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Honcho MCP Server

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Status

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Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.honcho.dev, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "honcho": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.honcho.dev"
    }
  }
}

Known issues

38 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

[Bug] Agent calls search_message but Honcho only knows search_messages

Deploy mode: Self-hosted

Honcho version: v3.0.12 (still present on main at v3.1.0)

Describe the bug

The Dreamer agent sometimes calls a tool named search_message (no final "s"). Honcho only registers a tool named search_messages (with the "s"). When the agent uses the singular name, Honcho replies Unknown tool: search_message. The agent retries with the same name, and after a few loops it gives up with Tool execution loop reached max iterations. Dreams then fail.

The Dia

Read the thread · 2026-08-26 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Hosted MCP (mcp.honcho.dev): tool calls return HTTP 520 payload while REST API returns 200

Summary

All MCP tool calls against the hosted endpoint mcp.honcho.dev fail with HTTP 520, while the REST API at api.honcho.dev works normally from the same machine. The failure appears to originate inside the hosted MCP server rather than in transport or client configuration.

Environment

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 6 comments

[Bug] Gemini transport in simple_batch_embed returns 1 embedding per batch

🐞 Bug Report

Note

My agent found this bug. I had my agent opencode/big pickle write it up. I don't understand the issue, but I want you to know about it. We did a fresh install of the code on 6/2/2026 and the issue still exists.

Summary

When using Honcho with EMBEDDING_MODEL_CONFIG__TRANSPORT=gemini, the simple_batch_embed() method in src/embedding_client.py passes a list of texts to the Google genai SDK embed_content() call. The SDK ignores the multiple items

Read the thread · 2026-06-02 · closed · external user · 3 comments

Conclusions re-derive after delete + cache flush (self-reinforcing)

Summary

The Honcho memory plugin attaches the same conclusion to every UserPromptSubmit hook for my session, and the conclusion has no grounding in anything I actually said. It survives source-document deletion and Redis flush by re-deriving itself, and discussing the bug strengthens it further.

Observed behavior

For multiple sessions, Honcho injects the following text into the UserPromptSubmit hook context, labeled as an "Explicit Observation" in userPeer.context():

You may no

Read the thread · 2026-05-24 · open · external user · 5 comments

[Bug] delete_observations can crash when observation_ids is a stringified list

Summary

delete_observations can crash during agentic dream/dialectic tool execution when the LLM/tool-call payload provides observation_ids as a string or stringified list instead of an actual JSON array.

Example problematic payload shapes seen from tool-call output:

{"observation_ids": "[doc_abc123]"}

or:

{"observation_ids": "[id:doc_abc123]"}

The schema asks for list[str], but in practice model/tool-call output can still produce list-ish strings. When tha

Read the thread · 2026-05-23 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

[Bug] generate_jwt.py --expires produces a token that always fails verification (exp claim type mismatch with PyJWT)

Summary

scripts/generate_jwt.py --expires <duration> produces a token that always fails verification with a generic AuthenticationException("Invalid JWT"), even when the signing secret is correct. The token is unusable for any workspace/peer/session scope that sets an expiry.

Root cause

JWTParams.exp is typed str | None and is intended to be a custom ISO-8601 string, checked manually in verify_jwt() via parse_datetime_iso(params.exp) after jwt.decode() returns. But exp

Read the thread · 2026-08-23 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[Bug] GPT‑5.6 reasoning models fail with function tools through Honcho’s OpenAI Chat Completions backend

🐞 Bug Report

Describe the bug

Honcho's OpenAI backend currently sends dialectic reasoning requests through /v1/chat/completions and forwards thinking_effort as reasoning_effort.

This fails for GPT‑5.6 reasoning models such as gpt-5.6-luna when function tools are enabled. The provider rejects the request with HTTP 400 and instructs the client to use /v1/responses instead.

The failure occurs in Honcho's dialectic reasoning / peer.chat() path.

**Is this a regr

Read the thread · 2026-08-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

OpenClaw 2026.7.1 + Codex runtime creates empty Honcho sessions; nativeHook relay not found

Environment

Symptom

The plugin loads and creates Honcho sessions, but new conversations are not persisted. Sessions created from Discord and recent turns are empty. Participant peers are not created.

Read-only API inspection found:

Read the thread · 2026-08-21 · open · external user · 2 comments

Add observability & management UI for memory store, peer representations, and recall pipeline

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a self-hosted Honcho user running ~50 conclusions across multiple per-directory sessions, I'm hitting a wall where the memory layer becomes a black box after honcho_create_conclusion succeeds. Specifically:

  1. No visibility into the conclusion store. I can write conclusions via the API, but I cannot list, search, filter, diff, or bulk-inspect them. When I recently audited my store, I found ~9 redundant overlapping "user profile" v

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · open · external user · 1 comment

Add observability & management UI for memory store, peer representations, and recall pipeline

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. As a self-hosted Honcho user running ~50 conclusions across multiple per-directory sessions, I'm hitting a wall where the memory layer becomes a black box after honcho_create_conclusion succeeds. Specifically:

  1. No visibility into the conclusion store. I can write conclusions via the API, but I cannot list, search, filter, diff, or bulk-inspect them. When I recently audited my store, I found ~9 redundant overlapping "user profile" v

Read the thread · 2026-08-05 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[Bug] Default .env template ships with unused provider API keys, and LLM config is verbose enough to make cleanup hard

Default .env template ships with unused provider API keys, and LLM config is verbose enough to make cleanup hard

Summary

Fresh Honcho self-host installs ship with a .env (or .env.template) that includes multiple LLM provider API key slots, even when the deployment only ever uses one transport at runtime. In practice, operators paste real keys into all the slots that seem relevant and then forget the ones that are never called. The result is dormant credentials sitting in configurati

Read the thread · 2026-08-01 · open · external user · 0 comments

[Bug] OpenClaw plugin fails after memory registration API migration

🐞 Bug Report

Describe the bug

@honcho-ai/openclaw-honcho 1.5.2 cannot register against current OpenClaw because it unconditionally calls the removed plugin API api.registerMemoryPromptSection(buildPromptSection).

When OpenClaw loads the memory plugin, registration throws:

TypeError: api.registerMemoryPromptSection is not a function

The plugin therefore fails before it can register its memory runtime, hooks, tools, or CLI.

OpenClaw's current memory-plugin contract replaces

Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · external user · 2 comments

See all 21 reports Pod holds for Honcho — of 38 qualified upstream.

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