# gitcontribute MCP Server

Local-first GitHub contribution research workbench

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `gitcontribute` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**72 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

### [Feature] Publish a canonical MCP workflow for source audit and evidence handoff

## Motivation

GitContribute now has the individual pieces needed for a source-backed audit, but an agent still has to assemble the full route from several descriptions and documents. The intended workflow needs to distinguish offline corpus reads from explicit GitHub verification, treat missing coverage as unknown, perform duplicate checks before drafting, and preserve validation evidence for handoff.

This follows the completed routing/discoverability work in [#19](https://github.com/morluto/g

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/236) · 2026-07-31 · closed · 2 comments

### [Feature] Let setup persist selected MCP toolsets

## Motivation

`gitcontribute mcp serve` accepts `--toolsets`, but `gitcontribute setup` does not expose or persist that selection. The setup command's current options contain no toolset flag ([`internal/cli/cli.go`](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/blob/9c96943dd07fb32efc2b8a7ea8791444e3f2ddc2/internal/cli/cli.go#L122-L133)), while MCP serving does ([`internal/cli/cli.go`](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/blob/9c96943dd07fb32efc2b8a7ea8791444e3f2ddc2/internal/cli/cli.go#L514-L51

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/196) · 2026-07-26 · closed · 2 comments

### [Feature] Expose enabled and available MCP toolsets from the default catalog

## Motivation

GitContribute's small MCP catalogs are intentional, but the default catalog currently cannot explain whether a missing capability is unsupported or merely belongs to a disabled toolset. General routing instructions describe how to use the advertised tools; they do not expose the runtime version, selected toolsets, or other toolsets available in the installed build.

That ambiguity is especially visible with the default `contribute` registration: the source defines additional `code

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/195) · 2026-07-26 · closed · 2 comments

### [Feature] Route the managed Codex skill across optional MCP toolsets

## Motivation

The managed Codex skill currently tells the client to discover GitContribute tools and fall back when no advertised tool fits. That works when the required tool is in the selected MCP catalog, but GitContribute intentionally separates specialized capabilities into optional toolsets.

With the default `contribute` registration, implementation inspection, base/candidate validation, external architecture research, authored-PR follow-up, and search diagnostics are not advertised. A cl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/194) · 2026-07-26 · closed · 2 comments

### [Feature] Add repeatable process validation with resource telemetry

## Motivation

A single validation run can show an exit status and bounded output, but it cannot establish whether a failure is flaky, caused by a readiness deadline, or associated with process/resource pressure.

This matters for MCP and cross-process workflows. In one real regression test, a readiness wait introduced an unrelated timing dependency. The useful proof was that malformed protocol input remained recoverable and the next tool call succeeded; the test did not need to wait for reposit

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/115) · 2026-07-23 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### [Bug] Managed skill directs issue audits to a removed MCP tool

## Description

The managed Codex skill tells agents to start exact issue audits with `workflow.prepare_issue_set` or `corpus.get_coverage`, but the unified MCP catalog deliberately filters `workflow.prepare_issue_set` out through `removedCompositeTools`.

This leaves a dead tool route in the generated guidance. An agent following the preferred exact-audit path gets a tool-not-found result and must infer a different composition from lower-level acquisition and corpus operations. The fallback nam

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/292) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 1 comment

### [Feature] Let feedback indexing scope discovery by pull-request state

## Problem

`github.index_pull_request_feedback` currently enumerates pull requests with `state=all`. That deliberately preserves historical feedback, but it prevents an agent from requesting an index limited to the current open review surface.

The offline feedback search supports a `state` filter, but it runs only after acquisition. It cannot avoid listing, fetching, and persisting closed or merged pull requests.

This matters for workflows such as “review all open PRs and summarize feedback f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/285) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 1 comment

### [Feature] Make exact PR feedback sync scalable past 50 without caller-managed batches

## Motivation

An agent had an exact, already-discovered set of 62 open pull requests and needed their current review feedback. github.sync_pull_request_feedback is the documented exact-PR route, but its public contract and server validation reject more than 50 pull requests. The agent therefore has to partition the set itself.

That is not just cosmetic: submitting two legal exact-feedback batches concurrently produced a retryable persistence result for one item with database is locked. The job

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/284) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug] Refresh review-thread feedback query after GitHub rejects PullRequestReviewComment.side

## Description

GitContribute MCP 1.0.0 cannot synchronize the review_threads channel against the current GitHub GraphQL schema. A feedback job that requested issue_comments, submitted_reviews, inline_comments, and review_threads completed with every affected item failed and this message:

    github graphql: Field 'side' doesn't exist on type 'PullRequestReviewComment'

This prevents both github.sync_pull_request_feedback and github.index_pull_request_feedback from producing usable feedback res

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/283) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug] Make live-search artifact handoffs host-neutral and directly actionable

## Description

`github.search_threads` correctly persists a durable, digest-bound artifact and returns a native MCP `ResourceLink`. Its accompanying text instruction nevertheless requires the caller to translate the handoff into a host-specific operation:

```text
Ask the host to perform MCP `resources/read` with this server and the exact URI …; in Codex, call `read_mcp_resource`.
```

The resource is intentionally opaque and durable; that boundary should remain. The problem is that the public 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/280) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug] Make github.search_threads recoverable when callers use a repository reference

## Description

`github.search_threads` requires flat `owner` and `repo` inputs, while many neighboring GitContribute MCP tools accept a nested `repository` reference. A caller that follows the latter convention is rejected by SDK schema decoding before GitContribute can return its normal actionable `InvalidArgument` response.

This is a contract-discoverability problem rather than a request to make live search implicit or unbounded.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Call `github.search_threads` with a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/279) · 2026-08-09 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug] Keep explicit portfolio follow-ups bound to synchronized pull requests

## Description

After `github.sync_pull_request_portfolio(selection=explicit)` refreshes exact pull requests, its terminal typed follow-up can read a different global set from the corpus.

The job artifact preserves the synchronized references, but `portfolioReadFollowUpArguments` reduces an explicit selection to:

- `state=all`;
- `limit=len(references)`; and
- no exact pull-request filter.

`corpus.list_pull_request_portfolio` cannot accept exact references and orders all stored pull requests 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/gitcontribute/issues/276) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for gitcontribute](/mcp/gitcontribute/issues) — of 72 qualified upstream.

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