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Pseudolife Memory MCP Server

Persistent memory for MCP-compatible agents: memory bank, fact cortex, dreams, graph.

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Published as pseudolife-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

15 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

fix(migrate): partial legacy import permanently blocks retry and loses the remainder silently

migrate_legacy is not failure-atomic, and its idempotency guard is "the entries table is non-empty" — so any partial import permanently blocks retry, silently.

Where: pseudolife_memory/storage/migrate.py — the guard returns early when entries or facts exist. Each insert_entry commits its own transaction, and the source files are renamed to .pre-v8.bak only at the very end. The service caller swallows the exception with a single warning and boots normally.

Scenario: a legacy

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fix(mcp): memory_recall returns an unbounded payload - 93.7 KB measured on a plain 3-hop query

memory_recall has no output budget. A plain 3-hop query on a well-connected entity returned 93,683 characters — measured live during the audit — which the calling client refused.

Measured: memory_recall(query="what does the stdio shim connect to and what runs the MCP tools", hops=3) with default top_k=5 and verbose=False returned 53 entities (38.6 KB), 75 edges (5.3 KB) and 45 uncapped full entry texts (51.9 KB — 55% of the payload).

Why it happens: top_k bounds the seeds

Read the thread · 2026-08-20 · closed · 1 comment

fix(release): server.json version guard runs after the irreversible PyPI publish

The release workflow validates server.json version fields after the PyPI publish step, so a mismatch fails the run at a point where the publish is already irreversible.

Where: .github/workflows/release.yml — the guard runs in a job that follows publication. server.json carries the version in two independent places (top-level and inside packages), and the workflow's own comment notes they drift independently. Nothing local pins either against pyproject.toml.

Scenario: cut a

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fix(evals): bench reset list missing v24/v27/v31 tables - retrieval events and entity kinds leak across questions

The bench reset helper truncates a hardcoded table list that never grew for schema v24, v27 or v31, so several FK-free tables leak across bench questions.

Where: evals/ladder_sweep.py — _ALL_TABLES lists entries, facts, entities, edges, episodes and friends, then runs TRUNCATE ... RESTART IDENTITY CASCADE. CASCADE only reaches tables holding an FK to a listed table, so retrieval_events (+retrieval_uses), entity_kinds, outcome_signals, dismissed_pairs, merge_decisions

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fix(release): package version is stale at 0.6.0 against pyproject 0.14.0, with no guard test

pseudolife_memory.__version__ is "0.6.0" while pyproject.toml is 0.14.0 — eight releases of drift, and no guard test pins it.

Verified: pseudolife_memory/__init__.py line 8 reads __version__ = "0.6.0"; pyproject.toml line 7 reads version = "0.14.0".

Impact: a user who does the standard import pseudolife_memory; pseudolife_memory.__version__ on a fresh pip install pseudolife-mcp gets a version that has not shipped since 2026-06-25, disagreeing with `importlib.metadat

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Most recent

docs(adoption): presentation gaps ahead of the publicization push - install front door, comparison page, demo, support surface

Tracking issue from the 2026-08-21 competitive sweep (10 competitors plus a community-sentiment pass) and the process red-team. The product is stronger than its presentation — almost every top-priority gap is presentational and cheap.

Install front door (highest value, near-zero cost)

The README quickstart leads with a git clone, Docker, and a multi-GB image, while the genuinely competitive two-command lite path sits about 100 lines down under a hedged heading. The first 500 words a pr

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docs(atlas): migration list stops at v29, retired image size, and a removed tool still published

The System Atlas is advertised as the canonical machine-readable architecture map, and three of its claims are stale as of the v0.14.0 cut — despite that cut's commit message stating the atlas cards were re-verified.

  1. Migration history stops at v29. The storage card's subtitle says SCHEMA_META_VERSION 31 while its migration list ends at v29 — v30 (merge-proposal judge verdict) and v31 (retrieval event log) are missing. An agent asked "what changed between my v29 bank and v31?" concludes

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fix(retrieval-log): retention never runs when dreaming is disabled, so the event table grows unbounded

Retrieval-event retention never runs on a bank with dreaming disabled, so retrieval_events grows without bound — while searches keep writing one row each.

Where: pseudolife_memory/memory/dream.py — run_sweep_once returns {"fired": False, "reason": "disabled"} before the prune block whenever memory.dream.enabled is false, and the sweep thread is never started in that case at all.

Why it matters: memory.dream.enabled: false is a first-class documented knob (an operator wh

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fix(install): install.sh aborts mid-install on PEP 668 distros instead of falling back to HTTP

On a PEP 668 distro (Ubuntu 24.04, Debian 12, Fedora 40, Arch — i.e. the default modern Linux case), ops/install.sh aborts mid-install after the images are already built, with no fallback and no remediation message. The Windows installer handles the same failure gracefully.

Where: ops/install.sh sets set -euo pipefail. ensure_shim() runs pipx install / python3 -m pip install --user pseudolife-mcp with no exit-code check and sets its success flag unconditionally on the ne

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fix(daemon): documented LAN sharing is broken - MCP endpoint rejects non-loopback Host with 421

The documented LAN-sharing recipe cannot work: every request to /mcp from a non-loopback Host is rejected with 421 Invalid Host header before any auth or handler code runs.

Where: pseudolife_memory/mcp_server.py constructs FastMCP("Pseudolife Memory", instructions=...) with no host= and no transport_security=. The SDK's FastMCP.__init__ defaults host to 127.0.0.1 and, seeing a loopback host, auto-enables DNS-rebinding protection with `allowed_hosts=["127.0.0.1:*", "loc

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fix(console): stored XSS - graph entity names reach an innerHTML tooltip in the galaxy view

The 3D galaxy view hands raw graph entity display names to the vendored renderer as a string label. The renderer sets a string label via d3 .html(), i.e. innerHTML, so a hostile entity name executes on hover.

Where: pseudolife_memory/web/static/js/galaxy.js — nodes map the entity to n.id, then .nodeLabel((n) => n.id). The service builds the node entity from the unescaped entity display name.

Why nothing stops it upstream: the write-time name gate junk_name_reason() (`ps

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fix(concurrency): retrieval-log prune runs off the service lock and can break the shared PG connection

prune_retrieval_log() mutates Postgres from the dream-sweep thread without holding MemoryService._lock. Every other background-reachable storage mutation takes the lock; this one does not. When it interleaves with a request thread's write, psycopg's transaction nesting can raise OutOfOrderTransactionNesting, which either aborts the whole sweep tick before any dream work happens, or leaves the shared connection idle in transaction.

Where: pseudolife_memory/service.py — `prune_retri

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