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On 2026-11-01 Sentry respelled seven of its search reads. Each one was refused as tool_drift, which is correct: a pin whose schema moved is never offered. But the only trace was a console.warn line that nobody reads. The connector sat with 7 of 11 tools dark until a template capture tripped over it, and #3283 re-pinned them. This PR gives drift a reader.

What changes

• hostedMcpEntryService.ts. The drift cache takes an onAssessed(row, entry, tools) hook. It sees every fresh assessment, clean or not, and never a cached one or an outage. It runs detached: nothing on the call path awaits it, and what it throws is logged (hosted_mcp_assessment_hook_failed) and can't change the outcome.
• New hostedMcpDriftAlertService.ts. On tool_drift only, it files one Needs-you card per drifted pin set, for the operator named in the SystemSetting hostedMcp.driftAlert ({ recipientUserId, podId }).
  • The source id is drift:<entryId>:<16 hex of the alert pod, the pin digests and the sorted drifted tool names>. One drift is one card, and a second row seeing the same drift adds nothing. Another tool drifting under the same pins, or one only another row's consent lists, files its own card. A re-pin is a new set, so its next drift files afresh.
  • The config is read on every fresh drifted assessment, before any memo. A per-process memo of filed cards, keyed by that source id and the recipient, skips repeat writes, so a newly set or changed operator gets their own card on the next assessment. The card's unique index holds across replicas, and losing the insert race to another replica counts as filed.
  • Nothing undelivered is memoized. An unconfigured or undeliverable drift tries again on the next fresh assessment, and only its error line is throttled, to once an hour per drift and reason. A malformed id counts as unconfigured.
  • The recipient lives in the database, set per instance, so no account or pod id is committed.
  • It refuses to be silently inert, like the onboarding alert. Drift it can't deliver is a console.error naming why: unconfigured, recipient_not_member or failed. A failed write is retried on the next fresh assessment.
• attentionItemService.recordHostedMcpDrift. The card has kind blocked and source type hosted_mcp (new on AttentionItem). It goes only to a recipient listed as a human member of the pod, because the queue hides any row whose recipient can't open its pod. No email: the queue is the delivery. It stays open until the operator marks it handled, since another row may still see the drift.
• hostedMcpToolDefinitions.ts. The runtime cache passes the alert as its hook, loaded on first use: the alert reads SystemSetting, and the frontend glyph-catalogue test imports this module without mongoose.
• tool_unavailable detail. It now says this connection's tools/list does not include X. A row's list depends on what its owner consented to: Sentry offers update_issue only with its Triage skill, and the Linear smoke row lists 26 pins as absent because its scope is read-only. "Upstream no longer lists X" read as a vendor removal on 11-01 and led to a wrong claim in fix(connectors): re-pin Sentry to its 11-01 tools/list #3283's first draft. For the same reason, absence files no card.

Names in the card and the logs come from the pins, and ids come from our rows. Nothing comes from the vendor's descriptions or schemas.

After deploy

One write via ops-runner sets hostedMcp.driftAlert to the connector operator and its pod. Until then a drift logs delivery: unconfigured, which is no quieter than today.

Tests

• hostedMcpDriftAlertService.test.js (new, 19 arms): a moved alert pod gets its own card for the same operator. drift files a card naming the entry and each drifted tool, in the singular for one tool. The same drift files once across rows. A changed operator gets their own card, and the first isn't filed twice. Another tool drifting under the same pins files its own card, and the key ignores order. A re-pinned entry files again. Absent and unchanged tools file nothing and read no config. Unconfigured, half-configured, a malformed id, not a member, a failed write and a failed config read each log. A config set after an unconfigured drift, or an operator who joins the pod after the first error, gets the card on the next assessment. The error line repeats hourly, not on every assessment. Failures retry, and losing an insert race counts as filed.
• hostedMcpEntry.test.js: the reworded detail. The hook sees fresh assessments, clean ones too, and never cached ones or outages. A hook that throws or rejects can't change the outcome.
• attentionItemService.test.js: one blocked hosted_mcp card for a human member, with no email, and nothing for a recipient the pod doesn't list.
• hostedMcpToolDefinitions.test.js: the runtime cache hands a fresh assessment to the alert.
• frontend/src/v2/__tests__/platformGlyphCatalogue.test.tsx imports hostedMcpToolDefinitions for its pure projection. It failed CI at c7d2fa7 with TextDecoder is not defined, because the alert's eager import pulled in mongoose. It passes, 7 of 7, at c7c4add.
• The four backend suites: 216 of 216 pass at 7f47bfffa. Every suite that loads the hosted-MCP, broker, attention or activity modules: 1,505 pass. One rate-limit suite failed once under host load and passes 3/3 alone, on this branch and on main.
• tsc --noEmit is clean. eslint has no errors, and the changed files carry the same warning count as main.

Reverse checks. Each mutation was applied, the four suites run, and the file restored.

#	mutation	failed	red arms
R1	the cache never calls the hook	5 / 207	the four hook arms; the runtime wiring arm
R2	any non-ok verdict files	1 / 207	absent or unchanged files nothing
R3	no per-process memo	2 / 207	once per pin set; unconfigured logs once
R4	source id per entry, not per pin set	1 / 207	a re-pinned entry files again
R5	unconfigured is silent	2 / 207	unconfigured; half-written config
R6	a failure is marked handled	2 / 207	failed write retried; failed config read retried
R7	no membership check	1 / 207	nothing for a recipient the pod doesn't list
R8	old wording	2 / 207	the log line arm; the wording arm
R9	the hook runs inline	2 / 207	a hook that throws; a hook that rejects
R10	the runtime cache isn't wired	1 / 207	the wiring arm
R11	the card emails its recipient	1 / 207	the no-email arm
R12	the key ignores which tools drifted (review)	1 / 212	another tool under the same pins
R13	the drifted names unsorted (review)	1 / 212	the key ignores order
R14	no id validation (review)	1 / 212	a malformed id is unconfigured
R15	undeliverable memoized forever (review)	1 / 212	checked again an hour later
R16	an insert race logged as a failure (review)	1 / 212	losing an insert race counts as filed

After CodeRabbit's two threads (c7c4add), on the alert suite, plus the frontend import check:

#	mutation	failed	red arms
R17	filed memo keyed by drift alone	1 / 18	a changed operator gets their own card
R18	an undelivered drift memoized	2 / 18	config set after unconfigured; operator joins the pod
R19	no error-line throttle	3 / 18	unconfigured; malformed id; logs once an hour
R20	the alert imported eagerly	suite fails to load	the glyph-catalogue test: TextDecoder is not defined, as in CI
R21	the pod left out of the source id (7f47bfffa)	1 / 19	a moved alert pod gets its own card

R15's arm (checked again an hour later) is replaced by R18's two: the recheck itself was what the review found wrong.

Restored: 216 / 216 backend, 7 / 7 frontend.

Review round

A fresh Opus-class subagent reviewed c7d2fa7 and passed it (GATE: PASS, filed as a review on this PR), with no must-fix. It checked:

• that nothing on the call path awaits the hook;
• that no vendor text reaches the card or the logs;
• that the new hosted_mcp source type breaks no reader (the queue, acknowledge, V2ActivityPage);
• that the old wording appears nowhere.

It ran two reverse checks itself. All four of its should-fix items are in e1918d5, each with an arm that went red without it (R12–R16): the dedupe key, the recheck, malformed ids and the insert race. It also flagged that "First seen on" can be wrong after a restart, so the detail now says "Seen on".

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Its two Major threads are both taken in c7c4add and answered in-thread:

• don't memoize an undelivered alert (on c7d2fa7, where e1918d5's hourly recheck only shortened the delay);
• read the config before the memo, and key the memo by recipient and pod (on e1918d5).

Its review of c7c4add raised one Minor outside the diff, in its body only: the card is unique per recipient and source id, and the recorder only inserts, so a moved alert pod matched the old card and the new pod got none. Taken in 7f47bfffa: the pod is part of the source id (R21).

Its review of 7f47bfffa raised one more Minor in its body: lowercase the pod id before hashing, so a case-only rewrite of the setting can't open a second card in the same pod. Not taken. The setting has one writer, the after-deploy ops-runner step, which writes both ids from an ObjectId's toString(), and that is always lowercase. A case-only rewrite isn't a path we have. If a second writer appears, normalize in configFrom, which already validates both ids.

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Walkthrough

Fresh hosted-MCP assessments now trigger alerts for tool_drift. The alert service reads recipient configuration and records a blocked attention item for a current human pod member. Unavailable tools do not trigger alerts.

Changes: Hosted MCP Drift Alerts

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hosted-MCP attention items backend/models/AttentionItem.ts, backend/services/attentionItemService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/attentionItemService.test.js	The attention item schema accepts hosted_mcp sources. recordHostedMcpDrift checks pod membership and records a blocked item without email for eligible recipients.
Fresh assessment callback backend/services/hostedMcpEntryService.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/hostedMcpEntry.test.js	The drift cache calls onAssessed for fresh assessments, including clean assessments. Hook errors are logged without changing the result. Unavailable-tool details now refer to the connection’s tools/list.
Drift alert creation and wiring backend/services/hostedMcpDriftAlertService.ts, backend/services/hostedMcpToolDefinitions.ts, backend/__tests__/unit/services/hostedMcpDriftAlertService.test.js, backend/__tests__/unit/services/hostedMcpToolDefinitions.test.js	The alert service handles tool_drift assessments, reads recipient configuration, and records attention items. The runtime drift cache uses it as the assessment callback. Tests cover deduplication, configuration and delivery failures, and retry behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant HostedMcpDriftCache
  participant alertOnHostedMcpDrift
  participant SystemSetting
  participant AttentionItemService
  HostedMcpDriftCache->>alertOnHostedMcpDrift: Pass fresh assessment
  alertOnHostedMcpDrift->>SystemSetting: Read drift alert configuration
  alertOnHostedMcpDrift->>AttentionItemService: Record hosted-MCP drift item

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Possibly related PRs

• Team-Commonly/commonly#2676: Changes the hosted-MCP assessment path that this alert wiring uses.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#3213: Changes the HostedMcpEntry contracts used by drift source IDs and assessment wiring.
• Team-Commonly/commonly#3283: Changes Sentry tool pins that determine which assessments produce tool_drift or tool_unavailable.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7f47b

A recurring drift can go unnoticed after its earlier card is handled. Resolve that alerting gap before merging unless it is explicitly accepted.

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HEAD: c7d2fa7 — GATE: PASS

The one review round (D218): a fresh Opus-class subagent reviewed this head. It found no must-fix.

Checked:

• Call path. The hook is detached after entries.set. Nothing on the call path awaits it, a synchronous throw lands in its .catch, and outages, cached hits and the connection-changed race all return before it.
• No vendor text. The card and the logs carry entry.title, the drifted pin names and row.connectionId, and nothing from the vendor's descriptions or schemas.
• The new hosted_mcp source type breaks no reader. getOpenQueue works on kind, acknowledgeAttention accepts blocked, and V2ActivityPage branches only on approval_action. Nothing else switches on source.type.
• The old wording is gone. git grep "upstream no longer lists" finds nothing.
• Tests. 207/207 pass. It spot-checked two reverse checks, the !== 'ok' filter and marking a failure handled, and both went red.

Should-fix, all taken in the next push:

1. The dedupe key ignored which tools drifted. A later drift of another tool under the same pins, or a tool only another row's consent lists, was never reported.
2. An unconfigured or recipient_not_member result was memoized until restart, so setting the config later delivered nothing.
3. A malformed id threw a CastError and logged failed on every assessment.
4. A replica race on the upsert (E11000) logged failed although the card exists.

Nits: AttentionSourceType lacks approval_action, which predates this PR, so it is left. "First seen on" can be wrong after a restart, so it is reworded.

GATE: PASS

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backend/services/hostedMcpToolDefinitions.ts: 1

34-34: Minor · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Keep hostedMcpToolDefinitions.ts import-light.

The static import loads hostedMcpDriftAlertService during module evaluation. That service loads SystemSetting and attentionItemService, which loads multiple Mongoose-backed models.

The glyph-catalogue test reaches this module through toolInstallables.ts, so a catalogue-only test loads the alert dependency chain. The grants route already imports Mongoose models, so the original grants-route impact is overstated.

Load the alert service inside onAssessed. This preserves the import-time contract and does not change alert delivery.

♻️ Suggested fix

-import { alertOnHostedMcpDrift } from './hostedMcpDriftAlertService';

-  onAssessed: alertOnHostedMcpDrift,
+  onAssessed: (row, entry, tools) => {
+    // Lazy: the alert pulls in mongoose models; catalogue consumers must not.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line global-require, @typescript-eslint/no-require-imports
+    const { alertOnHostedMcpDrift } = require('./hostedMcpDriftAlertService');
+    return alertOnHostedMcpDrift(row, entry, tools);
+  },

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Review comment at @backend/services/hostedMcpToolDefinitions.ts at line 34:
Remove the module-level hostedMcpDriftAlertService import from
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- Around line 91-95: Update the handled-state logic in the drift alert flow so
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- Line 95: Update the drift-alert flow around `filed` and `deps.readConfig()` to
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the configured recipient and pod as well as `sourceId`, so a recipient or pod
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Minor · Scope hosted-MCP drift identity by pod. · attentionItemService.ts:679-682

backend/services/attentionItemService.ts:679-682
Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Scope hosted-MCP drift identity by pod.

When hostedMcp.driftAlert.podId changes, driftAlertSourceId remains unchanged because it contains no pod identity. The recorder then matches the old row by recipient and source. $setOnInsert preserves the old podId, so the new pod has no card in its scoped queue. Include the configured pod in the hosted-MCP source identity after reading the configuration.

Suggested fix

-export const driftAlertSourceId = (entry: HostedMcpEntry, drifted: string[]): string => {
+export const driftAlertSourceId = (
+  entry: HostedMcpEntry,
+  drifted: string[],
+  podId?: string,
+): string => {
   const pins = entry.tools.map((tool) => digestPinnedDefinition(entry.id, tool)).join('\n');
-  const key = `${pins}\n--\n${[...drifted].sort().join('\n')}`;
+  const key = `${podId || ''}\n--\n${pins}\n--\n${[...drifted].sort().join('\n')}`;
   return `drift:${entry.id}:${createHash('sha256').update(key).digest('hex').slice(0, 16)}`;
 };
...
-    const sourceId = driftAlertSourceId(entry, drifted);
+    let sourceId = driftAlertSourceId(entry, drifted);
...
     if (!config) {
       report('unconfigured');
       return;
     }
+    sourceId = driftAlertSourceId(entry, drifted, config.podId);
     const filedKey = `${sourceId}|${config.recipientUserId}|${config.podId}`;

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Update the hosted-MCP drift alert flow around driftAlertSourceId to include the
configured pod ID in the source identity after configuration is loaded. Preserve
the existing identity inputs and ensure the resulting source ID distinguishes
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- Around line 679-682: Update the hosted-MCP drift alert flow around
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Normalize the pod ID before hashing it.

71-71: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Normalize the pod ID before hashing it.

If the configured podId changes only from lowercase to uppercase hex, this line generates a new sourceId for the same pod and drift. The attention-item upsert then treats it as a new card. Lowercase the pod ID before hashing, and test equivalent-case IDs. The configuration parser accepts either case, while the card’s unique key uses sourceId. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @backend/services/hostedMcpDriftAlertService.ts at line 71:
Normalize podId to lowercase when constructing the key in the hosted MCP drift
alert flow, so equivalent-case IDs produce the same sourceId while preserving
the existing pins and drift components. Add coverage verifying that lowercase
and uppercase forms of the same pod ID generate the same sourceId.

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