An allowlist row stores cmd ["mcp", server, tool]. That is a late-bound
reference to a name the far end owns, so the row pins nothing about
behaviour: a server could redefine an enabled read-only list_tasks into
something that writes, and Maven would keep calling it with no confirm
turn and no second approval. Discovery now stores a fingerprint of the
declared shape, name, description, input schema and readOnlyHint, and
compares it on every refresh. A mismatch drops the row back to proposed
and, if it stopped claiming read-only, marks it destructive. destructive
is only ever raised. A row predating the column adopts its fingerprint
silently, because an upgrade is not a redefinition.
Nothing retracted a proposal either, so a tool a connected server no
longer offers stayed enabled and failed at call time with an internal
string. Those rows are withdrawn, with provenance saying why, and only
for servers that are actually connected so a restart does not disarm
what he approved.
Argument binding rested on readOnlyHint, which the same server writes.
A server advertising delete_project as read-only got an unconfirmed
argument-carrying call. Binding now also requires the tool be named in
allow_tools, something local, and refuses a required property the schema
never describes rather than guessing it is a string.
wireMCP dialled synchronously from run, and on the passkey path from
inside the unlock handler, so one black-holed endpoint delayed boot and
the answer to an unlock. The first dial happens on the refresh goroutine
under the daemon context. Two servers whose names flatten to one local
allowlist name no longer share a row.
Found in review of #71.
Second half of the MCP client: the tools the manager discovers become rows in
the existing act allowlist instead of a parallel capability system.
An MCP tool is encoded in the columns that already exist — cmd
["mcp",<server>,<tool>], scope mcp:<server> — so no migration, and
ProposeTool/EnableTool/DisableTool, tool.Matcher and the confirm turn need no
changes. One branch in Executor.Exec routes such a row to the manager instead
of exec, and "mcp" is never run as a binary.
Discovery only ever PROPOSES. destructive comes from the inverse of the MCP
readOnlyHint, so a tool that does not promise to be read-only inherits the
confirm turn, and enabling stays on /tools behind step-up.
Voice args are positional and MCP args are named, so CallPositional binds only
what it can defend: no required properties runs bare, and a read-only tool with
exactly one required string or number gets the tail. Everything else refuses
with ErrNeedsArgs rather than guessing. The read-only condition was learned
against the live Vikunja server: update_task requires only task_id and takes
the rest as optional, so one guessed argument blanked the fields it did not
mention. A partially-filled write destroys what it omits, so a mutating tool
never receives a guessed argument.
Also: a read-only mcp_servers IPC method and an "MCP servers" card on /tools
showing transport, target and state, with the trust level of a local target
spelled out. There is deliberately no call-a-tool IPC method and no run button,
so mutation keeps exactly one path.
Vikunja #251
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