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fix(mcp): tools outside the baseline families ask for their own scope - #2564

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What

Part of a pass over every API surface.

A scoped API key on the MCP server has to read the families an investigation reads (traces, logs, metrics, services, alerts and so on). Twenty-four tools work on data outside those families, and until now only three tools declared the extra scope they need. This adds the declaration to the rest:

Tools Scope family
list_slos, inspect_slo, create_slo, update_slo, delete_slo slos
list_uptime_monitors, create_, update_, delete_uptime_monitor uptime_monitors
list_ingest_rules, preview_ingest_rule, create_, update_, delete_ingest_rule ingest_rules
list_data_sources, search_data_sources, describe_data_source, query_data_source data_sources
get_status_page status_pages and status_page_incidents
apply_status_page_config status_pages
post_status_page_update status_page_incidents
create_, update_, delete_scrape_target scrape_targets

A read-only tool needs <family>:read, a tool that changes data needs <family>:write, the same as the matching /v2/<family> routes. A tool can name several families, and the refusal names the scope to add.

So that a restricted key can be given those scopes, the key dialog and the scope reference on Settings, Keys now list six more families: SLOs, uptime monitors, ingest rules, data sources, status pages and status page incidents. Until now those could only be granted through the API.

Unscoped keys, MCP OAuth tokens, dashboard sessions and chat turns carry no scopes and are unchanged.

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Taken on the previews, restricted access selected.

Before (21 families) After (27 families)
Key dialog
Scope reference

Verification

  • scope-families.test.ts: a key holding every baseline family is refused by each of the 24 tools with insufficient_scope and the right scope in the message; a read scope does not open a tool that writes; get_status_page asks for both of its families.
  • The whole apps/ai/src/mcp suite and the web settings tests pass.
  • Typecheck @maple/ai and @maple/web, lint with the CI config.
  • On the preview: the dialog shows "0 of 27 selected" and the reference "27 resource families", with the six new rows.

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A scoped API key on the MCP server must read the families an investigation reads. Tools for SLOs, uptime monitors, ingest rules, data sources, status pages and scrape targets sit outside those families, and now require that family's scope from a scoped key, as the matching /v2 routes do. Unscoped keys, OAuth tokens and sessions are unchanged.
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MCP tool registrations now declare scope families for data sources, ingest rules, scrape targets, SLOs, status pages, and uptime monitors. Tests check insufficient-scope errors and verify that create_slo requires slos:write.

Changes: MCP scope enforcement

Layer / File(s) Summary
Scope declarations and validation
apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/describe-data-source.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-data-sources.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/query-data-source.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/search-data-sources.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/ingest-rules.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/integration-writes.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/slos.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/status-pages.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/uptime-monitors.ts, apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/scope-families.test.ts
Tool registrations specify their scope families. Tests check that calls fail with insufficient scopes and that create_slo requires slos:write.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 73bed

Dashboard users who create restricted API keys cannot grant the new scopes, so those keys lose access to the SLO, ingest-rule, data-source and status-page tools that previously worked. Full-access keys, MCP OAuth tokens and keys created through the API are unaffected. Add the five families to the key-creation flow before merging.

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Title check Passed The title names the main change: MCP tools outside the baseline API families now require their own scope. The changeset adds scopeFamily declarations to the listed MCP tools (SLOs, data sources, inges…
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The title names the main change: MCP tools outside the baseline API families now require their own scope. The changeset adds scopeFamily declarations to the listed MCP tools (SLOs, data sources, ingest rules, status pages, uptime monitors, scrape targets) and adds tests that check the insufficient-scope refusal. The title is specific to that change and does not describe unrelated work.

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Review comments at @apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/slos.ts:
- Line 156: Update the key-creation scope list to include slos, ingest_rules,
data_sources, status_pages, and status_page_incidents, and update the backend
scope-family validation to accept those same families. Keep the existing
handling of other scope families unchanged.

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  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/__tests__/scope-families.test.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/describe-data-source.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/ingest-rules.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/integration-writes.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/list-data-sources.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/query-data-source.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/search-data-sources.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/slos.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/status-pages.ts
  • apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/uptime-monitors.ts

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Comment thread apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/slos.ts Resolved
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The key dialog and its scope reference now list SLOs, uptime monitors, ingest rules, data sources, status pages and status page incidents, so a restricted key can be given the scope a tool asks for. A tool may name several families, and get_status_page asks for status_page_incidents:read as well, because a page's detail lists its incidents.
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🟢 Confidence 8/10 · likely safe to merge. Refusal path is pinned for all 24 tools, but nothing ties the demanded families to the grantable ones in Settings, where this branch already drifted once.
no findings · tests partial −1 · risk high −1

The change gives 24 MCP tools their own scope families, lets scopeFamily list several, and exposes six families in Settings. The McpQueryError issues in registry.ts are query failures this diff does not touch.

  • 24 MCP tools now declare a scope family outside the baseline set
  • scopeFamily accepts a list; get_status_page requires both status-page families
  • Six new families added to the key dialog and scope reference

Before merge

  • Manual · Restricted keys calling these 24 tools today get insufficient_scope after the deploy until the new scopes are added to them.

Production impact

Open errors in the changed files (2)
Issue Service Occurrences File
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError (7 issues) maple-ai 33 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts
@maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError (3 issues) maple-chat 15 apps/ai/src/mcp/tools/registry.ts

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Merged with 1 step from "Before merge" still open. If it is done, tick it on the review comment; if not, now is the time.

  • Manual · Restricted keys calling these 24 tools today get insufficient_scope after the deploy until the new scopes are added to them.

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✅ Shipped clean. Nothing this change touches got worse in the hour after it deployed.

Deployed to maple-ai (production) at 2026-11-13 16:35 UTC as 6f66550, the first version after the merge (the merge commit itself never reported). Compared the 60 minutes before and after.

Errors in the changed files:

  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
  • ➖ @maple/mcp/errors/McpQueryError: 0/h → 0/h
Operation Calls/h Errors p95
McpTool.listUptimeMonitors 11 → 12 0.0% → 0.0% 92 → 170 ms

Maple looks once, an hour after the first deploy that carries the merge.

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