# NEAT MCP Server

Fused graph of your codebase — static code + runtime OTel — for AI agents, over MCP.

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## Status

Pod has not dialled NEAT 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 `@neat.is/mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**81 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

### (Pilot 1) OBSERVED connectors load and validate but never poll (idle forever, no trigger, no logs)

## Summary

After adding OBSERVED connectors (both `supabase` — **validated OK** — and `railway`) to a running project, the daemon loads them but **never polls them**. `GET /connectors` reports both stuck at `state: "idle"`, `lastPollAt: null`, `signalsLastPoll: 0` for the entire daemon lifetime (observed **7+ minutes undisturbed**, a 15-minute watch in progress). No OBSERVED edges are minted, nothing is logged to stdout or `neat-out/errors.ndjson`, and there is **no operator-facing way to trigg

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/871) · 2026-07-24 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### (Pilot 1) Railway connector: auth-check rejects a fully-authorized account token with "Not Authorized"

## Summary

`neat connector add railway` (v0.6.1) rejects a **valid, fully-authorized Railway account token** with:

```
railway auth check failed: Railway GraphQL errors: Not Authorized
```

and refuses to store the connector. The **same token** successfully runs every Railway GraphQL query the connector needs — including the observability queries (`deploymentLogs`, `httpLogs`, `metrics`) — when called directly against `https://backboard.railway.com/graphql/v2`. So the credential is good; NEAT'

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/868) · 2026-07-24 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Vercel edge-runtime instrumentation — debug + harden against a real deployment (owner: Jed)

**Owner: Jed** · **Vercel edge-runtime instrumentation** (ADR-126, first exception to `framework-installers.md` §6)

Goal: **debug the Vercel edge instrumentation against a real deployment, then make it robust.** ⚠️ **Vercel is not a pull-connector** — there is no `neat connector add vercel`. It's an **installer path**: NEAT generates edge-runtime OTel instrumentation that rides the existing OTLP push. Your scope is that installer + the edge spans it produces, end to end on a real Vercel deploym

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/740) · 2026-07-08 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Make get_dependencies transitive

**Source:** Verification pass — MCP audit §6. `docs/audits/verification.md`.

`get_dependencies` (`packages/mcp/src/tools.ts:143-156`) returns only direct outbound edges from `/graph/edges/{id}`. The audit expects transitive dependencies — Claude Code's "what does this service end up touching" question is rarely satisfied by one hop.

**Fix shape:** new core endpoint `GET /graph/node/:id/dependencies?depth=N` that BFS-walks outbound edges (not just CALLS — also CONNECTS_TO and DEPENDS_ON). Defau

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/144) · 2026-05-04 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### MCP tools: emit standardized three-part response (NL paragraph + structured block + footer)

**Source:** Verification pass — MCP audit §3. `docs/audits/verification.md`.

The MCP audit specifies a three-part response format for every tool:

1. **NL paragraph** — actionable, human-readable summary of what the tool found.
2. **Structured block** — the typed payload (path, distances, provenance per edge).
3. **Footer line** — `confidence: X.XX · provenance: OBSERVED|EXTRACTED|...`.

Today's tools (`packages/mcp/src/tools.ts`) emit a header + bullet list — no NL paragraph for blast-radius/d

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/143) · 2026-05-04 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Connector-sourced incidents don't fire the incident push event (no project at appendConnectorIncident)

## What

ADR-221 (the incident card, PR #1105) added a ninth SSE event type `incident` that the monitor and `get_incident_card` consumers react to. The event is emitted from the OTel incident write paths in `ingest.ts` (`appendErrorEvent` / `makeErrorSpanWriter`), which have the project name in scope.

Connector-sourced incidents take a different write path — `appendConnectorIncident` (ADR-185, the `errorType: 'http-failure'` build/poll failures) — and that call site does not carry a project nam

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1106) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Push a self-sufficient incident work order to the agent (the incident goodybag)

## What

When an incident fires, an agent should be handed a single, self-sufficient work order — the "goodybag" — so it can start writing the fix without grepping or guessing. Today the pieces exist but nobody composes them and nothing pushes them: `get_root_cause`, `get_blast_radius`, `check_policies`, and `get_divergences` are all pull-only, and `neat monitor` (ADR-159) streams divergence/stale/observed/policy facts but has no incident fact kind.

## The goodybag

One card, composed from quer

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1104) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Empty MCP results should say whether the index is still building

An empty query result on the MCP surface is ambiguous. When a tool comes back with "no such edges" / "no dependencies" / "no divergences" / "node not found", an agent can't tell a genuinely-empty answer apart from a graph that hasn't finished its first extraction pass yet. NEAT's own MCP instructions already tell the agent to "confirm the daemon is up if a query comes back empty" — but that check belongs in the response, not the docs.

A dead daemon is already unambiguous: `cli-client.ts` raises

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1101) · 2026-08-28 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### neat doctor: a preflight diagnostic for setup

Getting NEAT running is a few separate steps — the right Node, the daemon, a project registered for this directory — and when one of them isn't in place, nothing points at which one. A query just comes back unreachable, or the CLI fails in a way that doesn't name the cause. Our own MCP instructions already lean on "if a query comes back empty, confirm the daemon is up," which is exactly the check a person shouldn't have to run by hand.

`neat doctor` gives one command that probes the setup and p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1094) · 2026-08-25 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### MCP server: confusing HTML-404 when the localhost:8080 fallback hits a non-NEAT service

## What

The MCP server resolves the core REST URL by walking up from its CWD for `neat-out/daemon.json` (good — picks up the real port), with `NEAT_CORE_URL`/`NEAT_API_URL` overriding. When neither a `daemon.json` (upward from the MCP server's CWD) nor an env override is found, it falls back to `http://localhost:8080` (`packages/mcp/src/base-url.ts:21`).

The papercut: if something **other than a NEAT daemon** is listening on 8080, the MCP tools silently talk to it and surface its response. In 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1069) · 2026-08-20 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### OTLP/HTTP receiver rejects gzip-compressed request bodies (400 FST_ERR_CTP_INVALID_CONTENT_LENGTH)

## What

NEAT's OTLP/HTTP trace receiver (`:4319/v1/traces`) returns **HTTP 400** on any gzip-compressed request body:

```
{"statusCode":400,"code":"FST_ERR_CTP_INVALID_CONTENT_LENGTH","error":"Bad Request"}
```

The Fastify receiver reads the raw body and does not honor `Content-Encoding: gzip`, so a compressed payload fails content-length validation.

## Why it matters

The **OpenTelemetry Collector's `otlphttp` exporter gzips by default** (`compression: gzip`). So a standard, unmodified coll

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1068) · 2026-08-20 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### SEP-414 trace context: SPIKE the agent-to-app trace join before wiring it

## The differentiator — but verify what actually joins FIRST

SEP-414 fixes `traceparent`/`tracestate`/`baggage` in `_meta` on every request. NEAT is the only tool in our set that speaks MCP AND ingests OTel AND has a code graph. Pitch: follow the trace from the agent's tool call into what the code actually did.

## The caveat that decides if it's real (correct, from the briefing)
The MCP trace id correlates the agent's call with spans **the MCP server itself makes**. A separately-instrumented a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/neat-technologies/neat/issues/1058) · 2026-08-20 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for NEAT](/mcp/neat/issues) — of 81 qualified upstream.

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