MCP authorization was broken in several stacked ways. The browser return
leg landed on the SPA behind the auth gate, so the system browser saw a
login page instead of finishing; the pending-context store silently
saved nothing because its route had no JSON body parser; and the
callback-URL config write started deferring behind Apply & Restart, so
authorization ran against a runtime without the URL and dead-ended on
OpenCode's loopback listener.
The return leg is now completed entirely server-side by an
unauthenticated GET /mcp/oauth/callback that only forwards a code whose
state matches a parked context. Desktop with the local server and VS
Code switch to OpenCode's native flow over its fixed loopback port —
no config writes or restarts at all, with a one-time cleanup of the
previously written callback URL — and its completion signal drives the
page instead of blind status polling. Remote, hosted-web, and mobile
keep the server-callback flow, applying a queued callback-URL write
immediately since authorization cannot wait for a manual restart.
Also: a server queued behind Apply & Restart now shows an Awaiting
restart badge and explanation instead of connect/reauthorize buttons
that can only fail, and Reauthorize is offered only while the server is
actually connected.
Drops the macOS vibrancy toggle, IPC, and related settings copy
Updates dialogs, popovers, tooltips, and dropdowns to use shared glass styles
Adds sticky header fade behavior to model picker and sidebar lists
Adds a work-status panel beside the transcript. Context fill, model and
cost, todos, running subagents and the permission requests blocking
them, branch and working-tree state, MCP servers, pinned messages and
context sources were scattered across the header, the composer and the
context panel — a blocked subagent was reported nowhere at all. The
panel reads them from live channels rather than persisted history, and
becomes an overlay where the chat is too narrow to seat a column.
It is on by default, including for existing installs. Because it now
carries these readouts, the desktop header and composer drop the ones it
duplicates: todo and changed-files chips, usage and MCP tabs. VS Code
and mobile keep theirs — neither hosts the panel.
Fixes MCP authorization, which was broken from the panel, invalidated by
a directory switch through a redirect URI that encoded the working
directory, and left the desktop app in the background because browsers
will not follow a custom-protocol link without a user gesture. The
settings page no longer asks the user to understand the MCP spec before
adding a server: one field takes the command or the link, with the kind
inferred and a visible override, and client-registration fields appear
only when a server actually asks for its own credentials.
Also: skills load from the panel instead of only when the composer's
slash autocomplete opens; the header button names the current instance
rather than falling through to the word "Instance" for relay hosts.
Three new optional UI settings keys, all migrated. No change to stored
MCP server configuration.
Bohdan Triapitsyn