Admins can now give each EXTERNAL MCP server a free-text instruction ("how/
when to use this server's tools") that the agent receives in its SYSTEM
PROMPT next to the tool descriptions — porting the built-in SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS
idea to admin-configured servers. Trusted, admin-authored text (like a system
prompt); NON-secret, so unlike headersEnc it IS returned in views/forms.
- Migration: nullable `instructions text` on ai_mcp_servers (old rows = null =
no guidance). Table type + repo insert/update (blank/whitespace -> null via
blankToNull). DTO `@MaxLength(4000)`. Service threads it through
McpServerView/toView.
- mcp-clients: `McpServerInstruction { serverName, toolPrefix, instructions }`
threaded through the toolset/cache/lease. Guidance is built ONLY for a server
that actually connected AND contributed >=1 callable tool (the allowlist may
filter all of them out) AND has non-blank text — so a guide never appears for
tools the agent cannot call. Cached with the toolset, so an edit is picked up
next turn via the existing CRUD cache invalidation.
- System prompt: `buildMcpToolingBlock` renders an <mcp_tooling> block INSIDE
the safety sandwich (after context, before the trailing SAFETY_FRAMEWORK) so
it informs tool choice but cannot override the rules; each section is headed
by the server's `prefix_*` namespace. Empty/blank -> block omitted. The
caller (ai-chat.service) now builds the external toolset BEFORE the prompt and
passes external.instructions; client-handle lifecycle (close-once) unchanged.
- Client: instructions field in types + a Textarea (autosize, maxLength 4000)
in the MCP-server form with a namespace-prefix hint; i18n (en/ru).
Tests across every layer (prompt block placement + both SAFETY copies; view
blank->null; buildEntry includes guidance only for connected+>=1-tool+non-blank;
DTO MaxLength; repo + integration round-trip; service wiring). Delegated impl
reviewed (APPROVE); applied the import-type follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
PR #172 fixed the jsonb double-encoding for `tool_allowlist` but the same
class of bug, and the same re-derived workaround, remained elsewhere.
1. model_config (agent roles): jsonbObject still used the buggy `::jsonb`
bind, so `ai_agent_roles.model_config` round-tripped as a jsonb STRING
SCALAR. The read-path `typeof === 'object'` check then failed and the
model override was SILENTLY dropped (role fell back to the default model).
Fixed to `::text::jsonb` and added `parseModelConfig` + `normalizeRow` so
every read self-heals already-corrupted rows (no migration).
2. Centralized the write workaround as `jsonbBind()` in database/utils.ts —
one implementation with one explanation of the quirk — replacing the
per-repo `jsonbArray` (mcp) and `jsonbObject` (roles).
3. Integration coverage (the fix is a DB round-trip a unit test cannot see;
the read-side parser MASKS a write regression): new
ai-mcp-server-repo.int-spec asserts `jsonb_typeof(tool_allowlist)='array'`
after insert + heals a seeded string-scalar row; ai-agent-roles-repo
int-spec gains the same for `model_config` (`'object'` + heal).
4. Updated the stale `ai-mcp-servers.types.ts` comment (the driver returns a
JSON string for legacy rows; the repo normalizes every read).
5. Fail-open logging: a corrupt tool_allowlist degrades to "no restriction"
(agent gets ALL tools) — normalizeRow now warns (server id only, never
contents) so the silent widening leaves a trace.
6. Simplified parseToolAllowlist (normalize the string once, then a single
array-of-strings check) — identical behaviour, all 12 cases still pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements two architecture follow-ups from the multi-aspect review.
1. Shared, zod-agnostic tool-spec registry (packages/mcp/src/tool-specs.ts)
for the 14 AI tools whose name + schema + model-facing description are
genuinely identical across the standalone MCP server and the in-app
AI-SDK chat. Both layers consume it (registerShared in index.ts;
sharedTool in ai-chat-tools.service.ts) and keep their own execute/auth.
- Zod-agnostic builders (z) => ZodRawShape bridge the zod v3 (mcp) vs
zod v4 (server) split; the registry imports no zod.
- Folds in the documented edit_page_text drift-bug fix: the stale
"strip-and-retry tolerated" claim is gone; canonical wording states a
formatting-only change is refused into failed[].
- Sibling-tool references in shared descriptions are transport-neutral so
one description is correct for both snake_case (MCP) and camelCase
(in-app) tool names.
- Loader fail-fast guard for a stale @docmost/mcp build.
- The ~17 intentionally-divergent tools (security guardrails, tuned UX)
stay per-layer, untouched.
- Rebuilt committed mcp artifacts (also regenerates a previously stale
build/lib/docmost-schema.js to match its already-committed source).
2. Formalize apps/server/test/integration/db.ts as the canonical
integration-test seed factory (module doc + a shortId helper); the
hand-written minimal seeders are kept on purpose, decoupled from the
app service-layer side effects.
Verified: server tsc + lint clean, mcp build clean; mcp unit tests 261 pass,
ai-chat-tools.service 16 pass, public-share-chat-tools 8 pass, ai-chat suite
224 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Builds the deferred integration tests from docs/backlog/feature-test-coverage-
deferred.md that needed real infra (a test Postgres + real Redis) which the repo
lacked. Runs against an isolated, auto-created docmost_test database and Redis
logical DB 15 — never the dev data.
Harness (apps/server/test/integration/, run via new `pnpm --filter server test:int`
=> jest --config test/jest-integration.json; default unit `jest` is untouched and
excludes these via the *.int-spec.ts name + rootDir):
- db.ts: buildTestDb() mirrors database.module.ts exactly (PostgresJSDialect,
CamelCasePlugin, bigint to:20/from:[20,1700] parsing) + minimal seed helpers.
- global-setup.ts: DROP/CREATE docmost_test, CREATE EXTENSION vector, migrate to
latest via Kysely Migrator (fails loud on any errored migration).
- global-teardown.ts: closes the pool.
Coverage (5 suites, 16 tests, all green against live PG+Redis):
- WorkspaceRepo.updateSetting: jsonb-merge persists htmlEmbed without clobbering
sibling ai/sharing namespaces (the kill-switch write half).
- AiAgentRoleRepo: soft-delete exclusion, cross-workspace tenant isolation,
duplicate (name,workspace) -> 23505, name reusable after softDelete (partial
unique index WHERE deleted_at IS NULL), same name across workspaces allowed.
- page_template_references: deleting either source or referenced page cascades
the link row (onDelete cascade) — real FK, not mocked.
- PublicShareWorkspaceLimiter vs REAL Redis: real ioredis EVAL of the sliding-
window Lua — max boundary (3 admit / 4th deny), re-admit after the window
slides, same-ms distinct members. Catches Lua bugs a FakeRedis cannot.
- AiChatRepo.findByCreator: role-badge join (enabled->badge; soft-deleted or
disabled role -> null).
Review: APPROVE; applied its two hardening suggestions (fail loud on errored
migration result even without a top-level error; TEST_REDIS_URL override + ping
preflight). tsc clean; unit run excludes int-spec (verified).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
