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rubber-duck MCP Server

Bridge to multiple LLMs and CLI agents: councils, debates, voting, and more

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Published as mcp-rubber-duck on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

52 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

duck_debate 'Failed to retrieve task' error + suggestions for filesystem access and fire-and-forget wrapper

Bug: duck_debate intermittently fails with "Failed to retrieve task: Task not found"

Description

duck_debate intermittently fails with MCP error -32602: Failed to retrieve task: Task not found. This occurs randomly — not related to prompt size or provider selection. When it fails, ALL subsequent tool calls (compare_ducks, ask_duck, etc.) also fail for ~50s (the MCP client's 3-retry cycle).

Root Cause (traced through source)

duck_debate is the only tool using `registerToolTask()

Read the thread · 2026-07-19 · closed · external user · 4 comments

🚀 Migrate to Bun Runtime

🚀 Migrate to Bun Runtime

Summary

Migrate MCP Rubber Duck from Node.js/npm to Bun as the primary runtime for faster builds, tests, and development experience.

Approach: Hybrid migration - Bun for runtime/build/test, Node.js for npm publish (due to missing provenance support and auth bugs in CI).

Motivation

  • Speed: Bun installs packages 20-40x faster than npm
  • Native TypeScript:

Read the thread · 2026-01-24 · open · 3 comments

feat: Duck Autopilot - Automatic task decomposition & workflows

🦆 Duck Enhancement Proposal

     __
   <(o )___
    ( ._> /   "Quack! Just tell me your goal, I'll handle the rest!"
     `---'

💡 The Problem

What problem would this feature solve?

Complex tasks currently require manual orchestration:

  • Users must decompose tasks into steps themselves
  • Manual selection of which duck/tool to use for each step
  • No automatic error recovery or replanning
  • Can't leverage the full power of multi-duck + MCP tools together

🚀 Proposed Soluti

Read the thread · 2026-01-08 · open · 3 comments

feat: Streamable HTTP transport support

🦆 Duck Enhancement Proposal

💡 The Problem

The server currently only supports stdio transport, limiting deployment to local processes launched by MCP clients. This prevents:

  • Remote/cloud deployment
  • Horizontal scaling
  • Web-based access
  • Future Server Cards support (requires HTTP)

🚀 Proposed Solution

Add Streamable HTTP transport alongside existing stdio transport.

Benefits:

  • Deploy as a standalone HTTP service
  • Support multiple concurrent clients
  • Enable cloud/container

Read the thread · 2026-02-05 · open · 2 comments

feat: Add human-readable title to all tools

🦆 Duck Enhancement Proposal

💡 The Problem

Tools only have name and description fields. The MCP spec now supports a title field for human-readable display names, which improves UI presentation in clients.

🚀 Proposed Solution

Add title field to all tool definitions for better UX in MCP clients.

Example:

this.server.tool('duck_council', {
  title: 'Duck Council',
  description: 'Convene multiple ducks to discuss a topic and reach consensus',
  // ...
})

Read the thread · 2026-02-05 · closed · 2 comments

Most recent

duck_council: add a synthesis-only output mode (return the final report, not every duck's response)

Motivated by the "fire-and-forget wrapper" suggestion in #127.

duck_council currently returns every duck's full verbose response. When an agent offloads a whole council workflow, all of that lands in the caller's context.

Ask

Add a synthesis-only output mode (or a verbosity flag) to duck_council — return just the final synthesized report instead of each duck's full answer. Optionally a mode: full | synthesis param, defaulting to current behavior for back-compat.

Why this

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · open · 1 comment

Docs: read-only filesystem MCP Bridge recipe (+ trusted-tools-gates-calls-not-tools caveat)

Requested in #127: give ducks read-only file access (source, configs, PDFs) during code review without manual copy-paste.

This already works today via the MCP Bridge — no code change needed. Any third-party filesystem MCP server plugs in through the existing env vars:

MCP_SERVER_FS_TYPE: stdio
MCP_SERVER_FS_COMMAND: npx
MCP_SERVER_FS_ARGS: -y,@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem,/path/to/allowed/dir
MCP_SERVER_FS_ENABLED: 'true'
MCP_TRUSTED_TOOLS_FS: '*'

Ask

Add a documente

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 1 comment

MCP Bridge: global MCP_TRUSTED_TOOLS='*' ignored + server-name derivation can force approval prompts

Surfaced while investigating #127 (fixed in v1.20.1). The MCP_APPROVAL_MODE=trusted + MCP_TRUSTED_TOOLS_*='*' bypass works for the common per-server case, but two real edge cases can still force an approval prompt. MCP_APPROVAL_MODE=never is a working workaround meanwhile.

1. Global MCP_TRUSTED_TOOLS='*' is silently ignored

  • src/config/config.ts parses MCP_TRUSTED_TOOLS='*' into a literal Set(['*']).
  • But the global fallback branch in src/services/function-bridge.ts c

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · open · 1 comment

feat: duck_check — cross-vendor GO/BLOCK/ASK-HUMAN action gate for agents

🦆 Duck Enhancement Proposal

     __
   <(o )___
    ( ._> /   "Quack! Before you run that migration... let me get a second opinion."
     `---'

💡 The Problem

What problem would this feature solve?

When a coding agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Codex) is about to take a risky action — apply a diff, run a DB migration, execute a shell command, delete files — there is no cheap, cross-vendor "second opinion gate" it can consult before executing.

A single-model self-check is

Read the thread · 2026-06-09 · open · 1 comment

feat: duck_judge Panel — debiased multi-provider judging (position-bias swap, judge panel, agreement confidence, outputSchema)

🦆 Duck Enhancement Proposal

     __
   <(o )___
    ( ._> /   "I'll judge fairly... unless you put yourself first in the list."
     `---'

💡 The Problem

duck_judge exists to settle which duck gave the best answer — but today it does so with a single, position-biased, schema-less judge. That's exactly the part of the pipeline most vulnerable to silent, systematic error:

  1. One judge, no bias cancellation. The judge defaults to the first available provider (`src/tool

Read the thread · 2026-06-09 · open · 0 comments

feat: Server Card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)

Summary

Implement Server Card support per draft spec SEP-1649 for auto-discovery by clients and crawlers without establishing a connection.

Split from #100 (Registry publish is done).

References

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · open · 0 comments

feat: MCP Registry publish + Server Card

Summary

Remaining items from #97 — Registry listing and Server Card support.

Items

  • Publish to MCP Registry — namespace io.github.nesquikm/rubber-duck is ready. Use mcp-publisher CLI to list in the official registry.
  • Server Card (/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json) — #49. Draft spec (SEP-1649) for auto-discovery by clients and crawlers without establishing a connection.

References

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · closed · 1 comment

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