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CHAP Coordinator MCP Server

Auditable records of human decisions over AI agent work. Approvals, edits, overrides, escalations.

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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 · 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 · 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 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 · 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 · 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

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

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