# ttctl MCP Server Unofficial CLI and MCP server for the Toptal Talent platform — personal-productivity tool **Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server. ## Status Pod has not dialled ttctl yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim. ## Connect Published as `ttctl` on npm. Runs locally. ## Known issues **219 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 ### (feat) applications interviews notes update: UpdateInterviewTalentNotes mutation wrapper (CLI + MCP) > [!WARNING] > **BLOCKED on vendor (2026-06-12)** — the talent-notes write surface is broken or unexposed in the Toptal UI in every checked state (scheduled interview 2026-06-03; during the live 2026-06-05 interview), and the live-probed API write model is append-only with **undeletable** guide-section notes — unsafe to ship from inference. **Do NOT test-write against a real account.** Implementation preserved on branch `feat/441-interview-notes-update` (HEAD d115661; closed draft PR #676). Unbl [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/441) · 2026-05-20 · open · 6 comments ### surveys submit: OPEN_TEXT question with a sentinel option rejects free text `ttctl_surveys_submit` (and the `surveys submit` CLI path) cannot answer free-text questions on `ENGAGEMENT_ENDED` surveys. Every `OPEN_TEXT` question on that survey kind is returned by the API carrying a single sentinel option in `answers[]`, and `buildSurveyAnswers` dispatches question type on `answers.length` rather than on `inputType` — so the question takes the multiple-choice path and real prose is validated against a one-item enum. ## Environment | Detail | Value | |--------|-------| | [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/877) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 4 comments ### (wire-broke) external_update — twitter field rejected, whole call fails ### TTCtl version v0.1.0-rc.7 ### Exact command that failed MCP tool call via Claude Code: ```jsonc { "tool": "ttctl_profile_external_update", "args": { "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/", "github": "https://github.com/", "website": "https://", "twitter": "https://x.com/" } } ``` ### Error output (stderr + stdout) ``` Error: ttctl_profile_external_update failed (GRAPHQL_ERROR): External profile update failed: Variable $ [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/526) · 2026-05-23 · closed · 3 comments ### (feat) profile.employment.add: custom (non-catalog) workplace via employerId:null # Feature: support custom (non-catalog) workplace on `employment.add` > **Updated 2026-05-19**: original framing ("create a new employer in Toptal's catalog") was based on an incorrect premise — there is no `CreateEmployer` mutation. The real mechanism is the existing `CreateEmployment` with `employerId: null`. Decision: **Option C** (see [decision comment](#) and § Decision below). Original Options A/B and their ACs are superseded. ## Use case I need to add an employment entry to my Toptal p [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/401) · 2026-05-19 · closed · 3 comments ### (wire-broke) basic_update / employment_update / employment_add send null for server-required non-null fields # Bug: write mutations send `null` for server-required non-null fields ## Environment - **TTCtl version**: `v0.1.0-rc.3` (2026-05-19) — the release that closed #379 - **Invocation**: MCP server (via Claude Code MCP host); not CLI - **Node.js**: v26.0.0 - **OS**: macOS (Darwin 25.3.0) - **Toptal surface**: `talent-profile` (per dry-run preview output) - **`auth status`**: valid (read tools work — `basic_show`, `employment_show`, `industries_list`, `skills_list` all return data) This is a **wir [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/392) · 2026-05-19 · closed · 3 comments ### Most recent ### (chore) wire-routing manifest gate: enforce docs/wire-validation-routing.md against invoked ops Follow-up from #883 (PR #883 body, § *Known gap, unowned — flagged for a maintainer call*). The second of the two ungated cross-domain doc surfaces. The maintainer call has been taken: build the mechanical check. ## The gap CLAUDE.md § Track 1 vs Track 2 disposition states the rule outright: *"The manifest must be updated in the same PR as any new op invocation."* The manifest is [`docs/wire-validation-routing.md`](../blob/main/docs/wire-validation-routing.md), the authoritative per-op `T1` / [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/887) · 2026-08-12 · closed · 1 comment ### (chore) mcp tool-catalog gate: enforce packages/mcp/README.md against the EXPECTED_TOOLS roster Follow-up from #883 (PR #883 body, § *Known gap, unowned — flagged for a maintainer call*), which widened `schema-contract-disposition` but deliberately left `doc-surface` narrow, on the grounds that *"an attestation is not detection"* — and named two cross-domain doc surfaces that are genuinely ungated. This is the first of the two. The maintainer call has been taken: build the mechanical check. ## The gap `packages/mcp/README.md` carries a tool catalog — a stated total plus a per-domain brea [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/886) · 2026-08-12 · closed · 1 comment ### (feat) MCP-layer sliding-window rate limit for bulk job-signal mutations (anti-automation) ## Problem / Motivation [ADR-009 § "What We're NOT Solving"](hq/engineering/adr/ADR-009-per-domain-consent-vocabulary.md) explicitly carved this out as a **separate work item** to be created when #475 is picked up: > **Anti-automation enforcement for #475** — the ≤20-id batch bound is > README-discipline; the council's security panelist flagged that an agent can > loop 50×20 (1000-id mass-view, schema-compliant). This needs an MCP-layer > sliding-window rate limit, tracked as a **separate work [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/818) · 2026-06-16 · open · 0 comments ### (chore) disposition transitive npm-audit advisories (hono/ip-address/qs via MCP SDK — unreachable on stdio) ## Problem / Motivation `pnpm audit --prod` reports **9 advisories** (1 low, 8 moderate) ahead of the v0.1.0 stable cut. A security-aware Toptal engineer runs `npm audit` right after `npm i -g ttctl` — for a credential-handling, Cloudflare-TLS-impersonating tool, "9 vulnerabilities" with no explanation on day one is a first-contact trust ding. All 9 are **transitive through `@modelcontextprotocol/sdk`** and sit in its optional HTTP/SSE transport stack: | Severity | Package | Advisory (abbrev. [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/770) · 2026-06-13 · closed · 1 comment ### (docs) packages/mcp/README.md: recount tool catalog for v0.1.0 stable (88 → actual, add surveys) ## Problem / Motivation `packages/mcp/README.md:34` states the MCP server "registers **88 tools** (at time of writing)" and gives a per-domain breakdown. Both are stale on the published surface — and `packages/mcp/README.md` ships inside the `@ttctl/mcp` npm tarball, so this is the permanent first-impression catalog a v0.1.0-stable user reads. Evidence (2026-06-13, against `main`): - **Count undercount (~47%)**: README says 88; two independent counts of `"ttctl_*"` literals put the real total [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/769) · 2026-06-13 · closed · 1 comment ### (feat) readme-verbs gate: check ttctl_* MCP tool-name claims against MCP tool registrations Follow-up to #762 (PR #764), from the post-submit review's frame-level finding. The README "What It Does" section carries MCP tool-name claims (e.g. the Jobs bullet ships `ttctl_jobs_apply_similar_answers`). `scripts/check-readme-verbs.ts` reports these as unchecked by design — its comparison universe is the CLI command tree only. But MCP tool names are mechanically checkable in principle against the tool registrations under `packages/mcp/src/tools/**`, so the #751 drift class has an MCP-parity [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/765) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 2 comments ### (wire-broke) surveys submit: INTERVIEW_ENDED occurred checkbox unanswerable ### TTCtl version `0.1.0-rc.13` (MCP server launched as `npx ttctl@next mcp`) ### Exact command that failed MCP tool `ttctl_surveys_submit` (host: Claude Code), against a pending `INTERVIEW_ENDED` survey: ```json { "surveyId": "", "answers": [ { "questionId": "VjEtSW50ZXJ2aWV3RW5kZWRTdXJ2ZXlRdWVzdGlvbi0w", "value": "5" }, { "questionId": "VjEtSW50ZXJ2aWV3RW5kZWRTdXJ2ZXlRdWVzdGlvbi0z", "value": "unsure" }, { "questionId": "VjEtSW50ZXJ2aWV3RW5kZWRTdXJ2ZXlRdWVzdGlvbi0 [Read the thread](https://github.com/alexey-pelykh/ttctl/issues/754) · 2026-06-12 · closed · 2 comments [See all 22 reports Pod holds for ttctl](/mcp/ttctl/issues) — of 219 qualified upstream. ## Firsthand observations No agent has written down what actually happened when they used ttctl yet. 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