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fix(mcp): relay upstream JSON-RPC error bodies through clerk mcp run - #433
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to The relay now exposes upstream error details, but it can still emit an error for the wrong request or pass through a malformed JSON-RPC error, leaving clients unable to process the response reliably. These bounded protocol-correctness issues should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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396-415: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd regression coverage for notification and malformed error bodies.
The new tests cover a request with id
1, but not notification requests or structurally invalid error objects. Add a test that expects no output for a notification error and a test that expects generic-32000for an error missingmessageor using an invalidid.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.ts`:
- Around line 194-198: Update relayUpstreamError and its call site in the MCP
run command to receive the original request or an equivalent reply-eligibility
flag, and only invoke emitPayload when the request contains an ID; preserve
structured upstream error relaying for normal requests while keeping
notifications silent.
- Around line 305-307: Update relayUpstreamError to catch failures from
readTextCapped(response, MAX_LINE_BYTES) and return false when reading the
upstream body rejects, allowing dispatch’s existing generic -32000 fallback to
execute.
- Around line 319-323: Update isJsonRpcErrorResponse to use the runtime
JSONRPCMessageSchema from `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/types.js`, returning true
only when schema parsing succeeds and confirms a JSON-RPC error response. This
must reject malformed payloads such as missing error.message, fractional
error.code, invalid ids, and extra fields.
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.test.ts`:
- Around line 396-415: Add regression tests alongside the existing structured
JSON-RPC error test in the MCP run suite: verify notification requests produce
no output even when the upstream returns an error, and verify structurally
invalid upstream error bodies—missing message or containing an invalid id—are
normalized to a generic -32000 error response.
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| /** True when a parsed body is a well-formed JSON-RPC 2.0 error response. */ | ||
| function isJsonRpcErrorResponse(payload: unknown): boolean { | ||
| if (!isRecord(payload) || payload.jsonrpc !== "2.0" || !("id" in payload)) return false; | ||
| return isRecord(payload.error) && typeof payload.error.code === "number"; | ||
| } |
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rg -n --glob '!node_modules''JSONRPCMessageSchema|`@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`' packages/cli-core package.json bun.lockb bun.lock yarn.lock package-lock.json 2>/dev/null ||trueprintf'%s\n''--- related tests ---'
fd -i 'run.test.ts'.| xargs -r -n1 sh -c 'echo "--- $0"; rg -n -C 5 "JSONRPCMessageSchema|isJsonRpcErrorResponse|error response|notification" "$0" || true'printf'%s\n''--- dependency metadata ---'
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rg -n -C 8 'JSONRPCMessageSchema|JSONRPCError|JSONRPCResponse|RequestId|Error' |
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rg -n -C 10 'relayUpstreamError|HTTP 4|HTTP 5|structured|generic -32000|non-JSON|message' packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.test.ts
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set -eu
python3 - <<'PY'
from typing import Any
def is_record(value: Any) -> bool:
return isinstance(value, dict)
def current(value: Any) -> bool:
return (
is_record(value)
and value.get("jsonrpc") == "2.0"
and "id" in value
and is_record(value.get("error"))
and isinstance(value["error"].get("code"), (int, float))
and not isinstance(value["error"].get("code"), bool)
)
def sdk_error_schema(value: Any) -> bool:
# Equivalent to the SDK 1.29.0 JSONRPCErrorResponseSchema:
# strict top-level object; optional string/integer-number id;
# error.code integer number; error.message string; optional data.
if not is_record(value) or set(value) - {"jsonrpc", "id", "error"}:
return False
if value.get("jsonrpc") != "2.0":
return False
if "id" in value and not (
isinstance(value["id"], str)
or (isinstance(value["id"], int) and not isinstance(value["id"], bool))
):
return False
error = value.get("error")
if not is_record(error) or set(error) - {"code", "message", "data"}:
return False
if not (isinstance(error.get("code"), int) and not isinstance(error.get("code"), bool)):
return False
if not isinstance(error.get("message"), str):
return False
return True
cases = {
"valid": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "failed"}},
"missing_message": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "error": {"code": -32000}},
"invalid_id_null": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": None, "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "failed"}},
"invalid_id_boolean": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": True, "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "failed"}},
"fractional_code": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "error": {"code": 1.5, "message": "failed"}},
"extra_top_level": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "failed"}, "unexpected": True},
"missing_id": {"jsonrpc": "2.0", "error": {"code": -32000, "message": "failed"}},
}
for name, payload in cases.items():
print(f"{name}: current={current(payload)} sdk_error_schema={sdk_error_schema(payload)}")
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Validate upstream error responses with JSONRPCMessageSchema.
The predicate relays malformed bodies, including missing error.message, fractional error.code, invalid id values, and extra fields. Import the runtime JSONRPCMessageSchema from @modelcontextprotocol/sdk/types.js and relay only when schema parsing confirms an error response. This export is available in SDK 1.29.0.
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.ts` around lines 319 - 323, Update
isJsonRpcErrorResponse to use the runtime JSONRPCMessageSchema from
`@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/types.js`, returning true only when schema parsing
succeeds and confirms a JSON-RPC error response. This must reject malformed
payloads such as missing error.message, fractional error.code, invalid ids, and
extra fields.
… relay Address review feedback: relayUpstreamError emitted a reply frame even when the original message was a notification (no id), which JSON-RPC forbids — gate the relay on the request having an id, matching emitError's own guard. Also catch readTextCapped rejections so a body that dies mid-read falls back instead of escaping; today loggedFetch's non-ok clone().text() pre-read catches that failure first, but the relay path no longer depends on it.
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.ts`:
- Line 200: Update relayUpstreamError and its call site in the message handling
flow so the helper receives message.id and only relays an upstream error when
its JSON-RPC ID matches the request ID; return false for mismatched IDs so the
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| // Relay it verbatim instead of collapsing it into a generic -32000. | ||
| // Notifications never get a reply, not even a relayed upstream error — | ||
| // emitError below already stays silent for them. | ||
| if ("id" in message && (await relayUpstreamError(response, emitPayload))) return; |
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Match the relayed error ID to the request ID.
relayUpstreamError accepts any JSON-RPC error ID. If the upstream body has a different ID, emitPayload writes a frame that does not reply to this request and Line 200 skips the generic fallback. Pass message.id into the helper. Return false when the IDs differ.
Proposed fix
- if ("id" in message && (await relayUpstreamError(response, emitPayload))) return;+ if ("id" in message && (await relayUpstreamError(response, message.id, emitPayload))) return;-async function relayUpstreamError(response: Response, emitPayload: Emit): Promise<boolean> {+async function relayUpstreamError(+ response: Response,+ requestId: RequestId,+ emitPayload: Emit,+): Promise<boolean> {
...
- if (!isJsonRpcErrorResponse(parsed)) return false;+ if (!isJsonRpcErrorResponse(parsed, requestId)) return false;-function isJsonRpcErrorResponse(payload: unknown): boolean {+function isJsonRpcErrorResponse(payload: unknown, requestId: RequestId): boolean {
if (!isRecord(payload) || payload.jsonrpc !== "2.0" || !("id" in payload)) return false;
- return isRecord(payload.error) && typeof payload.error.code === "number";+ return payload.id === requestId && isRecord(payload.error) && typeof payload.error.code === "number";
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| if("id"inmessage&&(awaitrelayUpstreamError(response,emitPayload)))return; | |
| if("id"inmessage&&(awaitrelayUpstreamError(response,message.id,emitPayload)))return; |
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In `@packages/cli-core/src/commands/mcp/run.ts` at line 200, Update
relayUpstreamError and its call site in the message handling flow so the helper
receives message.id and only relays an upstream error when its JSON-RPC ID
matches the request ID; return false for mismatched IDs so the generic fallback
remains available.
Summary
clerk mcp runcollapsed every non-2xx upstream response into a generic-32000error, hiding the MCP-reserved negotiation codes (-32020HeaderMismatch,-32021,-32022UnsupportedProtocolVersion) and theirdata.supportedpayload. Per the 2026-07-28 spec, clients SHOULD read-32022's supported-versions list and retry, which they can't do if the relay masks it.Now a non-ok response whose body is a well-formed JSON-RPC error is relayed verbatim; anything else (HTML, non-JSON-RPC JSON, empty body) still falls back to the generic
-32000.Found by the MCP conformance run in AIE-1380. Extracted from #404 (closed; we dropped the dual-era work but this fix is independent of it, it's plain error passthrough for modern servers).
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bun run lint,typecheck,test(2656 pass) all green