Coder MCP Server
Manage Coder workspaces, templates, and cloud development environments
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Known issues
79 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
Expose the agent timings in the /workspace/:workspaceId/timings endpoint
Right now, the timings endpoint returns only provisioner timings but we also want to include the agent timings to display them in the UI.
Related to:
Read the thread · 2024-09-30 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments
Logout fails to clear OpenID Connect session - coder/zitadel integration
Describe the Bug
We use self-hosted Coder with OpenID Connect by ZITADEL v2.55.2 in a lab environment. Multiple scientists use Coder on a shared lab computer. When they log out successfully and are redirected back to the login page, the session is still active at ZITADEL. If a different scientist clicks the "OpenID Connect" button, it will directly redirect them to the dashboard of the previous scientist without prompting for a us
Read the thread · 2024-07-16 · open · external user · 5 comments
Documentation request: please add this solution for coder's embedded DERP server behind an istio ingress reverse proxy
I am very happy with the 'health' tab in the coder ui, which revealed to me that the embedded derp server was not accessible. The help documentation which I was then pointed to, was helpful as well. If you could add the following solution somehow somewhere, this will save all people with the same problem the two days it took me to find this solution.
When coder is installed inside an istio mesh, and your ingress is managed by istio, you have to apply the following manifest:
apiVersion:
[Read the thread](https://github.com/coder/coder/issues/11821) · 2024-01-25 · closed · external user · 6 comments
### Coder "app" connections are not recorded as workspace usage for the purposes of detecting idle state
We are currently using code-server as a web app, via the `coder_app` resource.
It appears as though connections through this endpoint do not get recorded as workspace usage, therefore the auto-stop behaviour can still occur while in use.
[Read the thread](https://github.com/coder/coder/issues/11812) · 2024-01-24 · closed · outside contributor · 9 comments
### AWS TLV(il-central-1) Region is not supported
Hi!
We had an issue with setting up coder environment above EC2's in AWS TLV region.
We have our own coder server that is implemented in K8S cluster with only 1 pod.
And we have a template that is created with Terraform in order to set this remote DEV env for the users.
The problem is the fact that we are getting this error while trying to set up the EC2 instance in the TLV region:
2023-10-18 07:45:05.455 [warn] run exited with error ... error= exchange token:
Read the thread · 2023-10-30 · closed · external user · 8 comments
Most recent
AI Bridge rejects Responses requests carrying Codex's namespace tool type ("malformed request: … unknown tool type")
Cross-filed from coder/aibridge#285 per the aibridge README (issues tracked here).
Summary
AI Bridge (coder server v2.35.6, Premium) returns a 400 for any /v1/responses request whose tools[] contains an entry of type namespace — the tool type Codex CLI ≥ ~0.149.x sends for its multi-agent feature (multi_agent_v1), which appears to be on by default. Since the tool definition is rejected at request parse time, every Codex request fails deterministically, not just multi-agent turns:
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · closed · external user · 3 comments
Coder Agents: cannot select a model via the Chats API (model_config_id UUID is not discoverable)
Summary
With Coder Agents (experimental Chats API), there is no usable way to select which model a chat runs on when creating it programmatically. Model selection effectively only works through the UI "default" star, which is not applicable to API- or CI-driven usage.
What I observed
POST /api/experimental/chats accepts an optional model_config_id, but that
field expects a UUID:
{"message":"Request body must be valid JSON.","detail":"invalid UUID length: 0"}
However, the e
Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · external user · 3 comments
bug: streaming Responses API records no token usage when no MCP proxier is configured
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues
Current Behavior
A streaming interception on the OpenAI Responses API route (/openai/v1/responses) records zero token usage when the RequestBridge is constructed with a nil mcp.ServerProxier. The client still receives the complete streamed response and a 200, so the request looks entirely healthy; only the usage record is missing.
recordTokenUsage is called from inside the MCP branch in `aibr
Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 1 comment
MCP: coder_create_workspace unusable by LLMs — rich_parameters is a required object with no additionalProperties
Summary
The rich_parameters input schema for coder_create_workspace declares a bare {"type": "object"} — no properties, no additionalProperties — and lists it in required. Frontier models cannot generate a value for a property-less object schema; they degrade it to a string ("", "\t"). Because the field is also required, there is no legal fallback: omitting it, null, and a JSON-encoded string are all rejected too.
The result is a hard loop. An agent retries `rich_paramet
Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · open · external user · 1 comment
feat: least-privilege DERP admission endpoint for external derper
Problem
We run Coder v2.34.7 as a single-replica AGPL deployment and use an external Tailscale derper on a public TCP port because the workspace network is nested inside another WireGuard/Tailnet layer. Direct connections do not work reliably at the available MTU, so the external DERP is intentionally the data path.
A public derper supports --verify-client-url, but Coder currently has no least-privilege admission endpoint that can answer tailcfg.DERPAdmitClientRequest for Coder's own
Read the thread · 2026-08-04 · closed · external user · 2 comments
bug: GPT agent chats reject zero-argument MCP tools with properties: null
Is there an existing issue for this?
- I have searched the existing issues.
Current Behavior
Coder Agent chats using an OpenAI/GPT-backed model fail before tool execution when an MCP server exposes a zero-argument tool.
The tool used to reproduce this is Tidewave's get_ecto_schemas. Its MCP schema is valid and includes an explicit empty object:
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {}
}
In a GPT-backed Coder chat, attempting to use that tool fails with HTTP 400. I
Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · open · external user · 2 comments
fix: MCP stdio subprocess inherits agent temp cwd causing spawn sh ENOENT when temp dir is cleaned up
Describe the bug
When an MCP server is configured via .mcp.json with a stdio transport (e.g. npx/npm), the subprocess fails with spawn sh ENOENT even though sh exists in PATH.
The root cause is that createTransport in agent/x/agentmcp/manager.go does not set cmd.Dir when creating the exec.Cmd for the MCP subprocess. As a result, the subprocess inherits the coder agent's current working directory, which is a temporary directory (/tmp/coder.*) that gets cleaned up.
Read the thread · 2026-07-07 · open · external user · 2 comments
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