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Topos MCP Server

Structural code-quality tools for AI coding agents.

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Connect

Published as topos-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

40 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

Project agent_contract routes to inspect_code, not evaluate_file on the ROI head

What

After topos_evaluate_project, agent_contract.next_tool is topos_inspect_code. For "find the cheapest structural win in this repo", the useful next call is topos_evaluate_file(refactor_targets=…) on a ranked head, then inspect only if that is insufficient.

Compounding it, worst_files ranks by ascending minimum score across dimensions. On a repo with many leaf modules at mdg.instability = 0.0, COMPOSABLE zeros flood the head of the list, so the "start here" pick is often a fi

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 3 comments

Package Topos as an Agent Plugins 1.0 portable plugin

Summary

Ship Topos as a portable Agent Plugins package so compatible clients can discover and load the Topos skill + MCP server from one vendor-neutral layout.

Spec: https://agent-plugins.org/ (v1.0.0) Author guide: https://agent-plugins.org/plugin-authors

Why

Topos already ships:

  • Agent Skill at skills/topos/SKILL.md (ClawHub / OpenClaw / Hermes)
  • MCP via topos mcp and topos install

Those are client-specific install paths. Agent Plugins defines

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · open · 2 comments

methods: Graphify Phase 2 — robust integration, inflation/drift measures, and agent workflow

Context

Follow-up to #150 Graphify Incorporation (closed by #159 after Phase 1). v0.4.0 ships orphan/fragile-edge detection over graphify-out/graph.json, plus topos graphify generate|orphans, topos_generate_graphify_graph, and topos_refactor(target="graphify"). All Graphify signals remain advisory — they never feed SIMPLE/COMPOSABLE/SECURE scoring (see docs/decisions/refactor-suite.md).

Ori

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 2 comments

agent_contract is built by four independent builders that duplicate flag logic

What

AgentContract is constructed in four separate places that each re-implement the same non-COMPOSABLE flag logic, plus inline literals in a fifth:

Builder Location
build_agent_contract topos/mcp/src/formatting.rs (evaluate_code / evaluate_file / inspect_code)
project_contract topos/mcp/src/tools/evaluate.rs
assessment_contract topos/mcp/src/tools/assess.rs
changeset_contract topos/mcp/src/tools/assess.rs
inline literals `topos

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 2 comments

Publish topos-engine, topos-mcp, and topos CLI to crates.io

Status: blocked

Blocker: topos-mcp depends on Sighthound via a git-only dependency (rev = 36dd5da…). crates.io does not allow unpublished git dependencies — cargo publish --dry-run -p topos-mcp fails with no matching package named sighthound found on crates.io.

Unblock options (pick one):

  1. Publish sighthound t

Read the thread · 2026-07-13 · open · 2 comments

Most recent

release: v0.5.1 binary ships with rmcp 2.2 (breaks MCP discovery; needs v0.5.2 release)

Summary

The v0.5.1 release binary was built with rmcp 2.2, which drops the connection when MCP clients (e.g., Google Antigravity / Gemini CLI) send server/discover during initial handshake.

Status

  • Fixed on main via PR #324 / PR #337 (upgraded to rmcp 3.1.2).
  • The installer script (https://docs.krv.ai/topos/install.sh) still downloads the v0.5.1 binary which predates the fix.

Resolution

Cut a new release (e.g. v0.5.2) from main so users installing via `install.s

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · open · 1 comment

perf: topos_inspect_code parses the same source ~4x (measure before fixing)

Surfaced while implementing #306 (#319).

What

#306 fixed morphism duplication within build_metric_locations. The remaining duplication is across modules. On one topos_inspect_code request, four independent ProgramMorphism constructions run over the same source:

  • classify_code_string / classify_file — topos/mcp/src/evaluation/classify.rs:63
  • overlay_for_source — topos/mcp/src/diagnostics.rs:123
  • `security_findings::cpg_for

Read the thread · 2026-08-09 · open · 1 comment

methods: Graphify-backed NAVIGABLE refactoring guidance

Context

v0.5.0 added NAVIGABLE as the fourth evaluation pillar (#280), measuring agentic cognitive load via Semantic Compositional Divergence (nav.max_function_divergence) over the UAST scope tree. When the gate fails, topos_evaluate_file already surfaces actionable refactor_targets — worst functions first, real line spans, extract_helper / split_decision_logic operations — derived entirely from intra-file AST evidence.

Separately,

Read the thread · 2026-08-08 · closed · 0 comments

Reuse parsed morphisms when building metric locations

Problem

topos/mcp/src/metric_locations.rs can construct ProgramMorphism more than once for the same single-file request while resolving offending and diverging functions. SIMPLE and NAVIGABLE location generation can therefore repeat parsing/UAST construction.

The duplication is bounded to single-file paths, so it is not a v0.5.0 blocker, but it is avoidable work on the interactive agent path.

Proposed change

Build one parsed morphism/UAST per request and pass shared references to m

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · 0 comments

@mcp gallery install does not bind Topos to the current VS Code workspace root

Summary

The VS Code @mcp gallery install of io.github.Krv-Labs/topos is often unusable because it does not bind Topos to the current window's workspace folder.

This is not a request for multi-project-at-once analysis. The intended UX is sequential single-repo use across different VS Code windows:

  1. Window on erdos → Topos evaluates erdos
  2. Later, window on topos → Topos evaluates topos

That is one project per server process, at different times. Topos already

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · 1 comment

--gitnexus-dir at a not-yet-created store skips COMPOSABLE generation, and the CLI reports nothing

Found while dogfooding #275 (v0.4.4 release train). Two related problems, both on the --gitnexus-dir path extended by #258.

1. Generation never runs when the store does not exist yet

depgraph_status classifies an override pointing at a missing path as invalid_dir (via check_override_warning, topos/mcp/src/evaluation/mod.rs), and ensure_gitnexus_dir_with_progress treats invalid_dir as "a problem generating won't fix" and returns early. So passing --gitnexus-dir at a store tha

Read the thread · 2026-08-04 · closed · 0 comments

Upgrade Topos MCP server to MCP 2026-07-28 (stateless protocol) via rmcp 3.x

Summary

Upgrade topos-mcp from the pre-stateless MCP lifecycle (rmcp 2.2, initialize handshake) to the stable MCP 2026-07-28 revision (stateless-by-default) via rmcp 3.x.

This is a protocol/SDK migration, not a tool-semantics redesign. Keep the existing agent contract (tools, resources, prompt, flat args, compact structured content) unless the wire model forces a small adapter change.

Background (facts)

On 2026-07-28, MCP published the next stable specification.

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · 1 comment

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