regression cases
added (prefix, trailing whitespace, EOF, CRLF).
- skill-eval: reject a nonzero `claude -p` exit instead of resolving it as an
empty observation. An auth error or rate limit was scoring as "no skill
invoked", which passes every negative case and reads as a trigger miss on
every positive one.
- skill-eval: extract `collectSkillInvocations` / `sampleHit` behind a `main()`
guard and cover them in `skill-eval.test.mjs` — the stream parsing and the
process-outcome handling are unreachable from an eval run's happy path.
- docs/test-servers: annotate the era on every catalogue row. Six legacy rows
carried no annotation under a "unless noted, Modern" default, so the doc sent
readers to the wrong era for the feature they were trying to see.
- docs/quality-gate: `validate` runs four guards, not three; add the
`verify:skills` row and the two new `test:scripts` suites; fix the `#publishing`
fragment left dangling by the split.
- issue-create / pr-flow: delegate the card steps to `/board-ops` rather than
restating its option IDs, which are explicitly unstable.
- issue-triage: the audit counted presence, not cardinality — an issue carrying
both `v1` and `v2` passed a check that claims "exactly one". Same for the five
type labels. Also scope the two milestone checks to board #28.
- AGENTS.md: codify the v1 milestone exception. Every milestone is a v2 release
bucket, so a v1 issue has none to take and the Incoming-milestone invariant
cannot apply to board #11.
- clients/launcher/README: its pointer promised an explanation of why the cli/tui
manifests ship, which the extracted guide does not make.
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
Closes#2163
`AGENTS.md` was one 1,223-line contract loaded in full on every turn, whether
the task was a one-line CSS fix or a release cut. This splits it: rules stay
resident, procedures move to `.claude/skills/`.
- Ten skills under `.claude/skills/`, seven `disable-model-invocation: true`
(invoked by name only, so they cost no listing context and have no trigger
question) and three model-invoked with committed eval cases.
- `AGENTS.md` 1,223 → 380 lines: rules, a skills index, and a project tree
reduced to one line per entry. The removed recipes are not duplicated.
- `README.md` 811 → 105 lines, split into `docs/{architecture,quality-gate,
test-servers,publishing,docker}.md`, and dropped from `CLAUDE.md`'s auto-load.
- `.github/copilot-instructions.md` and its mirroring rule removed — Copilot
reads `AGENTS.md`.
- `npm run verify:skills` (in `validate`, so in `local:gate` and CI) parses each
SKILL.md the way Claude Code does, requires an explicit invocation mode and
eval cases for model-invoked skills, and budgets the listing.
- `npm run skills:eval` runs the committed trigger cases headless.
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
- pty.mjs: narrow the BSD argv set to {darwin, freebsd}. Grouping every
BSD together was wrong — NetBSD's `script` takes the command through
`-c`, so the argv form fails at `script` startup, which this smoke would
then report as a TUI crash. Rather than add an unverified `-c` branch
for netbsd/openbsd, they fall through to `null` and the smoke skips with
the reason: a guessed invocation turns a clean skip into a false failure
while looking like support.
- pty.test.mjs: "supported unless Windows" would fail `test:scripts` on
aix/sunos/netbsd/openbsd, where a null wrapper is correct and the smoke
skips by design. State the policy once (SUPPORTED_PLATFORMS) and branch
on it, keeping the real-probe teeth that catch a `script` missing from
PATH. Pin netbsd/openbsd/aix/sunos to null in scriptFlavorFor's tests
so "unsupported" reads as the default, not a win32 special case.
- render-smoke.mjs: the @returns contract claimed a close guarantee the
code does not give — both drain give-up branches resolve after only a
warning, so output can be truncated and the child may still hold the
work dir. Document the bounded fallback and name the required cleanup
shape (removeSafe, not rmSync), since a caller "tightening" cleanup on
the old wording would reintroduce #1801 exactly where it doesn't hold.
- AGENTS.md, clients/launcher/README.md: drop the pre-#2111 claim that the
smokes build test-servers "on demand if it is missing". ensureTestServers
rebuilds unconditionally, once per process — presence is not freshness.
- .github/copilot-instructions.md: mirror the survival rule, per the
same-PR mirroring requirement. One bullet, generalized past this fix:
a smoke must assert the thing survives, not that it started, and the
started-then-died branch belongs in a scripts/lib test against a stub.
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`smoke:tui` spawned the launcher with `stdio: ["ignore", …]`, waited for
"MCP Servers" in the output, printed OK, and SIGTERMed. It never looked at
the child again.
The child was already dead. Ink mounts `useInput`, `useInput` needs raw
mode, and raw mode is a property of the file descriptor — with stdin on
/dev/null the TUI painted one frame and exited 1 about 40ms later with
"Raw mode is not supported on the current process.stdin". Measured here:
first frame at 396ms, exit 1 at 433ms. The smoke won that race and
reported success, so what it asserted was *first paint*, not survival —
contradicting its own header ("boots and renders without crashing").
This is not environment-specific: `stdio: ["ignore", …]` makes the child's
stdin /dev/null whether or not the developer's terminal is a TTY, so this
smoke has never verified a running TUI on any machine. And the race cut
both ways — an `exit` processed first failed the run, which reads as flake
rather than as the standing defect.
Two pieces:
- `scripts/lib/pty.mjs` gives the child a real terminal via `script(1)`,
no dependency. The three flavors are not interchangeable (BSD takes
argv; util-linux takes one shell string plus `-e`; busybox that string
without `-e`), so the invocation is built and unit-tested rather than
written inline. A platform with no `script(1)` skips loudly instead of
running without one, which would be a guaranteed failure rather than a
weaker check.
- `scripts/lib/render-smoke.mjs` is the fix: the child must still be
running `surviveMs` (default 2s) after first paint. Without that, a
future harness change reintroduces the same false green and nothing
notices — which is why it lives in a module `test:scripts` drives
against a stub that paints the marker and immediately exits. Today's
harness passes that stub; this one fails it, with a diagnostic that
distinguishes "died after painting" from "died before painting".
The smoke additionally fails if the raw-mode error appears in a passing
run, so a future Ink that degrades to a warning instead of throwing can't
ship a TUI with no keyboard input past this gate.
Verified end to end: with a `script` shim that allocates no pty, the smoke
now fails with "it painted one frame, it did not run"; with the real one
the TUI is still running 2s after its first frame and never logs the
raw-mode error.
The `process.env.CI` skip stays, but its comment is corrected: the PTY
removes the technical blocker it used to cite, so the smoke is local-only
by decision now, not by capability. Whether it joins GitHub CI is out of
scope here (#2146 is keeping the other local-only smokes out on purpose).
Signed-off-by: Cliff Hall <cliff@futurescale.com>
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Closes#1811
Four README links pointed at files that don't exist on `v2/main`, and the launcher README described catalog seeding as one behavior when it is two.
- `docs/mcp-server-configuration.md` — written fresh for v2 (the v1.5 file predates the `--catalog`/`--config` split)
- `docs/launcher-config-consolidation-plan.md` — restored from `v1.5/main`, path drift corrected, v2 notes appended
- `docs/images/tui-screenshot.png` — regenerated against the current TUI
- launcher README seeding wording — split into the two real behaviors (web seeds two sample servers; cli/tui seed empty)
Review across three rounds also corrected several claims verified against source: the `--` separator is inverted between web and cli, a cli target placed after a flag is silently discarded, `--server` is a no-op on web and an unknown-option error on tui, the `MCP_CATALOG_PATH` ad-hoc guard is cli-only, and the conflict matrix diverges on both `--header` and `--transport stdio`.
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Closes#1795.
Enforce localhost-only binding in code (the "never 0.0.0.0" rule was only a spec note): refuse an all-interfaces HOST — across every spelling the OS binds as the wildcard (inet_aton decimal/octal/hex, IPv6, IPv4-mapped, zone-scoped, IDNA/Unicode) — unless DANGEROUSLY_BIND_ALL_INTERFACES=true (Docker's sanctioned opt-in). Fixes the reported stdio-connect 403 by expanding the default loopback origin allow-list to all three interchangeable forms.
Hardening surfaced across an extended review: closes an IDNA/fullwidth wildcard bypass, a blank-ALLOWED_ORIGINS fail-open, and the CLI/TUI OAuth-callback wildcard bind (loopback-only now, RFC 8252); canonicalizes the origin allow-list the way a browser does; derives frame-ancestors from the real embedder list (IPv6-literal exclusion verified in headless Chromium); strictPort on all three bind points; and preserves the CLI exit-code map + JSON envelope through the mcp-inspector --cli launcher path. Shared host normalization lives in core/node/hostUrl.ts. Docs + tests + smokes throughout.
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CLAUDE.md included @./README.md, which did not exist. Add a root README
covering project layout, setup, the @inspector/core shared package, the web
"dumb components" + Storybook approach, test-servers, build, the testing/quality
gate, publishing, and how AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md govern contributions for humans
and agents alike.
Move the publishing/packaging documentation (single-package tarball, "files"
invariants, pack:verify) from the launcher README to the root README, where
whole-repo packaging belongs; the launcher README now points there.
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Prepare the single `@modelcontextprotocol/inspector` tarball for publishing
and add a script that verifies the real published package end to end.
- Add `scripts/pack-and-verify.mjs` (`npm run pack:verify`): build, `npm pack`,
install the tarball into a clean consumer, and drive the installed
`mcp-inspector` bin (web/cli/tui) — catching "works in --dev, breaks under
npx" packaging/path failures the in-repo smokes miss. Local/release tool
(install needs network), not wired into the fast validate/ci loop.
- Disable source maps in the cli/tui/web-runner tsup configs (~halves the
unpacked payload; runtime doesn't need them).
- Add `clients/web/.npmignore` so `clients/web/build` (prod web-server runner)
ships — npm's packlist was honoring the nested `.gitignore` `build/` entry
over the root "files" allowlist, dropping the runner while `dist/` slipped
through.
- Ship `clients/cli/package.json` and `clients/tui/package.json`: both bundles
read their own package.json at runtime (CLI client identity, TUI header), so
the installed CLI crashed on connect and the installed TUI crashed on launch
without them.
Document the packaging invariants and pack:verify in the launcher README.
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* refactor(launcher): self-contained validate; split smokes into top-level step (#1504)
Previously `validate:launcher` built cli/tui/web and ran the cross-client
smokes, so the launcher's "validation" depended on every other client
being built — and the launcher had no lint/format/coverage of its own.
- clients/launcher: add a web-style `validate` (format:check && lint &&
build && test:coverage) with a Node-only eslint flat config, prettier,
and a per-file coverage gate (parse-launcher-argv.ts covered;
src/index.ts excluded as binary bootstrap). 100% on the gated file.
- Root `validate:launcher` now just delegates: `cd clients/launcher &&
npm run validate` — no dependency on the other clients.
- New top-level `smoke` step (smoke:launcher + smoke:cli + smoke:tui +
smoke:web) with NO build commands; `validate` runs it last. Each
client's own validation builds its bundle first, so nothing builds
twice (cli/tui via test:coverage, launcher via its validate;
smoke:web builds dist on demand).
- clients/tui test:coverage now builds the TUI bundle (mirroring cli) so
the build-free smoke has it available.
- CI: replace the standalone cli/tui/launcher build step with a
"Validate launcher" step. Docs updated (AGENTS.md, launcher README).
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* refactor(cli,tui,root): every client self-validates; smoke separate from validate
Extends the launcher self-validate work to the CLI and TUI, and makes the
top-level `validate` nothing but the per-client validations — smokes are
now a separate top-level target.
- clients/cli, clients/tui: add a web-style `validate` with a Node flat
eslint config + prettier. CLI lint/format pass as-is. TUI registers
eslint-plugin-react-hooks for the classic rules only (rules-of-hooks +
exhaustive-deps, which the source already references); the stricter
react-hooks@7 rules are not enforced on the interim component surface
(#1501).
- Avoid double builds:
- CLI's e2e spawns the built binary, so its `test:coverage` builds first;
`validate` folds that in (`format:check && lint && test:coverage`, no
separate `build`).
- TUI tests don't spawn a bundle, so `validate` keeps an explicit
`build` (for the smoke) and `test:coverage` is pure.
- Root: `validate` = validate:web && validate:cli && validate:tui &&
validate:launcher (each delegates to the client's own validate). `smoke`
is no longer part of `validate` — it's a separate top-level target run
after a build/validate, with no build commands of its own.
- CI: per-client "Validate X" steps + a single "Run cross-client smokes"
(npm run smoke). Docs updated (AGENTS.md, cli/tui READMEs).
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* chore(root): drop redundant test aggregator scripts
Now that every client self-validates and the top-level `validate` chains
the per-client validations, the root `test` / `test:web` / `test:cli` /
`test:tui` / `test:coverage` aggregators are redundant — run
`npm run validate` (all) or `cd clients/<name> && npm run validate` (one).
`test:storybook` stays (it's the one check not part of validate). CI was
already using each client's own scripts, so it's unaffected. Docs updated.
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* test(web): silence happy-dom infra noise in unit runs
Passing unit runs printed dozens of alarming-but-expected lines that made
green runs look broken — all from happy-dom performing real I/O with no
server behind it:
- `<iframe src="/sandbox.html">` (MCP Apps sandbox) made happy-dom fetch
and later unload that URL, emitting ~40 `DOMException [NetworkError/
AbortError]` + `AsyncTaskManager destroyed` lines. Disable child-frame
navigation in the unit project (the tests only assert on the iframe
element/attributes, not its document), removing the noise with no
coverage loss.
- App-level renders read `GET /api/config` via useSandboxUrl /
useServerListWritable, 404-ing ~76x. Add a benign default `fetch` (empty
200) in the unit setup; tests that exercise fetch still override it.
Negative tests that assert on errors already suppress their own console
output (e.g. jsonUtils/schemaUtils); CLI, TUI, and the web integration
suite were already clean. Unit suite is now noise-free; 2424 web tests
pass and the coverage gate is unchanged.
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* refactor(scripts): make validate fast (test), split coverage into its own target
Each client's `validate` now runs `test` instead of `test:coverage`, so
the everyday pre-push check skips v8 instrumentation (and, for web, the
slower integration project). The per-file coverage gate moves to a
dedicated top-level `coverage` script:
coverage = coverage:web && coverage:cli && coverage:tui && coverage:launcher
coverage:<name> = cd clients/<name> && npm run test:coverage
`validate` still builds each client's bundle (cli via its test `pretest`,
the others via an explicit `build`), so `npm run validate && npm run
smoke` works unchanged. CI now runs `validate` (fast checks + builds),
then `coverage` (the gate), then `smoke` — collapsing the old per-client
steps. Docs updated.
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* ci: drop the coverage gate from CI; keep web integration as its own step
CI no longer runs `npm run coverage` — the per-file coverage gate is now a
local/manual check (`npm run coverage` before pushing). To avoid silently
dropping the web integration suite (it only ran via test:coverage, and
`validate` runs the unit project only), CI gains a standalone
`clients/web` `test:integration` step that exercises the real
stdio/HTTP/OAuth/storage paths without coverage instrumentation.
CI is now: validate (fast) → web integration → smoke → storybook. Docs
updated.
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* refactor(smoke): give smoke:launcher its own script like the others
smoke:launcher was the odd one out — an inline chain of three
`node clients/launcher/build/index.js ... --help` commands while smoke:cli
/ smoke:tui / smoke:web each run a `scripts/smoke-*.mjs`. Extract it to
`scripts/smoke-launcher.mjs`, which runs the same `--help` / `--cli --help`
/ `--tui --help` dispatch checks but now also asserts each prints that
mode's usage banner (proving the launcher resolved the right client build)
and verifies the required builds exist up front with a clear error. Prints
a `smoke:launcher OK — ...` summary in the same style as the rest. Docs
updated.
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* chore: reorder package.json scripts for readability
Move frequently-run scripts toward the top and rarely-run-by-hand ones
(pretest hooks, lint/format internals, etc.) toward the end, consistently
across the root and client manifests. Pure reordering — no script names or
values changed, and no other manifest content is touched.
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* docs: drop references to removed root inspector / test:storybook scripts
The reordering dropped the root `inspector` and `test:storybook`
aggregators (intentional — `inspector` is redundant with `web`, and
storybook is run from clients/web in CI). Update AGENTS.md so it no longer
points at `npm run inspector`, and run `test:storybook` from `clients/web/`.
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* chore: address PR #1505 review (format glob gap, fetch-baseline comment)
- TUI format/format:check now also cover the client-root source files
(index.ts, tui.tsx, dev.ts) that live outside src/ — `eslint .` already
lints them, so they were linted but not format-checked. (cli/launcher
have no source outside src/; their root .ts are single-quoted configs
intentionally left out of prettier, matching web.)
- Reword the setup.ts default-fetch comment: it overstated auto-restore
(the unit project sets no restoreMocks/unstubGlobals), and now also
flags that the permissive 200 default means a test asserting on a fetch
FAILURE must install its own rejecting stub.
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* chore: remove redundant root install:clients script
`install:clients` ran the same `node scripts/install-clients.mjs` as
`postinstall`, which fires automatically on `npm install` — so the manual
alias was redundant. Drop it and the doc references (AGENTS.md, spec).
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* fix(ci): skip smoke:tui in CI (Ink needs a real TTY)
This PR made CI run the full `npm run smoke`, which surfaced that
smoke:tui fails in headless CI: the Ink TUI throws "Raw mode is not
supported" on mount (no TTY) and exits before rendering its first frame.
The old CI never ran smoke:tui, so this was latent.
smoke-tui.mjs now self-skips when `process.env.CI` is set — the boot/
render check is inherently local-only (a TUI needs a terminal). The TUI is
still built and unit-tested in CI; `npm run smoke` stays the single
command everywhere (full locally, tui-skipped in CI). Verified
`CI=true npm run smoke` is green (launcher/cli OK, tui SKIPPED, web OK).
Docs + CI comment updated.
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* feat(cli,tui): normalize --catalog / --config with web; update --help (#1347)
Bring the CLI and TUI in line with the web catalog vs read-only session
model introduced in #1481/#1483, and close the outstanding --help item
from #1347.
Core (core/mcp/node/config.ts):
- Add `catalogPath` to ServerConfigOptions (writable catalog slot).
- `resolveServerSource()` picks the active source: `--catalog` (writable,
seed-if-missing) wins over `--config` (read-only, error-if-missing).
- Writable sources seed an empty `{"mcpServers":{}}` on first run (matches
the web backend) instead of erroring; read-only `--config` still errors.
- `serverSourceConflict()` shared conflict matrix (mirrors run-web):
--catalog/--config mutually exclusive; neither combines with an ad-hoc
target.
- `readServerListFile()` public loader for runners (TUI) needing the raw map.
- Rename `withDefaultConfigPath` → `withDefaultCatalogPath`; the no-flag
default now fills the writable catalog slot, not --config.
CLI / TUI:
- Add `--catalog <path>` (+ MCP_CATALOG_PATH) and re-document `--config` as a
read-only session in --help.
- Enforce the shared conflict matrix before resolution.
Full writable persistence/CRUD threading remains deferred to #1482 / #1432
(CLI/TUI are read consumers today; the split surfaces as seed- vs
error-on-missing).
Tests: core resolution matrix (source/conflict/seed/read-only), CLI catalog
+ conflict integration tests, TUI loadTuiServers unit tests. READMEs updated.
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* test(launcher): add smoke:cli + smoke:tui e2e launcher smokes (#1347)
The launcher smokes only checked `--help` for --cli/--tui; nothing
exercised the launcher → CLI/TUI → core path on the built artifact (only
smoke:web did, for web). Add two end-to-end smokes wired into
validate:launcher between smoke:launcher and smoke:web:
- smoke:cli (scripts/smoke-cli.mjs): runs `--cli` against the bundled
stdio test server via a temp --catalog and asserts tools/list returns
the tools, plus the #1347 resolution paths — default-catalog
seed-on-missing, read-only --config error-without-seed, and the
--catalog/--config conflict.
- smoke:tui (scripts/smoke-tui.mjs): launches `--tui --catalog <temp>`
and asserts the Ink app renders its first frame ("MCP Servers") within
a timeout, then SIGTERMs it (shallow boot/render check).
Both build test-servers/build on demand if missing. Docs updated
(AGENTS.md validate description, launcher README).
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* refactor: address review on #1499 (comment accuracy, CLI/TUI flag parity)
Review feedback from @claude on PR #1499 (all non-blocking):
- Align CLI catalogPath resolution with the TUI: `options.catalog?.trim()
|| process.env.MCP_CATALOG_PATH` so an explicit empty `--catalog ""`
falls back to MCP_CATALOG_PATH identically in both front-ends (CLI used
`??`, which only guards undefined/null).
- Clarify the `serverSourceConflict` comment: it mirrors only the
source-selection portion of web's matrix and deliberately omits web's
`--header` rejection, since CLI/TUI merge --header into per-server
settings.
- Note the deliberate --header broadcast semantics in loadTuiServers.
- Share an EMPTY_CATALOG_CONTENT constant between seedEmptyCatalog and
readServerListContent instead of two separate literals.
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* refactor(cli): trim --config to match --catalog and the TUI (#1499 review)
Cosmetic uniformity follow-up from the re-review: configPath now uses
`options.config?.trim() || undefined`, matching the catalog slot above it
and the TUI. Behavior is unchanged (resolveServerSource/serverSourceConflict
already trim downstream).
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* feat(web): build dist on demand for prod --web + end-to-end CI smoke (#1486)
Prod `mcp-inspector --web` serves static assets from clients/web/dist,
which only exists after a build. In a fresh checkout it was absent and the
prod path served a broken page (ENOENT on index.html); the launcher smoke
test only covered --help, so this path was unverified in CI.
- ensure-web-build.ts: build dist on demand (vite build via build:client)
when missing, or exit with an actionable error if the build can't run.
- run-web.ts: invoke ensureWebBuild before startHonoServer in the prod path
(--dev runs Vite directly and skips it).
- scripts/smoke-web.mjs + smoke:web: start --web against built dist and
assert GET / returns 200 with the injected __INSPECTOR_API_TOKEN__.
Wired into validate:launcher and a new CI step.
- Docs: launcher README + AGENTS.md.
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* fix(web): surface spawn error in build-on-demand; clarify smoke comment
Address PR #1497 review:
- runViteBuild now logs result.error.message (e.g. ENOENT when npm isn't on
PATH) before returning a null status, so the spawn-failure cause surfaces
instead of only the generic actionable error. The build seam gains a `log`
param; added a test covering the ENOENT path.
- Reword scripts/smoke-web.mjs header so it no longer implies the readiness
wait covers a cold build-on-demand vite build (it's sized for a pre-built
dist, which validate/CI guarantee).
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* feat(web): catalog vs read-only session launch model + apply --header (#1481, #1483)
Per specification/v2_catalog_launch_config.md, `mcp-inspector --web` now selects
the backend's server-list source and a session-wide writability, instead of
seeding an inert `initialMcpConfig` the UI never read:
- `--catalog <path>` (and `MCP_CATALOG_PATH`) → active WRITABLE catalog
(seed/CRUD/watch), like the default catalog.
- `--config <path>` → READ-ONLY session file: served in the UI but never
written, seeded, or plaintext-secret-migrated — safe to point at a foreign
config (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json).
- ad-hoc `--server-url`/command (+ `--header`) → one server held IN MEMORY
(no file written); `--header` is lifted onto the entry so the seeded
connection actually uses it (closes the #1483 warn-only no-op).
- nothing → default catalog (writable), unchanged.
Backend (`createRemoteApp`): new `writable` + `initialServers` options. GET
/api/servers branches three ways (in-memory / read-only file with no
seed+no migrate / writable catalog); the four mutating routes return 403 when
read-only; `/api/config` carries `writable`; the file watcher is skipped for
in-memory sessions. `--catalog`/`--config` are mutually exclusive and neither
combines with an ad-hoc target or `--header`; `--header` requires an ad-hoc
HTTP/SSE server (clear errors otherwise — no silent no-op).
UI: `useServerListWritable` reads `writable` from /api/config; the Servers
screen hides add/edit/clone/remove/reorder/settings and shows a read-only
banner when false. All new props default to writable=true (back-compatible).
Docs: spec gaps G2/G3/G4 updated; launcher README documents the flags.
Verified end-to-end against the built launcher: --config (writable:false,
file byte-stable, mutations 403), ad-hoc --header (in-memory, header lifted),
and --catalog (writable:true, POST persists).
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* refactor(web): address review — Mantine <Code> in read-only banner, clarify watcher comment
- Replace raw <code> with Mantine <Code> in the read-only-session Alert
(repo convention: prefer Mantine primitives over raw HTML).
- Add a comment near `watchable` clarifying that a read-only `--config` file
is still watched on purpose (read-only blocks UI writes, not external
observation; `writable` does not gate watching).
Deferred (per reviewer): consolidating useSandboxUrl + useServerListWritable
into one useConfig hook to avoid the duplicate /api/config fetch — optional
follow-up. The redundant ad-hoc header type-guard is kept as defensive.
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Ports the CLI, TUI, and launcher from v1.5 into v2 behind a single
`mcp-inspector` entrypoint (launcher → web/cli/tui). Includes the
`mcp-inspector --web --dev` launcher fix (Vite alias resolution + prod-server
double-start), the root `postinstall` install cascade with simplified CI, and
spec/AGENTS docs (no-workspaces rationale, Development setup).
Closes#1246.
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