feat(forms): show the WebMCP tool state of Signal Forms

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What and why

Signal Forms that set experimentalWebMcpTool (Angular 22, with provideExperimentalWebMcpForms()) register a tool with the browser's modelContext, but Angular keeps none of that state: name, schema, registration result and calls are only visible by wrapping registerTool. This does that for #166.

• Collector (forms-webmcp.ts): wraps modelContext.registerTool (restored on stop), records each tool's name, description, inferred schema and status, flags duplicates and schema inference failures with the fields that block it, keeps the last 5 calls (input key names only, redacted details), links tools to forms, and detects the missing provider.
• Server: PageReport.webMcp is validated, kept per page and expires with it; inspect-forms shows each form's WebMCP state and page notes.
• Panel: a WebMCP tool block in the form detail; the timeline gets an agent origin filter.
• Demo: the signal form example sets experimentalWebMcpTool with a "Fill as an agent" button, plus a small dev-only navigator.modelContext stand-in when the browser has none.
• Docs: inspectors/forms.md (WebMCP tool section, agent origin, limits) and agents/tools.md.

Refs #166

How it was verified

• pnpm commit:check, pnpm format:check, pnpm typecheck, pnpm skills:check
• pnpm test:devtools (1180) and pnpm test:panel (111)
• pnpm docs:build, pnpm test:axe, pnpm extension:build
• Tests with real Angular and a fake modelContext: registration, linking, calls tagged agent, failures, duplicates, abort, missing provider
• Checked in a real browser on the demo (/examples/forms): the block shows sign_up with its inputs; after navigating there, "Fill as an agent" shows the call and 19 agent-tagged timeline events; on a direct load the tool is marked "registered before the inspector attached" and the block says its calls aren't recorded; inspect-forms over HTTP MCP includes the WebMCP state
• axe on the Forms tab with the block and on the timeline's agent filter, dark and light, 1280 and 390: 0 violations
• form-history accepts the agent origin (test added)

Decisions

1. Demo stand-in: keep the small modelContext stand-in so the demo shows something in normal browsers, or drop it and document the Chrome flag.
2. Tools registered before the overlay loads: the inspector falls back to getTools()/listTools() (the method name changed across Chrome previews) and can't record their calls. A real fix needs an early opt-in hook, like providePangularHttp().
3. Unlinked tools (including provideExperimentalWebMcpTools) show only in inspect-forms, not the panel.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added WebMCP details to the Forms inspector, including tool status, inputs, required-field changes, blocking fields, and recent agent calls.
  • Added agent activity as a filterable origin in form timelines and form history.
  • Added a demo option to fill the sample signup form as an agent.
• Documentation
  • Updated Forms inspector and tools guides with WebMCP details and agent activity information.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The changes add WebMCP monitoring for Signal Forms, attribute tool-driven form changes to agents, and carry tool details into the forms inspector. The example app includes a demo model context and a form action that executes a registered tool.

Changes

WebMCP form inspection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Watcher and tool tracking packages/devtools/src/forms-webmcp.ts, packages/devtools/src/forms.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/forms-webmcp.test.ts	Adds WebMCP data contracts and a watcher that infers form schemas, tracks tool registrations and calls, and associates tools with forms. Tests cover registration, failures, call tracking, and tool discovery.
Collector and report integration packages/devtools/src/forms-collector.ts, packages/devtools/src/rpc/forms-*.ts, packages/devtools/src/devframe.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/forms-collector.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/forms-mcp.test.ts, packages/devtools/src/__tests__/forms-tools.test.ts	The collector reports WebMCP state and attributes tool-driven changes to agent. RPC handling validates and aggregates tool data, and form-history accepts the agent origin. Tests cover collection, filtering, validation, and report output.
Demo form integration src/app/app.config.ts, src/app/examples/*, src/main.ts	Registers the experimental forms provider and installs a demo model context in development mode. The Signal Form registers a sign-up tool and adds a button to execute it.
Inspector display and guidance app/src/pages/forms-*, app/src/__tests__/forms-panels.test.ts, apps/docs/src/content/agents/tools.md, apps/docs/src/content/inspectors/forms.md, extension/ui/index.html, extension/ui/assets/browser-agent-rpc-*.js	The inspector displays WebMCP tool details and supports the agent timeline filter. Tests and documentation cover the display and tracking limits. The extension entry points use the updated bundled asset name.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2a607

Malformed WebMCP reports can display an invalid tool status. This is a bounded reporting issue that should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2a607

Sensitive tool messages can leave a development page without masking when the tool cannot be matched to a form. Ending observation also leaves callbacks active. These risks are limited by existing connection controls and read-only inspection; no new execution privilege was identified in the reporting path.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · observed: Redaction fails open when tool ownership is unresolved. Unlinked descriptions, registration errors and call details are reported unchanged, whereas linked records use form redaction. Ambiguous schema matches or submissions after an asynchronous boundary can leave records unlinked. Registration errors then appear in inspector notes; secret-bearing messages would cross the page boundary without the existing masking controls. The missing control is observed, but an actual production secret disclosure is not established.
• Medium · reliability · observed: Observation teardown does not invalidate wrappers already registered with the browser or pending registration/list callbacks. They can still notify the stopped collector, whose scheduling and collection paths have no stopped guard, allowing form reads and instrumentation to resume after cleanup. This weakens lifecycle and privacy containment, including during replacement. The outer owner closes RPC, which limits exposure and prevents concluding that these later report attempts are delivered.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified exposure concerns tool metadata and failure text from connected development pages, stored in shared forms state and available to inspection consumers. A page script controlling tool registration or secret-bearing failures can supply these strings. The inspected path does not establish cross-tenant access, credential acquisition or new execution authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A failed registration whose error contains a secret can remain unlinked, bypass redaction, enter page-level WebMCP state and be printed in inspector notes. Description and call-detail text also cross the reporting boundary unchanged when unlinked, although those fields are not printed by the page-note formatter. This is a supported conditional disclosure path, not evidence of an actual leaked production secret.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The existing page-report validation boundary remains in use. Inspector output explicitly labels running-page content as untrusted data, and inspect-forms is registered as read-only. Array bounds and producer truncation limit payloads but do not replace redaction. Arbitrary accepted status text has no identified authorization sink.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Abort removes a tool record, per-page expiry contains server-side retention, and disposal closes the existing RPC connection. These controls do not invalidate already-forwarded observation wrappers or prevent their callbacks from scheduling another local scan after collector cleanup.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Make redaction independent of successful ownership inference: apply generic masking to every emitted string and conservatively mask or omit sensitive free text when form ownership is ambiguous. Disable observation callbacks at stop while preserving the original browser tool's execution behavior, and guard collector scheduling and collection against a stopped generation. Enum validation can separately improve the observational contract without being treated as an authorization fix.

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Review comments at @packages/devtools/src/rpc/forms-webmcp.ts:
- Around line 14-36: Update isWebMcpTool to validate the elements of each
optional array, not just that the values are arrays: validate calls, inputs,
blocking, and requiredChanged against their expected entry shapes, and validate
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🟡 Minor · Reject WebMCP status and seen values outside their unions. · forms-webmcp.ts:46-70

packages/devtools/src/rpc/forms-webmcp.ts:46-70
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject WebMCP status and seen values outside their unions.

When a JSON report reaches push-forms, isWebMcpTool accepts any strings for status and seen. An out-of-union status can pass isPageReport, then toolStatus displays it as the tool’s status in inspect-forms. Check both fields against their declared values.

Suggested fix

-    typeof value['status'] === 'string' &&
-    typeof value['seen'] === 'string' &&
+    (value['status'] === 'registering' ||
+      value['status'] === 'registered' ||
+      value['status'] === 'failed') &&
+    (value['seen'] === 'register' ||
+      value['seen'] === 'list' ||
+      value['seen'] === 'error') &&

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Update isWebMcpTool to validate status and seen against their declared allowed
values—registering, registered, or failed for status, and register, list, or
error for seen—instead of accepting arbitrary strings; leave the other field
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