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Distillery MCP Server

Knowledge base for Claude Code with semantic search, feed intelligence, and teams

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Published as distillery-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

87 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

Restrict MCP server access to GitHub org members

Problem

The Distillery MCP server currently uses GitHub OAuth for user authentication, but anyone with a GitHub account can authenticate. There is no way to restrict access to members of a specific organization.

Proposed Solution

Add an org membership check after the GitHub OAuth flow completes. When a user authenticates:

  1. OAuth flow completes, server receives the user's GitHub access token
  2. Server calls GET https://api.github.com/orgs/{org}/members/{username} (or `GET /user/

Read the thread · 2026-03-31 · closed · 10 comments

feat: session lifecycle hooks and session_id tracking for Claude Code integration

Context

We run an OpenMemory MCP server alongside Claude Code with three hooks that automate the memory lifecycle. The hooks work well enough that we're evaluating distillery as a replacement, but distillery currently has no equivalent to some of these patterns. This issue proposes adding the infrastructure to support them.

What the hooks do today

We have a single shell script registered on three Claude Code hook events:

1. SessionStart — context injection

When a session starts, t

Read the thread · 2026-04-08 · closed · 8 comments

fix(mcp): add summary/metadata-only mode to distillery_list to avoid token overflow

Problem

When Claude Code skills (e.g., /radar, /watch) call distillery_list to query feed entries, the full entry content is returned — including raw Reddit HTML, GitHub event bodies, and other verbose payloads. With 81 feed entries, a single distillery_list call produces ~151KB of JSON, which exceeds Claude Code's per-tool-result token cap.

The result gets dumped to a temp file on disk, forcing the skill to dynamically generate Python/jq scripts to extract basic metadata (titles, s

Read the thread · 2026-03-31 · closed · 7 comments

Package Distillery as a Claude Code plugin (skills + MCP server)

Summary

Package Distillery as a self-contained Claude Code plugin that bundles both the MCP server and the skills, so users can install it with a single command rather than manually configuring MCP servers and copying skill files.

Motivation

Currently, using Distillery with Claude Code requires:

  1. Installing the Python package (pip install -e ".[dev]")
  2. Manually adding the MCP server to Claude Code settings
  3. Having the skills available in .claude/skills/ (only works inside this

Read the thread · 2026-03-28 · closed · 6 comments

distillery_store tool description enum omits github entry type (used by gh-sync)

Summary

The MCP tool description for distillery_store lists the allowed entry_type values as:

entry_type must be one of: session, bookmark, minutes, meeting, reference, idea, inbox.

But github is also accepted by the server and is the entry type that the gh-sync skill stores every synced issue and PR as (per its SKILL.md, Step 5b). The tool description is out of sync with what the server actually supports.

Minor severity — the server accepts github fine and the skill works

Read the thread · 2026-04-11 · closed · 5 comments

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feat(auth): GitLab (self-hosted or gitlab.com) as an identity provider

Summary

Add GitLab -- self-hosted instances and gitlab.com -- as an alternative identity provider for the MCP HTTP transport (server.auth.provider: gitlab), alongside the existing GitHub OAuth. Like GitHub, GitLab is an identity gate only: the server never accesses the user's GitLab resources.

Design was settled in a grilling session on 2026-07-06. Full spec: docs/specs/19-spec-gitlab-auth/19-spec-gitlab-auth.md; the load-bearing decision is recorded in `docs/adr/0001-gitlab-auth-claim-

Read the thread · 2026-07-06 · closed · 0 comments

gh_sync: background mode unusable over HTTP — synchronous path times out on cold backfill

Summary

distillery_gh_sync has no non-blocking path over HTTP. background=true is hard-rejected in stateless HTTP mode (src/distillery/mcp/server.py:1283), so every HTTP caller falls back to the synchronous path (src/distillery/mcp/tools/feeds.py:882, await adapter.sync_batched()), which blocks the MCP response until the full sync finishes. A cold backfill exceeds the MCP client request timeout and the call fails with -32001 — even though the sync completes server-side.

`skills/

Read the thread · 2026-06-03 · closed · 0 comments

store: probe_readiness uses cached COUNT(*); blind to data-page corruption

Root cause

DuckDBStore.probe_readiness and count_entries both rely on SELECT COUNT(*) FROM entries, which DuckDB serves from row-group metadata without reading any data page. When the table data pages are corrupted but the catalog/metadata is intact, both functions return success and the status handler reports status: "ok" — even when the table is completely unreadable.

src/distillery/store/duckdb.py:1034:

async def probe_readiness(self) -> tuple[bool, str | None]:
    

[Read the thread](https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery/issues/582) · 2026-06-02 · closed · 0 comments

### store: schema-validation ValueError masked as 'INTERNAL: Failed to store entry'

## Root cause

`validate_metadata` (`src/distillery/models.py:228`) raises `ValueError` for schema-validated entry types (`person`, `project`, `digest`, `github`, `feed`) when required fields are missing or constrained values are wrong. The store path runs validation inline (`src/distillery/store/duckdb.py:1119, 1182, 1370`), and the MCP tool layer wraps the call in a catch-all:

`src/distillery/mcp/tools/crud.py:523`:

```python
except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001
    logger.exception("Error stor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery/issues/559) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### store: misclassify transient DB / provider errors as 'Failed to check embedding budget'

## Root cause

`distillery_store` / `distillery_store_batch` report `INTERNAL: Failed to check embedding budget` for any failure inside `record_and_check`, conflating:

1. **Actual budget exhaustion** (`EmbeddingBudgetError` — has its own `BUDGET_EXCEEDED` branch).
2. **Transient DB faults** — aborted transaction on the shared connection, connection lock contention, post-rollback retryable state.
3. **Provider unavailability** — embedding API timeouts surfacing inside the budget counter path.

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[Read the thread](https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery/issues/557) · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

### Make fastembed the plugin install default (supersedes #466)

## Summary

Once #538 (`fastembed-wiring`) merges, ship the Distillery plugin with fastembed as the install-time default embedding provider. This removes the \`userConfig\` prompt requirement entirely and unblocks \`claude plugin install distillery\` as a zero-secret single-command install. **Supersedes #466.**

## Why this works

The #466 blocker was a two-sided trade-off:
- Mark \`jina_api_key\` as \`required: true\` → forces every evaluator to provide a Jina key just to try the plugin
- Leave

[Read the thread](https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery/issues/548) · 2026-05-20 · closed · 1 comment

### Fly autosuspend strands active_job_id, blocking all subsequent /api/poll with 409

## Symptom

Once a poll job starts but doesn't reach a terminal state before Fly autosuspends the machine, the persisted \`active_job_id\` metadata entry is never cleared. Every subsequent \`/api/poll\` returns 409 Conflict with the orphaned job_id, even after machine resume.

## Repro (prod, 2026-05-12)

\`distillery-mcp\` (Fly), v0.5.0 image:

\`\`\`
00:15:05  POST /api/poll → 202 Accepted; "Webhook poll: starting poll cycle"
00:15:05–00:15:45  poller fetches feeds, posts 2 Jina embeddings (20

[Read the thread](https://github.com/norrietaylor/distillery/issues/507) · 2026-05-12 · closed · 0 comments

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