LeanToken MCP Server
Token-bounded repository context for coding agents over MCP.
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Published as leantoken on cargo. Runs locally.
Known issues
102 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
MCP server defaults to indexing $HOME and exhausts memory
Summary
leantoken mcp was launched from ~ and immediately consumed 10.3 GB of physical memory while trying to index $HOME.
Observed behavior
- Process:
leantoken mcp(PID 77771) - Parent:
npm exec leantoken mcprunning in$HOME - Memory: 8.6 GB
MALLOC_SMALL+ 7.1 GB compressed/swapped - SQLite index remained basically empty (4 KB
index.sqlite, 137 KB WAL) - Several tokio worker threads pinned at ~85 % CPU
- The walker was descending into `~/.cache/uv/.../pandas/tests
Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · 3 comments
mcp: evaluate progressive retrieval and evidence handoffs in agent traces
Motivation
LeanToken recommends files → outline/search → exact read → context when uncertain, and returns hashes and compact receipts for handoffs. The protocol supports that workflow, but there is not yet real-model evidence that the descriptions and receipts reduce broad reads, repeated reads, or handoff reconstruction.
Adding more guidance or a runtime “next action” field without traces could increase schema cost without changing agent behavior.
Proposed solution
Use the model-in-
Read the thread · 2026-07-16 · closed · 3 comments
Make approved repository contexts lazy and enforce process-wide indexing/retrieval budgets
Summary
MCP startup eagerly opens and starts an automatic indexing loop for every approved repository context, even when the client never selects that context.
Each context owns independent indexing workers, a blocking retrieval executor, a SQLite reader pool, watcher/coordination state, and per-repository discovery limits. The primary repository owns another complete copy.
With the configured maximum of eight contexts, all nominally bounded capacities are multiplied by nine at the process
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 2 comments
Authenticate JSON key cursor offsets so pages cannot skip pointers
Summary
JSON key cursors bind the source-content fingerprint and normalized query identity, but they do not bind or authenticate the cursor offset. A caller—or accidental cursor corruption—can change only the plaintext offset to any in-range value and LeanToken will accept it.
The forged offset can skip arbitrary JSON-pointer entries and produce a terminal page with:
remaining_items = 0
next_cursor = None
even though entries between the legitimate and forged offsets were never
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 2 comments
Expose source provenance and runtime-evidence boundaries in MCP responses
Motivation
LeanToken is a read-only source discovery and bounded retrieval layer for coding agents. During a cross-platform CI investigation, source retrieval was useful for locating the ownership, launcher, package-verifier, and test code, but it could not establish facts about generated dist output, macOS process-table state, subprocess timing, or remote CI results.
The current retrieval contract can therefore give an agent relevant source without making the remaining proof boundary suf
Read the thread · 2026-07-24 · closed · 2 comments
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Make approved repository contexts discoverable to MCP callers
Motivation
LeanToken supports up to eight named, approved alternate repository contexts, but an MCP-only caller cannot discover which names are available.
Every retrieval tool accepts an optional repository_context string. Calling one with an unknown name returns:
{
"category": "invalid_input",
"field": "repository_context",
"message": "invalid repository_context: must name an approved repository context",
"status": "error"
}
The connected MCP catalog has no context-
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments
Search MCP schema collapses the tagged operation to unknown
Description
The connected LeanToken MCP catalog exposes search.operation as unknown, even though the server source defines SearchMcpOperation as a closed tagged enum with six variants and a substantial shared option contract.
Other tagged LeanToken operations such as files, history, and json remain structurally typed in the same client. Search callers therefore lose field discovery and validation before invocation and must reconstruct the request from prose or runtime errors.
A
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments
Exhaustive search work-limit errors provide no usable recovery path
Description
An exhaustive search request can stop at the candidate-work bound without returning occurrences, a cursor, or a replayable recovery action. The error recommends increasing max_tokens, but retrying at the protocol maximum reproduces the same failure at a proportionally larger candidate-byte limit.
This leaves callers unable to recover the omitted search population without manually redesigning the query.
Steps to reproduce
Run this MCP search against the SymPy repository:
Read the thread · 2026-08-25 · open · 0 comments
Structured-only MCP results can disappear in host adapters
Description
LeanToken's default MCP result mode is structured, which returns a populated structuredContent field and an empty content array. A current Codex MCP host path preserved the tool call but did not materialize structuredContent for the model, so successful retrievals appeared empty.
doctor still reports ready because it verifies the MCP response's structuredContent; it cannot attest what an intermediate host adapter forwards to the model.
Steps to reproduce
- Star
Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · 0 comments
Do not advance a caller-known receipt before its response is delivered
Summary
LeanToken appends newly selected evidence to an existing retrieval receipt inside the service call, before the MCP transport writes the response to stdout.
If response delivery fails—a broken pipe, client disconnect, cancelled response, host termination, or write/flush error—the caller still knows the original receipt ID, but that receipt has already advanced. Retrying the same retrieval with the same ID suppresses exact/overlapping evidence that the caller never received.
This vio
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments
Reject duplicate JSONC configuration keys before editing shadowed entries
Summary
LeanToken’s JSONC setup editor accepts duplicate object property names and edits only the first matching property. The same jsonc-parser semantic conversion—and ordinary JSON object semantics used by common clients—keeps the last duplicate value.
A client configuration can therefore contain two mcpServers properties or two leantoken properties. Setup updates/removes the first occurrence, reports success, and verifies the edited text, while the effective last occurrence
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments
Bound JMESPath evaluation before materializing amplified selector results
Summary
LeanToken applies max_items and max_tokens only after a JMESPath expression has been evaluated and converted into an owned serde_json::Value.
JMESPath multiselect lists can evaluate the same large input value many times. The Rust JMESPath engine can represent those repeated values internally with reference-counted nodes, but LeanToken immediately serializes the complete result into a new owned JSON value. A selector under the current 4 KiB expression limit can therefore ex
Read the thread · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments
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