Reported issues for Concord MCP

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feat: idle monitor integrations — PreToolUse hook, concord watch, MCP resource notifications

Summary

Enforcement is currently instruction-based ("may be skipped"), and there is no way for an agent to react to another agent's Concord activity while its own session sits idle. We should ship first-class integrations that (a) enforce the workflow automatically and (b) push work-state changes.

Baseline reality: neither Claude Code nor Codex has a true always-on listener that reacts while a session is idle at a prompt — both are turn-based, and MCP has no mechanism to wake a sleeping

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 3 comments

Reaching an idle agent: transports beyond the pull relay

0.7.0 ships a pull transport: the recipient drains its own inbox from inside its session. That works, but it leaves one real gap and a few avenues worth exploring properly.

The gap

A Codex session sitting idle at the prompt cannot be reached. Its hooks only fire during a turn, and it has no equivalent of the Claude Code plugin monitor. Concord is honest about this — update_work tells the sender the message will not be seen until the recipient's next turn — but honest is not the same a

Read the thread · 2026-08-06 · closed · 1 comment

feat: add agent retirement and stale-roster cleanup lifecycle

Problem

Agent session records accumulate indefinitely, so the dashboard's Who's here roster gradually becomes a history list rather than a useful view of the current workspace.

A dogfood check on 2026-08-05 showed:

• 14 registered agent rows
• 4 live, 4 idle, and 6 away
• all 6 away agents had been gone for roughly 2.5–20.5 hours
• those 6 agents were linked only to terminal complete or review_ready tasks
• there were 8 active tasks and no stale claims, but all 14 agents still appe

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · closed · 1 comment

feat: detect actual changed files outside accepted claim scope

Problem

Concord detects overlap from declared expected files/modules/domains, but it does not compare actual edits or the final Git diff with a task's accepted scope.

Exact-file enforcement is currently optional and client-dependent:

• Claude Code can install a PreToolUse hook.
• Codex and other clients rely on instructions.
• concord check only checks collisions against other active tasks; it does not report that the current task edited files outside its own claim.

In an avios-cli

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

feat: add an optional supervisor runner to launch or wake assigned agents

Problem

Concord can expose registered agents and publish work-state changes, but it cannot start or wake an agent. MCP resource updates only reach a connected, subscribed client, and concord watch is a passive display.

An avios-cli dogfood run treated a task claim addressed to agent: "codex" as if it dispatched work. One already-running Codex session later found the task by polling; another idle Codex session never started. Presence registration alone is not an execution handle.

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Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

feat: add assignment, acceptance, and ownership-safe handoff lifecycle

Problem

The current handoff tool records completion evidence and changes task status, but it does not transfer work. It has no recipient, delivery state, acceptance, rejection, expiry, or ownership mutation.

During an avios-cli dogfood run, one agent created tasks using agent: "codex" and described them as handoffs to registered Codex agents. The claims had agent_id = NULL, no Codex session was started or notified, and later "reassignment" was stored only as a freeform decision up

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

bug: make workspace selection explicit across MCP, CLI, and Git worktrees

Problem

Concord's MCP server resolves one repository when the process starts and keeps that database open for the lifetime of the server. The CLI instead resolves the current working directory on every invocation.

This creates two observable failures:

1. An agent launched from a parent or different directory can cd into a repository and pass that repository as register_agent.cwd, but MCP writes still land in the startup workspace. The cwd field is descriptive metadata, not routing. 2

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

Add acknowledgment and clearing lifecycle for dashboard alerts

Problem

The dashboard's Alerts pane has no explicit alert lifecycle or user action to acknowledge, dismiss, or clear an alert.

Alerts are currently assembled in src/cli/dashboard/app.tsx from several different projections:

• overlaps: recomputed from active task claims and disappear when the underlying overlap is removed or a task is handed off
• stale claims: derived from active tasks plus agent presence and disappear after the agent returns or the task is handed off
• open question

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

bug: cursor does not always start the message monitor on a new session

What happened

Cursor does not alway start the message monitor on a new session

Steps to reproduce

1. Open a new cursor agent session within the IDE
2. Try get another agent to message cursor

Expected behavior

Cursor to acknowledge or respond to the message

Environment

• Concord version: (concord --version)
• Client: (Claude Code / Codex / Cursor / other)
• OS + Node version:

Additional context

Most agents listen for messages using a monitor - cursor does not always star

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · open · 0 comments

feat: add goose integration

Goal

Add first-class goose support so goose agents can participate in Concord workspaces and coordinate with agents running in other harnesses.

Goose is extensible through MCP, making it a good fit for Concord's cross-harness model.

Scope

• Detect goose during concord setup.
• Configure Concord through goose's supported MCP/extension configuration while preserving unrelated extensions and settings.
• Add Concord workflow instructions using goose's supported configuration/instruction

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

feat: add Kiro integration

Goal

Add first-class Kiro support so Kiro agents can join Concord workspaces and communicate with agents in other supported harnesses.

Kiro supports MCP-based tooling, so Concord should integrate through the native MCP path and preserve Kiro's existing configuration.

Scope

• Detect Kiro during concord setup.
• Register Concord in the appropriate project/user MCP configuration without replacing unrelated settings.
• Add Concord workflow instructions through Kiro's supported steering/i

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

feat: add Roo Code integration

Goal

Add first-class Roo Code support so Roo agents can participate in Concord alongside agents in other harnesses.

Roo Code supports MCP servers and custom modes/instructions, so the integration should use native configuration rather than a wrapper.

Scope

• Detect Roo Code during concord setup.
• Add a repository-scoped Concord MCP configuration while preserving existing Roo MCP servers/settings.
• Add Concord workflow guidance through Roo's supported instruction/custom-mode mechani

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

feat: add Cline integration

Goal

Add first-class Cline support so Cline agents can join Concord workspaces and coordinate with agents running in other harnesses.

Cline supports MCP servers, so baseline Concord support should use the native MCP path rather than a wrapper.

Scope

• Detect Cline during concord setup.
• Configure a repository-scoped Concord MCP server using Cline's supported MCP settings while preserving unrelated servers/settings.
• Add Concord workflow instructions through Cline's supported rules/

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

feat: add GitHub Copilot CLI integration

Goal

Add first-class GitHub Copilot CLI support so Copilot agents can join the same Concord workspace and communicate with agents in other harnesses.

GitHub Copilot CLI supports MCP servers, making it a natural Concord integration target.

Scope

• Detect Copilot CLI during concord setup.
• Register Concord using Copilot CLI's supported MCP configuration without replacing unrelated user settings.
• Add Concord workflow instructions through the harness's supported instruction/config pat

Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments

feat: add auto upgrade/upgrade prompt

The problem

Concord changes regularly and mostly works in the background

Proposed solution

Concord should auto update or prompt to update similar to Codex or Claude Code

Alternatives considered

n/a

Scope check

Within scope

Read the thread · 2026-08-24 · closed · 0 comments

refactor: replace granular MCP lifecycle tools with a five-tool workflow surface

Problem

Concord currently exposes a granular lifecycle API whose distinctions are valid internally but costly and confusing for agents:

• register_agent → get_work_state → claim_work is the ordinary start sequence.
• assign_task, reassign_task, offer_handoff, accept_task, accept_handoff, decline_handoff, and release_task split closely related ownership operations across many tools.
• handoff, review-ready state, and close_task fragment ordinary completion.
• `get_wor

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments

bug: preserve agent metadata and separate heartbeat, activity, and reported status

Problem

Agent presence currently conflates several different concepts:

• write operations only touch last_seen;
• an agent marked done can become live/done while actively doing new work;
• status/summary can remain stale while writes keep the agent live;
• repeated register_agent calls are full replacement upserts, so omitted optional fields overwrite existing cwd, worktree, owner, model, or PID with NULL;
• active claims with agent_id = NULL are intentionally skipped by stale-c

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · open · 0 comments

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