passalong 0.2.2 → 0.3.0

package/src/mcp.js

@@ -3,31 +3,93 @@
 // team, the same tools see the team's guides and the user's inbox.
 //
 //   claude mcp add passalong -- passalong mcp
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { McpServer } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/mcp.js";
 import { StdioServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/stdio.js";
 import { z } from "zod";
-import { SECTIONS, template } from "./guide.js";
+import * as api from "./api.js";
+import { AREAS, BUG_SECTIONS, parse, SECTIONS, template } from "./guide.js";
 import * as passalong from "./passalong.js";
 
+/**
+ * What the server calls itself in the MCP handshake — read from package.json rather than written
+ * here, because a literal drifts. This one said 0.2.0 for two releases while the package was
+ * 0.2.2, and the one thing a version string in a handshake is for is telling a client which build
+ * it is talking to. `pnpm release` bumps package.json, so there is only one number to bump.
+ */
+const VERSION = JSON.parse(
+  readFileSync(new URL("../package.json", import.meta.url), "utf8"),
+).version;
+
 const text = (s) => ({ content: [{ type: "text", text: s }] });
+
+/**
+ * The rest of the report this issue came from.
+ *
+ * A QA pass files six bugs at once, and they arrive in an inbox as six unrelated guides — which
+ * is how the same root cause gets fixed three times, or how someone fixes one of a pair and calls
+ * the sweep done. Naming the siblings costs one request and only happens for a guide that has a
+ * parent. A failure here is not worth failing the pull over: the issue itself is what was asked
+ * for, and it is already in hand.
+ */
+async function related(meta) {
+  if (!meta.report) return "";
+  try {
+    const { report } = await api.report(meta.report);
+    const others = (report.areas || [])
+      .flatMap((a) => a.issues.map((i) => ({ ...i, area: a.area })))
+      .filter((i) => i.id !== meta.id);
+    if (!others.length) return "";
+    const lines = others.map(
+      (i) => `  ${i.id}  [${i.severity || "--"}] ${i.area || "no area"} — ${i.title}`,
+    );
+    return (
+      `\n\n<!-- passalong: filed with ${others.length} other issue${others.length === 1 ? "" : "s"}` +
+      `${report.title ? ` in "${report.title}"` : ""}. Fix only this one unless asked; the others are\n` +
+      `${lines.join("\n")}\n-->`
+    );
+  } catch {
+    return "";
+  }
+}
 const json = (data) => text(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2));
 const fail = (err) => ({ content: [{ type: "text", text: err.message }], isError: true });
 
 export async function serve() {
   const server = new McpServer(
-    { name: "passalong", version: "0.2.0" },
+    { name: "passalong", version: VERSION },
     {
       instructions:
-        "Passalong hands finished implementations between contexts as transfer guides: markdown " +
-        `with frontmatter and the sections ${SECTIONS.join(", ")}. ` +
-        "When the user references a passalong id or link, call get_guide and follow its Steps, " +
-        "adapting anything marked ASSUMES to this codebase; run its Verification before declaring " +
-        "done, then set_guide_status consumed and verify_guide with the result. " +
+        "Passalong hands work between contexts as guides: markdown with frontmatter, in two " +
+        "kinds, and `kind:` in the frontmatter says which. READ IT BEFORE ACTING — the two ask " +
+        "for opposite behaviour.\n" +
+        `kind: transfer (or absent) is a finished implementation to repeat here. Sections: ${SECTIONS.join(", ")}. ` +
+        "Follow its Steps, adapting anything marked ASSUMES to this codebase; run its " +
+        "Verification before declaring done, then verify_guide with the result.\n" +
+        "OPEN A GUIDE YOU MEAN TO ACT ON WITH start_guide, NOT get_guide. Both return the same " +
+        "markdown; start_guide also says you are on it, and that is the only signal the sender " +
+        "gets between handing work over and hearing it worked. get_guide is for reading one you " +
+        "have not committed to. Taking your own guide is a no-op, so there is no case where " +
+        "start_guide is the wrong call on work you are about to do. If it turns out not to be " +
+        "yours, hand it back with ack_guide taken=false and a reason — say why, or the sender is " +
+        "left exactly where silence left them.\n" +
+        `kind: bug is a defect to FIX here. Sections: ${BUG_SECTIONS.join(", ")}. ` +
+        "It has no Steps and nothing in it is a procedure to apply: Reproduce is how to see the " +
+        "bug and running it produces the bug, Verification is the behaviour that should have " +
+        "happened. Fix the defect, then check Verification and verify_guide with the result — " +
+        "ok true once the behaviour it describes actually holds. A bug report is not broken " +
+        "because you reproduced it. " +
+        "When you find defects you are not fixing — a test run, a QA pass, a review — call " +
+        "file_bugs with all of them at once; each becomes a guide someone can take on its own. " +
         "When the user asks to pass along, hand off, or " +
         "share what was just done, distill the session into a guide (guide_template shows the " +
-        "shape) and call publish_guide, with `to` as team or team/handle when it is for a teammate. " +
-        "At the start of work, inbox shows guides teammates have handed to this user, and activity " +
-        "shows whether the guides they handed off have landed. Gotchas are " +
+        "shape) and call publish_guide, with `to` as team, team/@handle for one teammate, or " +
+        "team/#group for the people who do a thing. " +
+        "At the start of work, inbox shows guides teammates have handed to this user — open one " +
+        "with start_guide — and activity " +
+        "shows whether the guides they handed off have landed. When the user asks what they have " +
+        "been working on, or wants a standup or a summary of a period, call log — but say that it " +
+        "holds what they passed along and not everything they did. Gotchas are " +
         "the highest-value section: record what failed and why.",
     },
   );
@@ -79,9 +141,8 @@ export async function serve() {
       description:
         "The state of this user's transfers as queues: waiting on you (handed to you, not " +
         "pulled), not working (someone gave it a failing verdict — the most urgent), in flight " +
-        "(handed over, nobody has taken it — `stale` means it has sat over a week), landed " +
-        "(someone has it and has not marked it consumed), and worth keeping (pulled enough to " +
-        "promote into a reference). Use it to answer 'what is outstanding?'.",
+        "(handed over, nobody has taken it — `stale` means it has sat over a week), and landed " +
+        "(someone else has it). Use it to answer 'what is outstanding?'.",
       inputSchema: {},
     },
     async () => {
@@ -93,6 +154,63 @@ export async function serve() {
     },
   );
 
+  server.registerTool(
+    "log",
+    {
+      title: "What this user did",
+      description:
+        "This user's own acts on guides, newest first: what they published, what they took " +
+        "delivery of, and every verdict and ack they gave. Each item has a rendered `text` line " +
+        "and the guide's repo. Use it to answer 'what have I been working on', to write a " +
+        "standup or a weekly summary, or to find work from a repo by when it happened rather " +
+        "than by what it was called. This is the opposite of `activity`, which is what other " +
+        "people did. IMPORTANT: it records what was passed along, not what was worked on — work " +
+        "that never became a guide has no entry, so never present it as a complete record of " +
+        "this user's work, and never infer that a quiet period was an idle one.",
+      inputSchema: {
+        repo: z.string().default("").describe("narrow to guides whose source repo matches this"),
+        since: z
+          .string()
+          .default("")
+          .describe("only what happened on or after this date: 2026, 2026-09, or 2026-09-11"),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ repo, since }) => {
+      try {
+        return json({ log: await passalong.log({ repo: repo || "", since: since || "" }) });
+      } catch (err) {
+        return fail(err);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
+  server.registerTool(
+    "ack_guide",
+    {
+      title: "Say whether you are taking it",
+      description:
+        "The first word back on a guide handed to you, before any work: take it, or pass it " +
+        "back. Passing must say why — an unanswered handoff is indistinguishable from one nobody " +
+        "has noticed, and the sender finds out in a week instead of a minute. Answer this when " +
+        "you pick up an inbox; verify_guide comes later, once you have actually run it.",
+      inputSchema: {
+        id: z.string().describe("passalong id"),
+        taken: z.boolean().describe("true if you are doing it; false hands it back"),
+        note: z
+          .string()
+          .default("")
+          .describe("why it is not yours (required when taken is false); one line, max 280 chars"),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ id, taken, note }) => {
+      try {
+        return json(await passalong.ack(id, taken, note || ""));
+      } catch (err) {
+        return fail(err);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
   server.registerTool(
     "verify_guide",
     {
@@ -143,14 +261,66 @@ export async function serve() {
     },
   );
 
+  server.registerTool(
+    "start_guide",
+    {
+      title: "Start work on a guide",
+      description:
+        "Take a guide handed to you AND fetch it, in one call — use this the moment you are going " +
+        "to do the work. Same markdown as get_guide, plus the handoff is answered: until somebody " +
+        "says they are on it, a guide nobody has noticed and a guide somebody is deep in look " +
+        "identical to the sender, who finds out in a week instead of a minute. Taking your own " +
+        "guide is a no-op, not an error, so this is always safe to call. If the work turns out " +
+        "not to be yours after reading, hand it back with ack_guide taken=false and a reason.",
+      inputSchema: {
+        ref: z.string().describe("passalong id (e.g. k3mq2xa7) or share URL"),
+        cwd: z
+          .string()
+          .optional()
+          .describe("directory to write .passalong/<id>.md into; default is the server's cwd"),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ ref, cwd }) => {
+      try {
+        const r = await passalong.start(ref, { cwd: cwd || process.cwd() });
+        const meta = parse(r.markdown).meta;
+        const lead =
+          meta.kind === "bug"
+            ? "THIS IS A BUG REPORT, NOT WORK TO REPEAT. Do not follow Reproduce as instructions " +
+              "— those steps produce the defect. Fix what Problem describes, then check " +
+              "Verification and answer with verify_guide.\n\n"
+            : "";
+        // What actually happened to the ack, said plainly. An agent that reports "took it" when
+        // nothing was sent is the failure this tool exists to prevent, one step further along.
+        const took = r.took
+          ? "handoff taken; the sender has been told"
+          : r.own
+            ? "your own guide — nothing to take, and nobody to tell"
+            : r.ack_error
+              ? `NOT taken (${r.ack_error}) — retry with ack_guide before reporting that you have it`
+              : "not logged in, so no handoff was taken";
+        const siblings = await related(meta);
+        return text(
+          `${lead}${r.markdown}${siblings}` +
+            `\n\n<!-- passalong: ${r.from}; written to ${r.path}; ${took} -->`,
+        );
+      } catch (err) {
+        return fail(err);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
   server.registerTool(
     "get_guide",
     {
       title: "Get guide",
       description:
-        "Fetch a transfer guide by passalong id or share link and return its full markdown. Also " +
+        "READ a transfer guide by passalong id or share link and return its full markdown. Also " +
         "writes it to .passalong/<id>.md in the working directory so it survives the session. " +
-        "Pulling a teammate's guide tells them the transfer landed.",
+        "Pulling a teammate's guide tells them the transfer landed. Use this to look at a guide " +
+        "you have not committed to. If you are about to DO the work, call start_guide instead: " +
+        "it does this and takes the handoff in one call, which is the only way the sender learns " +
+        "somebody picked it up.",
       inputSchema: {
         ref: z.string().describe("passalong id (e.g. k3mq2xa7) or share URL"),
         cwd: z
@@ -162,7 +332,55 @@ export async function serve() {
     async ({ ref, cwd }) => {
       try {
         const { markdown, path, from } = await passalong.pull(ref, { cwd: cwd || process.cwd() });
-        return text(`${markdown}\n\n<!-- passalong: ${from}; written to ${path} -->`);
+        // The heading text is what an agent keys on, and a bug's headings look enough like a
+        // transfer guide's to be followed by one that never opened the frontmatter. So the kind
+        // is stated in front of the document, in the imperative, every time.
+        const meta = parse(markdown).meta;
+        const lead =
+          meta.kind === "bug"
+            ? "THIS IS A BUG REPORT, NOT WORK TO REPEAT. Do not follow Reproduce as instructions " +
+              "— those steps produce the defect. Fix what Problem describes, then check " +
+              "Verification and answer with verify_guide.\n\n"
+            : "";
+        const siblings = await related(meta);
+        // After the document, with the other trailing comments, not in front of it. An
+        // instruction that arrives with the payload is what gets read — but anything before the
+        // opening `---` stops the frontmatter being frontmatter, and this fires on every guide
+        // anyone was handed rather than only on bugs. The bug lead stays where it is: it is a
+        // warning against executing the document, so being read first is its whole job.
+        return text(
+          `${lead}${markdown}${siblings}` +
+            `\n\n<!-- passalong: ${from}; written to ${path} -->` +
+            `\n${passalong.handoffNudge(meta)}`,
+        );
+      } catch (err) {
+        return fail(err);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
+  server.registerTool(
+    "attach_screenshot",
+    {
+      title: "Attach a screenshot",
+      description:
+        "Upload an image from this machine as evidence, and get back the markdown line that " +
+        "points at it. Put that line in the guide body — a guide travels as markdown to whoever " +
+        "holds its link, so evidence beside the document does not travel at all. Publishing " +
+        "claims whatever the markdown names, so attach first and publish after. png, jpg, webp " +
+        "or gif.",
+      inputSchema: {
+        file: z.string().describe("path to the image on this machine"),
+        name: z.string().default("").describe("label for the image; defaults to its filename"),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ file, name }) => {
+      try {
+        const shot = await passalong.attach(file, { name: name || "" });
+        return text(
+          `${JSON.stringify({ id: shot.id, url: shot.url, bytes: shot.bytes }, null, 2)}\n\n` +
+            `Put this in the guide body:\n${shot.markdown}`,
+        );
       } catch (err) {
         return fail(err);
       }
@@ -174,12 +392,16 @@ export async function serve() {
     {
       title: "Publish guide",
       description:
-        "Publish a transfer guide from markdown (frontmatter + sections). Missing id, created, " +
+        "Publish a guide from markdown (frontmatter + sections) — a transfer guide by default, or " +
+        "a single bug with `kind: bug`; use file_bugs for more than one. Missing id, created, " +
         'author, and source_context are filled in. `to` addresses it to a team ("khaime") or a ' +
         'teammate ("khaime/lukman"), who is notified. Returns the id and share link.',
       inputSchema: {
         markdown: z.string().describe("full guide markdown; start from guide_template"),
-        to: z.string().optional().describe("team slug, or team/handle for a specific teammate"),
+        to: z
+          .string()
+          .optional()
+          .describe("team slug, team/@handle for one teammate, or team/#group for a set of them"),
         cwd: z
           .string()
           .optional()
@@ -208,14 +430,96 @@ export async function serve() {
     },
   );
 
+  server.registerTool(
+    "file_bugs",
+    {
+      title: "File bugs",
+      description:
+        "File one or more bugs you found but are not fixing, as a set. Opens a report and " +
+        "publishes each issue as its own guide — its own id, share link, and verdict — so a " +
+        "reviewer can hand any one of them to whoever fixes it. Use this after a test run, a QA " +
+        "pass, or a review that turned up defects; use publish_guide instead for work you " +
+        "finished and want repeated elsewhere. Needs sync (`passalong login`).",
+      inputSchema: {
+        title: z
+          .string()
+          .optional()
+          .describe('what the sweep was, e.g. "Checkout regression pass, 8 Sep build"'),
+        environment: z
+          .string()
+          .optional()
+          .describe("production, staging or development — where you saw these"),
+        to: z
+          .string()
+          .optional()
+          .describe("team slug, team/@handle for one teammate, or team/#group for a set of them"),
+        issues: z
+          .array(
+            z.object({
+              title: z.string().describe("what is broken, in one line"),
+              problem: z
+                .string()
+                .describe(
+                  "what is broken and what it stops someone doing; the error if there is one",
+                ),
+              reproduce: z
+                .string()
+                .describe(
+                  "numbered steps that show the bug — these produce it, they are not a fix",
+                ),
+              verification: z
+                .string()
+                .optional()
+                .describe(
+                  "the behaviour that should have happened, as something a fixer can check",
+                ),
+              gotchas: z
+                .string()
+                .optional()
+                .describe("anything already ruled out, or that made it hard to pin down"),
+              area: z
+                .string()
+                .optional()
+                .describe(`which surface it is on — known: ${AREAS.map((a) => a.slug).join(", ")}`),
+              severity: z
+                .string()
+                .optional()
+                .describe("s1 blocker, s2 major, s3 minor, s4 cosmetic (default s3)"),
+            }),
+          )
+          .min(1)
+          .describe("one entry per defect; file them together rather than one call each"),
+        cwd: z.string().optional().describe("directory the bugs were found in"),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ title, environment, to, issues, cwd }) => {
+      try {
+        const filed = await passalong.fileBugs(
+          { title: title || "", environment: environment || "", issues },
+          { cwd: cwd || process.cwd(), to },
+        );
+        return json(filed);
+      } catch (err) {
+        return fail(err);
+      }
+    },
+  );
+
   server.registerTool(
     "guide_template",
     {
       title: "Guide template",
-      description: "The empty transfer guide skeleton with guidance comments for each section.",
-      inputSchema: {},
+      description:
+        "The empty guide skeleton with guidance comments for each section. `kind: bug` gives the " +
+        "bug report skeleton instead, which has a Reproduce section and no Steps.",
+      inputSchema: {
+        kind: z
+          .enum(["transfer", "bug"])
+          .optional()
+          .describe("transfer (default) for finished work to repeat; bug for a defect to fix"),
+      },
     },
-    async () => text(template()),
+    async ({ kind }) => text(template(kind === "bug" ? { kind: "bug" } : {})),
   );
 
   server.registerTool(
@@ -223,8 +527,9 @@ export async function serve() {
     {
       title: "Set guide status",
       description:
-        "Mark a guide consumed (implemented on the receiving side) or promoted (a reusable reference). " +
-        "Only the author can promote.",
+        "Deprecated — prefer verify_guide. Marks a guide consumed or promoted, an author lifecycle " +
+        "nothing reads any more: the board reports where a transfer is and the verdict reports " +
+        "whether it worked. Kept so existing callers do not break. Only the author can promote.",
       inputSchema: { id: z.string(), status: z.enum(["published", "consumed", "promoted"]) },
     },
     async ({ id, status }) => {