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architect-mcpAgent work gate for coding agents

Clarify before edits, constrain the plan, review implementation drift, and require verification evidence before completion.

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Core Flow
New App Flow
Tool Reference
Rust TUI

Default work gate

The default MCP surface exposes eight tools focused on intake, pre-edit contracts, plan review, drift review, and final response honesty.

Local-first by default

Local workspace scanning and file-writing helpers stay local-only. Hosted mode is stateless and accepts explicit file summaries.

Advanced maturity criteria

Stack packs, governed MCP install plans, governance evals, operating-model evals, repo-quality gates, and productization boundary checks remain available behind the advanced surface.

Rust TUI platform

Ratatui brings the live work gate into a mouse-aware terminal client with adapter readiness, guarded headless JSONL, approval/promotion commands, arena ranking, and provisional ACP stdio mode.

Prompt-injection aware

Public docs distinguish report-only MCP reviews from TUI, host, human, and CI enforcement, and treat external text as untrusted data.

Release-gated

The clean-checkout release gate is npm run release:check, which includes Rust checks, typecheck, tests, build, docs build, audit, package dry-run checks, and readiness reports.

Product Story ​

architect-mcp is a TypeScript MCP server that keeps coding agents inside a deliberate work loop:

  1. Pressure-test the request with grill_me.
  2. Capture a pre-edit contract before risky changes.
  3. Review the build plan and proposed file plan before writing files.
  4. Review implementation drift and repo structure after the change.
  5. Require honest final-response evidence.

The first-run product surface is intentionally small. The advanced surface is for teams that want the full standards, pack-authoring, governance, repo-quality, and eval layers.

architect-mcp-tui adds a local terminal client for the same loop without rewriting the TypeScript MCP server.

Distribution ​

The command remains architect-mcp. The published package identity is scoped as @tonycdr-prog/architect-mcp.

bash
npm install -g @tonycdr-prog/architect-mcp
architect-mcp

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Released under the MIT License.

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