maf-doctor 1.18.0

MAF Doctor

One install — a .NET global tool, an MCP server, and an IDE plugin — for Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF).

Diagnose, explain, prescribe, and verify MAF agents and workflows: an A–F health letter, deterministic Roslyn auto-fixes, fan-out/fan-in silent-failure detection, compiler-ground-truth CS0618 hunts, and a self-updating obsolete-API registry.

Install

dotnet tool install --global maf-doctor     # first time
dotnet tool update  --global maf-doctor     # upgrade later

Then, in any MAF repo:

maf-doctor doctor .          # instant A–F health grade + the top fixes (add --all for every finding)
maf-doctor autofix-all . --apply  # apply every deterministic Roslyn rewriter
maf-doctor init              # wire the MCP server + MAF steering into this repo

init is non-destructive — it attaches and updates only

Running maf-doctor init never overwrites or merges into your own files. It only:

• Adds its own MCP server entry to VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json) and Claude Code (.mcp.json) — existing entries are left untouched.
• Drops MAF steering as self-contained sidecars in each tool's convention directory — .github/instructions/ (Copilot), .claude/ plus a one-line import in CLAUDE.md (Claude Code), and a clearly-delimited managed block in AGENTS.md.
• These sidecars are regenerated on every re-run, so re-initializing after an upgrade is always safe and idempotent — your hand-authored instructions are never edited.

Uninstall is just as clean: dotnet tool uninstall --global maf-doctor, then delete the sidecars.

What you get

• MCP server — 28 tools, 7 resources, and 11 prompts for GitHub Copilot / Claude Code / Cursor.
• CLI — doctor, autofix-all, new agent, migrate-scan, init, and more.
• Plugin — 15 bundled skills + 8 specialist agents wired into Copilot's and Claude's agentic loops.
• A companion maf-doctor.Analyzers package — 3 Roslyn analyzers (MAF001 / MAF002 / MAF003) for IDE write-time enforcement.

Highlights

• 🔍 Catches bugs that compile clean — fan-out/fan-in silent failures where a workflow exits successfully but produces no output. Zero build signal.
• 🩺 Compiler ground-truth for CS0618 — obsolete-API usage mapped to its exact replacement pattern. Deterministic fixes, not hallucinated ones.
• 🆕 Confidence triage (1.4.0) — every finding carries a confidence (certain/high/heuristic); the heuristic ones (likely false positives) are flagged "⚠ verify it's real first", in doctor, --plan, and --json.
• 🆕 maf-remediate — fix it all (1.4.0) — an MCP prompt that grades, plans, runs autofix-all, then works each semantic finding confirming heuristic ones before editing, building + re-grading. Backed by the maf-remediation-playbook skill. doctor --plan --json gives an automatable manifest.
• 🆕 doctor --all — list every finding (not just the top 3), grouped by rule and ordered by impact, each with a one-line why and the offending source line. Full triage in one pass.
• 🆕 autofix-all is human-readable — a per-rule breakdown + changed files + next step by default (--json for the machine shape); the deterministic fixes turn the findings into an ordered, checkboxed remediation plan via doctor --plan.
• 📖 It updates itself — a weekly GitHub Actions watcher refreshes the migration guide, compatibility matrix, and obsolete-API registry as new MAF versions ship, so you don't pin to a MAF version or wait on a maintainer release.
• 🔐 Security-hardened — closes the named MCP attack lattice (path-escape, annotation drift, scaffold code-injection, prompt-injection, workflow-dispatch input injection). Cisco mcp-scanner: all tools SAFE, 0 findings.

Full docs

📖 github.com/joslat/maf-doctor — 3-minute quickstart, init reference, usage guide (prompts / tools / agents + natural-language steering), hands-on workshop, and security docs.

MIT licensed.