feat: PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER selects the header that carries PLANE_API_KEY

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Depends on: makeplane/plane-python-sdk#74 and a plane-sdk release containing it (bump the plane-sdk== pin in pyproject.toml to that release before merging).

When Plane sits behind an API gateway, the gateway holds the real Plane key and injects X-Api-Key; the MCP server should hold only a gateway consumer key and send it in the gateway's header. This adds one optional env variable:

Variable	Mode	Description
PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER	optional	Header that carries PLANE_API_KEY (default X-Api-Key)

PLANE_BASE_URL=https://gateway.example.com/plane \
PLANE_API_KEY=<gateway consumer key> PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER=X-Gravitee-Api-Key \
PLANE_WORKSPACE_SLUG=acme uvx plane-mcp-server stdio

Unset, behaviour is unchanged. OAuth and header-auth (x-api-key from the MCP client) connections are unaffected; only the API-key client construction passes the setting.

Tests: tests/test_client.py — parametrised test: unset → X-Api-Key; set → the named header, with no X-Api-Key sent. Suite (unit, integration excluded): 1300 passed, 26 skipped.

Context: we run this today with a small launcher that monkey-patches the SDK's _headers (plane-mcp-server 0.3.2 behind Gravitee 4.4); this PR removes the need for it.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • You can now choose which HTTP header carries your Plane API key by setting PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER. This supports setups that require a custom API-key header. If unset, requests continue to use X-Api-Key.
• Documentation
  • Configuration guidance now describes the optional header setting and its default.

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Walkthrough

The API-key client now reads the optional PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER setting and defaults to X-Api-Key. The README documents the setting, and a test checks default and custom header behavior.

Changes

API-key header configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and verify API-key header selection plane_mcp/client.py, README.md, tests/test_client.py	The client uses PLANE_API_KEY_HEADER when set and otherwise uses X-Api-Key. The README documents the setting. Tests check both header choices and verify that the default header is absent when a custom header is configured.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: akhil-vamshi-konam

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 011df

This change depends on a Plane SDK release that is not yet pinned. Until the SDK dependency is updated, API-key deployments may fail when the client is created. Update the SDK pin before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 011df

The default configuration preserves the existing header, but a custom gateway header can affect more connection modes than described. The required SDK upgrade is also not included, so deployment compatibility needs confirmation.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: A custom downstream header also applies to HTTP header-auth credentials, although their initial validation still uses x-api-key. At a gateway requiring only the custom header, validation can fail before the configured client is used; the claim that header-auth connections are unaffected is therefore not supported.
• Medium · reliability · inferred: The new constructor argument has an unmet release prerequisite: the PR does not update the SDK pin, and the committed lockfile resolves an older version. Whether either installed version accepts the argument is unverified, putting API-key client construction at risk in deployments using an incompatible SDK.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The setting applies per configured server instance to outgoing API-key requests, including requests made with an authenticated HTTP header token. No new public route or OAuth credential path is evidenced.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — An HTTP caller supplies an API key that is validated with x-api-key before its token can enter the shared API-key client path. Whether a configured gateway accepts, rewrites, or rejects that validation request is unknown; the observed mismatch does not establish an authentication bypass.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Compatibility with the deployed SDK and gateway is necessary for the intended separation between a gateway consumer key and Plane's key; neither external implementation is established by the changed source or the committed versions.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Confirm the gateway's behavior for both validation and subsequent API calls, and either keep custom-header operation limited to the intended connection mode or explicitly align both stages' credential contracts.
• proposed — Pin and lock an SDK release confirmed to accept api_key_header, then verify the intended deployment and rollback paths use compatible versions.

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Update the SDK pin before passing api_key_header.

pyproject.toml pins plane-sdk==0.3.1, but the SDK pull request that adds api_key_header is still open. With the pinned SDK, this API-key path raises TypeError when it constructs PlaneClient. Update the pin to a release that contains the SDK change before merging this call. (github.com)

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Review comment at @plane_mcp/client.py at line 96:
Update the plane-sdk pin in pyproject.toml to a release that supports
api_key_header before passing it to PlaneClient; retain the existing API-key
header configuration.

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