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Stack (6): #1328#1329#1350#1335#1342#1347

First of a stack simplifying MCP authentication: one mode, fewer required values, and a smaller gateway surface.

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Problem

auth.py passed the gateway origin as all three of base_url, resource_base_url and issuer_url. FastMCP builds its advertised OAuth endpoint URLs from base_url, so every endpoint was advertised at the shared gateway root next to /api and /cli — and each one needed its own exact method/path Envoy route plus a duplicate ext_authz bypass matcher. Fourteen of each, listed twice in the template and a third time in CI.

Change

Give the three parameters their three distinct meanings, derived from one value:

Parameter Value Why
base_url https://host/mcp operational OAuth endpoints are advertised here
resource_base_url https://host RFC 9728 resource identity stays /mcp, not /mcp/mcp
issuer_url https://host/mcp what authorization_servers advertises, pointing clients at RFC 8414 path-aware discovery

The MCP SDK registers its OAuth handlers at fixed root paths regardless of base_url (mcp/server/auth/routes.py:92-114), so the gateway publishes the /mcp prefix and rewrites it off before forwarding. The gateway now encodes FastMCP's mount offset rather than its endpoint inventory — strictly less coupling than the fourteen named routes it replaces.

The templated Lua Origin filter is replaced by FastMCP's HostOriginGuardMiddleware, configured from services.mcp.allowedOrigins.

Result

Envoy template:              1,373 → 1,252 lines
Rendered ConfigMap (proxy):  1,419 →   919 lines
MCP overhead vs MCP-off:      +667 →   +167  (-75%)

Direct mode is untouched and still renders, so this is independently deployable.

Two subtleties worth reviewer attention

  • The /mcp/ prefix publishes the container's whole root namespace. The health routes are registered at the app root, so they are explicitly carved out with a 404 route ahead of the prefix. Any future non-OAuth root route must be carved out too; there is a comment saying so.
  • The deployment origin is always added to the Origin allowlist. Supplying any explicit allowlist disables FastMCP's same-origin fallback for non-loopback hosts (fastmcp/server/http.py:297-306). Without this the browser consent page — which POSTs same-origin — would be rejected.

Breaking

The identity-provider redirect URI becomes {origin}/mcp/auth/callback and must be re-registered. Both the user and deployment guides are updated.

Verification

  • bazel test //src/service/mcp/... — 72/72 pass (incl. mypy, pylint)
  • bash deployments/charts/service/tests/render-tests.sh — pass
  • bash deployments/charts/service/ci/validate-mcp-chart.sh — pass, with route-scoped assertions that were negative-tested (removing the rewrite fails the check)

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  • New Features

    • Added configurable browser-origin allowlisting for MCP connections.
    • MCP traffic and OAuth endpoints now consistently use the /mcp path.
    • Improved MCP proxy routing, metadata handling, and protected health checks.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Corrected OAuth callback, issuer, and authorization URLs to use the MCP path.
    • Improved validation and forwarding of MCP request paths and origins.
  • Documentation

    • Updated deployment and getting-started guides with the /mcp callback and metadata URLs.

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  • I am familiar with the Contributing Guidelines.
  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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Walkthrough

The MCP OIDC proxy now uses consolidated /mcp/ gateway routing, path rewriting, and scoped metadata handling. FastMCP applies configurable Origin protection. Runtime OIDC metadata and deployment documentation now use the /mcp prefix.

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MCP OIDC routing and origin protection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gateway MCP routing and bypass rules
deployments/charts/service/templates/_gateway-envoy-config.tpl, deployments/charts/service/templates/_gateway-helpers.tpl, deployments/charts/service/ci/validate-mcp-chart.sh, docs/.../mcp.rst
The gateway consolidates MCP routes under /mcp/, rewrites paths for FastMCP, rewrites authorization-server metadata, blocks /mcp/health, and disables gateway authentication filters for matching routes. Chart validation and deployment guidance reflect the new routes and callback path.
Origin configuration and runtime wiring
deployments/charts/service/templates/mcp-service.yaml, src/service/mcp/server.py, src/service/mcp/tests/test_server.py
The chart validates and exports configured origins. Runtime creation combines the gateway origin with normalized configured origins and enables FastMCP host-Origin protection. Tests cover trimming, blank removal, deduplication, and IPv6 origins.
OIDC runtime URLs and metadata contract
src/service/mcp/auth.py, src/service/mcp/tests/test_auth.py
OIDCProxy uses the MCP resource URL for issuer and operational URLs while retaining the /mcp resource identity. Tests verify the advertised OAuth metadata endpoints.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 81f9c

The gateway routing change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up: the chart validation should verify that authentication filters are disabled so future configuration changes cannot block the MCP health and OAuth routes.

Suggested reviewers: adelbertc, samuelhanono

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant Gateway
  participant FastMCP
  Client->>Gateway: Request under /mcp/
  Gateway->>Gateway: Match prefix and rewrite path
  Gateway->>FastMCP: Forward request
  FastMCP->>FastMCP: Validate host and Origin
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Runtime verification of the rewrite

Ran the exact route blocks from this PR through real Envoy (v1.31) against an echo upstream, to confirm the advertised URLs land on the paths the MCP SDK actually registers.

Public URL Upstream received
/mcp /mcp
/mcp/authorize /authorize
/mcp/token /token
/mcp/register /register
/mcp/consent /consent
/mcp/auth/callback /auth/callback
/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/mcp /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server
/mcp/health 404
/mcp/health/live 404

This closes the loop with the unit test: test_auth.py asserts FastMCP advertises https://osmo.example/mcp/authorize while registering the handler at /authorize, and the table above shows the gateway bridging exactly that gap. The health carve-out also holds for nested paths, not just the exact /mcp/health.

OSMO passed the gateway origin as all three of base_url, resource_base_url
and issuer_url. FastMCP builds its advertised OAuth endpoint URLs from
base_url, so every endpoint was advertised at the shared gateway root and
each needed its own exact method/path Envoy route plus a duplicate
ext_authz bypass matcher -- fourteen of each.

Give the three parameters their three distinct meanings, from one source:
base_url becomes the MCP URL so the OAuth surface is advertised under
/mcp, resource_base_url is that URL minus the path so the RFC 9728
resource identity stays /mcp rather than /mcp/mcp, and the path-scoped
issuer is what the protected-resource document advertises in
authorization_servers, pointing clients at RFC 8414 path-aware discovery.

The MCP SDK registers its OAuth handlers at fixed root paths regardless of
base_url, so the gateway publishes the /mcp prefix and rewrites it off
before forwarding. That is one prefix route and one metadata route in
place of fourteen, and the gateway no longer encodes FastMCP's endpoint
inventory -- only its mount offset. Because the prefix publishes the
container's whole root namespace, the health endpoints are explicitly
carved out ahead of it.

The templated Lua Origin filter is replaced by FastMCP's own
HostOriginGuardMiddleware. Supplying any explicit allowlist disables
FastMCP's same-origin fallback for non-loopback hosts, so the deployment
origin is always included -- otherwise the browser consent page, which
POSTs same-origin, would be rejected.

Rendered gateway Envoy ConfigMap in OIDC-proxy mode: 1419 -> 919 lines.
Direct mode is unchanged and still renders.

Breaking: the identity-provider redirect URI becomes
{origin}/mcp/auth/callback and must be re-registered. Both guides are
updated to match.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fixed: the health carve-out never actually fired

Found during a deployment run on a development instance.

mcp-health-not-public was the only MCP route without typed_per_filter_config, so jwt_authn returned 401 before direct_response: 404 could run. /mcp/health stayed protected, but only incidentally — by a different filter than the one meant to protect it. The carve-out was dead code that looked like it worked, and its own comment told future routes to copy the pattern.

The route now disables the auth filters so it owns its rejection:

- name: mcp-health-not-public
  match: {prefix: /mcp/health}
  direct_response: {status: 404}
  typed_per_filter_config:
    {{- include "osmo.gateway-auth-filters-disabled" . | nindent 20 }}

Verified 404/404 on the dev instance with no regression elsewhere.

Why the earlier verification missed it

The local Envoy harness I ran had no jwt_authn filter at all, so it could not reproduce the production filter ordering that caused this. It proved the rewrite semantics and nothing about filter precedence.

The durable fix is a render-time assertion rather than a better harness — validate-mcp-chart.sh now requires the health route to carry both filter-disable entries. I negative-tested it by removing the typed_per_filter_config again:

MCP chart validation failed: Gateway route mcp-health-not-public is missing: envoy.filters.http.jwt_authn:

The stack (#1329, #1330, #1331) has been rebased onto this fix.

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In `@deployments/charts/service/ci/validate-mcp-chart.sh`:
- Around line 189-209: Update the authentication assertions in the validation
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Comment on lines 189 to +209
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" "$route" 'cluster: osmo-mcp'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" "$route" 'envoy.filters.http.jwt_authn:'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" "$route" 'envoy.filters.http.ext_authz:'
done
# Scope the rewrite assertions to their routes: a file-wide grep for
# 'prefix_rewrite: /' also matches the well-known route's longer value.
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-oauth 'prefix: /mcp/'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-oauth 'prefix_rewrite: /'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-authorization-server-metadata \
'path: /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server/mcp'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-authorization-server-metadata \
'prefix_rewrite: /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server'

# The health carve-out must answer 404 itself. Without the auth filters
# disabled, jwt_authn answers 401 first and the carve-out is dead code that
# only looks like it works.
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-health-not-public 'status: 404'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-health-not-public \
'envoy.filters.http.jwt_authn:'
assert_route_contains "$PROXY_RENDERED_MANIFEST" mcp-health-not-public \
'envoy.filters.http.ext_authz:'

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that each authentication filter is disabled.

Lines 190-191 and Lines 206-209 only assert that the filter keys exist. A route with disabled: false passes this validation. That regression can make jwt_authn return 401 before mcp-health-not-public returns 404, or prevent FastMCP from receiving OAuth requests. Assert disabled: true in each JWT and external-authorization filter block.

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In `@deployments/charts/service/ci/validate-mcp-chart.sh` around lines 189 - 209,
Update the authentication assertions in the validation script so the JWT and
external-authorization filter blocks for the relevant routes explicitly contain
disabled: true, rather than only checking for filter-key presence. Use the
existing assert_route_contains calls for mcp-oauth and mcp-health-not-public,
preserving the route-scoped checks and requiring both filters to be disabled.

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