| 2026-10-12 |

mcp: a run says why a server's tools were withheld, instead of silently lacking them
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A profile can declare a BYOK-gated server the user has no personal key for. The
manager refuses such a call and build_tool_list drops the server, so the tool
list stays honest — but the system prompt kept naming the server with no
explanation at all. The model knew it existed, held none of its tools, and had
nothing to tell the user, who concluded the assistant simply could not do the
task.
The reason was never stored: it is the complement of what visible_servers kept,
so _apply_mcp_scope derives it from that same value (byok_servers() - allowed)
rather than reading the key store a second time and risking a disagreement with
the first read. It rides in current_keyless_mcp_servers, next to the scope
variable, and _mcp_context_msg names each withheld server where it lists it,
followed by the reason and a pointer at Settings -> MCP keys.
Both ContextVar tokens are returned and reset together; without that the two
existing reset sites leak or raise. The variable defaults to empty, so a run
that never set it (a peer run out of a fresh task) claims nothing.
mcp_status said "without one this server runs on the shared default", which is
false for an ordinary account — the shared credential is admin-only.
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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7 hours ago
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| 2026-10-08 |

profiles: tool_developer folds into developer
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The profile was a duplicate on every axis we could measure. 22 of its 26
native tools were already developer's; the four it alone held —
reload_tools, create_mcp_server, test_mcp_tool, mcp_status — are 2.9 KB of
schema. Its model chain was the same seven models. Of its 14 KB prompt,
about 8 KB was copied verbatim from developer's (the whole `## Orchestration
model` block and everything from `## Editing policy` down), and most of the
remainder restated manuals/create_mcp_server.md, which already carried the
same ten-step workflow in more detail. It was not a specialisation, it was a
snapshot: `git log -S '"reload_tools"'` shows the tool lived in developer
until 61fa370 rewrote that profile around MCP and cut it off.
What kept it alive was a premise that no longer holds — that Navi's own
capabilities would be written as in-repo tools. They are MCP servers now,
and an MCP server is not a file in this repository with a life of its own:
it is an isolated process registered from mcp_servers.d/. So there is no
reason left for a profile whose only distinct feature is a toolset a general
developer profile can hold, and every reason to stop maintaining a second
prompt that drifts against the first.
- developer: + reload_tools, create_mcp_server, test_mcp_tool, mcp_status
(24 → 28 native). Its sub-agent gains tool_manual, which is what it
actually needed to reach the manual while writing a server — the previous
tool_developer sub-agent had it, developer's did not.
- server_admin: + reload_tools only (24 → 25). Adding a third-party MCP
server is something this profile does as often as developer does.
Deliberately not to its sub-agent: reconnecting the MCP manager is a
process-wide operation belonging to the main agent.
- The prompt and the manual took on what the deleted profile knew and
create_mcp_server.md did not: reload_tools before the first test_mcp_tool
(a freshly registered server is not connected, so the test fails and the
iteration is wasted), the smoke test read by exit code — 124 means timeout
killed a server still running, 0 means it exited on its own, usually a
main() without parentheses — absolute command/cwd, mcp_status as discovery
only, and the steps that stay inline instead of going to a sub-agent.
mcp_status and test_mcp_tool were built without an MCP manager, and their
fallback did `from navi.api.deps import _mcp_manager` — a name that does not
exist, so a live call raised ImportError rather than the intended "MCP
manager not available". The tools always passed a manager in tests, which is
why nothing caught it. Both now receive the manager at construction and fall
back to the live one lazily.
Sessions and profile_overrides are reassigned before the restart: agent.py
resolves the session's profile without a guard, so a deleted profile turns
every session that referenced it into an uncaught ProfileNotFound. Nothing
in the test suite pins the profile inventory, and profiles are read once at
import time — reload_tools does not re-read them — so this ships as a
restart, and the restart is also what makes it take effect.
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
committed
4 days ago
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| 2026-10-07 |
mcp keys: tool-management tools aligned with BYOK (test_mcp_tool runs on user key, mcp_status marks key slots)
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
committed
5 days ago
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| 2026-05-24 |
Add MCP health check loop, auto-reconnect, and system toast notifications
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Backend:
- McpManager: keep all configured servers in the pool even if connect()
fails at startup; health-check loop (30s) tries to reconnect dead servers
and verifies live ones with list_tools()
- McpManager: set_on_server_connected callback re-registers tools when a
dead server comes back online
- McpClient: add mark_disconnected() for silent drop detection
- McpStatusTool: skip list_tools() for disconnected servers
- Orchestrator: broadcast mcp_status_update to all WebSocket sessions
- New event type McpStatusUpdate with server_name, status, tool_count
Webclient:
- useWebSocket: handle mcp_status_update → toast.success/toast.error
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 24 May
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| 2026-05-23 |
Pass explicit ToolContext to tools instead of hidden ContextVars
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Add ToolContext dataclass (session_id, event_sink, stop_event, model,
user_id, user_role, user_info) and thread it through the execution chain:
Agent._execute_tools_with_sink → ToolExecutor → tool.execute().
All ~25 tools updated to accept ctx parameter. Tools that previously
read ContextVar now prefer ctx when provided, falling back to
ContextVar for backward compatibility.
Tests updated to pass ToolContext explicitly — no more test fixtures
that set current_session_id / current_user_id ContextVars.
ContextVar setters remain as fallback for non-tool consumers
(ai_helper, context_builder, planning) and will be removed in a
follow-up refactor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 23 May
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| 2026-05-15 |
Refactor: move tool helper modules into _internal subpackage
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Moves non-tool infrastructure out of navi/tools/ root so that only
actual tool classes live there:
base.py → _internal/base.py
loader.py → _internal/loader.py
middleware.py → _internal/middleware.py
logging_middleware.py → _internal/logging_middleware.py
_time_parser.py → _internal/time_parser.py
All imports updated across core/, api/, mcp/, tools/, and tests/.
No proxy files remain in navi/tools/ root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
committed
on 15 May
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fix: wire test_mcp_tool into MCP manager startup injection
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The startup loop in main.py assigns _mcp_manager only to tools that
have the attribute, but test_mcp_tool never declared it and mcp_status
used _manager instead of _mcp_manager — so both received None forever.
Changes:
- test_mcp_tool: add __init__(mcp_manager) with _mcp_manager, fallback
to module-level import if startup wiring skipped
- mcp_status: rename _manager → _mcp_manager, same fallback
- registry.py: register create_mcp_server and test_mcp_tool builtins
- main.py: include test_mcp_tool in startup wiring loop
- client.py: add 5s timeout to disconnect cleanup
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 15 May
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| 2026-05-10 |
Add MCP server support and fix memory tools user isolation
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MCP integration:
- New navi/mcp/ package: client, manager, config, tools
- ToolRegistry learns register_external() for MCP tools
- reload_tools reconnects MCP servers on hot reload
- New built-in mcp_status tool
- Startup/shutdown wiring for MCP connections
- 12 new tests (unit + integration with real stdio server)
Memory tools fix:
- memory, memory_save, memory_search, memory_forget now read
current_user_id from tool context and pass it to MemoryStore
- Fixes invisible facts for authenticated users
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
committed
on 10 May
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