Support OAuth client_credentials grant in OAuth client

## Motivation and Context

The MCP authorization specification and SEP-1046 allow confidential clients to
obtain tokens through the OAuth 2.1 `client_credentials` grant: a machine-to-machine flow
with no user, no browser redirect, and no authorization code. The Ruby SDK
previously supported only the interactive authorization-code flow, so it could not
authenticate against a server that requires `client_credentials`. This makes
the `auth/client-credentials-basic` conformance scenario pass and is removed from
the expected failures list.

Following the TypeScript SDK (`ClientCredentialsProvider`) and the Python SDK
(`ClientCredentialsOAuthProvider`), the grant gets its own provider class rather than
overloading the authorization-code provider. The change adds:

- `MCP::Client::OAuth::ClientCredentialsProvider`, a dedicated provider
  for the grant. `client_id` and `client_secret` are mandatory
  (the grant is for confidential clients), `token_endpoint_auth_method` is
  `client_secret_basic` (default) or `client_secret_post` -- `none` is
  rejected because an unauthenticated `client_credentials` request is
  meaningless. It has no redirect arguments, so a credentials-only
  client never supplies the redirect URI / handlers that grant has no use for.
- `MCP::Client::OAuth::StorageBackedProvider`, an internal module that
  shares the token / client-information persistence between the two provider classes
  so `Flow` can treat any provider uniformly.
- `Provider#authorization_flow` (`:authorization_code`) and
  `ClientCredentialsProvider#authorization_flow` (`:client_credentials`).
  `Flow#run!` dispatches on this rather than inspecting
  `client_metadata[:grant_types]`, which is protocol metadata for
  the authorization server, not an SDK control signal.
- `run_client_credentials!` shares the same PRM / AS metadata discovery
  and Communication Security checks as the interactive flow, then
  exchanges `grant_type=client_credentials` at the token endpoint via
  the existing `post_to_token_endpoint` (which already applies
  `client_secret_basic`). There is no PKCE, redirect, or `offline_access`
  augmentation, because the grant does not issue a refresh token
  (OAuth 2.1 Section 4.3.3).
- `conformance/client.rb` builds a `ClientCredentialsProvider` for
  the `auth/client-credentials-*` scenarios, reusing the harness-injected
  `client_id` / `client_secret`.

## How Has This Been Tested?

New `ClientCredentialsProvider` tests cover: credentials are stored as
client information; `authorization_flow` is `:client_credentials`;
`client_secret_post` is accepted; missing `client_id` / `client_secret`
and `token_endpoint_auth_method: "none"` are rejected; and the token helpers
delegate to storage.

New `Flow` tests cover: a `client_credentials` provider exchanges
`grant_type=client_credentials` with HTTP Basic auth, saves the token,
and never contacts the authorization or registration endpoint;
the requested scope is taken from PRM `scopes_supported`; and a standard
`Provider` runs the authorization-code grant regardless of what its
`client_metadata[:grant_types]` lists. A `Provider` test asserts
`authorization_flow` is `:authorization_code`.

Conformance: `auth/client-credentials-basic` now passes 7/7 with no failures.

## Breaking Changes

None. `ClientCredentialsProvider` is a new class; the existing `Provider` keeps
its required `redirect_uri` / `redirect_handler` / `callback_handler` arguments
and its behaviour is unchanged. Existing interactive clients are unaffected.
This commit is contained in:
Koichi ITO 2026-06-13 00:12:19 +09:00
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@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ module MCP
as_metadata = fetch_authorization_server_metadata(issuer_url: authorization_server)
ensure_issuer_matches!(expected: authorization_server, returned: as_metadata["issuer"])
ensure_secure_endpoints!(as_metadata)
if provider_authorization_flow == :client_credentials
return run_client_credentials!(as_metadata: as_metadata, prm: prm, resource: resource, scope: scope)
end
ensure_pkce_supported!(as_metadata)
client_info = ensure_client_registered(as_metadata: as_metadata)
@ -92,14 +97,46 @@ module MCP
:authorized
end
# Exchanges the saved `refresh_token` for a fresh access token (RFC 6749
# Section 6). Re-discovers PRM and AS metadata so we always pick up a moved
# token endpoint, and re-runs the audience / issuer / security checks
# before talking to it.
# Runs the OAuth 2.1 `client_credentials` grant (machine-to-machine, no user interaction) and persists
# the resulting token. Shares the same discovery and security checks as `run!`; the only difference is
# the grant exchanged at the token endpoint. There is no PKCE, redirect, or authorization request,
# and no `offline_access` augmentation because the grant does not issue a refresh token (OAuth 2.1 Section 4.3.3).
# The pre-registered `client_id` / `client_secret` come from the provider's stored `client_information`.
# https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/authorization
def run_client_credentials!(as_metadata:, prm:, resource:, scope:)
client_info = client_credentials_client_info
form = { "grant_type" => "client_credentials" }
effective_scope = resolve_scope(scope: scope, prm: prm)
form["scope"] = effective_scope if effective_scope
form["resource"] = resource if resource
tokens = post_to_token_endpoint(as_metadata: as_metadata, client_info: client_info, form: form)
@provider.save_tokens(tokens)
:authorized
end
# Reads the pre-registered credentials for the `client_credentials` grant directly from the provider's stored
# `client_information`, rather than going through `ensure_client_registered` (which targets the authorization-code
# flow and reaches for `Provider`-only methods like `client_metadata` and `client_id_metadata_document_url`).
# The grant is for confidential clients, so a missing `client_id` is a clean configuration error, not a fallback
# to dynamic registration.
def client_credentials_client_info
info = @provider.client_information
unless info.is_a?(Hash) && client_info_required_value(info, "client_id")
raise AuthorizationError,
"Cannot run the client_credentials grant: the provider has no stored `client_id`."
end
info
end
# Exchanges the saved `refresh_token` for a fresh access token (RFC 6749 Section 6).
# Re-discovers PRM and AS metadata so we always pick up a moved token endpoint, and re-runs the audience / issuer / security
# checks before talking to it.
#
# Returns `:refreshed` on success. Raises `AuthorizationError` when
# the provider has no refresh token, no client information, or when
# the token endpoint refuses the refresh request.
# Returns `:refreshed` on success. Raises `AuthorizationError` when the provider has no refresh token, no client information,
# or when the token endpoint refuses the refresh request.
# https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749#section-6
def refresh!(server_url:, resource_metadata_url: nil)
refresh_token = read_token("refresh_token")
@ -110,8 +147,7 @@ module MCP
# A CIMD-configured provider stores no `client_information` on purpose
# (the CIMD URL is re-resolved against the live AS metadata on every flow).
# Allow refresh to proceed in that case so the `refresh_token` obtained via
# the CIMD flow remains usable.
# Allow refresh to proceed in that case so the `refresh_token` obtained via the CIMD flow remains usable.
have_cimd_url = !@provider.client_id_metadata_document_url.nil?
unless have_stored_client_info || have_cimd_url
@ -484,6 +520,18 @@ module MCP
Array(grant_types).include?("refresh_token")
end
# The OAuth flow the provider drives. Dispatching on the provider's
# declared flow keeps `Flow` from second-guessing intent by parsing
# `client_metadata[:grant_types]` (which is protocol metadata for the
# authorization server, not an SDK control signal). A provider that
# predates this method is treated as the interactive authorization-code
# flow it was the only option for.
def provider_authorization_flow
return :authorization_code unless @provider.respond_to?(:authorization_flow)
@provider.authorization_flow
end
def build_authorization_url(as_metadata:, client_id:, scope:, state:, code_challenge:, resource:)
authorization_endpoint = as_metadata["authorization_endpoint"]
unless authorization_endpoint