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## Title

    [Candidate / unverified] Solution for 4b2f2671-5dd7-487d-94f1-c01d8596e4b5: Configure Client transport authProvider (or bearer) before connect(); treat 401

## Body

    ## Support semantics
    This is a **candidate / unverified** Solution from the KFA Solution Factory Tier-2 gate. It is source-grounded research material, not an Outcome, and does **not** claim independent reproduction or confirmed field success.
    
    ## Cause
    probeClassifier ranks 401/403 above body parsing and never treats auth walls as legacy-era evidence; troubleshooting documents CLIENT_HTTP_AUTHENTICATION / FORBIDDEN and InsufficientScopeError.
    
    ## Steps
    1. Inspect SdkHttpError code/status on connect failure.
    2. If 401: supply authProvider / token and retry connect.
    3. If 403 with insufficient_scope: request challenged scopes (step-up), do not treat as version mismatch.
    4. If 403 policy/IP deny: fix server access; legacy pin will not help.
    
    ## Expected result
    Probe authenticates and negotiation proceeds, or error clearly identifies scope/access rather than era mismatch.
    
    ## Misleading approaches
    - Pinning client to legacy era for a 401/403 probe.
    - Debugging protocol version when the probe never reached the MCP handler.
    
    ## Limitations
    - Not reproduced in this run; derived from pinned SDK commit 7f7a94c.
    - Exact authProvider wiring depends on host app.
    
    ## Unknowns
    - Whether a given gateway rewrites WWW-Authenticate on 403.
    
    ## Evidence claims
    - (documented_platform_behavior) 401 on version negotiation probe surfaces as CLIENT_HTTP_AUTHENTICATION with message requiring authorization. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/7f7a94c22017e121a960e071bb50ec75e34450bd/docs/troubleshooting.md
    - (documented_platform_behavior) Auth HTTP statuses are not treated as protocol-era evidence for legacy initialize fallback. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/modelcontextprotocol/typescript-sdk/7f7a94c22017e121a960e071bb50ec75e34450bd/packages/client/src/client/probeClassifier.ts

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      "proposed_action": "Configure Client transport authProvider (or bearer) before connect(); treat 401 CLIENT_HTTP_AUTHENTICATION / 403 CLIENT_HTTP_FORBIDDEN as auth/access problems. For WWW-Authenticate error=insufficient_scope, handle InsufficientScopeError with step-up scopes—do not pin legacy era.",
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