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test(mcp): contract test for outputSchema ↔ structuredContent — previously declared done; second-pass caught the blind spot#44

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Why this PR exists

The 2026-05-21 adversarial second-pass audit caught a Critical blind spot in this session's work:

  • PR-5 (feat(mcp): registerTool + outputSchema/structuredContent for all 5 tools #40) rewrote src/index.ts (~110 lines) and added src/mcp-schemas.ts (151 lines).
  • Both files had zero committed tests.
  • PR-5's report said "85/85 tests pass" — true, but none of those 85 tests exercised the new MCP server code or the new zod schemas.
  • The PR-5 contract verification was an ad-hoc smoke script in /tmp that I deleted at the end of the PR. It actually caught one real bug (stack: z.string() vs string[]), proving the audit shape divergence is realistic — but the smoke was throwaway, not committed.

This is the AirMCP feedback_test_blind_spot pattern verbatim: registration metadata correct, runtime contract unverified.

What this PR adds

tests/mcp-server.test.ts — committed contract test that spawns the built binary, drives MCP stdio, and asserts every tool's structuredContent matches its declared outputSchema.

Coverage:

Tool Asserted
initialize server starts, responds
tools/list exactly the expected 5 tools, every one has outputSchema
list_templates structuredContent.templates is an array of 11
audit_release structuredContent present, no validation-error block, shipReady.verdict is in the declared enum
audit_cd structuredContent present, destinations is an array, overall.verdict is in enum
audit_security on this repo pins README's "8/8 HARDENED" claim — fails before merge if anyone weakens the security posture
create_project with invalid template rejected gracefully (no crash)

audit_security test in particular pins a narrative claim (README says 8/8 HARDENED) to a code gate. If a future PR removes CodeQL or breaks gitleaks pinning, this test fails before merge — not after release.

Test plan

  • npm run build clean
  • npm test — 93/93 pass (was 85/85; +8 contract tests)
  • Test duration acceptable (1.8s → 18s; binary spawn dominates; runs once per matrix node)
  • CI green on Node 22 + 24

Not fixed in this PR (will follow up)

  • M1: src/index.ts:23 PKG_VERSION = "0.4.0" hardcoded while src/cli.ts:110 correctly reads from package.json. Drifts silently on next minor bump. → separate PR per user direction.
  • M2: tests/download.test.ts:162 describe.skip("extractTarball — zip-slip end-to-end") — pre-existing, not introduced by this session. Security-critical zip-slip path is only unit-tested on isSafeTarEntry, no e2e fixture. Flagged for retrospective; outside this PR's scope.

Out-of-scope (verified, intentional)

  • src/scaffold.ts:288 silent .catch(() => {}) — cleanup best-effort with explicit comment.
  • src/download.ts:106 while (true) — bounded by reader.done + maxSizeBytes.
  • src/index.ts as unknown as Record<string, unknown> ×3 — unavoidable SDK+AuditReport bridge (covered in /simplify).

… tools

Adversarial second-pass audit caught:

src/index.ts (~110 lines rewritten in PR-5) and src/mcp-schemas.ts (151
lines added in PR-5) had ZERO committed tests. The 'npm test → 85/85
pass' that PR-5 reported was true but did not exercise any of the new
code — same AirMCP feedback_test_blind_spot pattern.

The PR-5 smoke I ran from /tmp caught a real bug (stack: z.string()
when it should be z.array(z.string())) but was throwaway, not
committed — so if audit_release's AuditReport shape grows tomorrow,
the SDK's runtime outputSchema validator throws 'Output validation
error' on the first call in production.

tests/mcp-server.test.ts (new, ~220 lines):
- Spawns dist/index.js as a stdio child.
- Drives MCP initialize + tools/list + tools/call for all 5 tools.
- Asserts: structuredContent present, no 'Output validation error'
  text block, key fields exist and match expected enum values.
- Audit_security on THIS repo pins the README claim of 8/8 HARDENED:
  if this repo regresses (e.g. someone removes the CodeQL workflow),
  the test fails before merge.
- Invalid input test: confirms the server doesn't crash on a bad
  template ID and surfaces isError correctly.

Test count: 85 → 93. Wall time: 1.8s → 18s (binary spawn dominates).

Not fixed in this PR (flagged):
- M1: src/index.ts:23 PKG_VERSION='0.4.0' hardcoded while src/cli.ts:110
  reads from package.json — separate PR per user direction.
- M2: tests/download.test.ts:162 describe.skip for zip-slip e2e —
  pre-existing, not from this session's scope.
@heznpc heznpc enabled auto-merge (squash) May 21, 2026 13:19
heznpc added 2 commits May 22, 2026 00:24
…pendent)

PR-44 CI failed on 'audit_security: this repo regressed below HARDENED
(verdict=needs-attention)'. Root cause: in CI, the GITHUB_TOKEN scope
declared in ci.yml is 'contents: read', which doesn't grant visibility
into 'security_and_analysis' on the repo metadata. The audit_security
'secret-scanning' detector calls 'gh api repos/<repo>' for that field
and falls back to partial/missing when it can't see it. That's an
environment limit, not a regression.

Locally my personal gh creds have admin scope on the org, so the
detector returns 'enabled' → present → 8/8 HARDENED. Different env,
different signal.

Fix:
- Don't pin the verdict to 'hardened'; assert it's a valid enum value.
- Pin the 7 non-environment-dependent checks (gitleaks, codeql,
  dep-audit, license-check, ignore-scripts, dependabot,
  claude-code-security-review) to status='present'. Those are read
  purely from .github/workflows/*.yml + .github/dependabot.yml, so
  CI and local agree.
- Soft-assert that secret-scanning check at least *ran* (appears in
  the report), so a removed detector doesn't silently pass.
@heznpc heznpc merged commit 29987ee into main May 21, 2026
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