Oss Autopilot

@oss-autopilot/mcp

MCP server for OSS Autopilot — exposes PR tracking, issue discovery, and contribution management as MCP tools for any MCP-compatible client.

What It Provides

Feature	Count	Description
Tools	30	daily, status, search, features, vet, vet-list, verify-issue, track, compliance-score, repo-vet, strategy, comments, post, claim, config, init, setup, check-setup, startup, dismiss, undismiss, move, state-show, state-sync, state-unlink, guidelines-list, guidelines-get, guidelines-store, guidelines-reset, guidelines-fetch-corpus
Resources	6	oss://status, oss://config, oss://prs, oss://prs/shelved, oss://pr/{owner}/{repo}/{number}, oss://repo/{owner}/{repo}/guidelines
Prompts	4	triage (PR prioritization), respond-to-pr (draft response), find-issues (discover issues), extract-learnings (distill per-repo guidance from past PR feedback)

Supports stdio (default) and Streamable HTTP transports.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 22+
• GitHub CLI authenticated (gh auth login)

Quick Start

# 1. Add the server to your MCP client (see config examples below)

# 2. From your MCP client, call the `init` tool once with your GitHub username
#    (this writes ~/.oss-autopilot/state.json).

# 3. Use the other tools — e.g. `daily` to check your PRs, `search` to find issues.

Client Configuration

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oss-autopilot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@oss-autopilot/mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json in your project or global config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oss-autopilot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@oss-autopilot/mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Codex CLI

codex mcp add oss -- npx @oss-autopilot/mcp@latest

Windsurf

Add to your Windsurf MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "oss-autopilot": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@oss-autopilot/mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Streamable HTTP (any client)

Run the server in HTTP mode instead of stdio:

npx @oss-autopilot/mcp@latest --http --port 3001

The server listens at http://127.0.0.1:3001/mcp and accepts POST requests.

Authentication

HTTP mode requires a bearer token on every request (stdio mode does not — it inherits the parent process identity). On first --http startup, the server generates a random 32-byte token and writes it to ~/.oss-autopilot/mcp.token with 0600 permissions. The path and "newly generated" marker are logged to stderr at startup.

Every HTTP client must send:

Authorization: Bearer <contents of ~/.oss-autopilot/mcp.token>

Requests without a valid Authorization header return 401. The Bearer scheme is case-insensitive per RFC 7235; the token value itself is compared byte-for-byte in constant time. Requests with a non-loopback Host header return 403 (DNS-rebinding defense). Requests must declare a numeric Content-Length ≤ 1 MiB — missing, non-numeric, or oversize Content-Length values return 413.

The token persists across restarts. To rotate, delete the file and restart — a new token will be generated. To relocate the token (e.g. for multi-user or CI setups), set OSS_AUTOPILOT_MCP_TOKEN_PATH to the desired absolute path before starting the server.

Tools Reference

Tool	Description	Read-only
daily	Run daily PR monitoring check with prioritized summary	No
status	Show current PR tracking status	Yes
search	Search GitHub for contributable issues	Yes
features	Find feature-scoped opportunities in repos with 3+ merged PRs (relationship-anchored)	Yes
vet	Analyze an issue for contribution suitability	Yes
verify-issue	Deterministically verify issue state and linked-PR claims before vetting	Yes
vet-list	Re-vet all available issues in the curated issue list	No
track	Inspect a PR: read-only metadata lookup (nothing is tracked or persisted)	Yes
compliance-score	Score a PR against opensource.guide best practices (#1245)	Yes
repo-vet	Compute the repo health rubric (1–10 + verdict) for owner/repo (#1271)	Yes
strategy	On-demand contribution strategy snapshot via computeStrategy() (#1243)	Yes
comments	Fetch and display PR comments	Yes
post	Post a comment on an issue or PR	No
claim	Claim an issue by posting a comment	No
config	Get or set configuration values	No
init	Initialize with a GitHub username	No
setup	Configure preferences (languages, interests)	No
check-setup	Check if setup is complete	Yes
startup	Run startup checks (auth, state, config)	No
dismiss	Dismiss an issue from notifications	No
undismiss	Re-enable notifications for a dismissed issue	No
move	Move a PR between states (attention, waiting, shelved, auto)	No
state-show	Show current state persistence mode (local or Gist) and sync status	Yes
state-sync	Force push current state to the backing Gist	No
state-unlink	Disconnect from Gist persistence and switch to local-only mode	No
guidelines-list	List repos that have stored guidelines (always empty in local mode)	Yes
guidelines-get	Read per-repo learning guidelines extracted from past PR feedback	Yes
guidelines-store	Persist per-repo guidelines (8 KB cap; requires Gist mode)	No
guidelines-reset	Tombstone the guidelines file for a repo	No
guidelines-fetch-corpus	Fetch raw PR comment bundles for the host's extract-learnings prompt to consume	No

Resources Reference

Resource URI	Description
oss://status	PR tracking status (cached local state)
oss://config	Current configuration
oss://prs	Active open PRs from last daily digest
oss://prs/shelved	Shelved PRs
oss://pr/{owner}/{repo}/{number}	Detail for a specific PR
oss://repo/{owner}/{repo}/guidelines	Per-repo learning guidelines (markdown)

Prompts Reference

Prompt	Args	Description
triage	none	Fetches daily digest and builds a prioritized triage list
respond-to-pr	prUrl	Fetches PR comments and context for drafting a response
find-issues	maxResults?	Searches for issues ranked by viability score
extract-learnings	repo, corpus, existingGuidelines?	Distills durable per-repo guidance from raw PR comment bundles (#867)

Programmatic Usage

The server can also be imported and used as a library:

import { createServer } from '@oss-autopilot/mcp';

const server = createServer();
// Connect to your own transport

More Information

See the main repository README for the full documentation, including the Claude Code plugin, CLI usage, dashboard, and contributing guide.

License

MIT