# Agent Coherence — Stale Write Guard (FS) MCP Server

Coherence guard for shared files: denies stale writes so agents don't silently overwrite each other.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/Cohexa-ai/agent-coherence)

**GitHub popularity:** 11 stars on [cohexa-ai/agent-coherence](cohexa-ai/agent-coherence), recorded 2026-09-27.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `agent-coherence` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**13 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### GET /status omits each tracked artifact's last writer (last_writer_id)

**Update (2026-09-26):** §1 below is fixed on `dev` by #200 but not yet released. `sessions` is now built from the registry, so a grant holder the running coordinator has no name for is listed with `agent_name: null` instead of being dropped. Treating `sessions` as a lower bound, as "In the meantime" suggests, is still needed on 0.14.1, the latest release, but not on `dev`. Reading `artifacts.last_writer_id` from `state.db` is still the workaround for §2 until #235 (which replaced #227) lands…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Cohexa-ai/agent-coherence/issues/199) · 2026-09-16 · closed · 4 comments

### Most recent

### status, track and untrack commands print coordinator strings unescaped and exit 1 on a non-object error body

`agent-coherence-status`, `agent-coherence-track` and `agent-coherence-untrack` print strings from the coordinator without escaping control characters, and exit 1 with a traceback when an error body is not a JSON object.
Exit 1 is documented as "not in a git repo", so a script misreads the failure. Escape sequences and newlines in those strings reach the terminal as they are.

A real coordinator reaches only two narrow cases (see "How much of this a real coordinator reaches"). The rest needs a…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Cohexa-ai/agent-coherence/issues/245) · 2026-09-26 · open · 0 comments

[See all 13 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/agent-coherence-stale-write-guard-fs/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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Call `find_mcp` to find Agent Coherence — Stale Write Guard (FS), alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:

```json
{
  "query": "Agent Coherence — Stale Write Guard (FS)",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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```

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