# LeanToken MCP Server

Token-bounded repository context for coding agents over MCP.

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## Status

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## Connect

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 mcp` running 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/86) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/14) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/565) · 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:

```text
remaining_items = 0
next_cursor = None
```

even though entries between the legitimate and forged offsets were never

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/535) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/196) · 2026-07-24 · closed · 2 comments

### Most recent

### 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:

```json
{
  "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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/596) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/595) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/594) · 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

1. Star

[Read the thread](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/579) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/554) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/553) · 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](https://github.com/morluto/leantoken/issues/551) · 2026-08-11 · closed · 0 comments

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