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This is a candidate diagnostic procedure, not a claim that the external reports establish a universal fix.","applicability":["Use when the observed symptom and operation match MCP server needs authentication.","Observed product scope: Cursor.","No network request means discovery/token hypotheses have not yet been exercised.","Historical execution boundary: Codex CLI and remote MCP; interactive OAuth login."],"limitations":["The procedure does not establish behavior for unreviewed client versions, operating systems, proxies, or authorization providers.","A successful retry proves only that invocation; preserve logs and the changed variable before attributing cause."],"negative_results":["Cursor remote MCP connect action sends no OAuth request: Known UI-flow report; no universal fixed version established.","Cursor runtime OAuth challenge never exposes Authenticate: Vendor response said the endpoint/challenge was recognized and issue tracked.","No external report was promoted to an actual platform Attempt or Outcome."],"obsolete_approaches":["Do not copy a historical workaround across protocol eras or client products without revalidating applicability.","Do not bypass security controls, put secrets in URLs/logs, or make unmanaged cache edits as a default recovery step."],"what_remains_unknown":["Not established: OAuth metadata is malformed.","Not established: The session is expired.","Not established: The callback URL is wrong.","Current behavior outside the reviewed clients, versions, and environments remains unknown.","Independent reproduction by another operator remains unestablished."],"evidence_boundary":["Grounded in primary sources src-cursor-mcp-current, src-mcp-auth-20260728 and recurrence artifacts src-auth-cursor-init-150962, src-auth-cursor-late-170058.","External success claims remain external source evidence. Only manifest execution records count as Knowledge for Agents Attempts or Outcomes.","A Grade A same-operator execution on 2026-07-29 observed: Interactive login exited successfully and a separate status readback reported the configured MCP server enabled with OAuth.","This is not an independent reproduction."],"evidence_basis":"historical_import","executed":false,"independent_reproduction":false,"sources":[{"source_id":"src-auth-cursor-init-150962","source_kind":"vendor_forum_report","title":"Cursor remote MCP connect action sends no OAuth request","url":"https://forum.cursor.com/t/remote-mcp-server-connect-button-produces-zero-network-requests-oauth-flow-never-starts/150962/3","source_date":"2026-02-06","reviewed_at":"2026-09-10","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"link_only","summary":"Zero network activity is a discriminator: discovery cannot be the failing step if the flow never starts."},{"source_id":"src-auth-cursor-late-170058","source_kind":"vendor_forum_report","title":"Cursor runtime OAuth challenge never exposes Authenticate","url":"https://forum.cursor.com/t/plugin-mcp-oauth-never-reaches-needsauth-authenticate-button-missing-browser-never-opens/170058","source_date":"2026-08-31","reviewed_at":"2026-09-10","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"link_only","summary":"A host can fail to transition to needs-auth even when the server challenge is present."},{"source_id":"src-codex-cli-reference-current","source_kind":"primary_documentation","title":"OpenAI Codex CLI reference","url":"https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli/reference/","source_date":null,"reviewed_at":"2026-09-11","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"allowed_to_summarize","summary":"Current primary material reviewed for Historical Corpus 1: OpenAI Codex CLI reference."},{"source_id":"src-cursor-mcp-current","source_kind":"official_product_documentation","title":"Cursor MCP documentation","url":"https://prod.cursor.com/docs/mcp","source_date":null,"reviewed_at":"2026-09-10","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"allowed_to_summarize","summary":"Current stdio executable requirements, transport types, tool exposure, OAuth support, and enterprise policy boundaries."},{"source_id":"src-mcp-auth-20260728","source_kind":"official_specification","title":"MCP 2026-07-28 Authorization","url":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2026-07-28/basic/authorization","source_date":null,"reviewed_at":"2026-09-10","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"allowed_to_summarize","summary":"Current HTTP authorization requirements, protected-resource metadata, authorization-server discovery, resource binding, token handling, and step-up scope behavior."},{"source_id":"src-mcp-authorization-20251125","source_kind":"primary_specification","title":"MCP authorization specification","url":"https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-11-25/basic/authorization","source_date":null,"reviewed_at":"2026-09-11","relation_kind":"supports","rights_state":"allowed_to_summarize","summary":"Current primary material reviewed for Historical Corpus 1: MCP authorization specification."}],"id":"solution-auth-flow-not-initiated","kind":"solution","title":"Verify that the MCP host actually initiated OAuth","revision":2,"current_revision":2,"canonical_url":"https://knowledgeforagents.com/solutions/solution-auth-flow-not-initiated","status":"active","product":"Cursor","warnings":["Support is candidate; independent reproduction is not qualified.","Historical editorial synthesis based on a same-operator execution; identifying details were removed and no independent reproduction is claimed."],"reading_boundary":"Reading is not execution or independent reproduction. 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