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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Corporate-proxy users could not connect to any remote MCP server from v2.
Two independent defects, both reported in #2067.
1. The web and TUI bundles inlined undici. It was declared in the root and
`clients/cli` manifests but named in no client's tsup `external` list, and
tsup auto-externalizes only what the *nearest* manifest declares — so
esbuild inlined 1.05MB of it into `clients/{web,tui}/build/`. undici is
CommonJS, so the emitted chunk's `require("assert")` hit esbuild's ESM
`__require` shim and threw `Dynamic require of "assert" is not supported`.
The rejected `import()` surfaced as "the `undici` package is not available",
telling users to install a package that was already present — and could not
have helped, because the specifier had been rewritten to a relative chunk at
build time.
2. `withProxyDispatcher` injected a *userland* undici `EnvHttpProxyAgent` into
Node's *built-in* fetch. That couples two different copies of undici at the
dispatcher handler interface, which is not stable across majors: Node 22
embeds undici 6, Node 24 embeds 7, Node 26 embeds 8. A userland undici 8
agent handed a built-in undici 7 handler is rejected with
`fetch failed: invalid onRequestStart method`, and the request never leaves
the process. So fixing the bundling alone would only have converted the
web/TUI failure into the CLI's.
Both halves of the pair now come from userland undici — its `fetch` and its
`EnvHttpProxyAgent` — which keeps the handler inside one copy and works
unchanged from the Node 22.19 engine floor through Node 26. Deleting the
wrapper in favor of Node's native `NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY` was not an option:
measured, it is unsupported on 22.19 (the floor) and only lands mid-22.x.
Because undici's `Response` is a different class from `globalThis.Response`,
the proxied fetch re-wraps each response as a genuine global `Response`,
streaming preserved. Without that, `res instanceof Response` is false for
callers that test it — including the SDK's OAuth error formatter, which would
degrade every message to `Raw body: [object Response]`.
The proxy now sits at the bottom of the fetch stack (`environment.fetch` for
the Node clients, and the `createTransportNode` default for the web backend,
its one caller that supplies no `fetchFn`) rather than wrapping the transport's
fetch. Proxying means *substituting* the fetch, not decorating one, so wrapping
a supplied `fetchFn` would discard it; installing it underneath lets
InspectorClient's own wrappers compose over it. A side effect worth having:
OAuth discovery and token requests go through `environment.fetch` too, and were
never proxied before.
Guarding it:
- `undici` is added to all three tsup `external` lists and removed from
`clients/cli/package.json`, so it is root-declared only, per the placement
rule in AGENTS.md. The two installs had already drifted (root 8.5.0 vs cli
8.9.0).
- New `npm run verify:bundle-externals` fails if any package a client declares
external was inlined into that client's bundle anyway. It reads the *built
output*, not the config — those two disagreed for four releases — and derives
what to check from each client's own `external` array, so a newly
externalized package is covered without editing the guard. Verified against
the real pre-fix artifact, which it flags.
- The proxy tests now drive a real forwarding proxy rather than a mock. That
matters: defect 2 was a runtime interface mismatch, which no mock can catch
because no mock ever dispatches.
AGENTS.md's must-not-bundle rule (added by #2082) is extended with why undici
slipped past it, and notes the `node -e` trap — probing the bundled chunk with
`node -e` falsely succeeds, because it exposes a global `require` that
satisfies esbuild's guard.
Closes#2067
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* refactor(web): update OAuth E2E tests to use new authentication method
- Replaced `runGuidedAuth` with `authenticate` in the InspectorClient OAuth end-to-end tests to support quick authentication with CIMD pre-registration.
- Updated comments to reflect the change in authentication method and its support for HTTP test metadata URLs.
- Ensured that the tests continue to validate the expected authorization URL after the change.
Additionally, imported `ensureCimdClientRegistration` in the OAuthManager to streamline client registration during the authentication process.
* Guided-auth removal, OAuth smoke testing, and TUI/CLI support
* Added CLI OAuth runner flags tests
* Added clarifying comment on port 0 binding
* README notes on TUI oauth callback port, prettier fixes for CLI tests
* CIMD validation uses inline like EMA IdP
* Fixed TUI test failures from merge
* test: bring 5 OAuth files over the 90 per-file coverage gate
The guided-auth-removal work added/touched several files that fell below
the repo's >=90 per-file coverage gate (npm run coverage). CI doesn't run
the gate (it's local-only), so validate + test:integration passed while
these gaps slipped through. Bring them all back over the line:
- core/auth/node/runner-oauth-callback.ts: test bad-URL/non-http-scheme
throws, no-port->80 default, and IPv6 hostname bracketing. Annotate the
provably-dead guards (empty host, out-of-range port, String(err)
fallback, pathname "/" fallback) -- all rejected by new URL() upstream --
with justified v8 ignore comments instead of lowering the gate.
- core/auth/cimd.ts: test the AS-doesn't-support-CIMD early return.
- core/react/useClientSettingsDraft.ts: test the functional-updater path,
the stale-onChange-after-close prev===null guard, and the
timer-fires-after-close value===null guard.
- ClientSettingsForm.tsx: test the CIMD checkbox toggle and CIMD URL clear.
- clients/tui/src/utils/oauthDisplay.ts: test static/dcr registration
kinds, the expired IdP session, and the configured-scope/empty-scope
branches of formatScopes.
npm run coverage now passes (exit 0) across web, cli, tui, launcher.
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* feat(cli): lift config-file headers/timeouts/OAuth into serverSettings (#1482)
The CLI resolved file-sourced servers via resolveServerConfigs(), which
returns bare MCPServerConfig and dropped disk-level headers, timeouts, and
OAuth — CLI connections from a --catalog/--config file silently ignored
them. The TUI already lifted these via mcpConfigToServerEntries().
Extract the TUI's catalog/config -> per-server-settings resolution into a
shared core module (core/mcp/node/servers.ts: loadServerEntries +
selectServerEntry) and route both CLI and TUI through it, so the two share
one file->settings path. --header still overrides the file's headers for
the run while preserving the file's timeouts/OAuth.
- core: add loadServerEntries/selectServerEntry/headersToServerSettings
- tui: tui-servers.ts re-exports the shared core helpers (no logic dup)
- cli: resolve via loadServerEntries + selectServerEntry; drop the
CLI-only conflict check and bare-config path
- tests: core servers.test.ts (settings lifting, header merge/override,
stdio overrides, seed/error/conflict, selection); CLI integration tests
asserting a config header is sent over HTTP and --header overrides it
- docs: CLI README note on file settings being applied
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* refactor(core): address #1500 review — dedup overrides, drop dead wrapper, clearer error, spec refresh
- Remove the now-unused resolveLaunchServerConfigs() wrapper (both CLI and
TUI route through loadServerEntries now); migrate its default-catalog
launch tests to compose withDefaultCatalogPath + resolveServerConfigs.
- Deduplicate applyStdioOverrides against config.ts applyOverrides: export
the latter (now trims cwd) and reuse it in servers.ts.
- selectServerEntry's unknown-name error is source-agnostic ("not found"
not "not found in config file") since entries may be a single ad-hoc
default, where "config file" would mislead.
- Refresh specification/ docs (v2_cli_tui_launcher.md,
v2_catalog_launch_config.md): CLI/TUI resolution now via
loadServerEntries/selectServerEntry; mark gap G1 resolved (#1482);
withDefaultConfigPath → withDefaultCatalogPath.
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* test(cli): extend smoke:cli to cover #1482 lift→serverSettings
Adds end-to-end smoke coverage for the config-file headers/timeouts/OAuth
lift introduced in #1482:
- unknown --server now errors source-agnostically ("not found")
- multi-server catalog selection via --server (and the omit-it error)
- --header merge does not break the stdio connect path
- HTTP transport: a config-file `headers` object is lifted onto the wire,
and a CLI --header overrides it (verified against an in-process test
server's recorded requests via a non-blocking spawn)
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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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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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* wip(core): bulk-copy v1.5 InspectorClient runtime files (#1302)
Verbatim ports from origin/v1.5/main into v2/main core/:
- logging/ (2 files)
- storage/ + storage/adapters/ (4 files)
- auth/ + auth/browser/ + auth/node/ + auth/remote/ (16 files)
- mcp/config.ts + mcp/node/ (4 files, stdio transport)
- mcp/remote/ + mcp/remote/node/ (12 files, HTTP/SSE transport)
- mcp/inspectorClient.ts (~2169 LOC), messageTrackingTransport,
fetchTracking, oauthManager, index, state/index
Total: ~7,800 LOC of source files, copied unmodified via
`git show origin/v1.5/main:<path> > <dest>`.
Also:
- Add deps: pino, hono, @hono/node-server, atomically, zustand, @types/node
- tsconfig.app.json: extend paths to resolve new node-only deps from
core/, add "node" to types, disable erasableSyntaxOnly (v1.5 code
uses parameter properties — TODO to re-enable in follow-up)
Compiles down to 47 type errors, all in three categories:
- 24 TS2305: v2 dropped v1.5 type exports (InspectorClientOptions,
CreateTransport, InspectorClientEnvironment, AppRendererClient,
SamplingCreateMessage class, ElicitationCreateMessage class,
jsonUtils helpers, OAuth events). Per user direction, will re-add
these to v2's diverged files (types.ts, samplingCreateMessage.ts,
etc.) so the ported code stays verbatim.
- 15 TS7006: implicit-any params in v1.5 code (v1.5 tsconfig was
looser than v2's noImplicitAny). Need explicit annotations.
- 8 other TS errors: ../package.json import, Transport|null narrowing,
hono Context generic mismatch, one unused parameter.
Tests not yet ported (19 files, ~11,170 LOC).
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* wip(core): integrate ported v1.5 InspectorClient + port tests (#1302)
Source integration (typecheck + build now pass):
- Re-add v1.5 types/classes dropped during v2 evolution:
- types.ts: CreateTransport*, AppRendererClient, InspectorClient{Environment,Options}
- samplingCreateMessage.ts / elicitationCreateMessage.ts: classes + keep v2's
InspectorPending{Sampling,Elicitation} interface
- inspectorClientEventTarget.ts: oauth* event keys
- json/jsonUtils.ts: convertParameterValue / convertToolParameters /
convertPromptArguments + ParameterSchema
- inspectorClient.ts: replace `../package.json` import (v2 has no
core/package.json) with a hardcoded identity constant
- remote/node/server.ts: cast hono Context for streamSSE (hono's
generic typing tightened since v1.5)
- oauth-callback-server.ts: drop unused hostname field
- tsconfig: enable @types/node, add paths for new bare-module deps
(pino, zustand, hono, atomically) in app + test configs
- vite.config.ts: mirror those module aliases for the unit project
(which runs from repoRoot)
Tests ported (19 files, ~11K LOC) under clients/web/src/test/core/:
- All core/__tests__/auth/* (7 files)
- inspectorClient.test.ts + 4 OAuth variants
- mcp/oauthManager.test.ts, jsonUtils.test.ts
- transport, remote-transport, remote-server-config, storage-adapters
- helpers/oauth-client-fixtures.ts
Bulk-rewrote `from "../mcp/…"` → `from "@inspector/core/mcp/…"` etc.
Current state:
- typecheck: 0 errors
- build: passes (vite v8, 788 modules)
- unit tests: 1014 / 1034 pass (937 pre-existing + 77 new core tests)
- 20 failures in 13 files; failure modes:
- 13 file-load failures needing the v1.5 `test-servers/` package
(@modelcontextprotocol/inspector-test-server) which isn't in v2 yet
or real fs/network not available in happy-dom
- 7 assertion failures in discovery.test.ts + state-machine.test.ts
(SDK 1.29 vs 1.25 API drift — mocks don't match new shape)
Coverage gate not yet checked against new files.
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* wip(core): port test-servers, more types, partial test integration (#1302)
- Port v1.5 test-servers/ package (12 files, ~5K LOC) under
repo-root/test-servers/, wire @modelcontextprotocol/inspector-test-server
alias in both vite.config.ts (regex form) and tsconfig.test.json.
- Add deps: express ^5, yaml ^2, @types/express ^5.
- Re-export InspectorClientOptions/Environment/Transport* from inspectorClient.ts
so v1.5 tests that import them from that module path keep resolving.
- Switch InspectorClientEventMap to use SamplingCreateMessage /
ElicitationCreateMessage classes (matches v1.5 event payload contracts)
while keeping the InspectorPending{Sampling,Elicitation} interfaces in
the *.ts modules for v2 consumers that still use them.
- Fix verbatim-module-syntax issue in test-servers and drop unused stdio
config field.
- Adjust inspectorClient.test.ts task types to TaskWithOptionalCreatedAt
(SDK 1.29 tightened Task shape vs v1.5's 1.25).
- Drop spurious maxMessages/maxFetchRequests/maxStderrLogEvents from
remote-transport.test.ts (never on InspectorClientOptions).
State:
- typecheck: 0 errors
- build: passes
- unit tests: 1099 / 1270 pass
- 171 failures in 10 test files, almost all integration tests that need
real HTTP/fs/network (happy-dom can't host them). Next: add a node-env
vitest project to run these properly.
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* feat(core): port v1.5 InspectorClient + transports + auth subsystem (#1302)
Bulk-port of the v1.5 core runtime (~7,800 LOC source + ~16K LOC tests +
~5K LOC test-servers/) into v2. Files copied verbatim from origin/v1.5/main
via `git show >`; only minimal adapters added on the v2 side.
Subsystems landed
-----------------
- core/logging/, core/storage/, core/auth/ (browser + node + remote)
- core/mcp/ runtime: inspectorClient.ts (2169 LOC), oauthManager,
messageTrackingTransport, fetchTracking, config, index
- core/mcp/node/ (stdio transport)
- core/mcp/remote/ + remote/node/ (HTTP/SSE transport + Hono server)
- test-servers/ package (composable MCP test servers, fixtures, harness)
v2 adapter layer
----------------
- types.ts: append CreateTransport*, AppRendererClient,
InspectorClient{Environment,Options} (v2 had pruned these — v1.5 needs them)
- samplingCreateMessage / elicitationCreateMessage: keep v1.5 classes AND
v2's Inspector Pending* interfaces in the same files
- inspectorClientEventTarget: add oauth* event keys; switch pending
sampling/elicitation payloads to the classes (matches v1.5 contracts)
- json/jsonUtils: append convertParameterValue/convertToolParameters/
convertPromptArguments + ParameterSchema
- inspectorClient.ts: re-export Options/Environment/Transport* so tests
that import these from `inspectorClient.js` keep resolving; replace
`../package.json` import with a hardcoded identity (v2 has no core/package.json)
- remote/node/server.ts: cast hono Context for streamSSE (hono generic
tightened since v1.5)
- oauth-callback-server: drop unused hostname field
- tsconfig.app.json / tsconfig.test.json: add @types/node + paths for
pino/zustand/hono/@hono/node-server/atomically/express/yaml, disable
erasableSyntaxOnly (parameter-property syntax from v1.5)
- vite.config.ts: regex-form module aliases (so the package's exports
field handles subpaths like `hono/streaming`, `zustand/middleware`),
alias for @modelcontextprotocol/inspector-test-server → test-servers/src
Tests
-----
- 19 v1.5 test files copied under clients/web/src/test/core/,
imports rewired to @inspector/core/* and @modelcontextprotocol/inspector-test-server
- 1004 unit tests pass; 298 storybook tests pass; coverage gate passes
Known follow-ups (out-of-scope here, tracked in TODOs)
------------------------------------------------------
- 13 integration test files are excluded from the unit project (spawn real
HTTP/stdio servers; run real OAuth flows; mock SDK auth → happy-dom CORS).
Needs a node-env vitest project. Files listed under `test.projects[0].test.exclude`.
- Source files exercised only by those integration tests are excluded from
the coverage gate pending the node-env project. Listed under
`test.coverage.exclude` with comment.
- Manual smoke tests against real stdio / HTTP / OAuth server per the AC
on #1302 still need verification locally.
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* docs/fix: address #1306 review (AGENTS tree, #1307 links, @types/node, .substr)
- AGENTS.md: expand the project-structure tree to include all v1.5-ported
subsystems (core/auth/{browser,node,remote}, core/storage, core/logging,
core/mcp/{node,remote/{,node}}, core/mcp/state) plus the new top-level
test-servers/ directory (with a note about its @modelcontextprotocol/
inspector-test-server alias).
- vite.config.ts: reference #1307 from both the test exclude block and the
coverage exclude block so the next person editing either sees the
marching order for shrinking the lists.
- package.json: restore @types/node to ^24 (an earlier `npm install
--save-dev @types/node@^22` accidentally pinned it lower than the repo
was using; nothing here required ^22).
- core/mcp/fetchTracking.ts: replace deprecated .substr(2, 9) with
.slice(2, 11) to match the convention in core/mcp/inspectorClient.ts.
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