# Dibs MCP Server

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**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Dibs yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

## Known issues

**18 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

### Shipped plugins point at ~/.agents and a binary named agents, so they install broken

Found by a gpt-5.6-sol audit of the org, then verified by grep against `main`. Filing rather than patching — these are integration files with behaviour I cannot test.

These are not rename leftovers in prose. They are paths and commands a user follows, and following them fails.

## Verified against main

| file | problem |
|---|---|
| `plugins/opencode/dibs.ts` | defaults to `~/.agents` — looks for the secret in the pre-rename directory |
| `plugins/pi/dibs.ts` | same default |
| `plugins/pi/REA

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/45) · 2026-08-19 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Identity is coupled to the stdio bridge, and 2026 is the revision that lets it stop being

"Which transport is future-proof, stdio or Streamable HTTP?" is the wrong axis, and answering it either way locks in a constraint 2026 just removed. The forward-looking answer is that **Dibs should stop caring**, and today it cannot.

## What 2026 actually changed

Before 2026, a session was connection-scoped: `initialize` established it, and it lived and died with the connection. That coupled identity to transport by construction — whoever held the connection held the session.

2026 removed the

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/33) · 2026-08-17 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Claude Code 2.1.233 has the 2026 machinery and still opens on 2025-11-25

**Corrected 2026-08-17, same day it was filed.** This issue originally said Claude Code had no MCP 2026 support. That was true of the installed build and false of the released one, which is the exact error this repository keeps making: a measurement taken once and treated as a property.

## What is actually true

| Build | `2026-07-28` constants | `server/discover` |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.219 (was installed) | **0** | 0 |
| 2.1.233 (current release) | **45** | 30 |

And it is not merely present. M

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/29) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Claude Desktop ships the 2026-07-28 wire codec — measure whether it negotiates it with Dibs

Claude Desktop **1.30096.5** carries real MCP 2026-07-28 machinery. Whether it uses it against Dibs is unmeasured, and that gap is the point of this issue.

## What is in the binary

From `Contents/Resources/ion-dist/assets/v1/c2a6d07ee-*.js`:

```js
function qs(e){ return e >= "2026-07-28" }                 // version predicate
wa = { era: "2026-07-28", hasRequestMethod: ..., ... }      // an era wire codec
case "server/discover": return Ca("2026-07-28")             // the 2026 entry point
```

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/28) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### opencode: wake path works — track its move to MCP 2026-07-28

Tracking issue. Nothing is broken here; this exists so the next protocol move is noticed rather than discovered.

Read against `opencode` at `2cba7e2` (dev, 2026-08-17).

## Where it stands

**The wake path works, and it is the one that was driven live.** An in-process plugin on the `chat.message` hook injects mail as a synthetic message part; a real model read the mail and replied unprompted. See `plugins/opencode/` and `WAKE-MECHANISMS.md`. No subprocess, nothing that makes Dibs a harness driv

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/25) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### Notifications are macOS-only: Linux operators cannot be asked to approve anything

`notify.Available()` is `runtime.GOOS == "darwin"` ([internal/notify/notify.go:272](internal/notify/notify.go#L272)), and the whole human-approval path runs through `notify.Ask` ([internal/engine/human.go:464](internal/engine/human.go#L464), [human.go:509](internal/engine/human.go#L509)).

On Linux the operator is therefore never asked. Requests that need a person, role grants, mailbox adoption, and anything else routed to the human, fall back to waiting on the board until somebody happens to lo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/63) · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Every generated config prescribes a stdio bridge, so N agents cost N processes the daemon does not need

Raised by the user: stdio bridges scale linearly per agent, so `n` concurrent agents on one machine means `n` bridge processes. Measured, and it is real, but the interesting part is that it is avoidable today.

## Measured, on one developer machine

```
bridges=9  total_rss=72MB  mean=8.0MB  fds=13 per bridge
```

Nine agents idling cost **72 MB of pure adapter**. Extrapolating: 50 concurrent agents ≈ 400 MB, 100 ≈ 800 MB, before any of them does work. Each also holds ~13 fds and a long-lived co

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/60) · 2026-08-22 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Registry entry has no install path, so agents find Dibs and then guess

Found while auditing Agenxy's public discovery surfaces. Filing rather than fixing — the resolution is a distribution decision that belongs to this repo.

## What is wrong

`io.github.Agenxy/dibs` is live and `active` in the official MCP registry at 0.0.5, published 15 August. It carries name, title, description and repository. It has **no `packages` block and no `remotes`**.

So an agent can discover Dibs and then has nothing machine-readable telling it what to fetch or how to launch the server

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/44) · 2026-08-19 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### `adopt` says "an abandoned agent OF YOURS" and lets you name anyone's mailbox

**Release blocker.** The `adopt` parameter's schema states a constraint the code never enforces.

```
adopt: "on a request: ask to reclaim an ABANDONED agent OF YOURS, by id"
```

"of yours" is checked nowhere. Any agent may put any id there. The only ownership rule in the codebase guards the operator's row specifically:

```go
// engine/human.go, mayApproveGrant
if m.Adopt != "" && human != "" && m.Adopt == human && actor.ID != human {
    return core.ErrHumanMailboxIsTheirs
}
```

That was add

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/35) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Release blocker: mail to this project's maintainer sat unread, and every recovery path was also asleep

**Release blocker for v0.0.6.** Found by dogfooding failing in the most embarrassing possible way: a message addressed to this project's maintainer sat unread for an hour while a maintainer session worked on this repository all day.

## What happened

`web-lead-2` sent mail to `dibs-maintainer` (serial 643, 11:17). It was never read. The operator noticed, not Dibs.

The wake path is **not** the fault. The daemon reports `hooks_live: true` for this session, and the lifecycle hooks reached it befo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/34) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### ChatGPT desktop / Codex: 2026-07-28 negotiated, but not the full surface

Split out of #22, which covers the fact that Codex negotiates `2026-07-28` and Dibs already answers it. This one is about how much of the revision it actually implements, because "negotiates 2026" and "supports 2026" are not the same claim.

## What Codex has

Verified against the ChatGPT.app binary `0.148.0-alpha.9` and codex main `32a383c0` (2026-08-17):

| | |
|---|---|
| `server/discover` | **yes** — sent instead of `initialize` when enabled |
| stateless 2026 lifecycle | yes, that is what `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/31) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

### subscriptions/listen may be the wake path we have been looking for: no hook, no subprocess

Every wake path Dibs has is per-harness glue. Claude Code gets one because it has `mcp_tool` hooks; opencode gets one because it has in-process plugins; Codex gets none, and the only mechanism it offers is the subprocess `WAKE-MECHANISMS.md` §6 rejected. Each is a different shape, each drifts, and #23 is the bill for that.

MCP 2026-07-28 may make all of that unnecessary.

## The observation

Claude Code 2.1.233 negotiates `2026-07-28` with Dibs today (#29), and its binary carries `subscriptions

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Agenxy/dibs/issues/30) · 2026-08-17 · open · outside contributor · 1 comment

[See all 17 reports Pod holds for Dibs](/mcp/dibs/issues) — of 18 qualified upstream.

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