ARCLinearGitHub

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Native Swift Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that bridges Linear (issue tracking) and GitHub (repository management), enforces ARC Labs naming conventions, and exposes 21 tools to Claude Code over stdio.

• Multi-workspace — talk to several Linear workspaces from one binary via LINEAR_WORKSPACES.
• Convention enforcement — branch, commit and PR validators with byte-compatible regex ported from the Python reference implementation.
• Composite workflows — workflow_start_feature creates the Linear issue and the GitHub branch in a single round-trip.
• Swift 6 + strict concurrency — every public type is Sendable, the data layer uses actors, no force-unwraps and no nonisolated(unsafe).

This is the Swift rewrite of the original Python LinearGitHub-MCP. The wire format is identical (same tool names, same request/response shape), so existing Claude Code configurations only need a binary-path swap.

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Overview

ARCLinearGitHub-MCP is a Swift Package laid out following the microapps SPM pattern (Majid Jabrayilov) and ARC Clean Architecture:

Sources/
├── ARCMCPModels         Foundation — entities + error types
├── ARCMCPNetworking     Foundation — URLSession HTTP + retry policy
├── ARCMCPValidators     Foundation — branch + commit validators
├── ARCMCPLinear         Data       — GraphQL client + workspace registry
├── ARCMCPGitHub         Data       — REST client
├── ARCMCPCore           Orchestration — AppDependencies + MCP tools
├── ARCMCPMocks          Tests      — StubURLProtocol + AppDependencies.mock
└── arc-mcp              Executable — stdio MCP server

The 21 MCP tools live in ARCMCPCore/Tools/. Each handler decodes its arguments via ArgumentAccess, calls one or more closures on AppDependencies, then maps the entities back into the Python-compatible {success: bool, ...} envelope via Mappers.

Requirements

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Swift 6.0 toolchain (Xcode 16+)
• Linear API token and GitHub Personal Access Token

Installation

git clone https://github.com/arclabs-studio/ARCLinearGitHub-MCP.git
cd ARCLinearGitHub-MCP
make build-release

The binary lands at .build/release/arc-mcp.

Configuration

Every setting is read from the process environment.

export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx
export GITHUB_ORG=arclabs-studio
export DEFAULT_PROJECT=PLAT
export DEFAULT_REPO=MyApp

# single-workspace
export LINEAR_API_KEY=lin_api_xxx

# or multi-workspace
export LINEAR_WORKSPACES='{"ios":"lin_api_a","backend":"lin_api_b"}'

Optional overrides: LINEAR_API_URL, GITHUB_API_URL, REQUEST_TIMEOUT.

Usage

Claude Code

Add the binary to ~/.claude/mcp-servers.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arc-linear-github": {
      "command": "/abs/path/.build/release/arc-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Code. /mcp lists 21 tools under arc-linear-github.

Programmatic embedding

import ARCMCPCore
import MCP

let settings = try Settings.fromEnvironment()
let server = Server(name: "my-mcp", version: "1.0.0",
                    capabilities: .init(tools: .init(listChanged: false)))
await ToolRegistry.register(on: server, dependencies: .production(settings: settings))
try await server.start(transport: StdioTransport())
await server.waitUntilCompleted()

Development

make lint        # SwiftLint
make format      # SwiftFormat (dry-run)
make fix         # Apply SwiftFormat
make build       # debug build
make test        # swift test --no-parallel (StubURLProtocol uses shared state)
make coverage    # tests with code coverage
make docs        # DocC archive for ARCMCPCore
make run         # build-release && exec arc-mcp

Project layout

Target	Purpose
ARCMCPModels	Codable Sendable Linear and GitHub entities + MCPDomainError
ARCMCPNetworking	HTTPClient actor, RetryPolicy, HTTPError
ARCMCPValidators	Pure branch + commit validators with ARC regex
ARCMCPLinear	GraphQL client + multi-workspace registry
ARCMCPGitHub	REST client + endpoint enum
ARCMCPCore	AppDependencies, MCP tool registry, mappers
ARCMCPMocks	StubURLProtocol + AppDependencies.mock for tests
arc-mcp	@main stdio executable

Testing

Swift Testing. Run serially because StubURLProtocol keeps its handler in static OSAllocatedUnfairLock state:

swift test --no-parallel

Tests are organised per target:

• ARCMCPModelsTests — Codable round-trip for every entity.
• ARCMCPNetworkingTests — retry semantics with stubbed URLSession.
• ARCMCPValidatorsTests — every case ported from tests/test_validators/.
• ARCMCPLinearTests / ARCMCPGitHubTests — URLProtocol stubs + fixture JSON.
• ARCMCPCoreTests — Settings env parsing + tool registry dispatch.

Architecture

• Clean Architecture — Domain (ARCMCPModels, *Validators), Data (*Linear, *GitHub), Orchestration (ARCMCPCore).
• Microapps SPM — one library target per concern, layered by build dependency.
• Closure-based DI — every capability is a @Sendable async closure on AppDependencies. production(settings:) wires real actors; .mock (in ARCMCPMocks) returns canned values.
• Strict concurrency — Swift 6 .v6 language mode across every target.

Conventions

• Branches: <type>/<issue-id>-<description>
• Commits: <type>(<scope>): <subject>
• PRs: <Type>/<Issue-ID>: <Title>

Full reference: workflow_get_conventions tool, or ARCMCPValidators.NamingStandards.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Related

• Swift MCP SDK
• ARCKnowledge
• ARCDevTools

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