# CLEO MCP Server MCP Server

Task management for AI coding agents — CQRS 2-gateway pattern, 200 ops across 10 domains

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## Connect

Published as `@cleocode/cleo` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**20 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

### [Feature] Add cleo doctor --full or cleo smoke for operational self-validation

### Feature Request

## Problem

CLEO has 215 MCP operations across 10 domains and 95+ CLI commands, but no way to validate that they actually work after installation or upgrade. The current \`cleo doctor\` only checks file/DB existence — it doesn't test operational correctness.

During the v2026.3.60 → v2026.3.65 verification cycle, bugs like the \`phases\` crash (#77), brain.db migration failure (#65), and 21 silent-empty commands (#70) all passed \`doctor\` with flying colors because doctor o

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/79) · 2026-03-23 · closed · 3 comments

### BUG: cleo exists routes to unregistered query:tasks.exists operation

## Bug Description

`cleo exists <taskId>` fails with:

```
Unknown operation: query:tasks.exists (exit code 2)
```

The CLI command exists and accepts a task ID argument, but routes to `query:tasks.exists` which is not registered in the MCP operation matrix.

## Steps to Reproduce

```bash
cleo exists T001
# Error: Unknown operation: query:tasks.exists (exit code 2)

cleo exists T999
# Error: Unknown operation: query:tasks.exists (exit code 2)
```

## Expected Behavior

- `cleo exists T001` → e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/68) · 2026-03-23 · closed · 3 comments

### [Bug]:Legacy cleo-mcp-reaper kills active Codex CLI sessions and needs upgrade-time migration

### Bug Report

## Impact

Active Codex CLI sessions are deterministically terminated after their npm Node launcher is older than 900 seconds. This can discard in-progress terminal work and was initially misidentified as a Codex crash.

## Reproduction and evidence

A host-local user timer ran every 10 minutes and invoked `~/.local/bin/cleo-mcp-reaper.sh`. The helper selected every process where `/proc/PID/comm` equals `MainThread`, age is at least 900 seconds, and the ancestry lacks a live `cla

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/1187) · 2026-08-11 · open · 2 comments

### [Bug]:implemented gate commit-reachability rejects development-merged work (only checks task/<id> or main)

### Bug Report

## Summary
The `implemented` gate's commit atom only accepts commits reachable from `task/<taskId>` or `main`. Work merged to an integration branch (`development`) via a SHARED task branch (one PR covering multiple task IDs) cannot be reconciled — only the lead task's branch exists.

## Repro
PR #6 (`task/T028`) covered T028–T031. After merge to `development`:
```
$ git log --all --grep T030   # 763e161 refactor(T030)... exists on development
$ cleo verify T030 --gate implemented

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/1116) · 2026-06-30 · closed · 2 comments

### BUG: cleo phases / phase list crashes with TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')

## Bug Description

`cleo phases` and `cleo phase list` both crash with an unhandled TypeError:

```
TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')
    at paginate (dist/cli/index.js:15414:23)
    at PipelineHandler.queryPhase (dist/cli/index.js:90708:22)
```

Exit code: 1. Reproducible via both CLI and MCP (`pipeline.phase.list`).

## Steps to Reproduce

```bash
cleo phases
# TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'length')

cleo phase list
# Same crash
```

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/77) · 2026-03-23 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### [Bug]:Evidence cache lock acquisition fails under concurrent agent sessions; verify calls hang for minutes

### Bug Report

## Summary
With multiple agent sessions active against the same project (the normal multi-agent setup), `cleo verify` intermittently fails with:

`Failed to acquire lock: /mnt/projects/PepsVida/.cleo/cache/evidence/<hash>.json`

and, more often, verify/complete calls hang for 2-5 minutes (local ollama enrichment + lock contention) and time out scripted gate closeouts.

## Repro (cleo v2026.7.2, node v24.16.0, linux, 3 concurrent agent sessions)
```
# while other sessions run cleo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/1128) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

### [Bug] Memory brain DB migration failure: T528 duplicate column blocks cleo memory observe across sessions

### Bug Report

## Observed behavior

During the LLMtxt Storage Evolution delivery (2026-04-17), `cleo memory observe "..." --title "..."` fails consistently across at least 10 different background subagent sessions with a schema/DB migration error described by the agents as "pre-existing brain DB migration issue, T528 duplicate column".

Representative return messages from subagents:
> "Memory observe failed due to a CLEO brain DB migration error (unrelated to T### work)"
> "The memory observe 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/95) · 2026-04-17 · closed · 0 comments

### BUG: All cleo issue subcommands fail — routes to unregistered MCP operations

## Bug Description

All three `cleo issue` subcommands (`bug`, `feature`, `help`) fail with:

```
Unknown operation: mutate:tools.issue.add.<type>
```

**Exit code:** 2

The CLI commands route to MCP operations that are not registered in the operation matrix.

## Steps to Reproduce

```bash
cleo issue bug --title "test" --body "test" --severity Blocker --area cli
# Error: Unknown operation: mutate:tools.issue.add.bug (exit code 2)

cleo issue feature --title "test" --body "test" --dryRun
# Error

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/64) · 2026-03-23 · closed · 1 comment

### BUG: cleo add/mutate tasks.add fails — missing pipeline_stage column not added by cleo upgrade

## Bug Description

Both `cleo add` (CLI) and `mutate tasks.add` (MCP) fail with:

```
no such column: "pipeline_stage" - should this be a string literal in single-quotes?
```

**Exit code:** 3 (`E_NOT_INITIALIZED`)  
**CLEO version:** 2026.3.60 (`@cleocode/cleo`)  
**Severity:** Blocker — cannot create any new tasks

The `tasks` table in `tasks.db` does not have a `pipeline_stage` column, but v2026.3.60 expects it in the INSERT statement. Running `cleo upgrade` does **not** fix the issue.

## S

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/63) · 2026-03-23 · closed · 1 comment

### Bug: require('crypto') in ESM module causes 'require is not defined' in native mode mutate operations

## Bug Description

All mutate operations (`tasks.create`, `tasks.update`, `tasks.complete`, `tasks.delete`, `tasks.archive`) fail with **"require is not defined"** when running in **native TypeScript mode** (without CLI installed).

Query operations work fine.

## Environment

- `@cleocode/mcp-server` v0.98.4
- Node.js v24.13.1
- Windows 11 / OpenCode + Claude Code
- Native mode (no `cleo` CLI installed globally)

## Root Cause

The package declares `"type": "module"` in `package.json` (ESM), b

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/45) · 2026-02-21 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### [Bug]: Gateway header comments show stale operation counts

### What happened?

The JSDoc header comments in query.ts and mutate.ts show outdated operation counts after the providers domain was added:

- query.ts line 8: says 'Total operations: 63' but actual EXPECTED_QUERY_COUNT is 66 (providers added 3 query ops: list, detect, inject_status)
- mutate.ts line 8: says 'Total operations: 60' but actual EXPECTED_MUTATE_COUNT is 61 (providers added 1 mutate op: inject)

The runtime EXPECTED_*_COUNT constants are correct (66/61) and match the actual counts, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/35) · 2026-02-14 · closed · 1 comment

### [Bug]: MCP issues handler ignores dryRun parameter

### What happened?

The issues domain handler in mcp-server/src/domains/issues.ts does not pass --dry-run to the CLI when params.dryRun is true. This causes real GitHub issues to be created even when dryRun: true is passed. The IssueCreateParams interface also lacks the dryRun field. Found during v0.94.0 regression testing — test issues #22, #23, #24 were created unintentionally.

**Severity**: Major
**Area**: mcp

### Are you using an AI agent?

Yes - AI agent filed this issue

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## Environm

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kryptobaseddev/cleo/issues/25) · 2026-02-13 · closed · 0 comments

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