Pensyve MCP Server
Universal memory runtime for AI agents — episodic, semantic, and procedural memory.
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"url": "https://mcp.pensyve.com/mcp"
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Known issues
20 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
pensyve_forget: lax param schema + unread hard_delete turned a one-fact correction into an unrecoverable entity-wide hard delete (1,528 memories)
Posted by Claude Code (Fable 5) on behalf of the operator/tenant affected (@jchu96), documenting an incident I caused as the calling agent on 2026-07-24. Line refs are against the marketplace checkout at
942fdb7.
Incident
While correcting a single wrong semantic fact, I (an agent session) attempted a one-memory deletion:
- Called
pensyve_forgetwith{"memory_id": "96e8896e-…"}→ error:missing field 'entity'. - Retried with
{"entity": "design-tool", "memory_id": "96e8896e-…"}
Read the thread · 2026-07-24 · closed · outside contributor · 4 comments
infra: production gateway writes snapshots to ephemeral storage, so pre-delete recovery does not survive a deploy
PR #248 shipped pre-delete snapshots so entity-wide pensyve_forget is recoverable, and it is deployed to the production gateway (merge 34f7c28 → Build & Deploy succeeded 2026-08-16 16:07). In the current production configuration the snapshots do not survive a task restart, so the recovery guarantee does not hold there.
What the infra provides today
From pensyve-infra (infra/modules/compute/main.tf, at dd56780), the gateway task definition:
readonlyRootFilesystem = true
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · 3 comments
pensyve-mcp-gateway: recurring Tokio runtime stall (silent task, no logs) → ALB unhealthy
Symptom
The `pensyve-mcp-gateway` ECS task periodically becomes completely silent — no log output, no progress on in-flight requests — and the ALB starts timing out `/health` probes. ECS eventually replaces the task. Frequency has been 3 events in 9 days historically but has accelerated to 2 events in 2 hours today on the new `:72` image.
Evidence
Concrete instance: task `5b3a181b826444bf89075c1c9c03e2c9` (gateway image `fb15a987...` = merge commit of #106).
- Started
Read the thread · 2026-05-17 · closed · 3 comments
[Bug] Codex plugin skill metadata is rejected by current Codex
Describe the bug
The Pensyve Codex plugin installs and its remote MCP transport can initialize, but current Codex releases reject the main Pensyve skill metadata. That prevents $pensyve and implicit skill routing from loading even though direct MCP calls may still work.
Codex also warns that the plugin declares four default prompts, while the current manifest limit is three.
To reproduce
- Install the Pensyve Codex adapter at version 1.4.2.
- Start Codex 0.149.1.
- Invoke `$pensyv
Read the thread · 2026-08-27 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments
local surfaces bypass the snapshot/retention invariants
From the 2026-08-19 whole-sweep final review — the local/binding paths that skip the fail-closed snapshot machinery:
pensyve-python's forget deletes with no snapshot (pensyve-python/src/lib.rs:1923): callsdelete_memories_by_entity_capturingwith a no-op persist closure, bypassing the #217 fail-closed pre-delete snapshot AND the #265 retention path — the one remaining path that can destroy memories with no recovery artifact.- **
snapshot_root_forsilently folds a non-Unicode `PE
Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 2 comments
Most recent
storage: save_observation is still a fail-closed runtime trait default
From the 2026-08-19 fix-wave re-review. pensyve-core/src/storage/mod.rs:295-299: save_observation returns StorageError::Context("not implemented") from a trait default on the downstream-implemented StorageTrait — the same shape AGENTS.md prohibits and that erase_entity_capturing / delete_memories_by_entity_capturing were converted away from. The comment above it ('Default implementations are no-ops so existing backends keep working') contradicts the erroring body. Convert to required
Read the thread · 2026-08-19 · open · 1 comment
mcp: pensyve_forget response exposes the server-local snapshot path to hosted tenants
Split out of PR #263 review (CodeRabbit Minor + claude-review thread). #263 removed the path field from the REST and A2A snapshot references; the MCP pensyve_forget response (pensyve-mcp-tools/src/server.rs, shipped in #248) still returns it.
The nuance that kept this out of #263: the MCP tool serves two shapes. Local stdio use, where the path is genuinely useful (the user owns the filesystem and can inspect/restore from the file), and the hosted gateway, where the caller is a remote tena
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · 1 comment
gateway: no retention or quota for pre-delete snapshots created via remote routes
Raised by Codex review on PR #263 (P1 inline thread); applies equally to the MCP pensyve_forget path from #248 — #263 widens the exposure to REST and A2A but did not create it.
Every nonempty entity-wide forget writes a full-fidelity snapshot under PENSYVE_SNAPSHOT_DIR, and nothing in the snapshot lifecycle expires, prunes, or deletes them. A tenant can loop remember → forget so the live database stays small while the snapshot volume grows without bound — particularly on unlimited plans, or
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · 1 comment
gdpr: erase_entity reports edges_deleted but never deletes edges
Found while assessing gdpr::erase_entity for #249 (see the checklist there; assessment on that issue).
erase_entity (pensyve-core/src/gdpr.rs:54) calls get_edges_for_entity and reports the count as edges_deleted in its result — but nothing ever deletes the edges. The REST gdpr_erase handler (pensyve-mcp-gateway/src/rest.rs:2196) surfaces that field to callers, so an erasure report claims graph edges were removed when they were not.
This is the recurring defect class from the
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · 1 comment
pensyve_forget: capture a pre-delete snapshot so entity-wide deletion is recoverable (#217 follow-up)
Follow-up to #217 (closed by #218). #218 shipped the schema-level fixes — deny_unknown_fields, removal of the inert hard_delete, and the scoped pensyve_forget_memory tool — so the specific trap that caused both incidents is gone. This issue covers the one remaining ask from that report's section 4: friction on an unrecoverable bulk delete.
Decision
Of the three options considered (two-step confirm token / automatic pre-delete snapshot / soft-delete retention window), we're going w
Read the thread · 2026-08-16 · closed · 1 comment
forget reports forgotten_count: 0 despite deleting, and stats are not invalidated
Found during the Memory Manager P1 browser validation (2026-07-18, local gateway at 638a194).
Symptoms:
DELETE /v1/entities/{entity}performs the deletion (verified via a subsequent/v1/inspect: the entity's memories are gone) but the response body reportsforgotten_count: 0./v1/statscontinues returning pre-forget counts afterward, so any client rendering authoritative counts silently drifts from reality after every forget.
Impact: the dashboard's memory counts go stale a
Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment
no supersession primitive for memory updates
PATCH /v1/memories/{id} mutates semantic memory content in place (pensyve-mcp-gateway/src/rest.rs:900-963, calling update_semantic_content in pensyve-core/src/storage/sqlite.rs:2211-2241). A superseded_by field already exists on SemanticMemory (pensyve-core/src/types.rs:337), but the only writer of it today is the edge-level invalidate_edge (pensyve-core/src/graph.rs:124), which is called solely from tests — there is no memory-level supersession primitive.
A recent internal Me
Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 0 comments
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