diff --git a/e2e/mcp-oauth-consent-redirect.spec.ts b/e2e/mcp-oauth-consent-redirect.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8477e2181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/e2e/mcp-oauth-consent-redirect.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import { createHash, randomBytes } from "node:crypto";
+import { createServer, type Server } from "node:http";
+import type { AddressInfo } from "node:net";
+
+import { expect, test } from "./setup/test";
+
+import { STORAGE_STATE_PATH } from "./setup/global-setup";
+import { SSR_PREFETCH_BASE_URL } from "./setup/ssr-prefetch-server";
+
+/**
+ * The MCP consent screen hands the browser back to the connecting client.
+ *
+ * After "Allow", the consent form posts to its own origin and the server
+ * answers with a redirect to the client's `redirect_uri`. Chromium applies the
+ * consent page's CSP `form-action` to that redirect as well, so a page that
+ * only allows `'self'` strands the user on the consent screen while the grant
+ * has already been issued server-side. Only a real browser enforces CSP, which
+ * is why this is an e2e journey and not a route test.
+ *
+ * It runs against the second server, the one started with `APP_URL`: the MCP
+ * surface fails closed without a configured origin. The callback is a local
+ * loopback listener, which is also what desktop MCP clients register.
+ */
+test.describe("MCP OAuth consent", () => {
+  test.use({
+    storageState: STORAGE_STATE_PATH,
+    baseURL: SSR_PREFETCH_BASE_URL,
+  });
+
+  let callback: Server;
+  let callbackUrl = "";
+  const hits: URL[] = [];
+
+  test.beforeAll(async () => {
+    callback = createServer((req, res) => {
+      hits.push(new URL(req.url ?? "/", callbackUrl));
+      res.writeHead(200, { "content-type": "text/html; charset=utf-8" });
+      res.end("<!doctype html><title>Callback</title><p>Connected.</p>");
+    });
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) =>
+      callback.listen(0, "127.0.0.1", () => resolve()),
+    );
+    const { port } = callback.address() as AddressInfo;
+    callbackUrl = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/callback`;
+  });
+
+  test.afterAll(async () => {
+    await new Promise<void>((resolve) => callback.close(() => resolve()));
+  });
+
+  test("Allow lands on the client's callback with a code", async ({
+    page,
+  }, testInfo) => {
+    test.skip(
+      testInfo.project.name !== "chromium-desktop",
+      "The redirect is enforced by the browser engine, not the layout; one Chromium run is the proof.",
+    );
+
+    // Register over the page's own connection rather than the shared API
+    // request pool, which can hand out a socket the server already closed.
+    await page.goto("/api/version");
+    const registration = await page.evaluate(async (redirectUri) => {
+      const res = await fetch("/api/mcp/oauth/register", {
+        method: "POST",
+        headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
+        body: JSON.stringify({
+          client_name: "E2E consent client",
+          redirect_uris: [redirectUri],
+          token_endpoint_auth_method: "none",
+          grant_types: ["authorization_code"],
+          response_types: ["code"],
+        }),
+      });
+      return { status: res.status, body: await res.json().catch(() => null) };
+    }, callbackUrl);
+    expect(registration.status, JSON.stringify(registration.body)).toBe(201);
+    const clientId = (registration.body as { client_id: string }).client_id;
+
+    const verifier = randomBytes(32).toString("base64url");
+    const challenge = createHash("sha256").update(verifier).digest("base64url");
+    const state = randomBytes(8).toString("hex");
+    const origin = new URL(SSR_PREFETCH_BASE_URL).origin;
+    const authorize = new URL("/api/mcp/oauth/authorize", origin);
+    for (const [key, value] of Object.entries({
+      response_type: "code",
+      client_id: clientId,
+      redirect_uri: callbackUrl,
+      code_challenge: challenge,
+      code_challenge_method: "S256",
+      scope: "health:read",
+      state,
+      resource: `${origin}/mcp`,
+    })) {
+      authorize.searchParams.set(key, value);
+    }
+
+    await page.goto(authorize.toString());
+    const allow = page.getByRole("button", { name: "Allow" });
+    await expect(allow).toBeVisible();
+    await allow.click();
+
+    await page.waitForURL((url) => url.toString().startsWith(callbackUrl), {
+      timeout: 15_000,
+    });
+    const hit = hits.at(-1);
+    expect(hit, "the callback listener was never reached").toBeDefined();
+    expect(hit!.searchParams.get("code")).toMatch(/^hlac_/);
+    expect(hit!.searchParams.get("state")).toBe(state);
+    expect(hit!.searchParams.get("iss")).toBe(origin);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/playwright.config.ts b/playwright.config.ts
index a09ee667f..3d4e78b96 100644
--- a/playwright.config.ts
+++ b/playwright.config.ts
@@ -298,10 +298,15 @@ export default defineConfig({
         // rebuilt it. The suite could not see it, because with the prefetch
         // off both sides paint the same skeleton.
         //
-        // One extra server on 3100 closes that. Only
-        // `dashboard-ssr-prefetch-hydration.spec.ts` talks to it, and it
-        // asserts the one thing the mocked specs cannot: that the page the
-        // server streamed is the page the browser keeps.
+        // One extra server on 3100 closes that. It asserts the one thing the
+        // mocked specs cannot: that the page the server streamed is the page
+        // the browser keeps (`dashboard-ssr-prefetch-hydration.spec.ts`).
+        //
+        // It also carries `APP_URL`, as a real deployment does. The MCP OAuth
+        // surface fails closed without a configured origin, so the consent
+        // journey (`mcp-oauth-consent-redirect.spec.ts`) runs here. The shared
+        // server stays without it, because `APP_URL` also narrows the accepted
+        // passkey origins and shapes invite links for every other spec.
         {
           command: `PORT=${SSR_PREFETCH_PORT} HOSTNAME=127.0.0.1 ${JSON.stringify(process.execPath)} .next/standalone/server.js`,
           url: `${SSR_PREFETCH_BASE_URL}/api/version`,
@@ -313,6 +318,7 @@ export default defineConfig({
             ...process.env,
             NATIVE_CANVAS: "off",
             DASHBOARD_SSR_PREFETCH: "true",
+            APP_URL: SSR_PREFETCH_BASE_URL,
           },
         },
         // The mail-configured, scheduler-free server, on its own port.