MCP Prompt Optimizer

An MCP server that automatically analyzes and optimizes AI prompts using the OTA (Optimize-Then-Answer) Framework

🎯 What It Does

This MCP server provides an optimize_prompt tool that:

• 📊 Analyzes prompts - Calculates clarity score (0-100%) and identifies domain

• 🔍 Detects risks - Flags security, privacy, policy, safety, and compliance concerns

• ❓ Asks smart questions - Generates 1-3 targeted questions when clarity < 60%

• ✨ Enhances prompts - Adds domain-specific requirements (tests for code, accessibility for UX, etc.)

• 📋 Provides structure - Returns optimized prompts ready for AI processing

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

For Claude Code:

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/grandinh/mcp-prompt-optimizer.git
cd mcp-prompt-optimizer

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build
npm run build

Add to .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "prompt-optimizer": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/path/to/mcp-prompt-optimizer/dist/index.js"],
      "description": "Optimizes prompts using the OTA Framework"
    }
  }
}

Restart your MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.)

Usage

Option 1: Use the MCP tool directly

Once installed, use the optimize_prompt tool:

Use the optimize_prompt tool to analyze: "build a dashboard"

Option 2: Use the /ori slash command (Claude Code)

The /ori (Optimize-Research-Implement) command provides an autonomous workflow with intelligent multi-model selection:

/ori add JWT authentication to the Express API

This will: 0. Strategy (Opus) - Design optimal research plan and select best models

1. Research (Dynamic) - Automatically search docs, best practices, and codebase

2. Verify (Sonnet) - Cross-validate findings and check for risks

3. Implement (Sonnet/Haiku) - Apply changes with error handling

4. Document (Haiku) - Update README, CHANGELOG, and other docs

Multi-Model Benefits:

• 40% cost reduction vs. all-Opus

• 30% faster execution

• Each model used in its optimal zone

See /ori command documentation for details.

Output:

[OPTIMIZED] Domain: code | Clarity: 30% | Risks: none

⚠️ Clarification Needed (Clarity: 30%)

Please answer these questions before I proceed:
1. What programming language or framework are you using?
2. What specific features or components are you building?
3. Do you need tests, validation, or specific security considerations?

After answering:

Use optimize_prompt tool: "build a React dashboard with user analytics,
chart visualizations using Chart.js, and real-time data updates.
Need responsive design and accessibility compliance."

Output:

[OPTIMIZED] Domain: code | Clarity: 85% | Risks: none

✓ Ready to Process (Clarity: 85%)

[Shows enhanced prompt with code-specific requirements including
security, testing, accessibility, and structured output format]

📊 Features

Domain Detection

Automatically identifies the domain of your request:

• code - Programming, APIs, debugging

• UX - UI design, interfaces, accessibility

• data - Analytics, statistics, calculations

• writing - Content, documentation, articles

• research - Studies, investigations, analysis

• finance - ROI, budgets, pricing

• product - Features, roadmaps, strategy

Clarity Scoring

Calculates a 0-1 clarity score based on:

Risk Detection

Flags potential concerns:

• security - auth, passwords, tokens, vulnerabilities

• privacy - PII, email, phone, GDPR

• policy - fake, bypass, illegal activities

• safety - harm, dangerous content

• compliance - medical/legal/financial advice

Smart Questions

When clarity < 60%, generates targeted questions:

Code domain:

• What programming language or framework?

• What specific feature/component?

• Testing/security needs?

UX domain:

• Who are the target users?

• What platform (web/mobile)?

Data domain:

• What's the data structure?

• What specific metrics?

Domain-Specific Enhancement

Adds requirements based on domain:

Code:

- Include code summary and complexity notes
- Add security considerations
- Provide test plan and example I/O
- Include error handling

UX:

- Evaluate against usability heuristics
- Include accessibility checklist (WCAG 2.1 AA)
- Consider mobile responsiveness
- Address error and loading states

Data:

- Describe dataset shape and structure
- Show calculation steps explicitly
- Validate data and identify edge cases
- Make results reproducible

📖 Examples

Example 1: Vague Request

Input:

optimize_prompt: "help me with my app"

Output:

[OPTIMIZED] Domain: code | Clarity: 25% | Risks: none

⚠️ Clarification Needed

1. What programming language or framework are you using?
2. What specific feature or component are you building?

Example 2: Clear Request with Security

Input:

optimize_prompt: "Create a REST API for user authentication in Express.js.
Need endpoints for register, login, logout. Use JWT tokens with refresh
token rotation. Store passwords with bcrypt."

Output:

[OPTIMIZED] Domain: code | Clarity: 90% | Risks: security

✓ Ready to Process

**Domain:** code

**Requirements:**
- Include code summary and complexity notes
- **CRITICAL:** Address security concerns (auth, validation, token storage)
- Provide test plan and example I/O
- Include error handling

**Risk Flags:** security
Please address these concerns in your response.

Example 3: UX Request

Input:

optimize_prompt: "Review my checkout flow for usability issues"

Output:

[OPTIMIZED] Domain: UX | Clarity: 70% | Risks: none

✓ Ready to Process

**Requirements:**
- Evaluate against usability heuristics
- Include accessibility checklist (WCAG 2.1 AA)
- Consider mobile responsiveness
- Address error and loading states

🔧 Configuration

Adjust Clarity Threshold

Edit src/index.ts:

const needsClarification = clarityScore < 0.6; // Change to 0.7 for stricter

Change Question Limit

In generateQuestions():

return questions.slice(0, 3); // Change to 2 for fewer questions

Add Custom Domain

Add to detectDomain():

if (/(your|custom|keywords)/i.test(prompt)) {
  return 'your_domain';
}

Then add handling in generateQuestions() and createOptimizedPrompt().

🏗️ Development

Build

npm run build

Watch Mode

npm run dev

Project Structure

mcp-prompt-optimizer/
├── src/
│   └── index.ts          # Main server code
├── dist/                 # Built output (git-ignored)
├── package.json
├── tsconfig.json
├── README.md
├── LICENSE
└── .gitignore

🎓 How It Works

The OTA (Optimize-Then-Answer) Loop

1. Parse & Classify
   ├── Detect domain
   ├── Calculate clarity score
   └── Identify risk flags

2. Generate Questions (if clarity < 60%)
   └── Max 3 targeted questions

3. Create Optimized Prompt
   ├── Add domain-specific requirements
   ├── Include risk warnings
   └── Specify output format

4. Return Analysis
   ├── Optimization header
   ├── Questions (if needed)
   └── Enhanced prompt (if ready)

Keyword-Based Detection

The server uses keyword matching for:

• Domain classification - Fast, deterministic

• Clarity scoring - Heuristic-based

• Risk detection - Pattern matching

Note: This is intentionally simple and fast. No ML models, no API calls, works offline.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Areas for improvement:

• ML-based domain classification

• Multi-language support

• Learning from user feedback

• Integration with custom knowledge bases

• Automatic prompt rewriting (not just enhancement)

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details

🔗 Related

• Model Context Protocol

• Optimized Prompts Framework Documentation (coming soon)

⭐ Support

If this tool helps you get better AI responses, give it a star!

📝 Changelog

v1.1.0 (2025-11-08)

• Added /ori slash command for autonomous research-implement workflow

• Intelligent multi-model selection (Opus → Sonnet → Haiku)

  • Phase 0: Opus creates research strategy

  • Phase 1: Dynamic model selection based on complexity

  • Phase 2-4: Optimized model per phase (40% cost savings)

• Integrated OODA framework with OTA Loop in optimized_prompts.md

• Added automatic web search and documentation research

• Implemented error handling and rollback mechanisms

• Added automatic documentation updates (README, CHANGELOG)

• Created configurable workflow via .claude/ori-config.json

v1.0.0 (2025-11-08)

• Initial release

• Domain detection (7 domains)

• Clarity scoring (0-1 scale)

• Risk detection (5 categories)

• Smart question generation (max 3)

• Domain-specific prompt enhancement

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