Seven findings, all taken.
- **The descriptor went stale after the upgrading write.** Round 1 made it
read the file instead of the policy, but it was still computed once and
cached beside the selection — so the first `set` under a newly-set
passphrase encrypted the file while `/api/config` kept serving "still
unencrypted" for the rest of the session, describing bytes this very
process had just changed. The *selection* stays cached (the banner, the
payload, and the store doing the writing must agree on which store it
is); the file descriptor is re-derived per call, which costs one read of
a small file per config fetch.
- **The mount check asked the wrong question.** Comparing a directory's
`st_dev` against its parent's detects a mount *at* that path, but a
volume mounted at `/home/node` leaves `/home/node/.mcp-inspector` an
ordinary subdirectory sharing its parent's device — so a durable
container setup was judged unmounted and demoted to session-only
`memory`. It now reads `/proc/self/mountinfo` and asks whether the
directory is *under* any mount other than `/`, which also catches the
same-device bind mount no `st_dev` test can see. Where mountinfo is
unreadable (macOS, Windows, a `/proc`-less container) it falls back to
the device comparison, now against `/` rather than the parent.
- **A decrypted payload was cast, not checked.** GCM proves the bytes are
authentic, not that they parse to the right shape. An array passes
`typeof === "object"`, takes the named assignment, and then
`JSON.stringify` drops every named property of an array — so `set` would
resolve having written a file without the secret it was handed. Silent
loss on the one operation whose entire contract is that it does not lose
things. Both branches now validate a non-array object of string values,
and a shape refusal is deliberately not rethrown as a key mismatch,
which would send the user to fix a working passphrase.
- **The read-modify-write cycle was only serialized in-process.** A
durable file is shared state and a second Inspector on the same box (a
CLI run beside a web session) could read the same map and overwrite the
first one's save, both reporting success. Mutations now take a
`mkdir`-based lock. A lock left by a killed process is stolen after 10s
— one `docker kill` must not brick secret writes permanently, which
would be a worse failure than the race. If the lock cannot be created at
all, the write proceeds unlocked rather than denying a real user a real
secret to prevent a race with a process that may not exist. Reads do not
lock: `writeStoreFile` is atomic, so a reader sees the old file or the
new one, never a torn one.
- **The permission repair was fire-and-forget while the docs promised
0600.** A file owned by another user, or on a read-only mount, stayed
exposed while the footer described it as protected. It now verifies the
resulting mode and warns, naming the actual mode, when it could not be
tightened.
- **`Group`'s theme carried a domain-named `secretStorageFooter`
variant**, which AGENTS.md reserves for app-wide primitive styling.
Renamed to the structural `stickyModalFooter`; the secret-storage
meaning stays in the element that owns it.
- The PR description still claimed the salt made a short passphrase safe,
contradicting the corrected comment and README. Updated.
Tests: both mount layouts that motivated the change (mount-at and
mount-above) plus the sibling-prefix, space-escaped, first-run, and
no-mountinfo cases; the array and non-string refusals on both the
plaintext and the authentic-ciphertext paths (the latter through a
hand-built fixture, since the store's own writer cannot produce that
state); lock exclusion, stale-lock stealing, the un-lockable fallback, and
two independent store instances racing; the permission report in all three
states; and the descriptor no longer going stale within one process. Full
`npm run ci` green — 5,688 tests under the coverage gate.
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
Closes#1950
Before this, a box with no reachable OS keychain — the published
container (no D-Bus session, #1848), Android/Termux (no platform binary,
#1905), a minimal Linux install without libsecret — could not persist an
OAuth client secret or a stdio `env:` value at all. `KeyringSecretStore`
degraded into a store that silently holds nothing: `get` returned null,
`delete` no-opped, and `set` hard-failed with a 503. That is the correct
failure behavior, but it left the documented, supported way to run the
Inspector with no secret persistence whatsoever.
Adds the two missing implementations and, more importantly, the policy
that picks one and the surfaces that say which was picked.
- `FileSecretStore` — one `0600` JSON document at
`~/.mcp-inspector/secrets.json`, encrypted with AES-256-GCM whenever
`MCP_INSPECTOR_SECRET_KEY` is set (scrypt, per-file random salt). The
whole map is encrypted as a unit rather than value-by-value so the
account names — `${serverId}:${field}` — are hidden too; a per-value
scheme would leave a readable index of which servers you hold a client
secret for. A file that can no longer be decrypted reads as empty
(matching the interface's read tolerance) but *refuses to be written*,
because replacing a file of still-valid secrets to satisfy an additive
request destroys data.
- `secret-store-selection.ts` — the policy.
`MCP_INSPECTOR_SECRET_STORE=keyring|file|memory` wins outright;
otherwise probe the keychain and, if unreachable, fall back loudly. The
fallback is `memory` in a container whose secrets directory is not on a
mount, and `file` otherwise — so mounting the volume the README already
recommends for the catalog flips the same run to durable storage with
no configuration, and an unmounted container gets the honest answer
rather than a file `--rm` will discard. Cached per process so the
banner, `/api/config`, and the store doing the writing cannot disagree.
- Automatic, but never silent. The downgrade prints at startup, rides
`GET /api/config`, and is named in a permanent 32px footer at the
bottom of both dialogs that accept a secret. A startup banner is seen
once by whoever started the process; a toast is seen once; a
dismissible banner is the thing a user dismisses before doing the work
it describes. The plaintext and memory cases render their caveat inline
in a warning tone — a warning you must hover to discover is not one.
- `SecretStoreUnavailableError` is now the base every store's `set`
throws, so the routes translate one condition into a 503 instead of
matching `KeychainUnavailableError` by name.
Docs: the container section of the root README gains a table of which
store you get and how to make secrets survive, plus the
`MCP_INSPECTOR_SECRET_KEY` upgrade/mismatch rules.
Tests: the existing interface contract block is extracted to
`secretStoreContract.ts` and run against all three implementations, so
none can drift on the availability contract. `FileSecretStore` is tested
against a real temp filesystem — mode, cross-instance round-trip, that
the ciphertext does not contain the plaintext, the read-modify-write
race, and every refusal path. Full `npm run ci` passes, per-file gate
included.
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>
* fix(web): section-header hover outline + clear buttons out of tab order (#1487)
Two button-behavior adjustments:
1. History section headers (Pinned / History) now use the filter-toggle
style — a thin outline on hover instead of a background fill — by pointing
the `sectionHeader` Group variant at the shared `.filter-toggle` class. The
open section keeps its filled background (passed per-instance via `bg`).
2. Every input clear button added in #1448 is removed from the keyboard tab
order via `tabIndex={-1}` (CloseButton clear buttons app-wide, plus the
Autocomplete clear button through `theme/Autocomplete.ts` clearButtonProps),
so tabbing through a form moves to the next field, not onto the clear button.
The buttons stay mouse-clickable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(web): apply filter-toggle hover outline to Resources accordion headers (#1487)
The Resources screen `disclosure` accordion controls now share the same
outline-on-hover treatment as the filter toggle buttons and History section
headers: a thin border on hover instead of a background fill, plus a filled
background when the section is open (keyed off `aria-expanded`). The `.filter-
toggle` class is added to the disclosure control slot; the default-variant
accordion (Server Settings) keeps its background-fill hover via a `:not(.filter-
toggle)` guard.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(web): extract ClearButton element, replace 34 inline clear buttons
Addresses the code-review suggestion on PR #1488: the same five-line
`CloseButton` clear-affordance block (aria-label="Clear" + tabIndex={-1} +
onClick) was hand-copied across 17 files. Extract a single
`elements/ClearButton` (Mantine `CloseButton.withProps` with the aria-label and
tabIndex baked in) and replace all 34 call sites, so the clear-button contract
lives in one place. A global CloseButton theme default would be wrong here — it
would also catch tabbable modal-close X buttons and the Select clear buttons —
so a dedicated element is the right altitude.
Net -151 lines. Adds element unit tests + a Storybook play test covering the
aria-label / tabIndex / clickable contract for all sites at once.
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* fix(web): don't show a permanent PENDING badge on history notifications (#1439)
`extractStatus` derived the history status badge purely from whether a
`response` was attached, so a fire-and-forget notification (no id, no
response ever) — and any unmatched standalone response — was labelled
"Pending" forever. The pending → OK/Error lifecycle only applies to
request entries (messageLogState attaches the response by JSON-RPC id),
so scope the status to `direction === "request"` and render no
request-style badge for notifications/responses. The method badge already
labels them.
Part of the History-screen work on #1438.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(core): track outgoing responses so server→client requests resolve in history (#1440)
MessageTrackingTransport.send only tracked outgoing requests, so the
client's response to a server→client request (roots/list, sampling,
elicitation) was never recorded. The inbound request entry never got its
response folded in, leaving it stuck "Pending" with no response body.
Make send symmetric with onmessage: track outgoing responses (by id +
result/error) as well as outgoing requests. The response now correlates
to its request entry, which resolves to OK/Error with the body. Outgoing
notifications remain untracked (separate gap).
Part of the History-screen work on #1438.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): wire up History Pin and Replay (#1438)
Both HistoryEntry actions were rendered but stubbed to todoNoop in App.
- Pin: App now owns a session-scoped Set<string> of pinned entry ids,
toggled by onTogglePinHistory and passed down as pinnedHistoryIds.
HistoryListPanel already sorts pinned entries to the top. The set resets
with the rest of the per-screen state on disconnect/server-switch.
- Replay: onReplayHistory re-issues the entry's original request by method
(tools/call → callTool, prompts/get → getPrompt, resources/read →
readResource). The call flows through InspectorClient → tracked
transport → message log, so the fresh request+response surface as a new
History entry (history-local) without touching the Tools/Prompts/
Resources panels. Unsupported methods / a removed tool surface a toast.
Tests: pin toggle propagation, replay dispatch for each supported method,
unsupported-method and missing-tool toasts.
Closes#1438.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): make history Replay support list/discovery requests
Replaying a tools/list entry reported "Replay isn't supported". Extend
replayHistoryRequest beyond the call-style requests to the read/discovery
methods, re-issuing each via its InspectorClient method (preserving the
pagination cursor):
- tools/list → listTools, prompts/list → listPrompts,
resources/list → listResources,
resources/templates/list → listResourceTemplates, ping → ping.
Tests: tools/list replay (cursor preserved) and an unsupported-method
toast (logging/setLevel).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): replay tasks/list; reorder + conditionally show History buttons
- Add tasks/list to the replayable set (re-issued via listRequestorTasks),
completing the client-issued */list methods.
- Reverse the HistoryEntry actions to Pin then Replay, and hide Replay for
entries whose method can't be replayed.
- Introduce a single source of truth — REPLAYABLE_HISTORY_METHODS /
isReplayableHistoryMethod in historyUtils — used by HistoryEntry to
show/hide the button and by App's replayHistoryRequest to gate dispatch,
so the two can't drift.
Tests: tasks/list replay, Replay hidden for a non-replayable method, and
Pin-before-Replay ordering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): add client↔server direction badge to History and Network (#1437)
A dual-state badge at the top-left of each entry shows which way it
traveled: "client → server" (green) for inspector-originated, "client ←
server" (yellow) for server-originated.
- New shared element MessageDirectionBadge (Elements).
- History: MessageEntry gains an `origin` ("client" | "server") set at
tracking time — MessageTrackingTransport tags `send` as client and
`onmessage` as server, threaded through the track callbacks. HistoryEntry
maps origin → badge. (direction stays the request/response/notification
message-type used for response correlation; origin is the flow.)
- Network: fetches are always inspector-originated, so NetworkEntry renders
the badge as outgoing.
Tests + stories for the badge; HistoryEntry direction tests; transport
test asserts the origin argument.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(web): use purple (not yellow) for the client ← server direction badge
Yellow + green read as caution/ok status; purple vs green reads as
direction. Incoming (server → client) is now violet; outgoing stays green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): make History Pinned/History sections collapsible toggles
The "Pinned Requests (N)" and "History (N)" section headers are now
clickable toggle buttons that expand/collapse their entries — styled like
the LogControls level toggles (UnstyledButton listItem variant with the
active background) and wrapping the entries in a Collapse. Both default
open and collapse independently.
Tests assert the per-section aria-expanded toggling and independence.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): replace Expand/Collapse text button with an icon toggle
History, Network, and Task cards now use a shared ExpandToggle ActionIcon
instead of the "Expand"/"Collapse" text button: LuArrowDownToLine when
collapsed (expand), LuArrowUpFromLine when expanded (collapse). The
aria-label stays "Expand"/"Collapse" so the control reads the same.
- New shared element ExpandToggle (+ test + stories).
- HistoryEntry: actions split into a left group (Pin/Replay) with the
toggle pushed right via space-between.
- NetworkEntry / TaskCard: drop their now-unused SubtleButton const.
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* feat(web): pin icon toggle on HistoryEntry, moved to the right
Replace the Pin/Unpin text button with a shared PinToggle ActionIcon
(TiPinOutline when unpinned, TiPin when pinned; aria-label stays
Pin/Unpin). Move it to the right action group, just left of the
expand/collapse toggle — Replay stays on the left.
- New shared element PinToggle (+ test + stories).
- HistoryEntry action row: Replay left; Pin + expand toggle right.
- Drop the now-unused formatPinLabel helper.
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* feat(web): per-section Clear/Export on the Pinned and History headers
Each section header now shows Clear and Export links on the right, but
only when both sections are present (a single section is already covered
by the panel-level Clear/Export). They act on just that section's entries:
- Clear: removes that section's entries by pin membership (clearing the
Pinned section also drops the now-stale pinned id set).
- Export: downloads just that section's entries
(inspector-history-pinned/-unpinned-...json).
Threaded onClearSection/onExportSection App → InspectorView → HistoryScreen
→ HistoryListPanel; App computes each section from messages + pinned ids.
Extracted a CollapsibleSection subcomponent and a SectionActions links
group. Extended ExportKind with history-pinned/history-unpinned.
Tests cover both-sections visibility gating and per-section dispatch.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): Filter by Message Direction on the History controls
Add a "Filter by Message Direction" section to HistoryControls, modeled on
LogControls' "Filter by Level": a Select/Deselect All control plus two
listItem toggles — "client → server" and "client ← server" — that show or
hide entries by origin.
- HistoryUiState gains visibleDirections (Record<MessageOrigin, boolean>),
defaulting to both visible; persists with the other per-screen state.
- HistoryScreen wires the toggles (single + all) through onUiChange and
passes the filter to HistoryListPanel, where matchesFilters drops entries
whose direction is off (entries without a recorded origin are never
filtered out).
Tests cover the controls (render, single toggle, select/deselect all), the
HistoryScreen onUiChange wiring, and the list-level direction filtering.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(web): section Clear/Export as subtle buttons, not link anchors
Match the Select/Deselect All control in HistoryControls: the per-section
Clear/Export on the History/Pinned headers now use a subtle Button
(variant subtle, size xs) instead of an Anchor link.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(web): color the direction filter labels to match the badge
The "client → server" / "client ← server" toggles in HistoryControls now
color their labels green / violet, matching the MessageDirectionBadge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): track outgoing client notifications in history too
Review follow-up (#1441): MessageTrackingTransport.send now also tracks
the client's own notifications (initialized, progress,
roots/list_changed) as origin "client", making send fully symmetric with
onmessage. Previously only id-bearing outgoing messages (requests,
responses) were tracked, so client notifications never reached History
while incoming server notifications did.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* feat(web): Filter by Message Direction on the Network screen
Add the same "Filter by Message Direction" section to NetworkControls as
on HistoryControls. Extracted the shared section into a MessageDirectionFilter
group component (used by both HistoryControls and NetworkControls) so they
stay identical — a Select/Deselect All control plus green/violet
client → server / client ← server toggles.
- NetworkUiState gains visibleDirections (default both visible), persisted
with the rest of the per-screen state; NetworkScreen wires the toggles and
NetworkStreamPanel filters on them.
- Network fetches are always inspector-originated, so all entries are
client → server: the client toggle gates them all and the server toggle
matches nothing (documented in NetworkStreamPanel). The section mirrors
History for parity.
Tests cover the shared filter, both controls' direction sections, the
Network list filtering, and the NetworkScreen wiring; ambiguous "Deselect
All" selectors (now two sections) disambiguated by order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* revert(web): drop message direction from the Network tab
Network traffic is always client → server — even SSE is a client-initiated
stream tagged outgoing — so a direction badge/filter there is meaningless.
Remove the MessageDirectionBadge from NetworkEntry and the Filter by Message
Direction section (and its NetworkUiState.visibleDirections wiring) from the
Network screen.
History keeps its direction badge + filter; the shared MessageDirectionBadge
and MessageDirectionFilter components stay (still used by History).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(web): a lone History section isn't a collapsible accordion
When only one of Pinned / History is present, its header is now a plain
title and its entries always show — instead of a `listItem` accordion
toggle that could hide them based on a stale collapsed state from when
both sections were on screen. The accordion (and per-section Clear/Export)
only applies when both sections are present.
Example fixed: collapse History while pins exist, then unpin everything —
History becomes the sole section and shows its entries under a plain
header rather than staying collapsed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(web): put section Clear/Export on the header pleat itself
The per-section Clear/Export sat to the right of the collapsible header
bar, on the panel background. Make the whole header row the "pleat":
a new Group `sectionHeader` theme variant (rounded + hover, active bg
passed per instance) wraps a flex-1 toggle button (the title) on the left
and the Clear/Export buttons on the right — so the actions live on the
pleat. The toggle is a separate button since the action buttons can't nest
inside it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* style(web): entry expand toggle uses the same icons as ListToggle
Swap ExpandToggle (History / Network / Task cards) from the LuArrow icons
to RiExpandVerticalLine / RiCollapseVerticalLine — the same expand/collapse
icons the list-level ListToggle uses. Same ActionIcon size, so it matches
the other small buttons on the cards; aria-labels unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
* fix(web): panel Clear keeps pinned entries (history-only)
Review follow-up (#1441): the panel Clear button is gated on the unpinned
count (implying history-only), but onClearHistory wiped everything
(pinned included) and left pinnedHistoryIds stale. Make Clear history-only
— clearMessages((m) => !pinnedHistoryIds.has(m.id)) — so pinning protects
an entry, matching the gating and the per-section model; the pin set stays
valid since its entries survive.
Also drop the stale "and Network" mention from the MessageDirectionFilter
docstring (Network direction filter was reverted).
Test: panel Clear's predicate keeps pinned ids and removes unpinned.
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