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XAA (Cross-App Access) Protocol Expansion

The MCP OAuth cross-app access (XAA) system has received a major expansion with full PRM (Protected Resource Metadata) discovery, AS (Authorization Server) metadata discovery, and a two-stage token exchange flow (ID token → ID-JAG → access token). New --xaa, --client-id, and --client-secret flags are now available for MCP server configuration. A dedicated XaaTokenExchangeError class provides better error handling with per-stage failure tracking.

Evidence

XAA protocol flow (search for "XAA: starting cross-app access flow") — eB1() at line ~327934

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