# Madar MCP Server

Authenticated local evidence paths for JavaScript and TypeScript coding agents.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@lubab/madar` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**75 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

### [P0] Complete artifact v2 cutover and tombstone the legacy graph.json contract

## Problem

PR B1 (`#657`) introduces and activates the canonical artifact v2 for new binaries, while retaining a fresh v1 compatibility mirror at `out/graph.json`. New readers prefer `out/graph.madar`; the legacy path is still a real v1 artifact.

The final cutover — demoting `graph.json` to a non-JSON tombstone so old binaries fail closed — is separated because it changes a large public and test contract that has nothing to do with graph storage. Bundling it into the storage PR would have made

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/705) · 2026-08-15 · closed · 28 comments

### [P0][Architecture]: Build answer-ready semantic execution retrieval without source fallback

## Outcome

Replace declaration-only evidence retrieval with an answer-ready semantic execution index for statically provable JavaScript/TypeScript questions.

The caller-facing surface remains one MCP tool: `retrieve({ question, budget? })`. Madar must either return a complete ordered, claim-to-proof dossier or an exact non-ready result. Claude must not need repository Read/Grep/Glob/Bash fallback for supported workflow questions.

## Protected base and target

- Architecture baseline: protecte

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/629) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 15 comments

### [P0][Index]: Add authenticated execution facts, ordering, persistence, and shared async channels

Parent: #629

## Outcome

Extend the canonical JavaScript/TypeScript index with compact authenticated execution facts and exact shared channel topology, without turning every AST expression into a graph node.

## Scope

- Add ordered body facts owned by callable/constant symbols: call, literal, condition, loop, parallel, return, throw, mutation and persistence.
- Store numeric AST order, bounded statement/evidence ranges, excerpt SHA-256, control frames, confidence and provenance.
- Retain only 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/632) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 12 comments

### [Core Reset]: Rebuild Thin Delivery as a lazy CLI, one-tool MCP, and verified Claude/Codex transport

## Status

**Ready for owner review. Not accepted, not activated, and no implementation is authorized by opening this issue.**

- Governing RFC: #577
- Protected planning base: `8efe41fc665fcea7e625dda0864a72ecf27a111b`
- Manifest handle: `thin-delivery`
- Completed prerequisite: #596, including absorbed #599
- Absorbed activation blocker: #567
- Required next step: explicit owner approval of this exact contract, followed by a governance-only activation PR

## User outcome

A JavaScript/TypeScri

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/602) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 9 comments

### P0: Codex installer writes project MCP config that Codex CLI never loads

## Problem

`madar codex install` currently writes the managed MCP block to `<repo>/.codex/config.toml`. A real Codex CLI activation test against a fresh OpenStatus worktree showed that Codex CLI 0.144.5 does not load that project-local file:

```text
cd <repo>
codex mcp list
# lists only ~/.codex/config.toml servers; no madar server
```

The installed `AGENTS.md` guidance is visible, so Codex attempts the local `madar pack` fallback instead of the strict MCP tool. The project config is therefor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/567) · 2026-07-17 · closed · 6 comments

### Most recent

### [P1] Reduce artifact v2 load latency without weakening identity verification

## Problem

PR B1 (#657) accepted a reviewed exception to the 2× load target:

| | Value |
|---|---:|
| Base (v1 loader) median | 308.19 ms |
| Candidate (v2 loader) median | 675.69 ms |
| Ratio | 2.192× |
| Artifact size ratio | 1.894× |
| Residual per-byte overhead | ~1.157× |

Receipts: `docs/benchmarks/2026-08-15-graph-b1-artifact-v2/` — initial gate, post-remediation gate, and the maintainer decision.

The residual is not a redundant loop. Four profiling rounds removed duplicate receipt acc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/706) · 2026-08-15 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Publish npm releases from exact protected commits with provenance and packaged host verification

Parent: #652
Depends on: #673, #674, #675

## Outcome

Remove the maintainer workstation as a release trust boundary.

Publish Madar to npm only from an exact protected release commit through an auditable workflow that produces provenance, package identity, SBOM/checksums where supported, Registry verification, clean-install execution, artifact migration tests, and packaged host smoke receipts.

## Problem

The existing release process has strong CI and packaging checks, but npm publication rema

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/676) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Establish a versioned compatibility, support, and deprecation policy

Parent: #652
Depends on: #674

## Outcome

Define exactly which Madar interfaces and artifacts are supported, how they are versioned, what backward compatibility means, how breaking changes are introduced, and how users migrate safely.

The policy must cover Pack, graph artifacts, CLI, MCP, installers, supported runtime/toolchain versions, and the unresolved question of whether Madar is an application-only CLI/MCP product or a supported importable TypeScript library.

## Problem

Madar currently

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/675) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Rationalize supported, advanced, and maintainer CLI/MCP surfaces

Parent: #652
Depends on: #666, #673

## Outcome

Define a small, coherent supported product surface for ordinary Madar users while preserving advanced and maintainer capabilities behind explicit tiers and documented compatibility windows.

Reduce command/tool-selection ambiguity, make help/onboarding/doctor behavior consistent, and ensure the normal path centers on trusted context compilation rather than a large taxonomy of graph and maintenance operations.

## Problem

Madar currently combines:

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/674) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Establish a framework-adapter qualification and conformance contract

Parent: #651
Depends on: #662, #668

## Outcome

Define a stable internal contract by which language/framework adapters declare capabilities, emit semantic facts and evidence, report uncertainty, and prove qualification against independent positive and negative fixtures.

The contract must make support claims testable and prevent a new adapter from appearing complete while silently omitting dynamic, generated, unsupported, or unresolved behavior.

This is an internal extension contract. It is no

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/669) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Qualify and stage a context-pack-first default for supported agent hosts

Parent: #650
Depends on: #663, #664, #661

## Outcome

Make Madar’s trustworthy task-to-context workflow naturally discoverable and selected by supported coding-agent hosts.

Stage context-pack-first defaults only after the pack, integrity, uncertainty, and answerability contracts are qualified. Preserve explicit compatibility/advanced profiles and a rollback switch.

## Confirmed baseline mismatch

At v0.32.1:

- `core` exposes graph/retrieval tools but not `context_pack`;
- `strict` exposes `c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/666) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### [P1] Add an end-to-end evidence, ranking, omission, and compaction trace

Parent: #650
Depends on: #664

## Outcome

Make a compiled context pack explainable from task interpretation through final answerability.

Maintainers must be able to determine why a file, symbol, fact, snippet, claim, execution step, caveat, or verification target was included, excluded, downgraded, compacted, or omitted—and which policy/budget/integrity decision caused it.

## Problem

Madar already exposes useful diagnostics, but there is no single trace connecting:

```text
task interpretati

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mohanagy/madar/issues/665) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

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