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DimensionAtom of Thoughts MCP ServerStructured reasoning for LLMs: decompose, track confidence, visualize, approve.MartinLoop MCP ServerAn independent control layer that gives AI coding agents budgets, brakes, and receipts
FMRS54 / 100 · D79 / 100 · B
Reliability8 / 2012 / 20
Security and permissions9 / 2018 / 20
Maintenance13 / 2016 / 20
Documentation13 / 2018 / 20
Setup experience11 / 2015 / 20
Best for
  • Developers needing transparent, auditable AI reasoning
  • Researchers decomposing complex problems into manageable subtasks
  • Users of MCP-aware clients like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf
  • Engineering teams scaling AI coding agents while controlling spend
  • Platform teams that need auditable, rollback-aware agent execution records
  • Organizations using multiple agents (Claude, Codex, Gemini) under one governed flow
Not for
  • Simple Q&A without need for structured reasoning
  • Scenarios where extra visualization or approval steps are unwelcome
  • Users who don't need depth control or atom management
  • Developers who just want a simple code-completion helper without run governance
  • Teams unwilling to accept local JSONL run records with HMAC signing
  • Environments without a supported adapter (Claude/Codex/Gemini CLIs, direct provider, or verifier-only)
Required permissions
  • Executes npx to fetch package, requires network
  • Writes temporary files for visualization HTML
  • May write to ~/Downloads for approval JSON
  • Can start a local HTTP server for browser interaction
  • Read/write access to the configured repo root (writable scope restrictable via --allow-path/--deny-path)
  • Ability to invoke the chosen agent CLI (Claude/Codex/Gemini, etc.) and its underlying model account
  • Local disk writes for run records, receipts, and share outputs (share/run-receipt., etc.)
  • Execution of user-configured verifier commands (e.g. npm test)
Risks and side effects
  • Dependency on external npm packages, supply chain risk
  • Visualization may open browser, privacy consideration
  • Untrusted tool calls could produce unreliable reasoning
  • Verifier commands are executed; poorly chosen verifier commands carry security risk despite preflight policy checks
  • Cost and token figures may be estimates (labeled with provenance) and should not be treated as settled accounting
  • Receipt integrity must be verified before use as trustworthy evidence; missing rollback evidence is flagged as EVIDENCE_BOUNDARY
  • Policy defaults come from martin.config.yaml and can be overridden by CLI flags; misconfiguration can loosen safety boundaries
Supported clientsClaude Code, Cursor, WindsurfClaude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, GitHub Copilot, Continue
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