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CLOUD-191 Resolve the connector allowlist per call, from committed policy, whatever name the host chose
CORRECTION 2026-08-18 — the retraction below was itself wrong. This issue stands, with a narrower scope.The "RETRACTED" section further down withdrew this issue on the strength of CLOUD-665's typo diagnosis. CLOUD-665 is false and is now Canceled. The CLI's MCP log tree sanitizes every non-alphanumeric character in a server name to a hyphen before using it as a directory name — The flip is the cause, and this issue's mechanism is the right answer to it. What survives from the detour, and it is the useful half, is the split between the two kinds of server:
So the original reasoning was right about the mechanism and wrong about the victim. An allowlist naming only the readable form does not deny Linear calls; it denies toolbox-server calls, during whichever episodes expose UUIDs. Five allow rules grant nothing and two deny rules enforce nothing for the length of that episode — and the deny side is the worse half, because AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on The Ready block below is rewritten to that scope. The original, which reasoned in terms of Linear, is preserved under "Superseded Ready block" for the record. ReadyRefinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations. There is no durable machine. Every session runs in a container that is reclaimed, so a fix written to
Ready predicateA session in which the toolbox server is exposed under a name no committed allow rule matches still has that server's committed allow verbs permitted and its committed deny verbs refused, without a human editing settings and without any UUID appearing in a tracked file. Done
Superseded Ready blockKept for the record; it reasoned in terms of Linear, which the correction above shows is not governed by this allowlist at all. There is no durable machine. Every session runs in a container that is reclaimed, so a fix written to The connector's exposed name is chosen per registration episode, and observation now shows the flip is bidirectional — a single session went readable → UUID → readable. So the failure has no monotone boundary: an allowlist naming only the readable form is correct during whichever episodes land on it, and silently denies every Linear call during the others. The identity is discoverable, so no identifier needs committingThe host writes its injected MCP configuration to That makes a self-healing repair possible with no account-specific identifier in git: read the injected config, derive the server keys present, emit allow rules for them. The mechanism is portable to any account and any fork, and it repairs whichever name the current episode chose. Ready predicateA session that receives connectors under a name no committed allow rule matches reaches a state where Linear calls are permitted, without a human editing settings and without any UUID appearing in a tracked file. Blockers (§8)None. Open questions, in the order they gate the work
RETRACTED — and this retraction is ITSELF retracted (see the correction at the top)The section below withdrew this issue on the strength of CLOUD-665's typo diagnosis, which is false: the log tree sanitizes separators, there was never a misspelling, and the flip is the cause after all. The section is kept verbatim because the reasoning error is the useful part — it is not current. One thing in it is still true and worth keeping: nothing shipped. No Everything from here to the end of the "Done" list is withdrawn. It was written, committed, and reset out of the branch before merging; no ✗ FALSE — there was no typo. CLOUD-665 is Canceled; see the correction at the top. ✗ HALF FALSE — right about Linear, wrong about the conclusion. The connector/toolbox split below is correct and is the useful residue; what does not follow is that this issue dies, since the toolbox server genuinely is governed by ✗ SUPERSEDED — the Ready predicate has been rewritten to the toolbox-server scope at the top, so this no longer describes the issue. Original text: So the Ready predicate is unreachable as written — "a session that receives connectors under a name no committed allow rule matches reaches a state where Linear calls are permitted" describes a state that already holds for reasons unrelated to any allow rule. Back to Todo, unassigned, and it needs re-refining against what is now known before anyone builds again. What may remain: whether the toolbox server's rule matching survives a mid-session flip once the spelling is right. That is a real question and it is much smaller than this issue. RETRACTED: What shipped, and where it differs from the specification aboveThe premise held and the mechanism changed. The Ready block reasoned that the live identity is discoverable, so nothing account-specific needs committing — correct, and the missing half was which discoverable thing to anchor on. Not the key: each entry's
It is a name translation, not a grant. Done
RETRACTED — this residue was residue of the retracted mechanism. CLOUD-663 is being closed as not-a-finding: the memory text it carries describes the same wrong model. The underlying observation it made — that the protected-path gate's redirect names a surface which may not have attached — is real and stands on its own, and is recorded there. Original text follows.
Watch: what a later session needs to pick this upThe trigger is not observable to an agent as a prompt — an agent cannot see its own approval prompts. What it can observe:
So the observation to record, each time it is taken: the session's live connector keys, which form the tool names took, and whether a call succeeded or was denied. Appended to CLOUD-178, which is the evidence thread and is durable when the container is not. That series is what open question 2 needs. It cannot be answered from a single session, and no session so far has recorded it in a form the next one can read. CLOUD-178 claude.ai connector tools flip between readable and UUID names, silently breaking the permission allowlist
Split out of CLOUD-177, which is Done on its own scope. Evidence thread: the comments on CLOUD-177, in particular the final correction establishing verdict (a). ReadyA claude.ai connector MCP server is exposed to a session under two different names over its lifetime, and a permission allow rule can only name one of them. At session start the Linear connector appears as This hits the board-in-lockstep rule directly: moving a Measured, across two containers
Verdict: the UUID is stable and equal across containers. It is a durable identity for the connector; what varies is which of the two names is live at a given moment. This was initially mis-called as "unstable per boot" from a session that had not yet reconnected — absence of a reconnect is not evidence of naming stability, and any future measurement here needs to span at least one reconnect to say anything. Confirmed load-bearing, not cosmetic: a Note this is a second, independent defect from the one that originally masked it: an org-level Ready predicateA session survives a connector reconnect with Linear calls still auto-approved — no prompt on a Done (proposed)
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A fourth connector, measured 2026-08-19, and it is NOT LinearThe injected config in one remote session ( The symptom that surfaced it: This is the first instance where the affected connector is the one the fleet procedure runs on.
Mitigation applied, user-level only (repo rule 1, and the Done section's reasoning above): One trap worth recording, because the obvious form of this mitigation is unsafe. A wildcard grant ( A second open question is now partly answered. The readable-phase test PR #488 called for has now run, and it FAILED — so the flip is not the only causePR #488 closed with an explicit outstanding test: "This session is in the UUID-exposure phase, where no readable-name rule matches either, so the fix cannot be exercised here. The next session that starts in the readable phase is the test." That session has happened. It started in the readable phase, and the corrected spelling did not stop the prompting.
Name, spelling and rule matched exactly, and the call prompted anyway. So the two-name flip is not sufficient to explain the prompting, and neither is the retired typo theory. Something above The candidate, recorded as a hypothesis and NOT as a finding. This session ran What this bounds. CLOUD-191's resolver — built today — repairs the UUID episode, and that repair is real and independently worth having, because during such an episode the two committed denies enforce nothing and AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on them. But it cannot repair the readable phase, because in that phase there is no name mismatch to translate. A session that lands CLOUD-191 and still sees prompts under the readable name has not found a regression — it has found this, and should add its observation here rather than re-diagnosing the flip. Why the repo cannot fix this itselfIn Claude Code on the web, connectors are "provisioned by the remote host and arrive as explicit Generated by Claude Code |
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change applies committed connector permissions across host-selected server names, but the current implementation can miss partial wildcard rules and can disable deny enforcement for any non-empty bypass value. As a result, intended prohibitions may be silently unenforced or bypassed, so the PR is not merge-ready until these bounded permission issues are addressed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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ClaudeCode->>connector_allow_guard: PreToolUse MCP payload
connector_allow_guard->>connector_allow_resolve: Tool name and config path
connector_allow_resolve->>Settings: Read connector allow/deny rules
Settings-->>connector_allow_resolve: Matching rules
connector_allow_resolve-->>connector_allow_guard: Verdict and alias
connector_allow_guard-->>ClaudeCode: Permission decision JSON
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…ame the host chose The harness's toolbox server is exposed under a name the host picks per registration episode: `mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__create_session` at session start, `mcp__<uuid>__create_session` after a mid-session re-register. A `.claude/settings.json` rule must name its server as a literal, and the literal matching the second is an account-specific identifier that rule 1 keeps out of committed config. So during a UUID episode five allow rules grant nothing and two deny rules enforce nothing. The deny half is the worse one and is why this is worth a mechanism. AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on `send_later` and `create_trigger` being denied, and a deny that under-matches reads as a prohibition while enforcing nothing. Neither failure is observable to the agent: an agent cannot see its own approval prompts. Resolved per call, never once. The flip is bidirectional and mid-session, so anything that resolves a name once and caches it — including the `SessionStart` settings write this issue was originally specified as, and the one a session reached for again today — is wrong for whichever episodes follow it. Nothing here is written, cached, or persisted. Anchored on the endpoint, not the key. Each injected entry's `url` carries the real upstream in an `mcp_url` parameter, and the toolbox server's is a public vendor address: stable across containers, identical for every account, and therefore committable where the key beside it is not. One endpoint and one alias are this file's whole committed knowledge. It is a translation, never a grant. `.claude/settings.json` remains the only statement of which verbs are permitted; the resolver answers "which committed server is the host talking about" and returns that file's own verdict. Every endpoint that is not the toolbox one resolves to silence — a claude.ai connector is governed by the connector layer, so translating its name would grant what the committed file does not state. Deny is tested before allow, so `mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__*` cannot pre-approve a verb denied under it. That ordering is the declared mutation on the resolver; the guard's drops its allow arm, which brings the prompt back. 23 rows over both halves, including the degradations — absent config, absent settings, unparseable config, a server segment carrying jq metacharacters — each of which must reach silence rather than a grant, and a row asserting no UUID shape appears in the resolver's source at all. `pipefail-grep-check` caught the settings read piping jq into an early-exiting grep, where a MATCH reports failure. Fixed as that gate directs, and the reason is recorded beside the line. Refs: CLOUD-191, CLOUD-178
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In `@mise-tasks/connector-allow-guard`:
- Line 40: Update the BATTEN_CONNECTOR_ALLOW_BYPASS check in the connector guard
to exit only when its value is exactly “1”, so “0” and “false” continue
enforcing committed denies; add a regression case covering a false-like value.
In `@mise-tasks/connector-allow-resolve`:
- Around line 170-175: Update the permission matching logic around the resolved
alias and tool verb so rules support partial tool-segment wildcards such as a
send_* pattern, using the same semantics as the permission engine rather than
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Require the documented bypass value.
Any non-empty value disables the guard. BATTEN_CONNECTOR_ALLOW_BYPASS=0 and BATTEN_CONNECTOR_ALLOW_BYPASS=false bypass committed denies.
Exit only when the value is exactly 1. Add a regression row for a false-like value.
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In `@mise-tasks/connector-allow-guard` at line 40, Update the
BATTEN_CONNECTOR_ALLOW_BYPASS check in the connector guard to exit only when its
value is exactly “1”, so “0” and “false” continue enforcing committed denies;
add a regression case covering a false-like value.
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Match all supported tool-segment wildcard rules.
Lines 170-175 match only the exact tool name and mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__*. A committed rule such as mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__send_* does not match send_later after a UUID registration. A deny then resolves to silence instead of deny.
Evaluate every rule with the literal resolved server alias by using the same tool-segment wildcard semantics as the permission engine. Keep deny evaluation before allow evaluation. Add allow and deny test rows for a partial tool wildcard.
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In `@mise-tasks/connector-allow-resolve` around lines 170 - 175, Update the
permission matching logic around the resolved alias and tool verb so rules
support partial tool-segment wildcards such as a send_* pattern, using the same
semantics as the permission engine rather than only exact names or a trailing
__* wildcard. Preserve deny evaluation before allow evaluation, and add allow
and deny test cases covering the partial wildcard behavior.
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The harness's toolbox server is exposed under a name the host picks per registration episode:
mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__create_sessionat session start,mcp__<uuid>__create_sessionafter a mid-session re-register. A.claude/settings.jsonrule must name its server as a literal —mcp-allow-checkrefuses a glob there, correctly — and the literal matching the second is an account-specific identifier that rule 1 keeps out of committed config.So during a UUID episode five allow rules grant nothing and two deny rules enforce nothing, and neither failure is observable to the agent: an agent cannot see its own approval prompts.
The deny half is the worse one, and is why this is worth a mechanism. AGENTS.md's ban on babysitting timers rests on
send_laterandcreate_triggerbeing denied. A deny that under-matches reads as a prohibition while enforcing nothing — the same silent directionconnector-verb-guardwas built for on the suffix side.Per call, never once
The flip is bidirectional and mid-session, so anything that resolves a name once and caches it is wrong for whichever episodes follow it. That rules out the
SessionStartsettings write this issue was originally specified as — and the one a session reached for again today, writing~/.claude/settings.json, which is not a rule at all: it dies with the container, which is how the same diagnosis gets re-derived from scratch. Nothing here is written, cached, or persisted.Anchored on the endpoint, not the key
Each injected entry's
urlcarries the real upstream in anmcp_urlparameter. The toolbox server's ishttps://api.anthropic.com/v1/code/mcp/meta— a public vendor address, stable across containers, identical for every account, and therefore committable where the key beside it is not. One endpoint and one alias are the resolver's whole committed knowledge.It is a translation, never a grant
.claude/settings.jsonstays the only statement of which verbs are permitted. The resolver answers "which committed server is the host talking about" and returns that file's own verdict; every outcome it can produce is one the committed file already states.Every endpoint that is not the toolbox one resolves to silence. A claude.ai connector is governed by the connector layer — which is why Linear kept working through both naming episodes under a name no committed rule spells — so translating its name would grant what the committed file does not govern.
Deny is tested before allow, so
mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__*cannot pre-approve a verb denied under it.Against the live config
mcp__<uuid>__create_sessionmcp__<uuid>__send_latermcp__<uuid>__archive_sessionTwo gates caught defects in this change before it left the branch
pipefail-grep-checkfound the settings read pipingjqinto an early-exitinggrep, where a match closes the pipe and reports failure.mutantfound both#MUTANTdeclarations naming case names that do not exist and assuming tab indentation the files do not have — so neither mutation could ever have fired, thenames-no-caseclass #488 repaired forclaim-check. Both fixed; 54 of 54 declared mutations now caught.What this does NOT fix, measured
PR #488 closed asking for a specific test: "the next session that starts in the readable phase is the test." That session has now run and failed. The live tool was
mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__get_session, the checked-out tree carried that exact grant (verified against the session's actual HEAD,228c29d, not the branch tip),mcp-allow-checkwas green — and it still prompted twice, human-reported.So the name flip is not sufficient to explain the prompting; something above
permissions.allowis adjudicating. The auto-mode classifier is the candidate, recorded on CLOUD-178 as a hypothesis with the measurement that would settle it. This change repairs the UUID episode and re-arms the denies, which stands on its own — it cannot repair the readable phase, where there is no name mismatch to translate.Hooks are session-start snapshots (CLOUD-187), so this binds the next session, not the one that wrote it.
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23 rows over two suites, both enrolled in
MUTANT_GATES. The degradations — absent config, absent settings, unparseable config, a server segment carrying jq metacharacters — each must reach silence rather than a grant, and a row asserts no UUID shape appears in the resolver's source at all.Closes CLOUD-191
Refs: CLOUD-178
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