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    {
      "Title": "MCP tool loading fails in Claude Code: outputSchema incompatibility",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen longhand's MCP server is registered with Claude Code (CLI), the server connects successfully but tool loading fails with the following validation error:\n\n```\nReconnected to longhand, but fetching tools failed: [\n  {\n    \"code\": \"invalid_value\",\n    \"values\": [\"object\"],\n    \"path\": [\"tools\", 0, \"outputSchema\", \"type\"],\n    \"message\": \"Invalid input: expected \\\"object\\\"\"\n  },\n  ... (same error for tools 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)\n]\n```\n\n## Root cause\n\nLonghand uses…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-22T14:40:07.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
      "Reporter": "External",
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      "Title": "outputSchema with non-object top-level type breaks tool loading in Claude Code",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n12 of 19 MCP tools fail to load in Claude Code because their `outputSchema` declares a top-level `\"type\": \"array\"` or uses `\"oneOf\"` without a top-level `\"type\"`. Claude Code's MCP client validator requires `outputSchema.type` to be `\"object\"`.\n\nThis is the root cause of #9.\n\n## Analysis\n\nI mapped every tool definition in `mcp_server.py` against the error output from #9:\n\n| Index | Tool | `outputSchema.type` | Loads? |\n|-------|------|---------------------|--------|\n| 0 | `search` |…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-22T20:33:48.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
      "Reporter": "External",
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    {
      "Title": "Redaction misses git commit messages",
      "Excerpt": "With `redact.enabled`, secrets are masked at parse time across an event's `content`, `tool_output`, `error_snippet`, `old_content`, `new_content`, and its raw JSON (`_EVENT_TEXT_FIELDS` in `longhand/redaction.py`). But `git_commit_message` is not in that list.\n\nThe parser extracts it from git output (`parser.py`, and `codex.py` for Codex `exec` commands), and `store.py` persists it as `git_operations.commit_message`. So a secret that appears in a commit message is stored unmasked at ingest,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/110",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:52:21.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
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    {
      "Title": "`mcp install` writes the macOS Claude Desktop path on every OS",
      "Excerpt": "`CLAUDE_DESKTOP_CONFIG_PATH` is hardcoded to `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json` (`longhand/setup_commands.py`). On Windows (the best-effort CI tier), Claude Desktop reads `%APPDATA%\\Claude\\claude_desktop_config.json`, so `mcp install` writes a file nothing reads and still reports success. On Linux there is no Claude Desktop.\n\n**Expected:** a platform-specific path, or skip with a message where Desktop doesn't exist.\n\n_Found and verified against the code during the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/105",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:57.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
      "Extractor": "github_issue"
    },
    {
      "Title": "CLI session-prefix resolution only scans the 1,000 most recent sessions",
      "Excerpt": "`timeline`, `replay`, `export`, `status --session`, and `search --session` resolve a session-ID prefix by filtering `store.sqlite.list_sessions(limit=1000)` in Python (5 call sites in `longhand/cli/_commands.py`). `cli/helpers._resolve_prefix` already does this correctly with SQL `LIKE` over the whole table; its docstring records the same bug being fixed for the MCP path.\n\nThe maintainer's archive is at 792 sessions, so this will start failing silently at 1,001.\n\n**Expected:** all five call…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/104",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:55.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
      "Extractor": "github_issue"
    },
    {
      "Title": "MCP output caps: six tools are uncapped, and `max_chars <= 0` disables truncation",
      "Excerpt": "The README promised every tool is capped. In fact:\n\n- `max_chars` is accepted by 5 of 13 tools: `search`, `get_session_timeline`, `recall`, `recall_project_status`, `find_commits`.\n- `list_sessions` and `list_projects` have a fixed 16,000 cap, which doesn't apply in their `project_id` / `match` modes.\n- Uncapped: `get_file_history` (every edit, no LIMIT), `replay_file` (the whole file), `find_episodes` (including the detail mode's `file_state_after`), `list_plans`, `get_stats`, `reconcile`.\n-…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/103",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:54.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "top",
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    {
      "Title": "`search` auto-scope can't be overridden; its hint is a no-op",
      "Excerpt": "When a query names a project (score ≥ 0.8), `search` scopes to it and returns `auto_scope_hint: \"… Pass project_name=None to override.\"` (`longhand/mcp_server.py`). JSON `null` can't be told apart from omitting the key, so that call auto-scopes again. There is no way to run an unscoped search whose text names a project.\n\nThat is the \"remedy that cannot work\" COMPATIBILITY.md Promise 5 rules out. Since 1.2.1, an explicit `session_id` turns auto-scope off, but that is not a general opt-out.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/102",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:53.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "The update check runs on exit of `shared-mcp`, `mcp serve`, and `demo`",
      "Excerpt": "`_UPDATE_CHECK_EXCLUDED` (`longhand/cli/_commands.py`) lists only the hidden entry points: `mcp-server`, the hook commands, `context`, and `backfill-episodes`. The comment above it says an MCP server \"may not gain network calls\", but:\n\n- `shared-mcp` and `mcp serve` are MCP servers too, and they refresh the PyPI cache when they exit.\n- `demo` is documented as not touching `~/.longhand`, but its exit-time refresh writes `~/.longhand/update-check.json`, creating the directory (see the 0700…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/101",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:51.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
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    {
      "Title": "doctor's \"Claude Code MCP\" row misses plugin-provided servers",
      "Excerpt": "`doctor` checks only the top-level `mcpServers` key of `~/.claude.json` (`longhand/setup_commands.py`, \"Claude Code MCP installed?\"). A server provided by the Longhand plugin (`.mcp.json`) or registered at project scope shows as \"not installed\". Doctor then tells the user to run `claude mcp add` for a server they already have.\n\n**Expected:** recognize plugin-provided and project-scoped registrations, or reword the row to \"not found in ~/.claude.json\".\n\n_Found and verified against the code…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/100",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:49.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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    {
      "Title": "`~/.longhand` can be created without 0700",
      "Excerpt": "`LonghandStore` creates the data dir with `mode=0o700` (`longhand/storage/store.py`), but only if it gets there first. Two other paths create it with the default umask, typically 0755:\n\n- the update-check cache: `target.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)` (`longhand/update_check.py`)\n- `config --set`: `config_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)` (`longhand/cli/_commands.py`)\n\n`longhand demo` writes the update-check cache on exit. So the README's recommended first command can…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/99",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:47.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
      "Extractor": "github_issue"
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    {
      "Title": "`config --set` ignores a relocated store, and `--edit` does nothing",
      "Excerpt": "`longhand config --set k=v` always writes `~/.longhand/config.json`: `config()` in `longhand/cli/_commands.py` builds `config_path = Path.home() / \".longhand\" / \"config.json\"`. It ignores both its own `--data-dir` option and `LONGHAND_DATA_DIR`.\n\nThe readers use the **resolved** data dir. Redaction reads `resolve_data_dir() / \"config.json\"` (`longhand/redaction.py`), and so does the prompt-hook config loader. With a relocated store, `config --set` writes a file nothing reads, and prints that…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/Wynelson94/longhand/issues/96",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-28T04:00:44.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Maintainer",
      "Rank": "recent",
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