# Atlas MCP Server

Atlas is a YAML-defined semantic layer for analytics — authored by humans, consumed by AI agents.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@useatlas/mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**385 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

### PRD: MCP V2 — Prime-Time MCP Server (hardening + protocol uplift + configuration surface)

> Synthesized from a full multi-agent review of the V1 MCP setup + six V2 research streams. **Grilled to resolution via `/grill-with-docs` on 2026-06-13** — all four open questions are now decided (see **Resolved decisions** below), the security model is captured in [ADR-0016](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/blob/main/docs/adr/0016-mcp-v2-security-model.md), and the `surface`→`origin` rename in [ADR-0015](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/blob/main/docs/adr/0015-agent-origin-not-surface.md

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/3483) · 2026-06-13 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### feat: ES/OpenSearch datasource — publish package + staging cluster + matrix soak

## Parent
#3259

## What to build
**HITL / operator.** Bootstrap `@useatlas/elasticsearch` on npm, wire CI to publish subsequent versions, provision staging Elasticsearch + OpenSearch clusters + read-only credentials, and add the datasource to the staging datasource-matrix soak (#3253) so every connection type is exercised pre-release.

> **npm bootstrap (chicken-and-egg):** npm trusted publishing (OIDC) can't be configured for a package name that doesn't exist yet — so the FIRST publish must be

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/3272) · 2026-06-06 · closed · outside contributor · 11 comments

### feat: native Elasticsearch/OpenSearch datasource plugin

Atlas supports six datasource kinds today — Postgres + MySQL natively, and ClickHouse/Snowflake/DuckDB/Salesforce/BigQuery as published `@useatlas/*` datasource plugins. There is **no Elasticsearch/OpenSearch support**, despite ES/OpenSearch being one of the most common analytics/log stores teams want a text-to-query agent over. This issue scopes adding it as a native plugin.

**Good news: the abstraction already exists and fits cleanly.** Unlike REST datasources (which required building the who

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/3256) · 2026-06-06 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments

### chore(mcp): Claude Desktop catalog — operator-side submission (off-repo half of #2077)

## Context

[#2077](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/2077) was *Claude Desktop catalog submission, properly resourced* and bundled both in-repo and off-repo work. The in-repo half shipped in [#2195](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/pull/2195) (catalog-shaped tool annotations doc, MCP-named privacy section, branding pack with `mark.svg` + `mark-1024.png`, README cataloging assets, plus a `catalog-annotations.test.ts` guard that fails CI if the per-tool table drifts from `SEMANTIC_TOO

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/2200) · 2026-05-08 · open · outside contributor · 4 comments

### feat(api,mcp): Phase 1 — durable Postgres-backed MCP session store via Better Auth secondaryStorage

## Context

ADR `.claude/research/mcp-session-store.md` records the architecture decision: Atlas runs single-replica MCP per region today (forced by Railway's random load-balancer), with Postgres-backed durable session store as the Phase 1 scaling answer. This issue is the implementation work for Phase 1.

**Do not start this issue speculatively.** It exists in advance so the spec is ready when the trigger fires; opening it without trigger evidence is over-engineering.

## Trigger conditions

Be

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/2109) · 2026-05-06 · open · outside contributor · 3 comments

### Most recent

### fix(sdk): the widget can stage a REST write it can never confirm

Found while grilling #5485. Pre-existing, shipped, and out of that issue's scope — filed on its own rather than folded in.

## The bug

`executeRestOperation` stages an allowlisted write and returns `needs_confirmation` rather than firing it. The chat surface is then expected to render a confirm-before-write banner, which POSTs the replay payload to `POST /api/v1/rest-operations/confirm`.

**The embeddable widget can reach the tool and cannot render the banner.**

- `@useatlas/react` calls the s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5495) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### sec(deps): better-auth 1.7 is a SCIM redesign and an OAuth resource-binding migration, not a minor bump

Split out of #4903, which is where the last two advisories live. Attempting the bump inside #5490 established that `^1.6.25 → ^1.7.1` is **not a version bump on this codebase** — it is two separate migrations wearing one version number. Recording the full measured scope so whoever takes it does not rediscover it.

## Why it cannot be split, or deferred to core-only

The obvious escape — hold `@better-auth/scim` at 1.6.25 and move everything else — does not exist. The peer pins are exact and conf

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5493) · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### decide(adr-0038): Layer 2's rename has no carrier since retrieval depth left the cut — and its window closes silently at v1.0.0

[ADR-0038](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/blob/main/docs/adr/0038-the-atlas-is-the-product-the-brain-is-the-category.md) Layer 2 — the `searchBrain` tool name and the `tier` wire enum values — has no carrier and no issue. It is [Lane D](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/blob/main/docs/prd/company-atlas-completion-plan.md#lane-d--the-layer-2-rename) of the completion plan, the only **UNFILED** row left in it, and the only item in the whole plan with an expiry.

**This issue is the decision

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5469) · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### fix(cli,auth): atlas login 404s on /api/auth/device/code across all prod hosts and staging

Found while trying to obtain a prod session for #5345's statement 4.

## The claim

`atlas login` cannot authenticate against **any** deployed environment. The OAuth 2.0 device-flow endpoint returns `404` on all four prod hosts and on staging, while the rest of the auth handler on the same origins is healthy.

## Measured 2026-08-23

| Host | `GET /api/auth/get-session` | `POST /api/auth/device/code` |
|---|---|---|
| `api.useatlas.dev` | **200** | **404** |
| `api-eu.useatlas.dev` | **200** | *

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5404) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### fix(brain): retract needs a fact id, and every surface that could produce one excludes published observations

Found while attempting #5345's statement 4 against prod on `v0.2.16` — the release that shipped `retract` for exactly this population.

## The claim

`POST /api/v1/admin/brain-facts/{id}/retract` needs a fact `id`. **No surface this deployment exposes can produce the id of a published warehouse-derived fact.** The arc that shipped the verb closed, in the same milestone, every path to the identifiers the verb consumes.

## Measured against prod, all four surfaces

| Surface | Result | Why |
|---|

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5403) · 2026-08-24 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### track(api): TanStack AI hits RC — measure the Vercel AI SDK coupling before the plugin-SDK contract freezes

## Context

TanStack AI entered the RC phase on 2026-08-21 ([tanstack.com/ai](https://tanstack.com/ai), [releases](https://github.com/TanStack/ai/releases), [r/reactjs thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/1vvd7ts/tanstack_ai_enters_the_rc_phase/)). It is a headless agent framework: the agent loop as composable primitives, ~11 official provider adapters plus `openaiCompatible`, 7 UI framework bindings (React, Vue, Solid, Svelte, Preact, Angular, Octane), AG-UI as the wire protocol, a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5387) · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### docs(adr): ADR-0027 §74 says the raw-SQL off-switch is unbuilt — #4095 shipped 2026-07-01, and the 2026-08-18 note reasons about a reversed deferral

## ADR-0027 §74 describes a deferral that was reversed seven weeks earlier

`docs/adr/0027-executesql-over-rest-security.md:74` reads, in the present tense:

> - **A workspace-admin off-switch for raw SQL** (gate-1 analog) — deferred to the Architecture Backlog as #4095, shaped to slot into the gate-1 seam. **Not built now:** Atlas is pre-customer and raw SQL is already contained by member-floor + whitelist + RLS + approval.

**#4095 was built.** Greenlit 2026-06-29 ("pre-customer deferral no lo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/AtlasDevHQ/atlas/issues/5350) · 2026-08-20 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for Atlas](/mcp/atlas-2/issues) — of 385 qualified upstream.

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