amnesic MCP Server
Persistent semantic memory for SQL databases. Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL, SQLite.
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Published as amnesic on pypi. Runs locally.
Known issues
9 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 6.
Most discussed
Automate MCP Registry publish via GitHub OIDC (eliminate manual auth)
Problem
Every time we ship a new version, the MCP Registry publish requires a manual `mcp-publisher login github` device-code flow because the token expires in roughly an hour. This means:
- Releases shipped within a tight window get registry updates (good)
- Releases shipped after the token expires need a re-auth (manual, easy to forget)
- v0.1.7 / v0.1.8 / v0.1.9 all skipped registry updates because the token was stale and the changes were docs-only
Proposed
Add a job to `.github/wo
Read the thread · 2026-05-26 · closed · 1 comment
v0.2: native .env support for credentials
Problem
Users currently have to either:
- Export env vars in their shell rc files (`MSSQL_PASSWORD`, etc.)
- Source another project's `.env` from their MCP client invocation (brittle, non-portable)
The README implies `${VAR}` expansion works, but doesn't address how the var actually gets set when amnesic runs as an MCP server (which inherits the parent process env, not the user shell).
Proposed
Auto-load `~/.config/amnesic/.env` (if present) on amnesic startup, before reading `
Read the thread · 2026-05-26 · closed · 1 comment
Who's using amnesic? 👋
Using amnesic? Drop a comment. 👋
It's genuinely the only way I can tell what's actually being used. PyPI download counts are dominated by mirrors and CI, GitHub stars measure something else entirely, and neither tells me whether the MSSQL path works for anyone or whether people care about the relationship graph. A one-line comment tells me more than either number.
What to say
Anything you're comfortable sharing — all of it optional:
- Who — company, team, or just "personal pro
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments
db_explain — return the database's own query plan (passthrough, not an analyzer)
Problem
amnesic can run a query but can't tell you how the database intends to execute it. When the AI writes a slow query against production, there's no way to see why from inside the tool.
To be clear about scope: this is a passthrough, not an analyzer. amnesic is not going to do index tuning or plan cost analysis — Postgres MCP Pro does that well and competing with it is an explicit non-goal (see [ROADMAP.md](../blob/main/ROADMAP.md#where
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments
Soft-FK inference for legacy schemas with no FK constraints
Problem
db_discover_relationships reads FK constraints from the live database. On a well-designed schema that works well. On the schemas where an AI assistant is most needed — legacy MSSQL, MySQL tables built without constraints, anything that grew organically over a decade — it returns nothing, because there are no declared constraints to read.
This is precisely the gap a live-introspection server cannot close: there is no metadata to introspect. It's ours to take.
Proposed shape
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments
Most recent
Token budget: cap every tool response so a single call can't blow out the context window
Problem
No tool in amnesic caps the size of its response. The only cap in the codebase is _UNDOCUMENTED_LIST_CAP in amnesic/tools/drift.py.
The worst offender is db_query: max_rows=500 by default with no character budget. A SELECT * against a 40-column table returns 500 full row dicts — easily 50k tokens in a single tool result, which can blow out the caller's context window in one call. db_list_tables is unbounded too (every cached table with description and aliases), and `db_g
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · open · 0 comments
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