Chain-of-Thought Recursive Thinking MCP Server

v2.2.0 - Expert Roles, Custom Checklists, and Strict Validation!

Token-efficient MCP server that makes AI agents think deeper through structured reasoning chains, self-critique, and automatic rethinking loops.

🎯 What's New in v2.2.0

| Feature | Description | Benefit | |---------|-------------|---------| | Expert Roles | AI assumes specific personas (e.g., Security Architect) | Rigorous perspective-based thinking | | Custom Checklists | Validate solutions against specific requirements | Tailored quality enforcement | | Strict Mode | Prevents finalization unless all criteria are met | High-bar production quality | | Chain of Thought | AI explains WHY it chose each solution | Transparent reasoning, better decisions | | Self-Evaluation | AI rates its own solutions (1-10 scale) | Honest assessment of solution quality | | Rethink Loop | Automatic rethinking if rating <7 or issues found | Continuous improvement |

✨ Features

• 🧠 Chain of Thought: AI must explain reasoning behind every decision
• 🎭 Expert Roles: Inject specialized expertise into the thinking process
• 📋 Custom Checklists: Force AI to validate against your specific requirements
• ⚖️ Strict Mode: Ensure the AI never settles for "good enough"
• 📊 Self-Evaluation: AI rates solutions with score (1-10), good/bad flag, and rationale
• 🔄 Continuous Rethinking: Automatically rethinks if solution scored <7 or has weaknesses
• 🎯 Phase-Based Workflow: Structured 5-phase thinking process
• 💰 Token Optimized: Smart compression, phase-focused prompts (~70% reduction)

🔄 How It Works

The 5 Phases

┌─────────────┐
│  1. EXPLORE │ ──→ Propose solution with reasoning & expert perspective
└──────┬──────┘
       ▼
┌─────────────┐
│  2. JUSTIFY │ ──→ Critically examine reasoning & assumptions
└──────┬──────┘
       ▼
┌─────────────┐
│  3. EVALUATE│ ──→ Rate solution (1-10) against checklist
└──────┬──────┘
       ▼
   ┌───┴───┐
   │ Score │
   │ ≥7?   │ ──NO─→ ┌─────────────┐
   └───┬───┘        │  4. RETHINK │ ──→ Improve based on weaknesses
       │YES         └──────┬──────┘
       ▼                   │
┌─────────────┐            │
│  5. FINALIZE│ ←──────────┘
└─────────────┘

🚀 Usage

Starting a Thinking Session with Advanced Config

await mcp.callTool('recursive_thinking', {
  action: 'start',
  task: 'Design a highly available database schema for a global payment system',
  config: {
    role: 'Database Reliability Engineer',
    checklist: [
      'Must handle 10k transactions/sec',
      'ACID compliance mandatory',
      'Multi-region failover strategy',
      'Data encryption at rest and in transit'
    ],
    strictMode: true,
    minRating: 8
  }
});

⚙️ Configuration Options

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description | |-----------|------|---------|-------------| | role | string | - | Expert persona to assume (e.g., 'Senior DevOps') | | checklist | string[] | [] | Specific requirements to validate against | | strictMode | boolean | false | If true, fails instead of finalizing if criteria aren't met | | maxDepth | number | 5 | Maximum recursion depth | | minConfidence | number | 0.85 | Stop when confidence meets threshold | | minRating | number | 7 | Minimum acceptable score (1-10) | | enableRethinking | boolean | true | Enable continuous refinement loop |

📦 Installation

npx -y recursive-thinking-mcp

📄 License

MIT

🔗 Links

• NPM Package
• GitHub Repository