rebar

io.github.navapbc/rebar

7/7 checks passed
Runs locally
No secrets
★ 4 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-08-30
Health score 65

About rebar

rebar is an MCP server published by the GitHub account navapbc. Event-sourced ticket tracker + Jira reconciler, exposed as a Python library, CLI, and MCP server.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package nava-rebar at version 0.13.1.

It asks for no keys or passwords.

Version 0.13.1 was published on 30 August 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 7 pass, 0 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`REBAR_ROOT`	No	No	Path to the repo root that holds the .tickets-tracker store (defaults to the git toplevel of the working dir).
`REBAR_MCP_READONLY`	No	No	Set to 1 to expose only the read tools (no write/mutation tools).
`REBAR_MCP_ALLOW_LLM`	No	No	Set to 1 to enable the billable LLM tools (review_code / scan_spec / verify_completion / review_plan); off by default.
`REBAR_MCP_ALLOW_JIRA_SYNC`	No	No	Set to 1 to allow the live (mutating) Jira reconcile mode; otherwise reconcile is dry-run only.
`REBAR_MCP_TRANSPORT`	No	No	Transport for the MCP server: 'stdio' (default) or 'http' (the optional Streamable-HTTP transport).
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_HOST`	No	No	Bind host for the Streamable-HTTP transport (default 127.0.0.1).
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_PORT`	No	No	Bind port for the Streamable-HTTP transport (1-65535; default 8000).
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_PATH`	No	No	URL path the Streamable-HTTP transport serves on (default /mcp).
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_ALLOWED_HOSTS`	No	No	Comma-separated allowlist of exact host:port values accepted by the Streamable-HTTP DNS-rebinding protection; empty defaults to loopback.
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_ALLOWED_ORIGINS`	No	No	Comma-separated allowlist of exact Origin values accepted by the Streamable-HTTP DNS-rebinding protection; empty defaults to loopback.
`REBAR_MCP_HTTP_TLS_AT_EDGE`	No	No	Set to 1 to acknowledge TLS is terminated at the edge; required to bind the Streamable-HTTP transport to a non-loopback host.
`REBAR_MCP_ALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_HTTP`	No	No	Set to 1 to acknowledge running the Streamable-HTTP transport without a token verifier; required to boot the HTTP transport while auth is off.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_ENABLED`	No	No	Set to 1 to enable MCP authentication (the composite token verifier + Resource-Server wiring); off by default.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_STRATEGIES`	No	No	Comma-separated, ordered list of token-verifier strategies to compose (closed set: static, jwt, introspection, proxy, custom).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_ISSUER_URL`	No	No	OAuth authorization-server issuer URL advertised in the Protected-Resource Metadata (RFC 9728) when auth is enabled.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_RESOURCE_SERVER_URL`	No	No	The single resource identifier (RFC 8707 audience) for this server; the composite verifier re-checks every accepted token against it.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_REQUIRED_SCOPES`	No	No	Comma-separated scopes a caller must hold; the SDK returns 403 insufficient_scope when a principal lacks one.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_STATIC_TOKENS_FILE`	No	No	Path to the JSON secrets file for the static-bearer verifier (stores only SHA-256 digests of the accepted tokens).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_JWKS_URI`	No	No	HTTPS JWKS endpoint the `jwt` verifier fetches signing keys from (an OIDC provider's .well-known/jwks.json).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_ISSUER`	No	No	Expected `iss` claim for the `jwt` verifier; falls back to REBAR_MCP_AUTH_ISSUER_URL when unset.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_ALGORITHMS`	No	No	Comma-separated PINNED, asymmetric-only JWS algorithms for the `jwt` verifier (default RS256,ES256); a symmetric algorithm on a JWKS source is refused.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_LEEWAY`	No	No	Clock-skew leeway in seconds applied to exp/nbf validation by the `jwt` verifier (default 60).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_JWKS_REFETCH_COOLDOWN`	No	No	Minimum seconds between JWKS refetches triggered by an unknown key id (the concurrency-safe flood guard; default 30).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_JWKS_TIMEOUT`	No	No	HTTP timeout in seconds for the `jwt` verifier's JWKS fetch (default 10).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_EXPECTED_TYP`	No	No	When set, the `jwt` verifier requires the JWT header `typ` to equal this (e.g. at+JWT per RFC 9068); unset skips the check.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_JWT_ALLOW_PRIVATE_JWKS_HOST`	No	No	Set to 1 to permit a private/link-local/loopback JWKS host (SSRF guard is on by default); off by default.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_ENDPOINT`	No	No	The `introspection` verifier's RFC 7662 endpoint URL (must be https://); the opaque token is POSTed here on every request (no caching).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_CLIENT_ID`	No	No	The client id the `introspection` verifier presents to the Authorization Server via HTTP Basic (client_secret_basic).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_CLIENT_SECRET_ENV`	No	No	The NAME of the env var holding the introspection client secret (never the secret itself); must be present + non-empty at startup or the server refuses to start (fail-closed).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_ALLOW_PRIVATE_HOST`	No	No	Set to 1 to permit a private/link-local/loopback introspection endpoint host (SSRF guard is on by default); off by default.
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_INTROSPECTION_ALLOW_MISSING_AUD`	No	No	Set to 1 to accept an active introspection response that OMITS `aud` (many AS do); off by default (fail-closed reject).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_PROXY_SECRET_ENV`	No	No	The NAME of the env var holding the trusted-proxy shared secret (never the secret itself); must be present + non-empty at startup or the `proxy` verifier refuses to start (fail-closed).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_PROXY_SECRET_HEADER`	No	No	The header the fronting proxy sends its shared secret on; the identity is trusted only when this matches (constant-time; default x-proxy-auth).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_PROXY_IDENTITY_HEADER`	No	No	The header carrying the proxy-authenticated principal identity, trusted only when the secret header validates (default x-forwarded-user).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_PROXY_SCOPES`	No	No	Comma-separated fixed scope set granted to proxy-authenticated principals; empty by default (the principal holds no scopes).
`REBAR_MCP_AUTH_CUSTOM_IMPORT`	No	No	The `custom` strategy's `module:factory` import string, resolving to a factory that returns a TokenVerifier; a TRUSTED operator config value that loads and executes the operator-configured code at startup (fail-closed on any load error).

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/navapbc/rebar
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for no secrets
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account navapbc
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	nava-rebar 0.13.1 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 2338 files in nava-rebar 0.13.1: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Pass	No hidden characters or instructions to the AI in 2338 files, including comments and the README

Popularity & health: 65 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity12 / 40

4 GitHub stars, 250 downloads last week, no Hacker News posts found. Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity25 / 25

Last push 2026-10-29, last release 2026-10-31, 1,803 commits in 90 days.

Issue health8 / 15

2 closed of 2 issues, too few to judge. No data, so half marks.

Our checks20 / 20

0 warnings, each costing a fifth.

1 forks, 112 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.navapbc/rebar`
Publisher	GitHub account navapbc
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account navapbc. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `nava-rebar` 0.13.1 (stdio)
Version	0.13.1
Published	2026-08-30
Last updated	2026-08-30
Source repository	https://github.com/navapbc/rebar
Website	None linked
Category	Productivity & notes (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "rebar": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "nava-rebar==0.13.1"
      ]
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

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For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-navapbc-rebar.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.