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.
Bohdan Triapitsyn
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