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archy MCP Server

Architectural sensor for Python codebases.

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Published as archy on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

28 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

chore(distribution): the official MCP registry listing is stale at 0.13.3, and server.json drifts every release

Split out of #324, which listed the official registry as a pending submission. It is not pending. It is listed, and it has been stale since launch day.

What is live right now

name        : io.github.hslee16/archy
version     : 0.13.3
publishedAt : 2026-05-13T18:13:26Z     <- Show HN day, never updated since
status      : active, isLatest: true

Verified against https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=io.github.hslee16/archy on 2026-07-25.

archy is on 0.42.0.

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 4 comments

bench: execute the Q1b agent A/B (does archy-in-the-loop reduce structurally-bad edits?)

Child of #346. The central claim archy is built on, and the one thing never measured.

Status

The protocol already exists. docs/research/INLOOP_PREVALENCE_EMPIRICS.md resolved Q1a and specified an executable Q1b design with a powered A/B and a control baseline. AGENT_CAUSAL_REASONING_SYNTHESIS.md §10 records it:

Q1b (the causal claim, does archy-in-loop reduce agent regressions) remains open but now has a powered, executable A/B protocol and a control baseline (this study). Q1

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 3 comments

fix(deps): mcp 2.0 removed mcp.server.fastmcp, so unbounded mcp>=1.28.1 ships a broken MCP server

Found during the v0.43.0 release smoke test, on a fresh wheel install into a clean venv.

The bug

pyproject.toml declared mcp>=1.28.1 with no upper bound. mcp 2.0.0 removed mcp.server.fastmcp, which src/archy/mcp.py imports at module scope:

from mcp.server.fastmcp import FastMCP    # mcp.py:96

So a fresh pip install archy resolves mcp 2.0.0 and the MCP server dies on import:

$ uv venv v && uv pip install --python v/bin/python archy-0.43.0-py3-none-an

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/391) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 2 comments

### research: what, if anything, archy should take from Moderne / OpenRewrite

## Why

Moderne (https://moderne.ai/) is a commercial platform for large-scale automated
code change, built on the open-source OpenRewrite engine. It is priced as an
enterprise tool. The question for this ticket is narrow and empirical: **is there
anything Moderne does that archy could do, or should do, so that reaching for a
paid platform is not the only option?**

The answer might well be "no, almost none of it" - see Scope below. Research it,
write down the answer either way, close the ticket

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/385) · 2026-07-30 · open · 2 comments

### feat(contracts): intended-vs-actual conformance score (ADL refinement/traceability → architecture-erosion monitor)

## Motivation

From deep-reading Medvidovic & Taylor, *"A Classification and Comparison Framework for Software Architecture Description Languages"* (IEEE TSE 26(1), 2000). Classical ADLs were *prescriptive* (hand-written intended architecture); the paper rewards languages that can relate the intended architecture to its realization (**refinement / traceability**).

Archy is a *recovery* tool, so that axis becomes: declare the intended topology, measure the **drift** between intended and actual, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/271) · 2026-07-13 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### docs(claude): the one inviolable rule is the last thing in CLAUDE.md

Raised by the `prompt_best_practices` review during #369's write-up, and filed rather than folded in because it is about the file's pre-existing structure, not that change.

## The finding

**"Branch and open a PR. Never push to `main`."** is the single highest-stakes rule in `CLAUDE.md`: an absolute prohibition with no exceptions, unlike almost everything else in the file, which is a conditional heuristic. It currently sits in the shortest section, at the very end, after ~150 lines about CI, ga

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/381) · 2026-07-27 · open · 0 comments

### MCP: fold archy_dsm into archy_graph(view="dsm") (#265)

Part of #265 (invisible-tool consolidation). Medium confidence.

**Fold:** `archy_dsm` -> `archy_graph(..., view="dsm")` (or `response_format="dsm"`).

**Why:** `archy_dsm` and `archy_graph` are both "show me the structure." dsm is explicitly visualization-only; graph already routes across summary/full/focus via `response_format`. A DSM is one more rendering of the same dependency graph, a *view*, not a separate decision. Two "inspect the graph" schemas collapse to one, removing an overlap the a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/269) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP: unify archy_check + archy_contracts + archy_cycles into one constraint-validation tool (#265)

Part of #265 (invisible-tool consolidation). Highest conceptual payoff, medium risk, design first.

**Fold:** the three "what architectural rules am I breaking" tools into one `archy_check`:
- `archy_check` (layer rules from `archy.yaml`)
- `archy_contracts` (import-linter contracts, "stricter than check")
- `archy_cycles` (the acyclicity invariant)

**Why:** to a caller these answer one question, "is my structure legal, and where not?" Three separate tools force the agent to know that contracts

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/268) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP: demote archy_status off the agent-facing surface (#265)

Part of #265 (invisible-tool consolidation).

**Move:** drop `archy_status` from the `archy mcp` tool surface; keep the capability as CLI (`archy index status`) and/or fold the freshness fields into an existing tool.

**Why (high confidence):** `archy_status` reports index plumbing (`last_synced_at`, `cached_files`, `watching`). By the README's own note, results are *never stale* (every tool syncs on demand), so an agent almost never needs to consult freshness mid-task, it is diagnostic, not a d

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/267) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP: fold archy_trend into archy_score(view="history") (#265)

Part of #265 (invisible-tool consolidation).

**Fold:** `archy_trend(path, last_n)` -> `archy_score(path, view="history", last_n=10)`.

**Why (high confidence, low risk):** `archy_trend` does one thing: read recent score history. That is a *view of the score over time*, not a separate decision the agent makes. `archy_score` already carries mode flags (`record=`, `strict=`), so a `view="current"|"history"` switch is idiomatic and mirrors the #227 pattern. Two tool schemas that both say "the score

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/266) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### Duplicate detection: semantic de-noiser to raise precision (follow-up to #133)

Follow-up to #133 (duplicate-function detection, shipped CLI-first in PR #241). Gates the `archy_duplicates` MCP tool.

## Problem

The shipped detector clusters functions by normalized AST shape + a `--min-nodes` size floor. A 15x3 false-positive spot-check on fastapi / pytest / django (see `docs/research/RESEARCH_METRICS.md` section 12) measured **~42% precision at the default** (`--min-nodes 30`; 19/45 clusters were genuine duplication). Real duplication *is* surfaced, but the false-positive 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/242) · 2026-07-04 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP surface modernization: adopt 2025-2026 best practices (tracker)

# MCP surface modernization: adopt 2025-2026 best practices

Tracking issue. Driven by an audit of archy's MCP surface against a verified deep-research pass on current MCP best practices (Anthropic engineering guidance + the modelcontextprotocol.io spec, 2025-2026).

## Verdict: yes, the surface is getting messy

archy exposes **19 MCP tools** (~2.5-3k tokens of descriptions always in context) on the official `mcp` SDK FastMCP (`mcp>=1.27.1`, which already supports `annotations` / `title` / `str

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hslee16/Archy/issues/230) · 2026-06-24 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 18 reports Pod holds for archy](/mcp/archy/issues) — of 28 qualified upstream.

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