# claude-flow MCP Server

AI orchestration with hive-mind swarms, neural networks, and 87 MCP tools for enterprise dev.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `claude-flow` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**362 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

### hooks statusline --json writes [WARN]/[INFO] to stdout, breaking JSON parsers

`@claude-flow/cli` v3.34.0, macOS, Node v26.1.0.

  `hooks statusline --json` emits diagnostics on **stdout**, ahead of the JSON. With stderr fully
  discarded, stdout still starts with a log line:

  ```
  $ npx @claude-flow/cli hooks statusline --json 2>/dev/null | head -c 60
  [WARN] Failed to load config from <project>/claude-flow.config.json: ...
  ```

  ```
  JSON.parse → Unexpected token 'W', "[WARN] Fail"... is not valid JSON
  ```

  **It's intermittent, which is worse than a hard fail

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/2909) · 2026-08-03 · closed · external user · 7 comments

### MCP memory_search defaults to namespace='default' instead of 'all' — returns 0 results for entries in other namespaces

## Bug Description

The MCP `memory_search` tool uses a default similarity threshold of `0.3` which causes valid semantic searches to return **0 results**, while the identical query via `claude-flow memory search` CLI returns the expected results.

## Steps to Reproduce

1. Store an entry with a 768-dim embedding:
```bash
claude-flow memory store --key "test-entry" --value "ADR-048 memory pipeline with curateIndex and topic files" --namespace patterns
```

2. Search via CLI — **works**:
```bash

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/1131) · 2026-02-13 · closed · external user · 9 comments

### [Bug] Missing hive-mind/spawn MCP tool in V3

## Description

  The CLI command `npx claude-flow@alpha hive-mind spawn` exists but fails because the corresponding MCP tool `hive-mind/spawn` is not implemented. I should mention I'm migrating a project currently using 2.7.x

  ## Steps to Reproduce

  1. Install claude-flow V3: `npx claude-flow@alpha`
  2. Initialize hive-mind: `npx claude-flow@alpha hive-mind init`
  3. Attempt to spawn workers: `npx claude-flow@alpha hive-mind spawn -n 5`

  ## Expected Behavior

  Workers should be spawned

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/943) · 2026-01-14 · closed · outside contributor · 7 comments

### 🚨 Critical: 85% of MCP Tools Are Mock/Stub Implementations - Deep Validation Analysis

# 🚨 Critical Issue: Extensive Mock/Stub Implementation Detected in Claude-Flow MCP Server

## Summary
Through systematic deep validation analysis using a Hive Mind collective intelligence approach, we discovered that approximately **85% of claude-flow MCP tools are mock/stub implementations** that return success responses without performing actual functionality.

## Impact
- **High Severity**: Production workflows using claude-flow tools will fail silently
- **Silent Failures**: Tools return suc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/653) · 2025-08-14 · closed · external user · 11 comments

### [Bug] Memory is not working at all

Still have no working memory in `v2.0.0-alpha.78`
It's pretty unusable right now

After trying with ~5 hive-mind spawns i still get this output:
```
✅ Memory Bank Statistics:
   Total Entries: 0
   Namespaces: 0
   Size: 0.00 KB
```

Furthermore all my hive-mind spawns show the same status basically regardless of their progress:
```
Status: active
Created: 7/30/2025, 6:18:10 AM

Agents:
  👑 Queen: Queen Coordinator (active)
  🐝 Workers:
    - Researcher Worker 1 (researcher) idle
    - Coder Wor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/530) · 2025-07-30 · open · external user · 12 comments

### Most recent

### feat(adr): expose ADR creation via first-class CLI/MCP (currently Claude Code plugin-only)

## Summary

Ruflo has ADR creation support, but the supported automated creation path is only exposed through the Claude Code `ruflo-adr` plugin (`/adr-create` or the plugin's `adr create` prompt command). There is no first-class Ruflo CLI command or MCP tool, so Codex, other MCP clients, CI, and ordinary shells cannot use the same lifecycle operation.

Manual creation of a Markdown file is possible, but it bypasses the plugin's sequential numbering, standard template, AgentDB registration, rela

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3112) · 2026-08-27 · open · external user · 1 comment

### Optional Parallel Search MCP setup for the self-hosted Web UI

Hey! Would you be open to a small Parallel Search MCP integration for RuVocal?

I was reading through the [bridge's web research path](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/blob/e21aa352fdc80fd2d3cc4e83404a76a18d118b96/ruflo/src/ruvocal/mcp-bridge/index.js#L979-L997). When there's no research Cloud Function configured, it falls back to Google, and [that path needs `GOOGLE_API_KEY`](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/blob/e21aa352fdc80fd2d3cc4e83404a76a18d118b96/ruflo/src/ruvocal/mcp-bridge/index.js#L653-

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3106) · 2026-08-26 · open · external user · 0 comments

### YAML parse error in plugins/ruflo-metaharness/skills/harness-gepa/SKILL.md — unquoted colon in description breaks `npx skills add`

YAML parse error in plugins/ruflo-metaharness/skills/harness-gepa/SKILL.md — unquoted colon in description breaks `npx skills add`

Corpo:

## Summary

`npx skills add ruvnet/ruflo --all` fails to install the `harness-gepa` skill (labeled as `Eve` in the plugin manifest) because its YAML frontmatter contains an unquoted colon inside the `description` field, which the parser interprets as a nested mapping.

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11
- Shell: PowerShell
- Node: v22+ (via `npx`)
- Command: `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3065) · 2026-08-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### CLAUDE_FLOW_MCP_TOOLS env var ignored by 'mcp tools' (v3.38.12)

## Description

`claude-flow doctor` suggests setting `CLAUDE_FLOW_MCP_TOOLS` to restrict advertised MCP tool categories and reduce schema overhead:

```
MCP Schema Overhead: 333 advertised tools ≈ 61550 schema tokens (all tools)
Suggested fix: Set CLAUDE_FLOW_MCP_TOOLS to required categories/tool names (for example: memory,swarm,agent,hooks)
```

Setting the variable has no effect — `mcp tools` still lists all 333 tools across all 26 categories as `Enabled`.

## Steps to reproduce

```bash
CLAU

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3055) · 2026-08-18 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### memory_store (MCP tool): tags parameter accepted but never persisted

## Summary
The `memory_store` MCP tool accepts a `tags` array parameter (per its own tool schema: `"tags": {"description": "Optional tags for filtering", "items": {"type": "string"}, "type": "array"}`) and returns `success: true`, but the tags are never written to storage. Every subsequent read (`memory_retrieve`, `memory_list`) shows an empty/absent tags value, and the raw SQLite `tags` column is empty for the row.

## Environment
- Package: `@claude-flow/memory` v3.0.0-alpha.22 (resolved via `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3051) · 2026-08-17 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### agentTeams teammateIdle autoAssign: no scope/ownership check, no refusal back-off — pressed write-heavy tasks onto read-only agents 20+ times in one session

## Summary

The `agentTeams.coordination.autoAssignOnIdle` / `hooks.teammateIdle.autoAssign` mechanism (v3 CLI, observed on 4.x this week) pairs "idle agent" with "unclaimed task" purely on liveness. In one working session we observed it:

- fire **20+ times across 5 different subagents**, byte-identical instruction each time, with **no back-off after an explicit reasoned refusal** (one agent declined the same assignment 8 times; the hook re-fired immediately each time);
- assign **implementatio

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/3031) · 2026-08-14 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### mcp start -t http (3.38.2, post-#2984): initialize returns protocolVersion as object — spec-validating clients reject the handshake; http tools/list serves only 4 system tools

## Summary

Follow-up to #2984 (fixed in 3.38.2 via #2987 — thank you, the process now stays alive and the port binds). Testing 3.38.2 with a **real MCP client** (a chat-ui fork using the MCP SDK) rather than curl surfaces two remaining defects that make the HTTP transport unusable in practice, plus one minor bind quirk:

1. **`initialize` returns `protocolVersion` as an object; the MCP spec requires a string.** Spec-validating clients reject the handshake outright.
2. **`tools/list` over HTTP s

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ruvnet/ruflo/issues/2990) · 2026-08-12 · closed · external user · 2 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for claude-flow](/mcp/claude-flow/issues) — of 362 qualified upstream.

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