mathias 0a846becee chore(lint): adopt the canonical .golangci.yml from infra/ci-templates
Estate had 26 Go repos, 3 with a lint config, all three different; the other
23 ran golangci-lint v2 defaults, which enable NO formatter -- the hole that
let gofmt drift rot undetected until it was found by hand (dma-cli#12).

Canonical lives at infra ci-templates/golangci.yml and is distributed by the
infra#309 pattern: byte-identical copies, checksum drift gate in infra. Do
not edit this file here -- edit the canonical and run `task ci:sync`.

Verified locally before pushing, not pushed-and-hoped: golangci-lint v2.11.4
run against a Go 1.26.1 toolchain (matching CI) reports 0 issues in this
repo with this config.
2026-09-05 12:51:06 +02:00

mcp-chassis

Shared Go library for Mathias-owned MCP servers. Provides the auth + middleware primitives that every MCP server needs.

Why

By 2026-05-22 there were three+ MCP servers (gitea-mcp, brain-mcp / ingestion, future ones from template-go-agent) each carrying their own near-identical:

  • Dex JWT validator (~80 LOC, identical jwx/v2 plumbing)
  • Bearer middleware (~50 LOC, dual-mode static + JWT)
  • RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata handler (~25 LOC)

The homelab architecture review's spike S3 (see gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/infra/docs/superpowers/handoffs/2026-05-22-mcp-chassis-spike.md) concluded a thin shared lib pays for itself within the first migration. This is that lib.

Non-goals

  • Replacing each MCP's tool registration / handler logic — that is per-domain.
  • Solving HTTP routing — consumers keep their own http.ServeMux.
  • Solving observability — see gitea.d-ma.be/mathias/hyperguild/ingestion/internal/metrics for the hand-rolled Prometheus pattern. May absorb a metrics subpackage here later, once a second consumer needs it.

Packages

auth

  • JWTValidator — Dex OIDC JWT validation. nil is a valid value meaning "JWT auth disabled".
  • BearerMiddleware — static-Bearer-or-Dex-JWT gate. Static wins first; only emits WWW-Authenticate: Bearer ... resource_metadata=... on 401 when resourceMetadataURL is non-empty (claude.ai OAuth discovery).
  • ProtectedResourceHandler — RFC 9728 metadata document for GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

Usage

package main

import (
	"context"
	"net/http"
	"os"

	"git.d-ma.be/mathias/mcp-chassis/auth"
)

func main() {
	staticToken := os.Getenv("BRAIN_MCP_TOKEN")
	dexIssuer := os.Getenv("DEX_ISSUER_URL")
	audience := os.Getenv("MCP_AUDIENCE")
	resourceURL := os.Getenv("MCP_RESOURCE_URL")

	validator, err := auth.NewJWTValidator(context.Background(), dexIssuer, audience)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	mux := http.NewServeMux()
	mux.HandleFunc("GET /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource",
		auth.ProtectedResourceHandler(resourceURL, dexIssuer))
	mux.Handle("/mcp", auth.BearerMiddleware(
		staticToken,
		validator,
		"brain",
		resourceURL+"/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource",
		mcpHandler(),
	))

	_ = http.ListenAndServe(":3300", mux)
}

func mcpHandler() http.Handler { /* per-domain */ return nil }

Versioning

Trunk-based development on main. Tagged with semver. Consumers pin specific tags (go.mod require git.d-ma.be/mathias/mcp-chassis v0.x.y) and bump deliberately.

Migrations are documented per-consumer in the consumer's CHANGELOG / commits.

Dependencies

  • github.com/lestrrat-go/jwx/v2 — JWKS cache + JWT parsing. Same dep every MCP already had; no new transitive cost when adopting the chassis.
  • github.com/stretchr/testify — tests only.

stdlib otherwise.

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Shared Go library for Mathias-owned MCP servers — Dex JWT validator + Bearer middleware + RFC 9728 protected-resource metadata. Hand-rolled (stdlib + lestrrat-go/jwx) per the homelab architecture review.
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