Capture the five debugging chapters from the bearer-forwarding rollout
so the knowledge doesn't live only in chat history:
1. Per-request bearer across anyio.TaskGroup boundary (ContextVar
snapshot semantics, httpx auth-header caching on persistent
connections, forward_inbound_auth pydantic-drop workaround).
2. install() idempotency guard shadowing three newly-added
monkey-patches — each patch now owns its own sentinel.
3. FastMCP on_call_tool context shape: context.message.name, not
context.message.params.name. Extractor returning None silently
killed the _PUBLIC_TOOLS bypass and downstream dispatch "await
None(...)" produced the terse 'object NoneType can't be used in
await expression' string that blocked Harper<->Mnemosyne.
4. Rich-TUI corruption by DEBUG openai/sse_starlette/mcp via root
logger inheriting logger.level=debug + our stderr StreamHandler.
Fixed by PALLAS_LOG_STDERR gate and PALLAS_ROOT_LOG_LEVEL split.
5. Current state table of PALLAS_LOG_* knobs + jq tail recipe.
Also add pallas.log and pallas._fastagent_patch to the Module Reference
table.
The Mnemosyne Authorization: Bearer token was being dropped on outbound MCP
calls because fast-agent runs downstream transports inside a long-lived
anyio TaskGroup whose context is snapshotted at manager startup —
request_bearer_token.get() inside _prepare_headers_and_auth therefore
always resolved to None even when the request handler had just set it.
Fix:
* pallas/_fastagent_patch.py
- add _pending_bearers registry keyed by id(server_config) with a
threading.Lock; publish_bearer / revoke_bearer helpers.
- patched _prepare_headers_and_auth reads the registry first, falls
back to the ContextVar for non-persistent probe paths.
- emit INFO log on install() so the journal shows the patch ran;
verbose flow logs at DEBUG on pallas.forward.
* pallas/multimodal_server.py
- send_message resolves the agent's opted-in downstreams, publishes
the inbound bearer for each, and revokes them all in the finally.
- bearer/header diagnostics go to pallas.auth (DEBUG) instead of
/tmp/pallas-bearer.log which is invisible under systemd PrivateTmp.
* pallas/log.py
- honour PALLAS_LOG_LEVEL env var (default INFO) so operators can
flip the forward/auth diagnostics on without a code change.
* docs/pallas.md, docs/mnemosyne_integration.md
- document the registry-based forwarding and the task-group
ContextVar constraint that forced it.
Introduce per-server `forward_inbound_auth` flag that controls whether the
inbound MCP bearer token is propagated to outbound MCP transport calls.
Implemented as a fast-agent monkey-patch auto-installed on package import,
preventing accidental credential leakage to unrelated downstream servers.
Update docs to describe the two bearer token consumers (LLM provider
passthrough and opt-in downstream MCP forwarding) with a config example.
