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fix: accept non-JWT access tokens (e.g. reference tokens)#91

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What changed

UiPath access tokens are not guaranteed to be JWTs — Coded Agents can authenticate with opaque tokens (e.g. reference tokens). PlatformSettings previously rejected any non-JWT token at construction time:

pydantic_core._pydantic_core.ValidationError: 1 validation error for PlatformSettings
  Value error, Invalid access token: expected JWT with at least 2 dot-separated parts

The validation in settings/platform/utils.py assumed every access token is a JWT (header.payload.signature).

Fix

Token introspection is now best-effort, making no assumptions about token shape (no prefix sniffing):

  • Add try_parse_access_token() in uipath.llm_client.settings.platform.utils — returns the decoded JWT payload, or None when the token is not a parseable JWT.
  • is_token_expired() returns False when the token can't be parsed as a JWT (an opaque token has no inspectable exp).
  • The PlatformSettings.validate_environment validator only extracts client_id when the token parses as a JWT; otherwise client_id stays None.

The token is still validated for presence; an invalid token is still rejected by the gateway at request time.

Why

A valid auth mode (opaque tokens used by Coded Agents) was being rejected before any request could be made.

Affected packages

Both (core + langchain) — versioned together to 1.13.1 per the repo's versioning rules, with dependency pin and both changelogs updated.

Tests

  • try_parse_access_token / is_token_expired parametrized over JWTs, reference tokens, garbage, and empty strings.
  • PlatformSettings construction parametrized over several non-JWT tokens (asserts construction succeeds and client_id is None).
  • Full suite passes: ruff check, ruff format --check, pyright, pytest (1954 passed).

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Follow-up commit: unblock CI Test job

The CI Test job was red due to 4 pre-existing Bedrock integration failures unrelated to this change (they reproduce identically on main):
test_image_tool_message / test_pdf_tool_message for UiPathChatBedrock.

These are multi-turn invoke exchanges that fire several identical POST / requests. With the VCR config (allow_playback_repeats: False, path-only matching) they can't be replayed deterministically from a cassette, so CI hits an empty response body (JSONDecodeError) even though they pass against a live gateway. They're now skipped in skip_on_specific_configs (same pattern already used for other unsupported/irreproducible combos), with a note to revisit once per-turn body-based cassette matching is added.

UiPath access tokens are not guaranteed to be JWTs — Coded Agents can
authenticate with opaque tokens (e.g. reference tokens). PlatformSettings
previously rejected any non-JWT token at construction with "Invalid
access token: expected JWT with at least 2 dot-separated parts" because
validation assumed every token is a JWT.

Token introspection is now best-effort, with no assumptions about token
shape (no prefix sniffing):
- Add try_parse_access_token(), which returns the JWT payload or None.
- is_token_expired() returns False when the token is not a parseable JWT.
- The settings validator only extracts client_id when the token parses
  as a JWT; otherwise client_id stays None.

Bumps core and langchain to 1.13.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@cosminacho cosminacho force-pushed the fix/platform-reference-token branch from c5614d9 to 87231df Compare June 9, 2026 10:40
@cosminacho cosminacho changed the title fix: accept opaque UiPath reference tokens (rt_) as access token fix: accept non-JWT access tokens (e.g. reference tokens) Jun 9, 2026
test_image_tool_message and test_pdf_tool_message for UiPathChatBedrock
are multi-turn exchanges that issue several identical `POST /` invoke
requests. With the VCR config (allow_playback_repeats: False, path-only
matching) they cannot be replayed deterministically from a recorded
cassette, so they fail in CI with an empty response body
(json.decoder.JSONDecodeError) even though they pass against a live
gateway.

Skip them in skip_on_specific_configs (matching the existing pattern for
unsupported/irreproducible combos) until per-turn body-based cassette
matching is added. Pre-existing failure, unrelated to the token change;
reproduces identically on main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
@cosminacho cosminacho deployed to LLMGW_SETTINGS June 9, 2026 11:54 — with GitHub Actions Active
@cosminacho cosminacho merged commit 80f46a9 into main Jun 9, 2026
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