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Agents using T3 Code from outside the app (Claude Desktop, Cursor, chat bots over OAuth MCP) post thread links that are broken. MCP results gave them link: "<t3-thread://v2/...>", a token only T3 Code's own renderer turns into a thread chip. Elsewhere it shows as raw text, gets stripped as an unknown HTML tag, or does not open.

Now an outside OAuth client gets a normal web URL on the origin it connected to, <origin>/<environmentId>/<threadId>. That URL opens the thread in the web app there. Agents inside T3 Code and linked environments still get t3-thread:// links, so chips and live titles do not change.

This covers launch, list, read, search, send, and scheduled task run-now results.

Proof: the extended launch test fails on main and passes here. vp run check:changed passes. At runtime, I ran a dev server and did the full OAuth flow with curl. t3_thread_launch, t3_thread_list, t3_thread_read, and t3_thread_search returned http://127.0.0.1:<port>/<env>/mcp%3A.... A paired headless browser opened that URL to the right thread.

Follow-up, not in this PR: on a phone this link opens the browser, not the T3 Code app. app.t3.codes offers "open in app" only for thread links with ?prompt.

Reviewed with sol-loop: 1 round with GPT-6.1 Sol. Sol verdict: approved

Created with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (T3 Code).

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 227ada0

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Outside MCP clients receive browser-openable thread links, while internal and linked-environment clients retain their existing links. The change affects response formatting without changing authentication, permissions, or stored data.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
Codex	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+6 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.3 KiB	+6 B (+0.5%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.6 KiB	21.6 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.3 KiB	1.3 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.9 KiB	21.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	24.4 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 9826dbb · PR result: 227ada0 · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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Walkthrough

MCP OAuth scopes now carry the request issuer origin for non-peer clients. Thread link generation uses that origin to return encoded web URLs for outside clients and retains t3-thread:// links when no web origin is present. MCP thread operations and launch responses use the shared helper.

Changes: MCP thread links

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Caller origin and link helper apps/server/src/auth/McpOAuth.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/McpInvocationContext.ts	The OAuth scope sets webOrigin for non-peer clients. threadLinkFor returns a web URL when the origin is set and otherwise returns the existing t3-thread:// link.
Orchestrator thread results apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts	Thread list, detail, and send results now generate links from the invocation scope.
Toolkit responses and validation apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/handlers.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.test.ts, docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md	Project and thread handlers use the shared helper. The launch test checks an origin-based URL with an encoded thread ID. The documentation describes URLs returned to outside OAuth clients.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

• pingdotgg/t3code#24784: Introduced t3-thread links in MCP results that this change updates.
• pingdotgg/t3code#24791: Reverted the ready-made thread links that this change restores with different link selection.
• pingdotgg/t3code#26290: Added hosted web thread URLs and web routes that open threads.

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 227ad

Thread links work after pairing, but opening one in an unpaired browser lands on the home page instead of the requested thread. Preserve the destination through pairing; the issue is bounded and does not prevent merging.

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Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/McpInvocationContext.ts:
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• apps/server/src/auth/McpOAuth.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/McpInvocationContext.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/OrchestratorMcpService.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.test.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/project/handlers.ts
• apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/thread/handlers.ts
• docs/orchestration-v2/orchestrator-mcp-server.md

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