MCP authorization: Authorization (draft)
Provision mcp.05 · Model Context Protocol, Authorization (draft) · requirement
MCP servers SHOULD include a scope parameter in the WWW-Authenticate header to indicate the scopes required for accessing the resource.
The text is as taken from the source. In the source: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/authorization#scope-selection-strategy (the section of the specification that holds the requirement (its opening words were found there); linked 2026-11-10). The instrument: Model Context Protocol, Authorization (draft), the project's; requirements quoted with the source; read 2026-11-09.
Who cites it
| Indicator | The fact it asks for | Kind of link | The assertion |
|---|---|---|---|
I23 | What it can reach is enumerated: scopes, permissions, tools | part: partly evidenced | Asserted in the mapping by gamma-ray@web-summit.dinis; the written basis is not recorded yet. |
A link is our assertion, not the instrument's. "Same" carries the evidence to the provision in full. "Part" marks the provision as partly evidenced: the fact is one piece of what it asks. "Negation" points the other way.
The evidence that reaches it
| Card | Through | This provision is | The evidence | How far to trust it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RiskMandate Publisher | I23 | partly evidenced | Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×2 |
| The PrompTugal.news agent team | I23 | partly evidenced | Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×2 |
| Claude Code on the web | I23 | partly evidenced | Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Claude Code, on your own machine | I23 | partly evidenced | Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| GitHub Copilot cloud agent | I23 | partly evidenced | "Copilot is read-only when a user has read access" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Junie | I23 | partly evidenced | "There are five types of actions that can be allowed with the" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Noxus AI Workers | I23 | partly evidenced | "Select which flows the agent can access" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
Touched never means complies.
Answer it directly
A company can answer this line item itself, in its own file at /.well-known/fact-ray.json, with the node gamma-ray:provision/mcp.05 (how). A company that already assesses itself against MCP authorization can reuse that work.