Charlie Work
Server Configuration
Describes the environment variables required to run the server.
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| GITHUB_TOKEN | No | GitHub personal access token for live GitHub integration | |
| CHARLIE_VOICE | No | Set to 'off' to disable jokes and get plain output |
Instructions
Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.
This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.
Capabilities
Features and capabilities supported by this server
Protocol revision2025-11-25
| Capability | Details |
|---|---|
| tools | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| prompts | {
"listChanged": false
} |
| resources | {
"subscribe": false,
"listChanged": false
} |
| experimental | {} |
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| charlie_scan_toilA | Scan a repository for toil — the un-fun, load-bearing maintenance work everyone ignores: flaky, skipped, and focused tests; TODO/FIXME/HACK rot; expiring TLS certs; feature flags read but never set; unpinned dependencies; unowned operational scripts; and stray debug statements. Returns a prioritized queue. Set mode='plain' for a flavor-free report. |
| charlie_did_itA | Record that someone cleared a piece of toil, by its toil_id from a scan. Persists to a local ledger so the invisible work becomes visible. Rescans to resolve the item's title. |
| charlie_ledgerA | Report the credit ledger for standup or retro: who cleared what toil, the current Champion of the Grease Trap, and how much is still open. |
| charlie_summaryB | Report the repo's toil budget: total estimated remediation minutes, a debt ratio, an A-E maintainability grade, and counts by kind. Google SRE says keep toil under 50 percent. |
| charlie_explainA | Explain why a specific finding (by its toil id) is real debt, with evidence and a fix. |
| charlie_triageB | Return the top-N highest-priority toil items as an action plan for an agent to work through. |
| charlie_trendC | Record a toil snapshot and report how the toil budget has moved since last time. |
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| triage_toil |
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| toil_queue_resource |
TDQS
Scored across 7 tools
Each tool has a clearly distinct purpose: scanning for toil, explaining a finding, recording clearance, reporting the ledger, summarizing budget, tracking trends, and triaging priorities. No overlap.
All tools follow a consistent 'charlie_verb' pattern with clear action words: scan_toil, explain, did_it, ledger, summary, trend, triage. The naming is predictable and informative.
Seven tools cover the core workflow of toil management without excess. The count is well-scoped for the domain, providing essential functions without unnecessary duplication.
The tool set covers discovery, explanation, resolution recording, and reporting. Minor gaps might include a tool to manually add toil items or update details, but the surface is largely complete for typical toil management.