# limps MCP Server

MCP planning server for AI agents — plan management, full-text search, and task lifecycle

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## Status

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## Connect

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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/154) · 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

```typescript
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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/148) · 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

```typescript
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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/147) · 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 ✅

```json
// 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:
```yaml
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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/120) · 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 around `indexAllPaths()`. No callers in the codebase.
- **`findMarkdownFiles()`** - Legacy file discovery function. All callers now use `findFiles()` directly.

Both should be removed (or unexport

[Read the thread](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/95) · 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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/56) · 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](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/51) · 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.servers` section)
- ❌ Does not update local workspace `.mcp.json` files

## Desired Behavior

The `sync-mcp` command should:
1. Update 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/paulbreuler/limps/issues/34) · 2026-01-28 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 13 reports Pod holds for limps](/mcp/limps/issues).

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