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Remote MCP Server sessions refresh automatically and add a redirect confirmation step

calendar_today July 15, 2026 person Mark Wolfe domain buildkite-com

The Remote MCP Server ‘s OAuth flow has had several reliability and security improvements, changing how MCP client sessions stay authenticated. Sessions refresh instead of expiring Previously, a session was tied to a fixed 7-day refresh token, after which an MCP client had to go through the full interactive authorization flow again. Sessions are now refreshed continuously in the background: access tokens are short-lived (1 hour) and refresh tokens roll forward for up to 30 days of continued use, so an actively used agent no longer hits a hard weekly re-authentication wall.

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