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diffctx MCP Server

Selects the minimum code an LLM needs to review a git diff

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Published as diffctx on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

12 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 9.

Most discussed

MCP publishing: official registry + directories + Claude Code plugin

Context

The MCP server exists but is listed nowhere — invisible to the exact audience (agent users) the primitive targets. The official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io, server.json + mcp-publisher, io.github.<user> namespace via GitHub auth) feeds downstream consumers including the GitHub MCP Registry surfaced natively in VS Code (@mcp). Claude Code's /mcp does NOT browse it — Anthropic directory and Claude Code plugin marketplace are separate submissions. Community directori

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · open · 5 comments

MCP hardening: read-only, path jail, ref injection, secrets, limits, supply chain

Context

Before publishing the MCP server anywhere (24), it must survive hostile input and audit. diffctx MCP reads arbitrary repo content and hands it to an agent: the threat surface is path escape, git-ref injection, secret leakage, resource exhaustion, and prompt-injection-via-repo-content. Directories (Smithery/Glama/SkillsLLM) run automated security scans on listed servers — hardening is a listing prerequisite, not polish.

Tasks

  • Tool annotations: readOnlyHint: true on every to

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · open · 3 comments

Files excluded by .diffctx/ignore still surface as context fragments

Observed

A path excluded via .diffctx/ignore is correctly dropped from changed_files and carries no role: changed — but the graph can still pull it back as a context fragment, content included.

repo/
  .diffctx/ignore   -> "excluded.py"
  keep.py           (changed)
  excluded.py       (changed, tracked)

diffctx . --diff HEAD~1 --format yaml:

changed_files:
- keep.py            # correct: excluded.py is absent
fragments:
- path: keep.py
  role: changed
  ...
- path

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/173) · 2026-07-26 · closed · 2 comments

### Self-diff impact-oracle mode (WIP patch -> callers/tests/blast radius)

## Context
The unique wedge vs the query-seeded codegraph-MCP crowd: nobody answers questions about the patch the agent is writing *right now*. diffctx's native input is a diff; backward PPR / reverse edges already exist. Self-diff mode = agent calls diffctx on its own uncommitted WIP patch each iteration: "who depends on what I just changed, which tests cover it, what will I break."

## Tasks
- [ ] First-class uncommitted-worktree diff input (working tree vs HEAD, staged, or explicit patch file

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/135) · 2026-07-25 · open · 2 comments

### MCP fetch and engine selection use two unrelated ignore engines

The `diffctx_context` two-call flow gates each fragment fetch through
`src/diffctx/mcp/fetch.py:153`, which calls `get_ignore_specs` from
`src/diffctx/ignore.py` — pathspec plus `DEFAULT_IGNORE_PATTERNS`. The Rust
selection that *produced* those fragment ids gated them through
`git check-ignore` plus `pipeline.rs is_secret_path`.

Two different engines, two different pattern sets, on the two halves of one
operation, with nothing forcing them to agree. Both failure directions are
reachable in pri

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/228) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 1 comment

### Most recent

### diffctx install (multi-platform MCP autoconfig) + context_savings telemetry

## Context
Adoption tactics proven by the adjacent 20k-star project: (a) one command that auto-detects installed agent platforms and writes correct MCP config for each; (b) attaching a savings figure to every tool response so the agent surfaces "saved you X tokens" to the human in chat — the product markets itself on every call.

## Tasks
- [ ] `diffctx install [--platform claude-code|codex|cursor|gemini-cli|copilot|windsurf]`: detect installed platforms, write MCP config, print what was configu

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/152) · 2026-07-25 · open · 0 comments

### diffctx serve: warm daemon + incremental index (<300ms warm)

## Context
Agents call in a loop; latency decides adoption. Session-level economics from the field: on isolated single queries fixed agent overhead buries the savings, on multi-step tasks per-query savings dominate. Cold-start full re-index per call kills the loop use case.

## Tasks
- [ ] `diffctx serve`: long-lived process holding the parsed universe + graph; MCP server talks to it (spawn-on-demand, idle shutdown)
- [ ] Incremental update: re-parse only files changed since last call (mtime + g

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/134) · 2026-07-25 · open · 0 comments

### --mode locate: ranked navigation output with provenance, no source

## Context
Agents need a navigation prior, not prose. Measured lesson from the codegraph-MCP field: compact structured output beats grep/read by ~23%, while dumping full source through the tool layer is ~64% *worse*. diffctx currently only emits context packs with source.

## Tasks
- [ ] `--mode locate`: ranked fragment list, NO source bodies
- [ ] Per item: `fragment_id`, file, line range, kind, score, and a provenance chain — machine-readable reasons: `defines X (called at hunk 3)`, `caller of

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/126) · 2026-07-25 · closed · 0 comments

### diffctx-mcp --help (and python -m diffctx.mcp --help) produce zero output

## What happened

\`diffctx-mcp --help\` and \`python3 -m diffctx.mcp --help\` both exit 0 with completely empty stdout AND stderr — no usage text, no error, nothing.

## Repro

\`\`\`bash
diffctx-mcp --help; echo "exit: $?"
# exit: 0, no output at all
python3 -m diffctx.mcp --help; echo "exit: $?"
# exit: 0, no output at all
\`\`\`

## Expected

At minimum, \`--help\` should print usage/description text (server invocation, relevant env vars if any) like every other diffctx entry point does.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/nikolay-e/diffctx/issues/88) · 2026-07-01 · closed · 0 comments

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