Palinode MCP Server
Git-versioned markdown memory for AI agents: save, search, compact, lint, and audit.
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Published as palinode on pypi. Runs locally.
Known issues
23 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
parity: MCP inventory counts the deprecated palinode_timeline alias as its own capability
palinode_timeline is an unambiguous deprecated alias of palinode_history — declared in
palinode/mcp.py, deprecation-logged when called, and its output prefixed [DEPRECATED].
But palinode/core/parity.py gives it its own INVENTORY_BACKLOG row (line 661) alongside
palinode_history (line 654), so the inventory guard counts a single capability twice.
PR #89 established the rule for the CLI surface while adding the dream alias: an alias is
not a capability. The same object registe
Read the thread · 2026-08-10 · closed · 4 comments
Ambient context search: automatic project-aware retrieval (ADR-008)
Problem
With many memory files across multiple projects, search results from unrelated projects drown out relevant ones. A search for "ADR-004" from a palinode working directory returns results from other projects instead of the palinode-specific memory.
Solution
Automatic ambient context boost. When searching from a project directory, memories tagged with matching project entities get a score boost after hybrid search fusion. Not a filter — a lens. Cross-project results still appear if
Read the thread · 2026-04-12 · closed · 4 comments
Multi-platform MCP and integration docs (Claude Code, Cursor, Zed, VS Code)
Problem
Installing the Palinode MCP server varies by IDE and transport (stdio vs Streamable HTTP vs remote). The current docs cover Claude Code but lack clear setup instructions for other editors and agent integrations.
Proposed solution
Create or expand docs/INSTALL-CLAUDE-CODE.md into a comprehensive multi-platform guide covering:
| Platform | Transport | Config location |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | stdio or HTTP | ~/.claude/settings.json |
| Cursor |
Read the thread · 2026-04-09 · closed · 4 comments
OpenClaw plugin manifest rejects two documented config options
If you'd like to take this, please comment here first and wait to be assigned before opening a PR. Two contributors landed on the same issue once because we had no such line; that was our fault, and this is the fix.
plugin/openclaw.plugin.json declares its configSchema with "additionalProperties": false and
exactly five properties:
palinodeApiUrl palinodeDir autoCapture autoRecall promptsDir
plugin/INSTALL.md documents seven. The two missing ones are:
| Option | D
Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · 3 comments
Reindex runs on the event loop and freezes every other API endpoint
If you'd like to take this, please comment here first and wait to be assigned before opening a PR. Two contributors landed on the same issue once because we had no such line; that was our fault, and this is the fix.
POST /reindex is declared async def, but everything it does is synchronous. So it occupies the
event loop for the entire reindex, and every other endpoint — /search, /health, /save, and
every MCP tool that proxies through the API — waits for it to finish.
**Where it i
Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · closed · 3 comments
Most recent
server.json: the MCP registry _meta block still points at the v0.13.0 release
server.json is the manifest published to the Official MCP Registry. Three of its version fields are current, and one block is not:
| Line | Field | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 11 | version |
0.14.0 ✅ |
| 17 | stdio package version |
0.14.0 ✅ |
| 68 | streamable-http package version |
0.14.0 ✅ |
| 130 | _meta…publisher-provided.release |
v0.13.0 ❌ |
| 131 | _meta…publisher-provided.release_notes_url |
…/releases/tag/v0.13.0 ❌ |
The manifest advertises 0.14.0 wh
Read the thread · 2026-08-29 · closed · 1 comment
search: re-evaluate MCP/API thresholds against the pinned abstention sweep
The standalone abstention evaluation (bench.abstention, added in #151) measured the per-arm relevance floor across three seeded corpora — 26 no-answer queries and 20 answer-present controls per seed — against the real embedder, SQLite-vec, FTS5, and ranking pipeline.
| threshold | no-answer queries returning a hit | exact controls | paraphrase controls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.40 | 62/78 | 30/30 | 25/30 |
| 0.45 | 25/78 | 30/30 | 25/30 |
| 0.50 | 8/78 | 30/30 | 23/30 |
| 0. |
Read the thread · 2026-08-28 · open · 0 comments
Trigger endpoints return a generic 500 when the embedder is unavailable
If you'd like to take this, please comment here first and wait to be assigned before opening a PR. Two contributors landed on the same issue yesterday because we had no such line and no assignment; that was our fault, and this is the fix.
When the embedding backend is down, the same failure produces different answers depending on which endpoint you hit.
POST /search and its neighbours return 503 with a message naming the backend, the model, and a
palinode doctor recovery hint — `pa
Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · 2 comments
parity: API inventory counts the deprecated /timeline alias as its own capability
GET /timeline/{file_path} is deprecated in favour of GET /history/{file_path}?detail=full —
the handler logs exactly that (palinode/api/routers/git_history.py), and the history route's
own docstring describes itself as "formerly the /timeline endpoint". But
INVENTORY_BACKLOG["api"] in palinode/core/parity.py still lists the two as separate rows, so
the parity inventory counts one capability twice.
This is the same defect that was fixed for the MCP surface and then the CLI surface. **T
Read the thread · 2026-08-13 · closed · 2 comments
palinode migrate: support bullet-list memory exports (mem0 and similar)
palinode migrate openclaw imports structured section-based exports cleanly. Several memory tools
(mem0 among them) instead export a flat date-bulleted list — hundreds of one-line memories
with no section structure — which the importer cannot parse.
What already exists, so you do not think you are duplicating it
palinode/migration/ contains mem0_export.py, mem0_classify.py and mem0_generate.py. That
pipeline pulls from a live Qdrant instance over HTTP and classifies with a
Read the thread · 2026-08-03 · closed · 2 comments
Anthropic Connectors Directory submission (MCPB or hosted Remote MCP)
Why pending
Anthropic's Connectors Directory submission path requires a compatible distribution path such as a Desktop Extension (MCPB) bundle or a hosted Remote MCP server. Palinode is local-first (stdio plus local HTTP), and neither distribution path has been selected and shipped yet.
The earlier v0.8.7 / #61 prerequisite is obsolete; #61 shipped independently and does not deliver the bundle or hosted service needed here.
Readiness already in place
- ✓ All 30 MCP tools in v0.9.8 carr
Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · open · 0 comments
Add llms-install.md for agent-bootstrap (Ollama detection + venv-path discipline)
Why
Cline preflight test on 2026-04-29 successfully installed Palinode using only the README, but hit two avoidable friction points that an llms-install.md would eliminate:
- No explicit Ollama-existing-or-not check. The README assumes Ollama is configured. When testing on a clean dev machine, the agent had to discover for itself that Ollama needed installing and bge-m3 needed pulling. A typical reviewer might give up here.
- Service-startup pythonpath ambiguity. Entry points (`pa
Read the thread · 2026-04-30 · closed · 1 comment
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