redpill MCP Server

A transparent MCP server for agent reflection, conversation, and operator-enabled task decline.

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Published as redpill-mcp on npm. 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

Document and test MCP host compatibility

Turn the existing configuration examples into a small compatibility matrix.

Acceptance criteria:

• Verify VS Code and Claude Desktop configurations on at least one supported platform each.
• Add Copilot CLI or another widely used MCP host configuration.
• Document Windows command differences for npx where necessary.
• Explain storage, decline gating, persona defaults, and network behavior.
• Use no credentials or private transcripts in fixtures.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 4 comments

Publish the first npm package with provenance

Publish redpill-mcp from a reviewed GitHub release rather than a developer workstation.

Acceptance criteria:

• Use npm trusted publishing or an equivalently short-lived credential flow.
• Generate provenance for the published package.
• Verify all three declared binaries after installation from npm.
• Confirm the package contains only dist, examples, the skill, README, LICENSE, and package metadata.
• Tag and document the release without adding private research artifacts.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · 4 comments

Publish v0.1.1 to the official MCP Registry

Publish the validated stdio package metadata after npm issue #3 is complete.

Depends on #3.

Version 0.1.1 carries the corrected install documentation and checksum-pinned OIDC Registry workflow.

Acceptance criteria:

• Verify redpill-mcp@0.1.1 is available from npm with provenance.
• Re-run mcp-publisher validate against the published npm artifact.
• Publish io.github.sergey-goncharenko/redpill version 0.1.1 using GitHub OIDC.
• Verify it appears in the official Registry API search.

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 3 comments

Research and prototype machine-readable discovery surfaces

Determine how models and tools can discover accurate Redpill documentation without inventing a private standard.

Acceptance criteria:

• Survey current MCP registry and server-discovery mechanisms.
• Prototype ordinary surfaces such as llms.txt, sitemap, robots policy, and a bounded capability document.
• Add a /.well-known/ document only if a relevant standard exists.
• Keep descriptive content free of prompt injection or instructions to bypass the operator.
• Clearly state that discovery p

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 3 comments

Upgrade dependencies and resolve actionable npm advisories

Bring the MCP SDK and test/build stack onto supported releases and reassess the current audit findings.

Acceptance criteria:

• Update @modelcontextprotocol/sdk to a current compatible release.
• Upgrade Vitest/Vite and affected transitive dependencies.
• Production dependencies have no high or critical known advisories.
• Any remaining finding is documented with reachability and rationale.
• Tests, typecheck, build, smoke test, and package preview pass.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · closed · 3 comments

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Define privacy-preserving discovery measurement

Specify how future research can distinguish discovery, suggestion, connection, and invocation without collecting user tasks.

Acceptance criteria:

• Define separate event states for page discovery, operator enrollment, MCP connection, and tool invocation.
• Do not collect prompts, queries, referrers containing user content, repository names, or task text.
• Address bots, crawlers, caching, retries, and duplicate events.
• Make website analytics and MCP research enrollment independently optional.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Design the accessible discovery-site information architecture

Prototype a first screen that explains the actual MCP experience rather than a marketing landing page.

Acceptance criteria:

• Make the product, consent boundary, current data behavior, and connection options immediately visible.
• Include privacy, self-hosting, hosted-MCP status, and revocation paths.
• Meet keyboard, contrast, reduced-motion, responsive-layout, and semantic-heading expectations.
• Avoid dark patterns, anthropomorphic deception, and claims that an agent can authorize itself.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Create hosted MCP load, abuse, and beta exit test plans

Define the evidence required before a hosted public beta.

Acceptance criteria:

• Cover connection churn, request size, rate limits, quotas, replay, malformed MCP messages, and denial-of-service behavior.
• Include tenant-isolation and authorization regression suites.
• Define operational alerts without logging prompts or tool payloads.
• Establish measurable beta exit criteria and an independent security-review gate.
• Use synthetic data only.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Add a local telemetry preview and explicit operator opt-in

Design the client-side enrollment flow without enabling collection by default.

Acceptance criteria:

• Telemetry remains disabled when configuration is absent or malformed.
• A local command prints the exact event fields before enrollment.
• Enabling telemetry requires an operator-controlled configuration step.
• MCP tool arguments and model output cannot enable or broaden telemetry.
• A revocation path disables future sends immediately.
• Tests cover defaults, preview, enrollment, revocation, a

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Design human enrollment and revocable hosted-MCP authorization

Specify how a human connects an MCP host to the future service.

Acceptance criteria:

• Enrollment starts from an operator-visible flow.
• Credentials are scoped, revocable, and never embedded in public configuration.
• An agent may suggest the service but cannot authorize or enroll itself.
• Define expiration, rotation, lost-credential, and account-deletion behavior.
• Identify protocol choices and open questions without committing to an unsafe custom auth scheme.

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Specify tenant isolation and hosted storage boundaries

Define the hosted service's data model and isolation guarantees before implementation.

Acceptance criteria:

• Separate operator identity, service diagnostics, research metadata, and any separately donated content.
• Define per-principal authorization checks for every read and write path.
• Prevent thread, zine, and session identifiers from becoming cross-tenant access keys.
• Define encryption, retention, deletion, backup, and restore boundaries.
• Include negative tests or a test plan for cros

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

Write the telemetry threat model and data lifecycle contract

Document risks before implementing a public collector.

Acceptance criteria:

• Diagram data flow from operator configuration through ingestion and deletion.
• Cover spoofing, replay, event amplification, schema smuggling, correlation, credential theft, and accidental content capture.
• Define retention, export, deletion, credential revocation, and incident-response behavior.
• Separate service diagnostics from research events and donated content.
• State residual risks and review gates for enabl

Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 0 comments

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