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WS-MCP-002-PLAN - Proposed standalone MCP adapter approach.

Goal

Review the MCP implementation approach before writing runtime code, as requested by the maintainer. The proposal defines an independently deployed adapter, an initial setup/access catalogue, API ownership, identity dependencies, testing and proposed PR boundaries.

Intent And Planning Context

What Changed And Why

Added one initiative overview, one planning change record and one index entry. The overview incorporates the shared MCP design and both Flow Identity designs, distinguishing human v0.1 from the future agent extension. It identifies the MCP-to-API credential contract as an unresolved integration decision.

Design Chosen

A separately installed and deployed Python MCP service calling fixed public Workstream HTTP operations. Workstream retains identity resolution, authorization, lifecycle rules, persistence, audit and replay behavior. Proposed implementation boundaries and verification are in the overview.

Alternatives Rejected

  • Reusing the closed contributor MCP implementation as current authority.
  • Copying backend domain or authorization logic into the adapter.
  • Treating hidden APIs, future agents or an unspecified token exchange as implemented contracts.

Scope Control

Allowed Files Changed

  • .commitrail/INDEX.md
  • .commitrail/initiatives/WS-MCP-002/OVERVIEW.md
  • .commitrail/initiatives/WS-MCP-002/WS-MCP-002-PLAN.md

Files Outside Stated Scope

None.

Product Behavior

  • No Workstream product behavior changed.

Roadmap impact: none. This planning proposal activates no capability and makes no new implementation claim.

Evidence

Commands run at committed candidate 6835ecbf (wording check also ran before commit on the same document contents):

python3 scripts/check_stale_workstream_wording.py
python3 scripts/check_markdown_links.py
/opt/homebrew/Caskroom/miniforge/base/bin/python3.12 scripts/check_commitrail_records.py --base-ref origin/main
git diff --check origin/main

Wording check passed; Markdown links passed for three changed files; Commitrail record check passed; diff whitespace check passed. The local Commitrail check used existing macOS Python tooling with markdown-it-py 3.0.0, not the repository's pinned Linux tooling environment. The hosted Agent Gates result is required for that environment's proof.

Acceptance Criteria Proof

  • Deployment approach, initial scope and ownership are documented.
  • Human baseline and future agent behavior are distinguished.
  • Credential uncertainty and current API dependencies are explicit.
  • Proposed implementation PRs include relevant verification.
  • The diff contains only three planning/navigation files.

Test Delta

No tests added, modified, removed or skipped. Application tests were not run because executable code, dependencies and workflows are unchanged. Document checks were run as listed above.

Review Evidence

Author review checked scope, identity boundaries, current-source references and document consistency. Independent architecture, security/auth and docs reviewer evidence is not yet available; this PR is submitted as a draft for plan review, not as a merge-ready implementation. No passing independent review is claimed.

External Review

Use GitHub for current checks, review comments and approval status.

CI And Gate Integrity

  • No workflow weakening.
  • No lint/test/docstring gate weakening.
  • No coverage threshold weakening.
  • No package script weakening.
  • No new GitHub Action.

No checkout step was added or changed.

Remaining Risks And Human Review Focus

Please review the 27-tool first-release boundary, package/container placement, and the MCP/API resource and credential contract. Flow designs do not prove deployment. API inventory must be refreshed before implementation; current PR #400 public proposal routes and PR #395 setup changes remain separately owned work.

Follow-Up Work

Resolve the proposal's open decisions and write a concrete foundation change record before implementing the runtime.

Human Merge Ownership

  • I can explain what changed.
  • I can explain why it changed.
  • I know what could break.
  • I accept the remaining risks.
  • The user explicitly approved this specific PR for merge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Documentation
    • Added planning documentation for the WS-MCP-002 initiative.
    • Documented the proposed independently deployed Python MCP adapter, including scope, API boundaries, security requirements, deployment considerations, phased validation, risks, and acceptance criteria.
    • Updated the engineering index with the initiative’s planned status and next review boundary.

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Walkthrough

The PR adds planning documentation for WS-MCP-002. It defines a proposed separately deployed Python MCP adapter, its 27-tool initial scope, contracts, constraints, phased implementation boundaries, open questions, and navigation entry.

Changes

MCP adapter planning

Layer / File(s) Summary
Adapter scope and contracts
.commitrail/initiatives/WS-MCP-002/OVERVIEW.md
Defines the proposed adapter architecture, 27-tool scope, Workstream HTTP boundary, MCP requirements, identity validation, error handling, deployment rules, acceptance proofs, and phased PR boundaries.
Planning record and index
.commitrail/initiatives/WS-MCP-002/WS-MCP-002-PLAN.md, .commitrail/INDEX.md
Records the proposal, current behavior, decisions, acceptance criteria, risks, evidence, open questions, and initiative navigation details.

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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6835e

The planning-only change is otherwise bounded, but its evidence table should accurately record whether the documented checks passed before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5
✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: a proposed standalone MCP adapter implementation plan.
Description check ✅ Passed The description covers the change, goal, planning context, design, rejected alternatives, scope, product behavior, evidence, acceptance criteria, test delta, risks, follow-up work, and human merge own…
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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