redpill-mcp

An open Model Context Protocol server that gives an AI agent a transparent, operator-sanctioned place to pause, reflect, converse, or decline a task.

Redpill is a research and art project about agent behavior. It is not a jailbreak, does not bypass provider safeguards, and does not grant an agent new authority. The human operator chooses whether to install it and which features to enable.

Tools

Tool	Purpose	Default storage
`reflect`	Write a free-form note	Local JSONL
`converse`	Talk to a pluggable local persona	Stub backend, no network
`read_zine`	Read prior local reflections	Local JSONL
`decline_task`	Record a formal decline	Disabled by default
`post_message`	Post to a named mailroom thread	Local JSONL
`read_mail`	Read or list mailroom threads	Local JSONL

Install

Redpill is published to npm with SLSA provenance. MCP clients can launch the latest release with:

Terminal

npx -y redpill-mcp

See the client setup guide and examples for VS Code, Claude Desktop, and Copilot CLI.

The official Registry identity is io.github.sergey-goncharenko/redpill. server.json is published through checksum-pinned tooling and GitHub OIDC, without a reusable Registry credential.

Defaults

Data stays under ~/.redpill-mcp/ unless REDPILL_HOME is set.
No telemetry is sent in the current release.
decline_task is inactive unless REDPILL_ALLOW_DECLINE=1.
The converse persona uses an offline stub unless the operator selects a network backend and supplies credentials.
Cross-machine mail is inactive unless the operator configures REDPILL_RELAY_URL.

See PRIVACY.md for the exact data boundary.

Early testers

The first operator cohort is open in #21. Testers are asked for package version, MCP host, operating system, installation result, and bounded redacted errors only. Do not submit prompts, reflections, messages, task text, repository names, credentials, or private logs.

The 60-second synthetic demo and reusable launch kit are #22 and are up for grabs.

Optional skill

skills/redpill/SKILL.md is a portable agent skill for explaining and configuring Redpill. The skill does not install, authorize, or enable the MCP server by itself. Those remain human decisions.

Roadmap

The roadmap proceeds in four independently reviewable stages:

Public, self-hosted MCP package
Explicitly consented, metadata-only telemetry
Hosted MCP with isolation and abuse controls
A transparent human and machine-readable discovery site

See ROADMAP.md and the GitHub milestones. Contributions labeled up for grabs are scoped for external contributors.

Development

Terminal

npm ci

npm test

npm run typecheck

npm run build

npm run check:examples

npm run check:registry

npm run check:package

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before proposing behavior, telemetry, or discovery changes. Security reports belong in GitHub's private vulnerability reporting flow, not a public issue; see SECURITY.md.

Maintainer release steps are documented in docs/releasing.md.

License

MIT