# hunch by davesheffer MCP Server

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**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## At a glance

**Source code:** [Open repository](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch)

**GitHub popularity:** 10 stars on [davesheffer/hunch](davesheffer/hunch), recorded 2026-09-27.

## Status

Pod has not dialled hunch by davesheffer yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `@davesheffer/hunch` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hunch-by-davesheffer": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@davesheffer/hunch"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**10 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 2.

### Most discussed

### hunch_task start throws ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND for 'tsx' on published installs since #254 (1.37.1, 1.38.0)

## Summary

Since #254, `hunch_task(action: "start")` fails on every installation where `tsx` is not resolvable — which is any plain `npm install -g @davesheffer/hunch`, because `tsx` is a **devDependency**:

```
Task report unavailable: Cannot find package 'tsx' imported from
  <prefix>/lib/node_modules/@davesheffer/hunch/dist/mcp/taskReportTools.js
```

Affects **1.37.1** and **1.38.0** (the two releases published after #254 merged).

## Cause

#254 moved the loader resolve *out* of the `dev`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/261) · 2026-09-16 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

### Most recent

### Reused task id reopens a host-closed task and nothing closes it again

## Summary

`appendEvent` reopens a task whose `closed_by` is `host` on **any** new observation (state → `open`, `finished_at` → null). The grounding block tells agents to *"Reuse the ID for follow-up work on the same task"*, so on the next prompt an agent that passes the previous prompt's `task_id` to `hunch_context` reopens that host-closed task. No Stop for the old prompt id ever follows (Stop closes the *current* prompt's id), so the old task stays open forever, `taskRecordFromReports`…

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/266) · 2026-09-16 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 10 reviewed GitHub reports](/mcp/hunch-by-davesheffer/issues).

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```json
{
  "query": "hunch by davesheffer",
  "limit": 5
}
```

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```bash
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  --data-urlencode 'query=hunch by davesheffer' \
  --data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```

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