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ttctl MCP Server

Unofficial CLI and MCP server for the Toptal Talent platform — personal-productivity tool

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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 · 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.

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Read the thread · 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:

{
  "tool": "ttctl_profile_external_update",
  "args": {
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/<handle>",
    "github": "https://github.com/<handle>",
    "website": "https://<personal-domain>",
    "twitter": "https://x.com/<handle>"
  }
}

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": "<survey-id>",
  "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

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