# CHAP Coordinator MCP Server Auditable records of human decisions over AI agent work. Approvals, edits, overrides, escalations. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled CHAP Coordinator 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 `@brightbeamai/chap-coordinator-mcp` on npm. Runs locally. ## Known issues **11 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 8. ### Most discussed ### Adapter: record CHAP human-decision events from Pydantic AI tool approvals ### Goal A small adapter so a Pydantic AI app emits a CHAP human-decision record whenever a human approves, edits, or denies a deferred tool call. A merged adapter is strong evidence CHAP is usable in real agent stacks, and Pydantic AI's typed, approval-gated tools map almost one-to-one onto CHAP's record. ### Where it hooks Pydantic AI handles human-in-the-loop through deferred tools. A tool marked `requires_approval=True`, or gated by an `ApprovalRequiredToolset`, ends the run with a `Deferre [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/2) · 2026-06-27 · closed · 5 comments ### Adapter: record CHAP human-decision events from LlamaIndex Workflows human-in-the-loop ### Goal An adapter so a LlamaIndex Workflow emits a CHAP human-decision record each time a human approves, edits, or rejects a step's proposed output. ### Where it hooks LlamaIndex Workflows implement human-in-the-loop by having a step emit an `InputRequiredEvent` and wait, with the human returning a `HumanResponseEvent`. The adapter records the human response against the proposed output. Bind to the current Workflows event API; the event names here are the integration point. ### Mapping (Lla [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/1) · 2026-06-27 · closed · 4 comments ### Reference scenario 2: marketing copy with one drafter and one editor Turn the narrative in [`IN_PRACTICE.md` §2](../blob/main/IN_PRACTICE.md#2-marketing-copy-with-one-drafter-and-one-editor) into a runnable example under `scenarios/02-marketing-copy/`, so the story has working code behind it. Comment below to claim it. --- ### The scenario A two-person marketing function at an early-stage company. One person writes long-form copy; one edits and approves. They add an agent that takes the client brief and produces a first draft: the drafter refines it, the edito [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/11) · 2026-07-03 · closed · 3 comments ### Adapter: record CHAP human-decision events from Google ADK tool confirmations ### Goal An adapter so a Google ADK app emits a CHAP human-decision record when a human confirms, edits, or rejects a paused tool call. ADK is a strong next integration: large ecosystem, first-class human-in-the-loop, and it already speaks A2A. ### Where it hooks ADK pauses for a human two ways, and either is a clean seam: - **Tool Confirmation** — a `FunctionTool(fn, require_confirmation=True)` for a yes/no, or a tool calling `tool_context.request_confirmation(...)` for a structured `ToolConfi [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/8) · 2026-07-03 · closed · 3 comments ### No defined transition for review.request while a review is open; implementations silently replace the pending artefact ### Where SPECIFICATION.md §8.1 (state transitions); profiles/review.md §2 and §3.1 ### What the spec says ```markdown The §8.1 transition table defines: | in_progress | review.request | review_requested | and defines transitions out of review_requested only via decide.approve, decide.reject, decide.override, abstain.declare, escalate.raise, and control.*. No row defines the result of review.request on a task already in review_requested. profiles/review.md §2 likewise shows review_requested [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/72) · 2026-08-17 · closed · 2 comments ### Most recent ### Reference server crashes/hangs on malformed Content-Length or deep JSON The Python reference server (`reference/python/server.py`) turns only a JSON decode error into a clean response; three other malformed inputs crash or hang the request thread: - `length = int(self.headers.get("Content-Length") or 0)` raises `ValueError` on a non-numeric header (e.g. `Content-Length: abc`) — uncaught. - A negative `Content-Length` passes `int()` and makes `self.rfile.read(-1)` read until EOF — an unbounded read that hangs the thread. - A deeply nested JSON body raises `Recur [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/58) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments ### Adapters can record a reject as an approve and forge a human decider Three related integrity gaps in the framework adapters let a record misstate what actually happened. 1. **A rejection can be recorded as an approval (langgraph).** `apply_decision` resolved the action as `payload.pop("action", None) or ("override" if "diff" in payload else "approve")`, so any dict payload without an explicit `action` fell through to **approve**. A reviewer's rejection expressed under a different key — e.g. `{"decision": "reject"}` — was recorded as `decide.approve`. [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/56) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments ### verify_receipt returns success when no verifier is configured (fails soft) `audit.verify_receipt` returns `{verified: null}` as a **success** result when no receipt verifier is configured (the default). A caller checking only for a JSON-RPC `error` field treats an unverified — or forged — receipt as valid. `profiles/audit-scitt.md §4` defines verification as a real signature / inclusion-proof check with a pass/fail outcome; there is no "null = ok" result. Separately, the Python `CoordinatorOptions` has no `verify_scitt_receipt` field (the handler reads it via `getatt [Read the thread](https://github.com/BrightbeamAI/chap/issues/26) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments [See all 11 reports Pod holds for CHAP Coordinator](/mcp/chap-coordinator/issues). ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used CHAP Coordinator yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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