# Agentic HIL MCP Server Probe, flash, reset and drive UART and CAN on a real STM32 or other embedded target, policy-gated. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled Agentic HIL yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `agentic-hil` on pypi. Runs locally. ## Known issues **29 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12. ### Most discussed ### setup has no non-interactive completion path for agents whose host blocks self-configuration Every eval agent that stopped at the approval gate named the same blocker: `setup` writes the agent's own user-level MCP registration and skill, exactly what host permission classifiers catch. A first-class escape would convert the stop into a partially configured bench in one step: `agentic-hil init` already finishes the project half, so the missing piece is machine-readable output naming the exact remaining command (`agentic-hil agent-install --agent `), or a `setup --project-only` alia [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/212) · 2026-08-12 · closed · 2 comments ### Bench proof: the hot-plug read leaves a running core untouched (SysTick five-pair measurement) #342 shipped the ST-Link typed-debug reads on the least intrusive connect the CLI documents (`mode=HOTPLUG`, no `reset=`), and deliberately claims documented, not measured. This issue tracks the measurement that upgrades the claim, on a real bench with a Nucleo attached, everything through the MCP tools: 1. `flash_firmware` an ELF whose firmware increments a RAM counter (e.g. `volatile uint32_t uptime_ms` in `SysTick_Handler`); put the symbol in `debug.allowed_symbols`; let the board run about [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/348) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 1 comment ### An MCP conflict names the file but not what it found there `mcp_config_conflict` says an unmanaged entry exists and names the file. It does not say what it found there, and that is the one fact that settles what to do next. A real case: an operator's `~/.claude.json` held ```json { "type": "stdio", "command": "", "args": [] } ``` The refusal is correct: that entry points at a program the operator chose, and rewriting it would hand the hardware gate to something else. But from the report alone [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/297) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 1 comment ### setup's result should shout that the agent must restart before the tools exist Lived through three recording takes: `setup --agent claude-code` succeeds, and the session that ran it then waits on MCP tools that cannot appear, because the host reads registrations at session start. The docs say it since #227, but the one place the agent is guaranteed to look is the setup RESULT itself. `setup` and `agent-install` should carry `restart_required: true` plus one sentence ("the session must restart before the agentic-hil tools appear; doctor works now") in their JSON res [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/229) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment ### Test plans gate dump_memory and read_symbol on the openocd backend, though both tools answer on stlink Follow-up from #342. `test_reactor.py` (around line 1834) admits `dump_memory` and `read_symbol` plan steps only when the configured debugger is `type: openocd`, although both underlying tools have answered on the ST-Link backend since 0.18.0, and since #342 they answer non-intrusively. The coverage workflow that motivated #342 (dump RAM-resident measurement data before a run ends) therefore works through the MCP tools but still cannot be written as a plan step on an ST-Link bench. This needs a [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/345) · 2026-08-29 · closed · 0 comments ### Most recent ### known_runs and prune_run_records abort the whole listing when one record vanishes between glob and stat Noticed while fixing #312. `known_runs` and `prune_run_records` (src/agentic_hil/runlifecycle.py) sort a glob of record files by `st_mtime`; a record removed between the glob and the stat (a run finishing and pruning itself, another process cleaning up) raises out of the stat and the outer `except OSError` abandons the whole listing, so one vanished file hides every other run. A listing should tolerate members disappearing while it is being taken: stat each candidate individually, skip the ones [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/324) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments ### plugin manifests: marketplace and plugin descriptions still lead with the genre, not the operations #321 moved the PyPI summary and the MCP registry description to operations-first wording, and #319 does the same for the docs site's meta description. Two summary surfaces are left in the pre-#321 voice, and they are the ones a Claude Code user reads in the plugin marketplace before deciding to install: - `.claude-plugin/marketplace.json`: "Safe embedded firmware development with hardware-in-the-loop targets via policy-gated MCP tools." Names no operation at all. - `plugins/agentic-hil/.claude- [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/322) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments ### docs: mkdocs site_description still names the genre, not the operations #316 sharpens the PyPI summary and the MCP registry description to name the operations (probe, flash, reset, UART and CAN on a real STM32 or other embedded target, policy-gated) instead of the genre. The branch for it also adds a `Documentation` project URL pointing at the rendered docs site, so that site becomes one click from the package page. The docs site's own `` comes from `site_description` in `mkdocs.yml`, and that string is still the shape the other surfaces ju [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/319) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments ### Captured streams are redacted by key name only, and secrets live in their values Follow-up to #314, noticed while giving captured streams a body in the rendering: `redact_sensitive` masks by key name only. A secret that appears inside the VALUE of a captured stream is not masked, and package managers put secrets there: pip and uv print index URLs, and a private index URL routinely carries `https://user:token@host/simple/`. The machine document has always published those streams under `--json`, so this is not a new exposure class, but the rendering now shows them to a person [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/317) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments ### A stop over MCP can race the detached run's state file on a slow runner `tests/test_reactor_mcp_tools.py::test_a_stop_asked_over_mcp_ends_a_waiting_run` failed once on `Python 3.10 on macos-latest` (run 32343626219, first attempt) and passed on the other 17 legs of the same commit and on the rerun. A rerun making it green does not close it; that is how a race stays. ``` agentic_hil.config.ConfigError: Test run state could not be read. (raised through the FileNotFoundError branch while the test waited on the stopped run) earlier in the same test: ConfigError: Conf [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/312) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments ### The pytest plugin's deprecated config selector fails the run, and no page says so The pytest plugin accepts `--agentic-hil-config` and the matching `agentic_hil_config` ini key. `src/agentic_hil/pytest_plugin.py` registers both as deprecated selectors: ```python group.addoption( "--agentic-hil-config", action="store", default=None, help="Deprecated config selector; must resolve to the discovered authoritative config.", ) parser.addini("agentic_hil_config", help="Deprecated Agentic HIL config selector.", default=None) ``` The `agentic_hil_config` fixture does [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/307) · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments ### docs/mcp-hosts.md still carries a verification date from the 0.3.0 release `docs/mcp-hosts.md` line 5 says: > This guide was verified against the linked host documentation on 2026-07-14. That line was last touched by `0737afd`, the v0.3.0 release commit of 2026-07-20. The package is now at 0.16.1.dev0, and the changelog records 0.4.0 through 0.16.0 between then and now, all inside the last five weeks. The page itself moved eight times in that window, including `f96edbb` and `fb5c70a` on 2026-08-09, `cbd7e06` on 2026-08-15 and `0eec572` on 2026-08-16. The file changed [Read the thread](https://github.com/agentic-hil/agentic-hil/issues/306) · 2026-08-19 · closed · 0 comments [See all 18 reports Pod holds for Agentic HIL](/mcp/agentic-hil/issues) — of 29 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Agentic HIL yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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