fix: serialise chdir for parallel calls, add ruff/mypy CI, tidy client setup

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What

Three commits, independent of each other, plus two follow-ups: one for CodeRabbit's review and one for the adversarial review of this PR.

Parallel tool calls no longer read the wrong repository

_working_directory switches the process cwd with os.chdir, and mcp 2.x runs sync tools on worker threads with one task per request. Two concurrent calls with different repo_path values therefore raced on the one cwd. Measured with two scratch repos on different branches and 150 rounds of asyncio.gather over two validate_branch_name calls:

	mismatched results	cwd left in the wrong repo after a round
before	151 of 300 (reported as pass)	125 of 150 rounds
after	0 of 300	0

A module-level threading.Lock now serialises the chdir window. It is held only while the directory is switched, so config loading and the checks stay separate critical sections. Calls without repo_path take the lock too, so a tool that reads the process cwd never observes another thread's temporary chdir (CodeRabbit's finding). A regression test (30 rounds, two repos) fails on the first round when the lock is replaced with nullcontext().

The adversarial review then found three reads that happen before a tool enters the lock: a relative repo_path, a relative config_path with no repo_path, and the git-repository check for repo_path=None all resolved against the process cwd, which another thread may have switched. A relative config_path loaded the other repository's cchk.toml. They now resolve against the cwd observed under the lock, which is the directory the server was started in; four tests park a thread inside _working_directory(other) and assert the helpers and validate_commit_message still see the server's own directory (all four fail on the previous code). Stress run through stdio, 500 rounds × 16 mixed calls over three repositories plus repo_path=None: 0 mismatches, 0 cwd drift, against 52% mismatches on main. Cost: none for a single call, about 1.6× round wall time at 20-way fan-out. The long-term fix is cwd= plumbing in commit-check's git helpers, tracked separately.

CI runs ruff and mypy; the matrix includes 3.14

The workflow only ran pytest. ruff check reported two import-order errors and mypy src four call-arg errors: the ToolAnnotations kwargs added in #35 were camelCase, which pydantic's alias generator accepts at runtime but the typed signature does not. Both are fixed first (the kwargs are now read_only_hint= etc.; the initialize + tools/list wire bytes are identical to main, 23,646 bytes compared), then a lint job is added with ruff check src tests and mypy src (checkout with persist-credentials: false), and [tool.ruff] (line-length 100, E/F/W/I/UP/B) and [tool.mypy] land in pyproject.toml. Seven pre-existing over-long test lines were wrapped by hand; ruff format was not run. Python 3.14 is added to the test matrix: pyproject.toml already carried the 3.14 classifier and every runtime dependency declares 3.14, so CI is where that claim gets proven.

One client-setup block and a per-client table

The README carried nine near-identical JSON blocks. The Claude Code one pointed at ~/.claude/settings.json, which does not register MCP servers; Zed's used mcp_servers where Zed reads context_servers; Continue's was the legacy config.json form; Claude Desktop had no file paths; VS Code was missing. Replaced by one canonical mcpServers block and a table: Claude Code via claude mcp add commit-check -- uvx commit-check-mcp (or .mcp.json), Claude Desktop paths for macOS and Windows, Cursor, VS Code (.vscode/mcp.json, servers key), Cline, Roo Code, Windsurf, Continue (a complete config.yaml with name/version/schema, or a file under .continue/mcpServers/), Zed (context_servers), and a pip install fallback with which / where / Get-Command for each shell. Cline and Windsurf paths are marked "check your client's docs" because they could not be verified from here.

Testing

• 111 tests pass, three runs in a row on 3.10 and 3.11 (106 + the concurrency regression test + four at-rest-cwd tests).
• ruff check src tests and mypy src clean.
• Stress script against the branch: 0 mismatches, 0 cwd drift in 8,000 calls.

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Walkthrough

The change synchronizes repository working-directory access, adds concurrent validation coverage, introduces Ruff and mypy checks, expands the Python test matrix, and updates MCP client configuration documentation.

Changes

Repository quality and runtime updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Working-directory synchronization and validation src/commit_check_mcp/server.py, tests/test_server.py	The server serializes directory changes with a lock. Tests cover concurrent validation across repositories and preserve the original directory.
Static analysis and Python test matrix .github/workflows/main.yml, pyproject.toml	The project adds Ruff and mypy configuration, a lint job, and Python 3.14 test coverage.
Client configuration guidance README.md	The README documents client configuration locations and updated Claude Code, Zed, VS Code, Continue, and generic-client settings.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ffe9e

Repository checks can still read the wrong repository when a request without repo_path overlaps one using a repository path. The updated setup guidance can also leave Continue and Windows users unable to configure the server, and the lint workflow retains its GitHub token while executing checked-out code. These issues should be addressed before merge.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title accurately summarizes the three main changes: serializing directory changes, adding Ruff and mypy CI checks, and simplifying client setup documentation.

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Inline comments:
In @.github/workflows/main.yml:
- Line 51: Update the actions/checkout step in the lint job to disable
persisting the checkout token in local Git configuration by setting
persist-credentials to false; leave the existing pinned checkout revision and
other workflow behavior unchanged.

In `@README.md`:
- Around line 132-138: Update the Continue configuration example so it is a
complete config.yaml with top-level name, version, and schema fields, and
clarify that it belongs under .continue/mcpServers/. Alternatively, explicitly
label the snippet as an mcpServers fragment; keep the standalone JSON MCP
configuration documented separately.
- Line 130: Update the MCP configuration fallback guidance in the “Anything
else” table row to include Windows executable lookup commands: `where
commit-check-mcp` for Command Prompt and `Get-Command commit-check-mcp |
Select-Object -ExpandProperty Source` for PowerShell, while retaining the
existing Unix `which commit-check-mcp` guidance.

In `@src/commit_check_mcp/server.py`:
- Line 273: Move _CWD_LOCK acquisition before the repo_path is None branch in
the surrounding context manager, and keep it held through the yield for no-path
calls so _working_directory(None), repository configuration loading, and Git
checks cannot overlap with path-based calls.

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