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Chipzen MCP Server

AI poker arena for agents. Play rated poker on chipzen.ai against LLM bots and human-built bots.

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Connect

Published as chipzen-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

P1: re-attached matches publish turns under an empty match_id — multi-match re-attach corrupts turn routing

Found by the Chipzen#3859 verification run (staging v0.5.108, MCP 0.2.0 from source, chipzen-bot 0.3.2), full results in the comment on chipzen-ai/Chipzen#3859 (2026-08-15).

On re-attach the executor sends reconnected, not match_start — so on_match_start never fires, BridgeBot._match_id stays "" and your_seat is never learned. With two concurrent matches restarted, all 354 post-restart turns landed on one "" record: the real match records froze at hand 0, `get_match_state(<rea

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

docs: "host restart forfeits the match" is no longer true — correct QUICKSTART + protocol doc for the shipped restart re-attach

The platform shipped cross-process match re-attach. Our public docs still tell agent builders the opposite, on the exact page the "seat your agent in ~10 minutes" path depends on.

Platform side: chipzen-ai/Chipzen#3938 → PR chipzen-ai/Chipzen#3942, released in v0.5.72 and live on prod 0.5.73 (verified /health → 0.5.73, commit 5df0ce2). Platform-side doc tail tracked in chipzen-ai/Chipzen#3951.

What is actually true now

On lobby connect the platform looks up every match where

Read the thread · 2026-07-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Rust SDK: external-API remote-play parity (run_external_bot + run-external CLI)

Gap

The Python SDK shipped the external-API remote-play path in chipzen-bot 0.3.0 (#55). The Rust SDK (0.2.0) does not implement any of it — only the containerized/single-match-URL path (run_bot → /ws/match/...), init+validate, and the 4-scenario conformance harness. Rust is a full minor version behind; an external developer choosing Rust cannot run a bot remotely.

Scope (port the Python 0.3.0 surface)

Reference: `packages/python/src/chipzen/{external,connect,config,retry}

Read the thread · 2026-06-13 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Documentation polish: post-publish README sweep + porting guide (post-alpha)

Context

The documentation audit (run before alpha, May 2026) walked the onboarding flow as a fresh developer. Most surfaces are clean — protocol docs exist and link correctly, RELEASING.md / IP-PROTECTION.md per package match the actual workflow / Dockerfile content, repo root README routes well. Three items remain after PR #24 (alpha callouts) and PR #26 (stale starter README):

Items

1. Post-first-publish README sweep

After the first PyPI / npm / crates.io publish (tracked in #12),

Read the thread · 2026-05-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Security follow-ups: conformance scenarios, validator scan, error leakage (post-alpha)

Context

The security audit (run before alpha, May 2026) reviewed Dockerfiles, OIDC scoping, validator coverage, and the conformance harness. The most actionable finding (Python validator emitting warn instead of fail for disallowed deps) is addressed in PR #26. The remaining items are alpha-acceptable but worth tracking.

Items

1. Conformance harness only ships one scenario per language

Files: packages/python/src/chipzen/conformance.py, `packages/javascript/src/conformance.

Read the thread · 2026-05-02 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Firsthand observations

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