fix: let deployments advertise offline_access so MCP sessions can refresh
MCP clients were being kicked back to an interactive login on a short cycle, reporting "requires re-authorization (token expired)". Cause: /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource advertised only openid/profile/email plus the audience scope. A client requests exactly the scopes it finds there, and Authentik issues a refresh token only when offline_access is among them — so the client received an access token with nothing to renew it with. Once that token aged out, re-authenticating by hand was the only path forward. This is the same trap the audience scope already documents one comment further up: a scope missing from this document is a scope the client will never ask for, however the IdP is configured. Adds OIDC_OFFLINE_ACCESS (default false). Enabling it appends offline_access to the advertised scopes. Left opt-in rather than always-on because it is only half the fix — the IdP also needs an offline_access scope mapping on the provider, and advertising a scope the IdP doesn't offer risks an invalid_scope rejection that would break authentication outright. A deployment turns this on after configuring its IdP; README documents both halves and how to verify each. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -291,9 +291,49 @@ tokens carry `aud: shared-memory` (or whatever value you chose).
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- **Client ID:** auto-generated → copy to `.env` as `OIDC_CLIENT_ID_MCP`
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- **Redirect URIs:** Claude Code prints the exact value when it first
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connects to the MCP endpoint. Paste it into Authentik then.
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- **Scopes:** `openid`, `profile`, `email`
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- **Scopes:** `openid`, `profile`, `email` (plus `offline_access` — see
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**Keeping sessions alive** below)
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- **Signing Key:** same cert as the Web provider
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#### Keeping sessions alive (`offline_access`)
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Without this, a connected MCP client gets an access token and **no refresh
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token**. It cannot renew silently, so the moment the access token expires the
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client reports `requires re-authorization (token expired)` and the user has to
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log in again — repeatedly, on a short cycle.
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Two changes are required, and **neither works alone**:
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1. **In Authentik**, edit the `shared-memory-mcp` provider and add the built-in
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`authentik default OAuth Mapping: offline_access` to its **Scopes**. You can
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confirm it took by checking that `offline_access` appears in:
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```bash
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curl -s https://auth.example.com/application/o/shared-memory-mcp/.well-known/openid-configuration \
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| jq .scopes_supported
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```
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2. **In `.env`**, set `OIDC_OFFLINE_ACCESS=true` and redeploy.
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Step 2 is needed because a client only requests the scopes advertised in our
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`/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource` document — the same mechanism that
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makes the `aud` scope mapping necessary below. Step 1 is needed because
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Authentik only issues a refresh token when a configured mapping is requested.
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It is left opt-in rather than always-on because advertising a scope the IdP
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doesn't offer risks an `invalid_scope` rejection that breaks authentication
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outright. Configure the IdP first, then flip the flag.
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Verify afterwards with:
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```bash
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curl -s https://memory.example.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource | jq .scopes_supported
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```
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If interactive login isn't practical at all — a headless container, CI — skip
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OAuth and use a static bearer token instead (**D. Static bearer token**, below);
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those default to a 90-day lifetime.
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#### Setting the `aud` claim
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The MCP endpoint requires the access token's `aud` claim to equal
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