git-courer MCP Server
Full git MCP server for LLM agents — 17 tools, AST annotator, auto-backups, real plumbing.
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34 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.
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installer: inject prompt rules into CLI agents to prefer MCP tools over bash
Problem
CLI agents (OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini) have git-courer MCP tools available, but they often fall back to bash for git operations because no instruction tells them to prefer MCP tools. The result: structured output is lost, safety features (backups, conflict detection) are bypassed, and the user gets worse results.
What to do
- Create a
GIT_COURER.mdfile (~8 lines) with golden rules for using git-courer tools - On
git-courer mcp setup, place this file in each CLI
Read the thread · 2026-06-18 · closed · 3 comments
feat(core): LLM Infrastructure Decoupling (Backend-Agnostic Layer)
Summary
Abstract LLM interactions into a provider-agnostic port, isolate Ollama-specific logic into a dedicated adapter, and implement a factory pattern for dynamic backend selection via configuration.
Problem
The current LLM implementation is tightly coupled with the Ollama API, with infrastructure-specific logic leaking into the core domain. To support multiple backends (e.g., llama.cpp, LM Studio, OpenAI), we must decouple the LLM port from any specific provider.
Current issues:
- P
Read the thread · 2026-04-27 · closed · 1 comment
Model selection per operation - different models for different tasks
Problem
Currently git-courer uses a single model for all operations. This is inefficient because:
- Simple operations (branch, merge, tag) only need to interpret what the user wants → small model (7b)
- Complex operations (changelog, release) need better reasoning → large model
Proposed Solution
Allow configuring different models per operation in config.yaml:
ollama:
default_model: gemma4:26b
operations:
commit: gemma4:26b
release: gemma4:26b
branch: qwen 7b
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/2) · 2026-04-19 · closed · 1 comment
### bug: release flow does not create GitHub release
## Description
The `RELEASE_START`/`RELEASE_APPLY` flow creates the local git tag but does NOT execute `gh release create` — the release never appears on GitHub.
## Steps to Reproduce
1. Run `RELEASE_START` with a version instruction
2. Run `RELEASE_APPLY`
3. Tag is created locally ✅
4. GitHub release is NOT created ❌
## Expected Behavior
After `RELEASE_APPLY`, a GitHub release should be created automatically with the generated changelog as the release notes.
## Actual Behavior
Only the l
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/1) · 2026-04-12 · closed · 1 comment
### feature: group commit metadata by workspace instead of branch for changelog
### Problem statement
The release changelog fragments commits from the same feature when using chained PRs. Each branch is grouped separately, so the LLM writing the changelog sees fragments instead of the full feature context. A feature spread across 3 chained PRs produces 3 separate changelog entries instead of one coherent group.
### Impact — why do you want this?
This happens every time a feature requires multiple PRs (chained/stacked). The changelog becomes harder to read and the LLM los
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/215) · 2026-07-02 · closed · 0 comments
### Most recent
### git-courer — unborn-first-commit: fix first commit in new repo
## Problem
git-courer fails on the first commit in a freshly initialized Git repo (unborn branch). The plumbing pipeline (`applyPlumbing`) calls `git.Head()` which fails because `HEAD` doesn't resolve to any commit yet, and `CommitTree` always passes `-p <parent>` even when there is no parent commit.
## Scope
1. **Status**: detect unborn branch (HEAD without commits), add `is_unborn: true` to JSON, make ahead/behind null
2. **CommitTree adapter**: omit `-p` when parentHash is empty (root comm
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/204) · 2026-07-01 · closed · 0 comments
### bug: DiffResultJSON emits redundant raw diff when annotated diff is present
## Summary
`DiffResultJSON` always emits the raw `diff` field even when the annotated diff (`annotated`) is present. Since the annotated diff already contains the full diff content plus AST labels (`[NEW_FUNC]`, `[MOD_SIG ⚠BREAKING]`, `[DEPS]`, `[DEL]`), the raw `diff` field is pure duplication. In cloud/agent mode this wastes tokens and adds noise to every diff response.
## Steps to reproduce
1. Call `git-courer_diff` on any file with changes.
2. The response includes both `diff` (raw text)
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/200) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 0 comments
### bug: hooks only enforce on Codex — Claude Code and Antigravity silently pass through raw git
## Summary
`internal/delivery/cli/hook_check.go::runStdinMode` only parses the Codex stdin JSON shape. For Claude Code and Antigravity the parser silently fails and the hook exits 0 with no output, so `git *` commands are never blocked or even suggested-redirected to the MCP tools on those agents. The brief's intended behavior (`deny` + per-agent JSON shape) is not implemented.
## Steps to reproduce
1. Configure the hook for **Claude Code** to call `git-courer hook-check` on `PreToolUse:Bash`
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/199) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 0 comments
### docs: recover/restore lost SDD Brief for git-courer Global Agent Policy (hooks multi-agente)
## Summary
The SDD Brief for the **Global Agent Policy** change (`git-courer-v2.6.0`, including the `hooks-multi-agente` work) was lost between sessions. The vault note path is unknown, and the only recoverable artifact is a partial reconstruction in Engram memory (#1895) that summarizes the *confusion* the brief was meant to prevent, not the brief itself.
## What was in the brief
The original brief covered three distinct configuration paths in `git-courer` and the rules for each:
1. **TUI w
[Read the thread](https://github.com/blak0p/git-courer/issues/198) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 0 comments
### bug: session discard leaves MCP server in unusable state (chdir to non-existent worktree)
## Summary
`git-courer_session discard` removes the worktree from disk but does **not** reset the MCP server's internal "current worktree" pointer. Every subsequent MCP tool call (`status`, `diff`, `session start`, etc.) fails with `chdir ../git-courer-worktrees/<id>: no such file or directory` until the MCP server process is restarted.
This makes `session discard` a destructive, unrecoverable action in any orchestrator workflow.
## Steps to reproduce
1. Create a worktree:
git-cour
Read the thread · 2026-06-30 · closed · 0 comments
docs: update and align documentation with the codebase
Align documentation files (README, architecture, commands, config, clients, models, security, testing, troubleshooting, and contributing guides) with the Go codebase to resolve codebase discrepancies.
Read the thread · 2026-06-28 · closed · 0 comments
git-courer — Backup Auto-Prune
What
Automatic pruning of git-courer backup refs: when more than 20 refs/git-courer/backup/* accumulate, prune them before creating a new one. Pruning deletes only backups whose commit is already reachable from HEAD, preserving the valuable ones (pre-AMEND, pre-HARD, etc.).
Scope
- Change
PruneBackupsfrom time-based to reachability-based (git merge-base --is-ancestor) - Add auto-prune in
CreateBackup: if >= 20 backups, runPruneBackupsbefore creating the new one - Hardcoded:
Read the thread · 2026-06-27 · closed · 0 comments
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