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MJ-001 is about the hosted server dialling user-chosen URLs without the egress guard. #4783 and #4884 closed it for the doctor, validate, tools and every MCPClientManager factory, but persisted conformance runs still had the same hole:

  • Workers: the benchmark worker and the GitHub-checks worker handed runConformance a bare { url }. Every suite dialled through the global fetch, with no address classification and redirects followed unchecked.
  • Public route: the /v1 start route did attach the pinned guard, but the SDK's protocol suite dropped it.
  • Raw sockets: the protocol suite's localhost host-header checks open raw node:http sockets whenever the target is a loopback name, so no fetch can guard them.
  • Stored reports: refusals and socket failures reached stored reports verbatim. That includes the refusal's cause, which holds the address a hostname resolved to.

What changes

SDK (sdk/src/conformance-run.ts)

  • The protocol suite now takes its fetchFn from the server config (fetchFn, then baseFetch), as the apps and tasks suites already did. Its raw probes and its MCP client both use that fetch.
  • An explicit protocol.fetchFn still wins, and an explicit fetchFn: undefined cannot unset the server's fetch.
  • I audited every network path in the suite: raw HTTP/SSE probes, the modern-era checks and the client transport all go through fetchFn. The one exception is the localhost host-header checks, which use raw node:http(s); the executor handles them (see below).

Inspector executor (services/conformance-run-executor.ts) — the one path every persisted run goes through

  • Default guard: guardPersistedConformanceTransport sets the MCP and OAuth transports to createConformanceFetch when the caller passes none. A deliberate caller transport still wins, the same rule as createAuthorizedManager.
  • Up-front refusal: persistedConformanceTargetRefusal checks the starting URL with the same check the routes use (assertAllowedHostedTargetUrl). A refused target is never handed to a suite. Each suite is stored as could-not-run with the refusal's own message as the reason. This is the only thing that stops the raw-socket localhost checks.
  • Stored-report hygiene: every transport is wrapped by the new utils/hosted-transport-failure-redaction.ts, which only changes rejected fetches:
    • A guard refusal keeps its message but loses its cause.
    • A caller-initiated abort or timeout passes through unchanged.
    • Everything else (socket, TLS, DNS, timeouts) becomes the doctor's uniform connection message, exported from hosted-doctor-redaction.ts with a one-word change. I did not touch isEgressRefusalDetail (Close the two disclosed MJ-001 residuals #5447).

Workers

  • Bench worker and GitHub-checks worker: both now pass baseFetch: createConformanceFetch("MCP server") explicitly, and each gets a test-only export.
  • GitHub-checks health probe: buildAndStart now defaults to hostedMcpBaseFetch() instead of the global fetch. The PR's code answers that probe and can redirect.

GitHub-checks sandbox target: no allowance needed.

CI guard (scripts/check-hosted-manager-base-fetch.mjs)

  • It now also scans server/routes/shared.
  • A second rule covers hosted files that import a self-dialing @mcpjam/sdk entry point (runConformance, the four conformance suites, withEphemeralClient, probeMcpServer, runServerDoctor, discoverOAuthServerInfo, the readiness gatherers). Such a file must be on an allowlist that names the guard it dials through, and that guard must still appear in the file.
  • A namespace import of the SDK is refused, and stale allowlist entries fail.
  • Current state: 8 allowlisted importers, no violations.

Before / after (hosted mode)

Path Before After
/v1 persisted run, protocol suite global fetch: redirects followed unchecked pinned guard, re-checked every hop
Bench / GitHub-check persisted runs, all suites global fetch pinned guard (explicit, plus executor default)
Persisted run against a loopback or private target via a worker suites ran; raw host-header probes connected never dialled; suites stored as could-not-run with the refusal
Stored report for a refused hop verdict plus cause (resolved address) verdict only
Stored report for a socket, TLS or DNS failure raw error text one uniform message
GitHub-check health probe global fetch hosted MCP transport

Rollout

  • Scope: hosted only. Every guard, the up-front refusal and the redaction are no-ops outside HOSTED_MODE, so local, desktop and CLI behaviour is unchanged. The CLI attaches no fetch, so the SDK change doesn't affect it.
  • Release: the changeset marks @mcpjam/sdk and @mcpjam/inspector as patch releases. No flags or migrations.
  • Visible effects:
    • A hosted persisted run against a private target (only reachable through the workers; the /v1 route already refused it) now finalizes with could-not-run suites instead of dialling.
    • Hosted persisted reports now show the uniform connection message where they used to show raw socket errors. That is the same trade the doctor made.
    • Each hosted persisted run makes one extra DNS lookup for its up-front check.
  • Worth watching after deploy:
    • GitHub-check server_unhealthy rate and GitHub-check conformance outcomes (both now use the pinned transport).
    • Bench conformance evidence; bench is still behind BENCHMARK_RUNS_ENABLED.

Tests and validation

  • npx vitest run tests/conformance-run.test.ts in sdk/: 13/13. The new cases cover the client path, the raw-probe path, fetchFn over baseFetch, an explicit override, and an explicit undefined.
  • Server, npx vitest run --project server --maxWorkers=2 over 14 files: 388/388 passed. The files were: conformance-run-executor (existing), conformance-run-executor-egress (new), conformance-worker-egress (new), v1 conformance-runs, bench-worker, bench-worker-pillar-children, github-checks-worker, github-checks sandbox, sandbox-health-egress (new), resolve-and-start, hosted-doctor-redaction, hosted-transport-failure-redaction (new), hosted-mcp-base-fetch, hosted-manager-base-fetch.
  • New end-to-end cases run the real executor and real SDK suites, with only Convex stubbed:
    • A private target is never dialled from any suite. This counts TCP connections, so it covers the raw-socket probes.
    • A public target's 307 to a name that resolves privately is refused at the hop. The internal host is never dialled, and the stored reports contain neither the resolved address nor the internal body.
    • A bare { url } run never touches the global fetch.
  • Negative controls: I reverted each fix on its own and each time at least one new test failed.
    • Up-front refusal removed: 2 raw-socket connections reached the target.
    • Redaction removed: the resolved address leaked into a stored report.
    • SDK fix removed: 7 global-fetch calls.
    • Executor default removed: 11 global-fetch calls.
    • Health-probe default removed: 12 connections.
    • Without the SDK change, 4 of the 5 new SDK tests fail. The override test passes either way.
  • npm run test:checks (repo root, ripgrep present): exit 0. I also checked by hand that the new rule flags plain, aliased and namespace imports, ignores type-only imports, and flags an allowlisted file that loses its guard.
  • npm run typecheck -w @mcpjam/sdk: exit 0.
  • tsc --noEmit -p mcpjam-inspector/server/tsconfig.json: no errors in any file this PR adds or any line it changes. The project is not clean on main (347 errors in unrelated code, including three pre-existing lines in github-checks-worker.ts).
  • Prettier: the new files pass. Six touched files already fail prettier --check on main: the SDK source uses trailing commas its config doesn't want, and the inspector files omit trailing commas their config wants. I left them alone; my hunks follow each file's existing style.
  • Eslint: SDK eslint shows the same 8 errors and 1 warning as main, none new. The inspector eslint config only covers server/routes/web/**; the .mjs lints clean.

Not covered / follow-ups

  • Interactive /api/web/conformance/* routes: they return suite results straight to the caller without this wrapper. They check the start URL first, but a redirect-hop refusal's serialized cause could still carry the resolved address. Worth either stripping cause where the pinned fetch classifies errors, or wrapping createConformanceFetch itself.
  • Teammate PR Close the two disclosed MJ-001 residuals #5447 covers isEgressRefusalDetail and the bench scorecard's discoveryError; this PR doesn't touch either.
  • Tasks suite: captureTaskRequestHeaders temporarily replaces globalThis.fetch for the whole process. In a multi-tenant hosted process that is a cross-request hazard. I noticed it during the audit and did not change it.
  • CI guard limits: it is a static-import scan. Dynamic imports and per-call arguments are left to the runtime tests.
  • Duplicate check: the /v1 route's own start-URL check now overlaps the executor's. I kept it because it answers 400/503 before a run row exists.

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Touches hosted egress, redirect validation, and persisted conformance/GitHub-check paths; behavior changes for refused targets and stored error text, though scoped to HOSTED_MODE with broad tests.

Overview
Closes the remaining MJ-001 gap: hosted persisted conformance runs no longer dial user-chosen URLs through unguarded globalThis.fetch.

In @mcpjam/sdk, runConformance's protocol suite now inherits the server config transport (fetchFn, then baseFetch) for both MCP client and raw probes, matching apps/tasks; explicit protocol.fetchFn still overrides.

In the inspector, executePersistedConformanceRun is the chokepoint: guardPersistedConformanceTransport defaults MCP/OAuth to createConformanceFetch when callers pass none (callers' transports still win), persistedConformanceTargetRefusal blocks disallowed targets before any suite runs (including raw-socket localhost host-header checks), and redactHostedTransportFailures sanitizes failed dials in stored reports. Benchmark and GitHub-checks workers now pass guarded baseFetch explicitly; the GitHub sandbox health probe defaults to hostedMcpBaseFetch().

CI extends check-hosted-manager-base-fetch.mjs with a second rule: hosted imports of self-dialing SDK entry points must be allowlisted with a named guard; server/routes/shared is in scope. All of this is no-op outside hosted mode.

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Summary by cubic

Closes MJ-001's remaining egress hole: persisted conformance runs now dial through the pinned host guard whoever started them, and targets the guard refuses are never dialled at all.

  • Every persisted run (the /v1 route, benchmark worker, and GitHub-checks worker) dials MCP and OAuth traffic through the hosted conformance guard; a caller's own transport still wins.
  • The protocol suite now uses the server config's fetchFn/baseFetch instead of the global fetch, covering its raw probes and MCP client, unless an explicit protocol.fetchFn overrides it.
  • A refused target is never handed to a suite: each records the refusal as its could-not-run reason, which also blocks the protocol suite's raw-socket localhost checks.
  • Stored reports keep a refusal's verdict without its resolved-address cause, and socket, TLS, and DNS errors collapse to one uniform message.
  • The GitHub-check health probe now dials through the hosted MCP transport instead of the global fetch.
  • A CI script now fails when hosted files import self-dialing @mcpjam/sdk entry points without a named guard, and its rule for the executor is anchored on the guard's call site so removing the call fails CI.

Everything is a no-op outside hosted mode, so local, desktop, and CLI behavior is unchanged.

Written for commit 4bc1718. Summary will update on new commits.

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runConformance's protocol suite rebuilt its config from the server's URL,
token and headers only, so a fetch attached to the server config never
reached it and MCPConformanceTest fell back to the global fetch. The apps
and tasks suites of the same run connected through the caller's fetch;
this one, raw probes and MCP client alike, followed redirects wherever
they led. A hosted caller that guarded the server config had therefore
guarded two of the three suites.

The protocol suite now adopts server.fetchFn, then server.baseFetch, as
its own fetchFn. It is applied after the protocol spread so an explicit
fetchFn: undefined cannot unset it, and a real protocol.fetchFn still
wins. Callers that attach no fetch (the CLI) are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xjc8uLMHU952pqKaowF2LA
Persisted conformance runs dial a URL somebody else chose: a saved
server, a sandbox running a pull request's code, a benchmarked
connector. The benchmark and GitHub-check workers handed the executor a
bare { url }, so every suite dialled through the global fetch, with no
address classification and redirects followed unchecked. The /v1 start
route did attach the pinned guard, but the protocol suite dropped it
(fixed in the previous commit).

The executor is now the chokepoint for all three callers:

- It defaults the MCP and OAuth transports to the hosted conformance
  guard when the caller passes none. A deliberate transport still wins.
  Both workers now pass the guard explicitly as well.
- It judges the starting URL with the same check the routes use, and a
  refused target is never handed to a suite. Each suite records the
  refusal as its could-not-run reason. The up-front check matters for
  the protocol suite's localhost host-header checks, which open raw
  node:http sockets that no fetch can guard.
- Every transport is wrapped so that a rejected dial reaches the stored
  report as the guard's verdict without its cause, or as the doctor's
  uniform connection message. Before this, the report serializer copied
  the refusal's cause, which carries the address a hostname resolved
  to, and socket, TLS and DNS error text.

The GitHub-check health probe also dials the pull request's server
through the hosted MCP transport instead of the global fetch. The
sandbox URL is E2B's public HTTPS edge, and the eval half of the check
already reaches it through the same pinned transport, so it needs no
allowance.

All of this is a no-op outside hosted mode.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Xjc8uLMHU952pqKaowF2LA
The hosted-manager guard only saw `new MCPClientManager`. runConformance,
the conformance suites, withEphemeralClient, the probe and the doctor
each open their own connection through a fetch seam that is the global
fetch unless filled. The persisted conformance path went through
exactly that gap while the first rule was green.

The script now also scans server/routes/shared, and a hosted file that
statically imports one of those entry points from @mcpjam/sdk must be
on a second allowlist. Each entry names the guard the file dials
through, and that guard must still appear in the file. A new importer
fails by existing, a namespace import of the SDK is refused outright,
and stale entries fail as they do for the first rule. The header states
what a source scan cannot see (dynamic imports, per-call arguments) and
points at the runtime tests that cover it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The SDK protocol suite now uses the fetch configured on the server, unless a defined protocol.fetchFn overrides it. Hosted persisted conformance runs use guarded transports, record target refusals as could-not-run suite reports, and redact transport failures. The benchmark and GitHub-check workers and the GitHub-check health probe use hosted transports. The CI guard now checks hosted imports of self-dialing SDK entry points. Local-mode transport behavior remains unchanged.

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Inspector Tests 4/6 failed in one test: server/services/webmcp-inspector/__tests__/webmcp-cdp.spike.test.ts › declarative WebMCP registration › derives booleans, enums and multi-selects from the control kind. properties.ship came back undefined.

I don't think this PR caused it:

  • The test drives a real pinned Chromium over CDP.
  • Nothing under services/webmcp-inspector/ imports any file this PR changes.
  • The new test files restore globalThis.fetch, and their node:dns mock is scoped to their own file. Vitest's default fork pool isolates files, so neither can leak into that test.
  • The same suite is green on main at cd00c24.

There's no existing fix to port. I'm re-running the failed job once; if it fails again, I'll treat it as real and investigate.


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The rule for `conformance-run-executor.ts` matched a bare
`guardPersistedConformanceTransport(`, and that file also DEFINES the guard.
The definition satisfied the pattern on its own, so deleting the call site at
`:470` and passing `args.server` straight to `runConformance` left CI green —
the exact MJ-001 regression this rule exists to catch.

Anchoring on the assignment makes the pattern satisfiable only by a call.
Verified both ways: the script passes as-is, and removing the call site now
fails it with the rule's own message.
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