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Fix MCP 401s from poisoned opencode service - #504
Why: A shared OpenCode service started with empty credential exports 401s the remote github and zai-web-search MCP servers for every session while .env.local, shells, and endpoints stay healthy.
What:
Recycle a service holding present-but-empty credentials
Absent keys stay unjudged, so fail-safe is unchanged
Warm the service with .env.local-loaded environment
mcp:doctor reports the poisoned service with remedy
Document the remoteEnv empty-string trap at its source
Fixes the 2026-10-31 incident: service pid held GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN= and ZAI_API_KEY= (VS Code remoteEnv resolves an unset host variable to an empty string); both servers were absent from sessions although probes returned HTTP 200.
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Review comments at @scripts/mcp_doctor.py:
- Line 258: Update the remedy text in check_shared_service to reference the
resolved record path inspected by the check instead of hardcoding
~/.local/state/opencode/service.json, so the operator is directed to the correct
service record when XDG_STATE_HOME is set.
- Around line 257-258: Validate the PID recorded in service.json as an OpenCode
service before inspecting its environment or advising that it be stopped. In
Doctor.check_shared_service, treat a live PID that cannot be verified as the
service as a stale record and do not issue a stop instruction.
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Walkthrough
Startup now warms OpenCode with credentials loaded from .env.local. The service recycler detects present-but-empty credentials as mismatches. mcp:doctor checks shared-service state and reports credential status.
Changes: OpenCode credential handling
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Load credentials for service startup .devcontainer/devcontainer.json, .devcontainer/post_start.py, scripts/tests/test_devcontainer_lifecycle.py
post_start.py passes the .env.local environment to both OpenCode warm-up commands. The lifecycle test checks that the loaded token is used when the inherited token is empty.
Detect and recycle stale credentials .devcontainer/recycle_stale_opencode_service.py, scripts/tests/test_opencode_service_recycle.py
The recycler retains empty service values and treats them as stale when the corresponding file value is non-empty. Tests cover divergent and empty credential combinations.
Report shared-service credential status scripts/mcp_doctor.py, .llm/mcp/README.md, scripts/tests/test_mcp_credentials.py
mcp:doctor runs a dry-run service check and reports stale credentials, dead processes, errors, or matching credentials. Documentation and tests cover poisoned and healthy service states.
The credential-recycling and startup changes look sound. The doctor's remedy text can point operators at the wrong service record when XDG_STATE_HOME is set, and could advise stopping a process that reused a stale PID. Both are narrow diagnostic-guidance issues and are worth fixing before or soon after merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 4f043
Reloading repaired credentials improves shared-service startup. However, the expanded restart rule trusts a recorded process ID without confirming that it still belongs to OpenCode, so a stale record could cause an unrelated process to be stopped. Recovery instructions can also point to a different state directory from the one inspected.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Empty credentials now authorize termination without establishing service identity. The recycler accepts a live recorded PID and differing tracked environment values, then signals that PID without checking executable identity or process start time. If a stale record points to a reused PID carrying empty forwarded credentials, an unrelated process can now satisfy the termination predicate. PID-only targeting existed at the base, but empty values previously could not trigger it.
Low · reliability · inferred: The new unjudged-service recovery instruction is not bound to the resource inspected. Inspection honors XDG_STATE_HOME, but the instruction directs the operator to stop the PID in the hardcoded ~/.local/state record. With a nondefault state directory, this can target a different process while leaving the inspected service unchanged. Even at the default path, the instruction does not establish that the recorded PID still belongs to OpenCode. This is operator-mediated recovery risk, not automated termination by the doctor.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — A recycling invocation targets one recorded PID. For the genuine shared service, termination affects its attached sessions; for a stale or reused PID, another process can be affected. Effective exposure is limited by the caller’s /proc visibility and signaling permissions, normally the same user in this devcontainer integration. Broader tenant or host authority was not established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The supported failure path is a stale discovery record naming a live unrelated process, that process carrying an empty tracked credential, and .env.local containing a nonempty counterpart. The head then permits signaling where the base did not. Deliberate targeting would additionally require control over the selected record or its lifecycle; lower-trust write access to that record was not established.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The doctor crosses from diagnostics into local process inspection through fixed subprocess arguments and --dry-run. That mode returns before signaling or record deletion. Missing file evidence, unreadable process environments, absent tracked keys, and empty file values do not authorize automated termination, but these controls do not authenticate the live process selected by a PID.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Reloading the credential file after repair prevents both warm-up commands from retaining the rejected pre-repair value. Matching services remain untouched, and dry-run preserves the process and discovery record. These are meaningful countercontrols, although they do not resolve process-identity or concurrent record-replacement risks.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Bind termination to a verified service identity or service-owned stop operation, serialize competing lifecycle transitions, and verify that the discovery record still represents the same service before deleting it. Recovery instructions should identify the resolved state record and require identity verification before an operator stops its PID.
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Review comments at @.devcontainer/post_start.py:
- Line 207: Reload the environment from .env.local after credential repair and
sync, then pass the refreshed dictionary to warm_opencode_service instead of the
pre-repair env. Keep the existing repair and sync flow unchanged.
Review comments at @scripts/mcp_doctor.py:
- Line 251: Update the shared opencode service credential-check flow so the
“tracked credentials match” report is emitted only when the dry run confirms
comparison evidence. When a tracked key is unjudged or the credential file is
absent, report that credentials could not be compared instead.
Review comments at @scripts/tests/test_mcp_credentials.py:
- Around line 484-486: Update the platform gates for both new service cases to
skip when `/proc/self` is unavailable, in addition to the existing POSIX and
bash checks; keep the current skip behavior.
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# LLM Agent Instructions
## Critical Rules
### Validation Ladder (Run After Each Change)
Per-iteration speed: run `npm run check:fast` first (formats and lints only the files changed since the comparison base, and runs only the surface-selected harness self-tests: each
changed tooling path maps to the test files that verify it in `scripts/harness_scope.py`, with unmapped or shared paths failing safe to the full suite; measured single-subject
walls are about 4s for the whole check, about 1s of that the scoped suite, instead of the 28-40s full suite on ext4 after the #171 self-test port, and CI runs the same scoped
selection). On a working branch, iterate per edit with `npm run check:fast -- --base HEAD`: the default base is the merge base with `origin/main`, so committed shared-surface files
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.devcontainer/post_start.py
[error] 183-183: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.run(["opencode", "mcp", "list"], capture_output=True, check=False, env=environment)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
[error] 185-185: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.run(["opencode", "mcp", "list"], capture_output=True, check=False, env=environment)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
scripts/mcp_doctor.py
[error] 229-233: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.run(
[sys.executable, str(self.root / '.devcontainer' / 'recycle_stale_opencode_service.py'),
'--dry-run', '--state-dir', str(record.parent), '--env-file', str(self.root / '.env.local')],
cwd=self.root, env=dict(self.environment), capture_output=True, text=True,
encoding='utf-8', errors='replace', timeout=30, check=False)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
scripts/tests/test_mcp_credentials.py
[error] 463-468: Command coming from incoming request
Context: subprocess.Popen(
["bash", "-c", "exec sleep 60"],
env=env,
stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
)
Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
(subprocess-from-request)
[info] 475-475: use jsonify instead of json.dumps for JSON output
Context: json.dumps(record)
Note: [CWE-116] Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output.
(use-jsonify)
Ruff (0.17.0)
.devcontainer/post_start.py
[error] 183-183: Starting a process with a partial executable path
(S607)
[error] 185-185: Starting a process with a partial executable path
(S607)
scripts/mcp_doctor.py
[warning] 226-226: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
(RUF001)
[error] 229-229: subprocess call: check for execution of untrusted input
(S603)
[warning] 235-235: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
(RUF001)
[warning] 246-246: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
(RUF001)
[warning] 249-249: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
(RUF001)
[warning] 253-253: Boolean-typed positional argument in function definition
(FBT001)
.devcontainer/recycle_stale_opencode_service.py
[warning] 55-55: Import from collections.abc instead: Mapping, Sequence
Import from collections.abc
(UP035)
[warning] 55-55: typing.Dict is deprecated, use dict instead
(UP035)
[warning] 55-55: typing.List is deprecated, use list instead
(UP035)
[warning] 55-55: typing.Tuple is deprecated, use tuple instead
(UP035)
scripts/tests/test_mcp_credentials.py
[error] 464-464: Starting a process with a partial executable path
Three review findings on the credential recycle path: the warm attach could
use the pre-repair environment, mcp:doctor claimed a match it never
compared, and the service fixtures ran on hosts without /proc. The recycler
now names the keys it compared, the doctor reports an unjudged service, and
post_start reloads .env.local before warming the singleton.
Refs #504 review.
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- Around line 256-257: Update the shared opencode service diagnostic to
distinguish an environment that cannot be read from one with no tracked
credential keys in common. For the missing-key case, tell the operator to
restart the service with the loaded environment instead of directing them to run
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Source excerpt:
# LLM Agent Instructions
## Critical Rules
### Validation Ladder (Run After Each Change)
Per-iteration speed: run `npm run check:fast` first (formats and lints only the files changed since the comparison base, and runs only the surface-selected harness self-tests: each
changed tooling path maps to the test files that verify it in `scripts/harness_scope.py`, with unmapped or shared paths failing safe to the full suite; measured single-subject
walls are about 4s for the whole check, about 1s of that the scoped suite, instead of the 28-40s full suite on ext4 after the #171 self-test port, and CI runs the same scoped
selection). On a working branch, iterate per edit with `npm run check:fast -- --base HEAD`: the default base is the merge base with `origin/main`, so committed shared-surface files
(package.json, pre-commit, CI) already o...
Ruff (0.17.0)
scripts/tests/test_devcontainer_lifecycle.py
[error] 381-381: Possible hardcoded password assigned to: "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN"
(S105)
scripts/mcp_doctor.py
[warning] 255-255: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
VS Code devcontainers resolve an unset ${localEnv:VAR} in remoteEnv to
an empty string, so a shared opencode service started outside a loaded
shell exports GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN= / ZAI_API_KEY= and expands
every {env:VAR} reference in the generated configs to no credential:
the remote github and zai-web-search MCP servers 401 for every session
while .env.local, fresh shells, and the endpoints all stay healthy.
The recycler ignored present-but-empty service credentials because it
could not distinguish them from an unreadable /proc environ. Parse them
now and judge a present-but-empty value against the file; an absent key
stays unjudged so the fail-safe property is unchanged. Document the
remoteEnv trap where the exports originate.
Evidence on 2026-10-31 (service pid 2241): environ held both canonical
names empty with alternates and UNITY_MCP_TOKEN set; the old recycler
reported nothing for the same live state.
post_start warms the shared opencode service through 'opencode mcp
list', and that attach starts the service when none is running. It ran
on the raw lifecycle environment, which carries the remoteEnv-forwarded
empty credential strings, so the service it spawned 401'd the remote
MCP servers for its whole life. Pass the .env.local-loaded environment
that main() already builds for its other children.
Contract test: an exported-empty canonical credential in the lifecycle
environment plus a file value must reach the warm attach as the file
value.
The 2026-10-31 incident went undetected because npm run mcp:doctor
probed credentials from a fresh shell: endpoints answered HTTP 200,
stdio servers spawned, and every check passed while the shared service
behind every session held empty canonical credentials. The doctor now
runs the recycler in --dry-run and turns its finding into a failure
that names the keys (never values) and the remedy. Skips gracefully
off Linux and when no service is running.
Document the empty-credential poison shape and the new detection in
the MCP README alongside the existing rotation-caching guidance.
Three review findings on the credential recycle path: the warm attach could
use the pre-repair environment, mcp:doctor claimed a match it never
compared, and the service fixtures ran on hosts without /proc. The recycler
now names the keys it compared, the doctor reports an unjudged service, and
post_start reloads .env.local before warming the singleton.
Refs #504 review.
The doctor told operators to rerun the recycler when the service named no
tracked credential, but that path changes nothing: the service is unjudged,
not stale. The recycler now separates a missing file key from a service that
names no credential, and the doctor asks for a restart from a loaded shell.
Refs #504 review.
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- Around line 257-258: Update the shared OpenCode service warning in the
relevant message-building function to clarify that the service retains its
startup environment and that quitting agent CLIs may not stop it. Instruct
operators to stop the process identified by the PID in the service state file
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[warning] 261-261: String contains ambiguous ℹ (INFORMATION SOURCE). Did you mean i (LATIN SMALL LETTER I)?
Quitting an agent CLI leaves the shared service running, so the new CLI
rejoins the same poisoned environment. The doctor's remedy now names the
service process to stop before starting a fresh CLI from a loaded shell.
Refs #504 review.
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Review comments at @scripts/mcp_doctor.py:
- Line 258: Update the remedy text in check_shared_service to reference the
resolved record path inspected by the check instead of hardcoding
~/.local/state/opencode/service.json, so the operator is directed to the correct
service record when XDG_STATE_HOME is set.
- Around line 257-258: Validate the PID recorded in service.json as an OpenCode
service before inspecting its environment or advising that it be stopped. In
Doctor.check_shared_service, treat a live PID that cannot be verified as the
service as a stale record and do not issue a stop instruction.
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A discovery record can outlive its service and the operating system reuses
pids, so a live unrelated process could be judged and then named to the
operator as one to stop. The recycler now requires the command line to name
the opencode service and treats a mismatch as a stale record; the doctor
reports the resolved record path and never issues the stop remedy for it.
Refs #504 review.
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DISCLOSURE: LLM-GENERATED TEXT
Why: A shared OpenCode service started with empty credential exports 401s the remote github and zai-web-search MCP servers for every session while .env.local, shells, and endpoints stay healthy.
What:
Fixes the 2026-10-31 incident: service pid held
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=andZAI_API_KEY=(VS CoderemoteEnvresolves an unset host variable to an empty string); both servers were absent from sessions although probes returned HTTP 200.