## Why
MCP OAuth configuration supported a pre-registered client ID but could not supply a client secret for token exchange or refresh.
## What changed
- Add `oauth.client_secret` and `codex mcp add --oauth-client-secret`, requiring a nonempty secret and client ID. Persist the secret in server configuration and accept `clientSecret` in plugin configuration.
- Pass configured credentials through CLI, app-server, and plugin login flows and token refresh. Require a new login when a configured confidential client's ID differs from stored credentials.
- Redact secrets in debug output and keep them out of authorization URLs and persisted OAuth token records.
- Invalidate cached OAuth connections when the configured client ID or secret changes.
## Testing
Add coverage for configuration validation and round trips, CLI argument redaction and subsequent login, app-server login, connection invalidation, and refresh with `client_secret_basic` and `client_secret_post` in both refresh modes. Verify secret exclusion from token records and reject mismatched client IDs before contacting the provider.
GitOrigin-RevId: 85bb0e410e9e68e6cd68eb6359badfc7eac78147
## Why
A `503` from an issuer's OAuth metadata endpoint can block discovery even when its OIDC metadata is available, preventing expired OAuth tokens from being refreshed during MCP startup.
## What changed
Try the same issuer's OIDC discovery endpoints when an OAuth authorization-server metadata GET returns `503`. Support issuers with path components and keep all attempts within the original request's timeout.
Reuse existing header, origin, and response-size checks, leave issuer validation to RMCP, and do not follow fallback redirects. Preserve discovery errors when fallback fails instead of enabling legacy endpoint fallback, and propagate terminal HTTP failures.
## Testing
Add tests for OIDC candidate order, malformed metadata, issuer mismatches, header isolation, redirects, terminal failures, unaffected requests, and the shared timeout. Add startup coverage for refreshing expired persisted tokens after OIDC fallback in both legacy and coordinated refresh modes.
GitOrigin-RevId: 6d94fd09e9ba26cb83e029171449e91410a0f6cb
## Why
When silent OAuth refresh cannot recover a rejected MCP tool call, the caller
needs the server's authentication challenge to initiate interactive login. The
rejected call must not be replayed automatically after refresh has failed.
## What changed
- Convert `401 Unauthorized` responses with `WWW-Authenticate` headers into an
MCP tool error containing `mcp/www_authenticate` metadata.
- Preserve multiple authentication challenges by combining all
`WWW-Authenticate` header values.
- Keep successful silent refresh behavior while avoiding replay when refresh
fails.
## Testing
Added coverage for successful and failed refresh, multiple authentication
headers, propagation through agent tool-call events, and no-replay behavior.
GitOrigin-RevId: c560cff6286d7ab09b1f5c6cf3618d4650cde47d
## What changed
- Honor `McpOAuthRefreshMode::Coordinated` for streamable HTTP MCP connections by letting RMCP refresh and persist credentials through the pinned credential store.
- Reread credentials while holding the refresh lock, persist refreshed tokens before retrying requests, and serialize login and logout writes with in-flight refreshes.
- Keep OAuth preparation outside MCP operation and handshake deadlines, and allow refresh persistence to finish if the initiating caller is cancelled.
## Testing
- Cover coordinated startup refresh, concurrent refreshes, `401` retries, credential mutation races, provider timeouts, and caller cancellation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 100ae788048087be23e26bb43f868b1fcebb007a
## What changed
- Re-run the HTTP headers helper after a same-origin `POST` receives a `401` or `403`, and retry the request once when the effective headers changed.
- Share refreshes across concurrent rejected requests, retain the previous headers when refresh fails, and keep the retry within the original timeout.
- Allow helpers to supply `Authorization` while preserving explicit OAuth or bearer credentials, OAuth insufficient-scope challenges, and redirect safety checks.
## Testing
- Cover rotating helper headers for MCP tool calls and same-origin OAuth token refreshes.
- Cover concurrent rejections, failed and unchanged refreshes, retry limits, timeouts, and redirects.
GitOrigin-RevId: c662edefdb1cd2876d9d02545a72d5bd6739864f
## What changed
- Upgrade `rmcp` and `rmcp-macros` from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3.
- Preserve authentication-required and retryable transport classifications when modern MCP discovery falls back to legacy initialization.
- Prevent unrelated discovery errors from triggering legacy fallback while retaining their diagnostics.
## Testing
- Cover authentication challenges and transient initialization failures during legacy fallback.
- Verify that a failed OAuth issuer check does not consume the pending authorization state.
GitOrigin-RevId: 957c0873fec1148883dd163fbaeb77d7593d8c53
## Why
An authorization server discovered for an MCP server can change. A stored refresh token must not be sent to a different issuer than the one that originally granted it.
## What changed
- Persist the discovered authorization server issuer with new OAuth credentials and preserve it across refreshes.
- Validate that issuer against a single pinned metadata snapshot before refreshing or adopting stored refresh credentials.
- Require reauthentication when refresh credentials have no issuer or the issuer changed. An unexpired access token can still be used without exposing its refresh token.
## Testing
Add coverage for issuer persistence, missing and changed issuers, metadata changes during startup, and refresh-token preservation.
GitOrigin-RevId: 07e48ba892f627428a28bbed5cca4ad703e2a5fd
## What changed
- Upgrade `rmcp` from 3.0.0 to 3.1.2.
- Use `rmcp`'s native JSON-RPC decoding and remove the local compatibility layer for multi-round-trip tool results.
- Preserve response metadata on `input_required` SSE results.
- Support OAuth protected-resource metadata discovery and include the discovered resource audience when refreshing tokens.
## Testing
- Add coverage for metadata preservation on modern SSE `input_required` responses.
- Add an OAuth startup scenario that discovers protected-resource metadata and verifies the refresh-token resource audience.
GitOrigin-RevId: 689f009b4a33552b640304111b74585b4009eeb8
## Why
Headers configured for an MCP resource can contain credentials and must not be
forwarded to a different origin during OAuth discovery, registration, or token
exchange.
## What changed
- Apply configured resource headers only to OAuth requests on the MCP resource
origin, while allowing OAuth-generated headers to take precedence.
- Follow credentialed OAuth redirects only when each destination remains on the
resource origin. Preserve redirect method semantics, the overall timeout, the
response size limit, and a maximum of 10 redirects.
- Use the Codex MCP user agent for requests to authorization-server origins.
## Testing
Add coverage for cross-origin header isolation, same-origin dynamic client
registration redirects, OAuth header precedence, token refresh, timeout
accounting, and response size limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 609d06e2b065e4aa9ca5382b4ae60455f9e26db9
## What changed
- Add `http_headers_helper` configuration for local streamable HTTP MCP servers. The configured shell command runs once per connection and returns a JSON object of headers that is cached across requests.
- Apply helper headers to MCP startup and OAuth flows while restricting them to the server origin, stopping redirects, rejecting reserved or duplicate headers, and enforcing output and execution limits.
- Reject helpers for remote or managed-disabled servers, use the local environment working directory, and redact helper commands from `codex mcp list` and `codex mcp get` output.
## Testing
- Cover configuration validation, helper lifecycle and output parsing, origin isolation, OAuth discovery and token refresh, managed requirements, environment selection, and CLI redaction.
GitOrigin-RevId: 84e0e26ce75520b0869d37c72b1678e033bd6818
## What changed
- Track Agent Plugin manifests through plugin, skill, and MCP loading so their capabilities use format-specific behavior without changing legacy plugins.
- Discover only direct-child skills, exclude app and hook capabilities, isolate MCP data, and reject MCP configuration files that are non-regular or resolve outside the plugin root.
- Bound model-visible skill instructions, plugin instructions, MCP descriptions, schemas, individual tools, and the aggregate Agent Plugin MCP tool set.
- Stop MCP and OAuth redirects when Agent Plugins send configured or authorization headers, while retaining existing redirect behavior for legacy MCP servers.
## Testing
- Add coverage for capability filtering, skill discovery, isolated MCP data and reserved-path expansion, unsafe MCP configuration files, context limits, and redirect handling.
GitOrigin-RevId: c9af66b051269f3226628ca280a58d32c808c38f
## What changed
- Require callers to provide an HTTP client for MCP OAuth discovery and login, removing the separate direct `reqwest` path.
- Use the shared `http` and `url` types throughout the MCP client and drop its direct `reqwest` dependency.
- Preserve configured MCP headers when routing OAuth discovery through the provided client.
## Testing
- Add coverage that routed OAuth discovery forwards configured headers.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1345f56bd794626533133447597a5908e57b9b48
## What changed
- Send `codex-mcp-client/<version>` as the default user agent for streamable HTTP and OAuth requests.
- Preserve user agents supplied through configured HTTP headers.
## Testing
- Verify the default user agent on OAuth discovery, token refresh, and MCP initialization requests.
- Verify that a configured user agent overrides the default.
GitOrigin-RevId: 659ef8f126df97b3c1b4d01e9e542a673b5ef42b
## Summary
- classify authentication-required RMCP startup failures, including
errors nested inside `ClientInitializeError::TransportError`
- let `codex-mcp` consume that classification so the existing
`reauthenticationRequired` startup failure reason is emitted
- add a regression test that performs real startup with an expired
persisted OAuth token and no refresh token
## Why
Follow-up to #29877.
RMCP stores streamable HTTP initialization failures inside a dynamic
transport error whose payload is not exposed through the standard Rust
error source chain. The original `anyhow::Error::chain()` check
therefore missed the nested `AuthError::AuthorizationRequired` seen
during real MCP startup and emitted `failureReason: null`.
The transport-specific inspection now lives in `codex-rmcp-client`,
while `codex-mcp` consumes only the domain-level authentication-required
result. This classifier does not distinguish first-time login from
reauthentication; the existing auth-state logic remains responsible for
that distinction.
## User impact
When stored MCP OAuth credentials are expired and cannot be refreshed,
app clients now receive `failureReason: "reauthenticationRequired"` on
the failed startup update and can show the reconnect action. First-time
login and unrelated startup failures remain unchanged.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rmcp-client --test streamable_http_oauth_startup
identifies_expired_unrefreshable_token_startup_error`
- `just test -p codex-mcp
startup_outcome_error_identifies_authentication_required`
- `just test -p codex-mcp
mcp_startup_failure_reason_requires_existing_oauth_and_auth_failure`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli --bin codex`
- local app-server probe emitted `failureReason:
"reauthenticationRequired"`
- manual end-to-end reconnect flow confirmed
- `just fmt`
## Summary
- distinguish expired, non-refreshable stored MCP OAuth credentials from
first-time missing credentials
- carry a typed `failureReason: "reauthenticationRequired"` on the
existing `mcpServer/startupStatus/updated` notification only when user
action is required
- keep the public MCP auth-status API unchanged and regenerate the
app-server protocol schemas and documentation
## Why
An MCP server with an expired access token and no usable refresh token
currently fails startup without giving clients a reliable, typed
recovery signal.
The existing startup-status notification is the natural place to carry
this state. Its nullable `failureReason` keeps the recovery reason
attached to the failed startup transition without adding a one-off
notification. Internally, Codex distinguishes first-time login from
reauthentication and emits the reason only when the startup error itself
requires authentication.
## User impact
App clients can prompt an existing user to reconnect an MCP server when
automatic recovery is impossible by handling a failed
`mcpServer/startupStatus/updated` notification whose `failureReason` is
`reauthenticationRequired`. Starting, ready, cancelled, unrelated
failures, and first-time setup carry no reauthentication reason.
## Companion app PR
- openai/openai#1069582
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` — 248 passed; schema fixture
tests passed
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server -p codex-tui`
- `just test -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-mcp` — 184 passed, 2 skipped
- `just test -p codex-protocol -p codex-app-server-protocol -p
codex-mcp` — 579 passed
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt`
## Summary
- store MCP OAuth credentials in the configured auth credential backend
- support encrypted-local OAuth storage, including legacy keyring
migration
- propagate the credential backend through MCP refresh, session, CLI,
and app-server paths
## Stack
1. #27504 — config and feature flag
2. #27535 — auth-specific secret namespaces
3. #27539 — encrypted CLI auth storage
4. this PR — encrypted MCP OAuth storage
This is a parallel review stack; the original #17931 remains unchanged.
## Tests
- `just test -p codex-rmcp-client` (the transport round-trip test passed
after building the required `codex` binary and retrying)
- `just test -p codex-mcp`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
refresh_config_uses_latest_auth_keyring_backend`
- `just test -p codex-core
refresh_mcp_servers_is_deferred_until_next_turn`
- `just test -p codex-cli mcp`
- `just fix -p codex-rmcp-client -p codex-mcp -p codex-core -p codex-cli
-p codex-app-server -p codex-protocol`
- `just bazel-lock-check`
## Why
Persisted MCP OAuth credentials were reported as authenticated whenever
a credential record existed. An expired token without a usable refresh
token could therefore appear as `OAuth` even though startup could not
authenticate with it, leaving users with a misleading status instead of
a login prompt.
## What changed
- Classify stored OAuth credentials as missing, usable, or requiring
authorization.
- Reuse the existing refresh window so near-expiry credentials without a
refresh path are also treated as logged out.
- Validate required credential fields before reporting OAuth
authentication.
- Add unit coverage for credential usability and integration coverage
for expired, unexpired, and refreshable persisted credentials.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-rmcp-client`
## Why
Codex persists OAuth expiry as an absolute `expires_at`, then
reconstructs RMCP’s relative `expires_in` when credentials are loaded.
For an already-expired token, Codex reconstructed `expires_in` as
missing.
[RMCP 0.15 treated a missing `expires_in` as zero when a refresh token
was
present](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk/blob/9cfc905a9ef17c8bba6748dc0a9bdd2452681733/crates/rmcp/src/transport/auth.rs#L704-L723),
so this still triggered a refresh. [RMCP 1.7 treats missing expiry
information as unknown and uses the access token
as-is](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/rust-sdk/blob/3529c3675ff64db805bd947ca6ece6090809e43d/crates/rmcp/src/transport/auth.rs#L1233-L1265),
causing the stale token to be sent during `initialize`.
## What changed
- Represent a known-expired persisted token as `expires_in = 0`,
preserving `None` for genuinely unknown expiry.
- Add Streamable HTTP coverage requiring the token to refresh before the
startup handshake.
## Validation
- The new regression test fails on RMCP 1.7 before the fix and passes
afterward.
- The same scenario passes on the commit immediately before the RMCP 1.7
update, using RMCP 0.15.
- `just test -p codex-rmcp-client` (63 passed).
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