# hunch MCP Server

Engineering memory for AI-assisted codebases: decisions, bug lineage and invariants, over MCP.

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## Status

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## Connect

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

### Most discussed

### Windows: hunch mcp does not exit with the team.json remote-mismatch refusal within 10s (test times out)

**Severity:** medium — `hunch mcp` does not exit with the expected refusal within 10s on a mismatched team.json fixture (Windows)

**Location:** [`test/team-workflow-failure-regressions.test.ts:505-535`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/test/team-workflow-failure-regressions.test.ts#L505-L535)

### Observed behavior
```
✖ MCP refuses an existing shared overlay whose remote differs from committed team.json (95084.6ms)
Error: spawnSync C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe ETIMEDOUT
  

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/56) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 2 comments

### mismatch: hunch_context parameter named 'target' but documented as 'target_or_task' in claudemd generator

In `@davesheffer/hunch` (tested on version `1.19.0` and earlier), there is a mismatch between the schema parameter name and the generated instructions for `hunch_context`.

Specifically, in `package/dist/mcp/server.js`, the `hunch_context` tool is registered with the following `inputSchema`:
```typescript
        inputSchema: {
            target: z.string().describe("A file path, symbol, or task phrase you're about to work on."),
            budget_tokens: z.number().optional().describe("Rough 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/95) · 2026-08-28 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP roots: Windows drive-letter case difference treated as a different root

**Severity:** low/medium — Windows drive-letter case difference treated as a different root

**Location:** [`src/mcp/server.ts:311-313`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/src/mcp/server.ts#L311-L313), [`src/mcp/roots.ts:44-45`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/src/mcp/roots.ts#L44-L45)

### Defect
Root comparison is raw string equality on `findRoot` output, and `findRoot` (`core/paths.ts`) does `resolve()` only — no realpath/case normalization — while `git.ts:174

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/54) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 1 comment

### MCP: index refresh is gated to shared mode; public-mode server serves a stale SQLite index

**Severity:** medium/high — public-mode MCP server serves a permanently stale SQLite index (split-brain answers)

**Location:** [`src/mcp/server.ts:425-437`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/src/mcp/server.ts#L425-L437)

### Defect
The request-boundary source-stamp check and `refreshIndex()` run only inside the shared-mode branch:

```ts
if (store.mode === "shared" && store.privateDir) {
  ...
  if (store.sourceStamp() !== indexedSourceStamp) refreshIndex();
}
```

`refreshIndex

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/49) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 1 comment

### Provider/config writers rewrite merged user files non-atomically

**Severity:** low/medium — merged user config files are rewritten non-atomically

**Location:** [`src/integrations/providers.ts:110-114`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/src/integrations/providers.ts#L110-L114) (`writeJson`, used for `.cursor/mcp.json`, `.vscode/mcp.json`, `.windsurf/mcp_config.json`, global configs, all hook configs), [`src/integrations/scaffold.ts:35`](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/blob/5f14e1a/src/integrations/scaffold.ts#L35) (`.mcp.json`), [`src/int

[Read the thread](https://github.com/davesheffer/hunch/issues/43) · 2026-08-04 · closed · 1 comment

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