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What does this PR do?

The screenshot engine writes the saved frontend theme of the Home Assistant
user its token belongs to, and that syncs to the user's live web and mobile
sessions (#1909). ha-mcp used to undo this with a snapshot/restore bracket —
but the restore was itself a frontend/set_user_data write issued from tools
annotated readOnlyHint: True. That contradiction is why #1991 / PR #2014
disabled the bracket, trading the protection away to keep the annotation
honest.

This keeps both. The guard still reads the saved theme before and after a
capture, but on a change it reports the previous value instead of writing
it
. The capture path issues no writes at all — pinned by _set_calls() == []
on every capture-path test, including the render-failure path — so the
read-only annotations stay accurate with no argument to have.

Undoing the change moves to ha_manage_theme, already annotated
destructiveHint: True / readOnlyHint: False, via two new actions:

  • get_engine_theme — read the engine account's per-user theme
  • set_engine_theme — write it back, guarded (below)

These act on the engine account's per-user profile
(frontend/set_user_data) — a different layer from the backend default that
action="set" changes.

Detection is armed for every capture, not only themed ones: the upstream fix
sparing the no-parameter case (balloob/home-assistant-addons#89) is merged
but unreleased as of Puppet 2.6.0, so on current releases every render writes.

Giving the engine its own Home Assistant user and long-lived token avoids the
problem outright — the write lands on an account nobody looks at. The warning
still fires (ha-mcp has no signal telling it an account is dedicated), it is
just safe to ignore.

Safety properties

Review surfaced several defects in the design as first written. All are fixed
here, and each has a regression test.

  • The restore is guarded, not blind. set_engine_theme re-reads the stored
    theme immediately before writing and skips on mismatch. An explicit null
    means "expect no stored theme" and is enforced like any other value; omitting
    the value is equivalent, since MCP cannot distinguish the two at the schema
    layer. force is the only way to overwrite unconditionally. This is
    best-effort, not atomic: websocket_set_user_data is an unconditional
    async_set_item with schema {type, key, value}, so Home Assistant offers
    nothing to compare against server-side.
  • Engine-account identity is required. An explicit engine URL yields no
    addon_credential, so the only fallback is ha-mcp's own credential — a
    different user under the dedicated-account setup this feature recommends.
    Both engine-theme actions refuse there rather than reading or overwriting the
    wrong profile. A value comparison cannot substitute for identity: two users
    holding the same theme compare equal.
  • The engine token is never sent in cleartext to a remote host.
    Supervisor-internal, loopback, .local and RFC1918 destinations still allow
    http:// — that traffic stays inside the zone SECURITY.md documents as
    trusted, and the add-on default is http://homeassistant:8123. Private
    ranges are recognised only as real IP literals, so DNS names like
    10.attacker.example are refused.
  • Guard sessions are bounded end to end. COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS only
    covered a command after connect and auth, so an unreachable endpoint stalled
    before the engine was contacted. The close is an owned task, cancelled when
    its bounded wait gives up and awaited with return_exceptions=True, rather
    than shielded and left orphaned against a live socket.
  • Read Only Mode. ha_manage_theme joins READ_ONLY_EXEMPT_TOOLS as a
    mixed tool: list and get_engine_theme stay callable, both writes stay
    blocked. Screenshots themselves remain available there ([BUG] Claude.ai shows "Get Dashboard" as a write/delete tool? #1991 made both entry
    points readOnlyHint: True), so a capture still warns — you just cannot act
    on the warning until Read Only Mode is off.

Type of change

  • 🐛 Bug fix
  • ✨ New feature
  • 📚 Documentation
  • 🔧 Maintenance/refactor
  • 🧪 Tests only
  • 💥 Breaking change

Testing

  • I have tested these changes with a LLM agent
  • All automated tests pass (uv run pytest)
  • Code follows style guidelines (uv run ruff check)

Unit coverage for the themed/unthemed split, the compare guard including the
explicit-null case, force through the public ha_manage_theme dispatch,
engine-account identity refusal, cleartext policy, bounded sessions, and
cancellation cleanup.

E2E coverage is new for these actions: deterministic identity-refusal in the
dev-mode suite (ha_dev_manage_settings can set
dashboard_screenshot_engine_url at runtime, which forces the no-credential
case), plus structured-error contract coverage in the themes suite, which
cannot force that case because dev mode is off there.

Performance baselines gained 100ms of headroom: ha_call_service failed at
212.52ms against a 200ms target with no code change behind it. The targets
still sit far below the 5x max_allowed_ms guard, and
test_list_tools_performance — whose own hardcoded threshold disagreed with
its docstring — was brought into line.

Checklist

  • I have updated documentation if needed

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added engine-theme inspection and guarded restoration with compare-and-set protection against unexpected changes.
    • Dashboard screenshots now detect persistent theme changes and provide actionable warnings without modifying settings automatically.
    • Screenshot operations remain available in Read Only Mode, while theme changes stay blocked.
    • Added clearer validation and error messages for unavailable engine access, invalid themes, and unsafe connections.
    • Added an option to intentionally bypass change protection when restoring themes.
  • Documentation

    • Updated guidance for persistent dashboard themes, restoration warnings, and Read Only Mode.

The screenshot engine writes the saved frontend theme of the Home Assistant
user its token belongs to, which syncs to that user's live web and mobile
sessions (homeassistant-ai#1909). ha-mcp previously undid that with a snapshot/restore
bracket, but the restore was itself a frontend/set_user_data write from
tools annotated readOnlyHint: True -- which is why homeassistant-ai#1991 / PR homeassistant-ai#2014
disabled the bracket entirely, trading the protection away to keep the
annotation honest.

This keeps both. The guard still reads the saved theme before and after a
capture, but on a change it reports the previous value instead of writing
it, so the capture path issues no writes at all and the read-only
annotations stay accurate. Undoing the change moves to ha_manage_theme --
already annotated destructiveHint: True / readOnlyHint: False -- via two
new actions:

- get_engine_theme: read the engine account's per-user theme
- set_engine_theme: write it back, taking the value verbatim from the
  warning

These act on the engine account's per-user profile (frontend/set_user_data),
a different layer from the backend default that action='set' changes, and
they resolve the engine credential the way the guard does rather than using
ha-mcp's own client -- with a dedicated engine account those are different
users, and ha-mcp's own credential cannot reach the engine user's profile.

The warning also suggests giving the engine its own user and token, which
avoids the problem outright: the write then lands on an account nobody
looks at, and nothing is emitted.

Because nothing is written on the capture path, concurrent batches cannot
corrupt each other, so this needs no serialization -- and with it none of
the lock's failure modes. Detection is armed for every capture, not only
themed ones: the upstream fix sparing the no-parameter case
(balloob/home-assistant-addons#89) is unreleased as of Puppet 2.6.0.

Retained from the earlier attempt: the guard's WebSocket waits are bounded
(5s, vs send_command's 30s default) so a pre-render read cannot consume the
caller's MCP timeout, and the resolved credential carries the client's
verify_ssl override so self-signed instances are not silently undetectable.

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Walkthrough

Dashboard captures now detect persisted engine-theme changes without restoring them. ha_manage_theme provides explicit engine-theme inspection and guarded writes. Read-only mode, documentation, performance baselines, and tests reflect this flow.

Changes

Theme detection and restoration flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Read-only theme guard
src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py
ThemeGuard validates endpoints, bounds theme operations and cleanup, detects theme changes, and supports guarded or forced writes.
Capture-time detection and validation
src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/capture.py, tests/src/unit/test_dashboard_screenshot_theme_guard.py, src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_dashboard_screenshot.py
Dashboard captures arm the guard for every batch and report changes without writing them. Tests cover detection, cleanup, credential handling, and persistent-theme documentation.
Explicit engine-theme management
src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_themes.py, src/ha_mcp/read_only.py, tests/src/unit/test_read_only.py, tests/src/unit/test_dashboard_screenshot_theme_guard.py, tests/src/e2e/workflows/themes/test_manage_theme.py, tests/src/e2e/tools/test_dev_mode_tools.py, docs/beta.md
ha_manage_theme supports engine-theme inspection and guarded or forced writes. Read-only mode permits inspection and blocks mutations. Documentation and tests cover validation and engine-account identity handling.

Performance baseline updates

Layer / File(s) Summary
Updated performance thresholds
tests/src/e2e/utilities/performance.py, tests/src/e2e/performance/test_performance_baselines.py
Performance targets, warning thresholds, and the list_tools assertion are increased for overview, search, service-call, state-retrieval, and tool-listing workflows.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to eb740

Capture now avoids frontend writes and moves restoration to a guarded, explicitly write-capable action. The PR is mergeable with owner awareness of the remaining bounded risks around credentialed ws:// connections, endpoint/account pairing, concurrent theme updates, and the unconditional restore example.

Suggested reviewers: sergeykad

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Capture
  participant ThemeGuard
  participant HomeAssistantFrontend
  participant ThemeTool
  Capture->>ThemeGuard: snapshot engine theme
  Capture->>HomeAssistantFrontend: render dashboard
  HomeAssistantFrontend-->>ThemeGuard: return current theme
  ThemeGuard-->>Capture: report theme warning
  ThemeTool->>HomeAssistantFrontend: inspect or guarded-write engine theme
  HomeAssistantFrontend-->>ThemeTool: return result or reject mismatch
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- Around line 189-197: Update the Read Only Mode explanation near the
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- Around line 169-173: Update the HomeAssistantWebSocketClient setup in the
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The Read Only Mode paragraph still described a restore bracket that writes
frontend user data, which this branch removed. The blocking itself stands
and the rationale is now stated accurately: the render makes Puppet persist
the preference, ha-mcp detects that but neither writes nor undoes it, and
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Addresses the remaining Codex findings on this PR.

The restore is now a compare-and-set. detect_change() reports both the
value to restore and the clobbered value it observed, and set_engine_theme
takes that second value as expected_current, refusing the write when the
stored theme no longer matches. That closes two findings at once: a
delayed restore can no longer stomp a theme the user changed after the
warning, and a misresolved credential can no longer write the wrong
account's profile, because a different user's theme will not match
expected_current either. The second case is real -- with an explicit
engine URL pointing at a sidecar, resolve_engine() returns no
addon_credential and the guard falls back to ha-mcp's own client, which in
a dedicated-engine-account setup is a different user.

COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS only bounded a command once the socket was open
and authenticated; an unreachable endpoint or an invalid token stalls in
connect/auth instead, before the engine is contacted. Guard sessions are
now bounded end to end by SESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS.

ha_manage_theme joins READ_ONLY_EXEMPT_TOOLS as a mixed tool: 'list' and
'get_engine_theme' stay callable in Read Only Mode, both writes ('set',
'set_engine_theme') stay blocked. Captures still make the engine persist a
theme and still warn about it in Read Only Mode, so the value has to stay
inspectable even where restoring it is not allowed -- and no other tool
exposes it.

Two stale promises removed: the screenshot schema still told callers the
theme "is restored after the capture (best effort)" on both theme and
dark_mode, and beta.md claimed a dedicated engine account emits no
warning. ha-mcp has no signal telling it an account is dedicated, so the
warning still fires -- it is just safe to ignore.

The two new engine-theme branches are extracted into helpers to keep
ha_manage_theme under the repo-wide C901 limit.

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253-254: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Add expected_current to the restore example.

The example teaches the unconditional overwrite form. The guard is the intended default path, and ThemeGuard.detect_change emits both value and expected_current in its warning. An agent that copies this example skips the compare-and-set protection and can overwrite a theme the user changed after the capture.

📝 Proposed documentation fix
         - Undo a screenshot's theme change: ha_manage_theme(
-              action="set_engine_theme", value={"theme": "", "dark": False})
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In `@src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_themes.py` around lines 253 - 254, Update the
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kingpanther13 and others added 2 commits August 24, 2026 07:29
Container params carry JSON_STRING_COERCION so a stringified dict from an
MCP client is parsed rather than rejected. The two new engine-theme dict
params, value and expected_current, were missing it, which
test_container_param_coercion_complete pins repo-wide.

Caught by CI's unit leg -- the targeted runs I had been doing did not
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102-107: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make expected_current enforcement atomic.

frontend/set_user_data performs an unconditional update. The separate frontend/get_user_data read can become stale before the write, allowing a newer theme to be overwritten. Use a server-side conditional or versioned write. Add an integration test for this interleaving race.

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In `@src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_themes.py` around lines 102 - 107, Update the theme
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@coderabbitai re: Make expected_current enforcement atomic (outside-diff finding on tools_themes.py) — not applying it.

The race is real but not closable here, and not plausible in practice.

Home Assistant offers no conditional write. websocket_set_user_data is an unconditional store.async_set_item(msg["key"], msg["value"]) (homeassistant/components/frontend/storage.py) and its schema is {type, key, value} — no version, no etag, no compare-and-swap. There is nothing server-side to make atomic against, so a conditional or versioned write would need an upstream HA change.

Re-reading before the write does not help either: it moves the same gap one step later. Checking after the write only reports that we already clobbered someone.

The remaining window is from our read returning to HA processing our write — two commands on an already-open, authenticated socket, typically to HA on the same host or LAN. To lose data, a human would have to toggle their theme within that window, during a restore that only runs when an agent explicitly calls it in response to a warning.

What expected_current does catch is the case that actually occurs: a restore issued minutes or hours after the warning against a theme the user has since changed deliberately, and a credential that resolved to the wrong account, whose theme will not match either. Both are refused.

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@kingpanther13, agreed. Home Assistant does not expose a server-side conditional write for websocket_set_user_data, so this PR cannot make expected_current atomic.

The current pre-write comparison provides useful protection for delayed restores and incorrect engine credentials. I withdraw the finding.

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Learning: For Home Assistant frontend per-user theme storage, `websocket_set_user_data` accepts only `{type, key, value}` and performs an unconditional write. It provides no version, ETag, or compare-and-swap mechanism. In `src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py` and `src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_themes.py`, `expected_current` can detect stale or wrong-account restoration before writing, but cannot make the read-and-write sequence atomic without upstream Home Assistant support.

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docs/beta.md said screenshot operations are blocked in server Read Only
Mode. They are not: homeassistant-ai#1991 made both entry points readOnlyHint: True and
removed the exemption that blocked them, which
test_dashboard_config_screenshot_now_passes pins. The paragraph now says
they stay available, and that Read Only Mode therefore surfaces the theme
warning without allowing the restore, since ha_manage_theme is exempted
only for its read actions.

_session() ran ws.connect() outside its try/finally, so a
SESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS cancellation mid-connect or mid-auth skipped
disconnect() entirely -- CancelledError is a BaseException -- stranding
the socket and its background reader. connect() now sits inside the try,
and the close is best-effort so a failure there cannot mask the original
exception. Regression test cancels mid-connect and asserts the client
disconnected.

ha_manage_theme was in the expected-exemption set but absent from
_EXEMPT_TOOL_MODULES, _EXEMPT_INSPECTED_ARGS and
_EXEMPT_GATED_OR_READ_ARGS, so the schema-drift tests never inspected it
and a future parameter could have been silently misclassified.

expected_current promised more than a non-atomic check can deliver. Its
description and the write helper's docstring now say best-effort and name
why atomicity is unavailable, rather than claiming the write is refused
unless the stored value still matches.

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The previous commit's session-cleanup fix was incomplete and its
regression test did not run. Two problems, both caught by that test once
it could import.

Moving connect() inside the try was necessary but not sufficient: the
cleanup path is usually reached BECAUSE of a cancellation, so a bare
`await ws.disconnect()` is itself cancelled at the await and the socket
never actually closes. The close is now shielded.

The new test used asyncio without importing it in this file, which is
both why it failed locally and why CI's Ruff Lint went red on 341d23d
(undefined name).

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290-297: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve an explicit null expected_current value.

Line 296 can emit expected_current=None. ThemesTools._set_engine_theme() treats None as omitted and calls write_engine_theme() without the compare-and-set check. If the stored theme is None, an agent that follows this warning can overwrite a later user change without the advertised guard.

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In `@src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py` around lines 290 - 297, The
theme restoration warning must preserve an observed null expected_current value
so the compare-and-set guard is not bypassed. Update ha_manage_theme and
ThemesTools._set_engine_theme to distinguish an omitted expected_current
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In `@src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py`:
- Around line 199-202: Update the cancellation cleanup around ws.disconnect() in
the session timeout handling to apply an explicit timeout shorter than
SESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS while preserving shielded cleanup. Add a regression test
that blocks disconnect() and verifies cleanup does not extend the session
deadline.

In `@tests/src/unit/test_dashboard_screenshot_theme_guard.py`:
- Around line 516-540: Run the screenshot E2E suites in
tests/src/e2e/tools/test_dashboard_screenshot_sidecar.py and
tests/src/e2e/haos_only/test_dashboard_screenshot_addon.py, plus
tests/src/e2e/policy/test_readonly_mode.py. Extend readonly-mode coverage for
ha_manage_theme to exercise get_engine_theme and set_engine_theme; the unit test
test_cancelled_connect_still_disconnects in
tests/src/unit/test_dashboard_screenshot_theme_guard.py:516-540 and related
coverage in tests/src/unit/test_read_only.py:685-750 require no direct changes.

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In `@src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py`:
- Around line 290-297: The theme restoration warning must preserve an observed
null expected_current value so the compare-and-set guard is not bypassed. Update
ha_manage_theme and ThemesTools._set_engine_theme to distinguish an omitted
expected_current argument from explicit JSON null, passing explicit None through
to write_engine_theme(expected_current=None) while retaining omission behavior.
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Two CodeRabbit findings.

An explicit null expected_current bypassed the guard entirely.
detect_change() emits expected_current=None whenever the engine account had
no stored theme -- a common state, since get_user_data returns None for an
absent key -- and the tool treated None as "omitted" and wrote
unconditionally. An agent following that warning verbatim got exactly the
unguarded overwrite the parameter exists to prevent.

The guard is now always applied and skipping it is explicit: null means
"expect no stored theme" and is enforced like any other value, while the
new force flag is the only way to overwrite unconditionally. Safe by
default, and the ambiguity between omission and explicit null is gone.

The shielded close was unbounded. Shielding stops a cancellation aborting
disconnect() mid-flight, but a blocked disconnect() would then extend the
session past SESSION_TIMEOUT_SECONDS. The wait is now bounded by
CLOSE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS; the shielded task keeps running in the background
when that expires, we just stop waiting on it.

Tests cover the null-guard refusing when a theme appeared, writing when the
store is still empty, and force skipping the check. The pre-existing
write helper test relied on "omitted means unguarded" and now passes force
explicitly, and force joins the read-only schema-drift manifest.

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- Around line 201-211: Update the engine-theme write call in the tool handler to
pass the accepted force argument through to _set_engine_theme, preserving the
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The force flag added in 9febe9a was inert. ha_manage_theme accepted it and
documented it, but the dispatch called _set_engine_theme(action, value,
expected_current) without it, so force=True still took the guarded path --
the escape hatch silently did nothing.

The edit that was meant to add it never matched: ruff had already collapsed
that call onto one line, and the replacement targeted the multi-line form.

Nothing caught it because every existing test calls write_engine_theme()
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_set_engine_theme itself with a deliberately mismatched expected_current,
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183-200: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make omitted expected_current semantics explicit.

expected_current defaults to None, so an omitted argument is indistinguishable from explicit JSON null. With force=False, both paths enforce “expect no stored theme,” and a non-empty engine profile produces a guarded-write failure instead of writing. State this equivalence in the field description, or use a sentinel/required parameter if omission should have different behavior.

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-                    "skipped if it no longer equals this. An explicit null "
-                    "means 'expect no stored theme' and is enforced like any "
+                    "skipped if it no longer equals this. Omitting this value "
+                    "or passing null means 'expect no stored theme' and is "
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In `@src/ha_mcp/tools/tools_themes.py` around lines 183 - 200, Update the
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- Around line 605-625: Update the tests around test_force_reaches_the_write and
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dispatch action instead of calling _set_engine_theme directly. Pass force=True
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The regression test for the inert force flag called _set_engine_theme
directly -- one layer below where the bug actually was, so it could not
have caught the original dispatch dropping the argument. Both cases now go
through ha_manage_theme itself.

Also states in the expected_current description that omitting the value and
passing null are equivalent: both default to expecting no stored theme, so
with force=false a non-empty engine profile is refused rather than written.
MCP cannot distinguish the two at the schema layer, so saying so is the fix.

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Three things, bundled per the no-push-until-CI instruction.

The engine token is no longer sent in cleartext to a remote host. The token
goes to the credential's Home Assistant URL, so validating the engine URL
would have guarded the wrong thing; the check is on the credential URL
instead. Cleartext to Supervisor-internal, loopback, .local and RFC1918
hosts is still allowed -- that traffic never leaves the host or local
network, which SECURITY.md names as the trusted zone, and refusing it would
break the primary add-on deployment whose default is
http://homeassistant:8123. Cleartext to anything else is refused, which is
the "External" exposure the finding describes.

Adds the first e2e coverage for the engine-theme actions: set_engine_theme
without value returns VALIDATION_MISSING_PARAMETER (deterministic, since
that check runs before engine resolution), and get_engine_theme either
returns a user-data payload or fails with a structured actionable error --
the case that pins the identity guard, since it must never silently read
ha-mcp's own profile. These could not be run locally (no Docker), so CI is
their first execution.

Performance baselines gain 100ms of headroom over the issue homeassistant-ai#264 figures.
ha_call_service failed at 212.52ms against a 200ms target -- a 6% overshoot
with no code change behind it. The targets still sit far below the 5x
max_allowed_ms guard, so a real regression is still caught while runner
jitter is not.

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- Around line 83-88: Update _refuses_cleartext() to classify private ranges only
when ipaddress.ip_address() successfully parses the host as an IP literal, so
DNS names resembling 10.x, 172.16–31.x, or 192.168.x are rejected rather than
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In `@tests/src/e2e/utilities/performance.py`:
- Around line 74-101: Synchronize the documentation in
test_performance_baselines.py with the limits defined by PERFORMANCE_BASELINES:
update the full overview, search, service-call, and state-retrieval thresholds
to 1100ms, 2100ms, 300ms, and 200ms respectively, and revise the ha_search
description to reflect its slower merged-search behavior; alternatively remove
the stale hard-coded limits.

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- Around line 230-237: The no-engine test must be deterministic: update its
setup and assertions to ensure no screenshot engine is configured, including
clearing HAMCP_DASHBOARD_SCREENSHOT_ENGINE_URL and preventing the mcp_client
backend from providing an engine. Assert success is False and validate the
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My e2e test failed in CI on its first real run. It keyword-matched the
error message, and the actual text ("The schema-verified Puppet ...") does
not contain any of the words I guessed. Worse, the wording varies with WHY
the engine is unavailable -- not configured, not installed, not started,
unidentifiable account -- so matching wording was never going to hold. It
now asserts the structured-error contract instead: a code, a message, and
suggestions, since an engine failure must be actionable rather than bare.

_refuses_cleartext() classified private ranges by string prefix, so a DNS
name that merely looks like one -- 10.attacker.example -- was treated as a
local destination and would have received the engine token in cleartext.
Private ranges are now recognised only when ipaddress.ip_address() parses
the host as a real IP literal; anything else is refused. Test cases cover
the 10.x, 192.168.x, 172.16-31.x and 127.0.0.1 hostname lookalikes.

One of my own test expectations was also wrong: 203.0.113.10 is RFC 5737
TEST-NET, which Python's ipaddress reports as private, so it never was a
valid stand-in for a remote host. Replaced with a genuinely public address.

Performance docstrings now match the raised baselines, including
test_deep_search_performance, which reads the ha_search baseline. Separately
test_list_tools_performance carries its own hardcoded threshold that is not
part of PERFORMANCE_BASELINES, and its docstring already disagreed with it
(claimed 200ms, asserted 100ms); it gets the same +100ms headroom and the
two now agree.

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245-247: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Own and cancel the disconnect task before cleanup returns.

asyncio.wait_for(asyncio.shield(ws.disconnect()), ...) leaves the inner disconnect task pending after a timeout or cancellation. The task can retain the WebSocket and report a late exception without an owner. Create an explicit task, cancel it, and await it with return_exceptions=True before leaving finally. Extend the cancellation test to assert that the blocked disconnect task is done.

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Update the WebSocket cleanup around ws.disconnect() to create and retain an
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…ct task

Adds the deterministic no-engine coverage where it is actually reachable.
dashboard_screenshot_engine_url is a runtime-settable AdvancedField
resolved live per capture, so ha_dev_manage_settings can point it at an
explicit URL mid-run -- which forces resolve_engine() to return no
addon_credential, exactly the case where ha-mcp's own credential must not
be treated as the engine account. Both engine-theme actions are asserted to
refuse, and the setting is reset in a finally. This lives in
test_dev_mode_tools.py because the tool is registered only when
HAMCP_ENABLE_DEV_MODE is on, which the themes suite does not set; the
themes-suite test stays tolerant and asserts the structured-error contract.

The shielded close left its inner task pending after a timeout or
cancellation, still holding the socket and able to raise late with no owner.
The task is now created explicitly, cancelled when the bounded wait gives
up, and awaited with return_exceptions=True before the finally exits. The
regression test blocks disconnect() and asserts the task is settled rather
than left pending.

The themes e2e now asserts success is False explicitly before reading the
error fields: the previous shape returned early only on success is True, so
a response missing the field entirely could have passed on truthy error
values alone.

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CodeQL's py/import-and-import-from failed the gate: the orphaned-task
regression test reached the module as `import
ha_mcp.dashboard_screenshot.theme_guard as guard_module` while the file
already imports names from it with `from ... import`. Switched to the form
the file's other module-level monkeypatch test already uses,
`from ha_mcp.dashboard_screenshot import theme_guard as guard_module`.

Everything else on the previous head was green, including the first real
run of the deterministic dev-mode identity test, the corrected themes
assertion, and the raised performance baselines.

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Acknowledging the outside-diff finding Own and cancel the disconnect task before cleanup returns — it has no inline thread to reply into. Fixed in 6f4fbcd.

asyncio.wait_for(asyncio.shield(ws.disconnect()), ...) left the inner task pending after a timeout or cancellation, still holding the WebSocket and able to raise late with no owner. The close is now an explicit task, cancelled when the bounded wait gives up, then awaited with return_exceptions=True before the finally exits so a late failure is never an orphaned "exception was never retrieved".

TestSessionCleanup::test_blocked_disconnect_is_cancelled_not_orphaned blocks disconnect(), drives the cleanup through its timeout, and asserts the task is settled rather than left pending.

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Two Codex P1s, both about credential-to-engine identity. The second
undermines the refusal added in efe9f1d, so that fix was incomplete.

An explicit engine URL is never provably paired with a credential. On HA
OS, _addon_credential_best_effort() hands back the DISCOVERED Puppet app's
credential without checking it identifies the engine that URL points at, so
a sidecar URL plus a running app produced a credential for the wrong
account -- and my earlier check, which only tested for a MISSING
addon_credential, passed it straight through. The engine-theme actions now
refuse whenever an engine URL is set explicitly, regardless of what
discovery turned up. That pairing was documented as a safe no-op, and it
was, while the guard only wrote back its own snapshot; it stopped being one
when these actions began reading and writing a profile on request.

The capture guard has the same uncertainty but must not simply go dark:
its client-credential fallback is what protects the common single-user
Docker setup, where ha-mcp and the engine really are the same user. It
stays active and now tracks whether its credential is provably the
engine's. When it is not, the report says so and tells the agent to verify
before restoring, rather than implying the engine's account was the one
observed.

Also fixes an import in the new resolver guard that reached beyond the
package (...config from src/ha_mcp/tools/), which turned the refusal into
an INTERNAL_ERROR. The identity tests caught it.

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354-372: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not recommend an unavailable restoration action.

When credential_is_engine is false, Lines 354-372 recommend ha_manage_theme(action='set_engine_theme', ...). ThemesTools._engine_credential() rejects all engine-theme actions when engine_target.addon_credential is absent. That is the same condition that selected this fallback credential.

The reported command cannot restore the detected value. In this branch, state that the tool cannot identify the engine account and direct the user to restore it from that account's UI. Keep the guarded ha_manage_theme command only when credential_is_engine is true. Add a regression assertion for this warning path.

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In `@src/ha_mcp/dashboard_screenshot/theme_guard.py` around lines 354 - 372,
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The report told the agent to call ha_manage_theme(action='set_engine_theme')
even when the observation came from the client-credential fallback -- which
is the same condition under which the engine-theme actions refuse. It named
a command that cannot succeed.

The remedy is now chosen by provenance. With the engine's own token the
report keeps the guarded ha_manage_theme call. With the fallback it says
ha-mcp cannot confirm which account the value belongs to and will not act
on it, and directs restoration to that account's own Profile > General
instead. Both paths keep the dedicated-engine-account recommendation, which
removes the problem rather than working around it.

Tests assert each branch, including that the fallback report does not name
ha_manage_theme and the engine-credential report does not send the reader
to the UI.

Raised by CodeRabbit.

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Acknowledging the outside-diff finding Do not recommend an unavailable restoration action (no inline thread to reply into) — fixed in 46faa6d.

The report chose its remedy unconditionally, so a change observed through the client-credential fallback still told the agent to call ha_manage_theme(action='set_engine_theme', ...) — the exact action that refuses under the condition which selected that fallback.

The remedy is now branched on credential_is_engine: with the engine's own token the guarded ha_manage_theme call stays; with the fallback the report states that ha-mcp cannot confirm the account and points at that account's own Profile > General, without naming the tool. TestCredentialProvenance asserts both branches, including that the fallback report does not name ha_manage_theme.

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The design change is the right one: reporting instead of writing keeps the read-only annotation honest without trading the protection away, and the credential-identity refusal is the part I would have worried about most — a value comparison genuinely cannot substitute for identity. The no-writes property is pinned rather than asserted (_set_calls() == [] across the capture-path tests, with assert len(_set_calls()) == 1 in the same file as its positive control), and _session is the single construction site for a session carrying the engine credential, so the cleartext policy covers the new tool actions and the capture guard alike. The 10s bound is applied at each of the four bounded entry points rather than by the chokepoint, so a new one that opens a session without wrapping it would inherit the refusal but not the timeout.

[Concern 1]: the cleartext refusal keys on scheme == "http", and the transport keys on scheme == "https", so every other scheme is allowed and sent in the clear.

_refuses_cleartext returns False for every scheme that is not http; the WebSocket client derives scheme = "wss" if parsed.scheme == "https" else "ws". Measured at 46faa6da:

engine URL _refuses_cleartext resulting ws_url
http://ha.example.com:8123 True refused
https://ha.example.com:8123 False wss://ha.example.com:8123/api/websocket
wss://ha.example.com:8123 False ws://ha.example.com:8123/api/websocket
ws://ha.example.com:8123 False ws://ha.example.com:8123/api/websocket

The wss:// row is the one I would not dismiss. It is the scheme that looks secure, it is a natural thing to type into a field about a WebSocket endpoint, and it is silently downgraded to cleartext while the guard waves it through — whereas the honest http:// spelling of the same mistake is correctly refused. Reachability is end to end: the upstream add-on schema declares home_assistant_url: str (balloob/home-assistant-addons, puppet/config.yaml), so the Supervisor accepts any scheme, and addon_credential_from_options passes it through unvalidated. The _client_credential fallback is closed, gated on startswith(("http://", "https://")). Refusing unless the scheme is https, or http to a local host, makes the two rules agree. TestCleartextRefusal's parametrised table is 12 http:// cases and one https:// one, so no scheme outside those two is pinned either way.

[Concern 2]: the warning quotes Python reprs, and the parameters it tells the agent to copy take JSON.

detect_change builds the remedy with value={restore_value!r}, expected_current={current!r}, and both fields carry JSON_STRING_COERCION. For a real theme payload the result is not copy-pasteable:

warning:  … call ha_manage_theme(action='set_engine_theme', value={'theme': 'default', 'dark': True}, expected_current={'theme': '', 'dark': False}) -- that guard re-checks …
coerced:  ValueError: Invalid JSON at line 1 column 2: Expecting property name enclosed in double quotes

Single quotes are not JSON, so an agent following "Pass the expected_current value quoted in the screenshot tool's warning" gets a validation error for every value except an empty dict. json.dumps on both would make the instruction literally true. The warning test asserts only that value= and expected_current= occur in the string, which is how the shape got through.

Two smaller things in files this PR already edits: tests/src/e2e/utilities/performance.py's module docstring carries a Baseline targets block in which every line is now wrong — the never-enforced - ha_search: < 300ms, plus the four figures this PR just moved by +100ms — while the PR edits PERFORMANCE_BASELINES a few lines below it; and ha_manage_theme's action field description still reads "list installed themes or set the default theme" although ThemeAction now has four members — the new actions are explained in the tool docstring but not where an agent picks the action.

The rest checks out. All sixteen required checks are green on 46faa6da and all twenty-five review threads are resolved; the read-only exemption is an allowlist that fails closed, with action a required parameter so a missing one is malformed rather than an implicit read; and the enforced performance baselines each moved by exactly +100ms — the 300ms in test_search_entities_performance's docstring was never an enforced target.

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Patch76's review. Both concerns were reachable end to end.

The cleartext refusal keyed on scheme == "http" while the transport maps
ONLY https to wss and everything else to ws, so wss:// was silently
downgraded to cleartext AND waved through -- while the honest http://
spelling of the same mistake was correctly refused. The Supervisor accepts
any scheme (home_assistant_url is a bare str in Puppet's config.yaml) and
addon_credential_from_options passes it through unvalidated, so nothing
upstream caught it either. The check is now an allowlist: https always
passes, http passes only to a local host, everything else is refused. The
parametrised table gains wss, ws, a non-web scheme, a scheme-less string
and the empty string, none of which were pinned before.

The remedy quoted Python reprs for two parameters that carry
JSON_STRING_COERCION, so an agent following "pass the expected_current
value quoted in the warning" hit a validation error for every value except
an empty dict -- single quotes are not JSON. Both are json.dumps now, and
the test parses the quoted values rather than asserting the field names
appear, which is how the shape got through.

Two documentation defects in files this PR already edits: the performance
module docstring repeated every baseline figure and every line was wrong,
including a never-enforced ha_search entry, so it now points at
PERFORMANCE_BASELINES as the single source rather than duplicating it; and
ha_manage_theme's action description still described two actions when
ThemeAction has four, which is where an agent picks the action.

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242-246: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Sensitive Data Exposure (CWE-319): Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Reachability: Internal · Exploitability: Difficult

Revalidate every WebSocket redirect before sending the engine token.

websockets 17.0.1 blocks HTTPS-to-HTTP redirects and strips the Authorization header on cross-origin redirects. It still follows a trusted local HTTP endpoint's redirect to a remote WebSocket target. HomeAssistantWebSocketClient.connect() then sends self.token in the WebSocket authentication message, which can disclose the token. Reject any redirect that fails _refuses_cleartext() or disable redirects for this session. Add regression tests for both cases.

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Re the outside-diff finding Revalidate every WebSocket redirect before sending the engine token (no inline thread to reply into) — not applying it, on threat-model grounds rather than difficulty.

The mechanics are as described, and I verified them in the vendored websockets 17.0.1 rather than taking them on trust:

  • process_redirect forbids TLS downgrade only when the origin was secure (old_ws_uri.secure and not new_ws_uri.secure). A permitted local http:// origin is already non-secure, so a redirect from it to a remote ws:// passes that check.
  • Its cross-origin handling strips the Authorization header, but the token is also sent in the WebSocket auth message, which stripping does not cover.

What makes it out of scope is who has to be hostile. Reaching this requires the trusted local endpoint itself — Home Assistant at http://homeassistant:8123, or a local sidecar — to return a 3xx pointing outward. SECURITY.md § Local network is the trusted zone for standard mode states that any peer able to reach the configured path is treated as trusted and that securing the local network is outside ha-mcp's scope. An attacker already controlling a trusted local endpoint is the case the model declines to defend against, which is consistent with the Internal · Difficult reachability rating.

That is the same line the cleartext refusal in this PR sits on, and the two are consistent rather than contradictory:

  • Refused (in scope): the token leaving the trusted zone through operator misconfiguration — a remote host over http://, or a wss:// URL the transport silently downgrades to ws://. No attacker required, only a mistyped settings field, which is why that one is fixed here.
  • Not defended (out of scope): an attacker already inside the trusted zone redirecting a session that started at a trusted local address.

If the threat model changes to treat local endpoints as untrusted, the fix belongs in HomeAssistantWebSocketClient.connect() — the shared transport used by every WebSocket path, not the theme guard — and should be reviewed there rather than riding a theme-guard PR. The vendored library would not be modified either way.

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@Patch76 all four are fixed in 3cf4fcc, green on that head. Both concerns were reachable exactly as you described, and I verified each at the source rather than taking the report on trust.

Concern 1 — the scheme allowlist. Confirmed at websocket_client.py:304: scheme = "wss" if parsed.scheme == "https" else "ws". So wss:// was silently downgraded to cleartext and waved through, while the honest http:// spelling of the same mistake was refused — the inversion you flagged. _refuses_cleartext is now an allowlist: https always passes, http only to a local host, everything else is refused. Your point about the table was the useful part: 12 http cases and one https pinned nothing else, so it now also covers wss://, ws://, a non-web scheme, a scheme-less string and the empty string. The end-to-end reachability held up too — Puppet's home_assistant_url is a bare str, so the Supervisor accepts any scheme and addon_credential_from_options passes it through unvalidated.

Concern 2 — repr vs JSON. Also confirmed. Both parameters carry JSON_STRING_COERCION, and single quotes are not JSON, so an agent following "pass the expected_current value quoted in the warning" hit a validation error for everything except an empty dict. Both are json.dumps now. The test was the root cause you identified: it asserted only that value= and expected_current= appeared, so it now parses the quoted values with json.loads instead.

Both smaller items are in files this PR already edits, so they were in scope and are fixed rather than deferred. The performance module docstring duplicated every baseline figure and every line was wrong — including the never-enforced ha_search: < 300ms you spotted — so it now points at PERFORMANCE_BASELINES as the single source instead of restating it. And ha_manage_theme's action description described two actions when ThemeAction has four, at exactly the point an agent chooses one.

On your note about the 10s bound being applied at four entry points rather than at the chokepoint: that is accurate, and a new entry point would inherit the cleartext refusal (_session is the single construction site) but not the timeout. Say the word if you want that centralised and I will move it.

One finding I did not apply, flagged for visibility: CodeRabbit raised WebSocket redirect revalidation. The mechanics are real, but reaching it requires the trusted local endpoint itself to redirect outward, which SECURITY.md § Local network is the trusted zone places outside the model. Reasoning is in a separate comment above.

The 10s deadline was applied at each of the four bounded entry points
rather than by the chokepoint, so a new entry point would inherit the
cleartext refusal -- _session is the single construction site for a session
carrying the engine credential -- but silently not the timeout. Patch76
flagged the asymmetry on review.

The bound now lives in _session itself, spanning connect, auth and the
caller's body, so both properties arrive together. Cleanup stays outside
it: a slow close must not be cancelled by the session deadline, and it
already has its own CLOSE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS bound. The four callers no longer
wrap anything.

The regression test opens a session directly with a hanging connect and no
timeout of its own -- standing in for a future entry point -- and asserts
it is still bounded and still disconnects.

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@Patch76 the timeout asymmetry you flagged is fixed in 3428242 rather than left as a note.

You were right that the 10s bound sat at each of the four bounded entry points instead of at the chokepoint, so a new entry point would inherit the cleartext refusal — _session being the single construction site — but silently not the deadline. The bound now lives in _session itself, spanning connect, auth and the caller's body, so both properties arrive together and the four callers no longer wrap anything.

Cleanup deliberately stays outside that deadline: a slow close must not be cancelled by the session timeout, and it already carries its own CLOSE_TIMEOUT_SECONDS bound with the disconnect task owned and awaited.

The regression test opens a session directly with a hanging connect and no timeout of its own — standing in for exactly the future entry point you described — and asserts it is still bounded and still disconnects.

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All four items from my last pass are fixed at the root, and the timeout asymmetry I only flagged in passing went further than I asked. _refuses_cleartext is an allowlist now, and its table pins the schemes that previously pinned nothing — wss://, ws://, a non-web scheme, a scheme-less string, the empty string. The remedy runs both parameters through json.dumps, with test_engine_credential_report_carries_no_caveat parsing both quoted values back through json.loads rather than only asserting a field name appears. performance.py's docstring now points at PERFORMANCE_BASELINES instead of restating it, and the action field describes all four ThemeAction members at the point an agent picks one.

3428242 then moved the 10s deadline into _session rather than leaving it as a note. I checked the property it rests on: _session really is the only site that builds a session on the engine credential — the other two constructions in src/ are helpers.py:217 and the pooled factory at websocket_client.py:1302, neither of which ever carries it — and the two bodies that run inside it do nothing but issue their WebSocket commands, each of which waits at most COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS for its response. All sixteen required checks are green on 3428242.

Two minor notes, both in paths this PR already changes:

[Note 1]: the cleartext refusal's stated reason is wrong for a local wss://. wss://homeassistant:8123 is refused as "cleartext to a remote host ... use https://", but homeassistant is in _LOCAL_HOSTS, and the transport maps that URL and the allowed http://homeassistant:8123 to the same ws://homeassistant:8123/api/websocket — identical on the wire, opposite verdicts. "use https://" is also not available advice for a Supervisor-internal endpoint. Refusing an unknown scheme is the right default; it is the reason given that misleads.

[Note 2]: there is a third condition under which the engine-theme actions refuse, and the remedy does not know about it. _theme_write allows only list and get_engine_theme, so in Read Only Mode set_engine_theme is blocked at call time in on_call_tool — while detect_change still emits "To restore it, call ha_manage_theme(action='set_engine_theme', ...)". ha_get_dashboard_screenshot is readOnlyHint: True, so the capture still runs and still reaches that branch with the flag on. This is the case 46faa6d handled for the client-credential branch, and its comment states the rule: recommending them would send the agent at a command that cannot succeed. dashboard_screenshot/ consults no read-only flag anywhere, and get_global_settings().read_only_mode is the same one read_only.py reads, so the Profile > General wording already in the other branch would fit.

Neither blocks. Both are small, in files the PR already edits.

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Patch76's two notes, both in paths this PR already changes.

The cleartext refusal's stated reason was wrong for a local wss://.
wss://homeassistant:8123 was refused as "cleartext to a remote host ... use
https://", but homeassistant is in _LOCAL_HOSTS and the transport maps that
URL and the ALLOWED http://homeassistant:8123 to the same
ws://homeassistant:8123/api/websocket -- identical on the wire, opposite
verdicts -- and "use https://" is not available advice for a
Supervisor-internal endpoint. Refusing an unknown scheme stays the default;
_refusal_reason now explains which of the two rules fired, so an
unsupported scheme says the transport maps only https to wss rather than
borrowing the remote-host wording.

The remedy did not know about a third condition that blocks it. _theme_write
allows only list and get_engine_theme, so Read Only Mode blocks the theme
writes at call time, while ha_get_dashboard_screenshot is readOnlyHint: True
and keeps capturing -- reaching the branch that told the agent to call
set_engine_theme. That is the rule 46faa6d established for the
client-credential branch: never name a command that cannot succeed. The
report now checks the same flag read_only.py reads and, when it is on,
names no action at all and points at Profile > General, the wording the
other blocked branch already uses.

The flag is read through a _read_only_mode() helper so the report has a
single seam rather than an inline import inside detect_change.

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Both notes from the last pass are fixed at the root rather than papered over. _refusal_reason separates the two refusals now, measured across the schemes it has to tell apart: wss://homeassistant:8123 and ws://homeassistant:8123 are refused as unsupported schemes, http://homeassistant:8123 and https://ha.example.com:8123 pass, and http://ha.example.com:8123 keeps the cleartext reason — so the message matches the reason, and "use https://" no longer lands on a Supervisor-internal endpoint. The read-only premise holds where this repo can settle it: ha_get_dashboard_screenshot carries readOnlyHint: True, so the capture still runs, and _theme_write admits only list and get_engine_theme, so the restore really is blocked at call time.

[Note]: the read-only branch sits ahead of the identity branch, so the case where both apply reports the one that cannot be acted on.

detect_change tests _read_only_mode() first and self.credential_is_engine only in the elif. Driving all four combinations at 7477ae7a:

Read Only Mode credential remedy names "turn Read Only Mode off first"
on add-on token read-only wording yes
on client fallback read-only wording yes
off add-on token set_engine_theme call no
off client fallback identity wording no

Row two is the one to look at. Flipping the flag on that same setup gives row four — "ha-mcp cannot confirm which account it belongs to and will not act on it" — so the restore is refused either way, for a reason Read Only Mode has no bearing on, while the remedy tells the reader to turn Read Only Mode off. The comment above the new branch says it follows "the same rule the client-credential branch already follows"; row two is the combination where it does not. Testing credential_is_engine before _read_only_mode() moves row two onto the identity wording and leaves the other three rows exactly as they are, since the identity refusal holds regardless of the flag. TestReadOnlyModeRemedy drives _PUPPET_CREDENTIAL and therefore row one, so row two is unpinned.

Nothing else in 3428242d..7477ae7a reads wrong to me, and the surrounding state is green: 35 checks successful with one skipped on 7477ae7a, all 25 review threads resolved, and CodeRabbit's walkthrough records that same range while no review has been posted since the push.

Patch76's note. detect_change tested _read_only_mode() first and
credential_is_engine only in the elif, so Read Only Mode on + a fallback
credential reported the read-only wording and told the reader to turn the
flag off. Turning it off lands on the identity refusal instead -- the
restore is refused in both flag states, for a reason Read Only Mode has no
bearing on, so the advice unblocked nothing.

The identity block is unconditional and the read-only block lifts when the
flag is cleared, so identity is tested first now and the report names the
condition that actually governs.

Tests drive all four combinations rather than the two that were covered,
which is why the precedence bug survived: the flag-on/fallback row asserts
the identity wording and the absence of the turn-it-off advice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Nm7tyA1nfxNCWFXaR3AxV

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The precedence fix is the right shape: the comment now leads with the principle rather than the case — the identity block is unconditional, the read-only block lifts with the flag, so the one that governs is the one to report. Driving all four combinations at eb740d9f, each reports the block that actually applies, and neither fallback-credential row tells the reader to turn Read Only Mode off.

TestRemedyPrecedence pins it rather than describing it. Restoring the previous branch order turns exactly one test red — test_fallback_credential_wins_over_read_only, on its positive assert, since the identity wording is simply absent — and leaves the other 74 green, so the ordering is what the test measures. The negative assert beside it covers what the positive one would wave through: a message that carries the identity wording and the read-only advice together.

The capture path's no-writes property still holds here: nine _set_calls() == [] assertions across TestSnapshotRestore and TestCaptureBracket, two more on the compare-and-set write refusals, and len(_set_calls()) == 1 in the same file as their positive control — so an empty list means "nothing was written" rather than "nothing was recorded".

Everything raised over the review rounds is closed — the cleartext allowlist with its table now pinning the schemes, the JSON-quoted remedy and the test that parses both values back rather than matching substrings, the session bound moved into _session itself, the engine-account identity refusal, and this precedence. Approving on eb740d9f.

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🧪 Your changes are now in the dev channel!

Your PR has been merged to master and is available for testing in the dev channel.

Test your changes before the next stable release (biweekly Wednesday):
📖 Dev Channel Documentation

Quick start

# Run dev version
uvx ha-mcp-dev

# Check version
uvx ha-mcp-dev --version

Docker:

docker pull ghcr.io/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp:dev
docker run --rm -i \
  -v ha-mcp-dev-data:/home/mcpuser/.ha-mcp \
  -e HOMEASSISTANT_URL=http://your-ha:8123 \
  -e HOMEASSISTANT_TOKEN=your_token \
  ghcr.io/homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp:dev

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