docs(rfc): sandbox-local route for host-tool discovery and invocation#1724
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| [openshell.gateway.host_tools.brokers.local] | ||
| kind = "json_rpc_http" | ||
| base_url = "http://127.0.0.1:7901" | ||
| rpc_path = "/" |
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| V1 uses MCP over JSON-RPC 2.0 at `POST http://tools.local/mcp` as the host-tool wire contract. It has three protocol boundaries: | ||
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| - Sandbox to `tools.local`. The sandbox proxy reserves the `tools.local` host. Root JSON-RPC has no v1 methods and returns `method not found` for valid requests. The proxy serves `POST http://tools.local/mcp` as the broker-backed MCP-over-JSON-RPC 2.0 HTTP path, applies local admission checks, attaches sandbox context, and never exposes broker identity or backend routes to the sandbox. |
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Is there anything preventing us from using the existing host.openshell.internal endpoint to reach host services instead of creating a new convention?
How does this work in Kubernetes based cloud deployments?
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| The server-side component behind the sandbox proxy. For host tools it authenticates sandbox context, adds trusted `_meta`, calls the broker, validates response framing, and writes gateway audit. | ||
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| ### Host-Tool Broker |
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To clarify, this is completely outside of OpenShell? Does this broker use any OpenShell specific conventions?
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| Returned tool content is text-only and must fit the v1 transport envelope. Broker-side result validation is part of the Machine-Readable Tool Contract below. | ||
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| ## Machine-Readable Tool Contract |
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| ### Provider Calls Host Tools Directly | ||
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| The provider receives a remote MCP or tool-server URL. That exposes host routes outside the OpenShell relay, weakens audit, bypasses the sandbox proxy, and needs a separate RFC covering provider-facing schema generation, callback authentication, result adaptation, and audit correlation. |
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I don't fully understand all these points. Can you expand on the points and detail how the proposed solution addresses them.
Add RFC 0005 as a single clean docs commit on current upstream/main. The RFC defines the tools.local/mcp sandbox-local path, the Sandbox Proxy to broker boundary, JSON-RPC envelope handling, broker assertion JWTs, and the division of responsibility between OpenShell and the host-tool broker. Signed-off-by: Shiju <shiju@nvidia.com>
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Summary
This PR adds RFC 0005, which proposes
tools.localas a sandbox-local origin for host-tool discovery and invocation in OpenShell. The design lets sandboxed agents callPOST http://tools.local/mcpwhile keeping backend routes, host credentials, and host-local state outside the sandbox.Related Issue
#1723
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tools.local./mcprelay from sandbox proxy to gateway to host-tools broker.POST http://tools.local/for future OpenShell JSON-RPC methods and keeps it closed in v1.Testing
RFC-only documentation change.
mise run pre-commitpasses, not runChecklist