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dbtrail MCP Server

MySQL change tracking with instant row-level recovery and forensic attribution for compliance.

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Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://api.dbtrail.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dbtrail": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.dbtrail.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

73 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

mcptools: the query/recover tools bypass fetchMerged, so archive short-circuits never apply

internal/mcptools builds its own live+archive merge loop instead of going through query.FetchMerged*, so none of the short-circuits in fetchMerged.go apply to it.

Both data-serving tools do the same thing:

  • mcptools.go:682-700 (query): engine.Fetch for the live index, then an unconditional for _, src := range archSources { parquetquery.Fetch(...) }, then MergeAndTrimReport.
  • mcptools.go:866-883 (recover): identical shape.

internal/query/fetchmerged.go has (as of #1403)

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · 1 comment

go.mod: drop two orphaned AWS SDK direct dependencies (cloudwatchlogs, rds)

go.mod lists two AWS SDK service clients as direct requirements that no package in the module imports any more:

github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatchlogs v1.63.2
github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/rds           v1.116.1

Verification

Not just a gopls hint — go mod why is unambiguous:

$ go mod why github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatchlogs
(main module does not need package github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go-v2/service/cloudwatchlogs)

$ go mod why github.com

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1104) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 1 comment

### mcp: list_schema_changes omits snapshot_id — uncovered DDLs cannot be identified from the MCP surface

## Summary

The MCP `list_schema_changes` tool does not return `snapshot_id` (or any coverage indicator), so it is impossible to tell **which** DDLs lack a schema snapshot from the MCP surface — even though `status` (also exposed via MCP) reports the aggregate count of uncovered DDLs and warns that recovery across them may require a manual snapshot.

## Current behavior

`MakeSchemaChangesTool` (`internal/mcptools/mcptools.go`) selects:

```sql
SELECT id, detected_at, schema_name, table_name, dd

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1050) · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment

### Epic: connector-grade MCP for self-hosted deployments — console /mcp + one-click .mcpb bundle

## Goal

Connecting an AI client (Claude Desktop, claude.ai custom connectors, Cursor, …) to a self-hosted bintrail deployment should be **connector-grade simple**: the operator opens their console, and everything they need is on screen — a URL, a token, and a one-click installable bundle. No hand-edited JSON, no DSNs, no SSH tunnels as a prerequisite.

Today the pieces exist but the UX doesn't compose:

- `bintrail-mcp` ships in every release (stdio + `--http`), but configuring it means editing

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1038) · 2026-07-17 · closed · 1 comment

### cliapp: export console/mcp/pg app entrypoints (mirror cliapp.Main) so embedding builds can wrap all binaries; remove dead ext.Record calls

The only exported entrypoint is `cliapp.Main` (cliapp/root.go:62). `cmd/bintrail-console`, `cmd/bintrail-mcp`, `cmd/bintrail-pg` are each `package main` with unexported `main()`, so an embedding distribution can only wrap the core CLI.

Consequence today: cmd/bintrail-mcp/main.go:427,534 call `ext.Record`, but `ext/audit.go`'s sink is nil unless a build installs one — and no shipping build can install a sink into the MCP binary, so those calls are dead code. The flagship default deploy (docker-c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/943) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### The managed MCP token file has no path override, so the shipped compose stores it outside the volume

`Config.MCPTokenPath` has no non-test assignment anywhere in `consoleapp/`, so
`internal/console/server.go:374-376` always falls through to
`DefaultMCPTokenPath()`. There is no flag, no environment variable and no
compose setting to redirect it.

## Why that matters in the shipped stack

`docker-compose.yml` redirects the registry and the auth file into the
persisted volume (`:249`, `:310`, mounted at `:319`). The MCP token file is not
redirected, so it resolves to `$HOME/.config/bintrail/consol

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1493) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

### console: show the time-travel SQL port on the Connect page

The embedded time-travel SQL port (`--flashback-listen`) serves the `_flashback` / `_diff` / `_snapshot` schemas for every monitored server, routed by username, authenticated with the console token. The console UI never mentions it: nothing shows whether it is enabled, where it listens, or how to connect, and enabling it requires knowing the flag exists.

Connect AI is the precedent: the console tells you your MCP URL and how to wire each client. Time-travel SQL deserves the same treatment.

Pro

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1446) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### console: author access profiles (flags/profiles/access) from the UI

Access profiles (the `flag` / `profile` / `access` machinery) are consumed by the console (profiles are applied per session where configured, and `GET /api/profiles` feeds pickers) but can only be authored from the CLI. Anyone setting up redaction rules has to leave the browser for the one step that defines what the browser will enforce.

Proposal: a settings surface to author them from the console:

- list / add / remove flags on tables and columns;
- list / create / delete profiles;
- edit a p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1445) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### console: schema-change (DDL) history surface

The index records DDL (`schema_changes`), the MCP surface serves it (`list_schema_changes`), and the CLI can query it (`bintrail query --event-type ddl`). The console has no surface for it: the Events view's type filter offers only INSERT / UPDATE / DELETE, so "what ALTERs ran last week?" is answerable from every surface except the browser.

Proposal: a schema-changes surface in the console. Either of:

- a DDL option in the Events view type filter that switches the result table to the schema_ch

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1443) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### query: no PK range filters; pk_min/pk_max over single-column numeric PKs, with matching MySQL and DuckDB cast semantics

The `query` MCP tool (and the engine under it) supports only exact PK matching: `pk` for one value, `pks` for a list — both compiled to `pk_hash = SHA2(?, 256) AND pk_values = ?` equality pairs. "Every event whose PK is greater than N" (a burst of inserted ids, an autoincrement range around an incident, everything after a known cutoff row) cannot be asked; the client must enumerate candidate ids one by one into `pks`, guessing where the range ends.

**Why this is not just adding `>` to the WHERE

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1440) · 2026-08-23 · closed · 0 comments

### query MCP tool: no order argument, so "the last N events" cannot be asked; expose the engine's existing DESC support

The `query` MCP tool has no `order` argument: results always come back ascending, and `limit` therefore keeps the OLDEST prefix of whatever matches. "Show me the last N events" — the single most common question during an incident — forces the client to guess a `since` window tight enough that the oldest-prefix trim happens to contain the newest rows, then count backwards. Guess too wide and the newest events fall off the end with only the truncation warning to hint at it; too narrow and they are

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1439) · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments

### recover_cascade MCP: the whole reversal script rides one JSON field and outgrows client result limits; split summary from script and chunk the SQL

The `recover_cascade` MCP tool returns the entire reversal script inside the single `sql` field of its JSON payload (`recoverCascadeResult` in `internal/mcptools/recover_cascade.go`). Observed live: 69 parent events produced a ~64 KB single-field response; MCP clients cap tool-result size, so a real incident (a cascade touching thousands of child rows) hands the client a payload it refuses or truncates, and the operator loses exactly the artifact the tool exists to produce. The sibling `recover`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/dbtrail/dbtrail/issues/1438) · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for dbtrail](/mcp/dbtrail/issues) — of 73 qualified upstream.

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