teamcity MCP Server
MCP server exposing JetBrains TeamCity CI/CD workflows to AI coding assistants
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Published as @daghis/teamcity-mcp on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
79 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
refactor(teamcity): unify adapter-based client initialization
Parent: #106
Summary
Rework the adapter and initialization flow so every consumer in src/teamcity can depend solely on the unified TeamCityAPI. The current TeamCityClient wrapper is still the public entry point, and createAdapterFromTeamCityAPI only exposes the builds API.
Scope
- Extend
createAdapterFromTeamCityAPIto surface the modules and helper methods provided by the expandedTeamCityAPI, including the shared axios instance. - Update
src/teamcity/index.tsso `initiali
Read the thread · 2025-09-16 · closed · 11 comments
refactor(teamcity): route build results/list through unified client
Parent: #106
Summary
Eliminate the remaining direct axios usage inside the reporting flows so they rely on the shared adapter/axios instance. This ensures consistent auth, retries, and logging for build insights.
Scope
- Update these modules to call adapter APIs (or the shared
httpinstance) instead of creating ad-hoc axios clients:build-results-manager.tsbuild-list-manager.tsbuild-results-managerhelper methods that fetch artifacts/statistics/changes/dependencies.
Read the thread · 2025-09-16 · closed · 8 comments
refactor(teamcity): migrate build/project managers to adapter
Parent: #106
Summary
Convert the core build/project management layers to depend on the new adapter so they no longer import TeamCityClient. This unlocks removal of the legacy wrapper and aligns constructor signatures across the module.
Scope
- Update the following modules to type against
TeamCityClientAdapterand consume the expanded surface from #113/#114:build-config-manager.tsbuild-configuration-update-manager.tsbuild-configuration-resolver.ts- `build-confi
Read the thread · 2025-09-16 · closed · 7 comments
Add MCP annotations (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to every tool registration
Background
Glama's automated MCP review (https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/Daghis/teamcity-mcp/score) flagged behavioral_transparency on 26 of 27 reviewed tools. The root cause is that none of our tool registrations include the MCP-spec annotations field. Without these, agents cannot tell which tools are safe to retry, which mutate state, or which are destructive, so they conservatively prompt for confirmation on everything (or worse, plan poorly).
This is the highest-leverage improvement av
Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · 4 comments
Investigate whether the TeamCity REST API supports chunked downloads via axios streams
Summary
Subtask of #151 focused on the discovery work needed before we can prototype streaming artifact downloads. We need to verify whether the TeamCity REST API, and specifically the endpoints backing downloadFileOfBuild, can deliver chunked responses we can tap into via Axios streams.
Goals
- Confirm which TeamCity REST endpoints support HTTP streaming or range requests for artifact content.
- Evaluate client-side requirements (Axios adapters, responseType options, Node.js stream han
Read the thread · 2025-09-19 · closed · 4 comments
Most recent
Build scriptable REST API coverage matrix (scripts/audit-rest-coverage.ts + docs/rest-coverage.md)
Background
We don't have a current, accurate picture of which TeamCity REST operations are exposed via our MCP tools vs. which are missing. Today, this is a manual audit that drifts the moment we add a tool or TeamCity bumps a version.
A rough first-cut: TeamCity exposes ~200 unique REST operations across 30 generated API namespaces. teamcity-mcp has 96 tools. Coverage is roughly half by raw op count, but the comparison is uneven because we sensibly collapse many granular REST endpoints int
Read the thread · 2026-05-11 · closed · 1 comment
Strategic gap-coverage initiative (epic)
Why this exists
teamcity-mcp grew to 96 tools without a written design posture. JetBrains 2026.1 now ships a built-in MCP endpoint (3 tools: build log, generic REST GET, build trigger), which forces a clearer answer to "why does teamcity-mcp exist?" — for users picking between the two and for ourselves when adding new tools.
This epic tracks a three-step initiative to make those decisions explicit and data-driven instead of ad-hoc.
Sub-issues (in execution order)
- #502 — Commit to
Read the thread · 2026-05-11 · closed · 1 comment
feat: add list_build_artifacts tool for subdirectory browsing
Problem
The current artifact tools can list top-level artifacts but cannot browse into subdirectories:
get_build_resultsshows directories (e.g.okdwith size: 0) but doesn't list their children — only top-level entries are returned.download_build_artifactexpects a full file path (e.g.okd/deploy.yaml), but without a way to list directory contents, the exact filenames are unknown.- The TeamCity REST API supports listing subdirectory contents via the
basePathparameter on
Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments
Add targeted sibling-disambiguation only where tool names genuinely collide
Background
Glama's review wanted "use this when not …" disambiguators on every tool. Applying that everywhere bloats descriptions and hurts the agent's token budget. But there are a small number of cases where two sibling tools have genuinely overlapping names and the agent could plausibly pick the wrong one.
This issue covers only those targeted cases — a deliberately narrow scope.
Goal
For each of the cases below, add a single short disambiguating clause (≤10 words) explaining when t
Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · 1 comment
Mutating tools must disclose principal return value and likely failure mode
Background
For mutating tools (anything with readOnlyHint: false after issue #467 lands), the agent needs to know what comes back on success and what to expect on common failures. Today most mutator descriptions stop at the verb. The Glama review's most defensible criticism was that mutation tools (trigger_build, cancel_*, update_*, delete_*, etc.) provide no behavioral disclosure for write paths.
Goal
Every tool registered with readOnlyHint: false ends its description with
Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · 0 comments
Adopt a single description template across all MCP tools
Background
Tool descriptions today range from 3 words ("Test MCP server connectivity") to short paragraphs, with no consistent structure. Agents pick tools by pattern-matching on names + descriptions, and inconsistent shape makes that less reliable. The Glama review (https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/Daghis/teamcity-mcp/score) penalized this implicitly via the conciseness_structure ↔ contextual_completeness axis.
Goal
Every tool description follows the same skeleton:
`
<resource
Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · 0 comments
Add outputSchema to tool registrations for tools that return structured data
Background
The MCP spec supports an outputSchema field on tool definitions so agents know the shape of the response without having to introspect or guess. We currently rely on TypeScript types internally but never expose them as JSON Schema to the agent. This forces models to parse responses heuristically and creates room for hallucinated field access (e.g. .id vs .buildId vs .build.id).
This was an implicit gap noted in the Glama review (https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/Daghis/teamcity
Read the thread · 2026-04-23 · closed · 0 comments
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