Support private_key_jwt Client Authentication for the client_credentials Grant

## Motivation and Context

The MCP `io.modelcontextprotocol/oauth-client-credentials` extension
(SEP-1046, modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol#1046) specifies
two client authentication methods for the `client_credentials` grant:
`client_secret_basic` and the RECOMMENDED `private_key_jwt`
(RFC 7523 Section 2.2 JWT client assertion). The previous commit added
the grant with secret-based authentication; this adds the JWT method,
which is what the `auth/client-credentials-jwt` conformance scenario exercises.

This mirrors the merged implementations in the TypeScript SDK
(`PrivateKeyJwtProvider`, typescript-sdk#1157) and the Python SDK
(`PrivateKeyJWTOAuthProvider` / `SignedJWTParameters`, python-sdk#1663),
adapted to this SDK's provider design:

- New `MCP::Client::OAuth::JWTClientAssertion` builds the RFC 7523 compact
  JWS with openssl, keeping the SDK free of a JWT gem dependency
  (the TypeScript and Python SDKs use jose and PyJWT). Claims follow SEP-1046:
  `iss` and `sub` carry the client_id, `aud` carries the authorization
  server's issuer identifier, plus `exp` (300-second lifetime, matching both SDKs),
  `iat`, and a unique `jti`. ES256 and RS256 are supported; ES256 signatures are
  converted from OpenSSL's ASN.1 DER form to the raw 64-byte `r || s` encoding
  JWS requires (RFC 7518 Section 3.4).
- `ClientCredentialsProvider` accepts
  `token_endpoint_auth_method: "private_key_jwt"` with `private_key:`
  (PEM string or `OpenSSL::PKey::PKey`) and a required `signing_algorithm:`
  (no default, so an algorithm mismatch with the server's
  `token_endpoint_auth_signing_alg_values_supported` fails loudly at construction;
  both reference SDKs also take the algorithm explicitly).
  The key stays on the provider and is never written to `storage`;
  a throwaway assertion is signed at construction to fail fast on an unparseable key
  or a key/algorithm mismatch.
- `Flow#post_to_token_endpoint` sends `client_assertion_type` and a freshly
  signed `client_assertion` for `private_key_jwt`,
  using the `ensure_issuer_matches!`-validated issuer as the audience,
  and omits `client_id` from the body per SEP-1046
  (identity travels in the assertion's claims).
- The conformance client builds a `private_key_jwt` provider
  when the harness injects `private_key_pem`, defaulting the algorithm to
  ES256 like the TypeScript and Python conformance clients,
  and `auth/client-credentials-jwt` is removed from
  `conformance/expected_failures.yml`.

Scope notes: only ES256 and RS256 are supported for now (the TypeScript and
Python SDKs accept whatever their JWT libraries support);
adding further algorithms is additive. There is also no injection point yet for
externally signed assertions (the TypeScript SDK's `StaticPrivateKeyJwtProvider` and
the Python SDK's `assertion_provider` callback cover KMS/HSM-held keys);
that is a separate follow-up.

## How Has This Been Tested?

New `test/mcp/client/oauth/jwt_client_assertion_test.rb` covers the JWS construction:
header and RFC 7523 claims, unpadded base64url segments,
ES256 signature round-trip verification (raw -> DER -> `OpenSSL::PKey::EC#verify`),
RS256 verification, PEM and parsed-key input, lifetime override, unique `jti` per assertion,
and rejection of unsupported algorithms, key/algorithm mismatches
(including a P-384 key with ES256), unparseable PEM, and public-only keys.

New tests in `test/mcp/client/oauth/client_credentials_provider_test.rb` cover
the provider surface: `private_key_jwt` construction, the key and
secret never reaching `client_information`, required `private_key` / `signing_algorithm`,
rejection of a simultaneous `client_secret`, fail-fast on key/algorithm mismatch,
and `client_assertion(audience:)` producing a JWT with the expected claims.

A new test in `test/mcp/client/oauth/flow_test.rb` runs the full grant against WebMock stubs
and asserts the token request carries `grant_type=client_credentials`,
the RFC 7523 `client_assertion_type`, an assertion whose `iss`/`sub` are the client_id
and whose `aud` is the issuer, the RFC 8707 `resource`, and neither `client_id` nor
any secret in the body or headers.

`bundle exec rake` passes; the `auth/client-credentials-jwt` conformance scenario
passes 7/7 checks and the baseline check passes with its expected-failure entry removed.

## Breaking Changes

None. `client_secret:` becomes optional on `ClientCredentialsProvider` only
in the signature; it is still required for the secret-based methods, and all
existing construction paths behave unchanged.
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@ -175,6 +175,57 @@ module MCP
end
end
def test_run_client_credentials_with_private_key_jwt_sends_signed_assertion
# SEP-1046 / RFC 7523 Section 2.2: the token request authenticates
# with a signed JWT assertion; `client_id` and any shared secret are
# absent from the body, and the assertion's audience is the AS issuer.
stub_request(:get, @as_metadata_url).to_return(
status: 200,
headers: { "Content-Type" => "application/json" },
body: JSON.generate(
issuer: @auth_base,
token_endpoint: "#{@auth_base}/token",
grant_types_supported: ["client_credentials"],
token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported: ["private_key_jwt"],
token_endpoint_auth_signing_alg_values_supported: ["ES256"],
),
)
# `OpenSSL::PKey::EC.generate` only exists from the openssl gem 2.2 (Ruby 3.0);
# fall back to the pre-3.0 API on older Rubies.
key = if OpenSSL::PKey::EC.respond_to?(:generate)
OpenSSL::PKey::EC.generate("prime256v1")
else
OpenSSL::PKey::EC.new("prime256v1").tap(&:generate_key)
end
provider = ClientCredentialsProvider.new(
client_id: "cc-client",
token_endpoint_auth_method: "private_key_jwt",
private_key: key,
signing_algorithm: "ES256",
)
result = Flow.new(provider: provider).run!(server_url: @server_url, resource_metadata_url: @prm_url)
assert_equal(:authorized, result)
assert_equal("test-token-from-flow", provider.access_token)
assert_requested(:post, "#{@auth_base}/token") do |req|
form = URI.decode_www_form(req.body).to_h
payload_segment = form["client_assertion"].to_s.split(".")[1].to_s
claims = JSON.parse(Base64.urlsafe_decode64(payload_segment + "=" * (-payload_segment.length % 4)))
form["grant_type"] == "client_credentials" &&
form["client_assertion_type"] == "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer" &&
!form.key?("client_id") &&
!form.key?("client_secret") &&
req.headers["Authorization"].nil? &&
claims["iss"] == "cc-client" &&
claims["sub"] == "cc-client" &&
claims["aud"] == @auth_base &&
form["resource"] == "https://srv.example.com/mcp"
end
end
def test_run_uses_authorization_code_grant_for_default_provider
# A standard `Provider` declares `authorization_flow == :authorization_code`,
# so `Flow` runs the interactive grant regardless of what `client_metadata[:grant_types]` happens to list.