feat(mcp): Spike show_connector_config_form with stateless one-shot config submit - #1137
feat(mcp): Spike show_connector_config_form with stateless one-shot config submit#1137Aaron ("AJ") Steers (aaronsteers) wants to merge 14 commits into
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Pull request overview
This PR spikes an MCP Apps-based connector configuration form that collects connector secrets out-of-band via a /secret-intake endpoint, returning only opaque secret_intake:: references to the model and resolving those references server-side during connector config resolution.
Changes:
- Adds an in-memory, HMAC-signed, one-time secret intake token flow and Starlette endpoint for posting secret values without echoing them back.
- Introduces
show_connector_config_form()+ a raw HTML MCP App that renders a schema-driven config form and submits secrets to/secret-intake. - Extends connector config argument resolution to resolve
secret_intake::references.
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| File | Description |
|---|---|
airbyte/mcp/_secret_intake.py |
Implements the secret intake token, in-memory store, resolution logic, and HTTP endpoint. |
airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py |
Adds detection + resolution of secret_intake:: references during connector config parsing. |
airbyte/mcp/server.py |
Exposes the /secret-intake route on the MCP server. |
airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py |
Adds the schema-driven HTML MCP App and show_connector_config_form() tool. |
airbyte/mcp/interactive/__init__.py |
Registers the new interactive tool + resource. |
tests/unit_tests/test_mcp_secret_intake.py |
Unit tests for token lifecycle, endpoint behavior, and resolution semantics. |
tests/unit_tests/test_mcp_connector_config_form.py |
Unit tests for tool output shape and secret-defaults rejection. |
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| @@ -165,6 +177,8 @@ def _raise_invalid_type(file_config: object) -> None: | |||
| raise_if_untrusted_execution_context( | |||
| "Resolving inline secret references (`secret_reference::`) in connector config" | |||
| ) | |||
| if _contains_secret_intake_reference(config_dict): | |||
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👍 On it. Confirmed real: resolve_intake_secrets() runs before detect_hardcoded_secrets(), so resolved plaintext at secret paths would then be flagged when config_spec_jsonschema is provided. Fix incoming: run the hardcoded-secrets check on the pre-resolution config (where intake refs are still opaque strings) and resolve intake refs afterward, with a regression test.
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☑️ Resolved in e65391b. Hardcoded-secret detection now runs before intake resolution, with secret_intake:: refs masked as hydration refs during detection (the detector otherwise flags the ref strings themselves); resolution happens after the check. Regression test with a secret-bearing schema included.
| if not isinstance(intake_id, str) or not isinstance(tenant_claim, str): | ||
| raise SecretIntakeError("Invalid intake token.") | ||
| if time.time() >= expires_at: | ||
| raise SecretIntakeError("Intake token expired.") | ||
| with _INTAKES_LOCK: |
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🚫 Not fixing (in this spike). Checking the current transport tenant at store time isn't possible by design: the POST comes from the sandboxed MCP App iframe, which does not hold the MCP session's bearer token — the intake token is the write capability. Mitigations already in place: one-time use, short TTL, allowed-field allowlist, write-only (no read-back), and resolution-side tenant verification so a cross-tenant actor can never read stored values. A leaked token does allow a one-shot DoS/injection against that intake — that's acknowledged in the PR's limitations and is where a production design (e.g. host-brokered auth or _meta.ui.domain-pinned CORS + per-origin binding) would harden. Happy to be overruled if reviewers want token-theft hardening in the spike itself.
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| if _contains_secret_intake_reference(config_dict): | ||
| config_dict = resolve_intake_secrets(config_dict) |
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🔴 Secret references fail validated deployments
resolve_intake_secrets replaces references before hardcoded-secret detection, so source and destination deployments reject every form-supplied secret.
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In airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py, resolve_connector_config currently resolves secret_intake:: references before detect_hardcoded_secrets. The detector then sees the resolved plaintext in schema-marked secret fields and rejects it, making the form output unusable by deployment tools that pass config_spec_jsonschema. Preserve hardcoded-secret rejection for literal caller input while exempting validated intake references, either by performing detection before intake hydration or by retaining provenance through detection. Add an integration-style test that submits an intake secret and resolves a connector configuration with a secret-bearing schema.
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👍 On it. Duplicate of Copilot's finding above — fix in flight: hardcoded-secret detection will run on the pre-resolution config (intake refs still opaque), with intake resolution afterward, plus a regression test.
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☑️ Resolved in e65391b. Detection now runs before intake resolution (intake refs masked as hydration refs during the check), with a regression test using a secret-bearing schema.
| def _intake_endpoint() -> str: | ||
| return f"{_server_origin()}/secret-intake" |
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🟡 Prefixed deployments receive broken intake URLs
When MCP_SERVER_URL includes a deployment path, _intake_endpoint drops it and targets the host root. Secret submission then misses the server.
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In airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py, distinguish the origin needed by ResourceCSP from the full public base URL needed for the intake endpoint. http_main.py documents and implements MCP_SERVER_URL values with path prefixes by mounting the internal app at root behind a path-stripping load balancer. Build the browser-facing secret-intake URL from the full configured public path, while keeping the CSP connect domain origin-only. Add coverage for an MCP_SERVER_URL such as https://example.com/cloud-mcp.
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👍 On it. Real: a path-prefixed MCP_SERVER_URL (e.g. https://example.com/cloud-mcp) would target the host root. Fix incoming: intake endpoint built from the full configured base URL; CSP connect domain stays origin-only. Test with a prefixed URL included.
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☑️ Resolved in e65391b. The intake endpoint is now built from the full configured MCP_SERVER_URL (path prefix preserved); the CSP connect domain remains origin-only. Test with a path-prefixed URL included.
| const fields = (schema, prefix = "") => { | ||
| const properties = schema && schema.properties || {}; | ||
| return Object.entries(properties).flatMap(([name, child]) => { | ||
| const path = prefix ? `${prefix}.${name}` : name; | ||
| if (child && child.type === "object" && child.properties) | ||
| return fields(child, path); | ||
| return [{ path, schema: child || {} }]; | ||
| }); |
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🟡 Authentication choices disappear from forms
fields ignores properties inside oneOf, so forms omit authentication choices and their fields. Branch-based connectors cannot produce valid configurations.
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The form renderer in airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py only traverses schema.properties. Real registry schemas place selectable object variants and their fields under oneOf, including Snowflake credentials and Postgres SSL, tunnel, and replication settings. Implement branch selection and render the selected branch's properties, defaults, required fields, and discriminator values. Coordinate this with server-side secret-path discovery so selected branch secrets use out-of-band intake. Test against representative current registry schemas.
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🚫 Not fixing (v2 scope). Accurate — the hand-rolled renderer skips oneOf branches, so branch-based connectors (Snowflake credentials, Postgres SSL/tunnel) can't be fully configured yet. That's an acknowledged v1 limitation in the PR description: this spike proves the CSP/direct-POST/token security loop, and the v2 plan replaces the renderer with RJSF + an Airbyte-dialect widget layer (which handles oneOf, ordering, typed widgets). Implementing branch selection in the throwaway renderer would be wasted work.
| form.querySelectorAll("input").forEach((input) => { | ||
| if (!input.value) return; | ||
| if (state.result.secret_fields.includes(input.name)) secrets[input.name] = input.value; | ||
| else setPath(visible, input.name, input.value); | ||
| }); |
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🟡 Typed settings become invalid strings
setPath submits every visible input as text, including booleans, integers, arrays, and objects. Connector validation rejects these settings or changes their meaning.
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The HTML renderer in airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py creates text inputs for all non-secret schema types and copies input.value directly into visible_config. Render schema-appropriate controls and deserialize values according to each field's JSON Schema type, including booleans, numbers, integers, arrays, objects, enums, and nullability. Preserve string values as strings and add round-trip tests for defaults and user edits across these types.
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🚫 Not fixing (v2 scope). Accurate — all visible values submit as strings. Same rationale as the oneOf finding: typed controls and JSON-Schema-driven deserialization come with the RJSF-based v2 renderer; the v1 renderer exists only to prove the secret-intake security loop and is documented as throwaway.
| const setPath = (object, path, value) => { | ||
| const keys = path.split("."); | ||
| let target = object; | ||
| keys.slice(0, -1).forEach((key) => target = target[key] ||= {}); | ||
| target[keys[keys.length - 1]] = value; |
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🟥 Connector fields enable prototype pollution
setPath accepts prototype keys from schema paths. A malicious schema can alter shared objects and corrupt the submitted configuration.
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👍 On it. Adding a guard in setPath to reject __proto__/constructor/prototype path segments.
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☑️ Resolved in e65391b. setPath now rejects any path containing __proto__, constructor, or prototype segments.
| def _intake_endpoint() -> str: | ||
| return f"{_server_origin()}/secret-intake" |
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🟨 Secret intake allows plaintext transport
_intake_endpoint accepts HTTP origins, so a hosted misconfiguration transmits intake tokens and connector credentials without encryption.
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👍 On it. Adding a guard: http scheme only allowed for localhost/127.0.0.1; hosted non-TLS configurations will raise instead of shipping secrets over plaintext.
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☑️ Resolved in e65391b. MCP_SERVER_URL with an http:// scheme now raises unless the host is localhost/127.0.0.1.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change replaces secret intake with an interactive connector configuration form. It adds encrypted one-shot action tokens, validate/create/update submission handling, schema secret detection, MCP resource registration, and tests for token security, routing, form behavior, and secret redaction. ChangesConnector configuration flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This PR enables browser-submitted connector configurations to create, update, or validate connectors without exposing secrets to the model. Merge readiness is moderate because cross-instance replay and tenant-binding protections are incomplete, failed submissions cannot be safely retried, and some non-string form values may be rejected downstream; these risks need explicit acceptance or fixes before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MCPClient
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MCPClient->>show_connector_config_form: Request connector schema and form
show_connector_config_form-->>MCPClient: Return form, action, endpoint, and submit token
MCPClient->>connector_config_submit_endpoint: Submit complete config with bearer token
connector_config_submit_endpoint->>_execute_action: Validate token and execute action
_execute_action-->>connector_config_submit_endpoint: Return configuration result
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py`:
- Line 181: Update the hardcoded-secret validation flow around
resolve_intake_secrets and detect_hardcoded_secrets to recognize
secret_intake::... values as opaque references, matching the existing
secret_reference::... handling. Perform validation before resolving intake
references, then resolve them afterward so valid connector configurations are
not rejected.
In `@airbyte/mcp/_secret_intake.py`:
- Line 207: Update resolve_intake_secrets to track each configuration field’s
path while resolving references, and only substitute values when the reference
targets a declared permitted secret path; reject or skip references outside
those paths so non-secret fields cannot receive intake secrets. Preserve the
existing record.secrets lookup for authorized paths.
In `@airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py`:
- Line 93: Update the non-secret field handling around setPath to coerce
input.value according to the field’s JSON Schema type before storing it,
preserving integers/numbers as numeric values and booleans as boolean values
while leaving other types unchanged. Add regression coverage for numeric and
false boolean values to verify they are not stored as strings.
- Line 127: Update the URL parsing/normalization logic around the return using
parsed.scheme and parsed.netloc to reject public HTTP origins, while allowing
explicit loopback HTTP development origins such as localhost or 127.0.0.1.
Ensure non-loopback origins use HTTPS before they can determine the CSP domain
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| or field not in record.secrets | ||
| ): | ||
| raise SecretIntakeError("Invalid secret intake reference.") | ||
| return record.secrets[field] |
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In Airbyte, connector configuration is defined using a JSON Schema (often provided in a spec.json or spec.yaml file) [1][2]. To distinguish between sensitive and non-sensitive configuration, Airbyte uses the airbyte_secret annotation [1][3]. Sensitive vs. Non-Secret Configuration By default, all fields in a connector's specification are visible and readable in the Airbyte UI and API [1]. To protect sensitive data (such as API keys, passwords, or tokens), you must mark the field with "airbyte_secret": true in your JSON Schema [1][4]. This annotation triggers two main behaviors: 1. Obfuscation: The field value is masked in the UI and API [1][4]. 2. Security Validation: Airbyte’s acceptance tests explicitly check for exposed secrets; if a field likely containing a secret (e.g., named password or api_key) is not marked as a secret, the test will fail [5]. URL Endpoints and Best Practices When configuring source connectors—particularly API-based sources—you should strictly separate the base URL/path from sensitive authentication credentials [6][7]. 1. URL Fields: Fields representing the API endpoint (such as url_base or path in config-based connectors) should be treated as non-secret configuration [6][7]. You can define these as standard strings in your JSON Schema [7]. 2. Authentication: Do not include sensitive information like API tokens, client secrets, or authentication headers within the URL or path fields [6]. Instead, use the dedicated Authenticator component provided by the Airbyte CDK [6][7]. 3. Dynamic Configuration: You can use interpolation (e.g., {{ config['api_key'] }}) to reference secret values within your connector's logic (such as in request headers or query parameters), ensuring the actual secret remains securely handled by the platform's secret management layer [8][9]. If you are using Terraform to manage connector configurations, you can use the configuration block for non-sensitive values and the configuration_secrets block for sensitive data to maintain security and proper output masking [10].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/connector-specification-reference
- 2: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/cdk-python/basic-concepts
- 3: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/understanding-airbyte/secrets
- 4: https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/blob/master/docs/platform/connector-development/connector-specification-reference.md
- 5: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/testing-connectors/connector-acceptance-tests-reference
- 6: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/reference
- 7: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/requester
- 8: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/connector-builder-ui/tutorial.md
- 9: https://docs.airbyte.com/platform/connector-development/config-based/understanding-the-yaml-file/reference.md
- 10: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/airbytehq/airbyte/latest/docs/data-sources/connector_configuration
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Restrict intake references to their declared paths.
resolve_intake_secrets can place a secret in any configuration field, including non-secret fields that remain readable through the Airbyte API. Could we carry the current configuration path during resolution and reject references outside their permitted secret paths, wdyt?
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_secret_intake.py` at line 207, Update resolve_intake_secrets to
track each configuration field’s path while resolving references, and only
substitute values when the reference targets a declared permitted secret path;
reject or skip references outside those paths so non-secret fields cannot
receive intake secrets. Preserve the existing record.secrets lookup for
authorized paths.
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🚫 Not fixing (in this spike). Real hardening gap, correctly identified: resolve_intake_secrets substitutes a ref wherever it appears, so an agent holding the opaque ref could place it in a non-secret field and later read the plaintext back through a field that isn't masked. Two existing mitigations narrow it: the intake record's allowed_fields come only from airbyte_secret: true paths in the spec, and resolution is tenant-bound. Carrying the config path through resolution and rejecting refs outside their declared secret path is the right v2 fix (alongside the production secret store), and I've noted it as a known limitation in the PR description rather than bolting it onto the in-memory spike store.
| form.querySelectorAll("input").forEach((input) => { | ||
| if (!input.value) return; | ||
| if (state.result.secret_fields.includes(input.name)) secrets[input.name] = input.value; | ||
| else setPath(visible, input.name, input.value); |
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Preserve JSON Schema value types.
Line 93 stores every non-secret field as a string. An integer value of 1 and a boolean value of false become "1" and "false". Connector validation can then reject otherwise valid configuration. Could we coerce values from their field schema before setPath, and add number and boolean regression tests, wdyt?
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In `@airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py` at line 93, Update the
non-secret field handling around setPath to coerce input.value according to the
field’s JSON Schema type before storing it, preserving integers/numbers as
numeric values and booleans as boolean values while leaving other types
unchanged. Add regression coverage for numeric and false boolean values to
verify they are not stored as strings.
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🚫 Not fixing (in this spike). Accurate finding — the v1 hand-rolled renderer stores all non-secret values as strings and doesn't coerce per JSON Schema type. This is deliberately v2 scope alongside oneOf branch rendering: the plan for v2 is RJSF plus an Airbyte-dialect widget layer, which handles typed controls/deserialization properly rather than bolting coercion onto the throwaway renderer. Noted as a known limitation in the PR description.
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_arg_resolvers.py`:
- Line 215: Restrict secret_intake:: reference resolution in
resolve_intake_secrets to configuration paths declared as airbyte_secret or by
the intake record, rejecting references under non-secret fields before
substituting plaintext values. Add a regression test covering a reference placed
under a non-secret configuration field.
In `@airbyte/mcp/interactive/_connector_config_form_ui.py`:
- Line 129: Update the URL validation around parsed.scheme to require an
absolute URL with an http or https scheme; allow http only when parsed.hostname
is localhost or 127.0.0.1, while rejecting scheme-relative URLs and all other
schemes before submitting credentials.
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_secret_intake.py`:
- Around line 217-219: Update the intake reference resolution around
_IntakeRecord and the resolver condition so each reference stores and validates
its full dotted secret path, not only the leaf field name; ensure source.api_key
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Bind each intake reference to one declared secret path.
_IntakeRecord stores only leaf names. If a schema contains both source.api_key and destination.api_key, the resolver accepts the same reference at either path. Could you bind each reference to its full dotted path and add a regression test for this case, wdyt?
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_secret_intake.py` around lines 217 - 219, Update the intake
reference resolution around _IntakeRecord and the resolver condition so each
reference stores and validates its full dotted secret path, not only the leaf
field name; ensure source.api_key and destination.api_key references cannot be
used interchangeably. Add a regression test covering duplicate leaf names at
different paths and confirming each reference resolves only to its declared
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🚫 Not fixing (in this spike). Accurate, but the residual risk is narrow after 8f94559: a ref can now only resolve at a declared airbyte_secret path whose leaf matches the ref's field, so the remaining vector is swapping the tenant's own submitted value between two secret paths that share a leaf name (e.g. source.api_key ↔ destination.api_key) — plaintext can no longer reach any non-secret/API-readable field. Binding full dotted paths means changing the intake record, token payload, and the form's submit payload from leaf names to dotted paths — the right shape for v2 (where the renderer will emit full paths anyway), and noted as such. Happy to pull it forward if reviewers consider the same-leaf swap material for the spike.
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_config_submit.py`:
- Line 279: Update the action-token handling around decrypt_action_token so
create and update actions require an independently authenticated identity before
execution, then compare that identity with the token’s tenant_claim and reject
mismatches or missing authentication; do not rely on the token’s embedded Cloud
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update action is chosen only when both resolved_workspace_id and has_credentials
are present; otherwise preserve the existing create/validate behavior or reject
the invalid input before rendering, ensuring update submissions always have
Cloud execution prerequisites.
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In FastMCP 3.2.0, custom routes defined via the @mcp.custom_route decorator are designed primarily for unauthenticated operational tasks such as health checks and readiness probes [1][2][3]. By design, these routes are not protected by the server's authentication middleware or AuthProvider, even if one is configured for the main MCP transport [1][2]. While the AuthenticationMiddleware is applied globally—meaning the request.scope["user"] object may be populated if a valid token is provided—the server does not enforce authentication or return 401 errors for custom routes [2]. If you require authenticated HTTP endpoints alongside your MCP server, the recommended architectural approach is to mount your FastMCP server within a FastAPI or Starlette application [1][2]. This allows you to leverage the framework's native dependency injection system (e.g., FastAPI's Depends) to enforce authentication and authorization policies on your custom REST endpoints, while keeping the MCP server's internal authentication handling separate [1][2]. Example of mounting for authenticated routes: from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI from fastmcp import FastMCP mcp = FastMCP("my-server", auth=my_auth_provider) mcp_app = mcp.http_app(path="/mcp") app = FastAPI(lifespan=mcp_app.lifespan) app.mount("/mcp", mcp_app) @app.get("/api/secure-endpoint") async def secure_route(user=Depends(your_auth_dependency)): return {"message": "Authenticated access"} For cross-cutting concerns like logging or rate limiting that apply to both MCP and custom routes, you can instead use Starlette middleware by passing it when creating the HTTP application via mcp.http_app(middleware=middleware) [1].
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- 3: https://gofastmcp.com/servers/server
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Enforce tenant_claim before executing the action.
Custom routes do not enforce FastMCP transport authentication. The endpoint accepts the action token as its only credential and uses its embedded Cloud credentials. Could you require an independently authenticated identity and compare it with tenant_claim before create or update actions, wdyt?
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In `@airbyte/mcp/_config_submit.py` at line 279, Update the action-token handling
around decrypt_action_token so create and update actions require an
independently authenticated identity before execution, then compare that
identity with the token’s tenant_claim and reject mismatches or missing
authentication; do not rely on the token’s embedded Cloud credentials alone.
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Acknowledged, but deferring for this spike: the submit token is intentionally the sole capability here, because the sandboxed MCP App iframe has no independent identity to present — it cannot access the MCP session's bearer token, and its origin is opaque. The mitigations are the token's scoping (single action, single connector, tenant-bound workspace/source, 10-min TTL, one-shot jti) and AES-GCM authenticated encryption, so a token holder can only perform the one operation the authenticated MCP caller already authorized at mint time, in that caller's own workspace. Binding submission to an independently authenticated identity (e.g. a host-brokered session credential) is the right v2 hardening once MCP Apps hosts offer a way to convey one; noted as a spike limitation in the PR description.
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MCPJam sources the iframe CSP from the resource registration (AppConfig), so the
tool-level csp=ResourceCSP(...) is ignored. Fix in flight: attach the CSP to the
ui://airbyte/connector-config-form resource registration as well.
🔴 New bug: 204 preflight returns a body, throwing on every request
Independent of any host. The preflight handler returns JSONResponse({}, status_code=204)
— a body alongside the 204:
ERROR: Exception in ASGI application
h11._util.LocalProtocolError: Too much data for declared Content-Length
Fires on every preflight (6 in this run). Browsers accept the response so the UI looks
healthy, which is why it went unnoticed. Reproducible with curl alone:
curl -X OPTIONS http://localhost:8080/connector-config-submit \
-H "Origin: https://example.com" -H "Access-Control-Request-Method: POST"Fix in flight: return a bodyless Response(status_code=204, headers=...).
🟡 Note: submit_token is model-visible
submit_token rides in structuredContent and appears twice in Goose's stored messages.
This matches the documented spike design (a tightly scoped one-shot capability the model
may see), but flagging it as an observed fact from a real host.
Remaining coverage gaps
- Goose exposes no JSON-RPC log pane, so
ui/updateModelContextwas verified indirectly
(secret-absence audit of the host message store) rather than by reading the frame. - The green
Configuration submitted.string was not visually confirmed in Goose — its
fixed-height panel clips the status line; success was confirmed via the200 OK. - Only the
validateaction is reachable locally; Cloudcreate/updateuntested.
ui:// HTML — hard-reload/reconnect in
MCPJam, and start a fresh chat in Goose. Goose's widget panel clips long forms; press
Enter inside a text input to submit.
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Acknowledged — declining for this spike. All-inputs-as-strings is a documented limitation of the hand-written v1 renderer (noted in the PR description); the v2 plan is a schema-aware renderer (RJSF or SchemaForm-derived) that coerces types from the JSON schema. Note the server does validate submitted configs against the connector spec before acting, so type corruption fails validation rather than creating a broken source.
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Summary
Spike (requested by AJ) proving that hosted-mode
cloud-mcpcan collect connector secrets through an MCP Apps form without the secret values ever entering model context — now as a fully stateless one-shot: the form submits the complete config, the server executes the action immediately, and only a confirmation flows back. No durable secret store, no cross-call state, no opaque-ref resolution.Flow:
Key pieces:
airbyte/mcp/_config_submit.py:mint_action_token()builds a one-shot encrypted action capability (AES-GCM, key = SHA-256 ofAIRBYTE_MCP_FORM_SIGNING_KEYor process-random fallback; TTL 600s; per-process best-effort jti replay cache — TTL is the real bound). Claims carry the action (create/update/validate), connector, workspace/source ids, and the Cloud credentials resolved at mint time — encrypted, so the model sees only ciphertext.POST /connector-config-submitStarlette endpoint (CORS for the sandboxed iframe): decrypts + consumes the token, then executes immediately —create→CloudWorkspace.deploy_source,update→update_config(session-guid guarded),validate(no cloud creds resolvable at mint time) → spec validation viaset_config(validate=True). Response contains only whitelisted confirmation fields; config/secrets are never echoed or logged. CORS preflight returns a bodyless 204 (a 204-with-body raised anh11protocol error server-side on every preflight).ui://airbyte/connector-config-formresource registration carries_meta.ui.csp.connectDomains(viaAppConfigon the resource, not just the tool) — some hosts (MCPJam) source the iframe CSP from the resource, not the tool declaration.appCapabilities/appInfoinui/initializeand follows withui/notifications/initialized(per SEP-1865) — hosts withhold the tool result until then, which previously left the panel empty in Goose.show_connector_config_form()picks the action at mint time:source_id→ update; cloud creds + workspace resolvable → create; otherwise validate (keeps the local MCPJam loop testable end-to-end).resolve_connector_config()restored to pre-spike behavior — thesecret_intake::reference scheme and its resolution/masking are gone entirely; the hosted-modesecret_reference::guard is unchanged.setPath), POSTs it out-of-band, and reports only{status, action, visible_config, connector_id?, connector_url?}to the host — secret values never reach the host or model.Spike limitations (intentional): hand-rolled form renderer (RJSF or SchemaForm-derived renderer is the v2 path;
oneOfauth objects show a not-supported notice instead of an input), replay protection is per-process best-effort (multi-replica deployments shareAIRBYTE_MCP_FORM_SIGNING_KEY; TTL bounds replay), and the token is a model-visible capability scoped to one action in the caller's own workspace (observed as such in Goose's message store).Test plan
uv run ruff check/ruff format --checkon changed files — passtest_mcp_config_submit.py,test_mcp_connector_config_form.py, trusted-execution guard regressions): token encrypt/decrypt roundtrip, expiry, ciphertext tamper, replay, endpoint happy path + no-echo, missing/malformed/reused token rejection, action selection (create/update/validate), secrets-in-defaults rejection,MCP_SERVER_URLvalidation (https-outside-localhost, scheme-relative/ftp/bare-host rejection, path-prefix preservation),oneOfsecret detection + not-supported notice, bodyless-204 CORS preflight, resource-level CSP metadata — all passresources/*metadata, nottools/list): no CSP violations, direct POST 204→200, replay 403 in the same widget, exactly oneui/updateModelContextframe with only safe confirmation fields, dummy secret 0 hits in server logs, zero ASGI/h11 preflight exceptions. Evidence in PR comments.create/updateactions against a real workspace (no credentials in the test loop); onlyvalidateexercised end-to-end.Summary by CodeRabbit
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