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Problem

MCP clients can discover configured providers but cannot read their current subscription quota. Discussion #15137 asks for remaining quota per provider/account, including session and weekly windows.

Change

Add the read-only, no-argument t3_provider_usage_limits tool using the existing cached ProviderRegistry and UsageLimitSources data. It returns provider instances and hub accounts separately, with usage windows, remaining percentages, reported reset timestamps, observation timestamps and age, and explicit available/unavailable/error/not-reported states.

An MCP service validates caller capability and environment scope before reading the domain service. The shared contract defines the sanitized result; MCP registration, required tool catalog metadata, and Claude's read-only allowlist integrate it with existing provider paths. Credentials, fingerprints, auth metadata, runtime paths, reset-credit identifiers, URLs, and raw diagnostics are omitted. The user guide explains cached freshness and missing-data semantics.

Scope and approval

Only current quota visibility through MCP is included. No refreshing/probing, automatic account selection or switching, scheduling, orchestration policies, or UI changes.

Maintainer approval is pending. Discussion #15137 has no explicit maintainer approval comment. This is a feature, not an obvious-bug fix or configuration option, and no approval exemption is claimed. The implementation was requested by the contributor; that does not satisfy upstream maintainer approval. The repository's prior-approval requirement remains unmet until a maintainer approves the direction and scope.

Overlap inspected before implementation: open #15465 includes quota windows in a broader, full-access provider-status tool. This standalone PR offers sanitized read-only access and includes hub accounts. Closed #8730 addresses historical token/cost usage rather than subscription quota.

Verification

On macOS in an isolated worktree:

  • vp test run apps/server/src/usage/UsageLimitsService.test.ts apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/handlers.test.ts apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/registration.test.ts apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.test.ts: 164 tests passed. Service tests verify separate account identities, 0–100% remaining quota, reset preservation, observation age, unavailable/error/missing data, secret redaction, empty collections, and no refresh calls. Handler tests allow read-only clients and deny missing capabilities or mismatched environments before reading quota. The production HTTP test discovers the tool with read-only hints and a root object input schema; the adapter test checks the Claude allowlist against tool annotations.
  • Initial CI also caught missing lifecycle/summary metadata for the new tool. Added its entry to the existing MCP catalog without adding UI controls or layouts. vp test run apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/core.test.ts apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/handlers.test.ts packages/shared/src/t3McpToolPresentation.test.ts: all 28 tests passed, including the previously failing catalog test.
  • After review fixes, reran the quota service, MCP handler, and production registration tests: 7 tests passed. The handler tests exercise the real MCP authorization service.
  • vp run -F t3 typecheck and vp run -F @t3tools/contracts typecheck passed; server and shared-package typechecks also passed after the review fixes. Targeted lint and formatting passed; the unchanged Claude adapter has an existing unused-variable lint warning.
  • vp exec knip --workspace apps/server --include exports --preprocessor ./scripts/knip-schemas.ts --no-config-hints and git diff --check passed.

The HTTP test needed permission to bind its temporary port. Live provider probes, browsers, devices, and live userdata were not used. Cached successful readings may survive a failed probe, and elapsed reset timestamps do not prove replenishment; the tool exposes the observation time rather than claiming live quota.

Implemented by GPT-6.1-Sol via the Codex harness in T3 Code.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change adds t3_provider_usage_limits, a read-only MCP tool that returns sanitized, cached quota data for providers and usage-source accounts in the caller’s environment. The service reports quota status, freshness, and remaining percentages without refreshing data.

Changes

Provider usage limits

Layer / File(s) Summary
Quota result and snapshot service
packages/contracts/src/providerUsageLimits.ts, apps/server/src/usage/UsageLimitsService.ts, apps/server/src/usage/UsageLimitsService.test.ts
Adds the result schema and service. The service converts cached provider and source snapshots into quota statuses, freshness fields, and remaining percentages. Tests cover status mapping, omitted sensitive data, no refresh calls, and empty snapshots.
Environment MCP tool and wiring
apps/server/src/mcp/ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/*, apps/server/src/mcp/McpHttpServer.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/worktree/registration.test.ts, apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/handlers.test.ts, apps/server/src/orchestration-v2/Adapters/ClaudeAdapterV2.ts, packages/shared/src/t3McpToolPresentation.ts, docs/user/usage.md
Adds the environment-scoped read-only tool and provides its services through the MCP server layer. The MCP service rejects mismatched environment IDs. Tests cover tool annotations and caller access. The Claude read-only allowlist, tool presentation, and user documentation include the tool.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant MCP client
  participant Environment toolkit
  participant ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService
  participant UsageLimitsService
  participant Provider registry
  participant UsageLimitSources
  MCP client->>Environment toolkit: Call t3_provider_usage_limits
  Environment toolkit->>ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService: Read quota report
  ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService->>ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService: Check caller and server environment IDs
  ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService->>UsageLimitsService: Read when environment IDs match
  UsageLimitsService->>Provider registry: Read cached provider snapshots
  UsageLimitsService->>UsageLimitSources: Read cached source snapshots
  UsageLimitsService-->>ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService: Return sanitized quota report
  ProviderUsageLimitsMcpService-->>Environment toolkit: Return report or capability_denied
  Environment toolkit-->>MCP client: Return result
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Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 74f97

The cached quota tool is ready to merge after normal checks; no actionable behavior issue remains identified.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 74f97

The new read-only interface exposes cached quota information within the caller’s environment. Access checks and explicit field selection limit exposure. Deployment isolation and the contents of externally supplied account identifiers remain only partially established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • observed — An authorized same-environment caller can read every cached provider instance, including disabled instances, and every cached usage-source account. Visibility is not restricted to the caller’s active provider or account. Hub accounts can represent subscriptions this environment cannot run turns on; the tool grants no corresponding execution or management authority.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Invocation environment identity is server-assigned rather than selected by quota-tool arguments. Registry credentials bind the local environment at issuance; OAuth authentication constructs a local scope after bearer verification. The new service independently enforces capability and environment gates before returning quota.
  • observed — The existing verifier checks token signature, expiry, session existence, and revocation. Default configuration places the environment identity, auth database, and signing secrets under the same state directory. This establishes source-level namespace separation for distinct configured state directories, not proof of isolation in deployments that copy or share those stores.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4
✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Directly linked issue #8730 is closed and supplies historical context only. It does not create active coding requirements for this pull request. The reported changes implement the current quota-visibi…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The reported changes stay within current quota visibility through MCP. The service reads cached provider and hub-account data, while the contract, authorization, registration, Claude allowlist, tests,…
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: exposing cached provider usage limits through MCP.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes complete Problem, Change, Scope and approval, and Verification sections. It explains the feature, limits scope, documents pending maintainer approval, and reports focused test…
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/server/src/mcp/toolkits/environment/handlers.ts:
- Around line 48-56: Move the environment scope validation and quota read from
this handler into one reusable method on UsageLimitsService, reusing the scope
check in access where appropriate. Update the handler to call only that service
method and preserve the capability_denied result for mismatched environments.

Review comments at @docs/user/usage.md:
- Around line 122-123: Update the usage documentation for
UsageLimitsService.read to distinguish the timestamps: describe checkedAt as
when quota data was observed, ageSeconds as the data’s age, and readAt as when
the call read it. Make clear that reading cached data does not refresh or
re-observe the quota.

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