# pond MCP Server

Lossless archive and search for AI agent sessions across clients, exposed to agents over MCP.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `pond-db` on cargo. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**11 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 8.

### Most discussed

### pond serve never stops when a supervisor asks it to

Follow-up to #194. Two separate problems with the same symptom: a supervised
`pond serve` is always killed rather than stopped. Both reproduce against the
v0.16.3 release binary in a container, `serve --transport http --host 0.0.0.0`,
with pond as PID 1.

## 1. SIGTERM is ignored

`transport.rs::shutdown_signal` awaits `tokio::signal::ctrl_c()`, which on unix
is SIGINT alone. Container runtimes, systemd and orchestrators all stop a
process with SIGTERM, and a process running as PID 1 gets no def

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/195) · 2026-08-29 · open · outside contributor · 2 comments

### feature: letta-code adapter - sessions in ~/.letta/transcripts are not captured

Requested by a letta-code user on X who runs letta as the orchestrator with codex, pi, claude-code, and omp workers: https://x.com/kylelittle/status/2090858874626572337. Four of those already have adapters; this issue specs the letta-code one. React with 👍 if you want this adapter - reactions decide which adapter ships next.

## Source of record

`~/.letta/transcripts/<agentId>/<conversationId>/transcript.jsonl` - the append-only client-side transcript letta-code writes for every conversation. R

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/170) · 2026-08-21 · closed · 1 comment

### pond serve leaks memory until OOM-killed (0.13.2): 157 MB -> 3.6 GB RSS over ~5 days

`pond serve` grows unbounded until the kernel OOM-kills it. On a 15 GB host it reached 5.5 GB RSS and was killed by the OOM killer; after an automatic restart it climbed back to 3.6 GB RSS + 3.2 GB swap over the next 4.9 days. `pond mcp` shows the same pattern independently.

## Version

```
pond 0.13.2 (cc94b7d x86_64-linux)
```

Confirmed the leaking process was running this build (binary mtime predates process start), so this is not a stale-binary artifact.

## Environment

- Ubuntu 24.04.4 L

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/111) · 2026-07-20 · open · 1 comment

### memory: reduce idle RAM of `pond mcp` toward <500 MiB (stream rowmap build, f16 model)

## Goal

Bring idle RAM of a long-lived `pond mcp` server toward the **<500 MiB** target. Peak stays comfortably under the 2 GiB ceiling.

## Measured baseline (real 2.1M-message corpus, local FS)

`cargo bench --bench serve_mem_bench` after serving fts + vector + sql + get, model idle-unloaded:

- **idle floor: 877 MiB phys_footprint** (the macOS "Memory"/Jetsam metric)

`vmmap` anatomy of that floor:

| Component | MiB | Reclaimable? |
|---|---|---|
| Live Lance caches (index IVF/PQ + FTS post

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/61) · 2026-06-19 · open · 1 comment

### pond as a third-party session manager: Strands Agents (SessionRepository) + Claude Agent SDK (SessionStore)

Context capture from the 2026-06-17 research session. Goal: design pond so it can be **contributed as a third-party session manager** - to Strands Agents (their community catalog) and to the Claude Agent SDK - riding on the in-flight durability/perf/live-write/erasure work rather than as a separate rewrite.

## The two integration seams (both thin Python shims over pond's HTTP API)

### Strands: implement `SessionRepository`, not `SessionManager`
Strands has two seams. `SessionManager` = full li

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/60) · 2026-06-17 · open · 1 comment

### Most recent

### perf(read): remote store reads - parts residency, FTS prewarm, long-lived serve topology

## Why

Measured over 30 days against a remote S3 store ([2608-12 read-path doc](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/blob/main/docs/researches/2608-12-read-path-where-time-goes.md)): 77% of all pond MCP calls took over 5 s; `pond_search` p50 10 s; before #141 not one `pond_get_session` or `pond_get_message` finished under 5 s. "Your own S3 bucket" is the differentiator, so the remote read path has to feel local.

#141 (v0.14.9) landed the two biggest items - rowmap-served message-id resolution and g

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/165) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### Regression test: stdout purity for stdio MCP transport

## Why

The stdout-is-only-JSON-RPC invariant is load-bearing for every stdio MCP client, silent when broken, and currently guarded only by convention: nothing in CI asserts it. PR #129's first revision moved all tracing output to stdout (`fmt::layer()` defaults to stdout) and would have merged green - the corruption was caught only in review, measured at 9 stray log lines interleaved around the `initialize` response (`RUST_LOG=info`), and 281 lines mixed into `pond status -vv` output. A comment

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/131) · 2026-07-28 · open · 0 comments

### Remote-store SQL analytics over parts.variant_data time out: compress JSON columns + materialize tool columns

## Symptom

On a remote (S3) store, corpus-wide tool-call analytics in `pond_sql_query` hit the 30s timeout guard (`QUERY_TIMEOUT`, `src/sql.rs`). This includes the schema doc's own flagship worked example ("tool usage and failure rates over the last week", `src/transport.rs` schema resource), which fails even scoped to 7 days. Even a plain `GROUP BY json_get_string(variant_data, 'name')` over all tool_call parts times out.

Found during an MCP stress test (2026-07-03) against the real corpus: 1

[Read the thread](https://github.com/tenequm/pond/issues/89) · 2026-07-03 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 11 reports Pod holds for pond](/mcp/pond/issues).

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