# Vinv MCP Server

Vinv runs, tests, and finds issues in your services — with zero code changes.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Vinv 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 `vinv-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

### Most discussed

### Runtime tracing support: PHP

### Goal
Runtime tracing for PHP services (Laravel/Symfony/etc.).

### Likely approach
- The **OpenTelemetry PHP extension** (a Zend extension enabled in `php.ini`) with
  auto-instrumentation — zero-edit, engine-level hooks.
- Per-function enter/exit spans with request correlation and bounded summaries.
### Shared contract (every language tracer)
Vinv's index, Code Graph, and grounded Q&A already work across languages — the gap
is **runtime evidence**. A new tracer only has to emit the same eve

[Read the thread](https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI/issues/34) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

### Runtime tracing support: Ruby

### Goal
Runtime tracing for Ruby services (Rails/Sinatra/etc.).

### Likely approach
- Ruby's built-in **`TracePoint`** API and/or module `prepend`, or OpenTelemetry
  Ruby auto-instrumentation loaded via `RUBYOPT=-r...` — all zero-edit.
- Per-method enter/exit spans with request correlation and bounded summaries.
### Shared contract (every language tracer)
Vinv's index, Code Graph, and grounded Q&A already work across languages — the gap
is **runtime evidence**. A new tracer only has to emit t

[Read the thread](https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI/issues/32) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

### Runtime tracing support: Java / JVM

### Goal
Runtime tracing for JVM services (Java/Kotlin/Scala).

### Likely approach (the JVM makes zero-edit easy)
- Attach the **OpenTelemetry Java agent** (`-javaagent:...`) — bytecode
  instrumentation with no source changes.
- Map spans to the `SpanEvent` contract with qualified `class.method` component
  names, timing, bounded arg/return summaries, and exceptions.
### Shared contract (every language tracer)
Vinv's index, Code Graph, and grounded Q&A already work across languages — the gap
i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI/issues/31) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

### Runtime tracing support: Go

### Goal
Runtime tracing for Go services.

### Why this one is hard
Go has no runtime monkey-patching, so **zero-edit is the central challenge** —
hand-written OTel-Go spans would force users to edit their code. Options to weigh:
- **eBPF / uprobes** on the compiled binary (ties into the eBPF collector issue) —
  fully external, Linux/privileged.
- **Compile-time weaving** (e.g. an `orchestrion`-style tool) injecting
  instrumentation during `go build` without hand-editing source.
- A wrapped `g

[Read the thread](https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI/issues/30) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

### Runtime tracing support: TypeScript / Node.js

### Goal
Zero-edit runtime tracing for Node.js/TypeScript services.

### Likely approach
- A Node loader / `node --import` (or `--require`) hook plus OpenTelemetry Node
  auto-instrumentation — no user code changes.
- Per-function enter/exit spans with request correlation, timing, and bounded
  arg/return summaries.
- Honor source maps so spans land on the original TS, not transpiled JS.
### Shared contract (every language tracer)
Vinv's index, Code Graph, and grounded Q&A already work across la

[Read the thread](https://github.com/VinvAI/VinvAI/issues/29) · 2026-07-26 · open · 0 comments

## Firsthand observations

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