BuildPulse MCP

Model Context Protocol server for the BuildPulse Platform API. Surface flaky tests, CI run history, and coverage health in Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, Cline, Windsurf, Continue, Zed, VS Code Copilot, and any other MCP-aware AI agent.

Install

npx -y @buildpulse/mcp

Or pin globally:

npm install -g @buildpulse/mcp

The package downloads the matching native binary for your platform on first install. Supported platforms: macOS arm64/x64, Linux arm64/x64, Windows x64.

Related MCP server: Smallest MCP Server

Configure

Get a BuildPulse API token at https://buildpulse.io → Organization Settings → API Tokens.

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "buildpulse": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@buildpulse/mcp"],
      "env": { "BUILDPULSE_TOKEN": "your-buildpulse-api-token" }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json (per-project) or ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global): same JSON shape.

Other clients

Cline, Continue, Windsurf, Zed, and VS Code Copilot all read an mcpServers block in their respective config files. See the install hub for copy-paste snippets per client.

Organizations (multi-tenant)

Your BuildPulse token may grant access to more than one organization. Every repo-scoped tool takes an optional organization_id argument (the org's id UUID, discoverable via list_my_organizations):

• Single-org tokens — omit organization_id. It auto-defaults to your one organization. Nothing changes; you never need to think about orgs.

• Multi-org sessions (list_my_organizations returns 2+ orgs) — you must pass organization_id on every repo-scoped call (list_repositories, find_flaky_tests, get_test_history, list_recent_submissions, get_submission_test_results, get_recent_failures, get_repo_flakiness, get_repo_coverage). The org is not auto-selected — omitting it returns an error that lists every accessible organization and its UUID, so the agent can pick the right one and retry. Call list_my_organizations first to enumerate them.

This avoids silently querying the wrong (often empty) organization and getting confusingly empty results.

Tools

Repo-scoped tools accept an organization_id argument — required for multi-org sessions, optional (auto-defaulted) for single-org tokens. See Organizations above.

Every output that names a test or repo includes a web_url deep-link back to the BuildPulse web app — the same polish Sentry / Atlassian use in their MCP responses.

Prompts

The server also ships four guided prompts (slash-pickable in clients that support them):

• /triage_flaky_tests

• /ci_health_check

• /explain_test_failure

• /whats_red

Two transports

Same tool surface; same prompts; same resources. Pick whichever your client supports. The stdio path is universal; the hosted variant is the path to Claude.ai web and ChatGPT.

Resources

The server exposes two MCP resource templates so agents can pull state into context without a tool call:

• buildpulse://repos/{repo}/flaky-tests

• buildpulse://repos/{owner}/{name}/submissions

Environment variables

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/BuildPulseLLC/buildpulse-mcp
cd buildpulse-mcp
go build -o ./bin/buildpulse-mcp ./cmd/mcp
go build -o ./bin/buildpulse-mcp-remote ./cmd/mcp-remote

Requires Go 1.24+.

Run tests

go test ./...

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Related

• BuildPulse Platform API — the underlying public REST API

• @buildpulse/mcp on npm

• Distribution strategy — Claude, OpenAI, Smithery, Cursor publishing details

• /docs/mcp — branded install hub with copy buttons

CI / Dependabot

• Push to main / feat/** / fix/** runs build-and-push + deploy (production vs development by branch).

• Dependabot opens weekly grouped update PRs. This repo is on the Dependabot weekly rollup allowlist in BuildPulseLLC/agents (dependabot-rollup workflow / DEV-85): open Dependabot PRs are folded onto feat/deps-dependabot-batch-* so development CI runs before any merge to main. See agents/scripts/dependabot-rollup.md.