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Ariadne MCP Server

Deterministic local cross-service API-chain discovery for AI coding agents.

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Published as ariadne-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

Publish v0.1.3 and complete MCP distribution metadata

Scope

  • Release Ariadne v0.1.3 with the FastAPI scanner, four-stack benchmark, reproducible examples, feedback form, demo, and adoption tooling.
  • Add the PyPI ownership marker and server.json required by the Official MCP Registry.
  • Remove stale optional-embeddings distribution wording.
  • Update GitHub repository metadata.
  • Submit a correction to Awesome MCP Servers.

Acceptance Criteria

  • Package and module versions are 0.1.3 and built artifacts pass twine/wheel smoke checks.
  • Publ

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · open · 1 comment

Track adoption through clones, downloads, and external issues

Product invariant

Ariadne remains local, deterministic, and fast. Project-health monitoring must use external aggregate platform data and must not add runtime telemetry, model calls, embeddings, or vector storage to the package.

Chosen Slice

Add a maintainer-run weekly adoption snapshot that records GitHub unique cloners, PyPI downloads, and external issue activity without ranking the project by stars.

Implementation

  • Add one script that reads GitHub traffic through the authentica

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Add reproducible benchmark: hit-rate, token cost, wall time vs grep/rg

Product invariant

Ariadne helps AI harnesses such as Codex, Claude, and Hermes locate API chains across microservice repositories quickly. The benchmark must exercise deterministic static analysis only. It must not introduce an LLM, embeddings, a vector database, or a network dependency into indexing or query execution.

Chosen Slice

Add a reproducible benchmark on spring-petclinic-microservices that compares Ariadne, rg, and grep on retrieval hit rate, serialized output token coun

Read the thread · 2026-04-18 · closed · 1 comment

backend_clients scanner: auto-discover target service name from application.yml when client_target_map is missing

Problem

backend_clients scanner reads client/<dirname>/ directory names but cannot translate dirname → real workspace service name without an explicit client_target_map config entry. If the user forgets a mapping (or copies an example config and forgets to edit it), the scanner silently produces target_service=null edges OR — worse — wrong directions if the example map points the dirname at a different service (real case: example \"falcon\": \"falcon-beak\" led to BFF being wrong

Read the thread · 2026-04-17 · closed · 1 comment

Edges lack direction; BFF outbound calls unscannable

Two related gaps surfaced while drawing an architecture diagram from Ariadne data

1. Edges have no explicit direction

backend_client_call nodes encode the source service (service column) and the target via path conventions in source_file (.../client/<target>/...), but the edges table doesn't carry a from_service / to_service pair. query_chains returns clusters as undirected sets — any consumer (diagram generator, doc writer, LLM hint) has to re-parse source_file to rec

Read the thread · 2026-04-17 · closed · 0 comments

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