Guide CRM agents through MCP workflows and improve auth recovery

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What changes

Give agents discoverable, permission-aware task guides, concise startup instructions and optional compact capabilities. Honor the selected product when advancing sequences and preserve OAuth recovery metadata on current-state authentication failures. MCP tools, resources and prompts now sanitize unexpected database/provider errors through the shared public error contract.

The guides explain sequence delays, relationship IDs, enrollment versus touch versions, draft personalization, approval invalidation/preservation, provider setup and unknown-send recovery. They use the existing authorized domain operations.

How you know it works

• Regressions cover discovery/structured output, every guide topic, prompt/resource parity, read/write/send availability, current membership, organization/product isolation, invalid topics and stale tool references.
• Failure-injection tests prove internal database details stay out of tool, resource and prompt responses; these failed before the fix.
• Sequence tests cover selected-product creation/completion/do-not-contact pauses, read-only/empty grants, enrollment versions, approval expiry after final-step removal and approval preservation for unchanged draft hashes.
• Protocol/OAuth tests use SDK schemas and schema-validated responses; the two MCP suites share a typed harness. No dependencies added.
• Removed the dated review Markdown and unused prompt translations. Durable guidance is in setup and MCP.
• Full local suite passed: 146 files, 1,324 tests passed and 11 skipped. After the final wording/assertion correction in df93eee, 54 focused tests, strict types, lint, explicit-any audit and production build passed again. License and public smoke checks also passed. All required CI checks pass on df93eee, including all three test shards, PostgreSQL, browser end-to-end, build/public smoke, audit/licenses/types/lint, CodeQL and Markdown links; aggregate CI ok is green.
• Independent reviews covered transport/auth, guidance/translations and sequence authorization. CodeRabbit's draft-approval description finding was verified, fixed and marked addressed.

Design references: OpenAI MCP guidance, MCP server instructions and Anthropic tool design.

Checklist

• All constituent bun run verify checks pass
• bun run test:files passes in refreshed CI
• New behavior has meaningful regressions
• Business operations remain in the shared HTTP/MCP registry and authorized services
• Interface strings are in packages/i18n/translations/en.json
• No explicit any in changed TypeScript files
• No migrations needed
• No real contacts, message bodies, credentials or uploaded files included
• Setup and behavior documentation updated

Limitations

The reported hosted disconnect was not reproduced. Long-idle and token-refresh qualification in actual Codex/Claude clients remains outstanding; recovery metadata does not extend authorization lifetimes.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The MCP server adds topic-based agent guidance, guide resources, updated prompts, compact capability responses, and shared error handling. The MCP route adds origin checks and authentication challenges. Outreach advancement supports optional product scoping, with updated sequence guidance and tests.

Changes

MCP guidance

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Guide topics and content packages/mcp/guidance.ts, packages/i18n/translations/en.json, docs/setup-and-mcp.md	Adds nine guide topics, translated workflow content, and tool availability details. English MCP instructions and setup documentation describe guide discovery, connection behavior, and record paging.
MCP resources, prompts, and tools packages/mcp/server.ts, docs/setup-and-mcp.md	Registers the agent reference, topic resources, get_agent_guide, and updated prompts. get_capabilities reports guide metadata and supports compact responses. Tool and read failures use shared handling.
Guide discovery and result validation tests/mcp-guidance.test.ts, tests/mcp-write.test.ts, tests/support/mcp-harness.ts	Tests guide topics, permissions, prompts, resources, capabilities, and sanitized errors. The shared harness validates MCP response envelopes and results.

OAuth request handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
MCP origin checks and authentication challenges src/app/mcp/route.ts	Checks mutation origins when an Origin header is present. Adds a bearer challenge for unauthorized 401 domain errors.
OAuth recovery and origin tests tests/oauth.test.ts, docs/setup-and-mcp.md	Tests authentication recovery for invalidated tokens and origin handling. Documentation distinguishes invalid-token responses from access denials and describes connection recovery.

Outreach scope and sequence behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Sequence schemas and operation guidance packages/core/outreach.ts, packages/operations/catalog.ts, docs/setup-and-mcp.md	Adds descriptions to outreach schemas without changing validation rules. Operation descriptions and setup guidance document sequence limits, versioning, enrollment, approval, and sending behavior.
Product-scoped enrollment advancement packages/core/outreach.ts, tests/outreach-scope.test.ts, tests/outreach.test.ts	Filters enrollment advancement to authorized products matching an optional product ID. Tests cover selected and unscoped advancement, authorization, completion, pauses, and enrollment versions.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Client as MCP client
  participant Server as MCP server
  participant Guide as agentGuide
  participant DB as Database
  participant Catalog as Operation catalog
  Client->>Server: Call get_agent_guide with topic
  Server->>Guide: Request guide for principal and organization
  Guide->>DB: Authorize principal for organization
  Guide->>Catalog: Read operation availability and requirements
  Guide-->>Server: Return guide content, resources, and tool availability
  Server-->>Client: Return structured and text result

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Merge Risk

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 63e53

The edit_touch_draft description overstates when approval is cleared. An edit that leaves the draft text unchanged keeps the touch approved. The code is otherwise unaffected, so this is a small wording fix that can be made before or after merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 63e53

The inspected changes preserve existing access restrictions while adding Origin validation and limiting sequence advancement to the selected product. No introduced authorization bypass or broader sending authority was established. Authentication dependency behavior and production concurrency remain incompletely verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Effective outreach exposure remains bounded by the authenticated user's organization membership and grant product set. A selected product narrows advancement further; an organization-only call can still advance every authorized product. Advancement does not itself grant sending authority. Regressions assert that another authorized product remains unchanged and foreign or ungranted products are rejected.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — A supplied mismatched or null Origin is rejected before authentication. Requests without Origin still require normal authentication. The new recovery response is restricted to UNAUTHORIZED 401 errors and contains a metadata URL derived from validated application configuration plus static scope names, not request-selected destinations or credentials.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — New guide tools, resources, and prompts recheck authorization before returning content. Availability metadata is advisory rather than an execution credential; the business dispatcher independently checks authority. Regression assertions cover foreign-organization rejection and membership revocation.
• observed — Cryptographic token verification is delegated to the external authentication adapter before principal construction. Application code validates received claims and rereads current authorization state, but the adapter's exact cookie acceptance and pre-callback verification behavior were not independently inspected. This dependency boundary predates the PR.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — New shared MCP wrappers map unexpected failures through the existing public error response. Resource and prompt failures expose only the public error code rather than database or provider messages; tool failures retain isError=true. Regressions assert that private SQL fixture text is not returned.

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Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 11 files. (2 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely summarizes the main changes: MCP workflow guidance for CRM agents and improved authentication recovery.

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Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 19 functions across 11 files. (2 skipped: 2 unsupported.)

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• docs/setup-and-mcp.md
• packages/core/outreach.ts
• packages/i18n/translations/en.json
• packages/mcp/guidance.ts
• packages/mcp/server.ts
• packages/operations/catalog.ts
• src/app/mcp/route.ts
• tests/mcp-guidance.test.ts
• tests/mcp-write.test.ts
• tests/oauth.test.ts
• tests/outreach-scope.test.ts
• tests/outreach.test.ts
• tests/support/mcp-harness.ts

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