limps MCP Server
MCP planning server for AI agents — plan management, full-text search, and task lifecycle
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Published as @sudosandwich/limps on npm. Runs locally.
Known issues
13 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 10.
Most discussed
fix: HTTP GET /mcp returns 400 instead of 405 Method Not Allowed
Severity: Medium
`GET /mcp` returns `400 Bad Request` with `{"error":"Missing mcp-session-id header"}` instead of the semantically correct `405 Method Not Allowed`.
Current behavior
``` GET /mcp → 400 {"error":"Missing mcp-session-id header"} ```
Expected behavior
``` GET /mcp → 405 {"error":"Method Not Allowed"} Allow: POST, DELETE ```
Fix
Add a method check before the session-id check in `src/server-http.ts`:
```typescript if (url.pathna
Read the thread · 2026-03-02 · open · 0 comments
feat(acp): wire ACP create_artifact to the document model pipeline
Problem
The ACP create_artifact tool in src/acp/tools.ts returns a delegation message without actually creating any files. Agents calling it via ACP get no artifact back.
Current behavior
async create_artifact(req) {
return { ok: true, message: 'Artifact creation delegated to AI agent', request: req };
}
Expected behavior
create_artifact calls the same generateArtifactHandler logic used by the generate_artifact MCP tool — creating the file via the `IDo
Read the thread · 2026-03-02 · open · 0 comments
feat(acp): wire ACP validate_invest tool to invest.ts
Problem
The ACP validate_invest tool in src/acp/tools.ts returns a hardcoded stub (score: 0) instead of calling validateInvest() from src/utils/invest.ts.
Current behavior
async validate_invest(req: { content: string }) {
return { score: 0, warnings: ['INVEST validation not yet connected to document model'] };
}
Expected behavior
The tool accepts either raw markdown content or a taskId, parses frontmatter + body via gray-matter, runs `validateInves
Read the thread · 2026-03-02 · open · 0 comments
CLI: add manage-tags command
Feature
The manage_tags MCP tool manages frontmatter tags on documents but has no CLI equivalent.
Verified ✅
// List tags
{"name": "manage_tags", "arguments": {"path": "plans/0001.../000_spike.agent.md", "operation": "list"}}
// → {"tags": ["spike", "mcp", "rmcp", "tauri-channel"]}
// Add tags
{"name": "manage_tags", "arguments": {"path": "...", "operation": "add", "tags": ["test", "cleanup"]}}
// → OK
// Remove tags
{"name": "manage_tags", "arguments": {"path": "...", "ope
[Read the thread](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/125) · 2026-02-10 · closed · 0 comments
### CLI: add `process-doc` and `process-docs` commands
## Feature
The `process_doc` and `process_docs` MCP tools allow JavaScript-based document querying and transformation, but have no CLI equivalents.
### `process_doc` (verified ✅)
Processes a single document with JavaScript code. Has built-in helpers: `extractSections()`, `extractFrontmatter()`, `extractCodeBlocks()`, `extractFeatures()`, `extractAgents()`, `findByPattern()`, `summarize()`.
```json
{"name": "process_doc", "arguments": {
"path": "plans/0001-ai-control-via-mcp/0001-ai-control-
[Read the thread](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/124) · 2026-02-10 · closed · 0 comments
### Most recent
### CLI: `limps status` has no flag to update agent status
## Feature Gap
`limps status` can only _show_ plan/agent status. There's no CLI flag to _update_ agent status (e.g., GAP → WIP → PASS).
## Expected
```bash
limps status 0001-ai-control-via-mcp#000 --set PASS --notes "Completed in PR #116"
Current Workaround
Manually edit the agent .agent.md file frontmatter:
status: PASS # was GAP
Context
The MCP server exposes update_task_status which can set status, but there's no CLI equivalent. This makes it impossible to up
Read the thread · 2026-02-10 · closed · 0 comments
refactor: remove dead code and standardize tool error handling
Context
During the security hardening work (#94 follow-up), an anti-pattern analysis identified two areas for cleanup.
1. Dead code in indexer.ts
Two exported functions in packages/limps/src/indexer.ts are never called externally:
indexAllDocuments()- Appears to be a legacy wrapper aroundindexAllPaths(). No callers in the codebase.findMarkdownFiles()- Legacy file discovery function. All callers now usefindFiles()directly.
Both should be removed (or unexport
Read the thread · 2026-02-07 · closed · 0 comments
Plan status / next task stale after closing plan on disk
Plan status / next task stale after closing plan on disk
Summary
When a plan is closed by updating agent files on disk (e.g. bulk Status: GAP → Status: PASS), MCP tools get_plan_status and get_next_task can continue to return stale data until the MCP server is restarted. A client using runi Planning has observed this.
Tools involved
get_plan_status(planId)get_next_task(planId)
Expected behavior
After agent files are updated on disk (e.g. all agents in a plan s
Read the thread · 2026-01-31 · closed · 0 comments
create-feature-plan output incompatible with extractFeatures
Problem
update_task_status fails with "Feature #N not found in document" for plans generated by /create-feature-plan. The plan format produced by create-feature-plan does not match the parser used by extractFeatures() (used by MCP task status updates).
Current file format
Example: plans/0043-limps-analysis-ir-overhaul/0043-limps-analysis-ir-overhaul-plan.md
- Section headings:
## Feature 0: Component IR + Module Graph Foundation - Status line:
**Status:** GAP - No
TL;DR:l
Read the thread · 2026-01-31 · closed · 0 comments
feat(sync-mcp): Update local .mcp.json files in addition to global settings
Feature Request
The limps config sync-mcp command currently only updates the global Cursor settings file (~/Library/Application Support/Cursor/User/settings.json), but does not update local workspace .mcp.json files.
Current Behavior
When running limps config sync-mcp --client cursor, the command:
- ✅ Updates global Cursor settings.json (in
mcp.serverssection) - ❌ Does not update local workspace
.mcp.jsonfiles
Desired Behavior
The sync-mcp command should:
- Update
Read the thread · 2026-01-28 · closed · 0 comments
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