fix(client): apply host color scheme to saved MCP apps

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What Changed

Apply the host's light/dark color scheme inside captured MCP App documents, both on initialization and host-context changes. Web and mobile request a signed MCP rendering intent; the server injects the bootstrap when serving that snapshot, so existing threads benefit without rewriting their attachments. Ordinary HTML previews and downloads retain their existing behavior.

Why

Some Confluence results omit the context flag that enables the vendor's own theme fix. Their text follows the dark host theme while their document canvas stays white, making headings and descriptions illegible. Setting the parent iframe's color scheme does not set the embedded document's canvas. The bootstrap accepts theme messages only from the parent and preserves the existing opaque sandbox and CSP.

Fixes #16991.

UI Changes

Same fictional Confluence result in Zen, dark mode, 607 × 130. Baseline is the captured vendor document without this theme bootstrap; after uses this PR's actual asset response.

Before	After

Verification

• Bot review follow-up: bounded MCP HTML reads and size decisions now live in AssetAccess.readMcpAppHtml; the HTTP adapter retains transformation, response construction, and 413 mapping. All 72 focused asset-access/HTTP tests pass, including exact-limit, oversized, Unicode/chunked, empty, and missing-file cases. Server typecheck and scoped lint/format pass.

• focused shared MCP App, server asset-access, and HTTP tests: 79 passing

• scoped contracts, shared, server, web, and mobile typechecks; touched-file lint and formatting

• imported the sanitized UI fixture into a disposable T3 home; verified the real web client in Zen and the native iPhone 17 client on iOS 26.5

• native device verification using the imported fixture: iPad Pro 11-inch (M5), iOS 26.5, portrait and landscape; Pixel 10 Pro emulator, Android 15; Android 17 foldable emulator, closed and opened. Checked light/dark rendering and rotation/fold transitions. The fixed-height mobile spacing issue is tracked separately and is outside this PR.

• the installed nightly Preview relay leaves iframe debugger targets paused; that separate issue is already fixed by fix(desktop): sign-in and captchas work again in desktop browser tabs #16939.

The fixture includes editable fictional projection rows, captured vendor HTML/CSP, and a standard-library importer. It contains no original conversation, credentials, or company data; screenshots show only the embeds. It is a UI reproduction, not a resumable provider session or event-replay fixture.

Checklist

• This PR is small and focused
• I explained what changed and why
• I included before/after screenshots for UI changes

Model: GPT-6.1 Sol | Harness: Codex in T3 Code

Related work

The theme and cookie fixes are independent PRs targeting main, each with its own behavior tests. Their signed-rendering plumbing overlaps; when both land, retain both bootstraps in the shared asset-serving path.

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Approvability

Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This changes the default rendering of existing saved MCP apps by injecting a host-theme bootstrap into their served HTML across web and mobile clients. Although the change is focused and tested, the cross-cutting product behavior change warrants human review.

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📝 Walkthrough

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Walkthrough

Attachment requests can specify the MCP App render intent. The server carries that intent for inline HTML attachments and injects a theme bootstrap into eligible responses. The bootstrap applies valid themes received from the parent window.

Changes

MCP App theme rendering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Carry MCP App render intent packages/contracts/src/assets.ts, apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.ts, apps/web/src/components/chat/McpAppFrame.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/McpAppWebView.tsx, apps/server/src/assets/AssetAccess.test.ts	The attachment contract accepts the mcp-app render intent. Asset claims retain it only for inline HTML, and web and mobile hosts request it. Stored HTML reads are bounded. Tests cover claim resolution, token tampering, and bounded reads.
Inject theme bootstrap packages/shared/src/mcpApp.ts, packages/shared/src/mcpApp.test.ts	The HTML bootstrap applies valid themes from parent-window JSON-RPC messages. Tests cover script placement and theme message handling.
Transform MCP App HTML responses apps/server/src/http.ts, apps/server/src/http.test.ts	Eligible HTML responses receive the bootstrap and updated content length. Oversized content returns 413. Downloads remain untransformed, and HEAD responses have no body.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant McpAppFrame
  participant AssetAccess
  participant assetFileResponse
  participant injectMcpAppThemeBootstrap
  participant MCPAppDocument
  participant ParentWindow
  McpAppFrame->>AssetAccess: Request attachment with mcp-app render intent
  AssetAccess->>assetFileResponse: Provide resolved HTML asset with render intent
  assetFileResponse->>AssetAccess: Read stored HTML snapshot
  assetFileResponse->>injectMcpAppThemeBootstrap: Inject bootstrap into HTML
  injectMcpAppThemeBootstrap->>MCPAppDocument: Return transformed HTML
  ParentWindow->>MCPAppDocument: Send theme notification or response

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Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#17027: Adds a cookie bootstrap to the same saved MCP App response path and uses the render-intent contract and server transformation flow.

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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 55031

The change applies the host color scheme to saved MCP app documents and keeps bounded reads inside the asset access layer. No concrete merge-blocking risk is evident from the supplied context.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to b891d

The rendering change is narrowly gated and preserves existing asset-access and document-isolation controls. No increased access or privilege was identified. Deployment compatibility and browser behavior were not independently verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The new behavior is confined to HTML attachments already reachable through the server’s signed asset capabilities. It changes their served presentation without granting access to another attachment, host file, environment, or data store.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The inspected paths do not establish a new authority bypass. A URL recipient cannot alter renderIntent without invalidating the signature, and non-parent messages cannot drive the new theme listener. The listener’s accepted effect is limited to light or dark colorScheme values.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Web continues to bind incoming bridge messages to the iframe content window and omits allow-same-origin from its sandbox. The bootstrap binds theme messages to window.parent because the document origin is opaque. Mobile retains its per-view secret check before forwarding messages to the host.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The new theme assignment is document-local and idempotent for repeated values; it introduces no persistent commit or rollback state. Existing per-document host recreation, navigation stopping, context updates, and bounded teardown remain responsible for preventing obsolete document bridges from retaining host authority.

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Pre-merge checks | 4

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description explains the problem, change, scope, verification, and UI evidence. It uses headings that differ from the template, but it covers the required information and links issue #16991.
Linked Issues check		The description links issue #16991, and the issue objective matches the implementation: apply the host color scheme inside captured MCP App documents while preserving existing behavior.
Out of Scope Changes check		The changes support one focused objective across shared, server, web, mobile, and contract layers. The description identifies separate mobile spacing and Preview relay issues as out of scope.
Title check		The title is concise, conventional, and accurately describes the main change: applying the host color scheme to saved MCP apps.

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@juliusmarminge @maria-rcks This is rebased onto current main and ready for maintainer review. The focused HTML/MCP preview regression tests and web, mobile, and server typechecks pass.

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- Around line 183-187: Move the bounded MCP HTML file read, byte collection, and
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