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Hive Vault MCP Server

On-demand Obsidian vault access for AI coding assistants — 17 tools, 5 resources, 4 prompts.

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Published as hive-vault on pypi. Runs locally.

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

Drop _compat.py: if mcp/python-sdk#2610 still silent on 2026-06-12, port the fix as our own upstream PR — due 2026-06-12

Due date: 2026-06-12 (+21 days from the HIVE-115 PR-4 ship)

Why this issue exists

src/hive/_compat.py is a self-gated monkey-patch on mcp.shared.session.RequestResponder that works around the cancel-race tracked upstream at modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk#2610.

As of 2026-05-22:

Read the thread · 2026-05-23 · open · 5 comments

The delegate worker reaches zero models — make it NaN-only and give it a dispatch verb

Blocks mlorentedev/dotfiles#1190 (CLI-042 — the dotf agent run executor seam). That spec makes hive one of two dispatch backends; today hive cannot serve a single request.

Measured, 2026-08-22

worker_status on this machine:

## Connectivity
- Ollama: offline / unavailable
- OpenRouter: no API key
## Available Models
### Ollama (offline / unavailable)
### OpenRouter — No API key configured

Zero reachable models. The worker's provider vocabulary (auto / ollama / `openro

Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · open · 2 comments

Beta test findings: HIVE_VAULT_PATH not respected via Hermes MCP, vault_write/vault_patch API quirks

Beta Test Results — Hive MCP (v1.32.3)

Environment: Hermes Agent stdio transport, vault at /persist/hermes-vault, scope agents:hermes-nan

✅ Working

Tool Result
vault_health ✅ Returns full report: projects, files, lines, backends
vault_list ✅ Lists all projects with file counts and shortcuts
vault_list(project="agents:hermes-nan") ✅ Lists 20 files in agent directory correctly
vault_query(project, section) ✅ Section shortcuts

Read the thread · 2026-06-04 · closed · 2 comments

vault_patch leaves stale .git/hive.lock after deadline subprocess kill (Windows)

Summary

On Windows 11, vault_patch against a 174 MB local vault times out after 60s when its internal git add subprocess hangs. Hive kills the subprocess at the deadline, but the file write has already landed on disk while the git commit never runs — leaving the vault in a "modified" state and a 0-byte .git/hive.lock orphan that the parent Hive process keeps an open handle on (cannot be removed externally with rm — Device or resource busy). Observed once today with strong hypothesis

Read the thread · 2026-05-27 · closed · 2 comments

Bug: tool_timeout (tool_span) does not preempt sync subprocess/thread work — 14-min capture_lesson observed

Origin

Split from #110 because the fix has its own design surface and risk profile. Evidence comes from the same 2026-05-21 session: capture_lesson ran for 838 seconds while ctx.tool_timeout was configured at 60 seconds. The configured deadline was not enforced.

2026-05-21 19:10:48,690 INFO  Processing request of type CallToolRequest
2026-05-21 19:24:47,047 WARNING git commit timed out for ['10_projects\hive\90-lessons.md']
2026-05-21 19:24:47,047 INFO  mcp ok method=tools/c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mlorentedev/hive/issues/111) · 2026-05-22 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Migrate the worker and embed credentials to SecretStr — repr=False closes the measured leak, not the class

`HiveSettings.worker_api_key` and `embed_api_key` carry `repr=False` as of the delegate-verb work, which closes the leak that was measured: `repr(HiveSettings())` rendered `worker_api_key='<the key>'` verbatim, and `repr` is what a traceback, a debug log and a pytest assertion print unbidden.

`repr=False` is a narrower guarantee than the type deserves, and the code says so:

```python
# `SecretStr` is the idiomatic fix and is deliberately NOT taken here: it
# changes the field's type, which pro

[Read the thread](https://github.com/mlorentedev/hive/issues/397) · 2026-08-23 · open · 0 comments

### Re-narrow the mcp pin to <2.0: the widened cap contradicts its own documented rationale

Decision taken 2026-08-07: re-narrow `mcp` from `>=1.27,<3.0` back to `>=1.27,<2.0`. Filed so the decision is durable rather than living in a session transcript, and sequenced behind #338 because both touch `uv.lock`.

## The concrete finding

`pyproject.toml` currently states the constraint and its justification in the same block, and **they disagree with each other**:

Cap at <2.0 so a deliberate review happens before adopting

any new major release. Bump the lower bound when verifying

Read the thread · 2026-08-08 · closed · 0 comments

session_briefing(project=) reproducibly times out at 60s while all other tools respond (Windows, v1.41.7)

session_briefing(project=<slug>) reproducibly times out at 60s, while every other tool — including session_briefing() with no project — responds instantly. The MCP server is fully healthy (13 tools registered, handshake fine); only the per-project briefing path hangs. This is a distinct failure mode from #267 (that issue is the uv-trampoline upgrade-swap corruption that registers zero tools and kills the whole server — here the server is up and 12/13 tools work).

What happens (2026

Read the thread · 2026-06-29 · closed · 0 comments

Auto-detect vault root when HIVE_VAULT_PATH is unset (walk up for .obsidian/)

Follow-up to #246 (PR #272), which delivered the required half of the DoD: a loud WHY/FIX startup warning when the resolved vault path is missing, distinguishing a stale HIVE_VAULT_PATH from a missing default.

This tracks the optional half: when HIVE_VAULT_PATH (alias VAULT_PATH) is unset, auto-detect the vault root instead of blindly using the hardcoded default — walk up from the cwd for a directory containing .obsidian/, falling back to the git root, then to the current default.

Read the thread · 2026-06-24 · open · 0 comments

Expose daemon endpoint + token for third-party MCP clients (hive client --print-endpoint)

Problem

The hive serve single-owner daemon (ADR-011 / HIVE-118) already exposes a clean MCP Streamable-HTTP endpoint at /mcp on a loopback port, gated by a per-daemon bearer token (StaticTokenVerifier). The endpoint and token are published to the state dir as daemon.port and daemon.token (owner-only) under ~/.local/share/hive/.

This is exactly what a third-party MCP client (i.e. anything that is not the bundled hive client stdio shim) needs in order to connect

Read the thread · 2026-06-23 · open · 0 comments

hive service install should inject the resolved vault path into the daemon unit (self-contained env)

Spun out of cross-repo work in mlorentedev/dotfiles (#446 / HARNESS-024, ADR-025) and tracked there under #450 (hive integration robustness review). Sibling of #246 (HIVE-119).

Problem

hive serve (the Phase C daemon) reads HIVE_VAULT_PATH from its OWN process environment at start. But hive service install creates the unit — systemd --user on Linux, Scheduled Task on Windows — with no environment injection. So the daemon has no vault path unless something external provisions it.

Read the thread · 2026-06-19 · open · 0 comments

Feature: vault_health server identity + optional runtime metadata

Origin

Surfaced in a 2026-05-21 dotfiles session: the user asked "qué versión de hive corres?" and vault_health had nothing to answer with. Fallback was uvx --from hive-vault python -c "import importlib.metadata as m; print(m.version('hive-vault'))" — works, but requires leaving the running session and shelling out. The MCP initialize handshake exposes serverInfo.version to the client, but Claude Code (and other MCP hosts) don't re-surface it as tool output, so a running session has

Read the thread · 2026-05-21 · closed · 0 comments

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