# raxol MCP Server

Elixir/OTP runtime where every UI component auto-exposes MCP tools; stdio server: mix mcp.server

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

## Status

Pod has not dialled raxol 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

## Known issues

**8 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 5.

### Most discussed

### Harness runtime: adversarial review (integration/harness-endgame) — 2 HIGH + 4 MEDIUM

@merklebonsai — adversarial review of the harness runtime on `integration/harness-endgame`, plus the architecture mental model (folded at the bottom) so the atomic-PR chunks read in context.

## Scope (stated honestly)

The branch is 838 files / +89k/−60k, mostly the Surface→TEA migration churn. Three hostile personas (Saboteur / New Hire / Security Auditor) deep-read the ~25 files that carry the actual runtime substance — the tty/pump, the TEA fold + view, the input/keymap/click paths, the mark

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DROOdotFOO/raxol/issues/687) · 2026-07-22 · closed · 2 comments

### Accessibility: screen reader support across surfaces

## Summary

Add screen reader / assistive technology support across Raxol's rendering surfaces.

## Why this is tractable

The structured Component tree already carries `type`, `label`, and `state`
metadata on every Component. That is semantically richer than a pixel buffer,
so screen reader support is a serialization step on top of existing structure
rather than a redesign.

## Scope (to refine)

- Serialize the Component tree's existing semantic metadata to an
  accessibility surface (ARIA-equ

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DROOdotFOO/raxol/issues/305) · 2026-06-18 · open · 1 comment

### shell_jail_allow/1 accepts Sandbox.Shell.none(), reopening a jailed shell

`Raxol.Agent.Actions.Code.shell_jail_allow/1`
(`packages/raxol_agent/lib/raxol/agent/actions/code.ex:447`) decides whether a
jailed session may have the shell tool at all:

```elixir
sandboxed? =
  match?(%Raxol.Agent.Sandbox.Shell{}, Map.get(context, :shell_sandbox))

if jailed? and not sandboxed?,
  do: {:error, :shell_disabled_in_jail},
  else: :ok
```

The check is `match?` on the STRUCT TYPE, so it reads "a struct is present"
where it means "the struct restricts". `Raxol.Agent.Sandbox.Shell

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DROOdotFOO/raxol/issues/919) · 2026-08-27 · open · 0 comments

### MCP tools run with authorizer: nil in :mcp and :full modes

## Summary

`Raxol.Application` starts the MCP supervisor with an empty opts list, so every
MCP tool runs with `authorizer: nil` in both the `:mcp` and `:full` startup
modes. The authorization seam is fully built and wired -- it is simply never
engaged.

This came out of an adversarial review of the open PR queue. The specific
arbitrary-code-execution path it was found through (`raxol_start`'s `"path"`
argument) is being closed separately by confining that path to a configured
root. This issue i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DROOdotFOO/raxol/issues/907) · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

### Enforce agent tool context (authorizer/hooks/owner/in_cron) over the native MCP tool path

## Summary (research / low priority)

Native (vendor-owns-loop) backends -- `handles_tools_internally? == true`,
e.g. `Backend.ClaudeCode` / `Backend.Cursor` -- run their own tool loop and
execute Raxol Actions **out-of-process over MCP** (`native_react/1` in
`Raxol.Agent.Stream`, tools injected via `Harness.McpToolConfig`). On that path
the framework cannot thread run **context** into tool execution:

- `context[:tool_authorizer]` (the `ToolPolicy` that denies `sensitive: true`
  fund-mover Act

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DROOdotFOO/raxol/issues/726) · 2026-07-25 · open · 0 comments

[See all 8 reports Pod holds for raxol](/mcp/raxol/issues).

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