MCP authorization: Authorization (draft)
Provision mcp.15 · Model Context Protocol, Authorization (draft) · requirement
Servers MUST account for scope hierarchies, where a broader scope implies narrower ones, when deciding whether a token is sufficient for an operation.
The text is as taken from the source. In the source: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/draft/basic/authorization#step-up-authorization-flow (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 |
|---|---|---|---|
I25 | It asks for narrower access than the whole account | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Reviewer | I25 | partly evidenced | "Codacy might also create comments and suggestions on the pull request" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Claude Code on the web | I25 | partly evidenced | Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Junie | I25 | partly evidenced | "permissions: contents: write pull-requests: write issues: write" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Noxus AI Workers | I25 | partly evidenced | "Select which database connection(s) the agent may query" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| OutSystems Agent Workbench | I25 | partly evidenced | "You provide the agent with a set of available actions." Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Replit Agent | I25 | partly evidenced | "control the exact scopes your builders can request" Source | π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 |
| Spinnable AI employees | I25 | partly evidenced | "When you connect a new account, Read is preselected" 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.15 (how). A company that already assesses itself against MCP authorization can reuse that work.