# Amicus MCP Server

Multi-model LLM Council and parallel AI window for Claude Code. Fork any model, fold results back.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `amicus` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**19 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Updater: npx cache pins a stale opencode, breaking every MCP session behind a misleading NO_OUTPUT_BACKSTOP

## Summary

The MCP launch path (`npx -y amicus@latest mcp`) and the CLI path (global install) can end up bundling **different `opencode` versions**. When they do, every MCP-spawned session dies — but the reported reason blames the *model*, sending you off debugging model IDs, API keys, and gateways instead of the engine.

Observed on Windows 11, amicus **v4.7.0** (identical version on both paths).

## Symptom

Every `amicus_start` via MCP failed identically, regardless of model or gateway:

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/133) · 2026-08-08 · closed · 2 comments

### Electron: lazy first-GUI-use provisioning via a separate ensureElectron() (do not overload getElectronPath)

## Problem

On a broken-GUI install, `runInteractive` (`src/sidecar/interactive.js:98`) just bails with an error string telling the user to reinstall — the exact reinstall loop the report flags. There's no attempt to provision the binary on first GUI use.

## Fix

Add an `ensureElectron()` (the provisioning variant of `repairElectron`) and call it **only** from the two GUI-launch sites:
- `src/sidecar/setup-window.js:21` (setup wizard launch)
- `src/sidecar/interactive.js:200` (`getElectronPath(

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/55) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Unify project-directory handling: one shared canonicalProjectPath() + directory-threading convention (#39/#40/interactive)

## Problem

The interactive `--cwd` bug, #39 (honor MCP roots / `AMICUS_PROJECT_DIR`), and #40 (global session index) are all symptoms of amicus never threading a **single canonical project directory** through (a) `session.create`, (b) per-session API calls, and (c) the Web-UI route / session index. Shipping three independent path normalizers would re-create the very inconsistency these issues describe.

## Fix

- Land ONE shared, well-tested, **pure** `canonicalProjectPath(p)` helper (Windows s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/48) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Scope the OpenCode session to directory on the shared-server MCP path (mcp-server.js)

## Problem

The shared-server MCP path (`src/mcp-server.js:130`) also calls `createSession(client)` with **no directory**, against an OpenCode server shared across projects. This is the same "session not found in project" bug class for headless MCP sessions, and the surface of #40 (global session index): a session created project-unscoped is found by id but not by a `?directory=` query.

## Fix

Thread the same canonical `directory` (from the MCP project resolution — see #39 honor-MCP-roots / `A

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/47) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### amicus_status: bound elapsed by completedAt/abortedAt/crashedAt instead of wall-clock from now

## Problem

`amicus_status` computes `elapsed` as `Date.now() - createdAt` in both the single-session (`src/mcp-server.js:336-339`) and wave (`:309-313`) branches, ignoring `completedAt`. For a terminal session, `elapsed` keeps growing with wall-clock time after completion — e.g. a 2.1s run shows `0m 22s` after a delayed poll. It reports how long ago the session *started*, not how long it *ran*.

## Fix

Bound the end by `completedAt ?? abortedAt ?? crashedAt ?? Date.now()` and apply to **both**

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/42) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Council Workspace auto-open is MCP-only: "amicus council run" (CLI) never opens the window

## Summary

The v4.5 Workspace auto-open decision is wired into the **MCP** council handler only. Launching the identical council through the **CLI** (`amicus council run`) silently never opens the Workspace, with no notice that a GUI was available and skipped.

Same run, same machine, same `client: code-local` — two different outcomes depending purely on transport.

## Evidence

**MCP path has it** — `src/mcp-council-run.js:236-246`:

```js
// ★ v4.5 auto-open (spec §6): decide via the pure hel

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/81) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

### doctor's Electron check validates the wrong install when MCP server runs from npx-cache

## Summary
`amicus doctor` reports Electron as installed, but `amicus_council_run` with `ui: true`
consistently returns `workspaceOpened: false, workspaceOpenReason: "electron-absent"` —
across three attempts, including after a full session/MCP-server restart.

## Root cause
Two independent amicus installs exist on the same machine:
1. **Global npm install** (`%APPDATA%\npm\node_modules\amicus`) — what a normal shell
   resolves `amicus` to, and what `doctor` checks. Electron was fully installed

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/76) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments

### Make the github: install path run identically on Windows (so README's 'runs identically' claim holds)

## Goal

Make `npm install -g github:BourbonDog/amicus` succeed on Windows and register MCP + skills **exactly like the registry install**, so the README claim that the github: install "runs identically — same MCP registration, same two skills" (`README.md:113`) becomes true — rather than softening it with a Windows caveat.

## Background / corrected root cause

A Windows v1.5.1 install report saw `npm install -g github:BourbonDog/amicus` roll back the whole package: the package's own `postinsta

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/35) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Surface running amicus version (+ on-disk mismatch warning) in MCP tool responses

## Problem

No MCP tool response surfaces the running amicus version — the only version reference is `McpServer` handshake metadata (`src/mcp-server.js:665`) that the agent never sees in a tool result. After `npm i -g amicus`, the long-lived MCP stdio child keeps the old `require()`'d modules in memory until the client restarts, and this staleness is undetectable from inside an agent session. (Compounded by `amicus_setup` reporting success unconditionally — a stale/broken server is indistinguish

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/33) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Build amicus doctor into a self-heal/diagnose hub and point failures at it

## Problem

Several install/runtime failure modes are silent or stale and have no single recovery path:
- missing electron GUI binary (silent exit-0),
- github: install rollback (corrupt git-prep cache),
- transient `opencode-ai` postinstall rollback,
- stale MCP server keeping old code after a reinstall.

`amicus doctor` already reports the version (`src/cli-handlers-doctor.js:164`) and warns on missing electron (`src/cli-handlers-doctor.js:111-115`) — the plumbing exists.

## Fix

Extend `src/

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/32) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### Make package postinstall non-fatal so internal failures don't roll back the whole global install

## Problem

A non-zero exit from `node scripts/postinstall.js` makes npm roll back and uninstall amicus **entirely**. But the postinstall only does optional convenience setup (skill copy + MCP registration) — it should never be load-bearing for the install to succeed. Today any internal throw, or a `MODULE_NOT_FOUND` when the script is missing from a github: install tree (see the github: rollback issue), nukes the whole global install.

The internal operations are already wrapped in try/catch-wa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/29) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

### amicus_setup MCP tool reports success even when Electron is missing

## Problem

`amicus_setup` (`src/mcp-server.js:638-643`) returns the hardcoded string `Setup wizard launched. The Electron window should appear on your desktop.` regardless of outcome. It calls `spawnSidecarProcess(['setup'])` (`src/mcp-server.js:55-77`) fire-and-forget — stdio ignored, `child.unref()`, no `error`/`exit` listener. The `try/catch` only catches a *synchronous* spawn throw. When Electron is missing (or the child starts and then exits immediately), the user is told setup launched wh

[Read the thread](https://github.com/BourbonDog/amicus/issues/28) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 1 comment

[See all 16 reports Pod holds for Amicus](/mcp/amicus/issues) — of 19 qualified upstream.

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