fix(oauth): stop filing DCR refusals as MCPJam bugs - #4484
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INSPECTOR-CLIENT-260 is an authorization server answering 400 to the debugger's RFC 7591 registration POST. That is the server under test declining to mint a client — DCR unimplemented behind an advertised registration_endpoint, an allowlist, an initial access token we were never given — which is what the debugger exists to show, not a defect here. It reached Sentry because withStepFailureReporting calls reportCaught, whose Sentry leg is ungated, so it bypasses the origin policy every other client call site applies. Same class as #3875, #3881, #3955 and #3959. One refusal also filed two issues. The machines write the bare message, then the same message with the fallback hint appended once no pre-registered client turns up; the dedup guard keys on the string, so both reported: × reports one warning for a rejected registration, not one per message → expected "spy" to be called 1 times, but got 2 times isClientRegistrationRefusal silences 4xx only. 5xx and transport failures can be ours (a broken debug proxy), so they still report. restatesWithFallbackHint pairs the two messages by matching the hint exactly rather than by prefix, which would have swallowed "Token request failed: 400 Bad Request" followed by the same line carrying invalid_grant. Both messages still reach the screen. Only the Sentry issue goes away. trace.ts now reads REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX instead of repeating the literal, so a rewording cannot leave it matching stale text.
Both packages ship the change: the SDK gains isClientRegistrationRefusal, restatesWithFallbackHint and the exported REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX, and the inspector's OAuth debugger is what stops filing the refusals.
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WalkthroughThe SDK adds shared helpers for classifying OAuth DCR refusals and matching fallback-hint restatements. It exports these helpers through browser and public entrypoints. Registration execution and trace recovery use a shared failure prefix. The inspector suppresses refusal reports, deduplicates fallback messages, and preserves debugger updates. Tests cover refusal statuses, server and transport failures, unrelated errors, and additional failure details. Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR suppresses expected DCR refusal telemetry and deduplicates repeated debugger messages. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because the current matcher may hide a distinct error in a narrow case, and the shared registration prefix is not available from the main SDK entrypoint. Thanks for using CodeRabbit! It's free for OSS, and your support helps us grow. If you like it, consider giving us a shout-out. Comment |
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In `@sdk/src/index.ts`:
- Around line 835-836: Update the public export list in sdk/src/index.ts to
include REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX alongside isClientRegistrationRefusal and
restatesWithFallbackHint, so SDK consumers can import the shared registration
failure prefix.
In `@sdk/src/oauth/state-machines/shared/dynamic-client-registration.ts`:
- Line 251: Update the error matching condition in the dynamic client
registration state machine to require the exact fallback message form, including
both the existing `previous` text and the `FALLBACK_HINT` suffix, rather than
accepting any message that merely starts with `previous`; preserve Sentry
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Export REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX from the public entrypoint.
This block exports the two new helpers but not REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX. Consumers of @mcpjam/sdk cannot import the shared prefix described in the PR contract. Add the constant to this export list.
Proposed fix
export {
buildDynamicClientRegistrationRequest,
executeDynamicClientRegistration,
+ REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX,
isClientRegistrationRefusal,
restatesWithFallbackHint,
} from "./oauth/state-machines/shared/dynamic-client-registration.js";📝 Committable suggestion
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In `@sdk/src/index.ts` around lines 835 - 836, Update the public export list in
sdk/src/index.ts to include REGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIX alongside
isClientRegistrationRefusal and restatesWithFallbackHint, so SDK consumers can
import the shared registration failure prefix.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match the fallback variant exactly.
Line 251 accepts a distinct message that starts with previous, adds new detail, and ends with FALLBACK_HINT. The inspector then suppresses its Sentry report as a duplicate. Require the exact emitted form instead.
Proposed fix
- error !== previous &&
- error.startsWith(previous) &&
- error.endsWith(FALLBACK_HINT)
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In `@sdk/src/oauth/state-machines/shared/dynamic-client-registration.ts` at line
251, Update the error matching condition in the dynamic client registration
state machine to require the exact fallback message form, including both the
existing `previous` text and the `FALLBACK_HINT` suffix, rather than accepting
any message that merely starts with `previous`; preserve Sentry reporting for
distinct messages.
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Closes INSPECTOR-CLIENT-260.
What the alert actually was
An authorization server answering
400to the OAuth debugger's RFC 7591 registration POST. That is the server under test declining to mint a client — DCR left unimplemented behind an advertisedregistration_endpoint, an allowlist, an initial access token we were never given, or metadata it will not accept. Showing that is what the debugger is for.It reached Sentry because
withStepFailureReportingcallsreportCaught, whose Sentry leg is ungated, so it bypasses the origin policy every other client call site applies. Same class as #3875, #3881, #3955 and #3959.One refusal filed two issues
The machines write the bare message, then the same message with the fallback hint appended once no pre-registered client turns up. The dedup guard keys on the string, so both reported. Proven before fixing:
So there is a sibling issue in Sentry carrying the shorter
Dynamic Client Registration failed (400).The change
isClientRegistrationRefusalsilences 4xx only. 5xx and transport failures can be ours — a broken debug proxy — so they still report.4xx is read as the server's policy knowingly, not because it always is: RFC 7591 also spends
invalid_client_metadataon a body the client built wrong. In practice that code comes back for a valid body the server declines (a loopback redirect, an auth method it will not issue), andbuildDynamicClientRegistrationRequestis covered by its own unit tests rather than by this signal. The comment says so rather than claiming 4xx is never ours.restatesWithFallbackHintpairs the two messages by matching the hint exactly. A plain prefix rule — which is what I wrote first — would have swallowedToken request failed: 400 Bad Requestfollowed by the same line carryinginvalid_grant, which is a more informative failure and not a duplicate. There is a test for that in both workspaces.trace.tsnow reads the exportedREGISTRATION_FAILURE_PREFIXinstead of repeating the literal.Both messages still render in the debugger. Only the Sentry issue goes away.
Verification
npm run typechecknpm run typecheck:client -w @mcpjam/inspectornpm run test -w @mcpjam/sdk -- oauthnpm run build:inspectorRun on the tree merged with
origin/main, which is green in CI.The full
npm testand the whole-workspace runs are red locally on Windows for reasons this diff does not touch: five failures CLAUDE.md already documents as inherited (plugin-vm-shim,local-stdio.desktop,repoFiles,local-machine,eval-compare-dto), CRLF digest mismatches (ws-native-fallbackasserts on a literal\r; the vendored schema sha256s are recorded over LF), andEPERM ... symlink. One more,ScenarioChatPage, is a UI assertion in a page that imports nothing in this diff — the debugger adapter is imported only byOAuthFlowTaband the XAA tab.Not run:
test:e2e:oauth-debugger. The diff does touch the OAuth debugger, so this is the one gate that would be worth a reviewer's insistence; it needs the pinned Playwright container and I did not have it running. Worth a look before merge if anyone has it warm.Follow-up worth considering, not in this PR
reportCaught's Sentry leg is ungated by design, so self-hosted npx/Docker users testing their own servers against their own authorization servers still page this channel. Routing the debugger's reports throughreportPossiblyOurFailurewould close that, but it is a policy change beyond one Sentry issue.Summary by cubic
Fixes INSPECTOR-CLIENT-260: the OAuth debugger no longer files authorization server registration refusals as MCPJam bugs in Sentry. A 4xx from the registration endpoint means the server under test declined to register a client, which the debugger exists to show; 5xx and transport failures, which can be ours, still report.
Bug Fixes
isClientRegistrationRefusalclassifies 4xx Dynamic Client Registration failures as server refusals.restatesWithFallbackHintdedupes them without collapsing unrelated failures that merely extend the previous message.Written for commit fcab5ba. Summary will update on new commits.