okffs MCP Server
MCP server connecting Claude Code to GitHub for an issue to branch to PR to close workflow.
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Status
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Connect
Published as @neturely/okffs on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
24 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
commit_and_update: comment-step failure after successful commit+push escapes as raw 'MCP error -32603: fetch failed'
Incident
2026-08-12, greyvensteins repo, working issue neturely/greyvensteins#36. A commit_and_update call ran >120s, was backgrounded by the harness, then failed with:
Task failed: MCP error -32603: fetch failed
By that point the tool had already committed and pushed to the issue branch. Only the final issue-comment step had failed (transient GitHub API error — update_project_status minutes before and comment_issue minutes after both succeeded). None of that was visible
Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · 5 comments
Silent auto-PR failure in create_issue - swallowed to stderr, retry on 422
Summary
When OKFFS_AUTO_PR=true, create_issue reports success but can silently open no draft PR, with no indication in the tool response. The failure is caught non-fatally and only console.warn'd to stderr, so the tool looks like it half-succeeded with no explanation - the user only notices the missing Draft PR: line.
Observed in the wild while setting up okffs in a consumer repo: create_issue succeeded, no draft PR appeared. Re-running the identical POST /pulls seconds late
Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 5 comments
Autopilot / "minimum interference" mode — autonomous issue → develop-PR with a decisions report
Concept
An opt-in autopilot (a.k.a. "minimum interference") mode for a work session. When active, the agent stops asking the user to choose between options and instead takes the recommended/logical choice at each fork, using the authorization okffs already grants, and drives an issue all the way to a PR into the base branch (develop) — then posts a short decisions report of the choices it made.
Activated per-request (a phrase like "…minimum interference" / "fully handle th
Read the thread · 2026-07-08 · closed · 5 comments
Surface promotion-PR review feedback proactively — okffs should detect and drive the Copilot-review fix loop, not wait to be asked
Problem
The promotion flow requests a Copilot review on the gate PR (OKFFS_PROMOTION_AUTO_REVIEW + OKFFS_PROMOTION_REVIEWERS), but nothing in okffs ever checks back for the resulting feedback. The review lands on GitHub, and in every repo using okffs the user has to notice it themselves and prompt the agent ("there are comments on the Copilot review — go fix them") before the list_pr_review_comments → fix → fix_into_base → reply/resolve loop kicks in. Reported after the okffs 0
Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · closed · 4 comments
update_issue with a body wipes okffs's own metadata (Branch: line, ## Relationships), breaking commit_and_update
Problem
update_issue PATCHes body straight through to the GitHub REST API with no awareness of the metadata okffs itself writes into the issue body. Any body rewrite therefore silently destroys:
- the
**Branch:**branch-link line written bycreate_issue(src/tools/create_issue.ts:124,create_issues_from_list.ts:96,plan.ts:173) - the
## Relationshipssection written bylink_issues(src/tools/link_issues.ts:31-35)
Losing the Branch: line breaks every downstream t
Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 4 comments
Most recent
Conversational in-Claude-Code setup (/okffs:setup prompt + configure tool) with upgrade-aware nudge
Follow-up to #240 (the okffs setup CLI wizard). The CLI wizard is interactive and can only run in a real terminal — it can't run inside Claude Code (the ! bang and tools both run children with piped, non-TTY stdio). This issue adds a conversational setup path that works inside Claude Code, plus a proactive upgrade nudge.
Motivation
- A new user who wires up
.mcp.jsonand never opens a terminal has no in-chat way to configure okffs beyond editing.envby hand. - After an ok
Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 2 comments
Add update_issue tool — mutate title/assignees/labels/milestone on an existing issue
Problem
okffs can set core issue fields (title, assignees, labels, milestone) only at creation time via create_issue. There is no tool to mutate them afterward:
create_issue— sets title/assignees/labels/milestone at creation only.set_issue_fields— covers board Priority/Effort only.- No
update_issue/edit_issueexists.
So editing an existing issue's title or assignee has no okffs path, forcing a fallback to gh issue edit. That's exactly the case our conventions
Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 2 comments
Strengthen guidance so Claude prefers okffs tools over raw gh/git
In practice Claude still defaults to raw gh/git even though okffs should take priority (okffs authenticates with a better-scoped PAT; raw gh uses whatever ambient token, often the wrong one, and skips okffs conventions/board/guards). Harden the guidance so Claude reaches for okffs tools first.
Changes:
- Sharpen the MCP server instructions (src/index.ts) with explicit action → okffs tool mappings, including 'Promotion/release gate (develop→main): promote_branch'.
- Make the 'why' concrete (
Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 2 comments
Add promote_branch tool: issue-less develop→main PR added to the board
Add a new okffs tool promote_branch that opens the release/promotion PR from OKFFS_BASE_BRANCH into the repo default (or OKFFS_PROTECTED_BRANCH) — e.g. develop→main. It is deliberately issue-less: no issue lookup, no Closes #N.
Behaviour:
- Open the head→base PR (head = OKFFS_BASE_BRANCH, base = default/protected branch).
- No confirmation prompt — opening is safe; the merge stays with the user (depends on the corrected protected-branch semantics).
- Add the PR ITSELF to the Projects v2 board
Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 2 comments
Provide MCP server instructions so agents prefer okffs tools and adopt new features on upgrade
Problem
When okffs ships a new tool or behaviour, host agents (Claude Code, etc.) keep defaulting to old behaviour — hand-rolling gh/GraphQL for things okffs now has tools for, or not discovering new tools at all. There's no mechanism telling the agent "prefer these tools; here's how this server works." The only signal is per-tool descriptions (easy to overlook) and per-repo CLAUDE.md guidance (stale, hand-maintained, doesn't travel with the package).
Concrete recurring symptom: a
Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 2 comments
publish.yml: create the GitHub Release automatically on stable tags
Problem
The publish workflow pushes to npm and the MCP Registry on a v*.*.* tag, but does not create the corresponding GitHub Release — that's left as a manual gh release create. It's illogical to automate the harder publishes and leave the Release manual; it gets forgotten or done by hand inconsistently.
Proposal
Add a step to .github/workflows/publish.yml (stable releases only) that creates the GitHub Release from the pushed tag, using the matching section of CHANGELOG.md
Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 2 comments
Add OKFFS_PROTECTED_BRANCH — hard confirmation gate before okffs promotes into a protected branch
Problem
okffs's assisted flows can walk an agent all the way to a full release (merge into main, then tag → CI npm publish) with no forced human checkpoint. In practice an agent can read broad authorization from an earlier message and promote to the release branch + publish without the maintainer checking main first. There is currently no okffs-level guard that says "this branch is special — stop and get explicit confirmation."
Proposal
Add OKFFS_PROTECTED_BRANCH (e.g. main; uns
Read the thread · 2026-07-04 · closed · 3 comments
See all 16 reports Pod holds for okffs — of 24 qualified upstream.
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