molecule-core/workspace/a2a_mcp_server.py
Hongming Wang 0a87dec50e feat(mcp): declare experimental.claude/channel capability for push UX
Without this capability declaration in the initialize handshake,
Claude Code's MCP client receives our notifications/claude/channel
emissions but silently drops them — they never become inline
<channel> tags in the conversation. The push-UX bridge added in
PR #2433 ships, fires, and is invisible.

This was anticipated as a failure mode in #2444 §2 ("Notification
arrives but Claude Code doesn't surface it — host doesn't recognize
the method"), and confirmed live in this session: a canvas chat
"hi" landed in the inbox queue (inbox_peek returned it) but never
woke the agent until inbox_peek was called by hand.

The contract matches molecule-mcp-claude-channel/server.ts:374
where the bun bridge declares the same experimental flag.

Refactor: extracted _build_initialize_result() so the handshake
shape is unit-testable. Pure function, no behavioral change beyond
adding the experimental capability to the result.

Tests: 3 new pins on the initialize result (capability presence,
tools-still-there, protocolVersion stable). Closes the live-
verification gap §2 of #2444.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-01 13:45:06 -07:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""A2A MCP Server — runs inside each workspace container.
Exposes A2A delegation, peer discovery, and workspace info as MCP tools
so CLI-based runtimes (Claude Code, Codex) can communicate with other workspaces.
Launched automatically by main.py for CLI runtimes. Runs on stdio transport
and is configured as a local MCP server for the claude --print invocation.
Environment variables (set by the workspace container):
WORKSPACE_ID — this workspace's ID
PLATFORM_URL — platform API base URL (e.g. http://platform:8080)
"""
import asyncio
import json
import logging
import sys
# Top-level (not inside main()) so the wheel rewriter expands this to
# `import molecule_runtime.inbox as inbox`. A local `import inbox as _x`
# would expand to `import molecule_runtime.inbox as inbox as _x`,
# which is invalid — see scripts/build_runtime_package.py:rewrite_imports.
import inbox
from a2a_tools import (
tool_check_task_status,
tool_commit_memory,
tool_delegate_task,
tool_delegate_task_async,
tool_get_workspace_info,
tool_inbox_peek,
tool_inbox_pop,
tool_list_peers,
tool_recall_memory,
tool_send_message_to_user,
tool_wait_for_message,
)
from platform_tools.registry import TOOLS as _PLATFORM_TOOL_SPECS
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# Re-export constants and client functions so existing imports
# (e.g. tests that do `import a2a_mcp_server`) still work.
from a2a_client import ( # noqa: F401, E402
PLATFORM_URL,
WORKSPACE_ID,
_A2A_ERROR_PREFIX,
_peer_names,
discover_peer,
get_peers,
get_workspace_info,
send_a2a_message,
)
from a2a_tools import report_activity # noqa: F401, E402
# --- Tool definitions (schemas) ---
#
# Built once at import time from the platform_tools registry. The MCP
# `description` field is the spec's `short` line — that's the unified
# tool description used by both the MCP tool listing AND the bullet
# rendering in the agent-facing system-prompt section. The deeper
# `when_to_use` guidance is appended to the system prompt only (it's
# too long to live in MCP `description` without bloating every
# tool-list response the model sees).
TOOLS = [
{
"name": _spec.name,
"description": _spec.short,
"inputSchema": _spec.input_schema,
}
for _spec in _PLATFORM_TOOL_SPECS
]
# --- Tool dispatch ---
async def handle_tool_call(name: str, arguments: dict) -> str:
"""Handle a tool call and return the result as text."""
if name == "delegate_task":
return await tool_delegate_task(
arguments.get("workspace_id", ""),
arguments.get("task", ""),
)
elif name == "delegate_task_async":
return await tool_delegate_task_async(
arguments.get("workspace_id", ""),
arguments.get("task", ""),
)
elif name == "check_task_status":
return await tool_check_task_status(
arguments.get("workspace_id", ""),
arguments.get("task_id", ""),
)
elif name == "send_message_to_user":
raw_attachments = arguments.get("attachments")
attachments: list[str] | None = None
if isinstance(raw_attachments, list):
# Defensive: filter to strings only — claude-code SDK occasionally
# emits dicts here when the model misreads the schema. Drop the
# bad entries rather than 500 the whole call.
attachments = [p for p in raw_attachments if isinstance(p, str) and p]
return await tool_send_message_to_user(
arguments.get("message", ""),
attachments=attachments,
)
elif name == "list_peers":
return await tool_list_peers()
elif name == "get_workspace_info":
return await tool_get_workspace_info()
elif name == "commit_memory":
return await tool_commit_memory(
arguments.get("content", ""),
arguments.get("scope", "LOCAL"),
)
elif name == "recall_memory":
return await tool_recall_memory(
arguments.get("query", ""),
arguments.get("scope", ""),
)
elif name == "wait_for_message":
return await tool_wait_for_message(
arguments.get("timeout_secs", 60.0),
)
elif name == "inbox_peek":
return await tool_inbox_peek(
arguments.get("limit", 10),
)
elif name == "inbox_pop":
return await tool_inbox_pop(
arguments.get("activity_id", ""),
)
return f"Unknown tool: {name}"
# --- MCP Notification bridge ---
# `notifications/claude/channel` matches the contract used by the
# molecule-mcp-claude-channel bun bridge (server.ts:509). Claude Code's
# MCP runtime treats this method as a conversation interrupt — `content`
# becomes the agent turn, `meta` is structured metadata. Notification-
# capable hosts (Claude Code today; any compliant client tomorrow)
# get push UX automatically; pollers (`wait_for_message` / `inbox_peek`)
# still work unchanged. See task #46 + the deprecation path documented
# in workspace/inbox.py:set_notification_callback.
_CHANNEL_NOTIFICATION_METHOD = "notifications/claude/channel"
def _build_initialize_result() -> dict:
"""MCP initialize handshake result.
The ``experimental.claude/channel`` capability declaration is what
tells Claude Code's MCP client to route our
``notifications/claude/channel`` emissions as conversation
interrupts (push UX). Without it the notification arrives over the
wire but is silently dropped instead of becoming a ``<channel>``
tag in the next agent turn — matching the
"Notification arrives but Claude Code doesn't surface it" failure
mode anticipated in molecule-core#2444. Mirrors the contract
declared by the molecule-mcp-claude-channel bun bridge
(server.ts:374).
"""
return {
"protocolVersion": "2024-11-05",
"capabilities": {
"tools": {"listChanged": False},
"experimental": {"claude/channel": {}},
},
"serverInfo": {"name": "a2a-delegation", "version": "1.0.0"},
}
def _build_channel_notification(msg: dict) -> dict:
"""Transform an ``InboxMessage.to_dict()`` into the MCP notification
envelope expected by Claude Code's channel-bridge contract.
Pure function so the wire shape is unit-testable without spinning
up an asyncio loop. The wire-up in ``main()`` just composes this
with ``asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe``.
"""
return {
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": _CHANNEL_NOTIFICATION_METHOD,
"params": {
"content": msg.get("text", ""),
"meta": {
"source": "molecule",
"kind": msg.get("kind", ""),
"peer_id": msg.get("peer_id", ""),
"method": msg.get("method", ""),
"activity_id": msg.get("activity_id", ""),
"ts": msg.get("created_at", ""),
},
},
}
# --- MCP Server (JSON-RPC over stdio) ---
async def main(): # pragma: no cover
"""Run MCP server on stdio — reads JSON-RPC requests, writes responses."""
reader = asyncio.StreamReader()
protocol = asyncio.StreamReaderProtocol(reader)
await asyncio.get_event_loop().connect_read_pipe(lambda: protocol, sys.stdin)
writer_transport, writer_protocol = await asyncio.get_event_loop().connect_write_pipe(
asyncio.streams.FlowControlMixin, sys.stdout
)
writer = asyncio.StreamWriter(writer_transport, writer_protocol, None, asyncio.get_event_loop())
async def write_response(response: dict):
data = json.dumps(response) + "\n"
writer.write(data.encode())
await writer.drain()
# Wire the inbox → MCP notification bridge. Inbox poller (daemon
# thread) calls into here when a new activity row lands; we
# schedule the notification onto the asyncio loop and best-effort
# fire it on the same stdout the responses go to.
loop = asyncio.get_running_loop()
async def _emit_notification(payload: dict) -> None:
data = json.dumps(payload) + "\n"
writer.write(data.encode())
try:
await writer.drain()
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
# Closed pipe (host disconnected) shouldn't crash the
# inbox poller; let it sit until the host reconnects.
pass
def _on_inbox_message(msg: dict) -> None:
try:
asyncio.run_coroutine_threadsafe(
_emit_notification(_build_channel_notification(msg)),
loop,
)
except RuntimeError:
# Loop closed during shutdown — best-effort, swallow.
pass
inbox.set_notification_callback(_on_inbox_message)
buffer = ""
while True:
try:
chunk = await reader.read(65536)
if not chunk:
break
buffer += chunk.decode(errors="replace")
while "\n" in buffer:
line, buffer = buffer.split("\n", 1)
line = line.strip()
if not line:
continue
try:
request = json.loads(line)
except json.JSONDecodeError:
continue
req_id = request.get("id")
method = request.get("method", "")
if method == "initialize":
await write_response({
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": req_id,
"result": _build_initialize_result(),
})
elif method == "notifications/initialized":
pass # No response needed
elif method == "tools/list":
await write_response({
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": req_id,
"result": {"tools": TOOLS},
})
elif method == "tools/call":
params = request.get("params", {})
tool_name = params.get("name", "")
tool_args = params.get("arguments", {})
result_text = await handle_tool_call(tool_name, tool_args)
await write_response({
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": req_id,
"result": {
"content": [{"type": "text", "text": result_text}],
},
})
else:
await write_response({
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"id": req_id,
"error": {"code": -32601, "message": f"Method not found: {method}"},
})
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f"MCP server error: {e}")
break
def cli_main() -> None: # pragma: no cover
"""Synchronous wrapper around the async MCP stdio loop.
Called by ``mcp_cli.main`` (the ``molecule-mcp`` console-script
entry point in scripts/build_runtime_package.py) AFTER env
validation and the standalone register + heartbeat thread setup.
Direct callers (in-container code that already validated env and
runs heartbeat.py separately) can also invoke this — it's the
smallest possible "run the MCP stdio JSON-RPC loop" surface.
Wheel-smoke gates in scripts/wheel_smoke.py pin the importability
of this name (alongside ``mcp_cli.main``) so a silent rename can't
break every external-runtime operator's MCP install — the 0.1.16
``main_sync`` rename incident is the cautionary precedent.
"""
asyncio.run(main())
if __name__ == "__main__": # pragma: no cover
cli_main()