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Problem

Claude MCP app-access requests are immediately declined without a user prompt because the adapter does not register the Agent SDK's onElicitation callback. Related: #14878. The issue's triage comment confirms the defect and suggests this narrow direction, while explicitly noting that maintainer scope confirmation is still pending.

Fix

  • Route supported approval-only form elicitations through the existing mcp-elicitation pending approval path; wait for an explicit one-time Approve, Decline, or Cancel.
  • Build accepted content with the existing Codex response helper, then validate the actual output: choices must be safe one-time values satisfying both oneOf and enum; only an explicit false may be forwarded from a free-form field. Other optional defaults are omitted; required free-form defaults fail closed before a card opens. Unsupported constraints, URL mode, and unfillable required fields also fail closed.
  • Cancel and clean up on callback abort; reject late responses. No persistent grants or new UI renderer.

Verification

  • After merging current upstream main, focused ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts and CodexMcpElicitation suites pass: 158 tests across two files, including regression cases for unconstrained true/"yes" defaults and omitted optional defaults.
  • git diff --check passed; server tsc --noEmit reported no TypeScript errors (existing Effect suggestions remain).
  • The reporter manually tested an earlier isolated Dev desktop build and confirmed the approval card appeared and Approve continued the request. A screenshot is attached in a PR comment. The updated default-validation behavior has not been re-tested in the desktop app. The harness-close unit case aborts the passed signal; it does not independently prove full session shutdown cleanup.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This change adds a new Claude MCP elicitation approval workflow, including schema validation, runtime request lifecycle handling, and user-facing authorization artifacts. Its production behavior is substantial and an unresolved abort path can leave stale actionable approval cards, so the change needs human review.

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The Claude adapter now handles MCP elicitation callbacks. It validates supported form requests, presents eligible requests as approval requests, and returns MCP results for acceptance, decline, or cancellation.

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Claude MCP elicitation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate elicitation requests
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
The adapter validates supported form schemas and generated values. Tests cover acceptance, invalid requests, and mapping decisions to MCP results.
Present elicitation requests
apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts
Claude query options forward the elicitation callback. The callback creates approval requests with a parent node, application name, and options, waits for a decision, removes pending requests, and returns the mapped MCP response. Runtime tests cover approval requests, decisions, name fallback, cancellation, and rejected late responses.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ClaudeSDK
  participant ClaudeAdapterV2
  participant RuntimeApprovalRequest
  participant User
  ClaudeSDK->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Invoke onElicitation
  ClaudeAdapterV2->>RuntimeApprovalRequest: Create approval request
  RuntimeApprovalRequest->>User: Present approval choices
  User->>RuntimeApprovalRequest: Submit decision
  RuntimeApprovalRequest->>ClaudeAdapterV2: Return decision
  ClaudeAdapterV2->>ClaudeSDK: Return elicitation result
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Claude MCP app-access requests now show an approval prompt instead of being declined silently. Unsupported forms are still declined automatically. The evidence reviewed shows no blocking issues for this one-time approval flow.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2fc9d

Explicit approval and session checks limit exposure, but a one-time approval can still return a persistent value supplied through a hidden form default. Whether that creates lasting access depends on the connected service.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: The one-time consent restriction applies only to enum and oneOf values, not primitive defaults. A required string field named persist with default always and no choice constraint passes validation and is returned as content.persist=always when the user selects Approve. The approval card does not present that field. This newly reachable Claude path can therefore request broader consent than the advertised one-time approval; a lasting grant depends on the receiving connector's interpretation.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The immediate exposure is a configured MCP server issuing an elicitation during an active Claude turn. Exploiting the default-value gap still requires an affirmative user approval. Any lasting access would extend to the connector account or resources governed by the receiving service; that downstream scope is not established by the inspected source.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The supported attack path is server-controlled schema default, automatic response-content construction, an approval card without the individual field, explicit Approve, and transmission of the default to MCP. For a persist string defaulting to always, the serialized response contradicts the one-time intent. Durable authorization is a possible downstream consequence, not a verified outcome.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The flow preserves request, thread, provider-turn, and live-session identity. Response execution requires the matching live session. The offered choices are Cancel, Decline, and Approve; even an externally supplied acceptAlways decision returns the same precomputed acceptance rather than adding a persistent grant.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The decision is one-shot, cancellation removes the pending adapter entry, and later responses fail lookup. The inspected SDK also ignores duplicate in-flight control requests and suppresses response transmission after cleanup, providing counterevidence against a shutdown-based authorization bypass.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define an enforceable approval-only response contract covering defaults as well as choices. Decline forms whose non-consent values cannot be safely inferred, or present those values for explicit consent rather than silently forwarding them.
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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Description check ⚠️ Warning The description explains the problem, change, and verification in detail. However, it does not provide the maintainer scope approval required by the template; it states that confirmation is still pend… Add a link to the triaged issue or discussion and include explicit maintainer approval of the direction and scope, including the approval comment. If the change qualifies for an exemption, explain why it is a very small, focused fix of an o…
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the Claude MCP elicitation change and its approval-only scope.
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The description explains the problem, change, and verification in detail. However, it does not provide the maintainer scope approval required by the template; it states that confirmation is still pending.

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Add a link to the triaged issue or discussion and include explicit maintainer approval of the direction and scope, including the approval comment. If the change qualifies for an exemption, explain why it is a very small, focused fix of an obvious bug.

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- Around line 2296-2303: Update the field validator around `choices` so it
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Thanks for keeping this close to the triage. Explicit Cancel, Decline and Approve options so no session grant is ever offered, cleaning up the pending entry on every exit, and failing closed for URL mode are all the right calls.

The main issue is the exact-match list near the end of resolveClaudeElicitationAcceptance (ClaudeAdapterV2.ts around line 2314). It only accepts a filled value that is exactly lowercase once, accept, approve or allow, so a server offering allow_once, Allow or accept_once gets declined silently with no card, which is the bug this PR sets out to fix. The triage asked for approval choices meaning once/accept/approve/allow, the way Codex treats them.

The comment above that check is right that the shared match treats "disallow" as consent, and that's a real bug on the Codex side today: toMcpElicitationResponse in CodexMcpElicitation.ts (around line 199) picks the first option matching /once|accept|approve|allow/i, so an Approve click can send "disallow" when that option comes first. I'd fix the match there (word boundaries or an explicit negation check), probably as its own small PR, so both providers share one rule and the Claude-side list can go away.

On size: the fake Codex payload with threadId: "" and the as Parameters<typeof toMcpElicitationResponse>[0] cast can go if the helper's parameter is narrowed to the mode and requestedSchema it actually reads. The hand-written schema guard above it mostly duplicates McpElicitationFormField in CodexMcpElicitation.ts, and a strict Schema decode would cover it with far fewer casts. It also declines the whole request when an optional field that never gets filled carries an extra keyword like maxLength; checking constraints only on the fields you actually put in content would be smaller and less likely to block real consent forms.

The "stopping the session while the card is open cancels it" test passes its own sessionAbort.signal into onElicitation, and the harness close aborts that same controller, so it re-proves the abort case above it rather than anything about stopping the session. I'd drop it or reword what it claims.

Last, since the fix depends on the real request passing the strict top-level check (only type, properties and required), one live run against the codex-cua/Dia repro from #14878 with a screenshot of the card in a Claude thread would go a long way.

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apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts (1)

3245-3253: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Drive the actual stop path in this test.

Scope.close invokes the test's close hook, which aborts sessionAbort. The same signal is passed directly to elicit, so this test exercises callback abort rather than interruptTurn or session stop. The existing abort test already covers that path. Drive the active-turn stop entrypoint, then assert cancellation and rejection of a late response. This test can otherwise pass while a real stop leaves the elicitation pending.

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Update the session-stop test around `elicit` to invoke the active-turn stop
entrypoint rather than closing the scope, since scope cleanup aborts the signal
passed to `elicit`. Assert that stopping cancels the elicitation and that a late
response is rejected, while retaining the existing callback-abort test for that
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- Around line 3245-3253: Update the session-stop test around `elicit` to invoke
the active-turn stop entrypoint rather than closing the scope, since scope
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Manual verification (macOS, isolated T3 Code Dev build): In a Claude thread, codex-cua requested access to Dia. The app-access card appeared and waited for my decision; clicking Approve let the request continue. The screenshot shows the card before approval. This verifies the one-time flow only—I did not test session or persistent grants.

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Rebased this branch onto current main (9e5229b). The conflict was in Claude query-option construction; the resolution preserves upstream’s hoisted options and registers onElicitation there. The focused Claude adapter suite passes (146/146); server typecheck reports no TypeScript errors, though it still emits existing Effect suggestions. Manual app-access evidence is in the screenshot comment above.

I recognize that the triage response on #14878 identified the bug but explicitly did not grant maintainer scope approval under CONTRIBUTING.md. Could a maintainer confirm whether this narrow, one-time Claude MCP approval path is the desired direction for review, or advise a different scope? I am not treating automated review as approval. Thanks.

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Route Claude MCP approval requests through the existing pending approval flow and fail closed for unsupported forms. Cover decisions, cancellation, and constrained schemas with focused tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Reuse one-time approval content for supported MCP forms while rejecting ambiguous choices and unsupported schema constraints. Cover explicit cancellation, early abort, and stopped sessions.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validate oneOf and enum independently when both constrain an approval field, with overlapping and disjoint regression cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Select schema-valid one-time choices before building the MCP response, and describe harness-close cancellation accurately in tests.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Validate the actual toMcpElicitationResponse output instead of keyword
matching. Only safe one-time choices and explicit false values are
forwarded; other free-form defaults are omitted when optional and fail
the form closed when required, so unconstrained fields such as
"Remember: true" or "Always allow: yes" can no longer carry a persistent
grant, and benign notes mentioning "session" are no longer declined.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…efaults

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🟡 Medium Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts:7405

When an MCP elicitation is aborted, its approval card remains pending and actionable even though respondToRuntimeRequest rejects the response as unknown. This cleanup only deletes the deferred entry; emit cancelled updates for the runtime request, approval node, and turn item when the wait aborts.

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When an MCP elicitation is aborted, its approval card remains pending and actionable even though `respondToRuntimeRequest` rejects the response as unknown. This cleanup only deletes the deferred entry; emit cancelled updates for the runtime request, approval node, and turn item when the wait aborts.

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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Hi! We are cleaning up open PRs, and this one names a harness (Claude Code) but not which model version created it. If this change is really important, we recommend rebuilding the PR with a newer model and noting the model in the PR description.

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