Jam Access: $ARGUMENTS
Single chokepoint for Jam operations. Caller skills and rules MUST NOT call
mcp__Jam__* tools directly.
Invocation Contract
operation: get-trace url:<jam-url-or-id>
operation: get-recording url:<jam-url-or-id>
operation: get-bug-report url:<jam-url-or-id>
Return parsed JSON or a concise structured summary in a <result> block.
Substrate Selection
Probe in order — the ordering is the shared credential-substrate-precedence
contract, not a Jam-local choice. The first tier that is ready and
identity-matches the configured Jam account is used; one authenticated elsewhere
is skipped, never used.
- Tier 1 — configured-provider substrate: Jam CLI authenticated with
JAM_PAT, resolved throughlisa-secrets-access. - Tier 2 — interactive MCP fallback: Jam MCP, if the tool is available and
authenticated. Used when tier 1 is genuinely unavailable: no
JAM_PAT, no CLI adapter for the operation, or a Jam outage.
Jam documents a PAT-authenticated CLI that is cleaner for remote routines than
editing .mcp.json headers, and it is the same substrate interactively and
headlessly — which is why it leads. The CLI tier uses:
curl -fsSL https://native.jam.dev/install | bash
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
# Resolve the PAT through the chokepoint before giving up on the environment.
# `$JAM_PAT` is the documented fallback, not the only rung: without this, a
# project that keeps its credentials in Bitwarden, Doppler, or AWS has no tier 1
# path at all and silently resolves through the interactive MCP — the exact
# divergence `credential-substrate-precedence` exists to remove.
read_jam_pat() {
[ -n "${JAM_PAT:-}" ] && { echo "$JAM_PAT"; return; }
#
# Ordered across trusted machine-managed substrates, ending at the installed
# package. Checkout-local paths are deliberately absent: a familiar generated
# destination is still repository-controlled executable code. The plugin
# rungs are the floor: `resolve-secret.mjs` ships beside this skill, so a rung
# pointing at it is reachable from anywhere the plugin itself is installed.
# Without one, a consumer repository that vendors none of the leading paths
# never reaches a resolver at all — the ladder exits without having asked
# anything, which is what pushed agents into improvising their own credential
# lookups. This LADDER is identical in every skill that resolves a credential
# and `credential-resolver-ladder` fails if any copy diverges. Only what
# happens AFTER the ladder may differ between them.
# Execute only machine-managed plugin/package resolvers. Checkout-local
# candidates are repository-controlled code, not trusted merely by path.
local candidates=()
if [ -n "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" ]; then
candidates+=("$CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/lisa-secrets-access/scripts/resolve-secret.mjs")
fi
if [ -n "${PLUGIN_ROOT:-}" ]; then
candidates+=("$PLUGIN_ROOT/skills/lisa-secrets-access/scripts/resolve-secret.mjs")
fi
# Last rung deliberately needs no environment variable: an agent that was
# never handed a plugin root still has the installed package to fall back on.
candidates+=(node_modules/@codyswann/lisa/plugins/lisa/skills/lisa-secrets-access/scripts/resolve-secret.mjs)
local resolver
local tried=()
for resolver in "${candidates[@]}"; do
tried+=("$resolver")
if [ -f "$resolver" ]; then
local via_lisa
via_lisa=$(node "$resolver" get JAM_PAT 2>/dev/null) \
&& [ -n "$via_lisa" ] && { echo "$via_lisa"; return; }
# Empty/error means this substrate had no answer; try the next trusted one.
fi
done
# Name every path. A bare `return 1` sends the next reader hunting for a
# resolver they cannot see the absence of; the enumeration turns that into a
# seconds-long diagnosis. Paths and store coordinates only — never any
# resolved value, on any path.
echo "Error: could not resolve JAM_PAT through lisa-secrets-access." >&2
echo "Tried, in order (relative paths are from $PWD):" >&2
printf ' %s\n' "${tried[@]}" >&2
return 1
}
# Piped, never written to disk and never passed as an argv token: a PAT on a
# command line is readable from the process table by every user on the host.
read_jam_pat | jam auth login --token
jam skills install
If neither tier works, fail with:
Error: no Jam access substrate available. Authenticate the Jam MCP, set JAM_PAT, or store JAM_PAT in this project's secrets provider.
Mutation boundary
Every operation in the Invocation Contract is read-only — fetching a trace,
a recording, or a bug report. So the credential-substrate-precedence guarded
fallback for mutating operations (write, read back, assert the tenant from the
response, roll back on mismatch) is not engaged here, and a failed tier is
simply skipped. A future operation that mutates Jam state — commenting on or
deleting a Jam — is a write and MUST reconcile by read-back before any retry.
Invariants
- Tier order is
credential-substrate-precedence:JAM_PATCLI first, Jam MCP as a preserved first-class fallback. Do not retry a failed tier blindly. - The PAT is resolved through
lisa-secrets-access, with the bareJAM_PATenvironment variable as the documented fallback. Never read a second credential store directly. - Never commit a Jam PAT into
.mcp.jsonor any generated setup artifact. - Headless Jam access requires
native.jam.devfor the installer andapi.jam.devfor CLI/API calls in any custom remote network allowlist. - If a requested operation is not yet mapped to the Jam CLI substrate, surface that exact missing adapter instead of pretending the trace is unavailable.