@roadraven/mcp — RoadRaven for Claude Code
The MCP server and Claude Code plugin for RoadRaven,
a local desktop app that shows your project's plan as a tree and updates it
live as the work happens. The server gives an agent 21 tools to read the open
roadmap, create, edit, move and delete nodes, and set their status. The
plugin adds two skills that tell Claude how to use those tools to plan and
run real work.
Source-available, FSL-1.1-MIT.
The app must be running
Every tool talks to the RoadRaven desktop app over a local connection on
127.0.0.1. With the app closed, tools return app_not_running; with no
roadmap open, no_file_loaded. The app only opens or saves files where you
already work, so a request for another path returns path_not_permitted.
Install the app first: see Install.
What it does on your machine
- Downloads and runs
@roadraven/mcp from npm through npx, pinned to the plugin's exact version, as a local stdio MCP server.
- Reads one file:
event-api.json in RoadRaven's user-data folder (~/.config/RoadRaven on Linux, %LOCALAPPDATA%\RoadRaven on Windows), which the desktop app writes with its local port.
- Connects only to the RoadRaven desktop app, over a WebSocket on
127.0.0.1, to read and edit the open roadmap. It sends nothing anywhere else and collects no telemetry.
- Writes files only when you run
npx @roadraven/mcp init yourself: it offers to add a short RoadRaven section to a CLAUDE.md, and asks first.
- The skills are instructions for Claude; they run nothing on their own.
Install
Three ways, easiest first.
Setup Wizard. Launch RoadRaven. The first-run Setup Wizard detects Claude
Code and OpenCode and registers this server with one click. Re-open it from
the ⚙ button in the top bar. If the Claude Code plugin below is already
installed, the wizard defers to it.
Claude Code plugin. Requires Node.js >= 24. From inside Claude Code:
Any other MCP host. Requires Node.js >= 24. Pin the version that matches
your installed app (the app warns on a major.minor mismatch):
To add a short RoadRaven section to a CLAUDE.md (it asks whether to use
the current project or ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md), run
npx -y @roadraven/[email protected] init.
Skills
The skills ship with the Claude Code plugin install only. The Setup Wizard
and npx paths give you the tools without them.
roadraven:orchestrate turns a request into a roadmap tree (goal,
phases, tasks), writes a brief per phase, hands each phase to a sub-agent,
re-runs your project's own checks to verify the result, and keeps node
status current while you watch.
roadraven:work-node is how one task gets done: claim a node, set it in
progress, checkpoint into its notes, touch only the files the brief names,
prove a fix with a failing test first, run the checks, report, set the final
status.
Both skills find your project's test, lint and build commands from its README,
package manifest or CI config, so they work in any language. If the app is
not running they ask you once to start it, then fall back to a markdown
worklog and say so.
More: MCP install guide,
plugin authoring guide.