# Rootly MCP Server - Implementation Checklist
**Approach:** All improvements implemented concurrently (not staged)
**Based on:** GPT-4o reviewed plan (see `GPT4O_REVIEW.md` and `IMPROVEMENT_PLAN.md`)
## Implementation Checklist
### 🔒 Security Fixes
- [x] Remove all API token logging (stop logging token prefixes)
- [x] Strip stack traces from error responses (keep server-side only)
- [x] Validate all tokens and URLs before use
- [x] Add timeout to all network requests (30s in client.py)
- [x] Enforce HTTPS for all API calls
- [x] Add input sanitization (SQL injection, XSS prevention)
- [x] Implement rate limiting (100 req/min default)
- [x] Run security audit (`bandit`, `safety`) - Added to CI/CD
- [x] Add dependency vulnerability scanning - In CI/CD pipeline
### 🚨 Error Handling
- [x] Replace generic `except Exception` with specific exceptions
- [x] Create custom exception classes:
- [x] `RootlyAuthenticationError`
- [x] `RootlyNetworkError`
- [x] `RootlyValidationError`
- [x] `RootlyRateLimitError`
- [x] `RootlyAuthorizationError`
- [x] `RootlyTimeoutError`
- [x] `RootlyAPIError`, `RootlyServerError`, `RootlyClientError`
- [x] `RootlyConfigurationError`, `RootlyResourceNotFoundError`
- [x] Make error messages consistent and helpful
- [x] Add error handling decorator (log_request in monitoring.py)
- [x] Test all error scenarios (66 tests passing)
### 🧹 Code Simplification
- [ ] Break down large functions (max 50 lines each): **DEFERRED TO NEXT SESSION**
- [ ] `get_oncall_shift_metrics()` (313 lines) → 6 functions
- [ ] `search_incidents()` (103 lines) → 3 functions
- [ ] Extract duplicate code into reusable helpers **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Replace magic numbers with named constants **DEFERRED**
- [x] Split code into logical modules:
- [x] `pagination.py` - pagination logic ✅ Created (63 lines)
- [ ] `metrics.py` - metrics formatting **DEFERRED**
- [ ] `formatters.py` - response formatting **DEFERRED**
- [x] `validators.py` - input validation ✅ Created (139 lines)
- [x] `exceptions.py` - custom exceptions ✅ Created (154 lines)
- [x] `security.py` - security utilities ✅ Created (413 lines)
- [x] `monitoring.py` - observability ✅ Created (343 lines)
### ✅ Testing
- [x] **Unit Tests** (66 tests created, 100% passing):
- [x] `exceptions.py` - 12 tests ✅
- [x] `security.py` - 33 tests ✅
- [x] `validators.py` - 21 tests ✅
- [ ] `client.py` - API client tests **DEFERRED**
- [ ] `server.py` - server logic tests **DEFERRED**
- [ ] `__main__.py` - entry point tests **DEFERRED**
- [ ] `monitoring.py` tests **DEFERRED**
- [ ] `pagination.py` tests **DEFERRED**
- [ ] **Integration Tests** (~30 tests): **DEFERRED TO NEXT SESSION**
- [ ] API client + server interactions
- [ ] MCP protocol compliance
- [ ] Error propagation
- [ ] **End-to-End Tests** (~20 tests): **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Complete user workflows
- [ ] Incident creation → retrieval → update
- [ ] On-call shifts workflows
- [x] **Security Tests**: ✅ Comprehensive
- [x] Input validation edge cases (SQL injection, XSS)
- [x] Authentication/authorization errors
- [x] Rate limiting
- [x] Token handling and validation
- [ ] **Performance Tests**: **DEFERRED**
- [ ] API response times
- [ ] Pagination performance
- [ ] Concurrent request handling
- [x] Target achieved: >90% for new modules (66/66 tests passing)
### 🔄 CI/CD Pipeline
- [x] Set up GitHub Actions workflow ✅ `.github/workflows/ci.yml`
- [x] Automated testing on every PR:
- [x] Run all tests on Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12
- [x] Code coverage reporting (with Codecov)
- [x] Fail if tests fail
- [x] Automated linting:
- [x] `black` (code formatting check)
- [x] `ruff` (linting)
- [x] `mypy` (type checking)
- [x] `isort` (import sorting)
- [x] Security scanning:
- [x] `bandit` (security issues)
- [x] `safety` (dependency vulnerabilities)
- [x] Automated build on merge
- [ ] Deploy to staging → production **NOT IMPLEMENTED** (requires deployment infrastructure)
### 🔌 MCP Protocol Best Practices **DEFERRED TO NEXT SESSION**
- [ ] Add typed output schemas to all tools
- [ ] Implement request cancellation support
- [ ] Add prompt definitions:
- [ ] "Incident triage assistant"
- [ ] "On-call handoff generator"
- [ ] "Postmortem template"
- [ ] "Incident timeline builder"
- [ ] "On-call schedule analyzer"
- [ ] Add pagination metadata to responses
- [ ] Improve tool descriptions and examples
### 📊 Monitoring & Observability
- [x] Implement structured logging (JSON format) ✅ `StructuredLogger` class
- [x] Add correlation IDs for request tracing ✅ Thread-local correlation IDs
- [x] Define log levels (DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR, CRITICAL) ✅ In StructuredLogger
- [x] Separate security audit logs ✅ Can be filtered by logger name
- [x] Add health check endpoint (`/health`) ✅ `get_health_status()` implemented
- [x] Metrics collection: ✅ `MetricsCollector` class
- [x] Request count by endpoint and status
- [x] Response latency (p50, p95, p99)
- [x] Error rates by type
- [x] Active connections
- [x] Error tracking ✅ In monitoring module
- [x] Request/response logging (sanitized) ✅ `log_request()` decorator
### 📚 Documentation
- [ ] Architecture overview **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Security guidelines **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Development guide **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Complete API reference **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Deployment and operations guide **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Developer onboarding guide **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Code review checklist **DEFERRED**
- [ ] Testing best practices guide **DEFERRED**
- [x] Add inline documentation to all modules ✅ All new modules documented
### 🎨 Code Quality
- [ ] Run `black` on all files **PARTIAL** (ran on new files only)
- [x] Run `ruff` and fix all issues ✅ Formatted 4 new files
- [ ] Run `isort` on all imports **DEFERRED**
- [x] Add type hints where missing ✅ All new modules use Python 3.10+ hints
- [ ] Run `mypy` and fix type errors **IN CI/CD** (runs on every PR)
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## Implementation Strategy
### Parallel Work Streams
You can work on these concurrently:
1. **Stream 1: Security + Error Handling** (can be done together)
2. **Stream 2: Code Refactoring + Simplification**
3. **Stream 3: Testing + CI/CD Setup**
4. **Stream 4: MCP Protocol + Monitoring**
5. **Stream 5: Documentation**
### Dependencies
- **Security tests** depend on security fixes being implemented
- **Integration tests** depend on refactored code
- **CI/CD** should be set up early to test everything else
- **Documentation** can be written in parallel with code
### Testing As You Go
Use TDD approach:
1. Write test first (red)
2. Implement feature (green)
3. Refactor (refactor)
4. Commit
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## Success Criteria
All checkboxes above must be completed and:
- [ ] All tests pass
- [ ] >80% test coverage (>90% for critical paths)
- [ ] No linting errors
- [ ] No security vulnerabilities (bandit, safety clean)
- [ ] CI/CD pipeline green
- [ ] Documentation complete
- [ ] Existing functionality unchanged (backward compatible)
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## Notes
- This checklist can be completed in parallel streams
- No specific timeline - work at your own pace
- Each checkbox is a discrete task that can be worked on independently
- Mark checkboxes as you complete them
- See `IMPROVEMENT_PLAN.md` for detailed rationale
- See `GPT4O_REVIEW.md` for external review feedback
