shaft-mcp MCP Server
SHAFT browser automation, capture, and offline deterministic failure diagnosis
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Published as ghcr.io/shafthq/shaft-engine-mcp:10.3.20260826 on oci. Runs locally.
Known issues
239 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
Tracking: restore local ChaosEngine health and harden installer
Tracking
- #5352 installer reliability (Python 3.11, MCP cwd, durable marketplace, stale cleanup, doctor probes)
- Phase 2 local installation recovery (after #5352 merge)
- #5353 installer UX (whole-install ETA, stalled transfer, success CTA, JSON stdout, next-session readiness)
- Phase 4 final proof, recovery report, Learning Session
Owner-selected validation: balanced. Terminal adversarial review: enabled, max two rounds. One writer at a time. Second issue starts from merg
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 8 comments
Tracking: First-class Grok support in SHAFT MCP installer, CLI, IntelliJ plugin, and Autobot
Tracking
- #5100 Installer target grok + contract lock (Phase 1)
- #5101 IntelliJ Assistant route + setup (Phase 2) — PR #5110
- #5102 Autobot / LocalAgent GROK (Phase 3) — PR #5111
- #5103 shaft_project_init_agents loop grok (Phase 4) — PR #5113
- #5104 Remaining enumerations + companion docs (Phase 5) — docs PR ShaftHQ/shafthq.github.io#987
Close this tracker only when Phases 1-5 are on main and the docs PR is opened.
Objective
Make Grok (Grok Build TUI and th
Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments
Ship a portable ChaosEngine runtime in the act-as-mohab plugin
Related to #4726.
Ship the canonical ChaosEngine repository operations as a deterministic, client-neutral runtime inside the portable act-as-mohab Agent Plugin. The archive must run from any repository without embedding a SHAFT checkout path.
Acceptance summary:
- Assemble
bin/act-as-mohab.pyzfrom tracked canonical modules only. - Add plugin-root
.mcp.json; the Codex manifest references it as./.mcp.json. - Expose
repository-context,watch-pr-checks,checkpoint-status, andmcp
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · outside contributor · 8 comments
[Feature Request]: Agent Plugin Development
Decision summary Adopt the Agent Plugins v1.0.0 package format as the portability floor. Build two independently versioned, skills-first packages: 1. act-as-mohab — the maintainer workflow plugin, owned with the canonical harness. 2. shaft-skills — the SHAFT test-authoring/user plugin, owned with SHAFT-facing guidance. Keep the portable core small and client-neutral. Preserve host lifecycle hooks, trust configuration, installers, user-local secrets, caches, and UI behavior as explicit
Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · outside contributor · 5 comments
Automated, source-controlled IntelliJ+SHAFT capture demo recording (headed, AI-driven)
Goal
A repeatable, source-controlled procedure (and the AI-driven tooling to execute it) for recording a real, headed demo of SHAFT's IntelliJ plugin capture/codegen workflow:
- Launch a sandboxed IntelliJ instance (
shaft-intellijviagradlew runIde) with a simple, resettable Selenium+TestNG demo project open. - Install/verify the SHAFT plugin's setup flow (runtime + shaft-mcp + skills), including the "optional upgrade to use SHAFT" step.
- Ask the plugin's Assistant to start a
Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · outside contributor · 11 comments
Most recent
Create correlated redactable execution evidence bundles
User Scenarios & Testing
Given a failed local or CI test, a developer can open one correlated evidence bundle containing bounded browser, framework, network, console, screenshot, and agent-action context without exposing credentials or unrelated data.
Edge Cases
Secret-bearing headers, request bodies, PII, oversized artifacts, successful runs, partial capture, unsupported browsers, retention expiry, and cross-machine replay must be explicit.
Functional Requirements
- FR-1: Define o
Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments
Add a governed agentic test workflow
User Scenarios & Testing
Given a deterministic seed and requested user journey, an agent can plan, generate, run, diagnose, and propose a test change through bounded, inspectable phases.
Edge Cases
Prompt injection, untrusted page content, credentials, destructive browser actions, runaway retries, inconsistent seeds, unavailable tools, and model disagreement must fail closed.
Functional Requirements
- FR-1: Separate planner, generator, runner, diagnoser, and proposal responsibiliti
Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment
Expose IntelliJ agent readiness and trust context
Subtask of #5437.
Enhance the existing agent picker and summary using only current settings/provider metadata. Show readiness/authentication state plus agent, mode, access, and attached context. Keep advanced controls behind Run settings at narrow widths.
Acceptance: unknown facts say Not configured; mutation approval and external-provider/access context remain explicit; focused layout and settings tests pass.
Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
[Feature Request]: Deploy on dockhold option
Proposal
Hi! I noticed SHAFT MCP already supports remote deployment through Render, Fly.io and Smithery.
I'm building Dockhold, an EU-hosted PaaS focused heavily on always-on services and remote MCP servers. It handles the deployment, HTTPS and restarts, and apps don't sleep between MCP calls.
Dockhold: https://dockhold.eu Docs: https://dockhold.eu/docs
SHAFT MCP looks like a really good fit. Would you be open to me sending a small PR adding Dockhold as another deployment option?
Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · open · external user · 0 comments
Memory schema rejects canonical objects (facets, scope, type)
Problem
python3 .chaos-engine/tool.py memory check and the shaft-memory MCP query fail with MemorySchemaValidationFailed. Ordinary Memory search/save is unusable.
Evidence
Observed 2026-08-26 on checkout bcdef992 (dirty ChaosEngine/fix-codex-hook-json). Representative errors:
.memory/memory/architecture.json/facets: additional property not allowed.memory/memory/architecture.json/scope: additional property not allowed.memory/memory/architecture.json/type:
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
Recover managed runtimes and Memory MCP initialization
Subtask of #5395.
Scope
Make installer diagnostics identify sealed-generation executable drift, atomically replace unhealthy generations without weakening integrity, remove duplicate MCP registrations, and prove real initialize/initialized/tools-list exchange with protocol-clean stdout.
Delivery
Implemented sequentially in the grouped draft pull request.
Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
ChaosEngine installer: add idempotency, preservation, MCP, and live acceptance coverage
Subtask of #5362. Depends on every implementation child.
Objective
Provide consolidated regression and live acceptance proving upstream-native installation is idempotent, preserves user data/configuration, and starts all required MCPs and hooks in a fresh client session.
Required automated coverage
- Resolver: stable selection, prerelease/yanked rejection, compatibility, offline reuse, corrupt executable, missing sibling command, and action classification.
- Platforms: apt, dnf, Wind
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
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