CompletionKit MCP Server
Prompt evals over MCP: run a prompt on your dataset, score each output 1-5 with an LLM judge.
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Status
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Connect
A hosted endpoint at https://completionkit.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.
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"mcpServers": {
"completionkit": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://completionkit.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Known issues
23 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
MCP: expose generation max_tokens (and temperature) per prompt/run — truncation can't be fixed otherwise
Summary
There is no way to set generation max_tokens (or other generation params) for a prompt/run over the MCP, and it directly blocked a real optimization.
Where it bit
Evaluating a recommend-products alternatives prompt whose output is long (one section has ~10 primaries × 2 alternatives × 2 reasons). The judge's alts-format-validity metric was ~2.86, and the low-score critiques were dominated by truncation: *"the JSON is malformed/truncated, several primaries missing."
Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
Plan run-limit is not surfaced via MCP or API — runs stall silently with error_message: null (indistinguishable from 502 flakiness)
Summary
When an org hits its plan run limit, nothing in the MCP or API surfaces that fact. Runs silently fail to progress, and every introspection point reports a clean/empty state. The hard quota is indistinguishable from transient infra flakiness (502s), which caused a long, wrong debugging path (attributed stalls to an outage and then to a config bug, when a quota ceiling was also in play).
What was observed at the limit
runs_create→ returns a normalpendingrun object, **
Read the thread · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
MCP: runs_generate returns a timeout/-32603 error even though the generation job started (false failure)
Summary
The MCP runs_generate tool frequently returns an error to the caller — -32603 Internal error or "The operation timed out." — even though the generation job actually started server-side. The run proceeds to running and completes normally; the only way to know is to poll runs_get afterward.
So a successful, mutating operation surfaces as a failure. In an agent/automation loop this is a real trap: the natural response to an error is to retry or treat it as failed, whe
Read the thread · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments
First-class run-lifecycle callback so hosts don't monkey-patch to observe run creation
Host apps have no supported way to observe run creation. completion-kit-cloud currently patches three seams to meter/gate runs: class_eval on RunsController and Api::V1::RunsController (before/after action hooks) and a prepend on McpDispatcher (McpRunGate). Every new create path added to the engine silently bypasses all three until the host notices.
Proposal: a config-level callback, e.g.
CompletionKit.configure do |c|
c.on_run_created = ->(run) { Billing::UsageMeter.record
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/101) · 2026-07-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
### Import a promptfooconfig.yaml into a prompt + dataset + metrics
## Why
OpenAI's acquisition of Promptfoo (March 2026) means a stream of users are evaluating a switch. The single biggest thing that turns 'I should look around' into 'I'm already set up' is a one-step import of their existing `promptfooconfig.yaml`. This rides a time-limited intent window and is a product feature, so it belongs in the engine (every deployment gets it: Cloud, standalone, engine).
## What
An importer (REST endpoint + a small UI entry point, and ideally an MCP tool) that takes a
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/76) · 2026-06-15 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
### Most recent
### MCP: no way to regrade/rerun existing run responses (rerun/retry_failures/regrade not exposed as tools)
## Summary
There is no way, over the MCP surface, to **re-judge the existing responses of a completed run** — e.g. after attaching/changing metrics post-generation, or after editing a metric. `runs_generate` refuses on a completed run with:
> Cannot start a run in state "completed". Use rerun to create a fresh copy, or retry_failures / regrade to work with the existing responses.
…but `rerun`, `retry_failures`, and `regrade` are **not exposed as MCP tools**. The full MCP run surface is only:
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/148) · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
### MCP: runs_create/runs_update silently ignore metric_group_id → run generates but judges nothing (false success)
## Summary
`runs_create` and `runs_update` (MCP) accept only `metric_ids`. If you instead pass `metric_group_id` — the intuitive param, since metric groups are first-class MCP objects (`metric_groups_create` / `metric_groups_get` / `metric_groups_list`) — it is **silently dropped**: no validation error, the run is created with `metric_ids: []`, generation runs to completion, and the run ends `status: "completed"` with `judged: 0/0` and `avg_score: null`. It looks like a successful run but nothi
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/147) · 2026-07-28 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
### Allow unauthenticated initialize/tools/list on the MCP endpoint; gate tools/call behind auth
The MCP endpoint authenticates the **whole request** in the controller, so an unauthenticated `initialize` or `tools/list` gets 401. That blinds every MCP directory and every curious human: registries (Glama, the Official MCP Registry clients) that introspect a remote server without a token cannot see the toolbox, so a hosted CompletionKit server shows as "requires authentication" / unhealthy rather than surfacing its tools.
## The ask
Make auth **method-aware** instead of endpoint-wide:
- **U
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/131) · 2026-07-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
### MCP streamable-HTTP endpoint returns 404 on GET (should be 405 or an SSE stream), failing directory health checks
The MCP endpoint only routes `POST` and `DELETE`, so a `GET` gets no route and Rails returns **404**. Per the MCP streamable-HTTP transport, a `GET` to the MCP endpoint should either open an SSE stream (`200 text/event-stream`, for server→client messages) or return **405 Method Not Allowed** when the server does not offer server-initiated streams. A bare 404 is non-compliant and reads to tooling as "endpoint does not exist."
## Where
`config/routes.rb`:
```ruby
post "mcp", to: "mcp#handle"
de
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/129) · 2026-07-21 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
### Model-discovery failure messaging leaks 'ollama' and surfaces opaque provider 404s
## Summary
When model discovery fails for a custom OpenAI-compatible endpoint, the user-facing message leaks the internal provider slug `ollama` and surfaces a raw provider 404 with no next step.
## What the user sees
`_discovery_status.html.erb` renders `discovery_error` verbatim:
Model discovery failed: ollama model list request failed (404): Resource not found
For someone configuring an Azure AI Foundry endpoint through the generic custom-endpoint option (see #104), this is confu
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/105) · 2026-07-07 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Blank cell in the graded column crashes score-only runs (stuck pending, 500)
A score-only run over a dataset where the graded column (e.g. `actual_output`) has a blank cell raises `RecordInvalid: Response text can't be blank` inside `Run#start!`'s transaction. The rollback leaves the run stuck in `pending` with 0 responses and no `failure_summary`, and the caller gets a 500/502.
Blank cells are exactly what answer-key datasets contain when the system under test returned nothing; that row should fail its check, not crash the run.
Related paper cut: the `runs_generate` M
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/99) · 2026-07-06 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
### Per-row expected/answer-key column is a hidden magic convention: surface it and let users choose the column
## Problem
The per-row answer key that checks (and the judge) grade against is a **hidden magic-column convention** with no surfacing and no configuration.
When a run builds responses from a dataset, it maps only a CSV column named literally `expected_output` into each response's `expected_output` (`app/models/completion_kit/run.rb:216`: `expected_output: row["expected_output"]`); every other column is folded into `input_data` (`input = row.to_json`). Judge-only runs have a parallel magic colu
[Read the thread](https://github.com/homemade-software-inc/completion-kit/issues/98) · 2026-07-06 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment
[See all 18 reports Pod holds for CompletionKit](/mcp/completionkit/issues) — of 23 qualified upstream.
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