# Codebase Memory MCP Server

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `codebase-memory-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

Published as `codebase-memory-mcp` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codebase-memory": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "codebase-memory-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-windows-arm64.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-windows-amd64.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-darwin-amd64.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-linux-arm64-portable.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-linux-amd64-portable.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

Published as `https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/releases/download/v0.10.8/codebase-memory-mcp-darwin-arm64.mcpb` on mcpb. Runs locally.

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**39 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 12.

### Most discussed

### Memory not released after indexing: 20GB+ RSS for 5MB of indexed data

## Summary

After indexing a small project (65 files, 1.3MB, 2509 nodes), codebase-memory-mcp retains 20GB+ RSS on a 32GB Windows machine. Memory grows monotonically and is never released to the OS.

## Environment

- OS: Windows 11, i7-12700 (20 cores), 32GB RAM
- CBM Version: 0.8.1
- Project: 65 Markdown files, 1.3MB, 2509 nodes

## Root Cause (from source code)

1. mimalloc abandoned-thread arenas not purged (mem.c missing mi_option_abandoned_thread_purge)
2. Default worker count uses all 20…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/832) · 2026-07-04 · closed · external user · 13 comments

### trace_path silently accepts invalid direction values and returns empty results

## Summary

`trace_path` returns an empty result for **every** function/method I tried — callers or callees, plain or fully-qualified name, any depth — even though the underlying `CALLS` edges exist and are traversable via `query_graph`. The tool only ever echoes back `{"function":...,"direction":...}` with no `paths`/`nodes`.

This makes the headline call-graph traversal tool effectively non-functional in v0.8.1, at least on macOS arm64.

## Environment

- **Version:** codebase-memory-mcp…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/480) · 2026-06-16 · open · external user · 9 comments

### [bug] Auto-generated Pi extension (cbmem.ts) missing parameters schema — crashes on startup

## Summary

The Pi extension that the installer auto-generates at `~/.pi/agent/extensions/cbmem.ts` registers 15 tools with **no `parameters` schema**, which makes every new `pi` session crash on startup with:

```
Error: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'properties')
```

## Environment

| Component | Version |
|---|---|
| codebase-memory-mcp | 0.10.8 |
| pi (`@earendil-works/pi-coding-agent`) | 0.84.2 |
| OS | Windows 11 (Git Bash via Scoop) |
| Node | (pi ships with bun runtime)…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/1806) · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Every idle MCP client burns ~0.7 core since 0.9.1-rc.1 (0.9.0: 0%) — N concurrent sessions cost N cores, Windows

### Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.8

### Platform

Windows (x64)

### Install channel

GitHub release archive / install.sh / install.ps1

### Binary variant

standard

### What happened, and what did you expect?

A `codebase-memory-mcp` stdio client process consumes **55-86% of one CPU core while completely idle**, from the moment it starts, and never settles. Expected: ~0%, which is exactly what 0.9.0 does on the same machine.

This is not agent-specific and needs no MCP traffic to…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/1764) · 2026-08-20 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### macOS: markerless stale socket/anchor pair permanently blocks daemon startup

### Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.8

### Platform

macOS on Apple Silicon

### Install channel

GitHub release archive

### Binary variant

standard

### What happened, and what did you expect?

When a runtime namespace contains a hard-linked `.sock` and `.anc` pair but no `.sock.identity` or `.sock.pending`, daemon startup remains permanently blocked.

No process holds the socket and connecting to it returns `ECONNREFUSED`, but both `daemon start` and CLI commands fail until the pair is…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/1757) · 2026-08-20 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Most recent

### `/api/layout` does not expose edge `confidence`

**Severity:** medium.

`CALLS` edges carry `confidence`, `strategy`, `candidates`, `via` via `query_graph`,
but the layout endpoint returns only `{source, target, type}` — **0 of ~208 000 edges**
carry confidence. The graph UI therefore cannot distinguish an LSP-resolved call
from a `suffix_match` guess, and neither can any HTTP consumer.

**Ask:** include `confidence` and `strategy` on layout edges, ideally with a
`min_confidence` query parameter.

---
Observed on v0.10.8 (build…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2130) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Dead-code status ignores framework-driven entry points

**Severity:** high — the feature is unusable as shipped.

359 nodes get `status: "dead"`; **247 (69%)** are reachable only dynamically:

- ASGI/WSGI middleware `__call__` for classes listed in a settings module
- `__init__` of classes instantiated via a registry or DI
- alembic `upgrade`/`downgrade`, Django management-command `handle`
- `pytest` fixtures, `@receiver` / `@shared_task` decorated functions

**Ask:** a configurable liveness list (dunder methods, decorator patterns,
declarative…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2128) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### Name-only resolution is emitted as `CALLS` rather than `CALL_REFERENCE`

**Severity:** high.

41% of `CALLS` (20 549 of 49 544) carry `confidence < 0.5`, via `unique_name` (0.38)
and `suffix_match` (0.01–0.28). These are name guesses, yet they share an edge type
with LSP-resolved calls, so any consumer that does not filter gets noise.

Measured precision of the unfiltered intra-service `CALLS` layer: **52%** (26/50).
With `confidence >= 0.9`: **92%** (46/50).

Visible in the top-called list: `filter` resolves into a test module, `"".join` and
`os.path.join` both…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2126) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### `CALLS` edges are created across separate service roots in a monorepo

**Severity:** high — poisons impact analysis and "who calls X".

In a monorepo where each top-level directory is a **separate process**
(`apps/service_a` = Django, `apps/service_b` = an independent FastAPI app), the
indexer emits ~5 700 `CALLS` edges between them. In-process calls between separate
processes cannot exist.

A random sample of 50 such edges was **100% false at every confidence level**,
including the top band:

| `confidence` | `strategy`         | callee in source…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2125) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### find a bug?

### Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.5

### Platform

macOS (Apple Silicon)

### Install channel

GitHub release archive / install.sh / install.ps1

### Binary variant

standard

### What happened, and what did you expect?

**PHP builtin functions** (`sprintf`, `str_replace`, `exit`) are being resolved to **unrelated browser-side JavaScript functions** in minified libraries, producing fabricated cross-language `CALLS` edges that violate runtime boundaries:

- `sprintf(...)` in PHP server code…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2122) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 1 comment

### BCL/external calls fabricate CALLS edges to unrelated internal classes (phantom callers; e.g. int.TryParse → internal TryParse)

### Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.8

### Platform

Linux (x64)

### Install channel

AUR

### Binary variant

standard

### What happened, and what did you expect?

Calls to **BCL / external static members** (`int.TryParse`, `Options.Create`, chained expressions) are being resolved to **unrelated internal classes** in the indexed project, producing fabricated CALLS edges:

- `int.TryParse(input, out _)` → CALLS edge to our internal `TsidNode.TryParse`
- `Options.Create(new object())` →…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2121) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 0 comments

### C#: CALLS edge attaches to wrong same-name class variant (shared namespace root) — using-directive scoping ignored; trace_path inbound returns callers_total: 0

### Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.8

### Platform

Linux (x64)

### Install channel

AUR

### Binary variant

standard

### What happened, and what did you expect?

When two projects contain classes with the **same simple name** in namespaces that share a common root (`Contoso.Platform.Identity.UserIdentityInfo` vs `Contoso.Platform.BackOffice.Identity.UserIdentityInfo`), a call from BackOffice code — with an explicit `using Contoso.Platform.BackOffice.Identity;` — gets its CALLS edge…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/DeusData/codebase-memory-mcp/issues/2120) · 2026-09-09 · open · external user · 1 comment

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for Codebase Memory](/mcp/codebase-memory/issues) — of 39 qualified upstream.

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