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Part 1 of 3 for MCP sign-in from outside T3 Code (this → sign-in → copy URL). Based on main. Replaces #15961, which GitHub marked merged by mistake while the stack was being reordered; nothing from it reached main.

Problem

Each T3 MCP tool picked its own permission checks from about a dozen helpers, and they had drifted:

  • t3_thread_launch refused every caller below Full access with a hand-written check, so a Supervised or plan-mode thread couldn't do cross-project orchestration.
  • It never capped the interaction mode it passed on: a plan-mode thread could start a default-mode one.
  • "The caller's turn is still running" existed in six slightly different versions.
  • Nothing stopped a new tool from shipping without anyone deciding who may call it.

The sign-in work on top lets outside agents call these tools, so the permission layer has to be one thing, at the bottom.

Fix

Every handler is built by one declaration in McpToolAccess that says what the tool does:

Declaration Who may call it
reads every caller
readsAsCaller a T3 thread, about its own preview tabs, devices, worktree
actsAsCaller a T3 thread with a live turn (subagents, previews, devices, handoff)
writes a live thread, or an outside agent
writesThreads(ids, …) the same, and each named thread runs within the caller's modes
startsThreads(modes, …) the same, and the requested modes are within the caller's
writesEnvironment a full-access/default caller

The compiler enforces it, with no runtime table and no casts:

  • McpToolAccess.toLayer only accepts a toolkit whose every handler went through a declaration.
  • /mcp only registers handler layers that toLayer built, including the hand-registered image tools.
  • Declarations and handler layers are classes with private fields and private constructors, built only inside McpToolAccess. Copying one's fields onto a raw handler doesn't compile, and a copy, Reflect.construct or Object.create throws at runtime instead of running.
  • A declaration's refusal is an OrchestratorMcpFailure, and it reads the caller's thread. A tool whose failure schema or dependencies can't carry that doesn't compile either.
  • McpToolAccess.test.ts holds these cases as @ts-expect-error lines, so the build fails if one ever compiles.

Effect's own McpServer.toolkit and addTool accept any handler, which the compiler can't see. A new lint rule, t3code/no-raw-mcp-registration, keeps Effect's McpServer inside McpHttpServer.ts. Elsewhere it reports any runtime import of it (aliased, namespaced, effect/ai/McpServer, re-exported or dynamic) and any read of a registration method. Tests may import it by its own name to build a server, but not register on it.

The per-handler copies of these checks are gone: readMutationCaller, readFullAccessCaller and readWritableThread, plus the copies in the pull-request and thread-metadata code. OrchestratorMcpService still repeats a few internally; #15962 tracks removing them.

Visible change: a Supervised or plan-mode thread can now launch threads in any project, at its own modes or below, and launch caps the interaction mode it passes on. The launch description and the agent instructions say so. Launching outside any project (scratch: true) follows the same rule.

Also closed here, found in review:

  • task_cancel stops the child and every task under it. A user can raise one of those above the parent, so every thread it would stop is now checked against the parent's current modes before anything stops.
  • t3_environment_preferences_update checked its caller, then waited for a lock. It now repeats the check inside the lock, so a turn that ended meanwhile can't change settings.
  • A scheduled task bound to a thread runs at that thread's current modes, so editing it also checks them. list_scheduled_tasks shows a webhook URL, whose token starts runs, only to a caller that may run the task.
  • t3_thread_launch with existing_worktree now checks that the path is one of the target project's git worktrees (after resolving symlinks). Before, any path passed through, so a launch could point an agent at any directory on the machine. A removed worktree that git still lists as prunable does not count, so a directory later made at its path is refused.
  • writes and writesEnvironment require the orchestration capability, as uploads, scheduled tasks, projects and settings did before; a credential that may only use its browser cannot reach them. Preview, device, worktree and pull-request tools keep checking their own capability.
  • A scheduled task that saved, but whose bound thread then could not be read, came back as an error, so an unkeyed retry could save it twice. It now comes back without its webhook URL.
  • A thread's user could raise its modes after a tool checked them and before the tool's write landed, so the write reached a thread above the caller's modes. writesThreads and task_cancel now send their commands under the caller's modes as a DispatchModeLimit, and the orchestrator checks the command's thread against it inside that thread's command lock, where the modes cannot change. For a fork or merge-back it checks the source thread too, since a fork copies its modes. A refused command records nothing, and the agent gets the usual escalation error. The user's own commands carry no limit.

Verification

  • vp test run src/mcp src/auth src/vcs/GitVcsDriver (server, in a PID namespace) at the top of the stack, with the two new mode-limit test files: 41 files, 559 tests pass. The whole orchestration-v2 suite passes apart from five AcpAdapterV2 process-teardown tests, which fail the same way on main in this sandbox. Server typecheck is clean at every commit in the stack. Lint is clean across apps, packages, scripts and the plugin.
  • New table test (McpToolAccess.test.ts), through a real MCP server: one probe tool per declaration, called by:
    • Supervised, plan-mode and full-access threads, and a thread whose turn ended;
    • Supervised and full-access outside agents (and read-only ones, from the sign-in PR).
      It covers launching and changing threads within and above the caller's modes, environment changes, and tools that act as the calling thread. A failed lookup of the calling thread refuses the call.
  • Each review fix has a test that fails with the fix removed: task_cancel above the parent's modes (child, a task under it, a task under a deleted child), the preferences lock race, bound scheduled tasks and webhook URLs, a scheduled task whose bound thread cannot be read after saving, writes from a credential without orchestration, a launch into a removed worktree's path, a thread raised between a tool's check and its write (through a real orchestrator, for writesThreads, a fork's source, and task_cancel), and declarations built outside McpToolAccess. The lint rule has 20 tests.
  • A launch into a real repository accepts its main checkout and a worktree, and refuses an outside directory, a .. path and /.
  • Reviewed adversarially over six rounds by GPT 6.1 Sol and Claude Fable 5.1; both approved the final commits.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider Metric Main baseline This PR Impact PR ceiling
Codex Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 4.9 KiB −23 B (−0.5%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB −23 B (−1.9%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded 20.9 KiB 20.8 KiB −41 B (−0.2%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages 2 1 −1 (−50.0%) 8 ✅
Claude Total thread wire 5.0 KiB 5.0 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 6.8 KiB ✅
Claude Thread snapshot wire 3.8 KiB 3.8 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 4.9 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket wire 1.2 KiB 1.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded 21.2 KiB 21.2 KiB 0 B (0.0%) 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages 2 2 0 (0.0%) 8 ✅

Baseline: 3dfe373 · PR result: 5b50653 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

MCP handlers now declare access requirements through shared wrappers, and the HTTP server registers them through access-aware helpers. Scheduled-task operations check caller mode limits. Project launches validate existing-worktree paths against Git worktrees. A lint rule reports raw MCP registration calls.

Changes

MCP access and tool behavior

Layer / File(s) Summary
Access declarations and caller checks
apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.testkit.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/threadAccess.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/ThreadMetadataMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/ThreadMetadataMcpService.test.ts
Adds nominal access declarations, handler layers, and wrappers for reads, caller operations, thread writes, thread starts, and environment writes. Tests cover access outcomes and declaration enforcement. Removes cross-thread validation from thread metadata updates.
Thread, task, and environment tool access
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/attachment/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/orchestrator/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/*
Handlers classify operations through shared access wrappers. Related dependencies, failure schemas, and test fixtures are updated.
Preview, device, HTML, and worktree tool access
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/preview/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/previewControls/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/device/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/html/*, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/*
Handlers use access wrappers. Selected tool dependencies and failure schemas include thread-management or orchestration errors.
Project launch worktree validation
apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/*, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriver.ts, apps/server/src/vcs/GitVcsDriverCore.ts
Adds Git worktree path listing and verifies existing_worktree launch paths against project worktrees. Tests exercise accepted and rejected paths.
Scheduled-task mode checks
apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts
Scheduled-task summaries omit webhook URLs when caller limits do not permit the task or its bound thread’s current modes. Updates check applicable task and bound-thread modes. Cancellation checks child-thread modes.
HTTP registration and test dependencies
apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpDeviceToolkit.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/previewControls/handlers.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/pullRequests/handlers.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/handlers.test.ts
Adds access-aware registration helpers and provides live-thread fixtures to affected tests. Adds a test that rechecks caller activity before an environment-preferences update.
Raw registration lint rule
oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-raw-mcp-registration.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/rules/no-raw-mcp-registration.test.ts, oxlint-plugin-t3code/index.ts, vite.config.ts
Adds and enables a lint rule that reports direct MCP registration calls.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~55 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPClient
  participant McpToolAccess
  participant ThreadManagementService
  participant ToolkitHandler
  MCPClient->>McpToolAccess: invoke declared tool
  McpToolAccess->>ThreadManagementService: load caller or target thread
  ThreadManagementService-->>McpToolAccess: return thread shell or lookup error
  McpToolAccess->>McpToolAccess: apply declared access checks
  McpToolAccess->>ToolkitHandler: call handler when checks pass
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apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts (1)

106-110: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Read the project once in t3_thread_launch.

readProject is an Effect description, not a cached value. An existing_worktree launch therefore runs getById twice: once on Line 98 and again on Line 109 when no explicit or caller model is set. Store the first result and use it for the model fallback.

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reuse it for the defaultModelSelection fallback instead of yielding readProject
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apps/server/src/mcp/McpToolAccess.ts (1)

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Test the pull-request gate’s target-read failure.

When getThreadShell fails for a target, writesThreads maps the error to OrchestratorMcpFailure with orchestration_error before the pull-request handler runs. Add a pull-request test that asserts this error for an unreadable target.

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Add a pull-request test for the target-read failure in the flow using
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🟠 Major · Handle a failed bound-thread lookup so a saved task is not… · OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1383

apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1383
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Handle a failed bound-thread lookup so a saved task is not reported as an error.

scheduledTaskRunModes fails with a typed error when getThreadShell fails. summarizeScheduledTask runs after upsert in scheduleTask (Line 1513) and updateScheduledTask (Line 1584). A transient read failure therefore returns an error after the task is saved. An unkeyed scheduleTask retry then creates a duplicate task.

A previous review flagged this and marked it as addressed. The current code has no fallback in summarizeScheduledTask. Treat a failed lookup as "may not run" there, so the summary omits webhookUrl.

Proposed fix
-      const modes = yield* scheduledTaskRunModes(task);
-      return scheduledTaskSummary(
-        task,
-        live && modes.every((mode) => withinLimits(caller.limits, mode)),
-      );
+      const modes = yield* scheduledTaskRunModes(task).pipe(Effect.option);
+      return scheduledTaskSummary(
+        task,
+        live &&
+          Option.isSome(modes) &&
+          modes.value.every((mode) => withinLimits(caller.limits, mode)),
+      );
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CodeRabbit outside-diff finding (OrchestratorMcpService.ts:1383, a failed bound-thread lookup turning a saved scheduled task into an error): fixed in 2349103. summarizeScheduledTask now treats a failed lookup as "may not run", so the saved task comes back without its webhook URL instead of as an error, and an unkeyed retry cannot save it twice. Test: "reports a saved task even when its bound thread cannot be read" in OrchestratorMcpService.test.ts, which fails without the fallback.

juliusmarminge and others added 10 commits October 6, 2026 10:24
t3_thread_launch with workspaceStrategy existing_worktree passed the path
straight through, so a launch could start an agent in any directory on the
machine. With outside agents approved below full access now able to launch,
that reached further than before. The path must now be one of the target
project's git worktrees (compared after resolving symlinks); anything else
is an invalid request that points at t3_worktree_list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Each MCP tool picked its own permission checks from a dozen helpers, and
they had drifted: t3_thread_launch refused every caller below full access
with a hand-written check and never capped the interaction mode it passed
on, and "the caller's turn is still running" existed in six versions.

Every handler is now built by one McpToolAccess declaration (reads,
readsAsCaller, actsAsCaller, writes, writesThreads, startsThreads,
writesEnvironment), which checks the caller before the handler runs.
McpToolAccess.toLayer only accepts declared handlers and /mcp only
registers layers it built, so an undeclared tool does not compile. A
declaration's refusal is an OrchestratorMcpFailure, so every tool's failure
schema and dependencies must carry what the check needs, again checked by
the compiler. The per-handler copies of these checks are gone.

The visible change: a Supervised or plan-mode thread can now launch threads
in any project at its own modes or below, and launch caps the interaction
mode it passes on.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review found four ways around the access declarations:

- A handler could copy a declaration's brand with Object.assign, and a raw
  toolkit layer could copy a handlers layer's. Declarations and handler
  layers are now classes with private fields, which a copy can't carry: the
  compiler refuses one, and at runtime it throws instead of running.
  McpServer.toolkit and registerToolkit are linted outside McpHttpServer.
- t3_environment_preferences_update checked its caller, then waited for the
  thread's lock. A turn that ended meanwhile could still change settings.
  writesEnvironment now hands the handler its check to repeat in the lock.
- A scheduled task bound to a thread runs at that thread's modes, not the
  ones stored with the task. Editing or deleting one now also checks the
  bound thread's current modes.
- list_scheduled_tasks returned webhook URLs, whose token starts runs, to
  callers below the task's modes. They now see the URL only when they may
  run the task.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The t3_thread_launch description, the orchestration instructions every
agent gets, and the orchestrator MCP doc still said launching needs a
full-access/default caller. Since the access declarations, any caller with
a live turn launches at its own modes or below, so Supervised agents were
told not to try something that works. t3_thread_read also says why it stays
a read although it acknowledges a child's delivered result.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review found the access classes still had public `make` methods, so any
module could wrap an unchecked handler in a Declaration, or a raw toolkit
layer in a HandlersLayer, and register it. Both constructors are now
reachable only from module-scoped functions set in the classes' static
blocks; outside the module there is no way to build either.

Webhook URLs also went to a thread caller whose turn had ended. They now
need a live turn, like any other way of starting work.

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

Review found two more ways past the access checks:

- A private constructor only binds the type checker, so Reflect.construct
  could still build a Declaration or HandlersLayer around an unchecked
  handler. Both constructors now require a token only McpToolAccess holds
  and throw without it.
- task_cancel stopped the child thread without comparing the child's
  current modes with the parent's. A user can raise a delegated child to
  full access, after which a Supervised parent could still stop it and the
  work it delegated. It now refuses, like t3_thread_interrupt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The no-raw-mcp-registration rule caught McpServer.toolkit and
registerToolkit, but not addTool and the other methods on the McpServer
service, nor McpServer.resource and prompt. A new file could register an
undeclared tool with server.addTool and lint clean. The rule now reports
all of them outside McpHttpServer.ts, whose helpers only accept handlers
McpToolAccess built.

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

Review found two more gaps:

- task_cancel checked only the child's modes, but stopping the child also
  stops every task under it. A user can raise one of those to full access,
  and a Supervised parent could still stop it. Every thread the cancel
  stops is now checked before anything is stopped.
- The lint rule matched the name `McpServer` at the call site, so an
  aliased import, `effect/ai/McpServer`, or a destructured `addTool`
  registered a tool with no access declaration. The rule now reports any
  runtime import of Effect's McpServer outside McpHttpServer, and any read
  of a registration method or function. Tests may still import it to build
  a server, but not register on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stopping a deleted child still stops the tasks under it, so the mode
check now walks below a deleted thread too instead of returning early.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Review found three spellings the rule still let through:

- In a test, an aliased or namespace import of McpServer, or an import
  from effect/ai/McpServer, hid a registration from the name check.
  Tests may now import it only as `import { McpServer } from "effect/ai"`,
  where `McpServer.toolkit(...)` is reported.
- A dynamic import written as a template, import(`effect/ai/McpServer`).
- Destructuring a registration function, `const { toolkit } = McpServer`.

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

Review found three gaps:

- Uploads, scheduled tasks, projects and settings each checked the
  orchestration capability before the access declarations. writes and
  writesEnvironment now require it again, so a credential that may only
  use its browser cannot reach them. Tools that act for their own
  capability (preview, device, worktree, pull requests) still check that
  one instead.
- git keeps a removed worktree's record, marked prunable, until it is
  pruned. listWorktreePaths returned those paths, so a directory later
  made at one passed the existing_worktree launch check. It now leaves
  prunable records out.
- Saving a scheduled task, then failing to read its bound thread for the
  summary, reported the saved task as an error, so an unkeyed retry could
  save it twice. The summary now leaves out the webhook URL instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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An MCP caller checks that a target thread runs within its own modes, then
dispatches. The thread's user could raise its modes in between, and the
write landed on a thread the caller may no longer touch. task_cancel had
the same gap between its check of every task it stops and the stops.

writesThreads and task_cancel now dispatch under a DispatchModeLimit: the
caller's modes. The orchestrator checks the command's thread against it
inside that thread's command lock, where the modes cannot change, and for
a fork or merge-back the source thread too, since its modes are copied.
A thread above the limit refuses the command before anything is planned
or recorded, so the same command can go through once the thread is
lowered. The caller hears runtime_mode_escalation_denied or
interaction_mode_escalation_denied, as for its own check.

The user's own commands carry no limit and are unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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juliusmarminge and others added 2 commits October 6, 2026 13:47
A limited fork or merge-back checked its source's modes before planning,
but the source is not under the command's lock, so its user could raise
it in between. The check now runs on the source projection the command
reads and copies, and the refusal records no receipt, as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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sandscooling pushed a commit to sandscooling/t3code that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
Scheduled sync of 34 upstream commits (to 740bda4). Upstream pingdotgg#16335
makes every T3 MCP tool declare its callers and pingdotgg#16336 lets outside
agents sign in with OAuth, so the fork's session_* tools and
wait_for_background_commands now go through McpToolAccess: the writing
ones act as the calling thread (live run required), the reading ones
read as it, and a thread-less OAuth client is refused. The
attached-worktree guard sits on ws.ts's new group-middleware handler,
and "New thread in..." keeps its count on pingdotgg#16628's reordered list.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
aorwall added a commit to aorwall/t3code that referenced this pull request Oct 7, 2026
Merges `pingdotgg/t3code` `cd41c4ada0` into the fork: 81 upstream
commits since `442735897f`, the base pingdotgg#207 landed.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Merge with "Create a merge commit", not squash.** Squashing pingdotgg#207
broke the merge base and `main` had to be force-pushed back to a real
merge commit. A squash here would do the same.

## What changed in the merge

- **Counts:** 853 files landed against 853 in the upstream range. The
fork delta is 765 files. The [tracker
entry](docs/fork/upstream-merge-log.md) explains the three files on each
side that differ.
- **Conflicts:** 36 files, resolved by the verdicts `preflight.mjs`
printed. The ones that needed more than a mechanical resolution:
- **Preview:** upstream now runs the browser on the environment server
(pingdotgg#15328). The fork's iframe preview is kept beside it in `PreviewView`,
`ThreadPreviewMiniPlayer` and `PreviewPanel`. The frame picker now uses
upstream's per-pick token for `pickActiveRef`.
- **Permissions:** upstream split its coarse scopes into granular ones
(pingdotgg#9786–pingdotgg#9791). Upstream's new gates are combined with the fork's
`FEATURES` gates in Sidebar, ProviderSettingsPanel, ChatMarkdown,
ProjectSettingsPanel, GitActionsControl and others.
- **`ws.ts` instrumentation:** upstream replaced `observeRpcEffect` with
an `RpcInstrumentation` middleware. The fork's 15 stub handlers for
Moatless-only methods are unwrapped, and those methods are added to
`RPC_AGGREGATES`.
- **`ChatView.tsx`:** the woke, parked and resume-compaction banners are
dropped, because upstream deleted them. The fork's sandbox-commands
banner and the path that runs a script from a draft thread are kept.
- **`runOnSettle`** (pingdotgg#16290): carried on the script. The editor has no
switch for it because Moatless runs no script on settle.
- **Unsupported methods:** `preview.adjust`, `preview.clearProfile` and
`terminal.observe` now declare `UnsupportedMethodError`.
- **Fork tests:** five upstream tests were adapted to the fork's deltas,
each with a `Fork:` comment.
- **Docs:**
- [`gaps.md`](docs/fork/gaps.md) adds entries for the granular scopes
and for MCP sign-in, and extends the scripts, methods and settlement
entries.
- The auth bootstrap suite entry is struck, because that file now passes
36 of 36.
- [`upstream-merge-log.md`](docs/fork/upstream-merge-log.md) has the
2026-10-07 entry.

## Usable as-is

- Upstream's granular permission gates work today. Moatless sends no
`permissions` record, so `sessionGrantsScope` falls back to
`legacyParents`, which grant every new scope (pingdotgg#10298).
- File preview errors show the path that was attempted (pingdotgg#15628).
- The diff panel keeps the chosen scope while a turn runs (pingdotgg#16571).
- The desktop browser no longer gives two screenshots the same filename
(pingdotgg#14784).
- Assorted MCP fixes on upstream's server have no effect here.

## Unsupported in Moatless / needs implementation

- **Server-hosted browser** (pingdotgg#15328): `preview.adjust` and
`preview.clearProfile`, and the `serverBrowser` capability. Moatless
doesn't report the capability, so the web client keeps its frame
runtime.
- **Passive terminal observation** (pingdotgg#9791): `terminal.observe`. A client
sends it only to a session with `terminal:read` and without
`terminal:operate`. Moatless grants operate to every session.
- **Granular scopes:** Moatless can't grant less than everything. It
needs to send a `permissions` record from `session_state` in
`crates/t3code/src/rpc/config.rs`.
- **MCP OAuth for outside agents** (pingdotgg#16336, pingdotgg#16718, pingdotgg#16335): the
`/connect-agent` consent page and "Copy MCP URL" (pingdotgg#16337). The copy
button is already hidden by `FEATURES.connections`. The route is
reachable only by a typed URL.
- **Run a project action when a worktree thread settles** (pingdotgg#16290):
needs `runOnSettle` stored on the script in
`crates/t3code/src/projection/project.rs`, and a backend that runs the
script on settle.

## Backend behavior to consider reproducing in Moatless

- **pingdotgg#16761:** a thread settles as soon as a client sees its PR merge,
without waiting for the server's poll.
- **pingdotgg#16762:** settled threads stop polling their pull requests. Moatless
polls linked PRs and would save the same requests.
- **pingdotgg#16290:** running a designated script when a worktree thread
settles, such as a teardown.

## Verification

`verify.mjs --sequential` passed every check except `test`:
duplicate-adds, tripwires, resolution-check, unsupported-methods,
lockfile, fmt, lint, typecheck and build.

- **web:** five tests failed because upstream's new tests don't know the
fork's deltas. After the fixes, `--only test --package @t3tools/web`
passes all 496 files and 6,523 tests.
- **server:** four files fail because of the sandbox, not the code:
- `OpenCodeServerLedger`, `AcpAdapterV2` and
`OrchestratorReplayFixtures` fail as they did in the 2026-10-06 merge.
The sandbox doesn't reap detached process groups, and its
`CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR` leaks into an auth error message.
- The new `ServerBrowserPage.test.ts` needs Playwright's
`chromium_headless_shell-1223`, which the sandbox lacks.
- The fork's only changes to the server areas these tests cover are 12
lines in `Orchestrator.ts` and its testkit, which none of the failing
tests touch.

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