verdande could not be added to Claude at all. The documented setup —
POST /api/v1/mcp with an Authorization header — cannot be configured from
Claude's custom-connector dialog, which asks for a name, a URL and OAuth
client credentials and has no field for a bearer token. The instructions
described something the interface does not offer.
Worse, the obvious guess failed silently in the most misleading way
available: /mcp was not a route, so the SPA fallback answered 200 with a
page of HTML. The connector reported a successful connection and then
failed to parse the response, which reads as a broken client rather than
a missing endpoint.
So /mcp exists now and takes its credential in the query string, exactly
as the calendar feed does and for the same reason: a client that cannot
be told to send a header means the address is the credential. The
request logger records paths without their query strings, so the key does
not reach the log.
It is deliberately outside /api/v1 and accepts the key and nothing else.
Reading a session cookie here would make it a state-changing POST outside
the CSRF check — a cross-site request that acts as whoever is signed in —
and there is a test that fails if that ever becomes true.
The API path is unchanged for anything that can send a header. The tokens
page now shows the connector address next to the token it belongs to,
since that is the one moment the token exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
