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Adds support for multiple MCP servers, fails a run when a granted server is unreachable, and copies whole skill bundles instead of just SKILL.md.

Multiple MCP servers. AGENT_MCP_SERVER holds one argv string with no env and no cwd, so only a server that reads everything from the ambient environment works. New AGENT_MCP_CONFIG takes the standard mcpServers document (the one Claude Code and Cursor read), inline or as a file path:

{"mcpServers": {"github": {"command": "npx",
                           "args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"],
                           "env": {"GITHUB_TOKEN": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"}}}}

AGENT_MCP_SERVER still works as the single-server shorthand. Secrets go in as ${VAR} and the CLI expands them from the subprocess env — the workspace gets copied into generated_files/, so a rendered value would end up committed.

Unreachable servers fail the run. Right now a server that doesn't start is invisible: gemini falls back to run_shell_command, errors is empty, exit 0, and the record still counts as an MCP arm. Both CLI agents now check their granted servers before the model runs. gemini uses gemini mcp list (which also covers folder trust); openclaw has no equivalent, so it uses a small stdio probe.

Skill bundles. materialize_skills copied SKILL.md and dropped the references/, templates/, scripts/ next to it, so a skill telling the agent to read templates/report.md pointed at nothing. It now copies the directory.

Tested against real gemini 0.56 and openclaw 2026.7.1 with two MCP servers: both models called through both servers, the untrusted-workspace and dead-server cases both failed with the reason named, and no secret reached the workspace config.

HTTP/SSE MCP servers are out of scope — the probe only speaks stdio and I had nothing remote to test against.

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  • New Features

    • Added support for multiple MCP servers with per-server tools, environment variables, working directories, and configuration files.
    • Added MCP preflight checks across supported CLI agents, including connection validation, tool discovery, secret redaction, and actionable errors.
    • Added support for forwarding custom agent command-line flags.
    • Added API support for routing tool calls across multiple MCP servers.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved MCP configuration validation and error reporting.
    • Improved skill bundle copying while safely handling symbolic links.
    • Prevented agent runs when required MCP servers are unavailable.

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The PR adds structured multi-server MCP configuration, environment and working-directory support, dependency-free stdio probing, complete skill materialization, API tool routing, and preflight gates for CLI agents.

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MCP configuration and materialization

Layer / File(s) Summary
MCP configuration and binding data
devops_bench/agents/capabilities/mcp.py, devops_bench/agents/config.py
AGENT_MCP_CONFIG supports validated inline or file-based mcpServers documents. Bindings preserve tools, environment mappings, and working directories.
Capability and skill materialization
devops_bench/agents/shared/cli_capabilities.py
Materialized MCP entries preserve settings. Skill materialization copies complete bundles and filters unsafe symlinks.

MCP stdio probing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Probe and preflight implementation
devops_bench/agents/shared/mcp_probe.py, tests/unit/agents/shared/test_mcp_probe.py
The probe expands environment references, performs MCP initialization and tool discovery, bounds output, cleans up process groups, redacts secrets, and reports concurrent failures in binding order.

API MCP routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Multi-server sessions and dispatch
devops_bench/agents/api/agent.py, devops_bench/agents/api/mcp.py, tests/unit/agents/api/test_agents_api_agent.py
The API agent opens all command-bearing servers, merges tools, routes calls by tool name, rejects duplicate names, and passes environment and cwd settings.

CLI MCP gates

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI validation and execution gates
devops_bench/agents/cli/antigravity/agent.py, devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py, devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py, tests/unit/agents/*
CLI agents preflight granted MCP servers before subprocess execution. Gemini parses status output and forwards extra flags. OpenClaw and Antigravity stop execution when probing fails.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~90 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2357c

The PR adds multi-server MCP configuration and preflight failure handling while copying complete skill bundles. It is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up because malformed non-UTF-8 configuration files can still raise UnicodeDecodeError instead of the documented ConfigError, causing inconsistent error handling for that input.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent
  participant preflight_mcp
  participant MCP_server
  participant CLI_process
  Agent->>preflight_mcp: validate configured MCP bindings
  preflight_mcp->>MCP_server: initialize and request tools/list
  MCP_server-->>preflight_mcp: tools or reachability error
  preflight_mcp-->>Agent: preflight result
  Agent->>CLI_process: invoke only when validation succeeds
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devops_bench/agents/shared/mcp_probe.py (1)

54-61: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Correct the timeout claim for more than eight servers.

The comment states that PROBE_TIMEOUT_SEC is "the budget for the slowest one rather than a per-run sum". preflight_mcp caps the pool at _MAX_CONCURRENT_PROBES = 8. If a config grants more than eight launchable servers, the ninth probe starts only after a slot frees, so the worst-case wall clock is about ceil(n / 8) * timeout, not timeout. State the bound that holds.

📝 Proposed comment fix
 # Wall-clock budget per server. Servers are probed concurrently, so this is the
-# budget for the slowest one rather than a per-run sum. A cold ``uvx``/``npx``
+# budget for the slowest one in a concurrency wave rather than a per-run sum;
+# with more than _MAX_CONCURRENT_PROBES servers the worst case is
+# ceil(n / _MAX_CONCURRENT_PROBES) * this budget. A cold ``uvx``/``npx``
 # package fetch can exceed it; warm the launcher cache during host setup instead
 # of paying a cold-fetch budget on every run of the matrix.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/mcp_probe.py` around lines 54 - 61, Update the
comment above PROBE_TIMEOUT_SEC to accurately describe wall-clock behavior when
preflight_mcp probes more than _MAX_CONCURRENT_PROBES servers: batches wait for
available slots, so the worst-case duration scales as ceil(server_count / 8)
multiplied by the timeout rather than being limited to a single timeout.
tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_openclaw.py (1)

907-930: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert the probe's cwd and base_env contract.

The agent passes cwd=workdir deliberately, and the source comment states that a relative path in a binding's args must resolve the same way in the probe and under oc. No test locks that in, so a future change to the call site would pass silently. Capture the keyword arguments in the stub and assert them.

💚 Proposed test addition
def test_execute_probes_mcp_from_the_run_workdir(
    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, tmp_path: Path
) -> None:
    """The probe must launch servers where ``oc`` will, so a relative path in a
    binding's args resolves the same way in both."""
    seen: dict = {}

    def fake_preflight(bindings: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> dict:
        seen["bindings"] = bindings
        seen["cwd"] = kwargs.get("cwd")
        return {}

    def fake_bash(command: str, **kwargs: Any) -> SimpleNamespace:
        seen["run_cwd"] = kwargs.get("cwd")
        return _make_subprocess_result(stdout="ok", returncode=0)

    _install_oc_run(monkeypatch, fake_bash, _empty_sessions_run)
    monkeypatch.setattr(oc_mod, "preflight_mcp", fake_preflight)
    caps = AllCapabilities(mcp_servers=(McpBinding(name="gke", command=("gke-mcp",)),))

    OpenClawAgent(AgentConfig(target=str(tmp_path / "oc"), capabilities=caps)).run("p")

    assert str(seen["cwd"]) == seen["run_cwd"], "probe and oc must share a cwd"
    assert seen["bindings"] == caps.mcp_servers
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In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_openclaw.py` around lines 907 - 930,
Strengthen the MCP preflight test around OpenClawAgent.run by capturing keyword
arguments in fake_preflight and fake_bash, then assert preflight receives the
same working directory used to invoke oc and receives caps.mcp_servers
unchanged. Preserve the existing unreachable-server assertions while locking in
the shared cwd and binding contract.
tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_gemini.py (1)

804-821: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for conflicting duplicate status rows.

_verify_cli_sees_mcp treats two rows for one server name that disagree as a failure and joins the statuses with / (devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py lines 174-177). No test exercises that branch. The comment in the source states that a disagreeing duplicate must not be overwritten by the last row, so the branch guards a specific silent-pass risk.

💚 Proposed test
def test_execute_fails_when_duplicate_rows_disagree(
    monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch,
) -> None:
    """Two rows for one name must agree; a later Connected row must not
    overwrite an earlier Disabled one."""

    def fake_run(argv, **kwargs):
        if argv[1:3] == ["mcp", "list"]:
            return SimpleNamespace(
                stdout=(
                    "\u25cb gke: gke-mcp  (stdio) - Disabled\n"
                    "\u2713 gke: gke-mcp  (stdio) - Connected\n"
                ),
                stderr="",
                returncode=0,
            )
        return SimpleNamespace(stdout="", stderr="", returncode=0)

    monkeypatch.setattr(gemini_mod, "run", fake_run)
    caps = AllCapabilities(mcp_servers=(McpBinding(name="gke", command=("gke-mcp",)),))

    result = GeminiCliAgent(AgentConfig(target="gemini", capabilities=caps)).run("p")

    assert "gke (Connected/Disabled)" in result.errors[0]
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In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_gemini.py` around lines 804 - 821, Add a
unit test alongside
test_execute_fails_when_a_granted_server_is_absent_from_the_listing that makes
the mocked mcp list output contain two rows for the same server with conflicting
statuses, such as Disabled and Connected, then assert GeminiCliAgent.run reports
an error containing the server name and joined statuses (Connected/Disabled).
Reuse the existing monkeypatch, capabilities, and agent setup to cover the
duplicate-status handling in _verify_cli_sees_mcp.
devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py (1)

443-457: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

MCP preflight is not bounded by the run's timeout budget. Both CLI agents gate execution on MCP availability, and neither derives the gate's duration from self.config.timeout_sec. A run with a short budget can therefore spend more wall clock in preflight than the run itself is allowed.

  • devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py#L443-L457: pass an explicit timeout to preflight_mcp derived from self.config.timeout_sec instead of relying on the PROBE_TIMEOUT_SEC default.
  • devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py#L78-L80: cap _MCP_LIST_TIMEOUT_SEC against self.config.timeout_sec at the _verify_cli_sees_mcp call site, and apply the same cap to the preflight_mcp call in _probe_failure_detail.
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py` around lines 443 - 457, Bound MCP
preflight durations to self.config.timeout_sec instead of relying on the default
timeout. In devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py lines 443-457, pass the
run-derived timeout to preflight_mcp. In
devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py lines 78-80, cap
_MCP_LIST_TIMEOUT_SEC against self.config.timeout_sec at _verify_cli_sees_mcp
and apply the same cap to preflight_mcp in _probe_failure_detail.
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Inline comments:
In `@devops_bench/agents/capabilities/mcp.py`:
- Around line 40-47: Update the env parameter docstring to document only the
braced ${VAR} reference syntax, removing the unsupported $VAR form; preserve the
existing explanation that references are resolved from the runner environment
and written unexpanded to the CLI configuration.

In `@devops_bench/agents/config.py`:
- Around line 120-135: Update the args, env, and cwd handling in the
configuration validation flow to inspect the raw entry values before applying
defaults: only None should become the empty list, empty mapping, or empty
string. Validate all other values against the existing required types so falsy
invalid values such as 0 raise ConfigError instead of being silently replaced.

In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/cli_capabilities.py`:
- Around line 119-133: Update _ignore_escaping_links with an explicit Callable
return annotation for its nested ignore callback, and widen _ignore’s dirpath
parameter from str to str | os.PathLike[str> to match copytree’s Path input; add
the required Callable import and preserve the existing callback behavior.

In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/mcp_probe.py`:
- Around line 169-198: Update _pump and _drain_stderr to annotate their
text-mode stream parameters as IO[str] and replace bare sink generics with
concrete queue/deque element types matching the line and None sentinel values;
add only the typing imports required for these annotations.

In `@tests/unit/agents/shared/test_mcp_probe.py`:
- Around line 289-293: Remove the duplicate _server definition shown in the
diff, leaving the existing parameterized _server helper as the sole definition
so calls retain distinct script naming and Ruff’s redefinition check passes.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py`:
- Around line 443-457: Bound MCP preflight durations to self.config.timeout_sec
instead of relying on the default timeout. In
devops_bench/agents/cli/openclaw/agent.py lines 443-457, pass the run-derived
timeout to preflight_mcp. In devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py lines
78-80, cap _MCP_LIST_TIMEOUT_SEC against self.config.timeout_sec at
_verify_cli_sees_mcp and apply the same cap to preflight_mcp in
_probe_failure_detail.

In `@devops_bench/agents/shared/mcp_probe.py`:
- Around line 54-61: Update the comment above PROBE_TIMEOUT_SEC to accurately
describe wall-clock behavior when preflight_mcp probes more than
_MAX_CONCURRENT_PROBES servers: batches wait for available slots, so the
worst-case duration scales as ceil(server_count / 8) multiplied by the timeout
rather than being limited to a single timeout.

In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_gemini.py`:
- Around line 804-821: Add a unit test alongside
test_execute_fails_when_a_granted_server_is_absent_from_the_listing that makes
the mocked mcp list output contain two rows for the same server with conflicting
statuses, such as Disabled and Connected, then assert GeminiCliAgent.run reports
an error containing the server name and joined statuses (Connected/Disabled).
Reuse the existing monkeypatch, capabilities, and agent setup to cover the
duplicate-status handling in _verify_cli_sees_mcp.

In `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_openclaw.py`:
- Around line 907-930: Strengthen the MCP preflight test around
OpenClawAgent.run by capturing keyword arguments in fake_preflight and
fake_bash, then assert preflight receives the same working directory used to
invoke oc and receives caps.mcp_servers unchanged. Preserve the existing
unreachable-server assertions while locking in the shared cwd and binding
contract.
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devops_bench/agents/config.py (1)

63-67: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Normalize file decoding failures to ConfigError.

If the MCP configuration file contains invalid UTF-8, Path.read_text() raises UnicodeDecodeError. Line 67 does not catch it, so AgentConfig.from_env() violates its documented ConfigError contract. Catch UnicodeError and raise ConfigError with a clear diagnostic. Add a regression test for an invalid-UTF-8 file.

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-        except OSError as exc:
+        except OSError as exc:
             raise ConfigError(f"AGENT_MCP_CONFIG path is unreadable: {exc}") from exc
+        except UnicodeError as exc:
+            raise ConfigError(f"AGENT_MCP_CONFIG file is not valid UTF-8: {exc}") from exc
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Fixed the UTF-8 decode finding in 8fa022b: Path.read_text raises UnicodeDecodeError (a ValueError), which slipped past the except OSError and broke from_env's documented ConfigError contract. Added except UnicodeError plus a regression test. Full unit suite: 1237 passed.

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Three gaps made an "MCP arm" a claim rather than a fact.

1. Only one MCP server could be configured, and a binding carried no env and
   no cwd, so any server needing its own token or working directory was
   unreachable. AGENT_MCP_CONFIG now accepts the standard {"mcpServers": {...}}
   document that Claude Code and Cursor already read, inline or as a path, with
   per-server env, cwd and tools. AGENT_MCP_SERVER stays as the single-server
   shorthand. Secrets are written by reference (${VAR}) and expanded by the CLI
   from the subprocess env: the workspace is copied wholesale into the run's
   artifacts, so a rendered value would become a committed token.

2. A server that failed to start left the run scoring as an MCP arm. Verified
   locally: with a server unreachable, gemini fell back to run_shell_command,
   AgentResult.errors was empty and the answer looked correct. Both CLI agents
   now gate on their granted servers before the model runs and fail the run
   otherwise. gemini asserts the binary's own view via `gemini mcp list`, which
   also covers folder trust; the stdio probe runs only when that gate fails, to
   say whether the cause is the server or the CLI. openclaw has no equivalent
   listing, so the probe is its gate.

3. materialize_skills copied SKILL.md alone and dropped the bundle's
   references/, templates/ and scripts/, leaving the skill's own instructions
   pointing at nothing. It now copies the containing directory, keeping the
   name-escape and duplicate-name guards, recreating symlinks rather than
   dereferencing them, and dropping links that resolve outside the bundle.

The probe kills the whole process group: a launcher (uvx, npx, sh -c) execs the
real server as a child that inherits the stdout pipe, so signalling the direct
child alone left the reader thread blocked until the grandchild died. Expanded
secrets are redacted from its stderr tail, which reaches results.json.

Remote (HTTP/SSE) transports are out of scope — the probe speaks stdio only and
there is no remote server here to test against.

Verified end to end against the real gemini 0.56 and openclaw 2026.7.1 binaries
with two servers: both models called through both servers, no secret reached
the workspace config, an untrusted workspace and a dead server each failed the
run with the cause named.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Ng <ngeugene@google.com>
- AGENT_MCP_CONFIG: default 'args'/'env'/'cwd' only when the key is absent. The
  `or` fallback replaced any falsy value before the type check, so `"env": 0`
  silently yielded an empty environment and the server launched without its
  declared credential — the probe then reported a cause that was not the real
  one.
- McpBinding.env docstring claimed a bare `$VAR` resolves. Only the braced form
  does; the bare form stays literal.
- Type-annotate the copytree ignore-callback factory and the probe's reader
  threads, per the repo's type-hint guideline. `dirpath` is widened to
  `str | os.PathLike[str]` because copytree hands the callback the same type it
  was given, and materialize_skills passes a Path.
- Drop a duplicate `_server` test helper that shadowed the parameterized one and
  wrote every script to a fixed filename.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Ng <ngeugene@google.com>
Path.read_text raises UnicodeDecodeError, a ValueError rather than an OSError,
so a config file that is not UTF-8 escaped the except clause and broke
from_env's documented ConfigError contract.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Ng <ngeugene@google.com>
The API agent opened one MCPClient, so servers 2..N of a grant were
dropped and the run scored as if the agent had the whole toolset. It now
holds N sessions on one AsyncExitStack, advertises every server's tools
in grant order, and routes each call to the server that listed it. A tool
name advertised by two servers is fatal (ToolNameConflictError) rather
than resolved by grant order.

Also: parse AGENT_MCP_CONFIG through a strict pydantic model so a wrong
JSON type fails the grant instead of coercing, move the child-env read
into mcp_probe.child_env so the API agent keeps no os.environ read, and
fix the probe's stdout queue to evict the oldest line — evicting the
newest discarded the handshake reply and reported a chatty server as
unreachable.
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build_mcp_servers keyed the launch map on a binding's name, falling back
to a positional mcp<index>. Two bindings resolving to one key overwrote
each other, so a granted server never launched and the arm was scored
against a toolset it did not have.

Raise ConfigError instead. AgentHarness.run converts it to an errored
result, matching how the API agent treats a tool-name conflict.

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105-118: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use neutral example server names in the docstring.

The docstring explains the pattern with gke and gke:prod. These are provider-specific names, and here they are illustrative config keys rather than a real provider artifact. Neutral names keep the shared documentation surface vendor-neutral.

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-    strings) and
-    conflates ``gke`` with ``gke:prod`` — under which a disabled ``gke`` could be
-    overwritten by a connected ``gke:prod`` and read as connected. Requiring
+    strings) and
+    conflates ``k8s`` with ``k8s:prod`` — under which a disabled ``k8s`` could be
+    overwritten by a connected ``k8s:prod`` and read as connected. Requiring
     whitespace after the name's colon keeps the two apart.

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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py` around lines 105 - 118, Update
the _status_rows docstring to replace the provider-specific illustrative names
“gke” and “gke:prod” with neutral server/config-key examples, while preserving
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tests/unit/agents/api/test_agents_api_agent.py (1)

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Add the missing type annotations.

For consistency with neighboring helpers and the repository's test-path guidance, annotate _per_command_mcp with its callable return type, and annotate the two new Antigravity test functions' parameters and -> None return types. The second location is listed below.

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Update _per_command_mcp and its nested _factory callable with explicit return
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In `@devops_bench/agents/cli/gemini_cli/agent.py`:
- Around line 105-118: Update the _status_rows docstring to replace the
provider-specific illustrative names “gke” and “gke:prod” with neutral
server/config-key examples, while preserving the explanation of exact-name
matching and the required whitespace after the colon.

In `@tests/unit/agents/api/test_agents_api_agent.py`:
- Around line 845-857: Update _per_command_mcp and its nested _factory callable
with explicit return annotations, using Callable from collections.abc as needed
and matching the existing _FakeMCPClient types.

Apply the same fix in `@tests/unit/agents/test_agents_cli_antigravity.py` around
lines 819 - 823: The same missing type-annotation remediation applies to both
new Antigravity tests, including the additional occurrence at lines 944-948.

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…tool-name conflicts

- Reject a skill tool whose name collides with a granted MCP server's tool
  instead of shadowing the server's tool via the dispatcher's skill-first rule.
- Fail the gemini gate when 'gemini mcp list' itself exits non-zero, quoting the
  CLI's own error rather than reporting every server as '<not listed>'.
- Reject an all-whitespace mcpServers 'command'.
- Read the JSON-RPC error field once and treat an explicit null as no error.
- Widen the probe's stdin write to the whole OSError family.
- Cover the antigravity preflight call's bindings argument with a test.
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