Prevent Coding Agents from breaking your repo: Introducing Agentic SDLC MCP for GitHub 🚀

Hi Cursor community,

We all love how powerful Cursor’s Composer and Agents are, but let’s be honest — sometimes agents can be a bit too confident. They might rush into coding without reading your project guidelines, push directly to the main branch, or accidentally ignore your existing CI/CD standards.

To solve this, I built agentic-sdlc-mcp, an engineering governance and safety control plane for AI coding agents. It acts as a protective shield between Cursor and your GitHub repositories.

:glowing_star: Key Features:

  • Strict Context Alignment: Forces agents to plan based on your exact issue context, CLAUDE.md, or architecture guidelines before writing code.
  • Safety First (dryRun: true by default): All destructive or mutating tools (like creating PRs/Issues) run in dry-run mode first to let you review.
  • Quality & Security Gates: Agents can automatically audit workflow permissions, check branch protection status, and run security triages before making changes.
  • 12 Dedicated Tools: Built-in tools for plan_from_context, review_pr_against_standard, prepare_work_item, and more.

:rocket: How to use it in Cursor

It takes less than 30 seconds to configure. Just open your Cursor settings, go to Models -> MCP, and add a new MCP server with:

  • Type: command
  • Command: npx agentic-sdlc-mcp configure (or run it in your terminal to save global config)

Check out the full open-source project and architecture diagram here:
:backhand_index_pointing_right: GitHub: GitHub - SakuraCianna/agentic-sdlc-mcp · GitHub

I’d love to hear your thoughts! How do you currently enforce engineering discipline when letting Agents roam free in your codebases?