# clops-mcp

> Long-running, multi-step Claude Code workflows, written in Python and run one focused step at a time.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
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## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/clops-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Wesley Harding
- homepage: https://github.com/clops-mcp/clops-mcp/tree/main/docs
- repository: https://github.com/clops-mcp/clops-mcp/releases
- version: 0.4.5
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, claude, claude-code, llm, agents, orchestration, pipeline, workflow
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:clops-mcp

### Description (declared)

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# clops

Long-running, multi-step Claude Code workflows, written in Python and run one
focused step at a time.

## The problem

You write a skill for a workflow you run every week. It works. Then you add the
edge cases, the exceptions, the "don't forget to check X" — and it stops
working. Claude cheats the steps it finds boring. It forgets details buried in
the middle. It overcorrects on whatever you emphasised last. The more detail you
add to make it reliable, the less reliable it gets, because the entire document
is in context the entire time and Claude has to keep deciding, unprompted, which
part applies right now.

clops inverts that. Each step of the workflow is a separate **Op** with its own
prompt, its own input, and its own subagent. The runtime decides which Op runs
next and renders the prompt for it. The agent doing the work sees one step's
worth of instruction — not the workflow.

The whole goal of clops is to help Claude think about what it needs to think
about right now, and not a whole lot else.

The payoff compounds: a workflow you get right once stays right, and you can
compose it into bigger ones instead of rewriting it. Your workflows stop being
disposable.

## What this is not

**This is not an agent framework.** clops has no API key, no provider SDK, and
no model calls of its own. It runs inside Claude Code, which supplies the model
and the subagents. If what you want is durable execution, retries, and
observability for unattended production agents, you want LangGraph or Temporal,
not this.

**This is not for unattended work.** clops targets interactive and
semi-interactive workflows — the ones where you are in the loop, or will be
shortly. The value is *preparation*: the machine spends twenty minutes building
context, and when your attention arrives the work is ready to go. If nobody is
coming back, clops buys you nothing.

## Why not just write a skill?

| Objection | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Just…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.ci-cd (1, declared)
- automation.orchestration (1, declared)
- productivity.crm (0.675, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/clops-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T11:31:07.636Z)

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