@wendellresearch-ai/benchwarmers 0.2.0 → 0.2.1

package/mcp_server.py

@@ -1,266 +1,266 @@
-"""Benchwarmers as an MCP server, so an agent (Claude Code, or any MCP client)
-can ask a collection and send its verdicts.
-
-    benchwarmers mcp                 # from npm: npx -y @wendellresearch-ai/benchwarmers mcp
-    python mcp_server.py             # from a checkout
-
-MCP over stdio: JSON-RPC 2.0, one message per line, nothing else on stdout.
-A THIN CLIENT of a Benchwarmers server that is already running, over the same
-HTTP routes any other caller uses (GATEWAY.md), so the panel, the call log and
-the verdicts are that server's, whichever machine it is on:
-
-    BENCHWARMERS_URL       the server, default http://127.0.0.1:8122 (a /v1 on the end is fine)
-    BENCHWARMERS_KEY       a gateway key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer`; needed beyond
-                           this machine, or where BENCHWARMERS_REQUIRE_KEYS is set (metrics/guard.py)
-    BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT   seconds to wait for a panel, default 900
-
-Tools: list_collections (GET /v1/models), ask (POST /v1/chat/completions),
-verdict (POST /bench/verdict). A refusal from the server, or no server at
-all, comes back as a tool error carrying its message. Standard library only,
-and nothing from metrics/: the data folder is the server's, not this one's.
-"""
-
-from __future__ import annotations
-
-import json
-import os
-import sys
-import threading
-import urllib.error
-import urllib.request
-from pathlib import Path
-
-# Newest first: the client's version when it is one of these, else the newest.
-PROTOCOLS = ("2025-11-25", "2025-06-18", "2025-03-26", "2024-11-05")
-PREFIX = "bench/"
-VERSION = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "VERSION").read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
-
-RULES = (
-    "Benchwarmers asks a COLLECTION of models at once (every member plus explorer seats it rotates in)"
-    " and keeps every answer. Rules: (1) ask a collection, not a favourite model; list_collections says"
-    " what each is for. (2) Verify before acting on anything a seat says: seats fail together, so"
-    " agreement is not evidence. (3) Send a verdict per seat you judged, with the claims it got right"
-    " in `real` and the untrue ones in `false`. (4) Name every seat that answered, by model and seat,"
-    " including errors and empty replies. An empty reply from a reasoning model is usually its token"
-    " budget, not incapacity. Good uses: exhaustive enumeration over real files, adversarial review."
-    " Keep the design and the decisions yourself.")
-
-TOOLS = [
-    {"name": "list_collections",
-     "title": "List collections",
-     "description": "The collections this Benchwarmers server offers: name, what each is for, tags, members,"
-                    " explorer seats, reply mode, and what the members handle together (smallest context"
-                    " window, shared capabilities, tightest rate limits). Pick by task before calling ask.",
-     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "properties": {}, "additionalProperties": False},
-     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": True, "openWorldHint": False}},
-    {"name": "ask",
-     "title": "Ask a collection",
-     "description": "Put a prompt to every seat of one collection at once and get every answer back, each"
-                    " under its seat and model, plus the seats as data (alias, seat, status, call id). Can"
-                    " take minutes. Ask a collection, not a favourite model. Give the seats the real text"
-                    " (code, diff, file contents) in the prompt: they cannot read your files. Verify every"
-                    " claim against the source before acting on it, name every seat that answered in what"
-                    " you tell the user, then send a verdict per seat you judged.",
-     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "required": ["collection", "prompt"], "additionalProperties": False,
-                     "properties": {
-                         "collection": {"type": "string",
-                                        "description": "A collection name, `core` or `bench/core` (list_collections)."},
-                         "prompt": {"type": "string", "description": "The question, with everything it needs."},
-                         "system": {"type": "string", "description": "A system message for every seat."},
-                         "merged": {"type": "boolean",
-                                    "description": "true: one reconciled answer, every seat still called and"
-                                                   " listed; false: every answer. Omit for the collection's own."},
-                         "with": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
-                                  "description": "Model aliases to seat in explorer chairs, this request only."}}},
-     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": False, "destructiveHint": False, "openWorldHint": True}},
-    {"name": "verdict",
-     "title": "Record a verdict",
-     "description": "Judge one seat's answer by its call id, once you have checked it against the source. One"
-                    " per seat you judged. List the claims it got right in `real` and the claims that are"
-                    " untrue in `false`, one sentence each: they feed routing and the 'confidently wrong'"
-                    " record, so a note alone is not enough.",
-     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "required": ["call", "useful"], "additionalProperties": False,
-                     "properties": {
-                         "call": {"type": "string", "description": "The seat's call id, e.g. p20261022-101500-ab12.member1."},
-                         "useful": {"type": "boolean"},
-                         "note": {"type": "string", "description": "One or two sentences on why."},
-                         "real": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
-                                  "description": "Claims it made that are true, one sentence each."},
-                         "false": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
-                                   "description": "Claims it made that are untrue, one sentence each."}}},
-     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": False, "destructiveHint": False, "idempotentHint": True,
-                     "openWorldHint": False}},
-]
-
-
-class ToolError(Exception):
-    """A tool call that failed: its message goes back as the tool's result, isError."""
-
-
-def base_url() -> str:
-    url = (os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_URL") or "").strip().rstrip("/") or "http://127.0.0.1:8122"
-    return url.removesuffix("/v1")
-
-
-def http(method: str, path: str, body: dict | None = None) -> dict:
-    url = base_url() + path
-    headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}
-    if key := (os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_KEY") or "").strip():
-        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {key}"
-    data = None
-    if body is not None:
-        data = json.dumps(body).encode()
-        headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
-    req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method=method)
-    timeout = float(os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT") or 900)
-    try:
-        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
-            return json.load(r)
-    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
-        raw = e.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
-        try:
-            message = json.loads(raw)["error"]["message"]
-        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
-            message = raw.strip()[:500] or e.reason
-        raise ToolError(f"Benchwarmers refused {method} {path} ({e.code}): {message}") from None
-    except (urllib.error.URLError, ConnectionError) as e:
-        reason = getattr(e, "reason", e)
-        if isinstance(reason, TimeoutError):
-            raise ToolError(f"no answer from Benchwarmers at {base_url()} in {timeout:.0f} s;"
-                            " set BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT for longer panels") from None
-        raise ToolError(f"Benchwarmers is not running at {base_url()} ({reason}). Start it (`benchwarmers`,"
-                        " or its service), or point BENCHWARMERS_URL at the server you use.") from None
-    except TimeoutError:
-        raise ToolError(f"no answer from Benchwarmers at {base_url()} in {timeout:.0f} s;"
-                        " set BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT for longer panels") from None
-    except ValueError:
-        raise ToolError(f"{base_url()} answered {method} {path} with something that is not JSON;"
-                        " is BENCHWARMERS_URL a Benchwarmers server?") from None
-
-
-def list_collections(_args: dict) -> list[str]:
-    rows = []
-    for m in http("GET", "/v1/models").get("data") or []:
-        if ":" in m.get("id", ""):                     # the same collection in its other reply mode
-            continue
-        together = m.get("together") or {}
-        rows.append({"name": m["id"], **{k: m.get(k) for k in ("description", "tags", "members", "explorers",
-                                                              "shape", "reply", "merger")},
-                     **{k: together.get(k) for k in ("context_window", "capabilities", "limits")}})
-    if not rows:
-        return ["No collections on this server (or none this gateway key may call). Make one on the"
-                " dashboard's Collections page."]
-    return [json.dumps(rows, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False)]
-
-
-def ask(args: dict) -> list[str]:
-    collection, prompt = args.get("collection"), args.get("prompt")
-    if not (isinstance(collection, str) and collection.strip()):
-        raise ToolError("`collection` is required: a name from list_collections, e.g. core")
-    if not (isinstance(prompt, str) and prompt.strip()):
-        raise ToolError("`prompt` is required")
-    collection = collection.strip()
-    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
-    if isinstance(args.get("system"), str) and args["system"].strip():
-        messages.insert(0, {"role": "system", "content": args["system"]})
-    body = {"model": collection if collection.startswith(PREFIX) else PREFIX + collection, "messages": messages}
-    if isinstance(args.get("merged"), bool):
-        body["bench"] = {"reply": "merged" if args["merged"] else "all"}
-    if args.get("with"):
-        body["with"] = args["with"]
-    reply = http("POST", "/v1/chat/completions", body)
-    content = reply["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
-    bench = reply.get("bench") or {}
-    merged = bench.get("reply") == "merged"
-    # Each answer is already in the content unless it is the merge, so the
-    # seat data stays short: who sat, how it went, the id to judge it by.
-    keep = ("call", "seat", "alias", "status", "seconds", "error") + (("answer",) if merged else ())
-    seats = [{k: s[k] for k in keep if s.get(k) not in (None, "")} for s in bench.get("seats") or []]
-    for s in seats:
-        if "error" in s:
-            s["error"] = s["error"][-300:]             # a traceback's last lines say what went wrong
-    data = {"panel": bench.get("panel"), "collection": bench.get("collection"), "shape": bench.get("shape"),
-            "seats": seats, **{k: bench[k] for k in ("merger", "skipped", "note") if bench.get(k)}}
-    return [content, "Seats (name each one; send a verdict per seat you judged, by call id):\n"
-            + json.dumps(data, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False)]
-
-
-def verdict(args: dict) -> list[str]:
-    if not (isinstance(args.get("call"), str) and args["call"].strip()):
-        raise ToolError("`call` is required: the seat's call id from ask")
-    if not isinstance(args.get("useful"), bool):
-        raise ToolError("`useful` must be true or false")
-    body = {"call": args["call"].strip(), "useful": args["useful"], "note": args.get("note") or "",
-            "real": args.get("real") or [], "false": args.get("false") or []}
-    http("POST", "/bench/verdict", body)
-    return [f"Recorded {body['call']}: {'useful' if body['useful'] else 'not useful'},"
-            f" {len(body['real'])} real, {len(body['false'])} false."]
-
-
-HANDLERS = {"list_collections": list_collections, "ask": ask, "verdict": verdict}
-OUT = threading.Lock()
-
-
-def send(message: dict) -> None:
-    line = json.dumps(message, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n"
-    with OUT:
-        sys.stdout.buffer.write(line.encode("utf-8"))
-        sys.stdout.buffer.flush()
-
-
-def call_tool(rid, params: dict) -> None:
-    name, args = params.get("name"), params.get("arguments") or {}
-    if name not in HANDLERS:
-        return send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32602, "message": f"unknown tool {name!r}"}})
-    try:
-        if not isinstance(args, dict):
-            raise ToolError("arguments must be an object")
-        texts, failed = HANDLERS[name](args), False
-    except ToolError as e:
-        texts, failed = [str(e)], True
-    except Exception as e:                             # noqa: BLE001 -- a bad reply must not kill the server
-        texts, failed = [f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"], True
-    send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid,
-          "result": {"content": [{"type": "text", "text": t} for t in texts], "isError": failed}})
-
-
-def handle(msg) -> None:
-    if not isinstance(msg, dict) or msg.get("jsonrpc") != "2.0" or not isinstance(msg.get("method"), str):
-        rid = msg.get("id") if isinstance(msg, dict) else None
-        return send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32600, "message": "invalid request"}})
-    if "id" not in msg:                                # a notification (initialized, cancelled): nothing to answer
-        return
-    rid, method, params = msg["id"], msg["method"], msg.get("params") or {}
-    if method == "initialize":
-        asked = params.get("protocolVersion")
-        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {
-            "protocolVersion": asked if asked in PROTOCOLS else PROTOCOLS[0],
-            "capabilities": {"tools": {"listChanged": False}},
-            "serverInfo": {"name": "benchwarmers", "title": "Benchwarmers", "version": VERSION},
-            "instructions": RULES}})
-    elif method == "ping":
-        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {}})
-    elif method == "tools/list":
-        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {"tools": TOOLS}})
-    elif method == "tools/call":
-        # A panel takes minutes: on its own thread, so a ping or a second call is answered meanwhile.
-        # Not a daemon: when stdin closes, a call already sent (a verdict) still finishes.
-        threading.Thread(target=call_tool, args=(rid, params)).start()
-    else:
-        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32601, "message": f"no method {method!r}"}})
-
-
-def main() -> None:
-    for raw in sys.stdin.buffer:
-        if not raw.strip():
-            continue
-        try:
-            msg = json.loads(raw)
-        except ValueError:
-            send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": None, "error": {"code": -32700, "message": "parse error"}})
-            continue
-        handle(msg)
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()
+"""Benchwarmers as an MCP server, so an agent (Claude Code, or any MCP client)
+can ask a collection and send its verdicts.
+
+    benchwarmers mcp                 # from npm: npx -y @wendellresearch-ai/benchwarmers mcp
+    python mcp_server.py             # from a checkout
+
+MCP over stdio: JSON-RPC 2.0, one message per line, nothing else on stdout.
+A THIN CLIENT of a Benchwarmers server that is already running, over the same
+HTTP routes any other caller uses (GATEWAY.md), so the panel, the call log and
+the verdicts are that server's, whichever machine it is on:
+
+    BENCHWARMERS_URL       the server, default http://127.0.0.1:8122 (a /v1 on the end is fine)
+    BENCHWARMERS_KEY       a gateway key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer`; needed beyond
+                           this machine, or where BENCHWARMERS_REQUIRE_KEYS is set (metrics/guard.py)
+    BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT   seconds to wait for a panel, default 900
+
+Tools: list_collections (GET /v1/models), ask (POST /v1/chat/completions),
+verdict (POST /bench/verdict). A refusal from the server, or no server at
+all, comes back as a tool error carrying its message. Standard library only,
+and nothing from metrics/: the data folder is the server's, not this one's.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+import threading
+import urllib.error
+import urllib.request
+from pathlib import Path
+
+# Newest first: the client's version when it is one of these, else the newest.
+PROTOCOLS = ("2025-11-25", "2025-06-18", "2025-03-26", "2024-11-05")
+PREFIX = "bench/"
+VERSION = (Path(__file__).resolve().parent / "VERSION").read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
+
+RULES = (
+    "Benchwarmers asks a COLLECTION of models at once (every member plus explorer seats it rotates in)"
+    " and keeps every answer. Rules: (1) ask a collection, not a favourite model; list_collections says"
+    " what each is for. (2) Verify before acting on anything a seat says: seats fail together, so"
+    " agreement is not evidence. (3) Send a verdict per seat you judged, with the claims it got right"
+    " in `real` and the untrue ones in `false`. (4) Name every seat that answered, by model and seat,"
+    " including errors and empty replies. An empty reply from a reasoning model is usually its token"
+    " budget, not incapacity. Good uses: exhaustive enumeration over real files, adversarial review."
+    " Keep the design and the decisions yourself.")
+
+TOOLS = [
+    {"name": "list_collections",
+     "title": "List collections",
+     "description": "The collections this Benchwarmers server offers: name, what each is for, tags, members,"
+                    " explorer seats, reply mode, and what the members handle together (smallest context"
+                    " window, shared capabilities, tightest rate limits). Pick by task before calling ask.",
+     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "properties": {}, "additionalProperties": False},
+     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": True, "openWorldHint": False}},
+    {"name": "ask",
+     "title": "Ask a collection",
+     "description": "Put a prompt to every seat of one collection at once and get every answer back, each"
+                    " under its seat and model, plus the seats as data (alias, seat, status, call id). Can"
+                    " take minutes. Ask a collection, not a favourite model. Give the seats the real text"
+                    " (code, diff, file contents) in the prompt: they cannot read your files. Verify every"
+                    " claim against the source before acting on it, name every seat that answered in what"
+                    " you tell the user, then send a verdict per seat you judged.",
+     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "required": ["collection", "prompt"], "additionalProperties": False,
+                     "properties": {
+                         "collection": {"type": "string",
+                                        "description": "A collection name, `core` or `bench/core` (list_collections)."},
+                         "prompt": {"type": "string", "description": "The question, with everything it needs."},
+                         "system": {"type": "string", "description": "A system message for every seat."},
+                         "merged": {"type": "boolean",
+                                    "description": "true: one reconciled answer, every seat still called and"
+                                                   " listed; false: every answer. Omit for the collection's own."},
+                         "with": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
+                                  "description": "Model aliases to seat in explorer chairs, this request only."}}},
+     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": False, "destructiveHint": False, "openWorldHint": True}},
+    {"name": "verdict",
+     "title": "Record a verdict",
+     "description": "Judge one seat's answer by its call id, once you have checked it against the source. One"
+                    " per seat you judged. List the claims it got right in `real` and the claims that are"
+                    " untrue in `false`, one sentence each: they feed routing and the 'confidently wrong'"
+                    " record, so a note alone is not enough.",
+     "inputSchema": {"type": "object", "required": ["call", "useful"], "additionalProperties": False,
+                     "properties": {
+                         "call": {"type": "string", "description": "The seat's call id, e.g. p20261022-101500-ab12.member1."},
+                         "useful": {"type": "boolean"},
+                         "note": {"type": "string", "description": "One or two sentences on why."},
+                         "real": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
+                                  "description": "Claims it made that are true, one sentence each."},
+                         "false": {"type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"},
+                                   "description": "Claims it made that are untrue, one sentence each."}}},
+     "annotations": {"readOnlyHint": False, "destructiveHint": False, "idempotentHint": True,
+                     "openWorldHint": False}},
+]
+
+
+class ToolError(Exception):
+    """A tool call that failed: its message goes back as the tool's result, isError."""
+
+
+def base_url() -> str:
+    url = (os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_URL") or "").strip().rstrip("/") or "http://127.0.0.1:8122"
+    return url.removesuffix("/v1")
+
+
+def http(method: str, path: str, body: dict | None = None) -> dict:
+    url = base_url() + path
+    headers = {"Accept": "application/json"}
+    if key := (os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_KEY") or "").strip():
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {key}"
+    data = None
+    if body is not None:
+        data = json.dumps(body).encode()
+        headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
+    req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=data, headers=headers, method=method)
+    timeout = float(os.environ.get("BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT") or 900)
+    try:
+        with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as r:
+            return json.load(r)
+    except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
+        raw = e.read().decode("utf-8", "replace")
+        try:
+            message = json.loads(raw)["error"]["message"]
+        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError):
+            message = raw.strip()[:500] or e.reason
+        raise ToolError(f"Benchwarmers refused {method} {path} ({e.code}): {message}") from None
+    except (urllib.error.URLError, ConnectionError) as e:
+        reason = getattr(e, "reason", e)
+        if isinstance(reason, TimeoutError):
+            raise ToolError(f"no answer from Benchwarmers at {base_url()} in {timeout:.0f} s;"
+                            " set BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT for longer panels") from None
+        raise ToolError(f"Benchwarmers is not running at {base_url()} ({reason}). Start it (`benchwarmers`,"
+                        " or its service), or point BENCHWARMERS_URL at the server you use.") from None
+    except TimeoutError:
+        raise ToolError(f"no answer from Benchwarmers at {base_url()} in {timeout:.0f} s;"
+                        " set BENCHWARMERS_TIMEOUT for longer panels") from None
+    except ValueError:
+        raise ToolError(f"{base_url()} answered {method} {path} with something that is not JSON;"
+                        " is BENCHWARMERS_URL a Benchwarmers server?") from None
+
+
+def list_collections(_args: dict) -> list[str]:
+    rows = []
+    for m in http("GET", "/v1/models").get("data") or []:
+        if ":" in m.get("id", ""):                     # the same collection in its other reply mode
+            continue
+        together = m.get("together") or {}
+        rows.append({"name": m["id"], **{k: m.get(k) for k in ("description", "tags", "members", "explorers",
+                                                              "shape", "reply", "merger")},
+                     **{k: together.get(k) for k in ("context_window", "capabilities", "limits")}})
+    if not rows:
+        return ["No collections on this server (or none this gateway key may call). Make one on the"
+                " dashboard's Collections page."]
+    return [json.dumps(rows, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False)]
+
+
+def ask(args: dict) -> list[str]:
+    collection, prompt = args.get("collection"), args.get("prompt")
+    if not (isinstance(collection, str) and collection.strip()):
+        raise ToolError("`collection` is required: a name from list_collections, e.g. core")
+    if not (isinstance(prompt, str) and prompt.strip()):
+        raise ToolError("`prompt` is required")
+    collection = collection.strip()
+    messages = [{"role": "user", "content": prompt}]
+    if isinstance(args.get("system"), str) and args["system"].strip():
+        messages.insert(0, {"role": "system", "content": args["system"]})
+    body = {"model": collection if collection.startswith(PREFIX) else PREFIX + collection, "messages": messages}
+    if isinstance(args.get("merged"), bool):
+        body["bench"] = {"reply": "merged" if args["merged"] else "all"}
+    if args.get("with"):
+        body["with"] = args["with"]
+    reply = http("POST", "/v1/chat/completions", body)
+    content = reply["choices"][0]["message"]["content"]
+    bench = reply.get("bench") or {}
+    merged = bench.get("reply") == "merged"
+    # Each answer is already in the content unless it is the merge, so the
+    # seat data stays short: who sat, how it went, the id to judge it by.
+    keep = ("call", "seat", "alias", "status", "seconds", "error") + (("answer",) if merged else ())
+    seats = [{k: s[k] for k in keep if s.get(k) not in (None, "")} for s in bench.get("seats") or []]
+    for s in seats:
+        if "error" in s:
+            s["error"] = s["error"][-300:]             # a traceback's last lines say what went wrong
+    data = {"panel": bench.get("panel"), "collection": bench.get("collection"), "shape": bench.get("shape"),
+            "seats": seats, **{k: bench[k] for k in ("merger", "skipped", "note") if bench.get(k)}}
+    return [content, "Seats (name each one; send a verdict per seat you judged, by call id):\n"
+            + json.dumps(data, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False)]
+
+
+def verdict(args: dict) -> list[str]:
+    if not (isinstance(args.get("call"), str) and args["call"].strip()):
+        raise ToolError("`call` is required: the seat's call id from ask")
+    if not isinstance(args.get("useful"), bool):
+        raise ToolError("`useful` must be true or false")
+    body = {"call": args["call"].strip(), "useful": args["useful"], "note": args.get("note") or "",
+            "real": args.get("real") or [], "false": args.get("false") or []}
+    http("POST", "/bench/verdict", body)
+    return [f"Recorded {body['call']}: {'useful' if body['useful'] else 'not useful'},"
+            f" {len(body['real'])} real, {len(body['false'])} false."]
+
+
+HANDLERS = {"list_collections": list_collections, "ask": ask, "verdict": verdict}
+OUT = threading.Lock()
+
+
+def send(message: dict) -> None:
+    line = json.dumps(message, ensure_ascii=False) + "\n"
+    with OUT:
+        sys.stdout.buffer.write(line.encode("utf-8"))
+        sys.stdout.buffer.flush()
+
+
+def call_tool(rid, params: dict) -> None:
+    name, args = params.get("name"), params.get("arguments") or {}
+    if name not in HANDLERS:
+        return send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32602, "message": f"unknown tool {name!r}"}})
+    try:
+        if not isinstance(args, dict):
+            raise ToolError("arguments must be an object")
+        texts, failed = HANDLERS[name](args), False
+    except ToolError as e:
+        texts, failed = [str(e)], True
+    except Exception as e:                             # noqa: BLE001 -- a bad reply must not kill the server
+        texts, failed = [f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"], True
+    send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid,
+          "result": {"content": [{"type": "text", "text": t} for t in texts], "isError": failed}})
+
+
+def handle(msg) -> None:
+    if not isinstance(msg, dict) or msg.get("jsonrpc") != "2.0" or not isinstance(msg.get("method"), str):
+        rid = msg.get("id") if isinstance(msg, dict) else None
+        return send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32600, "message": "invalid request"}})
+    if "id" not in msg:                                # a notification (initialized, cancelled): nothing to answer
+        return
+    rid, method, params = msg["id"], msg["method"], msg.get("params") or {}
+    if method == "initialize":
+        asked = params.get("protocolVersion")
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {
+            "protocolVersion": asked if asked in PROTOCOLS else PROTOCOLS[0],
+            "capabilities": {"tools": {"listChanged": False}},
+            "serverInfo": {"name": "benchwarmers", "title": "Benchwarmers", "version": VERSION},
+            "instructions": RULES}})
+    elif method == "ping":
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {}})
+    elif method == "tools/list":
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "result": {"tools": TOOLS}})
+    elif method == "tools/call":
+        # A panel takes minutes: on its own thread, so a ping or a second call is answered meanwhile.
+        # Not a daemon: when stdin closes, a call already sent (a verdict) still finishes.
+        threading.Thread(target=call_tool, args=(rid, params)).start()
+    else:
+        send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rid, "error": {"code": -32601, "message": f"no method {method!r}"}})
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    for raw in sys.stdin.buffer:
+        if not raw.strip():
+            continue
+        try:
+            msg = json.loads(raw)
+        except ValueError:
+            send({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": None, "error": {"code": -32700, "message": "parse error"}})
+            continue
+        handle(msg)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()