# RoastPilot MCP Server

RoastPilot controls coffee roasting sessions through local stdio MCP tools and exports logs.

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

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `coffee-roaster-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**96 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

### E7-S4: Run Warp manual Hottop MCP control validation

## Goal
Validate operator-controlled Hottop hardware use through Warp and the RoastPilot MCP tools. This is a manual device-control story: the operator remains in control of every hardware-affecting action.

## Safety boundary
- Use Warp only as the MCP client surface.
- The operator must explicitly approve each hardware-affecting tool call before it runs.
- No autonomous heat, fan, drop, cooling, or emergency-stop decisions.
- Keep a physical stop plan ready before connecting.
- Stop immediatel

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/59) · 2026-05-03 · closed · 16 comments

### E7-S3: Test Warp MCP client connection

## Goal
Validate `coffee-roaster-mcp` from Warp as a real local MCP client using the mock-safe path. This story proves Warp can configure, start, discover, and call the RoastPilot stdio MCP server before any hardware-control validation.

## Scope
- Use Warp desktop MCP server configuration for a local CLI/stdio server.
- Configure the server with an explicit working directory and a mock-safe config.
- Keep roaster driver `mock` and first-crack mode `disabled` unless this issue is explicitly upda

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/58) · 2026-05-03 · closed · 6 comments

### E7-S5a: Test MCP first-crack detection with labelled WAV replay

## Goal
Validate the RoastPilot MCP first-crack runtime with a mock roaster and prerecorded labelled audio from the `coffee-first-crack-detection` evaluation data. This closes the current test gap between mock roaster MCP validation and full real-roast/audio validation.

## Scope
- Use the mock roaster driver, not Hottop hardware.
- Run `first_crack.mode: audio` against a prerecorded labelled WAV source.
- Use a labelled evaluation source from a local `coffee-first-crack-detection` checkout dire

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/141) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 4 comments

### E7-S6: Run end-to-end agent roast validation with HF ONNX audio path

## Goal
Prove the current RoastPilot release candidate can be handed to Warp as the MCP
client for a supervised manual roast using configured Hottop hardware, automatic
T0 detection, released Hugging Face ONNX first-crack inference, sliding-window
detector confirmation, and a real laptop USB microphone.

This is the first real microphone validation story. Treat microphone setup,
detector status, detector confirmation metadata, and Hottop operator approvals
as first-class evidence, not incidental

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/112) · 2026-05-18 · closed · 4 comments

### E7-S6a: Align MCP first-crack detector with sliding-window validation

## Goal
Align RoastPilot's MCP first-crack runtime with the detector behavior used by the `coffee-first-crack-detection` training/inference repo before the full E7-S6 manual Warp roast.

E7-S5a proved the released ONNX model can fire through public MCP tools, but the current MCP runtime uses non-overlapping detector windows and records first crack at the inferred window end. With the labelled replay fixture, this detects around `20.017s` after T0 for a label interval that starts at `3.827s` and 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/150) · 2026-05-25 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### docs: publish current live-roast status and complete README surface

## Goal

Bring the README and published package description up to date after the August 2026 RoastPilot hardware runs.

## Scope

- Add a dated, privacy-safe evidence report derived from the live RoastPilot authority ledger, MCP exports, ambient readings, and dual-microphone capture manifests.
- Update the README status without replacing the June 7 baseline evidence.
- Document the released recording, microphone observability, ambient-sensor, and recording-metadata surfaces that the README curre

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/204) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### Fix PyPI Core Metadata 2.5 publishing for v0.1.15

## Problem

The v0.1.14 tag workflow built and smoke-tested the package successfully, but `Publish PyPI` failed before upload:

```text
InvalidDistribution: Invalid distribution metadata: '2.5' is not a valid metadata version
```

Hatchling emitted Core Metadata 2.5. The workflow pins `pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish` at `cef221092ed1bacb1cc03d23a2d87d1d172e277b` from February 2026. Upstream v1.14.2 explicitly adds Metadata 2.5 upload support through Twine 7.

## Scope

- Pin `pypa/gh-action-pypi-pu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/202) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### Publish corrected component-scope metadata to PyPI and MCP Registry

## Problem

PR #198 corrected the source package description and keywords, but production PyPI 0.1.13 is immutable and still describes autonomous coffee roasting. The MCP Registry also remains pinned to the published package version.

## Scope

Prepare and publish a metadata-only 0.1.14 release from the corrected origin/main source. Align the package version, server.json version, package entry version, version test, and release changelog. Do not change runtime or hardware-control behaviour.

## 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/200) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### Yocto-Meteo sentinel check uses ==, so a NaN reading passes through as a real measurement

Found while closing out the agent-side ambient guards (roastpilot-agent#752 / #758). Verified
against installed **0.1.13**.

## The defect

`YoctoMeteoAmbientReader._current_value` (`coffee_roaster_mcp/ambient.py:177-182`):

```python
def _current_value(self, sensor: Any, *, label: str) -> float:
    value = sensor.get_currentValue()
    invalid = getattr(sensor, "CURRENTVALUE_INVALID", None)
    if invalid is not None and value == invalid:
        raise AmbientReaderError(f"Yocto-Meteo {label} 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/199) · 2026-08-11 · open · 0 comments

### Replace autonomous-roasting package description with precise MCP scope

## Problem

The package metadata describes coffee-roaster-mcp as supporting "autonomous coffee roasting". That wording is broader than the component's actual responsibility and conflicts with RoastPilot's public accuracy boundary: the MCP server exposes telemetry and controlled actuation, while the controller owns the loop and the language model is advisory-only.

## Single-PR plan

Update the package description in `pyproject.toml` to describe coffee-roaster telemetry and controlled actuation w

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/197) · 2026-08-10 · closed · 0 comments

### Expose a short-window RoR field in RoastSessionState (enabler for corrected affordability-class control laws)

## Motivation (from roastpilot-agent D95 — the falsified D94 affordability law)

The agent's post-FC control experiments need a less-lagged rate-of-rise reading than the current `bean_ror_c_per_min` (a 60 s-window delta — verified identical to `bean_temp_delta_60s_c`). During the D94 falsification analysis, a corrected control law was found to be UNCONSTRUCTIBLE purely because no shorter-window RoR exists at the decision instant: the 60 s window lags the true rate by enough that engagement-time 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/196) · 2026-07-15 · open · 0 comments

### audio: sustained input-overflow streaks during live roasts on an M-series Mac — Pi 5 headroom risk (E11 gate)

## Observed (12 Jul, roast 14 live, dual-mic recording + int8 FC inference)

Sustained overflow streaks for minutes at a time, repeatedly climbing to 15
consecutive before brief resets (log excerpt below). This is on an M-series Mac
— the E11 target is a Raspberry Pi 5, with a fraction of the CPU headroom, and
the fatal threshold (`_DEFAULT_MAX_CONSECUTIVE_OVERFLOWS = 30`, audio.py:418)
is only 2× the streaks we already hit. On the Pi this plausibly crosses 30 and
raises `AudioCaptureError` mid-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/syamaner/coffee-roaster-mcp/issues/190) · 2026-07-12 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for RoastPilot](/mcp/roastpilot/issues) — of 96 qualified upstream.

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