fix(mcp): use HTTP/1.1 for the streamable-HTTP transport (drop allowH2) (#5797)

* fix(mcp): use HTTP/1.1 for the streamable-HTTP transport (drop allowH2)

The MCP transport was the only place in the codebase opting undici into HTTP/2
(`allowH2: true`). undici's h2 support is experimental and has a documented
cluster of stalls where response headers arrive but the body DATA frames never
do, on POST bodies over reused/coalesced sessions (nodejs/undici #2311, #3433,
#4143). Behind a shared egress IP fronted by a CDN, that is exactly what hung the
streamable-HTTP `initialize` after OAuth: 200 + Mcp-Session-Id, then an empty
body until the SDK's 30s timeout — reproducible only from the deployed egress,
never from a fresh IP or in isolation.

h2 buys the MCP transport nothing (one POST per JSON-RPC message plus a single
long-lived SSE stream — no concurrency to multiplex), and both official MCP SDKs
run the transport on HTTP/1.1: the TypeScript SDK's StreamableHTTPClientTransport
calls global fetch (undici h1.1, no allowH2), and the Python SDK builds its httpx
client with no http2=True. Dropping allowH2 aligns with them and steps off the h2
stall surface. CDN fronts serve h1.1 anyway; SSRF IP-pinning and Agent teardown
are unchanged.

* chore(mcp): trim verbose TSDoc and inline comments in pinned fetch + probe

* chore(credentials): drop help text on the Claude Platform API key modal

Author: waleedlatif1

apps/sim/lib/credentials/token-service-accounts/descriptors.ts

@@ -369,8 +369,6 @@ export const TOKEN_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_DESCRIPTORS: Record<
       },
     ],
     docsUrl: 'https://docs.sim.ai/integrations/managed-agent',
-    helpText:
-      'Use an Anthropic workspace API key with Managed Agents access. The key is scoped to one Anthropic workspace — its agents, environments, vaults, and memory stores.',
   },
 }
 

apps/sim/lib/mcp/oauth/probe.ts

@@ -33,16 +33,15 @@ export async function detectMcpAuthType(
     return 'headers'
   }
 
-  // When the caller pre-validated the IP we pin to it directly and own the Agent's
-  // lifetime; the SSRF-guarded fetch (used when we must validate ourselves) manages its
-  // own per-request Agent teardown internally.
+  // Pre-validated IP → pin directly (we own the Agent); otherwise the SSRF-guarded fetch
+  // self-manages its per-request Agent teardown.
   const pinned = resolvedIP ? createPinnedFetchWithDispatcher(resolvedIP) : undefined
   const probeFetch: FetchLike = pinned?.fetch ?? createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch()
 
   const controller = new AbortController()
   const timer = setTimeout(() => controller.abort(), PROBE_TIMEOUT_MS)
-  // Best-effort session cleanup runs after we return the classification; the pinned
-  // Agent must outlive it, so we tear it down once cleanup settles.
+  // Session cleanup runs after we return; the pinned Agent must outlive it, so tear it
+  // down once cleanup settles.
   let sessionClose: Promise<void> = Promise.resolve()
 
   try {
@@ -87,8 +86,7 @@ export async function detectMcpAuthType(
     return 'headers'
   } finally {
     clearTimeout(timer)
-    // Destroy (not close) so a hung request can't make teardown itself hang; wait for
-    // the best-effort session-close hop first so it isn't aborted mid-flight.
+    // destroy() after the session-close hop settles, so that cleanup isn't aborted mid-flight.
     if (pinned) {
       void sessionClose.finally(() => pinned.dispatcher.destroy().catch(() => {}))
     }

apps/sim/lib/mcp/pinned-fetch.test.ts

@@ -23,11 +23,37 @@ vi.mock('@/lib/mcp/domain-check', () => ({
   validateMcpServerSsrf: mockValidateMcpServerSsrf,
 }))
 
-import { createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch } from '@/lib/mcp/pinned-fetch'
+import { createPinnedMcpFetch, createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch } from '@/lib/mcp/pinned-fetch'
 
 /** The per-request pinned Agent is always built with a DoS-backstop response cap. */
 const withResponseCap = expect.objectContaining({ maxResponseSize: expect.any(Number) })
 
+describe('createPinnedMcpFetch', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks()
+    mockDestroy.mockResolvedValue(undefined)
+    mockCreatePinnedFetchWithDispatcher.mockReturnValue({
+      fetch: sentinelFetch,
+      dispatcher: { destroy: mockDestroy },
+    })
+  })
+
+  it('builds the transport on HTTP/1.1 — never opts into allowH2 (undici h2 stalls)', () => {
+    const { close } = createPinnedMcpFetch('203.0.113.10')
+
+    // Called with the IP only: no `allowH2`, so the Agent stays on undici's h1.1 default.
+    expect(mockCreatePinnedFetchWithDispatcher).toHaveBeenCalledWith('203.0.113.10')
+    const options = mockCreatePinnedFetchWithDispatcher.mock.calls[0][1] as
+      | { allowH2?: boolean }
+      | undefined
+    expect(options?.allowH2).toBeUndefined()
+
+    // close() tears down the pooled sockets (incl. the long-lived SSE) on disconnect.
+    void close()
+    expect(mockDestroy).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
+  })
+})
+
 describe('createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch', () => {
   beforeEach(() => {
     vi.clearAllMocks()

apps/sim/lib/mcp/pinned-fetch.ts

@@ -6,54 +6,41 @@ import { McpError } from '@/lib/mcp/types'
 
 /** Pinned fetch for the live MCP transport, plus a handle to release its sockets. */
 export interface PinnedMcpFetch {
-  /** Pinned fetch to hand to the MCP transport's `fetch` option. */
   fetch: typeof fetch
-  /** Tears down the underlying HTTP/2 Agent; call when the MCP client disconnects. */
+  /** Tears down the Agent's pooled sockets; call when the MCP client disconnects. */
   close: () => Promise<void>
 }
 
 /**
- * Pinned fetch for the long-lived MCP transport, which reuses one Agent across
- * a connection's requests. MCP servers are commonly behind HTTP/2 fronts (CDNs,
- * cloud LBs), and undici's Agent is h1.1-only unless opted into h2 via ALPN, so
- * the transport enables it. h2 is *not* used for one-shot flows (OAuth discovery,
- * auth-type probe), where a per-request Agent would leave idle h2 sessions with
- * no reuse benefit. Pinning is unaffected: the pinned lookup forces the socket to
- * `resolvedIP` regardless of negotiated protocol. The returned `close` binds the
- * Agent's teardown to the transport lifecycle so h2 sessions don't linger past
- * disconnect.
+ * Pinned fetch for the long-lived MCP transport (one Agent reused per connection).
+ *
+ * Runs HTTP/1.1: we do not opt into undici's experimental `allowH2`, whose h2 path stalls
+ * with headers-but-no-body on reused POST sessions (nodejs/undici #2311, #3433, #4143) —
+ * the streamable-HTTP `initialize` hang behind a CDN. Both official MCP SDKs use h1.1, and
+ * the transport has no concurrency to gain from h2. `close` tears down pooled sockets
+ * (incl. the SSE connection) on disconnect; IP-pinning is protocol-independent.
  */
 export function createPinnedMcpFetch(resolvedIP: string): PinnedMcpFetch {
-  const { fetch: pinnedFetch, dispatcher } = createPinnedFetchWithDispatcher(resolvedIP, {
-    allowH2: true,
-  })
+  const { fetch: pinnedFetch, dispatcher } = createPinnedFetchWithDispatcher(resolvedIP)
   return { fetch: pinnedFetch, close: () => dispatcher.destroy() }
 }
 
 /**
- * Per-request deadline for guarded MCP OAuth / RFC 7009 revocation HTTP calls.
- *
- * The MCP SDK issues OAuth discovery, dynamic client registration, and token
- * exchange with a bare `fetch` and no `AbortSignal` — only the JSON-RPC message
- * layer gets the SDK's request timeout. Combined with undici's 5-minute default
- * headers/body timeouts, a slow or unresponsive authorization server leaves the
- * request (and the browser the user is waiting on during `/oauth/start`) pending
- * for minutes. Bounding each leg turns that into a fast, actionable failure. 30s
- * mirrors `MCP_CLIENT_CONSTANTS.DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT` and leaves wide
- * headroom over a healthy server, which completes each leg in well under a second.
+ * Per-request deadline for guarded OAuth / RFC 7009 legs. The MCP SDK sets no timeout on
+ * these (only its JSON-RPC layer gets one) and undici's default is 5 minutes, so an
+ * unresponsive auth server would hang the flow — and the browser waiting on `/oauth/start`.
+ * 30s mirrors `MCP_CLIENT_CONSTANTS.DEFAULT_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT`.
  */
 const OAUTH_FETCH_TIMEOUT_MS = 30_000
 
 /**
- * Cap on a guarded OAuth response body. Discovery/registration/token/refresh/revocation
- * replies are always well under 1 KB; this ceiling is purely a DoS backstop so a
- * malicious authorization server (reached via attacker-controllable metadata URLs)
- * can't stream a multi-GB body within the deadline and exhaust memory. undici rejects
- * with `UND_ERR_RES_EXCEEDED_MAX_SIZE` once the decoded body exceeds it.
+ * DoS backstop for a guarded OAuth response body (real ones are <1 KB): stops a malicious
+ * auth server — reached via attacker-controllable metadata URLs — from streaming a huge
+ * body within the deadline. undici rejects with `UND_ERR_RES_EXCEEDED_MAX_SIZE` past it.
  */
 const MAX_OAUTH_RESPONSE_BYTES = 1_048_576
 
-/** True for undici's response-too-large rejection, however it's wrapped by `fetch`. */
+/** True for undici's response-too-large rejection, however `fetch` wraps it. */
 function isResponseTooLarge(error: unknown): boolean {
   const e = error as { code?: string; cause?: { code?: string } } | null
   return (
@@ -63,14 +50,9 @@ function isResponseTooLarge(error: unknown): boolean {
 }
 
 /**
- * Bounds `promise` by the composed deadline/caller `signal`, rejecting with the signal's
- * reason if it aborts first. Holds every guarded phase inside the deadline — the
- * `dns.lookup`-based SSRF validation (which takes no signal of its own), the HTTP
- * request, and the response body read. Either path attaches a rejection handler to
- * `promise` (the pre-aborted `.catch`, or `.then(resolve, reject)`), so a settlement
- * arriving after the deadline has fired — once we've stopped awaiting it and are tearing
- * the request down — can't surface as an unhandled rejection. The abort listener is
- * removed once `promise` settles.
+ * Bounds `promise` by `signal`, rejecting with its reason on abort — used to hold SSRF
+ * validation, the request, and the body read inside the deadline. Attaches a rejection
+ * handler on both paths so a settlement arriving after the deadline can't leak as unhandled.
  */
 function withDeadline<T>(promise: Promise<T>, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<T> {
   if (signal.aborted) {
@@ -94,19 +76,15 @@ function withDeadline<T>(promise: Promise<T>, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<T> {
 }
 
 /**
- * Reads a guarded OAuth response fully under the deadline, then returns a detached,
- * in-memory copy. The MCP SDK reads discovery/registration/token/refresh bodies
- * lazily — AFTER `auth()`'s injected fetch resolves — and applies no timeout of its
- * own, so returning the live response would let the body read escape every deadline
- * (the "Connecting… forever" hang). Buffering here brings the body read inside the
- * wall-clock `signal`: undici's `bodyTimeout` only measures idle gaps between chunks
- * and cannot bound a slow-drip or stalled body. These bodies are always small JSON.
+ * Reads a guarded OAuth response under the deadline and returns a detached in-memory copy.
+ * The SDK reads these bodies lazily — after our fetch resolves, with no timeout of its own
+ * — so buffering here is what keeps the body read inside `signal`; undici's `bodyTimeout`
+ * measures only idle gaps between chunks, not a stalled body. Bodies are always small JSON.
  */
 async function bufferUnderDeadline(response: Response, signal: AbortSignal): Promise<Response> {
   const body = await withDeadline(response.arrayBuffer(), signal)
   const headers = new Headers(response.headers)
-  // The buffered copy is decoded and detached from the socket; drop framing headers
-  // that would misdescribe it.
+  // Detached + decoded: drop framing headers that would misdescribe the in-memory copy.
   headers.delete('content-encoding')
   headers.delete('content-length')
   const nullBody = response.status === 204 || response.status === 205 || response.status === 304
@@ -118,14 +96,10 @@ async function bufferUnderDeadline(response: Response, signal: AbortSignal): Pro
 }
 
 /**
- * Hands a streaming guarded response back live instead of buffering it. The only
- * streaming reply a guarded call can see is the auth-type probe's `initialize`
- * (`text/event-stream`), and the probe classifies from headers alone — buffering it
- * would drain the stream or stall on a server that holds it open (misclassifying auth).
- * The per-request pinned Agent (if any) is torn down once the stream ends, the caller
- * cancels it, or the deadline aborts, so the socket is never stranded; the `tee` keeps
- * the returned body fully readable meanwhile. Teardown ownership moves here, out of the
- * caller's `finally`.
+ * Hands a streaming guarded response (the auth-type probe's `initialize`) back live rather
+ * than buffering it — buffering would stall on a server that holds the stream open. Tears
+ * the per-request Agent down once the stream ends, the caller cancels, or the deadline
+ * aborts; the `tee` keeps the returned body readable meanwhile.
  */
 function releaseStreamOnSettle(
   response: Response,
@@ -143,11 +117,10 @@ function releaseStreamOnSettle(
     if (signal.aborted) onAbort()
     else signal.addEventListener('abort', onAbort, { once: true })
     try {
-      while (!(await reader.read()).done) {
-        // Drain to end-of-stream so the Agent can be torn down once the reply completes.
-      }
+      // Drain to end-of-stream so the Agent can be torn down once the reply completes.
+      while (!(await reader.read()).done) {}
     } catch {
-      // Aborted or errored — the teardown below still runs.
+      // Aborted or errored — teardown still runs in `finally`.
     } finally {
       signal.removeEventListener('abort', onAbort)
       void dispatcher.destroy().catch(() => {})
@@ -162,29 +135,14 @@ function releaseStreamOnSettle(
 
 /**
  * Builds a `FetchLike` for one-shot MCP OAuth calls (discovery, dynamic client
- * registration, token exchange/refresh, RFC 7009 revocation). It validates every
- * outbound URL against the MCP SSRF policy before issuing it, then pins the
- * connection to the resolved IP. Unlike the live transport — where the server URL is
- * validated once up front — these hops follow URLs taken verbatim from
- * attacker-controllable authorization-server metadata (`authorization_servers`,
- * `token_endpoint`, `revocation_endpoint`, …), so each is re-validated and
- * private/reserved/loopback targets are rejected (honoring `ALLOWED_MCP_DOMAINS` and
- * self-hosted localhost rules).
- *
- * Three correctness guarantees, each of which the MCP SDK does NOT provide itself (it
- * sets no timeout on any OAuth leg and reads bodies lazily):
- * - **Bounded end-to-end.** The `timeoutMs` deadline (`AbortSignal.timeout`) composed
- *   with any caller signal covers SSRF validation, the request, AND the response body
- *   read — the body is buffered here so the SDK's later read can't outlive the
- *   deadline. Only our own deadline is relabeled to an `McpError`; a caller abort or
- *   any other failure propagates unchanged.
- * - **No leaked sockets.** The per-request pinned Agent is `destroy()`ed on every path,
- *   releasing the keep-alive socket a one-shot flow would otherwise strand.
- * - **Detached response.** The returned `Response` is an in-memory copy, safe to read
- *   after the underlying socket is gone.
+ * registration, token exchange/refresh, RFC 7009 revocation). Each hop's URL comes from
+ * attacker-controllable authorization-server metadata, so every request is re-validated
+ * against the SSRF policy and pinned to the resolved IP.
  *
- * A stalled DNS resolution still runs to completion in the background, but its result
- * is discarded.
+ * The SDK provides none of the safety itself (no timeout on OAuth legs, lazy body reads),
+ * so the guard owns it: the `timeoutMs` deadline covers validation + request + the buffered
+ * body read; the per-request pinned Agent is `destroy()`ed on every path; and the returned
+ * `Response` is a detached in-memory copy. Only our own deadline is relabeled to `McpError`.
  *
  * @param timeoutMs Per-request deadline in ms (defaults to 30s; override for tests).
  * @throws McpSsrfError if a request URL resolves to a blocked IP address
@@ -194,11 +152,9 @@ export function createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch(timeoutMs: number = OAUTH_FETCH_TIMEOU
   return (async (url, init) => {
     const target = typeof url === 'string' ? url : url.href
     const timeoutSignal = AbortSignal.timeout(timeoutMs)
-    // Compose deadline + caller signal up front so every phase — SSRF validation, the
-    // HTTP request, and the body read — is bounded by the deadline and caller cancellation.
+    // Bound every phase — validation, request, body read — by the deadline + caller signal.
     const signal = init?.signal ? AbortSignal.any([init.signal, timeoutSignal]) : timeoutSignal
-    // The per-request pinned Agent MUST be torn down: it holds a keep-alive socket the
-    // one-shot OAuth flow never reuses, so leaving it open leaks a socket per leg.
+    // Per-request Agent must be torn down (finally): a one-shot leg never reuses its socket.
     let dispatcher: Agent | undefined
     try {
       const resolvedIP = await withDeadline(validateMcpServerSsrf(target), signal)
@@ -213,22 +169,19 @@ export function createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch(timeoutMs: number = OAUTH_FETCH_TIMEOU
         // No pin (self-hosted allowlist) — global fetch over the shared dispatcher.
         response = await withDeadline(globalThis.fetch(url, { ...init, signal }), signal)
       }
-      // A `text/event-stream` reply is the auth-type probe's `initialize` (the only
-      // streaming case a guarded call sees); hand it back live with its own teardown so
-      // the caller reads headers without the buffer draining/stalling the stream. Every
-      // OAuth leg is single-shot JSON and falls through to be buffered and torn down.
+      // The probe's `initialize` can stream (text/event-stream); hand it back live so the
+      // buffer doesn't drain/stall it. Every OAuth leg is single-shot JSON and is buffered.
       const contentType = response.headers.get('content-type') ?? ''
       if (contentType.includes('text/event-stream')) {
         const streamed = releaseStreamOnSettle(response, dispatcher, signal)
-        dispatcher = undefined // teardown ownership handed to releaseStreamOnSettle
+        dispatcher = undefined // teardown ownership moved to releaseStreamOnSettle
         return streamed
       }
       return await bufferUnderDeadline(response, signal)
     } catch (error) {
       const host = URL.canParse(target) ? new URL(target).host : target
-      // Relabel only when our own deadline is what fired — identified by the
-      // rejection reason's identity, not init.signal's state (which may abort
-      // independently just after the deadline).
+      // Relabel only our own deadline — by reason identity, not signal state (which may
+      // abort independently just after the deadline).
       if (timeoutSignal.aborted && error === timeoutSignal.reason) {
         throw new McpError(`MCP authorization request to ${host} timed out after ${timeoutMs}ms`)
       }
@@ -239,8 +192,7 @@ export function createSsrfGuardedMcpFetch(timeoutMs: number = OAUTH_FETCH_TIMEOU
       }
       throw error
     } finally {
-      // Destroy (not close) so a hung leg can't make teardown itself hang; this releases
-      // the pooled keep-alive socket the per-request Agent would otherwise strand.
+      // destroy() not close() so a hung leg can't stall teardown; frees the pooled socket.
       await dispatcher?.destroy().catch(() => {})
     }
   }) satisfies FetchLike