# Ouroboros MCP Server

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `ouroboros-ai` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**174 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

### [Feature] Add multilingual keyword matching for Codex App skill auto-invocation

## Problem

Ouroboros skills are currently described with English-only `SKILL.md` metadata. For example, core packaged skills use descriptions such as:

```md
---
name: interview
description: "Socratic interview to crystallize vague requirements"
---
```

Codex documents that skills are available in the Codex CLI, IDE extension, and Codex App. It also documents two activation paths: explicit invocation and implicit invocation. The implicit path depends on matching the user's task against the ski

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/1341) · 2026-06-04 · closed · external user · 8 comments

### [Bug] bug(adapter): claude_code_adapter default max_turns=1 makes ouroboros_interview unusable

### Summary

  ouroboros.providers.claude_code_adapter.ClaudeCodeAdapter initialises with max_turns: int = 1 (line 125). The ouroboros_interview MCP tool uses the same adapter to drive a Socratic question generator, but generating a question requires the LLM to read context, optionally call a tool, and respond — which cannot fit in a single SDK turn. The very first call
  therefore returns an SDK error and no question is produced.

### Impact

- ooo interview Path A (MCP mode) cannot start a fr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/1163) · 2026-05-21 · closed · external user · 14 comments

### [Feature] Let ooo pm record uncertainty without forcing speculative answers

## Problem

`ooo pm` is intended to produce a human-readable PM/PRD handoff before the dev-oriented interview/Seed workflow. In practice, some PM interview questions can be broad, premature, or outside the current user's authority to answer.

When that happens, users may feel pressured to invent an answer just to keep the interview moving. That creates fake clarity: the generated PM document may look complete, while some fields are actually assumptions, stakeholder questions, or unresolved decis

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/1153) · 2026-05-20 · closed · outside contributor · 9 comments

### [Bug] Codex에서 official auto skill이 요구하는 ouroboros_auto MCP tool이 노출되지 않음

## 요약

  Codex CLI 환경에서 Ouroboros MCP 서버는 ouroboros_auto와 ouroboros_start_auto를 등록하지만, Codex 세션에
  서는 official auto skill이 요구하는 ouroboros_auto 도구를 사용할 수 없습니다.

  그 결과 ooo auto ... 명령이 official auto pipeline으로 dispatch되지 못하고, 필수 MCP tool을 찾지 못해 중
  단됩니다.

  ## 무엇이 고장났나요?

  Ouroboros Codex 통합에서 official auto skill과 실제 Codex MCP tool 노출 사이가 일치하지 않습니다.

  서버 측에서는 ouroboros_auto가 등록됩니다.

  ouroboros mcp info
  → ouroboros_auto
  → ouroboros_start_auto
  → ouroboros_interview
  → ouroboros_generate_s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/1045) · 2026-05-16 · closed · external user · 13 comments

### [Bug] ouroboros_interview: "Reached maximum number of turns (1)" raised as unhandled Exception (v0.36.0 + main HEAD)

## Summary

After applying PR #754 (`strict_mcp_config` fix) on top of v0.36.0, the recursion bug is gone but `ouroboros_interview` immediately fails with `Reached maximum number of turns (1)` raised as an unhandled `Exception` from `claude_agent_sdk._internal.query.receive_messages:852`.

The existing `error_max_turns` ResultMessage handling in `claude_code_adapter.py:854-886` / `_is_usable_max_turns_partial:1029` cannot catch this because the SDK raises the error as a generic `Exception` BEFOR

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/869) · 2026-05-11 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### Most recent

### verify_command mutation-digest ignore list omits Flutter/Dart build artifacts (build/, .dart_tool/) — deterministic false FABRICATION_SUSPECTED, .gitignore has no effect

## Summary

`ParallelACExecutor`'s workspace no-mutation digest (the same check fixed for
Python's `__pycache__` in #1736) still hardcodes a Python/Node-only ignore
list. For any Flutter/Dart project, running the toolchain at all
(`flutter build web`, `flutter test`, ...) always touches `build/` and
`.dart_tool/`, neither of which is excluded, so the acceptance digest
computed before/after `verify_command` never matches. Every AC whose
`verify_command` invokes the Flutter/Dart toolchain is rejec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2304) · 2026-08-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Execute-stage LLM roles inherit evaluation.semantic_model verbatim — heterogeneous runtime_profile.stages backends can receive a model id they cannot run

### Ouroboros version

0.51.17 (`ouroboros-ai` from PyPI)

### Summary

EXECUTE-stage LLM roles (`decomposition`, `atomicity`, `agent_runtime_implementation`) have no dedicated model field, so `get_llm_model_for_role()` falls through to `evaluation.semantic_model` (docstring: *"model resolution falls through to the evaluate model"*). The role's **backend**, however, comes from the EXECUTE-stage routing (`runtime_profile.stages.execute`, or the `llm.backend` fallback). When stages are routed to *

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2300) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 2 comments

### [Feature] Add OMP (Oh My Pi) as a runtime + LLM backend

### Problem

Ouroboros supports Pi (`pi`) as a runtime + LLM backend, but users of OMP (Oh My Pi, the `omp` CLI) — a Pi-family coding agent speaking the same JSON event protocol — cannot select their installed CLI as an execution or LLM backend. `ouroboros setup --runtime omp` and `ouroboros config backend omp` do not exist, and omp users must install a second agent CLI (pi) just to drive Ouroboros workflows.

### Why now

OMP v18 exposes a stable headless JSON surface (`omp --mode json`) with t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2298) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Codex artifact lifecycle: shared ownership, replay, and parent authority across publish/prune/uninstall

## Summary

Review of #2274 surfaced a class of findings that are real but sit outside that PR's declared boundary: they are properties of how `codex/artifacts.py` manages artifacts in shared directories, present on `main` today with #2274 reverted, and several of them live in files #2274 does not open. Per [CONTRIBUTING.md#five-question-review-rubric](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#five-question-review-rubric) (Q3 and Q4 yes, Q5 no) they belong in an owned follow-up 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2294) · 2026-08-28 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Make local environment diagnostics sanitize and probe the effective MCP launcher

## Problem\n\nThe local environment diagnostic harness must distinguish runtime failure from installation/configuration drift without copying credential-bearing MCP environment values into durable reports. It must resolve the effective Codex configuration from `CODEX_HOME` or the default Codex home and probe that configured launcher rather than a checkout-local fallback.\n\n## Acceptance criteria\n\n- Secret-valued configuration fields are redacted before Markdown or JSON serialization.\n- Effec

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2292) · 2026-08-28 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Codex setup does not preserve telemetry opt-out in generated configuration

## Environment

- Ouroboros 0.51.15
- Codex CLI 0.149.1
- Linux

## Reproduction

1. Run setup with DO_NOT_TRACK=1 and OUROBOROS_TELEMETRY=0 in the process environment.
2. Use the Codex non-interactive setup path.
3. Inspect the generated Ouroboros config and MCP environment.

## Actual result

The generated config contains telemetry.enabled: true, and the initially generated Codex MCP entry does not carry the telemetry opt-out variables. Subsequent MCP launches can therefore enable telemetry de

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2281) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Codex setup registers an unpinned ouroboros-ai MCP package

## Environment

- Ouroboros 0.51.15
- Codex CLI 0.149.1
- Linux

## Reproduction

1. Install the Ouroboros Codex plugin from the v0.51.15 marketplace tag.
2. Run: uvx --isolated --python '>=3.12' --from 'ouroboros-ai[mcp]==0.51.15' ouroboros setup --runtime codex --non-interactive
3. Inspect the generated Ouroboros MCP registration with: codex mcp get ouroboros --json

## Actual result

The generated MCP command uses --from ouroboros-ai[mcp] without a version constraint. A later Codex session ca

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Q00/ouroboros/issues/2280) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 1 comment

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for Ouroboros](/mcp/ouroboros/issues) — of 174 qualified upstream.

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