What is Mcp Micromanage Your Agent

mcp-micromanage-your-agent is a micromanagement tool designed for development workflows. It assists coding agents in planning, tracking, and visualizing sequential development tasks with detailed commit-level granularity.

Use cases

Use cases include managing complex development tasks, ensuring coding agents adhere to project requirements, visualizing project progress, and facilitating user feedback at critical implementation stages.

How to use

To use mcp-micromanage-your-agent, integrate it into your MCP JSON configuration by adding it to the mcpServers section. You can then define your implementation plans, track progress, and update statuses with mandatory user reviews.

Key features

Key features include commit and PR-based work plans, enforced frequent user feedback at the commit level, and a React-based visualization dashboard that offers real-time updates, hierarchical views, status-based color coding, and zoom and pan capabilities.

Where to use

mcp-micromanage-your-agent is applicable in software development environments where coding agents are employed, particularly in teams that require structured workflows and frequent feedback loops.

mcp-micromanage

Control your coding agent colleague who tends to go off track.

If sequentialthinking is a dynamic formulation and externalization of thought workflows, this tool is a dynamic formulation and externalization of development task flows.

Motivation

Challenges with Coding Agents

• Coding agents often make modifications beyond what they’re asked to do
  • Assuming cursor+claude
• They struggle to request user feedback at key decision points during implementation
• Work plans and progress tracking can be challenging to visualize and monitor

Solution

• Commit and PR-based Work Plans: Force implementation plans that break down tickets into PRs and commits as the minimum units of work
• Forced Frequent Feedback: Enforce user reviews at the commit level, creating natural checkpoints for feedback
• Visualization: Instantly understand the current work plan and implementation status through a local React app

tool

1. plan: Define your implementation plan with PRs and commits
2. track: Monitor progress and current status of all work items
3. update: Change status as work progresses, with mandatory user reviews

Visualization Dashboard

The project includes a React-based visualization tool that provides:

• Hierarchical view of PRs and commits
• Real-time updates with auto-refresh
• Status-based color coding
• Zoom and pan capabilities

Getting Started

Headless（mcp tool only）

1. Add to your mcp json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "micromanage": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@yodakeisuke/mcp-micromanage"
      ]
    }
  }
}

2. (Highly recommended) Add the following .mdcs to your project

recommended-rules

(Can be adjusted to your preference)

With Visualisation

1. clone this repository

2. Add to your mcp json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "micromanage": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "[CLONE_DESTINATION_PATH]/sequentialdeveloping/dist/index.js"
      ]
    }
  }
}

3. build server

npm install
npm run build

4. run frontend

cd visualization/ 
npm install
npm run dev

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Third-Party Software

This project uses the following third-party software:

• MCP TypeScript SDK: Licensed under the MIT License. Copyright © 2023-2025 Anthropic, PBC.

Acknowledgments

• Built with MCP (Model Context Protocol)
• Maintained by yodakeisuke