# argot MCP Server

Read-only context and complete checks against patterns learned from git history. Local; no LLM.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled argot 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 `@tmonier/argot` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**16 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

### RD-01 — Replace README opening and audit-first quick start

> **Execution assignment:** PR-14 · Batch H — Public validation and README
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Make the first screen one product job, one current boundary and one executable audit path.
- **Owner:** `README`
- **Why:** D1/D2/D10/D11 reject the current voice/harness opening and feature-first flow.
- **Scope:** Logo/title/subtitle/badges, opening paragraphs, install and qui

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/240) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 5 comments

### DOC-10 — Consolidate suppression workflow

> **Execution assignment:** PR-11 · Batch F — Canonical reference documentation
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Give one inspect → act/mute with reason → commit → review/prune path.
- **Owner:** `Documentation reference`
- **Why:** Suppression power is spread across long pages and must retain human-last-word safeguards.
- **Scope:** Inline/path/mute/local config/locked behavior and `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/253) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 4 comments

### PL-06 — Add plugin package contract smoke

> **Execution assignment:** PR-08 · Batch D — Shipped integrations and proof
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Validate six skills, MCP startup, hook paths, versions and duplicate wiring.
- **Owner:** `Integration packaging`
- **Why:** The current bundle has five/six documentation drift and no package-level contract test.
- **Scope:** Plugin/marketplace manifests, skills paths/count, M

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/205) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 4 comments

### DR-05 — Classify secondary JSON outputs

> **Execution assignment:** no-source-pr · Batch B — Stable contracts and claim data
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Decide which status/list/inspect/rules/conventions/suggest/voice-diff JSON outputs are public contracts.
- **Owner:** `Decision owner`
- **Why:** Calling ad hoc output stable creates accidental API commitments.
- **Scope:** Classify each output as versioned public, bes

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/157) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 4 comments

### DOC-01 — Implement target docs navigation and route compatibility

> **Execution assignment:** PR-10 · Batch E — Canonical journey documentation
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Create Start, Use, Configure, Understand and Help groups with stable routes.
- **Owner:** `Documentation journeys`
- **Why:** Current monoliths obscure the audit-to-habit journey.
- **Scope:** Frontmatter/order/sidebar, new route placeholders and redirects/compatibility pages

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/244) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### MC-02 — Add MCP protocol wording snapshots

> **Execution assignment:** PR-03 · Batch B — Stable contracts and claim data
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Lock tool names, capability boundaries and startup fit status.
- **Owner:** `Rust check contracts`
- **Why:** MCP copy is consumed by agents and easy to overstate silently.
- **Scope:** Initialize/list-tools/tool-description snapshots and fitted/unfitted startup text.
- **Fil

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/207) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 2 comments

### MC-01 — Correct MCP tool capability descriptions

> **Execution assignment:** PR-03 · Batch B — Stable contracts and claim data
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** State passive invocation and base-hunk coverage in tool/startup text.
- **Owner:** `Rust check contracts`
- **Why:** MCP check/explain are not the full production changeset composition.
- **Scope:** Five tool descriptions, startup instructions and full-CLI pointer; keep tool 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/206) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 2 comments

### PL-04 — Package lifecycle manifest and opt-out (**gated**)

> **Execution assignment:** PR-08 · Batch D — Shipped integrations and proof
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Wire the approved lifecycle into the Claude plugin with an explicit opt-out.
- **Owner:** `Integration packaging`
- **Why:** Product behavior must be inspectable and reversible by the user.
- **Scope:** `hooks/hooks.json`, plugin metadata/config and lifecycle-specific document

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/203) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 2 comments

### EV-01 — Inventory released integration behavior

> **Execution assignment:** PR-02 · Batch A — Baseline truth
> **Constitution:** [Agent execution rules](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/blob/main/docs/execution/AGENT_EXECUTION_RULES.md)

- **Goal:** Produce the tested capability matrix that distinguishes automatic, passive, invoked and user-wired surfaces.
- **Owner:** `Evidence and claims`
- **Why:** P0-1 and D8 require knowing which lifecycle is genuinely reachable before implementation or claims.
- **Scope:** Claude plugin/pre-write h

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/167) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 2 comments

### Generate STYLE.md from learned voice (onboarding companion)

## Background

argot already learns the repo's voice. That data is currently used reactively (score new hunks against it). It's also useful *proactively* as documentation:

- **For new human contributors**: "here's how this codebase tends to write" — a generated style guide grounded in the repo's actual practice, not aspirational rules
- **For LLM coding agents**: a system-prompt-friendly summary of the repo's voice (ties into the MCP server ticket — same data, human-readable form)
- **For PR-au

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/65) · 2026-05-04 · closed · 0 comments

### Calibration freshness: warn when model is stale, optional auto-refit

## Background

argot's model rots silently. After ~1000 commits or a meaningful chunk of refactoring since the last `fit`, the threshold and corpus are increasingly out of date — but the user has no signal that the numbers they're seeing are stale.

This is a quiet correctness gap: argot looks like it's still working, but the voice it learned isn't current.

## Goal

Surface staleness clearly, give users a frictionless path to address it.

## What it does

- On every `check`, compute a "model ag

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/60) · 2026-05-04 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP server for LLM coding agents (with preemptive voice-context queries)

## Background

LLM coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Aider, etc.) generate code that frequently sits *just* off the repo's voice — calls a slightly-wrong helper, picks an unfamiliar import alias, structures a function in the framework's default style instead of the local style. This is exactly the gap argot was built for, but today an agent has to shell out to `argot check` and parse text output.

There's a sharper opportunity hiding here: argot doesn't have to be a *post-hoc* linter for LLMs.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/get-tmonier/argot/issues/56) · 2026-05-04 · closed · 0 comments

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