fix: advertise the audience scope so tokens actually carry aud

The OAuth path to /api/mcp has never worked end to end. Every access token
arrived without an `aud` claim and jwt.ts rejected it with
"claim invalid: aud" (401), even though the handshake, consent and PKCE all
succeeded. Only the CLI HMAC path worked, because cli-token.ts sets the
audience itself — which is why this went unnoticed.

Cause: Authentik evaluates a scope mapping only when the client REQUESTS
that scope by name. An MCP client learns which scopes to request from
`scopes_supported` in our RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata, and we only
advertised openid/profile/email. So the `aud-shared-memory` mapping was
attached to the provider but never evaluated.

Advertise the audience scope in that metadata. Name is derived as
`aud-<OIDC_AUDIENCE>` to match the README convention, overridable with the
new optional OIDC_AUDIENCE_SCOPE for deployments that named it differently.

Also documents that Claude Code's RFC 8707 `resource` parameter is ignored
by Authentik 2026.5, so it cannot be relied on for audience binding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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2026-07-27 05:58:56 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 2a1e81d80a
commit 60cfb19772
4 changed files with 50 additions and 7 deletions
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@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ Copy `.env.example` and fill in the values below.
| `OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET_WEB` | both | Client secret of the Web-UI client. |
| `OIDC_CLIENT_ID_MCP` | both | Client ID of the MCP resource-server client in your IdP. |
| `OIDC_AUDIENCE` | both | Audience string the MCP access token must carry in its `aud` claim. Recommended: `shared-memory`. |
| `OIDC_AUDIENCE_SCOPE` | optional | Name of the IdP scope whose mapping emits that `aud` claim. Advertised in `scopes_supported` so clients request it. Defaults to `aud-<OIDC_AUDIENCE>`. |
| `POSTGRES_USER` / `POSTGRES_PASSWORD` / `POSTGRES_DB` | both | Local Postgres credentials. |
| `NEXTAUTH_SECRET` | both | Session-cookie signing key. Generate with `openssl rand -base64 32`. |
| `EMBEDDER_URL` | both | Phase 2 embedder sidecar. Leave empty in Phase 1. |
@@ -297,16 +298,33 @@ The MCP endpoint requires the access token's `aud` claim to equal
reliable pattern:
1. Create a **scope mapping** (Customisation → Property Mappings → Create →
Scope Mapping) named `aud-shared-memory` with expression:
Scope Mapping) named `aud-shared-memory`, **scope name** `aud-shared-memory`,
with expression:
```python
return {"aud": "shared-memory"}
```
2. On the MCP provider, add this scope mapping under **Scopes** and tick it
so it's emitted for the default scope.
2. On the MCP provider, add this scope mapping under **Scopes**.
3. Make sure the app advertises that scope name. It is derived automatically
as `aud-<OIDC_AUDIENCE>`; override with `OIDC_AUDIENCE_SCOPE` if you named
the mapping differently.
> If you skip this, the MCP route will return 401 with
> `error_description="claim invalid: aud"`. Check `docker compose logs app`
> for the exact failure.
> **Attaching the mapping is not sufficient.** Authentik evaluates a scope
> mapping only when the client explicitly *requests* that scope, and an MCP
> client only requests the scopes listed in `scopes_supported` from
> `/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource`. If the audience scope isn't
> advertised there, the mapping silently never runs, the access token carries
> no `aud`, and every MCP call fails with 401
> `error_description="claim invalid: aud"` — even though the OAuth handshake,
> consent, and PKCE all succeeded. Verify with:
>
> ```bash
> curl -s https://memory.example.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource \
> | jq .scopes_supported # must include aud-<your audience>
> ```
>
> Note also that Claude Code sends an RFC 8707 `resource` parameter on the
> authorize request; Authentik 2026.5 ignores it, so it cannot be relied on
> for audience binding. The scope mapping is what sets `aud`.
Then create an **Application** for the MCP provider (same as Step A), slug
e.g. `shared-memory-mcp`.