## Summary
Adds the database schema, API endpoints, SDK types, and encryption
wrappers for admin-managed MCP (Model Context Protocol) server
configurations that chatd can consume. This is the backend foundation
for allowing external MCP tools (Sentry, Linear, GitHub, etc.) to be
used during AI chat sessions.
## Database
Two new tables:
- **`mcp_server_configs`**: Admin-managed server definitions with URL,
transport (Streamable HTTP / SSE), auth config (none / OAuth2 / API key
/ custom headers), tool allow/deny lists, and an availability policy
(`force_on` / `default_on` / `default_off`). Includes CHECK constraints
on transport, auth_type, and availability values.
- **`mcp_server_user_tokens`**: Per-user OAuth2 tokens for servers
requiring individual authentication. Cascades on user/config deletion.
New column on `chats` table:
- **`mcp_server_ids UUID[]`**: Per-chat MCP server selection, following
the same pattern as `model_config_id` — passed at chat creation,
changeable per-message with nil-means-no-change semantics.
## API Endpoints
All routes are under `/api/experimental/mcp/servers/` and gated behind
the `agents` experiment.
**Admin endpoints** (`ResourceDeploymentConfig` auth):
- `POST /` — Create MCP server config
- `PATCH /{id}` — Update MCP server config (full-replace)
- `DELETE /{id}` — Delete MCP server config
**Authenticated endpoints** (all users, enabled servers only for
non-admins):
- `GET /` — List configs (admins see all, members see enabled-only with
admin fields redacted)
- `GET /{id}` — Get config by ID (with `auth_connected` populated
per-user)
**OAuth2 per-user auth flow:**
- `GET /{id}/oauth2/connect` — Initiate OAuth2 flow (state cookie CSRF
protection)
- `GET /{id}/oauth2/callback` — Handle OAuth2 callback, store tokens
- `DELETE /{id}/oauth2/disconnect` — Remove stored OAuth2 tokens
## Security
- **Secrets never returned**: `OAuth2ClientSecret`, `APIKeyValue`, and
`CustomHeaders` are never in API responses — only boolean indicators
(`has_oauth2_secret`, `has_api_key`, `has_custom_headers`).
- **Field redaction for non-admins**: `convertMCPServerConfigRedacted`
strips `OAuth2ClientID`, auth URLs, scopes, and `APIKeyHeader` from
non-admin responses.
- **dbcrypt encryption at rest**: All 5 secret fields use `dbcrypt_keys`
encryption with full encrypt-on-write / decrypt-on-read wrappers (11
dbcrypt method overrides + 2 helpers), following the same pattern as
`chat_providers.api_key`.
- **OAuth2 CSRF protection**: State parameter stored in `HttpOnly`
cookie with `HTTPCookies.Apply()` for correct `Secure`/`SameSite` behind
TLS-terminating proxies.
- **dbauthz authorization**: All 18 querier methods have authorization
wrappers. Read operations use `ActionRead`, write operations use
`ActionUpdate` on `ResourceDeploymentConfig`.
## Governance Model
| Control | Implementation |
|---------|---------------|
| **Global kill switch** | `enabled` defaults to `false` |
| **Availability policy** | `force_on` (always injected), `default_on`
(pre-selected), `default_off` (opt-in) |
| **Per-chat selection** | `mcp_server_ids` on `CreateChatRequest` /
`CreateChatMessageRequest` |
| **Auth gate** | OAuth2 servers require per-user auth before tools are
injected |
| **Tool-level allow/deny** | Arrays on `mcp_server_configs` for
granular tool filtering |
| **Secrets encrypted at rest** | Uses `dbcrypt_keys` (same pattern as
`chat_providers.api_key`) |
## Tests
8 test functions covering:
- Full CRUD lifecycle (create, list, update, delete)
- Non-admin visibility filtering (enabled-only, field redaction)
- `auth_connected` population for OAuth2 vs non-OAuth2 servers
- Availability policy validation (valid values + invalid rejection)
- Unique slug enforcement (409 Conflict)
- OAuth2 disconnect idempotency
- Chat creation with `mcp_server_ids` persistence
## Known Limitations (Deferred)
These are documented and intentional for an experimental feature:
- **Audit logging** not yet wired — will add when feature stabilizes
- **Cross-field validation** (e.g., OAuth2 fields required when
`auth_type=oauth2`) — admin-only endpoint, will add when stabilizing
- **`force_on` auto-injection** — query exists but not yet wired into
chatd tool injection (follow-up)
- **Additional test coverage** — 403 auth tests, GET-by-ID tests,
callback CSRF tests planned for follow-up
## What's NOT in this PR
- Frontend UI (admin panel + chat picker)
- Actual MCP client connections (`chatd/chatmcp/` manager)
- Tool injection into `chatloop/`
## Problem
When multiple concurrent callers (e.g., parallel workspace builds) read
the same single-use OAuth2 refresh token from the database and race to
exchange it with the provider, the first caller succeeds but subsequent
callers get `bad_refresh_token`. The losing caller then **clears the
valid new token** from the database, permanently breaking the auth link
until the user manually re-authenticates.
This is reliably reproducible when launching multiple workspaces
simultaneously with GitHub App external auth and user-to-server token
expiration enabled.
## Solution
Two layers of protection:
### 1. Singleflight deduplication (`Config.RefreshToken` +
`ObtainOIDCAccessToken`)
Concurrent callers for the same user/provider share a single refresh
call via `golang.org/x/sync/singleflight`, keyed by `userID`. The
singleflight callback re-reads the link from the database to pick up any
token already refreshed by a prior in-flight call, avoiding redundant
IDP round-trips entirely.
### 2. Optimistic locking on `UpdateExternalAuthLinkRefreshToken`
The SQL `WHERE` clause now includes `AND oauth_refresh_token =
@old_oauth_refresh_token`, so if two replicas (HA) race past
singleflight, the loser's destructive UPDATE is a harmless no-op rather
than overwriting the winner's valid token.
## Changes
| File | Change |
|------|--------|
| `coderd/externalauth/externalauth.go` | Added `singleflight.Group` to
`Config`; split `RefreshToken` into public wrapper +
`refreshTokenInner`; pass `OldOauthRefreshToken` to DB update |
| `coderd/provisionerdserver/provisionerdserver.go` | Wrapped OIDC
refresh in `ObtainOIDCAccessToken` with package-level singleflight |
| `coderd/database/queries/externalauth.sql` | Added optimistic lock
(`WHERE ... AND oauth_refresh_token = @old_oauth_refresh_token`) |
| `coderd/database/queries.sql.go` | Regenerated |
| `coderd/database/querier.go` | Regenerated |
| `coderd/database/dbauthz/dbauthz_test.go` | Updated test params for
new field |
| `coderd/externalauth/externalauth_test.go` | Added
`ConcurrentRefreshDedup` test; updated existing tests for singleflight
DB re-read |
## Testing
- **New test `ConcurrentRefreshDedup`**: 5 goroutines call
`RefreshToken` concurrently, asserts IDP refresh called exactly once,
all callers get same token.
- All existing `TestRefreshToken/*` subtests updated and passing.
- `TestObtainOIDCAccessToken` passing.
- `dbauthz` tests passing.
Fixes all our Go file imports to match the preferred spec that we've _mostly_ been using. For example:
```
import (
"context"
"time"
"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
"golang.org/x/xerrors"
"gopkg.in/natefinch/lumberjack.v2"
"cdr.dev/slog/v3"
"github.com/coder/coder/v2/codersdk/agentsdk"
"github.com/coder/serpent"
)
```
3 groups: standard library, 3rd partly libs, Coder libs.
This PR makes the change across the codebase. The PR in the stack above modifies our formatting to maintain this state of affairs, and is a separate PR so it's possible to review that one in detail.
https://github.com/coder/coder/pull/15608 introduced a buggy behaviour
with dbcrypt enabled.
When clearing an oauth refresh token, we had been setting the value to
the empty string.
The database encryption package considers decrypting an empty string to
be an error, as an empty encrypted string value will still have a nonce
associated with it and thus not actually be empty when stored at rest.
Instead of 'deleting' the refresh token, 'update' it to be the empty
string.
This plays nicely with dbcrypt.
It also adds a 'utility test' in the dbcrypt package to help encrypt a
value. This was useful when manually fixing users affected by this bug
on our dogfood instance.
Before db_metrics were all or nothing. Now `InTx` metrics are always recorded, and query metrics are opt in.
Adds instrumentation & logging around serialization failures in the database.
* chore: rename `git_auth` to `external_auth` in our schema
We're changing Git auth to be external auth. It will support
any OAuth2 or OIDC provider.
To split up the larger change I want to contribute the schema
changes first, and I'll add the feature itself in another PR.
* Fix names
* Fix outdated view
* Rename some additional places
* Fix sort order
* Fix template versions auth route
* Fix types
* Fix dbauthz
Kyle Carberry