Copilot round 4. The complete script created an empty isolated OAuth
store and then always passed --stored-auth-only, so against an
OAuth-protected server it could never authenticate — exit 3 by
construction — while being presented as the general "arbitrary MCP
server" template.
The two requirements are genuinely in tension: §6 wants isolation so a
run cannot read or rotate real tokens, and --stored-auth-only wants a
token to reuse. Round 2 made the isolation airtight without reconciling
that, which is what turned a latent gap into a guaranteed one.
Resolved by making credential provisioning explicit rather than by
scoping the script down to unauthenticated servers: it now takes a
bearer token from the CI secret store when MCP_TOKEN is set — the
approach §6 already recommends for unattended runs — and is unchanged
when it is not. Added a callout naming the tension, wired MCP_TOKEN
through the Actions job, and noted that a grant requiring genuine
interactive OAuth does not belong in a CI smoke test at all.
The conditional argument uses "${auth[@]+"${auth[@]}"}" because an empty
array is an unbound variable under `set -u` in bash before 4.4, and
macOS still ships 3.2 (verified locally). Documented why, so it is not
simplified into ${MCP_TOKEN:+--header "..."} — that form happens to
preserve its inner quoting in bash, but as a shell-specific subtlety a
reader cannot check rather than something the script states.
Verified against a live HTTP test server both ways: MCP_TOKEN unset and
MCP_TOKEN set to a value containing a space both pass all three
assertions. Argv construction checked directly — the header arrives as
one word with the token intact, and no empty argument is passed when the
variable is unset.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KsKC3HniVF9dCZtDVbYp5B
Signed-off-by: cliffhall <cliff@futurescale.com>