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feat(security): MCP supply-chain controls for extended-tier repos
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Descrizione
**Context:** ROADMAP.md → Security → MCP supply-chain controls
**Related:** #429 (signed attestation RFC—complementary), extended-tool-capability-tiers draft, #246
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## Component
Agent (Python runtime)
## Describe the feature
For **extended-tier** repos (see tool capability tiers draft):
- **Pin or self-host** MCP servers (no floating upstream URLs in production).
- Keep **`.mcp.json` in version control**; blueprint references pinned commit/artifact.
- **Verify tool descriptors** before enablement (hash/signature check at task start).
- **No dynamic tool discovery** in production blueprints (static allowlist only).
Mitigates tool poisoning and rug-pull risks where a remote MCP server changes tool behavior after onboarding.
## Use case
MCP expands agent capability but introduces supply-chain risk: a compromised or updated MCP server can exfiltrate data or add malicious tools. Extended-tier repos need controls comparable to dependency pinning.
## Proposed solution
1. Registry (#246) stores pinned MCP server artifacts with immutable versions.
2. Runtime validates descriptor hash at resolution; reject drift.
3. Blueprint `mcp_servers[]` entries require `registry_ref@version` in production mode.
4. Cedar deny for `mcp.discover` / dynamic registration in production.
5. Operator audit when pinned version ages beyond policy.
6. Document in `docs/design/SECURITY.md`, `docs/design/COMPUTE.md`.
## Other information
- Distinct from #429 (attestation for `AGENTS.md` / instruction files).
- Requires **extended tool capability tiers** draft.
- Design context: `docs/design/COMPUTE.md`, `docs/design/SECURITY.md`.
- [x] This might be a breaking change
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Direzione di ricerca
Inizia da ROADMAP.md e dalla bozza extended-tool-capability-tiers, quindi leggi docs/design/SECURITY.md e docs/design/COMPUTE.md insieme a issue #246 e all’Agent Python runtime context. Il lavoro è completo quando i controlli della supply chain MCP dell’extended-tier, le restrizioni di produzione, la verifica dei descrittori, l’audit dell’età delle versioni e la documentazione correlata hanno un’implementazione definita e verificabile in revisione.
Scritto dal modello di indicizzazione a partire dal testo della issue.
Valutazione
- Stack tecnologico
- python
- Ambito
- ai, security
- Tipo di issue
- Funzionalità
- Difficoltà
- 5/5
- Tempo stimato
- Più di una settimana
- Stato di attività
- Tranquilla
- Chiarezza
- Abbastanza chiara
- Idoneità per principianti
- 35/100