MCP quality: install

Hardproof (hardproof) is a standalone verifier CLI. The public beta is distributed as prebuilt binaries from GitHub Releases.

Scan runs in the hardproof binary (no Node.js toolchain required). Use hardproof doctor to check your environment before you run verification in CI.

Hardproof runs as a live verifier on interactive terminals: hardproof scan streams a structured event log (scan.events.jsonl) during the run and writes a stable report (scan.json) at the end.

Install from release artifacts

1. Download the release asset for your OS/arch from x07lang/hardproof GitHub Releases.

2. Extract the archive and place hardproof on your PATH.

3. Verify installation:

hardproof --help
hardproof doctor

Quick sanity scan

Run a scan against a local HTTP MCP server:

hardproof scan --url "http://127.0.0.1:3000/mcp" --out out/scan --ui rich

Artifacts under out/scan/:

• scan.json (machine-readable scan report)
• scan.events.jsonl (event stream; also useful for CI log streaming)

Score truth semantics are explicit in the report:

• score_mode=full means overall_score is populated and eligible as a full score.
• score_mode=partial keeps overall_score=null while still providing a numeric partial_score for comparison, plus gating_reasons for what is missing (commonly Trust inputs).

Token/context usage truth is also explicit under scan.json.usage_metrics.usage_mode:

• estimate (deterministic estimates)
• tokenizer_exact (exact counts under --tokenizer openai:o200k_base / openai:cl100k_base)
• trace_observed (observed counts from --token-trace <path>)
• mixed (per-metric mix of exact + observed)

Codespaces install helper

If you are evaluating via x07lang/x07-mcp Codespaces, the repo includes a helper that installs the verifier binary (defaults to the latest beta, or you can pass a specific tag):

./scripts/dev/install_hardproof.sh

Then run:

~/.local/bin/hardproof --help