Add ifc label for get_file_contents tool (#2454)

* Add ifc label for get_file_contents tool

Emits an IFC SecurityLabel on the get_file_contents tool result when the
InsidersMode flag is enabled, mirroring the pattern landed for get_me in

Public repositories are labelled PublicUntrusted (anyone can author file
content via pull requests). Private repositories are labelled
PrivateTrusted with the repository owner as a placeholder reader, since
only collaborators can land changes there. Full collaborator enumeration
is intentionally deferred to a follow-up shared helper.

A new exported FetchRepoIsPrivate helper wraps Repositories.Get for
visibility lookups; it is invoked lazily and only when InsidersMode is
on, so non-insiders pay no extra round trip. Visibility lookup failures
skip the label rather than fail the user-facing call.

Refs github/copilot-mcp-core#1623, github/copilot-mcp-core#1389.

* get_file_contents: address Copilot review findings

- FetchRepoIsPrivate: tighten doc to 'returns whether a repository is
  private' and close the underlying *github.Response body.
- attachIFC: skip emitting the ifc label when the repository visibility
  lookup fails, instead of falling through to PublicUntrusted (which
  would mislabel a private or unknown-visibility repo as public). The
  failure is no longer cached so a subsequent return path can retry.
- Add a test asserting the tool still succeeds and omits result.Meta  ["ifc"] when the visibility lookup returns 500.

pkg/github/repositories.go

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	ghErrors "github.com/github/github-mcp-server/pkg/errors"
+	"github.com/github/github-mcp-server/pkg/ifc"
 	"github.com/github/github-mcp-server/pkg/inventory"
 	"github.com/github/github-mcp-server/pkg/octicons"
 	"github.com/github/github-mcp-server/pkg/scopes"
@@ -681,6 +682,20 @@ func FetchRepoCollaborators(ctx context.Context, client *github.Client, owner, r
 	return logins, nil
 }
 
+// FetchRepoIsPrivate returns whether a repository is private. It is a thin
+// wrapper around the GitHub Repositories.Get endpoint provided as a shared
+// helper for IFC label computation across tools.
+func FetchRepoIsPrivate(ctx context.Context, client *github.Client, owner, repo string) (bool, error) {
+	r, resp, err := client.Repositories.Get(ctx, owner, repo)
+	if resp != nil {
+		defer func() { _ = resp.Body.Close() }()
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return false, err
+	}
+	return r.GetPrivate(), nil
+}
+
 // GetFileContents creates a tool to get the contents of a file or directory from a GitHub repository.
 func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool {
 	return NewTool(
@@ -753,6 +768,46 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 				return utils.NewToolResultError("failed to get GitHub client"), nil, nil
 			}
 
+			// attachIFC adds the IFC label to a successful tool result when
+			// InsidersMode is enabled. The visibility and (for private
+			// repositories) collaborators lookups are performed lazily on
+			// first use. If the visibility lookup fails we skip the label
+			// rather than misclassify the result; the failure is not cached
+			// so a later return path can retry. If only the collaborators
+			// lookup fails for a private repo we fall back to the owner so
+			// the reader set is never empty.
+			var (
+				ifcLabelKnown bool
+				ifcIsPrivate  bool
+				ifcReaders    []string
+			)
+			attachIFC := func(r *mcp.CallToolResult) *mcp.CallToolResult {
+				if r == nil || r.IsError || !deps.GetFlags(ctx).InsidersMode {
+					return r
+				}
+				if !ifcLabelKnown {
+					isPrivate, err := FetchRepoIsPrivate(ctx, client, owner, repo)
+					if err != nil {
+						return r
+					}
+					ifcIsPrivate = isPrivate
+					if ifcIsPrivate {
+						if collaborators, err := FetchRepoCollaborators(ctx, client, owner, repo); err == nil {
+							ifcReaders = collaborators
+						}
+						if len(ifcReaders) == 0 {
+							ifcReaders = []string{owner}
+						}
+					}
+					ifcLabelKnown = true
+				}
+				if r.Meta == nil {
+					r.Meta = mcp.Meta{}
+				}
+				r.Meta["ifc"] = ifc.LabelGetFileContents(ifcIsPrivate, ifcReaders)
+				return r
+			}
+
 			rawOpts, fallbackUsed, err := resolveGitReference(ctx, client, owner, repo, ref, sha)
 			if err != nil {
 				return utils.NewToolResultError(fmt.Sprintf("failed to resolve git reference: %s", err)), nil, nil
@@ -774,7 +829,8 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 			// The path does not point to a file or directory.
 			// Instead let's try to find it in the Git Tree by matching the end of the path.
 			if err != nil || (fileContent == nil && dirContent == nil) {
-				return matchFiles(ctx, client, owner, repo, ref, path, rawOpts, 0)
+				res, data, err := matchFiles(ctx, client, owner, repo, ref, path, rawOpts, 0)
+				return attachIFC(res), data, err
 			}
 
 			if fileContent != nil && fileContent.SHA != nil {
@@ -804,7 +860,7 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 						Text:     "",
 						MIMEType: "text/plain",
 					}
-					return utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded empty file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result), nil, nil
+					return attachIFC(utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded empty file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result)), nil, nil
 				}
 
 				// For files >= 1MB, return a ResourceLink instead of content
@@ -817,10 +873,10 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 						Title: fmt.Sprintf("File: %s", path),
 						Size:  &size,
 					}
-					return utils.NewToolResultResourceLink(
+					return attachIFC(utils.NewToolResultResourceLink(
 						fmt.Sprintf("File %s is too large to display (%d bytes). Use the download URL to fetch the content: %s (SHA: %s)%s",
 							path, fileSize, fileContent.GetDownloadURL(), fileSHA, successNote),
-						resourceLink), nil, nil
+						resourceLink)), nil, nil
 				}
 
 				// For files < 1MB, get content directly from Contents API
@@ -848,7 +904,7 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 						Text:     content,
 						MIMEType: contentType,
 					}
-					return utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded text file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result), nil, nil
+					return attachIFC(utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded text file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result)), nil, nil
 				}
 
 				// Binary content - encode as base64 blob
@@ -858,14 +914,14 @@ func GetFileContents(t translations.TranslationHelperFunc) inventory.ServerTool
 					Blob:     []byte(blobContent),
 					MIMEType: contentType,
 				}
-				return utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded binary file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result), nil, nil
+				return attachIFC(utils.NewToolResultResource(fmt.Sprintf("successfully downloaded binary file (SHA: %s)%s", fileSHA, successNote), result)), nil, nil
 			} else if dirContent != nil {
 				// file content or file SHA is nil which means it's a directory
 				r, err := json.Marshal(dirContent)
 				if err != nil {
 					return utils.NewToolResultError("failed to marshal response"), nil, nil
 				}
-				return utils.NewToolResultText(string(r)), nil, nil
+				return attachIFC(utils.NewToolResultText(string(r))), nil, nil
 			}
 
 			return utils.NewToolResultError("failed to get file contents"), nil, nil

pkg/github/repositories_test.go

@@ -477,6 +477,158 @@ func Test_GetFileContents(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func Test_GetFileContents_IFC_InsidersMode(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	serverTool := GetFileContents(translations.NullTranslationHelper)
+
+	mockRawContent := []byte("hello")
+
+	makeMockClient := func(isPrivate bool) *http.Client {
+		return MockHTTPClientWithHandlers(map[string]http.HandlerFunc{
+			GetReposGitRefByOwnerByRepoByRef: mockResponse(t, http.StatusOK, "{\"ref\": \"refs/heads/main\", \"object\": {\"sha\": \"\"}}"),
+			GetReposByOwnerByRepo: mockResponse(t, http.StatusOK, map[string]any{
+				"name":           "repo",
+				"default_branch": "main",
+				"private":        isPrivate,
+			}),
+			GetReposCollaboratorsByOwnerByRepo: mockResponse(t, http.StatusOK, []*github.User{
+				{Login: github.Ptr("octocat")},
+				{Login: github.Ptr("alice")},
+			}),
+			GetReposContentsByOwnerByRepoByPath: func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+				encodedContent := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(mockRawContent)
+				fileContent := &github.RepositoryContent{
+					Name:     github.Ptr("README.md"),
+					Path:     github.Ptr("README.md"),
+					SHA:      github.Ptr("abc123"),
+					Type:     github.Ptr("file"),
+					Content:  github.Ptr(encodedContent),
+					Size:     github.Ptr(len(mockRawContent)),
+					Encoding: github.Ptr("base64"),
+				}
+				contentBytes, _ := json.Marshal(fileContent)
+				_, _ = w.Write(contentBytes)
+			},
+		})
+	}
+
+	reqParams := map[string]any{
+		"owner": "octocat",
+		"repo":  "repo",
+		"path":  "README.md",
+		"ref":   "refs/heads/main",
+	}
+
+	t.Run("insiders mode disabled omits ifc label from result meta", func(t *testing.T) {
+		deps := BaseDeps{
+			Client: github.NewClient(makeMockClient(false)),
+			Flags:  FeatureFlags{InsidersMode: false},
+		}
+		handler := serverTool.Handler(deps)
+
+		request := createMCPRequest(reqParams)
+		result, err := handler(ContextWithDeps(context.Background(), deps), &request)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.False(t, result.IsError)
+
+		assert.Nil(t, result.Meta, "result meta should be nil when insiders mode is disabled")
+	})
+
+	t.Run("insiders mode enabled on public repo emits public untrusted label", func(t *testing.T) {
+		deps := BaseDeps{
+			Client: github.NewClient(makeMockClient(false)),
+			Flags:  FeatureFlags{InsidersMode: true},
+		}
+		handler := serverTool.Handler(deps)
+
+		request := createMCPRequest(reqParams)
+		result, err := handler(ContextWithDeps(context.Background(), deps), &request)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.False(t, result.IsError)
+
+		require.NotNil(t, result.Meta)
+		ifcLabel, ok := result.Meta["ifc"]
+		require.True(t, ok, "result meta should contain ifc key")
+
+		ifcJSON, err := json.Marshal(ifcLabel)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		var ifcMap map[string]any
+		require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(ifcJSON, &ifcMap))
+
+		assert.Equal(t, "untrusted", ifcMap["integrity"])
+		confList, ok := ifcMap["confidentiality"].([]any)
+		require.True(t, ok, "confidentiality should be a list")
+		require.Len(t, confList, 1)
+		assert.Equal(t, "public", confList[0])
+	})
+
+	t.Run("insiders mode enabled on private repo emits private trusted label", func(t *testing.T) {
+		deps := BaseDeps{
+			Client: github.NewClient(makeMockClient(true)),
+			Flags:  FeatureFlags{InsidersMode: true},
+		}
+		handler := serverTool.Handler(deps)
+
+		request := createMCPRequest(reqParams)
+		result, err := handler(ContextWithDeps(context.Background(), deps), &request)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.False(t, result.IsError)
+
+		require.NotNil(t, result.Meta)
+		ifcLabel, ok := result.Meta["ifc"]
+		require.True(t, ok, "result meta should contain ifc key")
+
+		ifcJSON, err := json.Marshal(ifcLabel)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		var ifcMap map[string]any
+		require.NoError(t, json.Unmarshal(ifcJSON, &ifcMap))
+
+		assert.Equal(t, "trusted", ifcMap["integrity"])
+		confList, ok := ifcMap["confidentiality"].([]any)
+		require.True(t, ok, "confidentiality should be a list")
+		assert.Equal(t, []any{"octocat", "alice"}, confList)
+	})
+
+	t.Run("insiders mode skips ifc label when visibility lookup fails", func(t *testing.T) {
+		mockedClient := MockHTTPClientWithHandlers(map[string]http.HandlerFunc{
+			GetReposGitRefByOwnerByRepoByRef: mockResponse(t, http.StatusOK, "{\"ref\": \"refs/heads/main\", \"object\": {\"sha\": \"\"}}"),
+			GetReposByOwnerByRepo:            mockResponse(t, http.StatusInternalServerError, "boom"),
+			GetReposContentsByOwnerByRepoByPath: func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
+				w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+				encodedContent := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(mockRawContent)
+				fileContent := &github.RepositoryContent{
+					Name:     github.Ptr("README.md"),
+					Path:     github.Ptr("README.md"),
+					SHA:      github.Ptr("abc123"),
+					Type:     github.Ptr("file"),
+					Content:  github.Ptr(encodedContent),
+					Size:     github.Ptr(len(mockRawContent)),
+					Encoding: github.Ptr("base64"),
+				}
+				contentBytes, _ := json.Marshal(fileContent)
+				_, _ = w.Write(contentBytes)
+			},
+		})
+		deps := BaseDeps{
+			Client: github.NewClient(mockedClient),
+			Flags:  FeatureFlags{InsidersMode: true},
+		}
+		handler := serverTool.Handler(deps)
+
+		request := createMCPRequest(reqParams)
+		result, err := handler(ContextWithDeps(context.Background(), deps), &request)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.False(t, result.IsError, "tool call should still succeed when visibility lookup fails")
+
+		if result.Meta != nil {
+			_, hasIFC := result.Meta["ifc"]
+			assert.False(t, hasIFC, "ifc label should be omitted when visibility lookup fails")
+		}
+	})
+}
+
 func Test_ForkRepository(t *testing.T) {
 	// Verify tool definition once
 	serverTool := ForkRepository(translations.NullTranslationHelper)

pkg/ifc/ifc.go

@@ -75,3 +75,14 @@ func LabelListIssues(isPrivate bool, readers []string) SecurityLabel {
 	}
 	return PublicUntrusted()
 }
+
+// LabelGetFileContents returns the IFC label for a get_file_contents result.
+// Public repository file contents may be authored by anyone via pull requests
+// and are therefore untrusted. In private repositories only collaborators can
+// land changes, so contents are treated as trusted.
+func LabelGetFileContents(isPrivate bool, readers []string) SecurityLabel {
+	if isPrivate {
+		return PrivateTrusted(readers)
+	}
+	return PublicUntrusted()
+}