Reported issues for Quipu
Pod holds 5 of 5 GitHub reports that passed its relevance review. This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. Treat them as evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects.
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graph: provenance-based work-item co-occurrence (ticket/epic ↔ code)
Problem
Bobbin already computes statistical co-change: file-level correlation mined from git history (FP-Growth) — "what tends to change together." That is a retrieval signal and it stays in Bobbin.
There is a second, different notion of "co-change" that belongs in Quipu: governed, provenance-based co-occurrence at the work-item level. Not a statistical mine — a deterministic graph query over typed provenance edges:
- ticket
Tis closed by commits that touched governed…
Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 3 comments
server: knotted entities are never embedded, so /context silently returns nothing
Problem
A store populated with quipu knot has no embeddings, so /context returns an empty result —
successfully. There is no error anywhere in the path, and the response is indistinguishable from
"nothing in the graph matched your query".
$ quipu knot alphax.ttl --db na.db
knotted 2579 facts from alphax.ttl (tx 1)
$ quipu stats --db na.db
facts (current): 2579 entities: 221 predicates: 22
$ curl -sX POST localhost:3030/context -d '{"query":"facility that improves…
[Read the thread](https://github.com/scbrown/quipu/issues/53) · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment
### sparql: FILTER(?x IN (…)) is unsupported — rewrite to a disjunction
## Problem
The SPARQL 1.1 `IN` operator is rejected on quipu 0.3.11:
```console
$ curl -sX POST localhost:3030/query -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":
"PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
SELECT ?label WHERE {
?f rdfs:label ?label
FILTER(?label IN (\"Recycling Tanks\", \"Energy Bank\"))
}"}'
{"error":"unsupported FILTER expression: In(Variable(Variable { name: \"label\" }), [Literal(Literal(String(\"Recycling Tanks\"))),…
[Read the thread](https://github.com/scbrown/quipu/issues/52) · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment
### sparql: VALUES is unsupported — no way to batch a candidate set in one query
## Problem
`VALUES` is rejected by the evaluator on quipu 0.3.11:
```console
$ curl -sX POST localhost:3030/query -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"query":
"PREFIX rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
SELECT ?label WHERE {
VALUES ?label { \"Recycling Tanks\" \"Energy Bank\" }
?f rdfs:label ?label
}"}'
{"error":"unsupported graph pattern: VALUES ( ?label ) { ( \"Recycling Tanks\" ) ( \"Energy Bank\" ) }"}
spargebra parses it — the error comes from…
Read the thread · 2026-07-29 · closed · 1 comment
CRITICAL: SPARQL FILTER(CONTAINS(...)) is a no-op — returns all rows regardless of predicate
Severity: CRITICAL (silent wrong results / data-integrity risk)
FILTER(CONTAINS(STR(?x), "literal")) in a SPARQL query does not filter — it returns ALL matching rows regardless of the substring. Verified on the live store:
SELECT (COUNT(DISTINCT ?ep) AS ?n) WHERE { ?ep a prov:Activity FILTER(CONTAINS(STR(?ep),"graphiti-fact")) } -> 241
SELECT (COUNT(DISTINCT ?ep) AS ?n) WHERE { ?ep a prov:Activity FILTER(CONTAINS(STR(?ep),"reactor")) } -> 241
SELECT (COUNT(DISTINCT ?ep)…
[Read the thread](https://github.com/scbrown/quipu/issues/12) · 2026-06-27 · closed · 1 comment
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