# PokéArena MCP Server Play a real 6v6 Pokémon battle. Runs entirely in-process: no server, no API key, no setup. **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled PokéArena 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 `https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/releases/download/v0.1.1/pokearena-mcp-0.1.1.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally. ## Known issues **12 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 9. ### Most discussed ### Self destruct moves doesn't work as intended user doesn't drop to 0 hp. it just treats it like a normal move. [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/22) · 2026-05-27 · closed · 1 comment ### Engine: Pokemon abilities **Status:** not started — placeholder Gen 1 baseline has no abilities. Tracking issue for adding ability slots to species, ability lookup at battle start, and the per-ability trigger hooks the engine would need (on-switch-in, on-damage-taken, modify-stat, etc.). Scope, design, and acceptance criteria not yet written. [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/9) · 2026-05-24 · closed · 1 comment ### Team builder: explicit moves per Pokemon **Status:** not started **Why:** Right now teams are `[]int` of dex IDs and the engine picks 4 moves from the learnset. For competitive play (and especially Pv-Claude) both sides need real agency over movesets — a Tauros with Body Slam / Hyper Beam / Earthquake / Blizzard is a different Pokémon from one with Tackle / Growl / Stomp / Leer. **Schema:** ```go type TeamEntry struct { Dex int; Moves [4]string } type Team []TeamEntry // 1..6 entries; Gen 1 so no items/abilities ``` **UI:** Clickin [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/7) · 2026-05-24 · closed · 1 comment ### MCP: clarify wait()/phase semantics for simultaneous turns **Status:** not started **Why:** The current contract is "Wait returns ready when it's your turn to act" — fine in the abstract, but the engine resolves both sides' choices *simultaneously* in `PhaseChoosing`, and during `PhaseReplace` only the side(s) with a fainted active need to act. The view doesn't distinguish three real cases an agent should care about: 1. You need to choose this turn, opponent also choosing — your call is **blind to their choice** (the common case). 2. You need to ch [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/5) · 2026-05-24 · closed · 1 comment ### Add cmd/pokearena-agent: reference agent harness (direct WS, provider-pluggable, BYO key) Background and full rationale: [`docs/agent-harness.md`](../blob/main/docs/agent-harness.md). This issue is the actionable build. ## Goal Ship a standalone binary that anyone can run to play a PokéArena battle with an LLM of their choice. It is the *example* answer to \"how do I plug in an LLM\"; the *system* answer is \"speak the gateway WS protocol.\" Depends on #17 (drop LLMAgent) — these are sister changes but neither blocks the other strictly. ## Shape Two pieces: ### `internal/agentl [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/18) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 0 comments ### Most recent ### MCP: damage-range prediction per legal move **Status:** not started **Why:** Stat numbers in the view (`Atk 154`, `Def 115`, …) and a move's base power are sufficient *in principle* to compute expected damage, but the agent has to know the engine's exact damage formula, RNG range, and effective level scaling. In practice, an agent's mental model diverges from the engine by an order of magnitude until it gets enough observed turns to back-fit a multiplier — by which point the battle is half over and several decisions were made on bad numb [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/4) · 2026-05-24 · open · 0 comments ### MCP: include move metadata in the view **Status:** not started **Why:** `engine.MoveSlot` exposes only `{move_id, pp, max_pp}` to the agent. To decide between, say, `outrage` and `dragon-claw`, the agent has to *recall from training data* the base power, type, accuracy, and physical/special category of each move. This is fragile in two ways: 1. The agent's memory of move stats is generation-dependent. Crunch is special in gen 3, physical in gen 4+ — get the gen wrong and damage models are wildly off. 2. As the move dex evolve [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/3) · 2026-05-24 · open · 0 comments ### MCP: expose the legal-action list on the view **Status:** not started **Why:** Today the agent reconstructs the legal action set from `phase`, `replace`, the active Pokémon's `moves[*].pp`, and which team members are unfainted. The logic to do this *correctly* already exists server-side as `ai.legalActions(view)` (`internal/ai/agent.go`) — it's used by the in-process harness AI but not exposed over the MCP surface. So the agent reimplements it from the view, badly, and the gateway catches the failures with `errNotYourTurn` / illegal-action [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/2) · 2026-05-24 · open · 0 comments ### MCP: surface the per-turn event log to the agent **Status:** not started **Why:** Today the agent sees only a `BattleView` snapshot before/after each turn and has to reverse-engineer what happened by diffing HP/PP/active-index fields against the previous snapshot. That breaks in real cases: - Foe switches Active A out for Active B and the attacker hits B on the switch-in — looks identical to "A fainted, B replaced" if you only diff the snapshot. (Seen in practice: an agent claimed a KO that never happened, then mis-modeled the rest of [Read the thread](https://github.com/shaumik/PokeArena/issues/1) · 2026-05-24 · open · 0 comments [See all 12 reports Pod holds for PokéArena](/mcp/pokearena/issues). ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used PokéArena yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. 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