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Part 2 of the port of cloud-commitments-cli#1889 ("feat(mcp): JSONL purchase audit log for the MCP server") to the split repos. Closes #7.

mcp/README.md used to say:

No persisted audit record. The CLI writes a common.AuditRecord per purchase and the web path persists an execution row; this server writes only the stderr lines above.

Those stderr lines vanish with the client session. A money path with nothing to reconcile against is the gap this closes.

Depends on LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-go#130 (the shared durability/locking primitives in pkg/common/audit.go), pinned below at its merged commit. That PR must land first.

Behaviour

Per docs/plans/mcp/00-scope.md §4 R1 and §6 Q4 (as reflected in the original PR):

  • On by default at $XDG_STATE_HOME/cudly/mcp-audit.jsonl, falling back to ~/.local/state/cudly/mcp-audit.jsonl when XDG_STATE_HOME is unset, empty, or relative.
  • CUDLY_MCP_AUDIT_LOG overrides the path. Set to the empty string it disables the log -- the explicit opt-out. Unset is not the same thing and still uses the default. os.LookupEnv rather than os.Getenv is what makes that distinction possible. A whitespace-only value is also treated as the opt-out.
  • AuditLogPath is the single resolver, reusable by future reader tools.
  • One process-wide run_id, so every purchase in a server lifetime correlates.
  • Previews are recorded as status: "skipped", dry_run: true. A preview spends nothing but is still a decision worth reconstructing.
  • credential_scope preserves the routing identifier supplied to the purchase (AWS profile / Azure subscription / GCP project), never mislabeled as a verified account ID.
  • Status is success only when the provider returns Success: true with no embedded error. Dry runs are skipped; provider errors, Success: false, and a result containing an error are error.
  • A write failure warns on stderr and returns; the tool response is unaffected. Losing an audit line is a mundane operational problem, silently turning a completed purchase into a reported failure would not be.
  • NewServer probes the resolved path at construction and fails on a path it cannot create, rather than silently dropping every record for the session.
  • Nothing here is a tool parameter: the audit log is operator-side configuration, not model-controllable.

stdout is the protocol

cmd/cudly-mcp speaks MCP over stdio; any stray stdout write corrupts the transport. Every diagnostic goes through the stdlib log package (stderr). git grep -E 'os\.Stdout|fmt\.Print|println\(' -- tools/ cmd/cudly-mcp/ server.go returns nothing outside tests.

Verified end to end, not just by tests

Built cmd/cudly-mcp and drove it over real stdio with an initialize / initialized / tools/call sequence against cudly_aws_ec2_ri_purchase in preview mode, with HOME/AWS env isolated so nothing ambient is read:

  • stdout contained only JSON-RPC frames, no audit or warning noise
  • exactly one audit line was written to the configured CUDLY_MCP_AUDIT_LOG path, with status: "skipped", dry_run: true, and the supplied credential_scope

(Full transcript in the verification section of the port's tracking; see command output below.)

Tests

tools/audit_test.go: path defaults and overrides; explicit empty/whitespace opt-out; preview, success, provider Go error, Success: false, and contradictory Success: true plus embedded error records; exact credential_scope persistence; shared process run_id; and audit-write failure isolation.

tools/audit_directory_unix_test.go: descriptor-relative directory creation, sync-and-close ordering, concurrent creators, unreadable-ancestor rejection.

server_test.go: NewServer fails on an uncreatable audit path, and succeeds both when auditing is disabled and when the path is writable.

Test-isolation hazard handled: with auditing on by default, every existing test calling ExecutePurchase/NewServer would otherwise append to the developer's real ~/.local/state/cudly/mcp-audit.jsonl. TestMain in cmd/cudly-mcp, the root server_test.go package, and tools/purchase_test.go all now pin CUDLY_MCP_AUDIT_LOG to a run-scoped temp file.

Origin and review history

Ported (not re-derived) from cloud-commitments-cli#1889 (branch feat/mcp-audit-log, commit range b14df7e6..2b031084, author cristim), remapping only import paths and file locations for the split (mcp/ -> repo root, mcp/tools/ -> tools/; github.com/LeanerCloud/CUDly/pkg/... -> github.com/LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-go/pkg/...; github.com/LeanerCloud/CUDly/mcp... -> github.com/LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-mcp...). That PR went through multiple CodeRabbit review rounds plus an independent final-head review (gpt-6-astra, 2026-09-16, no confirmed findings); all 14 review threads are resolved.

Dependency pin

go.mod pins github.com/LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-go/pkg at LeanerCloud/cloud-commitments-go#130's merged commit (currently the pushed branch commit; must be re-pinned to the actual main merge commit once that PR merges, since a squash/merge produces a new SHA -- flagging this explicitly so it isn't missed before this PR is merged).

Verification

Under GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6, GOWORK=off:

  • go build ./... -- clean.
  • go vet ./... -- clean.
  • go test -race -short ./... -- all packages pass.
  • gofmt -l . -- clean.
  • go mod tidy -diff -- empty.
  • golangci-lint v2.10.1 (this repo's CI-pinned version) -- 0 issues.
  • MCP stdio probe (above): stdout carries only protocol frames; exactly one JSONL audit record written per purchase attempt.

Closes #7.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Purchases and dry-run previews are recorded in a local JSONL audit log. Previews are marked as skipped, and records include outcome details.
    • The log uses a default location under your local state directory; you can choose another path or disable auditing.
    • The server checks that the audit log is usable at startup.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Audit-log write failures generate a warning without changing purchase results.
    • Provider outcomes that report success alongside an error are treated as failures.

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The MCP server now writes purchase audit records to a local JSONL file. It supports path overrides, records previews and purchase outcomes, prepares durable directories, and rejects invalid audit-log paths during startup.

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MCP purchase audit logging

Layer / File(s) Summary
Path resolution and durable log setup
go.mod, tools/audit.go, tools/audit_directory_unix.go, tools/audit_directory_unix_test.go, tools/audit_test.go
The audit log uses a trimmed environment override or a default state-directory path. Linux and Darwin directory setup creates missing components with owner-only permissions and syncs directory changes. Tests cover path selection, directory operations, and failure cases.
Purchase audit records and credential scope
tools/audit.go, tools/purchase.go, tools/aws_*.go, tools/azure_compute_ri.go, tools/audit_test.go, tools/purchase_test.go
Purchase execution records previews as skipped and records provider outcomes as success or error. Preview credential scope uses explicit values only. Tests cover record contents, outcomes, and write failures.
Startup enforcement and MCP configuration
server.go, server.json, server_test.go, cmd/cudly-mcp/main_test.go, README.md
Server construction checks audit-log writability before creating the server. Configuration and README text describe the path and audit behavior. Tests cover invalid targets, lock timeouts, and protocol traffic.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Feature · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant PurchaseTool as MCP purchase tool
  participant ExecutePurchase
  participant Provider
  participant recordPurchaseAudit
  participant AuditLog as JSONL audit log
  PurchaseTool->>ExecutePurchase: purchase request
  alt dry run
    ExecutePurchase->>recordPurchaseAudit: skipped audit record
  else real purchase
    ExecutePurchase->>Provider: execute purchase
    Provider-->>ExecutePurchase: result or error
    ExecutePurchase->>recordPurchaseAudit: success or error record
  end
  recordPurchaseAudit->>AuditLog: append JSONL record
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Purchase previews and outcomes are audited without changing purchase results, and invalid enabled audit paths prevent server startup. No material current-head merge risk is supported by the inspected evidence.

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: adding a JSONL MCP purchase audit log controlled by CUDLY_MCP_AUDIT_LOG.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #7 coding requirements are met. tools.AuditLogPath implements the default XDG path, fallback path, trimmed override, and opt-out behavior. Audit records cover previews, successful purchases, p…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes stay within issue #7. README and server metadata document the audit feature. Purchase-tool changes provide the required scope and status behavior. Directory operations, dependency updates,…
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Ports the audit-log feature from cloud-commitments-cli#1889
(pre-split monorepo PR, closes cloud-commitments-mcp#7) into the split
MCP repo. Depends on cloud-commitments-go#130 (pkg/common durability
primitives), pinned in go.mod.

- tools/audit.go: EnvAuditLog ("CUDLY_MCP_AUDIT_LOG") resolves to
  $XDG_STATE_HOME/cudly/mcp-audit.jsonl by default (falling back to
  ~/.local/state/cudly/mcp-audit.jsonl), overridable; empty/whitespace
  disables logging entirely (the explicit opt-out, distinguished from
  "unset" via os.LookupEnv). recordPurchaseAudit appends one
  common.AuditRecord line per purchase attempt (including previews,
  status "skipped") and never changes the purchase result on a write
  failure -- it warns on stderr instead.
- tools/audit_directory_unix.go: descriptor-relative parent-directory
  creation/sync so a misconfigured path fails server construction
  loudly (server.go's NewServer probes it at startup) instead of
  silently dropping every audit record for the process lifetime.
- tools/purchase.go: requestCredentialScope resolves the audit/
  idempotency scope per mode (previews never record an ambient
  fallback account they never resolved); auditStatusFor classifies a
  contradictory Success=true-with-Error result as an error, never a
  success.
- Nothing here is a tool parameter -- the audit log is operator-side
  configuration, not model-controllable.

Verification: go build/vet/test -race -short/gofmt clean under
GOTOOLCHAIN=go1.26.6, GOWORK=off; go mod tidy clean; golangci-lint
v2.10.1 (CI-pinned) 0 issues. MCP stdio probe: initialize +
tools/call(dry_run=true) produced exactly 2 stdout JSON-RPC frames (no
stray writes), empty stderr, and exactly one JSONL audit record
(status "skipped", dry_run true, credential_scope preserved).
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Independent adversarial review (Opus 5.5) at bb5d88a: MERGE. Closes #7 (JSONL purchase audit log). Pin: go pkg/providers at fe940a89 on go main, including #130. Scenario coverage: on by default at the XDG state path (relative XDG ignored); an empty value opts out via LookupEnv; one run_id per process; previews recorded as skipped/dry_run; real purchases as success/error, including a Success:true+Error contradiction; write failures warn on stderr; NewServer fails closed on an unusable path; stdout stays clean. Evidence: 12 single-line mutations (dropping audit calls, Getenv vs LookupEnv, relative XDG, no fsync, and so on) were all killed by named tests. Local: build/vet on darwin and linux, go test -race -short 383 pass, tidy clean, golangci-lint v2.10.1 clean; CI green. Nit: the PR body's 'Dependency pin' note is stale (the pin now points at go main).

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