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memshelf-mcp MCP Server

Working memory for AI agents: digest-indexed episodes on a git shelf, recalled a section at a time.

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Published as memshelf-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

7 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 5.

Most discussed

shelve --amend cannot change an episode's kind, and its error blames the slug

What happens

Amending an episode with a different kind fails:

AmendTargetMissing: --amend: no episode '2026-08-13-yinguo-independent-recount'
on this shelf (docs/topics/2026-08-13-yinguo-independent-recount.md does not
exist). Check the slug, or shelve it without --amend to create it.

The episode exists — at docs/sessions/…. --amend resolves the target directory from the new kind via CATEGORY_BY_KIND and looks only there, so a kind change always reads as a missing episo

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 0 comments

shelve writes episodes that doctor rejects: kind -> required sections is enforced only after the fact

What happens

core/episode.py declares what each kind must contain:

_REQUIRED_SECTIONS: dict[str, tuple[str, ...]] = {
    "session": ("Timeline", "Open threads"),
    …
}

required_sections() has exactly one caller — core/doctor.py. core/shelve.py never asks. So shelve accepts a kind=session episode with no ## Timeline, writes it, commits it, and doctor later reports it as an error:

docs/sessions/2026-08-13-yinguo-independent-recount.md
  kind=session 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignatenkofi/memshelf-mcp/issues/88) · 2026-08-14 · open · external user · 1 comment

### CLI ignores $MEMSHELF_SHELF_PATH while the MCP tools honour it

## What happens

The default-shelf fallback landed in `tools.py`, so every MCP tool resolves an
omitted `shelf_path` from `$MEMSHELF_SHELF_PATH`. `cli.py` declares `--shelf` as
`required=True` on each subcommand and never reads the variable, so

```sh
export MEMSHELF_SHELF_PATH=~/my-shelf
memshelf index          # still: error: the following arguments are required: --shelf

Why it matters

A small asymmetry, but it reads as a bug to whoever sets the variable and then tries the CLI — and t

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 0 comments

Ship the desktop bundles: sign them, and attach them to releases

Follow-up to the Claude Desktop adapter — tasks, not defects.

Sign the bundles

Both .mcpb files are unsigned, so Claude Desktop shows an "unverified" warning on install. mcpb sign is the fix; it needs a certificate and a decision about where the key lives before it can run in CI.

Attach them to releases

release.yml publishes to PyPI. Building the two bundles there and attaching them to the GitHub release would mean nobody has to clone and build one to install it — which is curren

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · open · external user · 0 comments

The "return errors, never raise" contract does not cover bad input

What happens

tests/test_server_contract.py guarantees that a doomed call comes back as a JSON envelope rather than an exception. That holds for failures inside the tool body, because each wrapper catches and calls _error_response.

It does not hold for input validation, which the SDK runs before the wrapper is entered. Observed live against a built bundle, calling memshelf_index with no shelf configured:

Error executing tool memshelf_index: 1 validation error for memshelf_indexA

[Read the thread](https://github.com/ignatenkofi/memshelf-mcp/issues/85) · 2026-08-14 · closed · external user · 0 comments

[See all 7 reports Pod holds for memshelf-mcp](/mcp/memshelf-mcp/issues).

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