fix(mcp): a read key could read notes but not snippets or design systems
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_READ_ONLY_TOOLS fails closed, which is the right design — but the list had
gone stale, so a read-only key could get_note and not get_snippet, both pure
reads of the same table, and could not read a design system at all. That
inverts the sensitivity ordering: the free-text records were reachable and the
structured, low-sensitivity ones were not. `find_duplicate_snippets` sitting in
the list was the tell — someone classified the report and missed the getters
beside it.

Adds the twelve reads that were missing: snippets, processes, the six design
system tools, and list_repo_bindings. Each verified to mutate nothing rather
than assumed — this is a security boundary, and a wrong entry does not cost
what a missing one costs. record_pulled on four getters is telemetry about the
read, not a change to what was read, and get_note already carried it inside the
boundary.

The list stays explicit. Deriving it from the name would be worse than
staleness: it makes the boundary follow a naming convention, so any future
get_* grants itself access. list_starter_role_groups is the live illustration —
it reads a constant, but names create_design_system in its docstring, so a
pattern-matcher flags it.

So derive the CANDIDATES and keep the DECISION explicit: a new test asserts
every read-shaped tool appears in _READ_ONLY_TOOLS or in a declared
_DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED, and that neither set names a tool that no longer
exists. Adding a getter now forces a classification at review time instead of
denying it silently. The second set is empty and stays declared — otherwise a
future get_or_create_* would be pushed into the allow-list to make the test
pass, which is the wrong way to satisfy it.

Third instance of the same shape, after #2476 and #2444: a hand-written
enumeration that missed the members added after it was written.

Refs #2496
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@@ -282,6 +282,20 @@ operator. "Works for one user" is not done.
# Tools a read-only API key may call. Anything not listed is treated as a # Tools a read-only API key may call. Anything not listed is treated as a
# write for read keys (default-deny), so a newly-added tool is locked down # write for read keys (default-deny), so a newly-added tool is locked down
# until explicitly classified here. # until explicitly classified here.
#
# The list stays EXPLICIT rather than being derived from the name. A read key is
# what you hand to something you don't fully trust — a dashboard, a CI job, a
# shared integration — and a boundary inferred from a naming convention grants
# access to whatever a future author happens to call `get_*`. Enumerating it is
# the point; staleness is the cost, and test_mcp_auth covers that (a read-shaped
# tool must appear here or in _DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED below, so adding one
# forces a decision instead of silently denying it).
#
# Membership means "reads the operator's data and mutates none of it". Several
# getters record a retrieval event via record_pulled; that is telemetry about
# the read itself, not a change to what was read, and it must keep working for a
# read key or the corpus's surfaced:pulled ratio silently under-counts whichever
# consumers hold one.
_READ_ONLY_TOOLS = frozenset({ _READ_ONLY_TOOLS = frozenset({
"get_note", "get_project", "get_rule", "get_rulebook", "get_note", "get_project", "get_rule", "get_rulebook",
"get_task", "get_milestone", "get_recent", "enter_project", "get_task", "get_milestone", "get_recent", "enter_project",
@@ -292,8 +306,30 @@ _READ_ONLY_TOOLS = frozenset({
# Reports on the snippet corpus. Reads only — the merge it suggests is a # Reports on the snippet corpus. Reads only — the merge it suggests is a
# separate, explicitly-called write. # separate, explicitly-called write.
"find_duplicate_snippets", "find_duplicate_snippets",
# Snippets and processes are notes with a kind. A key that may read a note
# but not a snippet inverts the sensitivity ordering: it exposes the
# free-text records and withholds the structured ones (#2496).
"get_snippet", "list_snippets",
"get_process", "list_processes",
# Design systems: read, resolve (inheritance + mode), render, and compare
# against recorded snippets. All four compute from stored records and write
# nothing — the drift report is a report, and applying it is a separate
# explicit call.
"get_design_system", "list_design_systems", "resolve_design_system",
"get_design_system_stylesheet", "list_design_tokens",
"check_snippets_against_design_system", "list_starter_role_groups",
# Which repos map to which project. Read-only by nature; bind_repo /
# unbind_repo are the writes.
"list_repo_bindings",
}) })
# Read-SHAPED tools that must NOT be reachable with a read key — a getter that
# creates on miss, a list that has a side effect. Empty today, and deliberately
# kept as a declared escape hatch rather than left implicit: without it, the
# completeness test would push a future `get_or_create_*` into the allow-list
# above, which is exactly the wrong way to make a test pass.
_DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED: frozenset[str] = frozenset()
async def _buffer_request_body(receive): async def _buffer_request_body(receive):
"""Drain the ASGI request body and return (body_bytes, replay_receive). """Drain the ASGI request body and return (body_bytes, replay_receive).
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@@ -92,3 +92,68 @@ def test_body_calls_write_tool_classifies_correctly():
json.dumps({"method": "tools/list"}).encode() json.dumps({"method": "tools/list"}).encode()
) is False ) is False
assert _body_calls_write_tool(b"not json") is False assert _body_calls_write_tool(b"not json") is False
def test_every_read_shaped_tool_is_explicitly_classified():
"""A read-shaped tool must be classified, not left to default-deny.
`_READ_ONLY_TOOLS` is hand-maintained, and default-deny means a getter
omitted from it fails CLOSED — safe, but silent. That is how a read key
ended up able to `get_note` and not `get_snippet`, both pure reads of the
same table, while design systems were unreachable entirely (#2496). The
`find_duplicate_snippets` entry was the tell: someone classified the report
and missed the getters beside it.
This is the same shape as #2476 (record_pulled on three of four getters) —
a hand-written enumeration that missed the members added after it. The fix
there and here is the same: derive the CANDIDATES, keep the DECISION
explicit. Deriving the decision itself would be worse than a stale list —
it would make a security boundary follow a naming convention, so any future
`get_*` grants itself access.
So: every tool whose name reads like a read must appear in one of the two
sets. Adding a getter then forces a choice at review time.
"""
import ast
import pathlib
from scribe.mcp.server import _DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED, _READ_ONLY_TOOLS
tools_dir = (pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1]
/ "src" / "scribe" / "mcp" / "tools")
read_shaped = {
node.name
for path in tools_dir.glob("*.py") if path.name != "__init__.py"
for node in ast.parse(path.read_text()).body
if isinstance(node, (ast.AsyncFunctionDef, ast.FunctionDef))
and node.name.startswith(("get_", "list_", "search", "resolve_",
"check_", "find_"))
}
assert read_shaped, "found no read-shaped tools — the tools package moved"
unclassified = sorted(read_shaped - _READ_ONLY_TOOLS
- _DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED)
assert not unclassified, (
f"these read-shaped tools are classified by neither set: {unclassified}. "
f"They currently fail closed for read-only keys, silently. Add each to "
f"_READ_ONLY_TOOLS if it mutates nothing, or to "
f"_DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED with a comment saying what it writes."
)
# The reverse: a name in either set that no longer exists is a rename or a
# deletion, and a stale grant is worth surfacing even though it grants
# access to nothing. `enter_project` is the one read tool without a read
# prefix, so it is checked against the full tool set, not `read_shaped`.
all_tools = {
node.name
for path in tools_dir.glob("*.py") if path.name != "__init__.py"
for node in ast.parse(path.read_text()).body
if isinstance(node, (ast.AsyncFunctionDef, ast.FunctionDef))
and not node.name.startswith("_") and node.name != "register"
}
phantom = sorted((_READ_ONLY_TOOLS | _DELIBERATELY_WRITE_SCOPED) - all_tools)
assert not phantom, (
f"these names are classified but are not tools: {phantom}. They were "
f"renamed or removed — drop them, and check whatever replaced them got "
f"classified."
)