[frontegg-david]

What and why

The follow-ups found while reviewing #1033, #1034, #1036 and #1038–#1042, in one PR: CLI config and validation, browser
builds, flaky tests, and what a review of the three together found.

CLI config and validation

1. Every option the server validates is validated in CLI mode. For a config object, parseFrontMcpConfigLite passed
   http, pubsub, transport, pagination, fetch, elicitation, extApps, ui, throttle, health, metrics
   and authorities through as z.any(), and dropped session, clients, observability, registry and channels.
   So an invalid transport.persistence, which CLI mode opens (createForCli() builds a TransportService and writes
   the SQLite session file), was opened as given. Each key is now checked with the server's own schema
   (frontMcpBaseSchema.shape[key]), and a failure reports the server's paths and messages.
   • The value is kept as given, so a valid config runs as before: the server's defaults would change CLI behaviour
     (the transport and http defaults, the origin normalization of fetch.forwardCallerTokenTo, which decides which
     hosts get the caller's token, and the mcp: key prefix of a parsed transport.persistence.redis).
   • The five dropped keys are checked and still left out, so CLI mode turns none of them on.
   • authorities was made pass-through in parseFrontMcpConfigLite strips authorities, breaks every CLI/MCPB build #366 because the lite schema stripped it and the scope's authorities engine
     then failed. That still holds, so it is checked and kept as given: an invalid known field fails as on the server,
     and keys the server's schema does not know still reach the engine.
2. Vercel KV on jobs. The job stores open jobs.store.redis with ioredis whatever its provider, so on Node
   { provider: 'vercel-kv' } connected to a Redis on localhost. Supporting it isn't trivial (the Redis job store needs
   sets and atomic claims over the Redis protocol), so both job store factories refuse it with
   JobStoreNotSupportedError, in server and CLI mode and in the detached runner. A top-level Vercel KV redis was
   already passed over for jobs; a test now pins that.
3. Redis error message. A redis with neither host nor url (both from unset variables, say) failed with Zod's
   Invalid input. It now says redis needs host or url, wherever the SDK takes a redis option. Every other message is
   unchanged.
4. Build warning. [build] frontmcp.manifest.json not written: … printed a ZodError's JSON. It now prints each
   invalid field as path: message, reading an Invalid input union through its closest branch.
5. auth.secureStore fell back to memory. The union's bare-object variant matched a config whose sqlite, redis
   or backend failed its own variant and stripped the backing, so an empty sqlite.path, a redis without host or
   an incomplete backend kept the secrets in memory with no error. That variant now takes no backing, and the union's
   error names the backing. createSecureStore() refuses such a config with SecureStoreConfigError.
6. Typecheck. The three type errors in the demo-e2e-cli-exec specs are fixed.

build-for-cli.md now also says exactly what CLI mode validates and which store settings it never opens.

Browser builds

1. One refusal for every store. In a page with a top-level redis, startup refused the SDK's own stores first, and
   a plugin's store was named only once those were switched off. Plugins now declare their stores with a new
   static browserStores(options, server) on DynamicPlugin. The startup check reads it for the plugins of the server
   and of its class apps, before any store opens, and refuses them all, with the SDK's stores, persistent questions and
   jobs, in one BrowserStoreUnavailableError. The plugin registry runs the same declaration for the plugins the check
   cannot see (init({ useFactory }) once the factory returns, nested plugins) before it builds them. The official
   plugins move their refusePluginStoreInBrowser() calls into the hook; the function still works.
2. Explicit stores. throttle.storage, auth.tokenStorage and skillsConfig.cache.redis join the startup check,
   a resource store (M13) is refused when it opens, and sqliteStorageProvider() when it is built. Only TCP Redis and
   SQLite are refused: Vercel KV, Upstash and Cloudflare KV stay allowed.
3. BrowserStoreUnavailableError typing. Overloads: without the memory map only the SDK's store names
   type-check, and a plugin entry without a memory option reads X would use Y, not set undefined.
4. ioredis in page bundles. CachePlugin and RememberPlugin load ioredis with a lazy require() when they
   build a Redis store, so a page on memory or Vercel KV doesn't bundle it. RememberPlugin also stops importing
   Node's path. Their type: 'redis' store is built when the server starts, after the browser check, instead of in
   init().
5. CJS browser build. dist/browser/index.cjs requires @frontmcp/storage-sqlite instead of bundling it with its
   node:events. The remaining require()s of Node built-ins run only inside Node-only features and are documented.
6. Guard blind spot. browser-node-only.e2e.spec.ts now also reports a require() or esbuild __require() of a
   Node built-in at a module's top level, and covers the cache and remember plugins. Proven by planting one, then
   removing it.
7. Docs. Using Upstash or Vercel KV from a page puts its REST token in the bundle, where every visitor can read it:
   build-for-browser.md, setup-redis.md and the cache and remember docs now say so.
8. Windows paths. The bundle helpers name inputs with / on every platform.

Flaky tests and test infrastructure

1. transport.registry.spec.ts and scope-store-off.spec.ts: one cause. Jest caches module IDs per worker. Four
   sdk specs mocked @frontmcp/storage-sqlite with { virtual: true } (registered under the bare name) and three
   without (under the resolved path), so whichever ran first in a worker fixed the ID, and a later spec's mock was
   skipped and the real store opened. The four drop virtual: true; the module always resolves. 16 shuffled
   single-worker orders and 24 loaded runs now pass; before, 13 of 16 orders and 6 of 12 loaded runs failed.
2. cli-install-claude-plugin exit code 2. tsc's "errors, output emitted": a concurrent nx task in the same
   worktree rebuilt libs/sdk/dist under the fixture build (reproduced 8 of 8 times). It can't be fixed from a spec,
   but the fixture build's error now carries its stdout and stderr, where the TypeScript diagnostics go.
3. webpack is a root devDependency, at the range the lockfile already resolves (5.105.1).
4. app.lazy.calls.spec.ts could straddle a rate-limit window boundary (1 of 15 loaded runs); it now starts
   mid-window like the other rate-limit specs.
5. plugin-codecall should execute simple scripts quickly timed a cold first execute(). It now warms up, then
   asserts the fastest of three calls.

Found reviewing the three together

1. A disposed scope kept its session store. Only DirectMcpServerImpl.dispose() destroyed the transport service.
   A scope disposed by FrontMcpInstance.shutdown(), by connect()'s last release or by a CLI host kept it: a session
   store that failed at startup kept retrying with backoff, and an SQLite one kept its file open. In one jest worker,
   scope-vercel-kv-tasks.spec.ts followed by job-durability.spec.ts logged "Cannot log after tests are done" 18
   times and exited 1 with every test passing. The scope now registers transportService.destroy() with its own
   onDispose(), so it runs last among the dispose callbacks, after the requests in flight; destroy() is idempotent,
   so the direct server's own call is harmless. That ordered run now logs nothing and exits 0.
2. One Redis client per server. Building CachePlugin/RememberPlugin's type: 'redis' store at server start
   gave every server that installed one init() record its own ioredis client, none of which is ever closed (before,
   the record held one, made in init()). The store is now built once, when the first server that installs the
   record starts, and shared, as before. Startup with Redis down is unchanged: the client is built without waiting for
   a connection and logs its errors, before and after.
3. auth.secureStore in a page. The startup check named auth.tokenStorage but not auth.secureStore, so a local
   auth in a page with a secure store on SQLite or Redis failed with Cannot find module '@frontmcp/storage-sqlite' or
   ioredis is required. It now joins the one refusal, naming auth.secureStore: 'memory'. In a page, an invalid
   secure store is still refused by the schema first, and a valid one on Redis or SQLite by the browser check, before
   createSecureStore() runs.
4. A build failed on a global-store plugin, and opened plugin stores (a regression since fix(sdk,cli): a build reads a @FrontMcp server without validating its stores, which the server validates when it starts #1042). The build's
   manifest boot leaves the top-level redis out, so a --target cli or mcpb build of a server with
   CachePlugin/RememberPlugin on type: 'global-store' failed with Plugin "CachePlugin" requires global "redis" configuration. A plugin store on Redis connected, and one on SQLite wrote its file, during the build, against
   frontmcp build fails for a @FrontMcp server whose store settings read a runtime-only secret #1041's contract that a build opens no store.
   • A new storeProvider(provider) marks a factory provider that opens a store and returns it as given. When the
     provider registry builds a marked GLOBAL factory during a manifest boot (createForManifest(), what
     frontmcp build and buildManifest() use), it skips the factory and gives what injects the token a stand-in
     that throws StoreNotOpenedInBuildError (STORE_NOT_OPENED_IN_BUILD) when called. Every other boot runs the
     factory as before, so a server without redis still fails at startup with the plugin's message, and the shared
     type: 'redis' client of fix 2 stays.
   • The cache (global-store, redis), remember (global-store, redis), approval (store and webhook challenge
     store) and result-handles stores, and the SDK's sqliteStorageProvider(), are made with it. A third-party
     plugin gets the same by making its store provider with storeProvider(), as it declares its browser stores with
     browserStores.
   • Marking the factory, rather than wrapping it, keeps every factory's signature: the plugins' unit tests still call
     useFactory(config) directly.

Checked and left as they are:

• CLI startup cost. The fixture CLI of demo-e2e-cli-exec (a config object) against two SDK builds that differ
  only in the lite parser, median of 15 alternating runs: a tool call takes 279.9 ms with main's parser and 277.2 ms
  with this PR's, --help 38.9 and 40.7 ms (noise). The extra check runs only for the keys a config sets: a cold lite
  parse of a config that sets 12 of them goes from about 4 ms to about 8 ms. The scope-init-perf lite-vs-full ratio
  is about 2x with either parser, so its one failure under load is that micro-benchmark's noise.
• The decorator's output in CLI mode. A @FrontMcp class reaches the lite parser already parsed. Re-parsing that
  output with the checks passed for every key's defaults and for 30 sample configs, so a valid class's CLI isn't
  refused.
• The esbuild size model. It now leaves out only the import() edges of the utils and auth browser builds. For
  create() + one tool, what that removes is the four createStorage() adapters (Redis, Upstash, Vercel KV,
  Cloudflare KV) and the storage helpers only they use. A static import is still followed, bundled and counted, so the
  model can't hide a static import regression, and the Vite build, which measures the real initial chunk, is
  unaffected. A page that starts create() + one tool and calls the tool runs none of the left-out imports.
• The monorepo's own builds. Inside this repo, the build's manifest extraction resolves @frontmcp/* through the
  root tsconfig paths and inlines a second copy of the SDK, so a plugin that injects FrontMcpConfig misses the
  token (frontmcp.manifest.json not written: Provider "FrontMcpConfig" is not registered). A user project, with
  its own tsconfig, loads one copy; the new build e2e projects get a tsconfig of their own, like a user's.

Refs #1033, #1036, #1041, #1042.

User-facing change

• What changed:
  • CLI mode validates every option the server validates and runs with the value as given.
  • Vercel KV is refused for job stores with JobStoreNotSupportedError (JOB_STORE_NOT_SUPPORTED), exported from
    @frontmcp/sdk.
  • A redis with neither host nor url says redis needs host or url.
  • The build's manifest warning names each invalid field.
  • An auth.secureStore backing the store cannot use stops startup; createSecureStore() throws
    SecureStoreConfigError (SECURE_STORE_CONFIG_INVALID), exported from @frontmcp/auth.
  • In a browser, one BrowserStoreUnavailableError lists every store that would open TCP Redis or SQLite, with its
    switch: tasks, elicitation, persistent questions, jobs, throttle.storage, auth.tokenStorage, auth.secureStore,
    skillsConfig.cache.redis and every plugin store. New names in error.stores: rateLimits, authTokens,
    secureStore, skillsCache, resourceStore, sqliteStorage. A resource store on Redis or SQLite is refused when
    it opens; sqliteStorageProvider() when it is built (as the originalError of its ProviderConstructionError).
  • New static browserStores(options, server) on DynamicPlugin, and new types PluginStoreInBrowser and
    PluginStoreServer. isVercelKvProvider() also takes an unparsed redis option.
    new BrowserStoreUnavailableError([['MyPlugin', …]]) without the memory map no longer type-checks.
  • The official plugins no longer throw from init() in a page; startup refuses them in the one error. On Node, a
    CachePlugin/RememberPlugin type: 'redis' store connects when the first server that installs it starts,
    rather than in init(); the servers that share one init() share its client, as before.
  • ioredis is no longer in a page bundle that uses CachePlugin/RememberPlugin, and RememberPlugin no longer
    imports Node's path. @frontmcp/sdk's dist/browser/index.cjs requires @frontmcp/storage-sqlite instead of
    bundling it.
  • Disposing a scope closes its session store (transport.persistence): graceful shutdown, connect()'s last
    release and the CLI host now close it.
  • A build reads the server without building its plugins' stores: new storeProvider() and
    StoreNotOpenedInBuildError (STORE_NOT_OPENED_IN_BUILD), exported from @frontmcp/sdk. The official plugins'
    stores and sqliteStorageProvider() use it.
• Before → after:
  • Generated CLI / connect(config, { mode: 'cli' }) / the build's manifest boot of a config object with an invalid
    http, pubsub, transport (including transport.persistence), pagination, fetch, elicitation,
    extApps, ui, throttle, health, metrics, authorities, session, clients, observability, registry
    or channels: ran, and opened an invalid transport.persistence → fails at startup with the server's ZodError,
    before any store opens. Valid values are used as given, and the five keys CLI mode leaves off stay off.
  • jobs.store.redis: { provider: 'vercel-kv' }: connected to Redis on localhost → Vercel KV is not supported for job stores: jobs.store.redis is opened over the Redis protocol, which Vercel KV does not serve. Use a Redis server, jobs.store.sqlite, or jobs.store: false.
  • redis: { port: 6380 } (or {}, { provider: 'redis' }, unset host and url): Invalid input →
    redis needs host or url, in server and CLI mode; createTaskStore(): Invalid Redis configuration: redis needs host or url.
  • [build] frontmcp.manifest.json not written: [ { "code": … } ] → … not written: info.name: Invalid input: expected string, received number.
  • auth.secureStore: { sqlite: { path: '' } }, { redis: { url } } or an incomplete { backend }: secrets kept
    in memory, no error → startup fails naming the backing, e.g. secureStore.redis.host: Invalid input: expected string, received undefined.
  • A page with redis, default tasks and CachePlugin.init({ type: 'global-store' }): only background tasks would use the top-level redis … → …background tasks would use the top-level redis (…); CachePlugin would use type: 'global-store' (set type: 'memory' in place of type: 'global-store').
  • CachePlugin.init({ type: 'redis' }) in a page: init() threw → create() rejects.
  • In a page, throttle.storage: { type: 'redis' }: GuardStorageUnavailableError → rate limits would use throttle.storage: { type: 'redis' } (set throttle.storage: { type: 'memory' } …);
    skillsConfig.cache.redis (provider: 'redis'): a warning and a memory fallback → refused at startup;
    auth.secureStore: { sqlite }: Cannot find module '@frontmcp/storage-sqlite' → the secure store would use auth.secureStore.sqlite (set auth.secureStore: 'memory' in place of auth.secureStore.sqlite);
    resourceStore({ storage: { type: 'sqlite' } }): a module error → a resource store would use storage: { type: 'sqlite' } (set storage: { type: 'memory' } …).
  • Vite page with CachePlugin + RememberPlugin + create() + one tool: initial chunk 1,563,066 → 1,270,700 bytes,
    with no ioredis module.
  • FrontMcpInstance.shutdown() with transport.persistence: the session store stayed open (one that failed at
    startup kept retrying) → closed once the scopes are disposed, logging [TransportService] Session store disconnected.
  • frontmcp build --target cli or --target mcpb of a server with CachePlugin.init({ type: 'global-store' }) (or
    RememberPlugin) and redis: { url: process.env['REDIS_URL'] }: failed with Plugin "CachePlugin" requires global "redis" configuration → builds, with frontmcp.manifest.json. The built server, started without the
    variable, still fails at startup (redis needs host or url; without any redis, the plugin's message).
  • A plugin store on Redis (CachePlugin/RememberPlugin type: 'redis', an ApprovalPlugin or
    ResultHandlesPlugin storage on Redis) or on SQLite, and sqliteStorageProvider(), during a build: connected
    or wrote its file → not opened.
• frontmcp.dev pages affected (if known): the CLI build and build manifest pages, the browser deployment page, the
  Redis and SQLite setup pages, jobs, auth configuration (auth.secureStore), the official plugins (cache, remember,
  approval, result handles), plugin authoring (storeProvider()), resources (materialized resources), distributed HA
  (graceful shutdown), and the MCPB build.
• Skills catalog entries updated:
  • frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-cli.md: what CLI mode validates and opens.
  • frontmcp-deployment/references/build-manifest.md: the warning format; a build builds no plugin store.
  • frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-mcpb.md: plugin stores are not built in the build.
  • frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-browser.md: the one refusal, its store table (with auth.secureStore),
    the refusals where stores open, plugin store timing and sharing, the REST token warning.
  • frontmcp-setup/references/setup-redis.md: redis needs host or url, Vercel KV and jobs, the browser refusal, the
    REST token warning.
  • frontmcp-setup/references/setup-sqlite.md: the browser refusal and sqliteStorageProvider(), which a build
    doesn't open.
  • frontmcp-development/references/create-job.md: JobStoreNotSupportedError.
  • frontmcp-config/references/configure-auth.md: an unusable auth.secureStore, SecureStoreConfigError, the
    browser refusal.
  • frontmcp-development/references/official-plugins.md and result-handles-plugin.md: startup refusal, lazy
    ioredis, store timing and sharing, the REST token warning, no store opened by a build.
  • frontmcp-development/references/create-plugin.md: static browserStores and storeProvider().
  • frontmcp-development/references/create-resource.md: a resource store refused in a page.
  • frontmcp-production-readiness/references/distributed-ha.md: shutdown closes the session store.

Bundle size

Measured with apps/e2e/demo-e2e-bundle-size from packages built in the worktree:

Bundle	main: budget / measured	This PR: measured	This PR: budget
create() + one tool (esbuild model)	1,295,679 / 1,295,491	1,281,902	1,282,438
create() + WebMcpPlugin + one tool (esbuild model)	1,302,694 / 1,302,674	1,289,086	1,289,310
Vite initial chunk, create() + one tool	761,267 / 761,200	762,539	762,606

• The esbuild model changed. It now leaves out what the utils and auth browser builds load with import(), as it
  already did for the SDK's on-demand modules: the four createStorage() adapters (Redis, Upstash, Vercel KV,
  Cloudflare KV), about 19.4 KB, which a page's bundler puts in chunks of their own and create() never loads. Vite's
  initial chunk never had them. Measured with the old model, this PR adds 4,544 and 4,554 bytes (1,295,491 → 1,300,035
  and 1,302,674 → 1,307,228).
• What the code adds, each part measured on its own: the CLI-mode checks and messages, about 1,030 bytes (605 in
  Vite's chunk); the one startup check, the plugin declarations and the new store names and messages, about 2.6 KB
  (481 in Vite's chunk); this review's scope and secure-store fixes, 156 bytes in each esbuild bundle and 74 in Vite's
  chunk; the provider registry's build-boot check, storeProvider() and StoreNotOpenedInBuildError, 796 and 798
  bytes, 179 in Vite's chunk.
• The two esbuild budgets are the measured sizes plus the usual 536 and 224 bytes of headroom. The Vite budget is main's
  plus the measured growth (1,339 bytes).
• Not budgeted, measured for the lazy ioredis: a page with CachePlugin + RememberPlugin, Vite initial chunk
  1,563,066 → 1,270,700 bytes.

Tests

Every test of a fixed behaviour failed before its fix; the ones that pin unchanged behaviour passed before too.

Unit, by group:

• CLI config and validation. parse-lite.spec.ts: for each of the 17 keys, invalid values fail the lite parse with
  exactly the issues frontMcpBaseSchema reports (including transport.persistence with an empty sqlite.path and an
  unset encryption.secret), valid values are kept as the same object, an unset transport still gets the defaults,
  the five keys CLI mode leaves off are dropped, and authorities keeps unknown keys. cli-config-validation.spec.ts
  (new), build-extract-stores.spec.ts, job-store.factory.spec.ts, job-store-vercel-kv.spec.ts (new),
  redis.options.spec.ts, task-store.factory.spec.ts, the CLI's server-manifest.spec.ts, and auth's
  schemas.spec.ts and secure-store.factory.spec.ts.
• Browser builds. browser-stores.spec.ts (one refusal for SDK and plugin stores, on the server and on class apps,
  questions and jobs, Vercel KV and memory allowed, the explicit stores' switches, the message without a memory
  option), scope-browser-stores.spec.ts, resource-store.browser.spec.ts and sqlite-storage.provider.browser.spec.ts
  (new), and the browser-store specs of the cache, remember, approval and result-handles plugins.
• Flaky tests. Before: 13 of 16 shuffled single-worker orders of the 35 SQLite-related sdk specs failed, and 6 of
  12 runs under load. After: 16 of 16 orders and 24 of 24 loaded runs pass. app.lazy.calls.spec.ts: 0 of 20 loaded
  runs fail (a probe moving the clock across a window boundary failed it every time before). plugin-codecall's timing
  test: 0 of 24 cold single-test runs under load fail, 5 of 24 before.
• This review. scope-dispose.spec.ts: disposing a scope closes its SQLite session store (red before). The ordered
  single-worker run of scope-vercel-kv-tasks.spec.ts then job-durability.spec.ts: 18 "Cannot log after tests are
  done" and exit 1 before, none and exit 0 after. The cache and remember browser-store specs: two servers that install
  one type: 'redis' init() build one client (two before). browser-stores.spec.ts: auth.secureStore on Redis or
  SQLite joins the one refusal, and one whose backings are undefined does not. store.provider.spec.ts (new): in a
  manifest boot a storeProvider() is not built and what injects it gets a stand-in that throws
  StoreNotOpenedInBuildError, while createForGraph() and createContainer() build it, and
  sqliteStorageProvider() writes no file in a manifest boot (red with the registry check disabled). The new
  *.build-stores.spec.ts of the cache, remember, approval and result-handles plugins: a manifest boot builds no
  Redis client and writes no SQLite file (red before: requires global "redis" configuration, one client, the files
  written), and a server that starts still builds them and still refuses a global-store without redis.

E2E:

• demo-e2e-cli-exec, cli-config-validation.e2e.spec.ts (new): the CLI of a config object with an invalid
  transport.persistence exits 1 with the server's issue and writes no session file, a valid one runs,
  redis: { port: 6380 } says redis needs host or url, a Vercel KV jobs.store.redis is refused, and the build
  warning reads info.name: Invalid input: expected string, received number.
• demo-e2e-local-auth, local-auth-secure-store.e2e.spec.ts: secureStore: { sqlite: { path: '' } } stops startup.
• demo-e2e-bundle-size: one refusal for tasks + CachePlugin + RememberPlugin; throttle.storage,
  skillsConfig.cache.redis and (this review) auth.secureStore refused in the page bundle, with no store opened; no
  ioredis in the plugin page; the CJS build requiring @frontmcp/storage-sqlite; the guard's on-load require()
  detection; the budgets above.
• demo-e2e-cli-exec, cli-build-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts (new): --target cli of a config object with
  CachePlugin on global-store, redis: { url: process.env['CACHE_REDIS_URL'] } unset and RememberPlugin on a
  type: 'redis' pointed at a test TCP server builds, writes its manifest and gets no connection; the CLI it builds,
  started without the variable, exits 1 with redis needs host or url. Before: the build failed with requires global "redis" configuration.
• demo-e2e-mcpb, mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts (new): --target mcpb of a @FrontMcp class with CachePlugin
  on global-store and ApprovalPlugin on SQLite builds the archive with its manifest and writes no SQLite file;
  the shipped server fails at startup on the unset redis. Before (registry check disabled): the same build error.
• demo-e2e-dts-consumer: the BrowserStoreUnavailableError overloads, a plugin's static override browserStores,
  and a plugin's storeProvider() (store-provider-must-compile.ts).

Run on this branch, one nx task at a time (the last commit only types the new build-store specs, which were run again
and typecheck clean):

• Unit: sdk 676 suites / 9,481 tests, cli 129 / 2,138, auth 101 / 2,864, utils 78 / 2,117, protocol 3 / 9,
  skills 3 / 249, plugin-cache 16 / 214, plugin-remember 28 / 527, plugin-approval 28 / 433,
  plugin-result-handles 7 / 88, plugin-codecall 43 / 1,213, plugin-webmcp 6 / 91, plugin-feature-flags 25 / 262.
  All passed (auth, utils and protocol, which the build-store fix does not touch, from the run before it).
• E2E: demo-e2e-cli-exec 41 / 223 (the testcontainers Redis run included), demo-e2e-bundle-size 12 / 62,
  demo-e2e-dts-consumer 1 / 35, demo-e2e-mcpb 6 / 24, demo-e2e-local-auth 11 / 74, demo-e2e-frontmcp-config
  3 / 32, demo-e2e-jobs 7 / 55, demo-e2e-shared-server 2 / 13, demo-e2e-cloudflare 2 / 16 (its
  managed-edge-autoupdate suite is describe.skip on main). All passed.
• node --test scripts/*.test.mjs: 88 passed. The browser-build check now expects @frontmcp/storage-sqlite among the
  CommonJS browser build's externals, beside the ESM build's.
• nx run-many -t lint over the 13 projects above, and again over sdk, skills and the four store plugins after
  the build-store fix: 0 errors, and no new warnings in the changed files.
• prettier --check on every changed file: clean. node scripts/fix-unused-imports.mjs origin/main: no unused imports;
  it also strips the two eslint-disable-next-line no-control-regex comments in the cli-exec specs, which the
  pre-commit hook's ESLint needs, so those stay.
• tsc --noEmit with apps/e2e/demo-e2e-cli-exec/tsconfig.e2e.json, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-bundle-size/tsconfig.e2e.json,
  libs/sdk/tsconfig.spec.json and the cache, remember, approval and result-handles plugins' lib and spec configs:
  clean. apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb/tsconfig.e2e.json reports one error, in mcpb-native-addon.e2e.spec.ts, which this
  PR does not change (it is on main).

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Browser startup now reports a clear error when configured Redis- or SQLite-backed stores are unavailable, with guidance on supported alternatives.
  • Build-time manifest generation no longer opens plugin or SQLite stores; those stores are opened when the server starts.
• Bug Fixes
  • Invalid secure-store and Redis configurations now produce more specific validation errors. Vercel KV is rejected for job-store configuration.
  • CLI configuration is validated against server rules, with invalid settings reported at runtime or build time as appropriate.
  • Session stores are closed when the server is disposed.
• Documentation
  • Updated browser, CLI, build, authentication, and storage guides to reflect these behaviors.

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The PR adds browser-store discovery and startup refusals, defers marked store providers during manifest builds, and expands CLI, Redis, secure-store, and job-store validation. It also updates plugin store initialization, bundle checks, E2E coverage, and documentation.

Changes: Browser store compatibility

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store discovery and startup checks libs/sdk/src/common/dynamic/*, libs/sdk/src/errors/browser-store.errors.ts, libs/sdk/src/scope/*, libs/sdk/src/plugin/plugin.registry.ts	The SDK gathers declared SDK and plugin stores for browser startup checks and reports incompatible stores together. Scope disposal now destroys TransportService.
Provider and plugin integration libs/sdk/src/storage/*, libs/sdk/src/resource/materialized/*, plugins/plugin-approval/src/*, plugins/plugin-cache/src/*, plugins/plugin-remember/src/*, plugins/plugin-result-handles/src/*	The SQLite provider and resource store check browser compatibility before opening storage. The four plugins declare browser-store options and register stores through factories. Cache and Remember load ioredis when constructing a client.
Browser bundle coverage and guidance apps/e2e/demo-e2e-bundle-size/e2e/*, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-deployment/references/build-for-browser.md, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-setup/references/setup-redis.md	Tests check combined browser refusals, Node built-in requires, and Redis client imports in browser bundles. Documentation describes browser-store restrictions and configuration switches.

Manifest-build store deferral

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Store provider and manifest handling libs/sdk/src/provider/*, libs/sdk/src/errors/build-store.errors.ts, libs/sdk/src/index.ts	The SDK adds storeProvider and a manifest-mode stand-in. Marked factories are skipped during manifest boot; calling the stand-in throws StoreNotOpenedInBuildError.
Plugin and package build coverage plugins/plugin-approval/src/*, plugins/plugin-cache/src/*, plugins/plugin-remember/src/*, plugins/plugin-result-handles/src/*, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-cli-exec/e2e/cli-build-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb/e2e/*	Tests compare manifest builds with direct startup and check Redis and SQLite behavior. CLI and MCPB tests also check packaged startup.
Build documentation and type fixtures libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-deployment/references/build-manifest.md, libs/skills/catalog/frontmcp-development/references/create-plugin.md, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-dts-consumer/fixture/*	Documentation describes deferred stores and build-time errors. Type-consumer fixtures cover storeProvider and plugin browser-store declarations.

Configuration validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
CLI configuration validation libs/sdk/src/common/metadata/*, libs/sdk/src/common/types/options/redis/*, libs/sdk/src/front-mcp/__tests__/*, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-cli-exec/e2e/cli-config-validation.e2e.spec.ts	The CLI parser validates configured values with server schemas, retains valid values without server defaults, and removes selected fields. Redis parsing reports redis needs host or url when both connection fields are absent.
Secure-store validation libs/auth/src/options/*, libs/auth/src/session/secure-store.factory.ts, libs/auth/src/errors/*, apps/e2e/demo-e2e-local-auth/e2e/local-auth-secure-store.e2e.spec.ts	Secure-store configurations are validated before backend selection. Invalid settings produce SecureStoreConfigError with backing-specific details.
Job-store validation libs/sdk/src/job/store/*, libs/sdk/src/errors/job.errors.ts, libs/sdk/src/job/__tests__/*	Job-store factories reject Vercel KV before Redis-client creation. Tests cover server and CLI configurations.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Suggested reviewers: alexmercerpo

Merge Risk: Low · up to 9b555

The direct MCPB E2E target can fail on a clean checkout. Add its missing build prerequisites.

Pre-merge checks: 5

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title is a conventional-commit style summary that names the sdk, cli, auth, and plugins scopes and lists the main themes: CLI config checks, one browser store refusal, no stores opened by a build,…
Description check		The description follows the repository template. It has a 'What and why' section that explains the change and links the related issues. It has a 'User-facing change' section with what changed, before …
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 77.42% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 65.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documentati…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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The title is a conventional-commit style summary that names the sdk, cli, auth, and plugins scopes and lists the main themes: CLI config checks, one browser store refusal, no stores opened by a build, and steadier tests. The diff matches these themes (parseFrontMcpConfigLite schema checks, BrowserStoreUnavailableError aggregation, storeProvider build-time stand-ins, flaky-test fixes). It is long (134 characters, 19 words) and lists many items, so it is a little overloaded, but it still names the real changes and does not describe anything absent from the changeset.

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The description follows the repository template. It has a 'What and why' section that explains the change and links the related issues. It has a 'User-facing change' section with what changed, before and after, pages affected, and skills catalog entries. It has a 'Tests' section covering unit, E2E, and verification runs. The template's own placeholder comments are removed. The description is very long, but it is complete and specific.

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Performance Test Results

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Summary

Project	Tests	Passed	Warnings	Failed	Leaks
✅ demo-e2e-agents	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-cache	11	11	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-codecall	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-config	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-direct	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-elicitation	1	1	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-errors	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-hooks	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-multiapp	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-notifications	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-openapi	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-providers	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-public	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-redis	15	15	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-remember	4	4	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-remote	5	5	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-serverless	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-skills	15	15	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-standalone	2	2	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-transport-recreation	3	3	0	0	0
✅ demo-e2e-ui	4	4	0	0	0

Total: 101 tests across 21 projects

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Round on 129d4b2, pushed as db6ff4f:

• E2E chunk 14 (mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts): a real failure, not a flake. The scratch project's tsc failed with TS2307: Cannot find module '@frontmcp/plugin-approval', because CI's dist artifact carries libs/*/dist but not plugins/*/dist, and nothing built the plugins before demo-e2e-mcpb:test. The cli-exec sibling passed because its ^build pulls the plugins in. demo-e2e-mcpb's test target now depends on the plugin-approval and plugin-cache builds, and the spec shows the build's stdout when the build fails. Reproduced by removing the two plugin dists: the spec fails as on CI, and nx run demo-e2e-mcpb:test rebuilds them and passes.
• auth.secureStore with two backings: createSecureStore() now opens the backing the schema validated (its parsed output), not the raw other one.
• throttle.storage in a page: also refused with throttle.enabled: false when auth.publicAccess.rateLimit builds its guard on it. With enabled unset no guard opens Redis or SQLite: the schema requires enabled, and without throttle the guard is in memory. Catalog row updated.
• create-plugin.md: wording fix.
• Browser budgets re-fitted to the measured sizes (+40 / +40 / +65 bytes): 1,282,478 / 1,289,350 / 762,671.

Ran locally, one nx task at a time:

• nx test auth: 2,865 passed.
• nx test sdk: 9,483 passed.
• nx test skills: 249 passed.
• demo-e2e-mcpb: 24 passed.
• demo-e2e-local-auth: 74 passed.
• demo-e2e-bundle-size: 62 passed.
• Prettier and ESLint clean on the changed files.

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Second round, pushed as 9b5552b, for the review of db6ff4f:

• auth.secureStore: db6ff4f's selection from the parsed config is reverted, because it changed a direct call's Redis key prefix and its custom-backend choice. The schema now takes one backing, and a config naming several is refused (secureStore takes one backing, not sqlite and redis). The factory selects from the config as given, as before this PR. Catalog updated in configure-auth.md.
• Browser check: an auth.publicAccess counts unless its rateLimit is 0, so an app's own auth, read before its defaults, is covered too.
• demo-e2e-mcpb:test: also depends on the cli build. Chunk 14 passed on db6ff4f with the plugin builds.
• Browser budgets re-fitted to the measured sizes: 1,282,650 / 1,289,522 / 762,815 (sizes 1,282,114 / 1,289,298 / 762,683).
• Vercel KV task row: answered without a change.

Ran locally, one nx task at a time:

• auth 2,868 passed.
• sdk 9,483 passed.
• skills 249 passed.
• demo-e2e-mcpb 24 passed.
• demo-e2e-local-auth 74 passed.
• demo-e2e-bundle-size 62 passed.
• demo-e2e-dts-consumer 35 passed.
• Prettier and ESLint clean.

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Minor · Add the build prerequisites to test:e2e. · mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts:14-15

apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb/e2e/mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts:14-15
Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Add the build prerequisites to test:e2e.

The new scenario imports both plugin packages and invokes the CLI from libs/cli/dist/src/core/cli.js. The direct demo-e2e-mcpb:test:e2e target does not build these artifacts, and the scenario does not build them itself.

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     "test:e2e": {
       "executor": "@nx/jest:jest",
+      "dependsOn": [{ "projects": ["cli", "plugin-approval", "plugin-cache"], "target": "build" }],
       "outputs": ["{workspaceRoot}/coverage/apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb-e2e"],

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Review comment at @apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb/e2e/mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts
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Add build prerequisites to the demo-e2e-mcpb test:e2e target so it builds cli,
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plugins and invokes the CLI. Keep the change scoped to that target’s dependency
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Review comments at @apps/e2e/demo-e2e-mcpb/e2e/mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts:
- Around line 14-15: Add build prerequisites to the demo-e2e-mcpb test:e2e
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On the review of 9b5552b, the outside-diff comment about mcpb-plugin-stores.e2e.spec.ts:14-15 (add the build prerequisites to demo-e2e-mcpb:test:e2e):

Not changing it in this PR. Nothing runs the nx test:e2e target: CI's E2E chunks and the root yarn test:e2e script (nx run-many -t test --projects='demo-e2e-*') both run the test target, which now depends on the cli, plugin-approval and plugin-cache builds. test:e2e is a leftover alias that 47 e2e apps define, 34 of them without build deps. Bringing them in line belongs in its own change, across all of them, not in this one.