Deadzone MCP Server

Local-first MCP server: semantic search over library docs. No cloud, no API key, no telemetry.

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Published as ghcr.io/laradji/deadzone:v0.7.4 on oci. Runs locally.

Known issues

21 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

Project diagnostic: competitive landscape, premise challenge, and contributor roadmap

Context

I spent time analyzing Deadzone's positioning, architecture, and contribution opportunities. This is a summary of the findings, meant to start a conversation about the project's direction.

Project Diagnostic — 5 Premises Challenged

Premise 1: Developers need semantic search on library docs — VALID but crowded

At least 7 serious alternatives exist as of April 2026:

Context7 (Upstash): first mover, 65% contextual accuracy, reduced free tier to 1000 req/month
**Deepcon

Read the thread · 2026-04-10 · closed · external user · 4 comments

Doc ingestion architecture — tracking issue

🔒 STATUS — CLOSED 2026-04-11

This tracking issue is closed and superseded by the architectural decision log at docs/research/ingestion-architecture.md.

The mvp milestone closed alongside this issue with all 7 sub-issues merged: #27, #28, #30, #44, #51, #58, #60. The end-to-end pipeline (libraries_sources.yaml → scrape-via-agent → artifacts → consolidate → search_libraries/`search_do

Read the thread · 2026-04-10 · closed · 2 comments

update(deps): bump hugot v0.7.0 to v0.7.2 and mcp go-sdk v1.5.0 to v1.6.0

Parent: #156 Depends on: none Related: audit §5.2 finding 2, §8 action item 24

Why

Two outdated direct deps surfaced by go list -m -u all during the audit:

github.com/knights-analytics/hugot         v0.7.0  → v0.7.2 (patch +2)
github.com/modelcontextprotocol/go-sdk     v1.5.0  → v1.6.0 (minor +1)

Patch bumps for hugot are likely bug fixes; the go-sdk minor bump may include feature changes affecting cmd/deadzone/server.go's MCP wiring.

Decision (locked 2026-04-30)

Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · closed · 1 comment

registry: normalize `versions:` keys to major.minor, decouple from git ref via `ref:`

Depends on: #113, #115, #118

Why

libraries_sources.yaml currently uses the git tag verbatim as the versions: map key, which couples two concerns:

User-facing identifier (what the LLM sees in search_libraries output and passes to search_docs)
Git tag string (what the scraper needs to fetch raw files)

This leaks three different formats across the 12 libs and makes LLM UX awkward:

Lib	Current	Problem
`/ovh/go-ovh`	`v1.9.0`	`v` prefix + full se

Read the thread · 2026-04-14 · closed · 1 comment

fix: remove dead Topic field from SearchDocsInput MCP schema

Problem

SearchDocsInput in cmd/server/main.go:17 declares a Topic string field with jsonschema tag "topic or section to focus on (optional)". The README also advertises it: "topic — optional section filter (not yet implemented)".

But makeSearchHandler (line 38-76) never reads input.Topic. The field is silently ignored. Every MCP client that connects sees this parameter in the tool schema, may use it, and gets zero filtering.

A parameter that exists in the schema but does nothin

Read the thread · 2026-04-10 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Most recent

feat: publish OCI image to GHCR alongside existing release artifacts

Depends on: none. Supersedes: none. Parent: none.

Why

The official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, launched 2025-09) only accepts five package types: npm, pypi, nuget, oci (Docker Hub), and oci (GHCR). It does not support raw GitHub Releases binaries. Today deadzone ships exclusively as native tarballs + AppImages + a Homebrew tap — none of which the official registry can discover.

Adding an OCI image published to GHCR on every tag is the che

Read the thread · 2026-05-04 · closed · 0 comments

tweak: surface 'aggregation' in /open-telemetry/opentelemetry description

Decision (locked 2026-05-03): Update the description for /open-telemetry/opentelemetry in libraries_sources.yaml to surface "aggregation" honestly. Trivial YAML edit, follows from the manual verification block of #191.

Why

Query "log aggregation system" against the v0.5.0 corpus (post-#192 description-mixing) returned the 5 Grafana products in top 5 but /open-telemetry/opentelemetry was absent. Result captured in the [verification comment on #191](https://github.com/laradji/dead

Read the thread · 2026-05-03 · closed · 0 comments

fix(db): `deadzone server` cannot coexist with another running server — #131's contract is broken in practice

Parent: none Supersedes: none Related: #131 (the original "split reader vs mutator" feature whose contract this issue exposes as broken)

Summary (the bug in one paragraph)

deadzone server cannot run as a second process when another deadzone server is already running against the same deadzone.db. The second invocation fails with:

deadzone: open db: open db reader /Users/.../deadzone.db: set query_only:
turso: error: Locking error: Failed locking file. File is locked by

[Read the thread](https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/issues/172) · 2026-05-01 · closed · 0 comments

### scraper+db+mcp: first-class multi-version support (version column + -lib/-version split)

Parent: n/a
Depends on: #103

## Why

Today when a lib has `versions: [v1.14, v1.13]`, the scraper concats the version into `lib_id` (`/hashicorp/terraform/v1.14`, `/hashicorp/terraform/v1.13`) and the DB stores them as two unrelated-looking rows. The MCP client has no structured way to ask "search terraform v1.14 only" or "list versions of terraform" — it has to infer from the path suffix, which is opaque to the LLM and fragile.

Concretely broken today:
- `search_docs` does `WHERE lib_id = ?` 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/issues/113) · 2026-04-14 · closed · 0 comments

### scraper/packs: folder-per-lib layout + retire per-artifact release, ship deadzone.db only

**Decision (locked 2026-04-13):** two coordinated changes, one PR.

**(1) Local layout:** replace flat `artifacts/<slug>.db` + `<slug>.db.state` with per-lib folder `artifacts/<slug>/` containing `artifact.db` (+ WAL/SHM during runs) and `state.yaml`.

**(2) Release model:** stop publishing per-lib artifacts to GitHub Releases. Only the consolidated `deadzone.db` ships, uploaded **manually from the operator's laptop** for now (CI no longer runs `packs download` + `consolidate`). The per-artifact

[Read the thread](https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/issues/101) · 2026-04-13 · closed · 0 comments

### Add `search_libraries` MCP tool — semantic lib_id resolution at Context7 scale

Add a `search_libraries` MCP tool that resolves a free-text library name into a small ranked list of canonical lib_ids the user can then pass to `search_docs`. The resolution is powered by a **dedicated SQL vector table** — symmetric with how `search_docs` already works on `docs.embedding`.

**Parent:** #15
**Replaces:** #36 (closed — flat list approach didn't scale)
**Composes with:** #28 (per-lib artifacts) and #45 (vector index)

## Why a flat `list_libraries` is not enough

Deadzone targets 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/issues/44) · 2026-04-10 · closed · 0 comments

### Structured logging for the MCP server and scraper (slog on stderr, JSON output)

Both Deadzone binaries currently have minimal logging. `cmd/server` only emits two `log.Fatal` calls at startup — no trace of incoming `search_docs` requests, query parameters, result counts, latency, or errors. `cmd/scraper` has two human-readable progress lines and otherwise silently fetches, parses, and indexes. Neither binary is debuggable today without rebuilding with extra prints.

This issue wires structured JSON logging into **both** binaries using the same pattern, so operators see cons

[Read the thread](https://github.com/laradji/deadzone/issues/24) · 2026-04-10 · closed · 0 comments

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