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feat(mcp-grant-sync): project committed MCP rules onto the identity the host attached - #547
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CLOUD-734 Re-project the committed MCP grants onto the session's generated config at SessionStart, so a rotating server id cannot silently revoke an approval a human already gave
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Where the policy actually lives — measured, not assumed. The per-session file So the decision is expressed locally, per tool, in a file this repo's hooks can reach. That is the lever. Measured negative: editing it mid-session does nothing. Flipping Why the ordering is plausible rather than hopeful. What makes the identification robust. The generated file carries no human label for the rotating servers; only Scope, and the line this must not cross. This re-projects grants a human already committed. It never widens: a tool with no committed grant keeps Acceptance
Refinement — Ready (re-project committed intent onto generated identity; identify a server by its tools, never by its name) Refinement gate: Definition of Ready & Done. This body carries only specializations.
What this does not attempt. Making the call succeed if the CCR proxy re-enforces policy server-side. Upstream (anthropics/claude-code#61044, #61015) reports the refusal arriving as an HTTP error from the endpoint, which if true means no local projection can help and the honest outcome is the measured negative in the acceptance above. That is a capability gap of the kind CLOUD-312 tracks, not something to engineer around here. |
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The sync can omit partial tool-glob denies, weakening the committed permission policy and potentially leaving tools less restricted than intended; merge should wait for this behavior to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SessionStart as session-start.sh
participant SyncTask as mcp-grant-sync
participant GeneratedConfig as generated MCP config
participant LocalSettings as settings.local.json
SessionStart->>SyncTask: invoke synchronously
SyncTask->>GeneratedConfig: read live server inventory
SyncTask->>LocalSettings: write projected rules
SyncTask-->>SessionStart: return status and report
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…dentity The committed allowlist names a server by label; the host attaches a toolbox server under an identifier it chooses per registration episode, so a rule can name something that does not exist and enforce nothing. Measured this session: zero of six committed grants reached the Claude Code Remote server, whose 20 tools all sat at always_ask. The projection derives every rule from the committed file, resolves a label to the live server by the tools its own rules name, and writes only the gitignored local overlay — so it can express nothing a human did not already commit. Refs: CLOUD-734
The guard asserted the absence of one tool NAME, so a mutation projecting a server-wide glob survived it. It now checks every projected rule's tool segment against the committed set, which is the predicate it was always meant to be. Refs: CLOUD-734
Wired where reclaim-census is rather than through `step`: a stale committed rule is a finding about the settings file, not a provisioning failure. Also corrects this header's ordering claim, which CLOUD-734 measured false on two container incarnations — the MCP connections are initiated before the hook and complete while it is still provisioning, so what rescues the install fix is the client's 120s connect timeout, not ordering. Refs: CLOUD-734
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In @.claude/hooks/session-start.sh:
- Around line 244-255: Add host lifecycle handling around mcp-grant-sync so the
projection refreshes whenever host registration or identity changes, before
permission evaluation. Replace the one-shot SessionStart-only invocation with
the existing lifecycle/event mechanism, while preserving the non-failing
behavior of the sync.
In `@mise-tasks/mcp-grant-sync`:
- Around line 205-245: Update the server-resolution and membership checks around
the identifying inventory, matches loop, and emit loop to use the existing
tool-glob matching behavior rather than exact-name exposes checks. Preserve
literal matching while allowing patterns such as send_* to resolve a server and
be emitted as applicable; add a regression case covering a deny rule for send_*.
- Around line 261-264: Update the projection filtering logic in the mine
definition so it recognizes all generated server projections independently of
UUID format, while preserving human-authored local permission rules. Extend the
sync tests with a stale-replacement case beginning with a non-UUID server
identifier and verify it is replaced after rotation.
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| identifying=$(jq -r '.[] | .rule | split("__") | .[2:] | join("__")' <<<"$label_rules" | grep -vF '*' | sort -u) | ||
| if [ -z "$identifying" ]; then | ||
| unresolved=$((unresolved + 1)) | ||
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| # ANY identifying tool matching is enough to name the server, deliberately — | ||
| # requiring ALL of them would fold "this server is not attached" together | ||
| # with "one committed rule is stale", and the second is exactly the finding | ||
| # this must report rather than swallow. | ||
| matches=() | ||
| for id in $server_ids; do | ||
| for tool in $identifying; do | ||
| if exposes "$id" "$tool"; then | ||
| matches+=("$id") | ||
| break | ||
| fi | ||
| done | ||
| done | ||
| if [ "${#matches[@]}" -eq 0 ]; then | ||
| unresolved=$((unresolved + 1)) | ||
| continue | ||
| fi | ||
| if [ "${#matches[@]}" -gt 1 ]; then | ||
| ambiguous=$((ambiguous + 1)) | ||
| continue | ||
| fi | ||
| id="${matches[0]}" | ||
| touched_ids="${touched_ids}${touched_ids:+ }${id:0:8}" | ||
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| while IFS=$'\t' read -r kind tool; do | ||
| [ -n "$tool" ] || continue | ||
| if [ "$tool" != "*" ] && ! exposes "$id" "$tool"; then | ||
| # The committed rule names a tool its own server does not expose: | ||
| # a grant that grants nothing, or a prohibition that prohibits | ||
| # nothing. CLOUD-684's inert rule, surfacing from the session side. | ||
| inert=$((inert + 1)) | ||
| continue | ||
| fi | ||
| emit "$id" "$tool" | ||
| done < <(jq -r '.[] | [.kind, (.rule | split("__") | .[2:] | join("__"))] | @tsv' <<<"$label_rules") |
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Match partial tool globs against the server inventory.
Line 205 removes rules such as send_* from the identifying inventory. Line 237 then checks that pattern as an exact tool name and marks it inert.
If another literal rule resolves the server, a committed deny such as mcp__Claude_Code_Remote__send_* is omitted. This makes the deny under-match. Match tool globs during resolution and membership checks, then add a regression case for send_*.
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In `@mise-tasks/mcp-grant-sync` around lines 205 - 245, Update the
server-resolution and membership checks around the identifying inventory,
matches loop, and emit loop to use the existing tool-glob matching behavior
rather than exact-name exposes checks. Preserve literal matching while allowing
patterns such as send_* to resolve a server and be emitted as applicable; add a
regression case covering a deny rule for send_*.
Source: MCP tools
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Closes CLOUD-734
.claude/settings.jsonnames an MCP server by label; the host attaches atoolbox server under an identifier it picks per registration episode. So a
committed grant can name something that does not exist, and the human intent it
encodes is silently unenforced — the only symptom is an approval prompt that
reads as harness behaviour rather than as a settings bug.
The measurement, which redirected the mechanism
The issue proposed rewriting
/tmp/mcp-config-<session-id>.jsonfromSessionStartand made the ordering a first deliverable. Measured, twice, onesample per container incarnation:
Generation precedes the hook — the precondition the issue named — but so does
the read. That target is dead.
Where a grant is actually consulted is the client's own permission surface:
--allowed-toolson the running CLI already carries 51 uuid-keyed entries forthe Linear server and zero for the Claude Code Remote server, whose 20 tools
all sit at
always_ask, against six committed allow rules and three denies. Thehost performs this projection at launch and silently dropped one connector's
entire grant. A process argument is unreachable from a hook, but it is unioned
with the settings files — and a settings file is rereadable.
What this adds
mise-tasks/mcp-grant-sync, wired intoSessionStartbesidereclaim-censusrather than through
step: a stale committed rule is a finding about thesettings file, not a provisioning failure.
permissionsblock is the only source of intent. Everyemitted rule is one committed rule wearing the name the host is using, so this
structurally cannot widen.
the identifier rotates, tool names do not. Measured twice in one session: the
servers registered as uuids, re-registered ~126s later under human labels, and
rotated back on the next container.
.claude/settings.local.json, which is gitignored. Thecommitted file is never written; that asymmetry is the safety property.
under-matching deny fails open and silently, which is the direction
mcp-allow-check's third predicate exists to report.a URL, or a byte of the
headersblock — that file holds session credentials.expose, which is CLOUD-684's inert rule surfacing from the session side.
Live reading on this session: 6 allow + 3 deny rules projected onto the server
that had zero.
Also corrects
session-start.sh's header, which claimed the hook runs beforethe MCP servers start. It does not — and what actually rescues CLOUD-196's
install fix is the client's 120s connect timeout, measured here with serena
connecting in 45.5s from inside this hook's window. That data point is on
CLOUD-714.
Two forced deviations from the Ready block
the measurement above.
batten.tomland proved unnecessary.Configcarriesdeny_unknown_fields, so a new top-level table makes everybatteninvocation a hard error; and the committed rules already name thetools, so no second config surface is introduced. A label whose rules are only
globs is reported unresolved rather than guessed at.
Tests
tests/mcp-grant-sync.bats— 14 cases covering the §7 obligations, includingthe widening guard, projection by inventory under a uuid identifier, the
pointer-only report, idempotence, and the stale-projection replacement.
The gate is registered in
MUTANT_GATESand both declared mutants are caught.The widening guard had to be strengthened first: it asserted the absence of one
tool name, so a mutation projecting a server-wide
*survived it — CLOUD-418'sfailure mode inside CLOUD-418's own remedy.
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