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Virtual MCP servers can now be created, edited, and deleted from the MCP Servers page. Changes apply immediately, without a restart. Until now they could only be declared in config.

  • Storage: a new mcp_virtual_servers SQL table and MongoDB collection.
  • API: new PUT /admin/mcp-virtual-servers and DELETE /admin/mcp-virtual-servers/{name} endpoints. The list response gains managed and configured_tool_discovery.
  • Editor: set the name (the path is fixed once created), a description, member servers picked from the existing ones, and the default tool list mode.
  • Rules:
    • Virtual servers declared in config hide dashboard ones with the same name and stay read-only.
    • A saved virtual server must list existing MCP servers, and it cannot include another virtual server.
    • Names are checked against server slugs both ways: a new virtual server cannot use a server's slug, and a new server cannot use a virtual server's name.
    • An entry saved before the clash existed stays editable. An edit racing a delete fails instead of recreating the row.
  • Sessions: deleting a virtual server ends the sessions open on its endpoint.

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  • New Features
    • Create, edit, and delete managed virtual MCP servers from the dashboard or admin API.
    • Choose member servers and configure tool discovery. Changes apply immediately on the saving gateway.
    • View configured and dashboard-managed virtual servers together. Configured entries remain read-only, and missing members are flagged.
    • Dashboard validation helps prevent naming conflicts with existing servers and virtual servers.
    • Other gateway instances pick up dashboard changes on their next refresh; runtime refresh can also apply updates.
    • Client configuration can be generated for each virtual server.
  • Documentation
    • Updated the MCP gateway guide with dashboard management instructions and clarified naming conflicts and client configuration.

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The change adds persistent admin-managed virtual MCP servers alongside configured servers. It adds gateway merging and refresh behavior, admin API endpoints, dashboard create/edit/delete controls, and related schemas, tests, localization, and documentation.

Changes: Virtual MCP server management

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Virtual-server storage and validation
config/mcp_virtual.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_virtual.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_virtual_sql.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_virtual_mongodb.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_sql.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_mongodb.go, internal/mcpgateway/store_sql_test.go
Adds a shared managed-server type and store interface. SQL and MongoDB stores support listing, retrieval, upsert, update, and deletion. Name validation and normalization are available for reuse.
Gateway merge and managed-server operations
internal/mcpgateway/factory.go, internal/mcpgateway/service.go, internal/mcpgateway/virtual.go, internal/mcpgateway/virtual_admin.go, internal/mcpgateway/manager.go, internal/mcpgateway/upstream.go, internal/mcpgateway/*_test.go, internal/app/runtime_refresh.go, internal/app/app_test.go
The gateway merges stored and configured definitions, with configured definitions taking precedence. Managed-server writes and deletes trigger reloads. Background and runtime refreshes reload the gateway, and session authorization checks current virtual-server membership. Reloads and upstream requests use cancellable contexts.
Admin API and response contracts
internal/admin/handler_mcpservers.go, internal/admin/handler_mcpvirtual.go, internal/admin/routes.go, internal/admin/*_test.go, cmd/gomodel/docs/docs.go, docs/openapi.json
Adds protected PUT /admin/mcp-virtual-servers and DELETE /admin/mcp-virtual-servers/{name} endpoints. Responses distinguish managed status and configured tool-discovery settings. API tests and OpenAPI documentation cover the new operations.
Dashboard editor and management flow
web/dashboard/src/pages/mcp-servers/*, web/dashboard/tests/mcp-servers.test.js, web/dashboard/messages/*.json, docs/features/mcp-gateway.mdx
Adds dashboard controls to create, edit, and delete managed virtual servers. Form helpers validate names and members, and the editor preserves missing members. Localization and feature documentation describe management and conflict behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~55 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Dashboard
  participant AdminAPI
  participant GatewayService
  participant VirtualStore
  Dashboard->>AdminAPI: PUT virtual-server definition
  AdminAPI->>GatewayService: UpsertVirtual
  GatewayService->>VirtualStore: Persist definition
  GatewayService->>VirtualStore: List definitions during reload
  GatewayService-->>AdminAPI: Resulting virtual-server view
  AdminAPI-->>Dashboard: Upsert response
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to f6417

No unresolved issue identified here prevents merging after normal checks. If a deletion reports that the running gateway was not updated, an administrator can retry through runtime refresh.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to f6417

Administrative changes remain globally scoped, and virtual servers continue to narrow existing upstream permissions. The main concern is session termination during deletion and same-name recreation, rather than additional access to another user's tools.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Deletion is not consistently a session-incarnation boundary. A session initializing after the deletion scan, or retained on another gateway instance, can remain bound to virtual/name. If that name is recreated before the session's next request and expiry, ServeHTTP treats it as served and bypasses stale cleanup; authorization then evaluates the old session against the new definition. This can preserve session continuity across an intended termination. Successful local cleanup and current principal, user-path and membership checks constrain the impact; this is a lifecycle and failure-containment concern, not an established tenant-isolation bypass.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A globally scoped administrator can change shared virtual endpoints and their membership across instances using the same database. The affected client population is bounded by each member upstream's existing visibility and tool controls; the virtual definition does not independently grant upstream authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Administrative mutation routes require global scope and reject configuration-managed definitions. The MCP entrypoint checks origins before session side effects and normally binds session reuse to auth-key identity, user path and endpoint. Discovery tool invocation preserves the ordinary session-authorization path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Successful local deletion drops matching bindings and asynchronously closes their sessions. Cleanup drains rather than synchronously cancelling all in-flight upstream work. Failed reload leaves the old runtime active and reports an error; background and manual refresh support recovery, although a zero refresh interval disables automatic polling.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Give persisted virtual-server incarnations an identity distinct from their reusable name, bind sessions to that identity, and reconcile removed incarnations during refresh. This would make deletion termination durable across initialization races, remote refresh and same-name recreation.
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[Medium impact] The PR appears safe to merge, with no new actionable findings.

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flowchart LR
  Dashboard[Dashboard editor] --> API[Admin API]
  API --> Checks[Check config and stored names]
  Checks --> Store[(SQL or MongoDB)]
  Store --> Reload[Reload saving gateway]
  Reload --> Endpoint[Virtual MCP endpoint]
  Store --> Refresh[Other gateways refresh]
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- Around line 96-101: Update the upsert handler’s fallback after searching
mcpServers.VirtualViews() to return a 200 response with a body built from the
saved virtual.Spec(), rather than returning 204 when no matching view is found;
keep the existing mcpVirtualServerView response for matched views.

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🟡 Minor · Terminate sessions when deleting a virtual server. · virtual_admin.go:70-78

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Terminate sessions when deleting a virtual server.

When DELETE /admin/mcp-virtual-servers/:name succeeds, Reload removes the virtual specification but does not close sessions bound to that endpoint. Later requests receive 404 before the SDK handler can process them. The SDK session and transport can therefore remain open until the 30-minute idle timeout, and active exchanges are not cancelled.

Close all sessions bound to the deleted virtual server during deletion, and remove their gateway bindings.

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Update virtual-server deletion in the handler around IsManagedVirtual and
DeleteVirtual to close all sessions bound to the deleted server and remove their
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Re the outside-diff finding "Terminate sessions when deleting a virtual server" (virtual_admin.go:70-78): fixed in d71fa82. Each session binding now keeps the *mcp.Server that hosts the session. After a successful delete, DeleteVirtual drops the bindings for that endpoint and closes their SDK sessions through Server.Sessions(), so they no longer wait for the 30-minute idle timeout. TestDeleteVirtualEndsItsEndpoint asserts the binding is gone and the server has no sessions left.

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Merged main into the branch (4a2792f) to resolve conflicts with the secret-reference work (#1126, #1127, #1168, #1169):

  • One reloadMu now serializes reloads, and the shutdown cancellation sits in reload, so secret-rotation reloads are covered too.
  • The virtual store comes from the unsealed store. The encryption wrapper implements only Store, so taking the virtual store from it would have left dashboard virtual servers without persistence whenever encryption is on. TestNewKeepsVirtualServerPersistenceWithEncryption covers this.
  • Admin input uses a new mcpLiteralPass, so a value that looks like a secret reference is validated rather than stored unchecked.

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