# Lobu MCP Server

Shared, permission-aware company context for AI agents, with provenance, approvals and audit.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Lobu yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://lobu.ai/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "lobu": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://lobu.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**63 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

### Replace manual Dockerfile generation with native devcontainer CLI for 10-second worker startup

## Summary
Implement native `@devcontainers/cli` integration to replace manual Dockerfile generation, enabling full devcontainer feature support and reducing worker startup time from 2-3 minutes to under 10 seconds.

## Current Problem
Our current implementation:
- Manually parses devcontainer.json to extract only the base image
- Misses all devcontainer features (databases, tools, extensions, postCreateCommand, etc.)
- Requires workers to clone repos and install dependencies on every startup (2

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/38) · 2025-08-30 · closed · 7 comments

### [MCP reliability] Knowledge consistency, connector diagnostics, run history, metrics bounds, and latency

## Summary

A production MCP E2E run exposed several medium-priority reliability and observability gaps. None individually blocks core CRUD, but together they make agents misinterpret empty results, retry incorrectly, and struggle to diagnose slow or inconsistent behavior.

This issue groups the remaining related operational concerns rather than splitting them into separate tickets.

## 1. Knowledge consistency and supersession semantics

### Observed

- knowledge.save returns indexing_status pe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/2051) · 2026-07-20 · closed · 4 comments

### Definition of tenant and their exclusive zone

It would be good to get clarity on this, at the top of it, what is a tenant? and what are its exclusive capabilities? (Capabilities that are only accessible to this owning tenant)

1. Is a Telegram user a Tenant? How about a Telegram group? And a Telegram group that has many topics?
2. As a Telegram user in a DM with the bot, am I able to setup a remote MCP with credentials to my personal gmail/calendar `account`?
3. In a Telegram a group, can I further setup 1 or more shared `accounts`? Can thi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/2232) · 2026-07-28 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Evaluate OpenClaw memory-wiki compatibility over Lobu watchers/actions/feedback

## Context

OpenClaw has a first-party `memory-wiki` extension that exposes native wiki concepts/tools (`wiki_search`, `wiki_get`, `wiki_apply`, `wiki_status`, `wiki_lint`) and a compiled vault model (`sources/`, `entities/`, `concepts/`, `syntheses/`, `reports/`, `.openclaw-wiki/cache/agent-digest.json`, `claims.jsonl`). We want Lobu to support that experience without making Lobu MCP more complex or turning the core codebase into a second wiki engine.

Reference: https://github.com/openclaw/ope

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/568) · 2026-05-10 · closed · 3 comments

### Guardrail: DNS pinning in worker HTTP proxy to prevent rebinding (TOCTOU)

## Problem
`packages/gateway/src/proxy/http-proxy.ts:229` resolves the target hostname fresh per request with `dns.lookup(hostname, {all: true, verbatim: true})` and no caching or pinning. The proxy validates the resolved IP isn't in a blocked range, then connects — but the IP used for the connection can diverge from the validated one if the resolver flips (classic DNS rebinding / TOCTOU).

An attacker who controls a DNS record for an allowlisted domain can answer with a public IP during validat

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/252) · 2026-04-21 · closed · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Gateway withholds compiled_code from a device that does not execute the connector natively, stranding every claimed run

> **Note:** this issue was rewritten after the original report, which blamed the worker image and claim admission. The root cause is gateway-side, in the poll response's connector-code delivery. See the correction comment below.

**Describe the bug**

When the gateway hands a claimed run to a device worker, it decides whether to ship the connector bundle with `deviceWillExecuteNativeConnector` (`packages/server/src/worker-api/poll.ts`):

```js
const deviceWillExecuteNativeConnector =
  isUserSco

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3214) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 1 comment

### Operation run history reports the connection's current device pin, retroactively rewriting which device ran a completed run

**Describe the bug**

`device_worker_id` on an operation run (as returned by `operations.listRuns`) does not record the device that executed the run. It reflects the connection's **current** `device_worker_id` at read time, so re-pinning a connection retroactively changes what already-completed historical runs report.

This makes run history unusable for answering "which device ran this?", and it silently misattributes past executions after any re-pin.

**To Reproduce**

1. Execute an operation 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3213) · 2026-08-28 · open · 1 comment

### connections.update accepts and echoes a device pin to an offline device, then reconcile silently reverts it seconds later

> **Note:** this issue was substantially rewritten after the original report. The first version claimed reconcile was overriding a deliberate pin to a *fresh* device, contradicting the documented contract. That premise was wrong — the target device was already offline. See the correction comment below. The narrower issue described here still stands.

**Describe the bug**

`connections.update({ device_worker_id })` accepts a pin to a device that is **offline / outside the fresh set**, returns suc

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3212) · 2026-08-28 · open · 1 comment

### feat(evidence): record governed read receipts for dataset lineage

## Summary

Record compact, trusted, run-linked receipts for live source and governed evidence reads, while continuing to model analytical datasets using existing events and attachments.

**Priority:** P0
**Complexity:** Medium (3/5)
**Estimate:** 180–300 production LOC; 250–400 test LOC; 100–180 project/docs LOC
**Migration:** none

## Existing primitives to reuse

`ArtifactStore`, `upload_file`, event attachments, `knowledge.save/read`, stable `lobu://event` resources, indexed `events.run_id/e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3203) · 2026-08-27 · open · 0 comments

### Local Agent Sessions in Recent: device-backed connector for Codex/Claude/OpenCode/Pi sessions

### Goal

Surface all local AI agent sessions (Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode, Pi) running or previously run on a user's Mac inside the web app's **Recent** section, plus a glanceable **Mac overlay** ("3 running · 7 active in last 5m"). Users must not see an empty Recent on install — historical backfill comes free from local metadata stores, no hooks required.

Outcome of the design session on 2026-08-24 (codex session `01a035a0`). No code written yet; worktree is prepped and clean.

### Agreed de

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3170) · 2026-08-24 · open · 1 comment

### bug(sdk): automations.trigger hides manual-open execution ownership

## Problem

The public SDK metadata currently describes automations.trigger as:

“Trigger an immediate Automation run and dispatch it to its assigned agent.”

That is false for a valid manual-only Automation with neither agent_id nor device_worker_id. In that case the server intentionally creates a manual-open pending run and performs no dispatch. The external MCP client that called trigger must own the rest of the flow:

1. client.automations.trigger({ automation_id })
2. client.knowledge.read(

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/3083) · 2026-08-22 · closed · 0 comments

### feat(auth): scope which worker tokens may open direct MCP sessions (source discriminator)

Raised by the #2974 review, deferred there because the exposure is PRE-EXISTING, not introduced by that PR: the old direct-auth lane keyed on the `x-lobu-memory-direct-auth: 1` header, which is request-controlled — any holder of a valid worker token (including a chat sandbox's own deployment-lifetime WORKER_TOKEN) could always attach the header themselves and open an admin-scoped `/mcp/<orgSlug>` session that skips the gateway proxy's pre-tool guardrails. #2974 removed the header requirement for

[Read the thread](https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu/issues/2979) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 22 reports Pod holds for Lobu](/mcp/lobu/issues) — of 63 qualified upstream.

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