# koncept-mcp-server MCP Server

Query a curated YAML semantic concept graph for codebase invariants and cross-cutting facts.

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## Connect

Published as `@yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp-server` 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

### bug: internal dep range too loose (cli/mcp-server pin core ^0.2.0-alpha.0 but require alpha.2 APIs)

## Severity

MEDIUM-HIGH — runtime crash for consumers who resolve an old core alongside a newer cli.

## Repro (real, hit while updating a consumer)

A project depends only on \`@yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-cli\`. Updating just the cli (e.g. alpha.1 → alpha.3) leaves \`koncept-core\` resolved to an **older** version, because the cli declares its internal dep as:

\`\`\`json
"@yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-core": "workspace:^0.2.0-alpha.0"
\`\`\`

published as \`^0.2.0-alpha.0\`. That range admits c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/issues/40) · 2026-06-21 · closed · 1 comment

### feat(cli): implement koncepto check — execute invariant.check payloads and report violations

## Context

`koncepto check` is already on the [ROADMAP](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/blob/main/ROADMAP.md) (v0.2.x):

> `koncepto check` — execute the `kind: grep | command` payloads of `invariant.check` and report violations. Prerequisite (structured payload) is already in place.

This issue formalizes the feature request with a **real-world use case** from production that demonstrates why it matters.

## Real-world use case: staging-prod parity enforcement

### The incide

[Read the thread](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/issues/22) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 1 comment

### affected --from returns a clean result when .koncept/ is not at the git root

## Summary

`koncepto affected --from <base>` silently matches nothing whenever `.koncept/` is **not at the git root**, and it fails in the worst direction: it returns a **clean result**, indistinguishable from a genuine all-clear.

Concepts name participants relative to the **`.koncept/` root** (`harness/core/catalog.py`). `affected --from` feeds it `git diff --name-only`, which returns paths relative to the **git root** (`personal/games/foundation-llm-twin/harness/core/catalog.py`). In a neste

[Read the thread](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/issues/53) · 2026-08-08 · closed · 0 comments

### lint-naming MCP tool: bound working-tree reads to project root

## Origin
Follow-up from v0.2.0-alpha.6 review (D-007, glossary-terms-and-lint-naming). The new MCP tool `koncept_lint_naming` reads caller-supplied file paths with `readFileSync(join(rootDir, file))`. Unlike prior tools that only read `.koncept/` or matched participant paths, this reads arbitrary working-tree content, and a `../..` segment escapes `rootDir`.

## Severity
LOW — trusted-input today (callers supply repo-relative paths, cf. #38), but a wider door than #38 (file reads, not just rege

[Read the thread](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/issues/44) · 2026-06-28 · closed · 0 comments

### security: bound RegExp evaluation in checks (ReDoS) before untrusted concept sources

## Severity

LOW (today) — would escalate if concept sources stop being trusted.

## Context

The static check engine (`checker.ts`, added in #37) compiles invariant patterns with `new RegExp(pattern)` and runs `.test()` over participant file contents (`implication`, `symbol_present`, `forbidden`; also the existing `grep`).

Today the input is the repo's **own** `.koncept/concepts/` — authored by maintainers, version-controlled, reviewed. A catastrophic-backtracking pattern is therefore a self-i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/yourtechtribe-labs/koncept-mcp/issues/38) · 2026-06-20 · open · 0 comments

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