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fix(mcp-store): re-list tools when a gateway call names an unregistered one - #105115

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Problem

  • A member connects an MCP server, an agent lists its tools, and every call fails with Tool 'x' is not registered for this installation.
  • The gateway resolves each tools/call against the installation's cached tool rows, while tools/list passes through to the upstream server untouched. The agent sees live tools the gateway holds no rows for.
  • Only install, reconnect and the "refresh tools" button write those rows. A connect-time listing that fails leaves a connection that refuses every call until a person notices and presses refresh.

Origin: Slack thread.

Changes

  • A connection whose listing never landed repairs itself on first use. A call naming a tool with no row re-lists the server's tools once, then resolves against policy.
  • The re-listing is throttled to one per installation per hour. "Refresh tools" lists upstream directly and ignores the throttle.
  • The connect-time listing retries five times with backoff, instead of logging one failure at info level and giving up.
  • A refusal now logs a warning naming the installation and the missing tools. It logged nothing before.
  • call_member_server_tool gets the same repair, so the PostHog MCP and canvases do not keep their own dead end.

Note

A freshly listed tool arrives as needs_approval, so the first call after a repair can return the approval error rather than succeeding. That is the normal gate, not a second failure.

The proxy could fill the rows from the tools/list responses it already forwards. Those are often SSE streams it never buffers, so that needs a tee, and the re-listing costs one handshake on a miss instead.

Related: #103110 surfaces a failed listing in the Desktop UI, and does not change what the gateway does with the empty rows.

How did you test this code?

Automated tests only. No manual test against a real upstream MCP server.

  • Two cases cover the reported bug, one per entry point: a call for a tool with no row re-lists and resolves against policy.
  • One case holds the unknown-tool path to method-not-found after exactly one attempt.
  • Two cases cover the throttle and the failed re-listing, which returns false rather than raising into the proxy request path.

hogli test products/mcp_store/backend/test/ passes, and uv run mypy --cache-fine-grained . reports no issues.

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The session started from a report that MCP servers connected in Desktop were unusable from cloud task runs. Install telemetry put the affected connections inside the window when #102376 blocked external MCP egress, which framed the bug as a registry that can stay empty with no repair path rather than as a stale cache. The throttle started at one minute and moved to an hour on review.

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No duplicate: gh pr list --state open --search "mcp_store tools registered installation" found #103110, which is frontend-only and complementary.

Public artifact: nothing from the session reaches the diff. The Slack thread is linked as origin, and none of it is quoted in the code, the tests, or this description.

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The gateway resolves every tools/call against the installation's cached tool
rows, and refuses a call whose tool has no row. Those rows are only written at
install time, on reconnect, and by the UI's refresh button, so an installation
whose connect-time listing failed refuses every call until a person notices and
presses refresh.

Re-list once on a miss, throttled per installation, and retry the connect-time
listing instead of dropping it. The refusal now also logs, which it never did.
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⚠️ Trunk lane — backend Python lane

This PR is assigned to the backend Python lane. It runs backend Python tests and may merge in parallel with PRs in other lanes.

✅ Duplication (Python) — clean

New Python code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

✅ Duplication (TypeScript) — clean

New TypeScript code duplication introduced by this branch. Fails at 70+ tokens in app code, or 150+ tokens when both copies live in test files. Advisory while the gate proves itself: extract a shared helper instead of copying.

🚨 Comment density — 16% of added code lines are comments (48 of 298)

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products/mcp_store/backend/test/test_facade.py 3 18
products/mcp_store/backend/proxy.py 2 45
products/mcp_store/backend/tasks/tasks.py 2 11

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⚠️ Backend coverage — 96.0% of changed backend lines covered — 6 uncovered

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The PR is not safe to merge because transient refresh failures can block automatic recovery for an hour, alongside three unresolved blocking findings from the previous review and an outstanding required retry-flow test.

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Tool lookups now attempt a throttled tool synchronization when the requested tool is not stored. The facade and proxy use refreshed tool rows for lookup and approval enforcement. The background synchronization task retries tool-fetch errors up to five times with jittered backoff.

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Use a shorter failure backoff for cache-miss resyncs.

resync_installation_tools sets the Redis key for 60 minutes before calling sync_installation_tools. If that call raises ToolsFetchError, the function only logs the error and returns False; it does not shorten or delete the key. Later cache-miss requests therefore cannot retry automatic discovery until the remaining TTL expires, even after upstream recovers.

Keep the 60-minute throttle after successful syncs, but use a bounded shorter failure backoff or schedule a retry after ToolsFetchError. The existing sync_installation_tools_task uses bounded retries with a 30-second backoff and a 600-second maximum. “Refresh tools” remains a manual bypass.

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In `@products/mcp_store/backend/tools.py` at line 472, Update
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- Line 481: Validate upstream tool names as strings in fetch_upstream_tools
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- Line 472: Update resync_installation_tools so a ToolsFetchError shortens the
Redis throttle key’s TTL or schedules a bounded retry using the existing
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A row marked removed satisfied the presence check on both repair paths, so a
tool the upstream server brought back under the same name stayed refused until
someone pressed "Refresh tools". Treat such a row as a miss.

A handshake that fails with a malformed reply or a redirect loop raised an
httpx error rather than ToolsFetchError, which turned a refused tool call into
a 500 now that the listing runs inside the request. Normalize it.

A listing that failed held the throttle key for the full hour even though it
refreshed nothing, so one transient fault shut both repair paths long after the
server recovered. Shorten the key to a failure-specific window.

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stamping to unblock, though the posthog review comments seem legit (however, i still have p low context)

…writes

A listing name that is not a string passed the truthiness filter and then hit
an unhashable-key TypeError inside the sync, which is a 500 once the sync runs
on the request path. Drop the entry instead.

The install task, "Refresh tools" and the request-path repair can overlap, and
the loser of the (installation, tool_name) unique constraint raised an
IntegrityError nothing catches. Create rows with get_or_create.

Bound the unregistered-tool log: a batch carries as many names as the body
allows, and the proxy size limit is checked after policy enforcement.

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