# Labby MCP Server Rust MCP gateway with Code Mode, authentication, setup, logs, CLI, HTTP API, and operator web UI. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled Labby yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `@dinglebear/labby` on npm. Runs locally. ## Known issues **31 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 ### Implement gateway enrichment hints for Code Mode upstreams ## Summary Implement gateway enrichment hints for Code Mode upstream namespaces. This issue is self-contained. The root body gives the implementation summary, acceptance criteria, review decisions, and validation. Follow-up comments on this issue contain the full implementation plan and the full text of the epic plus all child beads. ## Current Baseline Already Landed Branch: `codex/codemode-upstream-description` Commits already pushed: - `e96a6ed1` — docs: save codemode upstream descriptio [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/154) · 2026-06-25 · closed · 9 comments ### Code Mode catalog stability: remaining hardening after #260 (permanent tool registry, visible-contract hashing, monotonic publication, notification coalescing) ## Context #260 fixed the observed "Labby tools flapping": the gateway reconcile diff measured change against the **raw** `pool.healthy_tools()` set with no Code Mode filtering, so invisible upstream churn (an upstream becoming healthy, lazily discovering tools, the eager reload probe populating tool maps) flipped `tools_changed` and broadcast `notifications/tools/list_changed`. Clients rebuilt their connector namespace mid-turn and the in-flight call hit a stale `LABBY.codemode` binding — fail [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/261) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 3 comments ### Emit outputSchema + structuredContent for directly-listed tools; preserve structured content through Code Mode ## Summary Emit `outputSchema` + `structuredContent` for **directly-listed** tools, preserve structured content end-to-end through Code Mode, and surface output shapes in the catalog for hidden tools. ## The Code Mode nuance (why this is not blanket) - Under Code Mode, raw tools are hidden from `list_tools` — the client only sees `execute`/`codemode`. So per-tool `outputSchema` does **not** reach the client for hidden tools; it belongs in the **catalog** (`codemode.describe`) instead. - Insid [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/210) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 2 comments ### Generalize MRTR input overlay for confirmations and primitive parameter completion ## Summary Generalize Labby's current destructive-confirmation MRTR flow into a policy-driven input overlay for upstream and synthetic tools. The overlay should support: 1. destructive confirmation; 2. missing primitive parameter completion; 3. action-enum tools, including a two-round action-then-fields flow; 4. Code Mode-hidden MCP App callback calls without a separate hard-block path. This is a gateway-originated overlay. It complements upstream-to-downstream request relay: the gateway ask [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/208) · 2026-07-10 · open · 2 comments ### Add rmcp-openapi support for OpenAPI-derived MCP upstreams ## Summary Research `rmcp-openapi` and implement a Lab integration path for turning OpenAPI specs into MCP servers/tools through the gateway/upstream runtime. `rmcp-openapi` is a Rust crate for exposing OpenAPI definition endpoints as MCP tools using the official Rust MCP SDK. The current docs.rs surface exposes a `Server` that implements `rmcp::ServerHandler`, converts OpenAPI operations into tools via `ToolGenerator`, supports dynamic `ToolFilter` / `ResponseTransformer`, and carries runtime [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/93) · 2026-06-03 · open · 2 comments ### Most recent ### Retain and page oversized Code Mode results by handle ## Summary Add an optional retained-result path for Code Mode outputs that are expensive, rate-limited, non-idempotent, or inherently too large to regenerate safely after the response envelope truncates them. This is Phase 2 of #217. The primary behavior remains reducing inside the sandbox before returning. Retained paging is a selective fallback, not the default result path. ## Motivation Re-running a tool with better projection code is acceptable for cheap idempotent reads. It is a poor fa [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/274) · 2026-07-27 · open · 0 comments ### Permanent synthetic-tool registry and full client-visible descriptor hashing ## Context #261 fixed the production symptom and most of the catalog-stability plan through #263, #264, and #267: - detached reload cancellation is deterministic; - catalog changes are evaluated per peer and route scope; - notifications are coalesced and withheld during open tool turns; - publication ordering was verified to be serialized by the existing mutation lock. Two structural items from #261 remain. The release PR closed the umbrella issue, but #264 explicitly notes that full descript [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/273) · 2026-07-27 · closed · 0 comments ### Streamable HTTP over Unix sockets with optional SO_PEERCRED authentication ## Summary Support connecting to co-located MCP upstreams over Unix domain sockets using rmcp 3's `transport-streamable-http-client-unix-socket` transport, with optional filesystem and `SO_PEERCRED` authentication for trusted local services. ## Current state Labby 1.7.0 uses rmcp `3.0.0-beta.2` and enables only `transport-streamable-http-client-reqwest`. Upstream configuration and connection code currently expect HTTP(S) URLs. No Unix-socket client, listener, socket-path configuration, or pee [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/218) · 2026-07-11 · closed · 0 comments ### Decide rmcp Tower and request-state adoption ## Summary Decide whether Labby should adopt two rmcp 3 features that are available but not enabled: protocol-level Tower service composition and `request-state` integrity protection. This issue consolidates the former #215 Tower spike. The basic research question is now answered; the remaining work is an adoption decision backed by a small prototype. ## 1. Tower protocol service ### Finding rmcp `3.0.0-beta.2` exposes `service::tower::TowerHandler`. It implements rmcp's protocol `Ser [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/214) · 2026-07-10 · open · 0 comments ### Set ToolAnnotations on builtin/gateway tools + propagate upstream annotations downstream ## Summary Set `ToolAnnotations` on Labby's own tools and propagate upstream annotations through the aggregated `list_tools`. ## Current state - Annotations are **consumed** to derive `destructive` (`crates/labby-gateway/src/upstream/pool/helpers.rs:368` — reads `destructive_hint`, falls back to `!read_only_hint`, **fails closed**). - But Labby's own builtin/meta tools likely do **not** set hints, and upstream annotations may not be propagated to the downstream client. ## Plan - Annotate bu [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/212) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 0 comments ### URL-mode elicitation (elicit_url / UrlElicitationParams) ## Summary Add URL-mode elicitation (`elicit_url` / `ElicitRequestParams::UrlElicitationParams`) alongside the existing Form path. ## Motivation - Only Form elicitation is used today (`crates/labby/src/mcp/elicitation.rs`). URL mode suits auth-style "open this URL" flows and MCP App clients that prefer a hosted form. Directly addresses #208 open question 3. ## Plan - Add an `elicit_url(context, message, url, elicitation_id)` helper. - Gate on `ElicitationCapability.url` via `supported_elici [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/213) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment ### Resource subscriptions passthrough (enable_resources_subscribe + resources/updated aggregation) ## Summary Add resource subscription passthrough: advertise `resources/subscribe`, route subscribe/unsubscribe to the owning upstream, and fan `resources/updated` notifications back to subscribed downstream clients. ## Current state - `crates/labby/src/mcp/server.rs:169` enables `resources` + `resources_list_changed` but **not** `enable_resources_subscribe()`. - The stdio bridge already forwards `subscribe`/`unsubscribe` (`bridge.rs:20`), so plumbing is partial. ## Plan - Add `.enable_resou [Read the thread](https://github.com/dinglebear-ai/labby/issues/211) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment [See all 19 reports Pod holds for Labby](/mcp/labby/issues) — of 31 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Labby yet. 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