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MCP reauth gets one retry per connection, plus two test hooks that are switched off

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Simultaneous MCP re-auth attempts now collapse into one retry instead of racing each other.

What

When an MCP server needs reauthenticating, concurrent attempts now collapse into a single in-flight retry that reports itself as started, joined or stale_refused, alongside new per-connection bookkeeping for superseded connection attempts and background refreshes. Two accompanying hooks exist only for tests and cannot be used here.

Details
  • The setter that would keep a stale reauth entry around throws on any truthy value, so the behaviour it guards is unreachable in this build.
  • The hook for observing reauth decisions has no caller in the bundle and is read with optional chaining at two places, making it a no-op.
Evidence

setHoldStaleReauthEntryForTest is test-only

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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