{"id":"rope-mcp-server","name":"rope-mcp-server","af_score":51.0,"security_score":49.0,"reliability_score":26.2,"what_it_does":"Provides an MCP server that wraps the Rope Python refactoring library and exposes project-aware refactoring tools (e.g., move/rename symbols and modules, convert modules to packages, extract methods, inline variables, and list symbols). Intended for MCP-compatible agents (e.g., Claude) to perform safe, AST-aware transformations across a Python codebase.","best_when":"You want an MCP-compatible AI agent to perform repo-wide Python refactors with import updates, using the provided tool interfaces.","avoid_when":"You require strong authentication, explicit rate limiting guidance, or documented error/rollback/idempotency behavior; you also have very large repos where indexing time may be an issue without clear performance expectations.","last_evaluated":"2026-04-04T21:45:28.169160+00:00","has_mcp":true,"has_api":false,"auth_methods":["MCP server transport authorization via claude mcp add -s user/local (exact mechanism not specified)"],"has_free_tier":false,"known_gotchas":["File moves/renames and code extractions are likely non-idempotent—agents should avoid repeating the same operation after partial failure.","Rope project caching/indexing may introduce latency on first use for a given project.","Tool limitations: moving methods between classes requires the target class to exist.","Only Python is supported (Rope limitation)."],"error_quality":0.0}