# Rails AI Context MCP Server

45 MCP tools give AI agents live Rails schema, routes, models, and conventions.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/releases/download/v5.24.0/rails-ai-context-mcp.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**16 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

### CLI tool runner breaks with mcp 0.20.0: undefined method schema on InputSchema

## Summary

`rails-ai-context` v5.11.1 allows `mcp >= 0.8, < 2.0`, so Bundler can resolve to `mcp` v0.20.0. With that combination, `rails-ai-context tool ...` can fail before invoking the tool because the CLI runner calls `InputSchema#schema`, which no longer exists in `mcp` v0.20.0.

Pinning `mcp` to v0.19.0 makes the same command work again.

## Environment

- Ruby: 4.0.5
- Rails: 8.1.3
- rails-ai-context: 5.11.1
- Broken mcp version: 0.20.0
- Working mcp version: 0.19.0
- Mode: CLI-only

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/85) · 2026-06-15 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### MCP error -32600: Tool rails_get_context has an output schema but did not return structured content

### What happened?

```
rails_get_context (MCP: rails-ai-context) · model: "Location", include: [4 items]
  └ MCP server 'rails-ai-context': McpError: MCP error -32600: Tool rails_get_context has an output schema but did not
    return structured content

✗ rails_analyze_feature (MCP: rails-ai-context) · feature: "location"
  └ MCP server 'rails-ai-context': McpError: MCP error -32600: Tool rails_analyze_feature has an output schema but did not
    return structured content

✗ rails_search_code 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/69) · 2026-04-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### rails-ai-context init records tool_mode where no in-app surface reads it

\`rails-ai-context init\` inside a Gemfile app records \`tool_mode\` only into \`.rails-ai-context.yml\` (exe/rails-ai-context:471-479, via \`extra_yaml\`). \`SelectionRecord.write_initializer\` (lib/rails_ai_context/install/selection_record.rb:191-217) handles the \`ai_tools\` line and nothing else, and in-Gemfile surfaces never load the YAML (see the re-prompt issue). The recorded mode is inert.

**Mechanism**

Two stores for the selection, one writer that only knows half the keys, and a reade

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/148) · 2026-08-16 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP edge: one error frame, one transport factory

## Parent

Part of #109.

## What to build

The three JSON-RPC error-frame copies and the two mutex-guarded transport constructions become one shared builder and one factory. The engine controller keeps its streaming, flush and header behavior untouched.

## Acceptance criteria

- [ ] One module builds the internal-error frame; the standalone rack app, the middleware and the engine controller consume it; both "Mirror" comments are gone.
- [ ] One factory constructs the transport under one memoiz

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/118) · 2026-08-10 · closed · 1 comment

### rails_query always fails on MySQL: "Transaction characteristics can't be changed while a transaction is in progress" (SET TRANSACTION READ ONLY inside conn.transaction)

## Summary

On MySQL with recent Rails, every `rails_query` call fails with:

```
SQL error: Mysql2::Error: Transaction characteristics can't be changed while a transaction is in progress
```

This affects plain queries and `explain: true` (which routes through the same wrapper). The error message misleads agents into diagnosing a "stuck transaction" and restarting the MCP server, which doesn't help — the failure is deterministic.

## Environment

- rails-ai-context 5.12.0
- Rails 8.1.3, Ruby 3.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/89) · 2026-07-09 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### `serve --transport http` inherits the app's Puma cluster config, so about half of all requests answer "Session not found"

Against Mastodon, with a valid `Mcp-Session-Id` echoed from `initialize`:

```
$ curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:6041/mcp -H "Mcp-Session-Id: 20c53b43-..." \
    -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}'
{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":null,"error":{"code":-32600,"message":"Session not found"}}
```

Retrying the identical request with the identical session id succeeds. Which requests fail is random. Over 20 sequential `tools/list` calls on one session: **9 succeeded, 11 answered "Session not found

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/123) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: Add OpenAI Codex support (serializer, install path, MCP config)

## Summary

Add OpenAI Codex as a supported AI tool alongside Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and OpenCode.

[OpenAI Codex](https://github.com/openai/codex) is an open-source (Apache 2.0) CLI coding agent by OpenAI with **73k+ GitHub stars**. It has first-class MCP support and uses `AGENTS.md` as its primary context file — making integration with rails-ai-context straightforward.

## Research Findings (Verified)

### How Codex consumes context
- **Primary file:** `AGENTS.md` (same conventio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/51) · 2026-04-08 · closed · 1 comment

### Phase 3: Dynamic VFS & Live Resource Architecture

**Parent:** #36
**Depends on:** #37 (Phase 1), #38 (Phase 2)

## Goal

Eliminate stale files. Every MCP resource is introspected fresh in-memory on every request. Replace static file generation (Rake tasks, CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules, serializer file writers) with a live Virtual File System backed by Prism AST.

## Gems

| Gem | Role |
|-----|------|
| `mcp` | Official MCP Ruby SDK — tools, resources, resource templates, notifications (already present) |
| `listen` | File watcher → AST cache invali

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/39) · 2026-04-07 · closed · 1 comment

### Ground Truth Engine — Engineering Blueprint (v6.0)

## Ground Truth Engine — Engineering Blueprint

> Transform the gem from a **Static Context Provider** to a **Dynamic Intelligence Layer**.
> Constraint: deepen the existing 38 tools. No new tools added.

## Execution Order

```
Phase 1: Introspectors  →  Prism AST foundation
Phase 2: Tools          →  Semantic hydration layer
Phase 3: MCP/Resources  →  Dynamic VFS (official MCP SDK)
Phase 4: Serializers    →  Token-sniper compression
Phase 5: Doctor.rb      →  Executable diagnostics
```

## Eng

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/36) · 2026-04-07 · closed · 1 comment

### Add middleware error handling and markdown escaping for dynamic content

## Problem 1: Middleware crash

`middleware.rb` line 22: `transport.handle_request(request)` has no rescue. If the MCP transport raises, the exception propagates and crashes the Rails request pipeline. Same risk on line 33 during server initialization.

## Solution 1

Wrap MCP handling in `rescue => e`, return JSON-RPC 2.0 error response:

```ruby
rescue => e
  Rails.logger.error "[rails-ai-context] MCP request failed: #{e.class}: #{e.message}"
  json_rpc_error_response(e)  # Returns [500, heade

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/20) · 2026-04-04 · closed · 1 comment

### feat: rails_get_stimulus MCP tool — stimulus controller details

## Problem

1,107 lines of JS across 16 Stimulus controllers — completely invisible to current MCP tools. AI reads multiple JS files to understand existing frontend behavior.

## Proposed tool

```
rails_get_stimulus(detail: "summary")              → all controllers with targets/values/actions
rails_get_stimulus(controller: "filter_form")      → full detail for one controller
```

## Implementation

Already have `StimulusIntrospector` that extracts targets, values, actions, outlets, classes. Jus

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/8) · 2026-03-19 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: rails_get_view MCP tool — view templates, partials, layouts

## Problem

AI agents read 490+ lines of view files per feature task (index, show, new, partials, layout) because no MCP tool covers views. This is the biggest uncovered blind spot.

## Proposed tool

```
rails_get_view(controller: "cooks")                    → list all view files for controller
rails_get_view(path: "cooks/index")                    → full template content
rails_get_view(path: "cooks/index", detail: "summary") → structure: forms, partials used, stimulus controllers, CSS framewor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/crisnahine/rails-ai-context/issues/7) · 2026-03-19 · closed · 0 comments

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