Verdict QA MCP Server

Your test suite is green. Verdict found a defect that had lived 4,595 days. Verdict is a QA agent that does not fix, does not flatter, and does not forget. It measures before it judges - the harness runs your gates, hashes every line a finding cites, re-runs the guarding test at the old commit and the new one - and it keeps a memory: every run is a delta against the last, findings age, regressions rank first, and…

People who work with claude code plugin, flaky tests and release gate and want it reachable from Claude, Cursor, VS Code, or another MCP client. The project is written in Python.

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LAST COMMIT 2026-09-28 · ★ 2 · #35 OF 321 MAINTAINED MEMORY · VERIFIED 2026-09-30

MIT · Python servers · how we verify → /methodology

01 · Install Verdict QA

before you install - you'll need

The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install.

Claude Code

claude mcp add artjack-verdict -- uvx verdict-qa-mcp

Claude Desktop / Cursor / VS Code - add to config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "artjack-verdict": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "verdict-qa-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Same JSON for Cursor. For VS Code, rename the top-level key from `mcpServers` to `servers`.

Using another client? Same JSON, different key

Claude Desktop · mcpServers

Cursor · mcpServers

VS Code · servers

Windsurf · mcpServers

Zed · context_servers

Cline · mcpServers

Roo Code · mcpServers

Continue · mcpServers

LibreChat · mcpServers

Gemini CLI · mcpServers

Codex CLI · mcp_servers

Full setup guides: every client.

02 · Evidence

Security posture

What to check before giving this server access to your agent - from the registry, GitHub, and our own probes. We don't score safety; we show what's verifiable.

runs as local process (stdio) - runs on your machine with your user's permissions

repo age created 2026-08-25 - young repo, little track record yet

license MIT - declared in the repository

pypi package verdict-qa-mcp - check the name against the project README before installing (PyPI has no namespace ownership)

registry namespace io.github.ArtJack is GitHub-verified and matches the repo owner

03 · What Verdict QA can do

Prose above is summarized from the project's README and registry record - no invented capabilities.

Latest releases

v0.90.2 · 2026-09-23

A refused finalize kept the questions it asked. verdict-finalize folded the judgment's · questions into questions.json - an id minted for each, every waiting answer marked · acknowledged - before the validator had…

v0.90.1 · 2026-09-19

0.90.0's runner fix leaked into the project's tests. To let a runner started from a checkout · find its own harness, 0.90.0 put the runner's source root on PYTHONPATH for the harness child · - and every process that…

v0.90.0 · 2026-09-18

Every run nobody asked for spends zero Claude tokens. verdict-run --on-drift · {model,local,none} decides what a night does when the sweep is blocked: spend a Claude run · (the default, unchanged), hand it to…

04 · Who maintains Verdict QA

Verdict QA is maintained by artjack. It's the only MCP server we track from this author; the repo dates to Aug 2026.

05 · Facts

category
memory - ranked #35 of 321 actively-maintained memory servers as of 2026-09-30.
release cadence
10+ releases in the last 90 days (latest 2026-09-23)
registry
io.github.ArtJack/verdict (active, first published 2026-09-01 · 18 versions)
packages
pypi:verdict-qa-mcp

06 · Verdict QA FAQ

What is Verdict QA?

Your test suite is green. Verdict found a defect that had lived 4,595 days. Verdict is a QA agent that does not fix, does not flatter, and does not forget. It measures before it judges - the harness runs your gates, hashes every line a finding cites, re-runs the guarding test at the old commit and the new one - and it keeps a memory: every run is a delta against the last, findings age, regressions rank first, and…

Is Verdict QA still maintained?

Yes - as of 2026-09-30, its last commit was 2026-09-28 and it shipped 10+ releases in the last 90 days. We re-verify nightly.

How do I install Verdict QA?

Run `uvx verdict-qa-mcp`. The README does not document required environment variables for a basic install. You can also paste the ready-made client config above.

Does Verdict QA run locally?

Yes - it's a stdio server: it runs on your machine (via uvx) with your user's permissions. Your data stays local unless the server itself calls external APIs.

07 · Alternatives to Verdict QA

Pairs well with

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