Lex MCP Server

Episodic memory and architectural policy for AI agents. Frames, Atlas, and Policy.

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Published as @smartergpt/lex-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Published as @smartergpt/lex-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

127 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.

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[Ecosystem 3.1] Prove the cross-repository release dependency graph

Thesis

Ecosystem 3.1 is a documented, evidence-backed release train across the Lex toolset. It is not merely a sprint label and it does not force every package to adopt version 3.1.0.

Each repository retains honest package semver. The release train closes only when one reviewed compatibility manifest identifies the exact compatible commits, package versions, signed tags, runtime floors, dependency relationships, and proof receipts for every required component.

Published baseline

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · open · 9 comments

Lex 3.1: adopt Node 24 as the sole supported runtime floor

Parent

• Ecosystem release train: #780
• Final Lex/Lex-MCP publication leaf: Guffawaffle/lex-mcp#11

Problem

Lex currently advertises and selects Node 20 through 24 across package metadata, current documentation, tests, release workflows, registry publication, and maintenance jobs. Ecosystem 3.1 deliberately drops the historical Node 20/22 floor.

The current >=20 <25 range also carries an accidental upper bound that would reject newer Node releases without evidence.

Outcome

Make

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 5 comments

Reorganize config layout: Move working files to .smartergpt.local/lex/

Problem

Currently, lex stores its working policy file at src/policy/policy_spec/lexmap.policy.json, which creates UX confusion:

1. Namespace collision: When users install lex in their own projects and create their policy files, they might accidentally overwrite lex's own policy or be confused about which file to edit
2. No separation of concerns: Template/example files are mixed with actual working configuration
3. Not following industry best practice: Most tools use a dedicat

Read the thread · 2025-11-09 · closed · 5 comments

Create @smartergpt/lex-mcp wrapper package for MCP registry

Problem/Goal

The MCP registry requires mcpName to be in the package that is the identifier in server.json. The registry validates by fetching that package from npm and checking its package.json.

Additionally, npx <package> invokes the default bin of the package. If we added lex-mcp as a second bin to @smartergpt/lex, users running npx @smartergpt/lex would get the CLI, not the MCP server.

Solution: Create a dedicated package @smartergpt/lex-mcp whose only job is

Read the thread · 2025-12-31 · closed · 4 comments

[Policy] Generate deterministic scanner-compatible maps for C/C++ repositories

Problem

lex init --policy currently assumes a root src/ tree and only recognizes TypeScript/JavaScript files. C/C++ repositories and monorepos such as stfc-mod therefore produce an empty policy, even though Lex Frames and scanners require stable module IDs.

The current generator also emits match, while first-party scanner module resolution consumes owns_paths, so generated policy can be schema-valid without actually scoping scanner facts.

Dogfood evidence

• Repository: `Guffa

Read the thread · 2026-07-25 · closed · 3 comments

Most recent

test: bound MCP worker lifecycle and release gate hangs

Evidence

Lex v4.0.4 tag workflow run 33279757343 hung in npm test after MCP Server - Idempotency (AX-008) completed successfully. The exact same SHA (381c52bff91372b307313c9f138543c3f5fbdc6a), Node 24.14.1, npm 11.11.0, runner image, and npm run ci:full command had passed in publication run 33241279551. A single unchanged rerun passed, so this was a transient worker-lifecycle stall rather than a 4.0.4 assertion failure.

On cancellation, GitHub cleaned up the npm run ci:full / `npm

Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · open · 0 comments

[Dogfood] Add stfc-mod-bridge as a local-first workspace with explicit shared recall

Dogfood finding

The now-separate Guffawaffle/stfc-mod-bridge repository needs its own continuity boundary. It is not the native stfc-mod workspace and it is not stfc-companion/sidecar.

A native Windows Bridge workspace setup on 2026-08-12 exposed two simultaneously useful stores:

• preferred repo-local SQLite: .smartergpt/lex/memory.db, Bridge policy loaded with 8 modules, one Bridge-owned Frame;
• organizational PostgreSQL corpus: 666 Frames, reachable through the user-level Lex/A

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 0 comments

[Compatibility] Add Code Index aliases for code-atlas surfaces

Context

The terminology map in #805 classifies source/symbol extraction, CodeUnit, CodeAtlasRun, the code-atlas command, atlas_analyze, and /api/atlas/* as the experimental Code Index subsystem.

Several existing names are public commands, routes, package paths, or serialized schema literals. Migration must therefore be additive.

Scope

• Add a code-index CLI alias while retaining code-atlas.
• Add a Code Index MCP tool alias while retaining atlas_analyze and existing

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · open · 0 comments

[Architecture] Split overloaded Atlas terminology into Policy Neighborhood, Code Index, and Frame Graph

Problem

"Atlas" currently names three materially different Lex systems:

1. Policy neighborhood — bounded policy/module context generated around a Frame's module scope and used during recall.
2. Code Index — experimental TS/JS/Python source-unit extraction and provenance.
3. Frame graph — a derived graph connecting historical Frames by module overlap, branch, and temporal proximity.

Using one product term for all three obscures ownership, stability, consumers, performance work,

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

[Dogfood] Align MCP Frame fallback and policy health with the CLI write contract

Problem

The CLI work completed by #730 exposes a shared Frame write contract and the canonical workspace/unscoped fallback. The MCP path does not provide equivalent recovery.

Live Windows/STFC dogfood evidence in #800:

• frame_validate rejects module_scope: [];
• the error does not disclose the exact valid fallback payload;
• callers succeed only if they already know to send module_scope: ["workspace/unscoped"];
• MCP introspection reports that policy is unavailable but does not ex

Read the thread · 2026-07-27 · closed · 1 comment

Post-4.0 security roadmap: tenant proof, protected execution, and future clinical authority

Disposition

This issue preserves the security and authority research performed after the Lex 4.0.0 release candidate was complete. It is potential post-4.0 work, not a dependency of Lex PR #791, and it does not hold Ecosystem 3.1 / Lex 4.0.0.

The previous Sanctuary hold and blocker classification are superseded by this scope correction.

The bounded Lex 4.0.0 release

Lex 4.0.0 returns to the release scope recorded by PR #791 at signed c

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · open · 1 comment

Fail closed when scoped LexSona context is missing or mismatched

Threatened boundary

Repository/project/module/task containment of behavioral memory exposed through Lex and LexSona.

Attack / failure scenario

A caller omits an authority-relevant context dimension. A rule scoped to another project, module, or task is then selected because the implementation only compares dimensions present on both the rule and request. The caller learns victim text or existence, or the foreign correction silently influences its behavior.

Current behavior and eviden

Read the thread · 2026-07-23 · open · 1 comment

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