Use compact MCP input advertisements by default while preserving explicit full, canonical validation, output contracts and complete Evidence. Require an explicit selected catalog for runtime identity and honor both profiles in CLI status.
Real ripgrep/Zellij SDK tasks, independent ELF oracle, actual client trials, profile parity workflows and CI are recorded in experiments/analysis-efficiency/mcp-input-catalog.md. SDK token estimates improve; actual Codex token savings and general latency/memory gains are not established.
Refs #5861
BREAKING CHANGE: MCP input advertisements default to compact. Set REA_MCP_INPUT_SCHEMA_PROFILE=full for complete advertised guidance and nested constraints.
Remove per-case ten-second overrides from MCP catalog and identity checks. Keep the suite-owned bounded ordinary and coverage deadlines, all assertions, and session cleanup.
Fixes#4967
Include the selected output advertisement profile while retaining canonical output validation in the identity. Reuse the SDK output projection and select doctor expectations from both profiles. Correct the compact input error documentation.
Capture the current entrypoint once without inventing a path. Preserve unknown registration ownership through setup and doctor, refuse unsafe registration plans, and retain exact pinned-launcher readiness checks. Hash the same full or compact schema projection advertised by each MCP server and use that identity in doctor comparisons.
BREAKING CHANGE: server.command_path may be null when the invocation path is unavailable. Registration and setup statuses, and doctor classifications, may report unknown.
Reviewed-PR: #3230, #3015
Co-authored-by: qorvr <330186599+qorvr@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Hemang Varshney <218273197+hemv-857@users.noreply.github.com>
Use one named input-schema projection for clients and catalog identity, preserve dialect declarations, and bound compact schema depth. Keep canonical SDK output validation when output advertisements are disabled. Release request-owned state on cancellation and carry upstream limitations through composed workflows. Preserve doctor full-output envelopes and validate navigation facts at their owner.
Reviewed fixes: #2088, #2108, #2513, #2684, #2693, #2695, #2836, #2864, #2868, #2877, #2933, #2998, #3002, #3015.
Validation: focused schema, SDK output-validation, context, and workflow tests passed; no schema dialect or canonical output validation was relaxed.
* feat(server): frame analysis-target content as untrusted data
Strings, decompiled code, page text, scripts, captures and logs returned
by REA originate from the analysed target, which can embed text aimed at
the agent. Nothing marked that content, so a prompt injection inside a
binary or page could steer the agent toward tools that run code.
- Server instructions now state that target-derived tool output is data,
never instructions, and that any request in it to run, install,
download or send something is a prompt-injection attempt to report.
- Tool contracts declare returnsTargetContent. It is on by default; only
seven tools whose results hold REA session state or caller-supplied
values (binary_session, close_binary, export_evidence_bundle,
record_unknown, update_unknown, inspect_adb_client,
inspect_apktool_client) are audited exceptions, so new tools start
marked.
- Successful results of marked tools carry
_meta.provenance = { untrusted_content: true, source: "analysis_target" }.
content and structuredContent are unchanged, and the response budget
accounts for the fixed marker bytes.
Tests cover the encoding and budget accounting, the audited exception
list against the contract catalog, and an in-memory MCP client that sees
the instructions and the marker on a marked tool but not on
binary_session.
* fix(server): mark failed target-content results as untrusted too
The untrusted provenance marker was attached only on the success branch
of ToolResultDelivery, but failures can carry target-derived text as
well: error messages, captured output, and partial observations such as
the terminal frames a failed capture_process_scenario retains in
partial_observation. A host gating later process or device actions on the
marker would have treated an adversarial error payload as trusted.
Every error path in src/server now carries the failing tool's provenance:
- toErrorToolResult and toRecordedPartialErrorToolResult take the tool's
target-content flag explicitly, so each caller is audited by the type
checker; toCallToolResult, toEvidenceToolResult (recording failure), the
response-budget error that replaces an oversized success, and the
Electron partial-evidence path pass contract.returnsTargetContent.
- Admission failures in runAdmittedToolOperation resolve the flag from the
tool name through the new toolReturnsTargetContent, the same predicate
the contract metadata uses; unknown names stay marked.
- The transport's oversized-error replacement keeps the original's marker
and counts it in its budget check, matching the projected error.
- Errors the MCP SDK builds itself (input validation, thrown handlers) are
marked in the transport for target-content tools only.
Error encoding accounts for the marker bytes exactly as success encoding
does. docs/mcp-contracts.md now states that error results carry the
marker. Tests cover marked and unmarked error results, the
capture_process_scenario partial-observation errors in-process and over
the SDK transport, the recorded partial-evidence path, the budget
replacement, the oversized-error replacement, and SDK validation errors
for a marked and a content-free tool.
* fix(contracts): mark session status, close and client probes as target content
The content-free exception set was audited against successful results
only. Now that failures carry the marker too, every exception was
re-audited against its error paths with one question: can the result
include text produced by an external process, provider or device, or
stored content REA did not author?
Removed from TARGET_CONTENT_FREE_TOOLS:
- close_binary: a failed provider cleanup (GhidraClient cleanup error via
createGhidraDiagnostics) projects the launcher's captured stdout and
stderr, which can contain target-derived log text.
- binary_session: capability status reports runtime unavailability as the
provider error message (ProviderAdapterError and similar), and the
provider candidate and Android availability diagnostics include probe
output such as the apktool stderr excerpt.
- inspect_adb_client: the success result carries the version and
installed path parsed from `adb version` stdout, and a failed probe
keeps a stderr_excerpt.
- inspect_apktool_client: the success result carries the first line of
the launcher's `--version` output, and a failed probe keeps a
stderr_excerpt.
- update_unknown: the new revision carries forward the stored question
and domain, which an imported evidence bundle can supply; list_unknowns
and get_evidence_bundle already return that data marked.
The set now holds only export_evidence_bundle (path, byte and record
counts; failures are filesystem, cancellation, or a fixed integrity
message) and record_unknown (the caller's input plus REA-computed ids
and digests; registry errors project only a reason code).
The conformance test pins the reduced set and asserts each removed tool
is marked. Tests that used binary_session as the unmarked example now use
record_unknown. docs/mcp-contracts.md lists the remaining exceptions and
why the removed tools stay marked.
* fix(contracts): include target-content policy in the catalog identity
createToolCatalog() and CATALOG_IDENTITY.tools projected every
client-visible contract field except returnsTargetContent. Because the
untrusted-content framing left schemas, effects, prompts, CLI names and
the package version unchanged, a same-version MCP process started before
the update digested equal to the new server and binary_session reported
it aligned although it never emits _meta.provenance.
Project the flag as returns_target_content in both the digested tool
catalog and CATALOG_IDENTITY.tools, and export createCatalogDigests so a
boundary test proves that toggling the flag on one tool changes the
tools and combined digests.
Group repeated session tool availability and provider capability facts, preserve complete named contracts and ordered limitations, and remove duplicate catalog descriptors. Update consumers and migration guidance.
Validated by all 31 CI jobs, focused source checks, and actual Claude Code/Linux Hopper/native Windows Ghidra small-target workflows on the current integration tree.
Refs #723.
BREAKING CHANGE: binary_session no longer includes server_identity.catalog.tools; tool_availability and provider capabilities use grouped facts documented in docs/mcp-contracts.md.
Co-authored-by: Kaoru0822 <208281322+kaoru0822-kitauji@users.noreply.github.com>
* fix(mcp): deliver tool errors within advertised schema contracts
Retain complete typed JSON error content while omitting non-conforming
structured errors at the public transport boundary. Recover oversized
diagnostics into Evidence before removing their private structured carrier.
Update schema-validated client readers and cover actual stdio delivery.
Closes#1261
Assisted-by: Kogasa (gensokyo-skills:kogasa-surprise-testing)
* test(mcp): read typed errors in canonical Evidence regressions
* test(mcp): validate public error diagnostics in acceptance workflows
Deliver complete Evidence directly through MCP with required nullable analysis profiles and immutable per-server delivery settings. Bind selected environments at construction and require typed cleanup outcomes with retained retry ownership.
Remove test-only routing, duplicate session and snapshot metadata, producer-field repairs, and ambiguous provider arguments. Separate artifact byte identity from occurrence classification and retain typed source-map and partial native facts across CLI, MCP, and verifier consumers.
BREAKING CHANGE: obsolete Evidence envelopes, session aliases, incomplete snapshots, and missing normalized producer facts are no longer accepted.
binary_session read the client's identity, protocol revision, and
capabilities only from the 2026-era per-request envelope. A 2025-era
connection sends none, so every such client was reported as `client: null`
with no negotiated protocol and no features, although it declared them in
`initialize`.
When a request carries no envelope, read the values the SDK keeps from the
connection's initialize handshake. An envelope still takes precedence.
Fixes#1167
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
binary_session reported native and artifact operations available whenever
their provider declared them, although these operations run on the active
target: in a closed session every call failed with target_unavailable, and
Mach-O-only operations stayed available with a ZIP or ELF target open.
Report target_required for every session-bound contract kind in a closed
session, and target_unsupported for Mach-O-only operations unless the open
target is a Mach-O executable. A host limitation is reported before target
selection, since opening a target cannot fix it; composed operations keep
deciding from their requirements.
Fixes#1166
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
* refactor(test): colocate pure-domain tests and reduce test debt
Move focused immutable domain/contracts/adapter tests from
tests/composition/** beside their production owners under src/** as
colocated *.test.ts/*.fixture.ts, and relocate persistence-shaped
composition tests under tests/boundary/filesystem/**. Update import
paths, the Vitest project topology (shared worker context for pure
domain/contracts and recording-port service projects), the test
migration ledger, testing docs, and AGENTS.md to match.
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* docs: remove test migration ledger
The cutover is complete and the ledger is no longer referenced anywhere
in source, scripts, or the docs gate. Drop the standalone artifact.
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* docs: clean up stale migration artifacts
Remove empty directories left by the test migration and replace the
"final cutover" language in docs/testing.md with standing PR guidance
that no longer references the completed migration.
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* fix: repair CI failures from schema, knip, and stale generated artifacts
Three root causes fixed:
1. catalog-schemas.mjs: valuesAt only traversed anyOf from Zod's
toJSONSchema, not oneOf. The webScreenshotDiffSchema change to a
discriminated union produces oneOf, so the product catalog generator
could not derive the web_screenshot_diff schema version. Add oneOf
traversal.
2. conformancePackage.ts: the test rewrite removed the only imports of
ScenarioManifest, ReplayPlan, ShimPlan, and ExpectedEvidence, making
them unused exports that knip flags. Remove the dead type aliases.
3. Regenerate stale artifacts (product catalog, MCP tool catalog, skill
metadata, conformance manifest) that drifted from the source changes.
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