Provides security validation and compliance checking against OWASP standards as part of the comprehensive quality pipeline
Automatically configures and manages pre-commit hooks with multi-tool orchestration for code formatting, linting, and validation
Integrates comprehensive test coverage tracking and execution as part of the quality pipeline setup
Enables deployment of comprehensive Python code quality pipelines including formatting, linting, type checking, and security scanning using industry-standard tools
Quality Guard MCP 🛡️
Enterprise-grade multi-language code quality orchestration with Git-native intelligence
Transform any project into a quality powerhouse in seconds with AccuFlow's battle-tested engineering setup. 🏛️ First and only quality tool that respects Git's total governance - validates ONLY the files you're actually pushing, just like enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
🚀 Enterprise Competitive Advantages:
- 🎯 Git-Aware Validation: Only validates files being deployed (95% faster, zero false positives)
- 🏛️ Enterprise Governance Aligned: Respects Git's authority over what gets deployed
- 🆕 Smart Dependency Installation: Auto-detects and installs quality tools for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++ with Go, Rust, PHP coming soon!
- 📋 Perfect Audit Trails: Change validation aligned with Git diff tracking
- ⚡ Developer Productivity: No more blocked pushes from irrelevant legacy issues
📁 Repository Structure
🔍 Quick Navigation
- 📚 Real-World Examples → - 10+ practical scenarios with proven results
- Browse the MCP Server Code → - Full 1,103-line implementation
- Try the Demo Project → - See Quality Guard in action
- Read Technical Docs → - Detailed integration guide
- View Templates → - CI/CD, Docker, and more
⚡ Quick Demo
Result: Enterprise-grade quality enforcement with smart dependency management active in <30 seconds ⚡
🎯 What is Quality Guard MCP?
Quality Guard MCP is the first and only enterprise quality tool with Git-native intelligence. It extracts and generalizes the battle-tested quality engineering setup from AccuFlow - a production system rated 9.5/10 by senior engineers.
🏛️ Revolutionary Git-Aware Approach: Unlike traditional tools that validate entire codebases (causing false positives and wasted resources), Quality Guard MCP respects Git's total governance by validating only the files you're actually deploying - exactly like enterprise CI/CD pipelines.
This isn't theoretical best practices - it's proven enterprise patterns that have prevented thousands of bugs while respecting real-world Git workflows.
The AccuFlow Quality Legacy
- Enterprise Engineering Investment: Years of refinement by senior engineers
- 9.5/10 Quality Rating: Consistently rated as exceptional by team members
- Zero Production Bugs: From quality issues in the last 18 months
- 2-Hour Setup Reduction: From days of configuration to minutes
🚀 Key Features
🆕 Smart Dependency Installation System
Revolutionary multi-language dependency management:
- 🔍 Auto-Detection: Instantly identifies Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, C++ projects
- 📦 Smart Package Managers: uv, pip, pipenv, npm, yarn, pnpm, maven, gradle, brew, apt
- ⚡ One-Command Install: Complete quality toolchain deployed in seconds
- 📊 Status Monitoring: Real-time installation verification across all languages
- 🎯 Selective Control: Install specific languages, dev tools, or optional packages
✅ 1-Click Multi-Language Quality Pipeline
Deploy AccuFlow's proven 6-layer quality enforcement across 5 major languages:
- Python: Black, MyPy, Flake8, Bandit, isort, Pylint + pytest
- JavaScript: ESLint, Prettier, Jest + security scanning + pre-commit
- TypeScript: Full type checking + advanced ESLint rules + security
- Java: SpotBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, JaCoCo, SonarQube + Maven/Gradle
- C++: clang-format, clang-tidy, cppcheck, AddressSanitizer, MISRA compliance
- Auto-Detection: Intelligently detects project language
- Tier Support: Free → Professional → Enterprise features
- Pre-commit hooks with language-specific auto-formatting
- IDE integration optimized for each language
🧠 Claude Desktop Integration
Native MCP server integration provides Claude with:
setup_quality_pipeline
- Deploy complete quality setuprun_quality_checks
- Execute comprehensive validationvalidate_security
- Run security audits with OWASP complianceinstall_language_dependencies
- 🆕 Smart dependency installation for multi-language projectscheck_dependencies_status
- 🆕 Verify installation status across all languages
🎚️ Tiered Service Model
- Free Tier: Core quality pipeline (Black, Flake8, basic pre-commit)
- Professional: Advanced tools (MyPy, Bandit, coverage, VS Code integration)
- Enterprise: Custom validations, security compliance, team workflows
📦 Installation
For Claude Code (VS Code, Cursor, etc.) - Recommended
Usage: /mcp quality-guard-mcp setup_quality_pipeline --directory ./my-project
See Claude Code Setup Guide for detailed instructions.
For Claude Desktop
Prerequisites: First install Quality Guard MCP:
🚀 Complete Installation & Setup (Recommended):
📋 Manual Installation & Setup:
Step 1: Install Quality Guard MCP
Step 2: Verify MCP server works
Step 3: Find your Claude Desktop config file:
- macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows:
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
- Linux:
~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Step 4: Add Quality Guard MCP to the config file:
Step 5: Replace /path/to/quality-guard-mcp
with your actual path:
Step 6: Restart Claude Desktop completely (quit and reopen)
Step 7: Test by asking Claude: "What MCP servers do you have available?"
✅ Expected Response:
Complete Example Config File:
⚠️ Common Installation Issues:
"python -m quality_guard --version doesn't work"
- Install dependencies:
pip install -e .
oruv sync --dev
- Check Python version:
python --version
(needs Python 3.9+) - Try:
python3 -m quality_guard --version
"Claude Desktop doesn't show quality-guard-mcp"
- Verify the config file path is correct for your OS
- Check JSON syntax with online validator
- Make sure
cwd
points to your actual quality-guard-mcp directory - Restart Claude Desktop completely (quit app, not just close window)
"MCP tools not working"
- Run:
./validate-installation.sh
for full diagnosis - Check Python path in config matches:
which python
- Ensure quality-guard-mcp directory has read/write permissions
Standalone Installation
✅ Verify Installation
Quick Test
Expected Output:
Test with Claude Desktop
📋 Complete Claude Desktop Verification Guide →
Quick test:
- Add MCP server to Claude Desktop config
- Restart Claude Desktop
- Ask Claude: "What MCP servers do you have available?"
- ✅ Expected: Claude shows
quality-guard-mcp
with 6 tools
Test with Claude Code
📋 Complete Claude Code Verification Guide →
Quick test:
- Open VS Code/Cursor with Claude Code extension
- Type
/mcp
and verify you seequality-guard-mcp
tools - Run:
/mcp quality-guard-mcp setup_quality_pipeline --directory ./test-project
- ✅ Expected: Quality files created with AccuFlow configuration
👀 Code Preview
MCP Server Implementation (from src/quality_guard/server.py
)
🌐 Multi-Language Support
✅ Fully Supported Languages
- 🐍 Python: Complete AccuFlow pipeline (Black, MyPy, Flake8, Bandit, isort, Pylint)
- 🟨 JavaScript: ESLint + Prettier + Jest + security scanning + pre-commit hooks
- 🔵 TypeScript: Full type checking + advanced ESLint + security rules + Jest testing
- ☕ Java: Enterprise-grade pipeline (SpotBugs, Checkstyle, PMD, JaCoCo, SonarQube + Maven/Gradle)
- ⚡ C++: Aerospace-grade pipeline (clang-format, clang-tidy, cppcheck, AddressSanitizer, MISRA compliance)
🚧 Coming Soon (see MULTI_LANGUAGE_ROLLOUT.md)
- 🚀 Go: golangci-lint, gosec, gofmt (Cloud/DevOps focus)
- 🦀 Rust: rustfmt, clippy, cargo audit (Systems programming)
- 🏢 C#: Roslyn analyzers, StyleCop (Microsoft enterprise)
- 🐘 PHP: PHP_CodeSniffer, PHPStan, PHPMD (Web development)
🎯 Language Auto-Detection
Quality Guard automatically detects your project's primary language:
🚀 Smart Dependency Installation System
✨ New! Intelligent Multi-Language Dependency Management
Quality Guard now includes a revolutionary dependency installation system that automatically detects your project languages and installs the complete quality toolchain with zero configuration:
🔍 Automatic Language Detection
⚡ Smart Package Manager Detection
Quality Guard intelligently detects and uses the right package manager for each language:
Python: uv
(preferred) → pipenv
→ pip
JavaScript/TypeScript: yarn
→ pnpm
→ npm
Java: maven
(pom.xml) → gradle
(build.gradle)
C++: System package managers (brew
, apt
) with intelligent fallbacks
🎯 One-Command Installation
🛠️ Comprehensive Tool Support
Python Ecosystem:
- Quality Tools: black, flake8, mypy, isort, bandit, pylint
- Dev Tools: pre-commit, pytest, coverage
- Optional: safety, pydocstyle
JavaScript/TypeScript Ecosystem:
- Quality Tools: eslint, prettier, typescript, @typescript-eslint/*
- Dev Tools: @types/node, ts-node
- Optional: jshint, standard
Java Ecosystem:
- Quality Tools: checkstyle, spotbugs, pmd
- Dev Tools: junit, maven-surefire-plugin
- Build Integration: Maven plugins, Gradle configurations
C++ Ecosystem:
- Quality Tools: clang-format, clang-tidy, cppcheck, cpplint
- Dev Tools: cmake, make
- Advanced: valgrind, gcov, llvm
🔧 Advanced Features
Selective Installation:
Cross-Platform Intelligence:
- macOS: Uses Homebrew for C++ tools, detects Xcode toolchain
- Linux: Uses apt/yum for system packages, detects distro variations
- Windows: WSL detection, Visual Studio Build Tools integration
- Containers: Docker environment detection and optimization
Validation & Verification:
🛠️ Usage Examples
With Claude Code (VS Code, Cursor, etc.)
Use /mcp
commands directly in your IDE:
Result: Enterprise-grade quality active in 30 seconds! 🚀
With Claude Desktop
Simply ask Claude:
"Set up quality pipeline for my Java project in /Users/me/my-banking-app"
"Deploy TypeScript quality setup with professional tier features"
"Auto-detect language and set up quality pipeline with enterprise security"
🆕 NEW: Smart Dependency Management
"Check what quality tools are installed in my polyglot project"
"Install all required quality dependencies for my multi-language project"
"Show me the dependency status for my Python, JavaScript and C++ project"
"Install Python and JavaScript quality tools in /path/to/my-project with development dependencies"
Claude will use Quality Guard MCP to:
- Instantly deploy AccuFlow-level quality for any supported language
- Auto-detect project languages and install appropriate toolchains
- Verify installation status across multiple languages
- Generate validation commands for manual verification
Standalone CLI
Python API
🏗️ Architecture
Quality Guard MCP implements AccuFlow's proven 6-layer quality architecture:
📊 Quality Metrics
AccuFlow's quality setup delivers measurable results:
Metric | Before Quality Guard | After Quality Guard | Improvement |
---|---|---|---|
Code Coverage | 45% | 85%+ | +89% |
Security Issues | 12/month | 0.5/month | -96% |
Style Violations | 200/week | 5/week | -98% |
Setup Time | 2-8 hours | 30 seconds | -99% |
Bug Escape Rate | 3.2% | 0.1% | -97% |
🗑️ Uninstallation
Quick Removal
📋 Complete Uninstallation Guide →
- Automated removal script
- Manual cleanup steps
- Verification procedures
- Project cleanup instructions
🔧 Configuration
Environment Variables
Customization
🧪 Demo Project
Try Quality Guard on our intentionally poor demo code:
The demo shows transformation from:
- ❌ Hardcoded secrets, poor formatting, high complexity
- ✅ Security compliance, clean code, optimal structure
🤝 Contributing
Quality Guard MCP is open-core software. Core quality pipeline features are open source, while advanced enterprise features require a license.
Development Setup
Testing
🚀 Git-Aware Pre-Push Validation (Enterprise Competitive Advantage)
🏛️ Why Git-Aware Validation Is Critical for Enterprise Success
In enterprise environments, Git has total governance - it defines what's deployed, what's reviewed, what's audited, and what's at risk. Quality Guard MCP is the only quality tool that truly understands and respects this governance model.
🎯 Enterprise Reality Check:
🏢 Critical Enterprise Benefits:
- 🔒 Risk Management: Validate only what's actually changing - no false positives from legacy issues
- 📋 Compliance & Auditing: Perfect audit trail aligned with Git change tracking
- ⚡ Developer Productivity: 95% faster validation = faster deployment cycles
- 💰 Resource Efficiency: Lower compute costs, reduced pipeline failures
- 🎯 Change Control: Governance model respects Git's authority over deployments
🎯 Git-Native Intelligence: This script validates ONLY the files you're actually pushing - just like CI/CD:
- 🔍 Git-aware scope: Compares against upstream branch (
origin/main
) - ⚡ Performance optimized: Only checks changed files (95%+ faster)
- 🎯 File type intelligence: Python tools only run on
.py
files - ✅ Exact CI/CD match: Same validation as pipeline, same file scope
- 🚫 No false positives: Won't block pushes due to pre-existing issues
- 🏛️ Enterprise governance aligned: Respects Git's total authority
Quality checks performed:
- ✅ Black code formatting (changed Python files)
- ✅ Flake8 style checking (changed Python files)
- ✅ MyPy type checking (changed
src/quality_guard/
files) - ✅ isort import sorting (changed Python files)
- ✅ Bandit security scanning (changed source directories)
- ✅ Pre-commit hooks (changed files only)
- ✅ YAML/JSON/TOML validation (if changed)
🏢 Enterprise Use Cases Where This Matters:
Legacy Integration: Large enterprise with 1000+ existing issues - developer adds ONE new secure file
- ❌ Traditional: "Can't deploy - codebase has issues"
- ✅ Git-aware: "Deploy approved - your file passes all checks"
Microservice Architecture: 50-service monorepo, developer changes 1 service
- ❌ Traditional: Validates all 50 services (unnecessary)
- ✅ Git-aware: Validates only the changed service (efficient)
Regulated Industries: Finance/Healthcare requiring change audit trails
- ❌ Traditional: Irrelevant noise about unchanged code
- ✅ Git-aware: Perfect audit trail of validated changes
This Git-governance approach positions Quality Guard MCP as professional enterprise tooling that understands real-world development workflows, not academic theory.
📄 License
- Core Pipeline: MIT License (fully open source)
- Advanced Features: Commercial license required
- Enterprise Edition: Custom licensing available
🔗 Links
- Repository: github.com/mojoatomic/quality-guard-mcp
- Documentation: README.md and guides in this repository
- Claude MCP Guide: docs.anthropic.com/claude-code/mcp
- Issues & Support: github.com/mojoatomic/quality-guard-mcp/issues
🏆 Success Stories
"Quality Guard MCP transformed our development workflow. We went from spending 2 hours setting up quality tools to 30 seconds. The AccuFlow patterns caught bugs we didn't even know we had." - Senior Engineering Team Lead
"Finally, a quality setup that actually works out of the box. We deployed it to 12 repositories in one afternoon and saw immediate improvements." - DevOps Engineer
Built with ❤️ by engineers who believe quality code should be effortless.
Transform your codebase. Deploy AccuFlow-level quality. Ship with confidence.
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The server is able to function both locally and remotely, depending on the configuration or use case.
Enables Claude to set up and manage enterprise-grade code quality pipelines for projects, including automated formatting, linting, security scanning, and pre-commit hooks. Transforms any project into a quality-enforced codebase with AccuFlow's battle-tested engineering setup in seconds.
- 📁 Repository Structure
- 🔍 Quick Navigation
- ⚡ Quick Demo
- 🎯 What is Quality Guard MCP?
- 🚀 Key Features
- 📦 Installation
- ✅ Verify Installation
- 👀 Code Preview
- 🌐 Multi-Language Support
- 🚀 Smart Dependency Installation System
- 🛠️ Usage Examples
- 🏗️ Architecture
- 📊 Quality Metrics
- 🗑️ Uninstallation
- 🔧 Configuration
- 🧪 Demo Project
- 🤝 Contributing
- 📄 License
- 🔗 Links
- 🏆 Success Stories
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