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Description

Read-only MCP session tokens (SK-2195). create_session_token now takes an optional access_level: "FULL" or "READ_ONLY". It can also mint a token for a single connection's MCP server, added in #221.

Why: the backend can now mint MCP session tokens limited to read-only tools (scalekit-inc/scalekit#2754). A READ_ONLY token sees only tools annotated read_only_hint: true. Other tools are left out of tools/list and refused on tools/call, whatever tools the MCP configuration or connection exposes. Until now the SDK had no way to ask for one.

What changes:

Item Before After
client.actions.mcp.create_session_token (scalekit/actions/actions.py) mcp_config_id, identifier, expiry adds access_level: Optional[str] = None, and keyword-only connection_name (#221)
client.mcp.create_session_token (scalekit/mcp.py) same adds access_level, set on the request only when not None, and connection_name, sent as key_id
Makefile PROTO_REF v0.1.150.0 v0.1.155.0, regenerated with make generate
CHANGELOG.md, .changes/unreleased/ n/a release-notes folder and changelog (#221)

Behavior:

  • access_level omitted (None): the field stays empty on the wire, and the server treats empty as full access. Same token as today.
  • "FULL": every tool the configuration or connection exposes.
  • "READ_ONLY": only tools annotated read-only.
  • Any other value (for example "read_only" or "WRITE_ONLY") is rejected by the server with INVALID_ARGUMENT. The values are case-sensitive. The SDK does not duplicate that validation.
  • Pass exactly one of mcp_config_id or connection_name. Calls with mcp_config_id behave exactly as in v2.20.0.

The proto bump also brings in the other proto changes made between those two tags, including the new scalekit/v1/triggers package. That is why the generated diff is larger than this feature.

Breaking? No. The new parameters are optional, and existing calls send exactly the same request as before. There's no version bump here; it can go in the release branch.

Rollout: hold the release until the backend change is proven stable in production. Until then, a backend that predates access_level silently ignores the field and mints a full-access token.

Usage

Existing code: unchanged, keeps working (full access)

from datetime import timedelta

resp = client.actions.mcp.create_session_token(
    mcp_config_id="cfg_01abc123",
    identifier="alice@example.com",
    expiry=timedelta(hours=1),
)
headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {resp.token}"}

New: mint a read-only token

resp = client.actions.mcp.create_session_token(
    mcp_config_id="cfg_01abc123",
    identifier="alice@example.com",
    expiry=timedelta(hours=1),
    access_level="READ_ONLY",  # or "FULL"; omit for full access
)
# tools/list on the MCP server now returns only read-only tools,
# and calling any other tool fails with: unknown tool "<name>"

New: mint a token for one connection's MCP server

resp = client.actions.mcp.create_session_token(
    connection_name="github-connect",
    identifier="alice@example.com",
    access_level="READ_ONLY",  # optional, same values as above
)

The lower-level client.mcp.create_session_token(...) takes the same arguments.

Testing

  • tests/test_mcp_session_token_access_level.py (6 offline tests, mocked transport, no network):
    • an omitted access_level stays empty on the request
    • READ_ONLY and FULL are sent
    • access_level is sent together with expiry
    • the actions client forwards access_level, and None when it is omitted
  • tests/test_mcp_connection_session_token.py ([SK-2195] feat(mcp): mint session tokens for a connection's MCP server #221) covers the connection_name path and its argument checks.
  • make lint passes, and the regenerated package imports cleanly. CI build is green on the current head.
  • Backend behaviour was verified on a local stack in scalekit-inc/scalekit#2754. Omitted, empty and FULL gave all tools on both the /mcp/v3/servers/{id} and /mcp/v3/connections/{key_id} surfaces. READ_ONLY gave only read-only tools, and other tools returned unknown tool. Garbage values returned 400.

Scope

Part of SK-2195, shipped as:

Repo Change PR
Backend access_level on CreateMcpSessionToken, carried in the token, enforced on both MCP surfaces scalekit#2754 (merged)
Dashboard Read-only / Write / Destructive tags on tools, plus a mint-token docs link scalekit-web-ui#898 (merged)
Node SDK accessLevel?: 'FULL' | 'READ_ONLY' scalekit-sdk-node#239
Python SDK access_level, plus connection tokens via #221 this PR

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Bump proto to v0.1.155.0 and regenerate. create_session_token takes an
optional access_level ("FULL" or "READ_ONLY") and sends it only when set,
so existing callers keep full access.

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Walkthrough

The SDK adds MCP session-token support for named connections, including optional access levels, and retains configuration-based token calls. Generated protobuf contracts and gRPC bindings are added or updated across SDK services. The PR also updates release and project documentation.

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MCP session tokens

Layer / File(s) Summary
Session-token request flow
scalekit/actions/actions.py, scalekit/mcp.py, scalekit/v1/mcp/*
McpClient.create_session_token and ActionMcp.create_session_token accept a configuration ID or a connection name. Both forms support optional expiry and access level. The MCP request contract adds connection-token fields.
Token validation, tests, and reference
tests/test_mcp*, tests/test_mcp_session_token_access_level.py, .changes/unreleased/*, AGENTKIT.md
Tests cover both token targets, validation, forwarding, and response handling. The release note and reference documentation describe the supported calls and constraints.

Generated protobuf API updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Authentication and connected-account contracts
scalekit/v1/auth/*, scalekit/v1/connected_accounts/*, scalekit/v1/connections/connections_pb2.pyi
Authentication bindings add login-request detail retrieval and update GetAuthState request serialization. Connected-account declarations add scope selection and redirect-URL creation bindings. Connection configurations add scope-selection settings and required scopes.
Client and gateway configuration contracts
scalekit/v1/clients/clients_pb2.pyi, scalekit/v1/gateway/*
Client declarations add CIDR allowlist types and fields to create, update, and client messages. Gateway declarations add an update mask and PREVIEW visibility annotations for service methods.
Organization branding and migration RPCs
scalekit/v1/organizations/*, scalekit/v1/migrations/*
Organization bindings add branding retrieval and update RPCs. Migration bindings add messages and gRPC support for connected-account encryption repair.
Trigger service contracts and bindings
scalekit/v1/triggers/*
Generated declarations cover trigger discovery, subscriptions, ingress, delivery attempts, and related messages. gRPC bindings expose 13 unary RPCs.
Proto reference and tool metadata
Makefile, scalekit/v1/tools/tools_pb2.py
The default PROTO_REF changes to v0.1.155.0. Tool metadata updates example names and documents provider-mismatch rejection before provider requests.

Release and project documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release history and project guidance
CHANGELOG.md, CLAUDE.md, README.md
The changelog adds release notes from 1.0.1 through 2.20.0. Release guidance and the README description are updated.

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317-318: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🔵 Trivial

Make backend support a release prerequisite for READ_ONLY.

A backend generated from the pre-change schema can ignore the new protobuf field and apply its default full-access behavior. The SDK response contains only the token and expiry, so it cannot detect this mismatch. A caller can therefore receive a full-access token while requesting READ_ONLY.

Keep this SDK feature gated until the backend rollout is complete, or reject READ_ONLY when backend capability is unavailable.

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Update the token-request path around the access_level assignment to prevent
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- Around line 317-318: Update the token-request path around the access_level
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Re CodeRabbit's nitpick on scalekit/mcp.py:317 (gate READ_ONLY until the backend supports it): leaving the code as is. That gating happens at release time rather than in code. The PR's Rollout section already says to hold the release until the backend change is proven stable in production, which is the team's plan. The SDK has no way to detect what the backend supports, so a client-side check would add code without closing the gap.


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#221)

* Update the Scalekit description. (#218)

* chore(release): add CHANGELOG and release-notes folder (#213)

* chore(release): release tool, release.toml and seeded CHANGELOG

Vendored from scalekit-sdks-wrapper/tools/release. The matching
workflow changes (release-checks.yml, release.yml, build.yml
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* chore(release): drive releases from scalekit-sdks-wrapper

The release tool and its config now live only in the wrapper
(tools/release). This repo keeps CHANGELOG.md and .changes/unreleased/
(release notes waiting for the next release).

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* ci(release): approval-gated release workflow

- release.yml (workflow_dispatch, version input): validates the version
  against the source, the tags and CHANGELOG.md; reuses build.yml as CI;
  builds; waits for the 'release' environment approval; tags with the
  release app; publishes; creates the GitHub Release from the CHANGELOG;
  verifies the registry. dry_run rehearses without tagging or publishing.
- build.yml: add workflow_call so the release reuses the exact PR CI.

Generated by scalekit-sdks-wrapper/tools/release/templates/workflows/generate.py.

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* docs: describe how this repo's existing release workflow is started

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* ci(release): keep the existing release workflow

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workflow (or stay manual), started from scalekit-sdks-wrapper after
release.py preflight; every PR already has to pass build.yml.

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* docs: describe release notes and the release workflow

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* docs(changelog): add the latest release and simplify the header

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* docs(changelog): fix typos and defaults in imported release history

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* docs(changelog): drop leftover contributor handles, reword the import note

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* feat(mcp): mint session tokens for a connection's MCP server

Add create_connection_session_token to client.mcp and
client.actions.mcp. It mints a session token for the MCP server of one
connection, identified by connection name, with the same optional
expiry and access level as create_session_token. Existing methods are
unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(mcp): clarify connection session token docstrings

Describe the no-active-account case as configuration-dependent, note
that connection_name is matched against the stored name including case,
and state that expires_at on the parsed response is a naive UTC datetime.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(mcp): correct connection_name casing note

The connection is matched without regard to case and the token is issued
for the MCP server URL built from the stored name; only that URL is
case-sensitive.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(mcp): align connection session token examples and errors

Use one example across docstrings, AGENTKIT.md and the release note, and
list the bad-request cases in the AGENTKIT.md entry.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* feat(mcp): mint connection tokens through create_session_token

Fold the connection case into create_session_token on both McpClient and
client.actions.mcp: pass exactly one of mcp_config_id or the new
keyword-only connection_name (sent as key_id). Existing positional and
keyword calls with mcp_config_id are unchanged. Both/neither target, a
blank target or a missing identifier raise ValueError before any request.
Typing overloads describe the two valid call shapes, and McpClient's
return annotation now matches the (response, call) tuple it returns.

Remove create_connection_session_token, which was never released.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(mcp): keep session-token annotations importable on older Pythons

Use typing.Optional and typing.Tuple instead of PEP 604 unions and
built-in generics, and show client.mcp.create_session_token's tuple
return type in AGENTKIT.md.

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* fix(mcp): keep the config-ID session-token path as in v2.20.0

Limit the new client-side checks to the connection form of
create_session_token. With mcp_config_id and no connection_name:

- client.mcp builds the request from the arguments as given, as before:
  an empty, whitespace or None config ID and an empty identifier go to
  the server. A private sentinel default for mcp_config_id lets an
  explicit None still reach the server; only a call that passes neither
  mcp_config_id nor connection_name raises ValueError.
- client.actions.mcp keeps its previous checks and messages
  ("mcp_config_id is required", "identifier is required").

With connection_name: passing mcp_config_id too, an empty
connection_name, or a missing or empty identifier raises ValueError
before any request; a whitespace name or identifier goes to the server.

Annotations in the changed code use X | None and tuple[...] again, since
the package already requires Python 3.10.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(mcp): note the pending connected account for connection tokens

When the environment does not require an active connected account, the
server creates a pending connected account for the identifier before
minting a connection session token. Say so in the create_session_token
docstrings and AGENTKIT.md.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* docs(mcp): pending connected account is created only when none exists

The server reuses the identifier's existing connected account on the
connection and creates a pending one only when there is none. Say so in
the create_session_token docstrings and AGENTKIT.md.

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