Gerrit Code Review MCP Server

Capability-gated Gerrit code review tools with opt-in review notifications pushed into the session

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Published as ghcr.io/gaijinentertainment/go-gerrit-mcp:1.1.3 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

37 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

Publish MCP registry entry

Context

Discoverability through the official MCP registry. Frame Phase 5.

What to do

• Author server.json (name team.gaijin/go-gerrit-mcp, package entries for the binary/OCI distributions, env variable declarations) and publish via the registry's publisher tooling
• Complete the one-time domain-namespace verification for gaijin.team (DNS TXT or HTTP challenge) before publishing

Acceptance criteria

• Registry entry resolves and lists the current release
• Declared env var

Read the thread · 2026-07-10 · closed · 3 comments

Verify transitions on a sandbox change

Context

Frame Phase 4 verification gate.

What to do

• On a sandbox change: set and delete a vote, toggle WIP/ready, abandon and restore; attempt a blocked submit and confirm the reported reason
• Confirm --groups transition alone is self-sufficient (bundled get_change present)

Acceptance criteria

• All five actions verified live; blocked submit reports Gerrit's reason
• Standalone transition group works without read

Estimate: ~0.5h Artifact: confirmation notes

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Validate cold-start setup from README

Context

Frame Phase 5 verification gate — the five-minute test.

What to do

• On a machine without the repo: follow the README only, from install to a working read-group server in an MCP client against a real Gerrit
• Time it; note every point of friction; file issues for anything that breaks the five-minute budget

Acceptance criteria

• Working server from README alone in under five minutes
• Friction points filed as issues

Estimate: ~1h Artifact: validation notes +

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Verify comment flow against live Gerrit

Context

Frame Phase 3 verification gate.

What to do

• On a live change: post a new inline comment, reply into an existing thread, resolve and unresolve it; confirm threading and states in the Gerrit UI
• Attempt a comment on a foreign change with the restriction on; confirm local refusal

Acceptance criteria

• Threaded reply lands threaded; resolution state matches intent
• Foreign-change attempt refused without leaving the process

Estimate: ~0.5h Artifact: confirmatio

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Verify read group and scoping against live Gerrit

Context

Frame Phase 2 verification gate.

What to do

• Exercise all five read tools against a live instance through an MCP client
• With --projects set, attempt to escape the allowlist via crafted queries and direct fetches; confirm containment
• File issues for gaps before Phase 3 starts

Acceptance criteria

• All five tools return correct data live
• Scoping escape attempts fail

Estimate: ~0.5h Artifact: confirmation notes; follow-up issues if any

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Most recent

Finalize model-facing prompts for subscriptions

Context

The feature's behavior is prompt-driven: the model subscribes because the instructions and tool descriptions tell it when and why. Frame Phase 3, following the first-contact prompt work.

What to do

• Write the full conditional instructions section: subscribe after pushing a reviewable change or when awaiting a review outcome; what arrives and in which vocabulary; what auto-unsubscription means; re-subscribe after a session restart
• Finalize both tools' descriptions and input sche

Read the thread · 2026-07-13 · closed · 0 comments

Apply the filter chain to extracted activity

Context

Filters run between extraction and rendering so excluded activity never reaches the model. Frame Phase 3, ADR 2.2.

What to do

• Apply, per extracted event: self-authorship (dropped unless include-own), excluded accounts (match username or numeric ID), content patterns (match against message and comment text)
• A delta filtered to empty produces no notification at all
• Bare votes pass the same account filters; status transitions are never content-filtered

Acceptance criteria

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Add filter configuration: include-own, account and pattern exclusions

Context

Noise control is operator configuration, not server heuristics: own activity is skipped by default, and exclusions name accounts or content patterns. Frame Phase 3, ADR 2.2.

What to do

• Add --review-notifications-include-own (boolean, default off), --review-notifications-exclude-accounts (comma-separated usernames or numeric account IDs), and --review-notifications-exclude-patterns (comma-separated regular expressions) with mirrors
• Compile patterns at load; an invalid reg

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End subscriptions automatically on terminal states

Context

A merged or abandoned change almost never needs further watching; the model must learn the subscription ended rather than infer it from silence. Frame Phase 2, ADR 2.2.

What to do

• On detecting a transition to merged or abandoned, emit a final notification that carries the transition, states that the subscription ended automatically, and that no further notifications will arrive
• Remove the change from the store after the final notification
• When the terminal transition and oth

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Add unsubscribe_change and render self-sufficient payloads

Context

Notifications must be self-sufficient: the payload carries the activity itself in the vocabulary the model already reads, so nothing needs fetching afterwards. Frame Phase 2, ADR 2.1.

What to do

• Add the unsubscribe_change tool: removes the subscription, acknowledges in llmxml, tolerates unsubscribing a change that is not subscribed with a clear message
• Render each delta as a review_activity llmxml payload composing the existing element vocabulary — change messages, votes,

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Extract per-kind activity deltas with cursors

Context

The bare updated-movement event becomes real review activity: which messages, votes, comment threads, and status transitions are new since the last tick. Frame Phase 2, ADR 2.2.

What to do

• Grow the cursor into per-kind high-water marks so each activity kind is reported at most once
• Extract from the detailed change fetch and the comments listing: new change messages (author, date, tag, revision number), new votes (per-voter approval dates newer than the cursor, label and value)

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Add subscribe_change tool and conditional channel wiring

Context

With the feature enabled the server declares the claude/channel capability, registers the subscription tools, and teaches the model when to subscribe; disabled, the server is byte-identical to today. Frame Phase 1, ADR 2.1, glossary entries Review notifications and Channel.

What to do

• Add the subscribe_change tool: accepts any change identifier, validates existence and project scope via the existing change fetch, stores the subscription, returns an llmxml acknowledgement

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