SpecLeft MCP Server

Python intent tracing MCP: map specs to pytest tests, monitor implementation progress, offline-only.

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Published as specleft on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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

Documentation: language adapters guide (docs/language-adapters-guide.md)

Summary

Add docs/language-adapters-guide.md — a step-by-step guide for adding new language support (grammars, miners, framework detection) to the discovery pipeline.

Depends on: #124, #125, #126

Content

The guide has been drafted and committed to the repo. It covers:

1. Registering a new SupportedLanguage enum member
2. Adding the tree-sitter grammar package and loader
3. Extending FrameworkDetector for the new language
4. Creating miners (test functions, API routes) with `M

Read the thread · 2026-03-05 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

SpecLeft Skill

Skill File — .specleft/SKILL.md

Generated by specleft init. Contains the full CLI reference that agents read once from disk. This will replace MCP tool declarations with a single file read.

Target size: ~800 tokens

Structure:

# SpecLeft CLI Reference

## Workflow
1. specleft next → pick scenario
2. Implement test logic
3. specleft features validate → verify specs
4. pytest → run tests
5. Repeat

## Safety
- Always --dry-run before writing
- Never --force without us

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SpecLeft/specleft/issues/95) · 2026-02-15 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

### CLI Output Optimisation for Agent Context Efficiency

## Problem

Every CLI response enters the agent's context window and persists for the conversation. In a typical 12-scenario session with ~36 SpecLeft CLI calls, unoptimised responses accumulate ~10,800 tokens of JSON output — more than double the MCP declaration overhead. CLI response size is the largest controllable token cost in SpecLeft's footprint.

## Goal

Make SpecLeft the most context-efficient developer tool for AI coding agents. Target: **49% total session token reduction** compared t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/SpecLeft/specleft/issues/94) · 2026-02-15 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### MCP Security and Risk management

## Security — v0.3.0 Scope

### Attack surface overview

The 3+1 MCP design has a smaller attack surface than a full-tool MCP server (one write operation instead of nine), but three vectors require mitigation before release.

Attack surfaces: ├── Skill file injection ← Agent reads tampered instructions from disk ├── Init write safety ← Symlinks or overwrites during project setup ├── CLI argument injection ← Shell metacharacters in agent-supplied values ├── Contract spoofin

Read the thread · 2026-02-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

[Feature] Publish SpecLeft to MCP Registry

Summary

Publish SpecLeft's MCP server to the official Anthropic MCP Registry and automate future releases via CI/CD. This enables one-click installation in Claude Desktop and automatic discovery by MCP-compatible agents.

Target release: v0.3.0 (after MCP server implementation)

Depends On

• #76 — MCP Server Implementation (must be merged first)

Tasks

1. End-to-End Testing Flow

Verify the SpecLeft MCP server works as a real installed package over stdio transport — catching d

Read the thread · 2026-02-05 · closed · outside contributor · 3 comments

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• 6 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
• No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
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