fix: low-risk hardening across API, SDKs, and MCP (tests + fixes)

[XueyanZhang]

Summary

The low-risk follow-up to #467. A batch of verified, low-risk fixes + test hardening across the API backend, both SDKs, and the MCP server — every change written test-first (or, for the two defense-in-depth items, locked with a regression test that was confirmed to fail without the change). No breaking changes. Independent of #467 (branched off main; the only file both touch is sdks/typescript/src/v1/ws.ts, in non-overlapping regions).

Four self-contained commits, one per area.

1. Backend hardening — internal/agentauth, internal/webhook

• Pin JWT alg to RS256 (agentauth.VerifyToken). go-jose v3 doesn't allow-list algorithms at parse time — it rejected alg:none and the classic HS256-keyed-on-the-RSA-public-key confusion only as a side effect of key-type binding. Enforcing the alg explicitly keeps that closed even if the verifying key ever changes. TestVerify_RejectsAlgConfusion crafts both attacks (including a validly-MAC'd HS256 token keyed on the PKIX public key) and asserts both are rejected; valid RS256 tokens still verify.
• Lock the v4-mapped-IPv6 SSRF bypass class. ssrf_test adds ::ffff:127.0.0.1, ::ffff:10.0.0.1, ::ffff:169.254.169.254, unspecified ::, an fd00 ULA, and bracketed-IPv6 dial-control cases. IsDisallowedWebhookIP already blocks these (via To4() unwrapping) — this is a pure regression lock against a future refactor reintroducing the bypass.

2. Python SDK — retry honors an HTTP-date Retry-After

The retry path parsed Retry-After only as integer seconds and silently fell back to exponential backoff on the HTTP-date form (RFC 9110 §10.2.3, common behind CDNs). The error layer already parses both via _parse_retry_after; _retry_after_ms now delegates to it — numeric and dated values honored identically, and consistently with the TS SDK. Regression test asserts a far-future date drives the (clamped) backoff instead of the ~0.1 s exp-backoff.

3. TypeScript SDK — WebSocket lifecycle

• Zombie connection on close(). A close() during the reconnect-backoff window left the scheduled setTimeout armed, and dial() had no closed-guard, so a fresh socket opened after the caller thought the stream was closed. close() now clears the tracked timer and dial() bails when closed.
• Unbounded event buffer. WSStream buffered notifications without limit whenever no iterator was awaiting (despite a comment claiming a bound) — a stalled consumer could exhaust memory. Now hard-capped at WS_MAX_BUFFERED_EVENTS (1000): oldest un-yielded event dropped (WS frames are advisory — the message stays fetchable via REST) with a one-time loud warning.

Both regression tests were confirmed red before the fix (reverted ws.ts, watched them fail, restored).

4. MCP server — HTTP transport

• Body limit vs. attachment contract. express.json capped bodies at 1 MB, but the attachment tools advertise up to 10 MB/attachment and 25 MB combined — so any real attachment 413'd before reaching the tool. Raised to 40 MB (clears the ~34 MB base64-encoded combined cap + envelope); the fronting proxy remains the outer body guard.
• Stack-trace leak. No terminal Express error middleware existed, so a post-route throw fell through to Express's default finalhandler, which dumps the error stack — including absolute internal file paths — into the response body when NODE_ENV != "production" (bin/http never sets it), and never emits a JSON-RPC error. Added a 4-arg handler that logs detail server-side only and returns a generic JSON-RPC internal error (request id preserved).
• Type drift. Corrected the webhook-filter type in client.ts from the stale agentIds to the real wire field agentEmails (mapFilters already emits agentEmails).

Testing

• Go: go build ./... + go vet clean; internal/agentauth and internal/webhook unit tests pass (new alg-confusion + IPv6 cases green).
• Python: pytest — 269 unit tests pass (+1 new).
• TS SDK: vitest — 152 pass (+2 new), tsc clean.
• MCP: vitest — 175 pass (+2 new), tsc clean.

Note: the Go /v1 handler tests that need Postgres weren't run locally (no DB in this environment); the changed Go code is unit-covered and CI runs the DB tiers.

Deliberately deferred

The one remaining audit item held for its own PR: custom-domain agent-create doesn't validate the email local-part (CR/LF/spaces reach the address; contained downstream by sanitizeHeaderValue). It's a behavior change on a live endpoint that warrants DB-backed handler tests, so it belongs in a dedicated change rather than this low-risk batch.

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[jiashuoz]

Approving — pass with risks. Reviewed each area against full file context (not just the diff hunks) and verified the load-bearing claims empirically.

Verified

• JWT alg-pin (RS256): SigningAlg = jose.RS256 confirmed in signing.go; pin check is correct. Ran TestVerify_RejectsAlgConfusion + TestSigningAlgIsRS256 → green.
• SSRF IPv6 lock: IsDisallowedWebhookIP/guardedDialControl already block v4-mapped + bracketed v6 via To4() unwrapping. Tests green; correctly characterized as a regression lock.
• Python retry: _retry_after_ms delegates to _parse_retry_after (handles HTTP-date via parsedate_to_datetime); far-future-date test is deterministic via the min(retry_after, max_retry_after_ms) clamp. TS parseRetryAfter confirmed to use Date.parse — parity claim is real.
• TS WS: close() clears reconnectTimer, dial() guards on closed, deliver() drops oldest at WS_MAX_BUFFERED_EVENTS=1000 with a one-time warn. Both are genuine bug fixes.
• MCP body limit + stack-leak fix: 40 MB clears the 25 MB→~34 MB base64 attachment contract. The stack-leak fix is the one that needed a version check — confirmed Express 5 (^5.0.0), so async rejections from handleClientRequest do reach the 4-arg error middleware (in Express 4 the fix would silently no-op). agentIds→agentEmails rename is clean (matches generated WebhookFiltersRequest/View, no stale refs).

Two low-severity notes (non-blocking, can land as-is)

1. PR body overstates "confirmed red" for the two defense-in-depth items. I reverted tokens.go to main and re-ran TestVerify_RejectsAlgConfusion — it passes unpatched; go-jose v3.0.5 already rejects alg:none + HS256-confusion via key-type binding (exactly as the code comment says). The alg-pin is valuable hardening against a future key change, not a live hole. The SSRF tests are pure additions (no ssrf.go change), so "fails without the change" doesn't apply there either. Suggest rewording so a future reviewer doesn't think the pin is load-bearing. (The TS WS tests are legitimately red-before-green — not disputing those.)

2. MCP terminal error handler forces 500 on malformed-JSON bodies. express.json() surfaces parse errors with err.status = 400; the handler ignores it and returns 500/-32603. Low impact for a JSON-RPC server, but honoring err.status (or special-casing body-parser's SyntaxError) → 400/-32700 would be more correct.

Follow-ups

• The deferred custom-domain agent-create local-part validation is correctly held for its own PR (behavior change on a live endpoint → needs DB-backed handler tests).
• Release-note-worthy: WS now drops oldest buffered events under sustained backpressure (was unbounded memory). Frames are advisory / REST-fetchable, but consumers should reconcile via list if they stall.

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