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Exomem MCP Server

Local Markdown/Obsidian knowledge substrate for MCP agents with governed memory and hybrid search.

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Published as exomem on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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 5.

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Per-session stdio servers cost ~1 GB each (8.1 GB across 7); doctor's recommended fix (HTTP service mode) is unreachable per #482

0.53.0's new runtime.processes check correctly flags that each stdio session loads its own copy of the model, and measured 8.1 GB across 7 sessions on this box. The remedy it recommends cannot be followed, because HTTP service mode requires a public base URL and a GitHub OAuth app (#482).

Measured

$ exomem doctor
- runtime.processes: Detected 7 other exomem server process(es) using about
  8120.7 MB RSS total. Each stdio MCP client/session launches its own process;
  use HTTP service 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Artexis10/exomem/issues/597) · 2026-08-17 · closed · 6 comments

### Windows: graph sidecar publish can never succeed while the service runs, so every write pays a doomed rebuild and leaks a ~30 MB orphan

Observed live on the personal deployment: **18 orphaned `.graph-rebuild-*.sqlite` files totalling 527 MB**, one roughly every 37 minutes, with `graph_sync.state` pinned at `recovery_required` while its generation climbed 430 → 442. Every mutation returned `ok: true, state: committed` but also `graph_sync: failed` with `GRAPH_SYNC_REBUILD_STOPPED`, and each write cost **~2 minutes**. Several concurrent client sessions saw `mutation_busy` as a result.

## Mechanism

1. A rebuild writes `.graph-reb

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Artexis10/exomem/issues/508) · 2026-08-15 · closed · 2 comments

### edit_memory rejects validate_only in every placement, making RELATION_DISPOSITION_STALE unrecoverable

`edit_memory` rejects `validate_only` in every placement, which makes the documented remediation for `RELATION_DISPOSITION_STALE` unreachable. The net effect is that a governed note with no eligible relation targets can be created but never afterwards edited.

## 1. `validate_only` is unusable on `edit_memory`

Every placement returns the same error:

INVALID_EDIT: conflicting values for validate_only; give it once, at the top level or inside operation


Tried, all rejected:

| Attempt 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Artexis10/exomem/issues/770) · 2026-08-24 · open · 1 comment

### 24% of live governed-write traffic fails validation — remediation ergonomics for agent callers

From the live mutation journal analyzed during Lane 0 (2026-08-15, 883 mutations on the personal cell): roughly 24% of write traffic failed validation before committing. Each refusal costs the caller a full round-trip (and during contention windows 8-12 s), and the dominant causes are contract-shape misses (relation disposition dances, severity enums, semantic-unit minimums) rather than genuinely malformed content.

Ask: measure the top refusal codes from the journal, then improve the highest-fr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Artexis10/exomem/issues/553) · 2026-08-16 · closed · 0 comments

### Concurrent remember from multiple stdio servers on one vault reports GRAPH_SYNC_REBUILD_STOPPED (coordination disabled in standalone)

Two concurrent `remember` calls from two Claude Code sessions over one vault produced `GRAPH_SYNC_REBUILD_STOPPED` on the write that returned to me. Coordination is `enabled: false` in standalone mode, so nothing serializes the writers.

## What happened

```json
{"ok":true,"state":"committed","terminal":true,"mutated":true,
 "path":"Knowledge Base/Notes/Insights/exomem-first-run-defect-inventory-issues-477-to-485.md",
 "graph_sync":"failed","graph_sync_code":"GRAPH_SYNC_REBUILD_STOPPED",
 "grap

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Artexis10/exomem/issues/486) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 6 reports Pod holds for Exomem](/mcp/exomem/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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