# Plumb MCP Server

LSP-backed IDE intelligence plus concurrency-safe, transactional edits for AI coding agents.

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## Status

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## Known issues

**10 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 7.

### Most discussed

### Validate the remaining experimental LSP adapter (kotlin) against a real Gradle/Maven project

Three LSP adapters are still marked **experimental** (`doc.go` + the adapter status table in `AGENTS.md`): **zls** (Zig), **kotlin-language-server**, and **vscode-html-language-server**. They have mock-transport unit tests and gated (`//go:build integration`) real-binary tests, but the diagnostics round-trip hasn't been confirmed against a real server.

**Why now:** #1 found that the real reason `typescript-language-server` published no diagnostics was a missing `textDocument.publishDiagnostics`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/13) · 2026-06-16 · closed · 2 comments

### Initialize _meta pinned-workspace is honoured as a session_start declaration without authenticating the sender

## Summary

The serve-proxy replay channel is honoured as a `session_start` declaration without authenticating its sender: an MCP client initialising a connection can ship `_meta["dev.plumbkit/pinned-workspace"]`, and rung 1 replays it with `PinSourceSessionStart` — the origin that outranks client roots, defeats the sticky-pin guard's steal refusal, and (since #306's containment guard) is the ONLY origin allowed to pin a home directory or a container of one.

- `internal/mcp/server_handlers.go:2

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/318) · 2026-08-14 · closed · 1 comment

### Workspace pin is per-connection, but a client may multiplex many agent sessions over one `plumb serve`

## Symptom

A field report (Cowork / Claude Desktop local-agent-mode, several concurrent sessions on the daemon) describes a connection pinned to `ism-app` silently drifting, mid-session and with **no `session_start` in between**, to two unrelated projects — first `cvex`, then `muster`.

```
find_files(pattern="ism-viewer.html")  -> No files found   (read fine minutes earlier)
read_file("ism-viewer.html")           -> stat .../gitlab/cvex/ism-viewer.html: no such file
session_start(workspace=ism

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/182) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 1 comment

### feat: move_symbol — relocate a declaration between files

## Use case

Architectural refactors frequently **move a declaration from one file to another** — e.g. extract `AgentStore` out of an `AppModel`, or relocate a method/func/type from `A.go` to `B.go` while decoupling packages. plumb has no first-class tool for this.

Today an agent has to compose it by hand:

1. `read_symbol` (or `replace_symbol_body` dry-run) to get the source,
2. `insert_after_symbol` at the destination,
3. `safe_delete_symbol` at the source,

with **no import/reference fix-up*

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/27) · 2026-06-17 · closed · 1 comment

### collab: on-demand knowledge handoff — share_findings on the episodic pipeline

## Motivation

Phase 3 of the config-gated `[collab]` cross-agent sharing capability (phases 1–2: #150, #151).

Plumb's episodic-memory pipeline (summarise → redaction scrub → provenance stamp → markdown memory under `.plumb/memories/` → FTS indexing → `generated_memory_keep` retention) currently fires only when a session goes **idle**. That makes knowledge handoff between agents post-hoc and lossy: an agent that just spent an hour mapping a subsystem has no way to hand those findings to a peer 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/152) · 2026-07-04 · closed · 0 comments

### Most recent

### Help wanted: test & help port plumb on Windows

plumb has only been validated on macOS and Linux. **Windows is not supported yet** — and we'd love help from someone who runs Windows to (a) confirm exactly where it breaks today and (b) chip away at the port. This is a great issue if you're comfortable with Go on Windows.

## Heads-up: the daemon will not start on Windows today

Two core pieces are POSIX-only:

- **The MCP wire is a Unix domain socket** — `net.Listen("unix", …)` in `internal/cli/daemon.go` (both `plumb.sock` and the `plumb.ctrl

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/8) · 2026-06-16 · open · 0 comments

### plumb setup cursor and plumb setup augment are unverified end-to-end

Of the CLI clients `plumb setup` targets, **cursor-agent** and **auggie** are validated only at the unit level (the written config shape, `internal/cli/setup_clients_test.go`) — not end-to-end. Neither the auth-free connection tier nor the auth tier of the `cmd/clientsmoke` harness drives a real plumb tool call through them:

- **cursor-agent** caches MCP tool lists cloud-side and returns them without spawning `plumb serve`, so no auth-free probe provably reaches a fresh plumb; needs `CURSOR_API

[Read the thread](https://github.com/plumbkit/plumb/issues/4) · 2026-06-15 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

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