# preflight by newrelic-experimental MCP Server

New Relic MCP server for observing AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, etc.)

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled preflight by newrelic-experimental 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 `@newrelic/preflight` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "preflight-by-newrelic-experimental": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@newrelic/preflight"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**44 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Foolowed the installation instructions - no data appearing locally or in newrelic

Followed the install instructions - mode is both, newrelic licence and api key are correct-. dashboards installed with --all
restarted claude and it picked up newrelic-preflight mcp, but only 2 tools are available.

preflight setup states that claude will start server on 127.0.0.1:7777 - well irtt did not happen either.
started preflight with --local - server is up but no data is flowing to it.
claude hooks appear to be not firing
yet the /hooks command list those installed.
as a result no…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/6) · 2026-06-23 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### v1.4.34: registry manifest missing runtime deps (undici, hono, js-yaml) — fresh install crashes at startup

**Summary:** A fresh `npm install -g @newrelic/preflight@1.4.34` produces a broken installation: the CLI crashes at startup with `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for `undici`.

```
Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'undici' imported from /usr/lib/node_modules/@newrelic/preflight/dist/proxy/otlp-receiver.js
```

**Root cause:** The npm registry manifest (packument) for 1.4.34 does not match the `package.json` inside the published tarball. Three runtime dependencies are missing from the…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/189) · 2026-07-14 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### launchd dashboard daemon fails with "env: node: No such file or directory" (exit 127) on Homebrew-node setups

## Summary

After `preflight setup` with the always-on background dashboard enabled, the launchd agent `com.preflight.dashboard` crash-loops and the dashboard never serves persistently. The collector hooks still write event buffers, but nothing processes them — so the dashboard UI only ever shows the live session, and historical sessions never appear.

`launchctl list | grep preflight` shows last exit `127`, and `~/.newrelic-preflight/dashboard.log` is filled with:

```
env: node: No such file…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/13) · 2026-06-29 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Native Windows + cloud/both mode: no events are ever sent (NrIngestManager gated on !isProvisional; sync resolution lacks the cwd fallback) - metrics-only, fully silent

## Summary

On **native Windows**, a `mode: 'cloud'` / `mode: 'both'` install silently sends **no events at all** (`AiToolCall`, `AiMcpToolCall`, `AiCodingTask`, `AiAntiPattern`, …). Metrics arrive fine, so the integration looks healthy — logs show `Sent metrics to NR` on schedule, no errors, no warnings — but every NRQL query against the event types returns 0 rows, forever.

Root cause: the `--stdio` MCP's **synchronous** session-id resolution has no cwd-breadcrumb fallback, so on native…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/320) · 2026-07-31 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### WSL2 (Linux CC): session_id never resolves via official hook alone; harvest scheduler never sends to New Relic even after fixing that

## Environment

- WSL2 (Ubuntu), Claude Code installed via npm inside WSL (Linux CC, not the Windows desktop app) — `platformTarget: wsl-linux-cc`
- Shell: fish
- `@newrelic/preflight` 1.0.5 and 1.0.6 (reproduced on both)
- Tried both manual config and official `preflight install --linux-cc --license-key ... --account-id ...`

## Bug A: session_id never resolves with the official hook alone

With only the installed hook command present (`preflight-collector pre-tool` / `post-tool`),…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/17) · 2026-07-02 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Most recent

### GitHub Copilot hooks file uses Claude Code's nested JSON shape, so Copilot's hooks-runner never executes any hook

### Summary

The Copilot hooks file generated by the installer (`generateCopilotHooksFile()` in `src/install/cli.ts`) uses Claude Code's nested settings.json hook shape:

```json
"PreToolUse": [{ "matcher": "", "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "preflight-collector pre-tool" }] }]
```

GitHub Copilot's actual hooks schema is flat — each array entry is the command hook object directly:

```json
"PreToolUse": [{ "type": "command", "command": "preflight-collector pre-tool" }]
```

Both…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/586) · 2026-09-04 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Per-skill cost/tokens/duration exposed by nr_observe_get_cost_per_tool is not rendered anywhere

## Summary

#568 added `costBySkill` to `nr_observe_get_cost_per_tool` and threaded `skillName` onto `AiToolCall`, so per-skill cost, tokens, and duration are available from both the MCP tool and NRQL. Neither is surfaced anywhere a person would actually look:

- The local dashboard's Cost by Tool card still shows a single `Skill` bar — no breakdown by skill name.
- The shipped `ai-coding-assistant-team-view` NR dashboard still facets by `tool` only, so `code-review` and `security-review`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/583) · 2026-09-04 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Subagent (Task/Workflow) tool calls bypass AuditTrailManager entirely

## Problem

`SubagentWatcher` (`src/hooks/subagent-watcher.ts`) is the only mechanism that observes activity inside Task-tool or Workflow-tool spawned subagents. By its own doc comment, its purpose is narrowly scoped to closing a cost-accounting gap: it polls subagent transcripts and emits `mode: 'subagent_token'` records so subagent token usage reaches `CostTracker`. It never extracts or forwards the subagent's actual tool-call records (Bash, Edit, Write, etc).

As a result, nothing a subagent…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/578) · 2026-09-04 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Kiro sessions: session_id fails to resolve behind wrapped launchers, misdetected as generic-mcp, tool-map casing wrong

### Summary

Several related bugs affect Kiro (and potentially other launchers that wrap the MCP server process):

1. **`session_id` never resolves when a launcher interposes a process above the MCP server.** `npx` runs `npm exec`, which runs the server — so the server's `process.ppid` no longer matches the breadcrumb the hook collector wrote at its own ppid. Resolution silently fails while the MCP connection still reports healthy.
2. **Kiro sessions record as `platform: "generic-mcp"` instead…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/570) · 2026-09-03 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Release workflow's MCP Registry publish step fails: server.json description exceeds 100-char limit

## Problem

The `Release` workflow's "Publish to MCP Registry" step has been failing on every run since roughly 2026-09-02 16:29 UTC (the last success was at 02:10 UTC that day). `npm publish` itself succeeds every time — the package reaches npm fine — but the subsequent `mcp-publisher publish` step fails with:

```
Error: publish failed: server returned status 422:
{"title":"Unprocessable Entity","status":422,"detail":"validation failed",
 "errors":[{"message":"expected length <=…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/556) · 2026-09-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### OTLP SessionSpan mis-tags Claude Code sessions as generic-mcp (same root cause as #539)

## Problem

`SessionSpan`'s `ai.platform` attribute is set from `createDefaultRegistry().getActive().platformName` (`src/index.ts`, in the `if (config.otlp.transport !== 'nr-events-api')` branch at MCP server startup). This hits the same root cause as #539: `ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported()` checks env vars (`CLAUDE_CODE`/`CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION`/`MCP_CLIENT==='claude-code'`) that a real Claude Code process doesn't set (it sets `CLAUDECODE=1`/`CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID`/`CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/540) · 2026-09-01 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported() checks env vars that real Claude Code hook processes don't set

## Problem

`ClaudeCodeAdapter.isSupported()` (`src/platforms/claude-code-adapter.ts`) checks:

```ts
process.env.CLAUDE_CODE !== undefined ||
process.env.CLAUDE_CODE_VERSION !== undefined ||
process.env.MCP_CLIENT === 'claude-code'
```

None of these match the environment variables Claude Code's own CLI/hook processes actually set. A real Claude Code session sets `CLAUDECODE=1` (no underscore between CLAUDE and CODE), `CLAUDE_CODE_ENTRYPOINT`, and `CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID` — verified directly…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/newrelic-experimental/preflight/issues/539) · 2026-09-01 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for preflight by newrelic-experimental](/mcp/preflight-by-newrelic-experimental/issues) — of 44 qualified upstream.

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