# dvalincode MCP Server

Deterministic security scanning, no model or API key, plus offline-verifiable proof a fix worked.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `dvalincode` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**8 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 5.

### Most discussed

### feat: stdio / local MCP servers (governed)

## Why (roadmap: Next)
Governed MCP v1 (docs/GOVERNED-MCP.md) covers remote Streamable HTTP servers. Local stdio servers complete the story — many MCP tools run locally, and stdio avoids network egress entirely.

## Sketch
- Spawn the server as a child process **through `runGovernedProcess`** (sandbox + policy) — never a bare `spawn` (see the governance rules in CONTRIBUTING).
- Same JSON-RPC methods as `src/mcp/client.ts` but over stdin/stdout framing.
- Same governed mapping: `mcp__<server>__<

[Read the thread](https://github.com/arthurpanhku/dvalincode/issues/52) · 2026-07-02 · closed · 3 comments

### docs: fully annotated dvalin.policy.json example

## Context
The policy engine supports modes, providers, models, commands (allow/deny/defaultDeny), paths, tools.deny, mcp.allow, network levels, and maxToolCalls (`src/core/policy.ts`). There is no single reference example showing every field with comments explaining semantics — especially narrowing (repo can only tighten machine policy) and the three network levels.

## Sketch
- `docs/POLICY-REFERENCE.md`: one complete annotated example + a field-by-field table + 3 recipes ('locked-down finance

[Read the thread](https://github.com/arthurpanhku/dvalincode/issues/49) · 2026-07-02 · closed · 2 comments

### feat: parse + Zod-validate local stdio MCP server config entries (first slice of #52)

> **Good first issue** — a self-contained first slice of #52 (governed stdio / local MCP servers). A maintainer will help you land it; comment to claim.

## Goal
Add parsing + **Zod validation** for local (stdio) MCP server config entries, shaped `{ id, command, args, enabled }`, alongside the existing remote-server config. This is pure config plumbing — **no process spawning, no transport** (those are the hard, governance-heavy parts and stay in #52).

## Where
- MCP config: `src/mcp/config.ts`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/arthurpanhku/dvalincode/issues/137) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 1 comment

### feat: structured approval grants (beyond boolean approve/deny)

## Why (roadmap: Next)
Approvals today are per-call booleans (`requestApproval(id, toolName, input)`). Regulated teams need scoped grants: *who* approved *what*, for *which scope*, until *when* — recorded as evidence.

## Sketch
- Grant shape: `{ subject, toolName, scope (e.g. command pattern/path glob), expiresAt | forRun }`.
- 'Allow `npm test` for the rest of this run' instead of clicking approve N times.
- Grants checked at the `registry.run` chokepoint after policy; every grant + use record

[Read the thread](https://github.com/arthurpanhku/dvalincode/issues/53) · 2026-07-02 · open · 1 comment

### test: harness-mode + unattended-tier coverage

## Why
`src/harness/run.ts` (`executeHarnessRun`) is the headless entrypoint (docs/HARNESS-MODE.md) and is currently only exercised **indirectly** via `tests/mcp/server.test.ts` and `tests/commands/run.test.ts`. There's no `tests/harness/` and, critically, no dedicated test pinning **unattended-tier** behavior — the most governance-sensitive path, since it runs without a human in the loop.

## Sketch
- `tests/harness/run.test.ts` driving `executeHarnessRun` directly: happy path, policy-denied to

[Read the thread](https://github.com/arthurpanhku/dvalincode/issues/119) · 2026-07-18 · open · 0 comments

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