# rag-rat MCP Server

Repository intelligence, code graph, history, papertrail, and cross-agent memory for coding agents.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

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## Connect

Published as `@rag-rat/bin` on npm. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**75 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

### rag-rat VS Code lens: WS-backed extension (+ optional bundled web-VS-Code appliance)

## Idea (north-star)

A read-only **VS Code lens** over the rag-rat index: a familiar editor with flamegraph/heat-style overlays for duplication, hotspots, and fan-in/out, plus a guided branch-review mode. Not an IDE you edit in — "Google Maps for the repo."

**Architecture decision (supersedes the earlier "custom Monaco app" framing):** ship a **VS Code extension**, not a hand-built editor. Monaco is only the editor *widget*; a web VS Code is the whole shell for free (file tree, search, git, na

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/216) · 2026-06-18 · closed · 4 comments

### SCIP oracle epic — live LSP hardening and additional backends remaining

## Tracking — decomposed into sub-issues

This issue is now the **epic**; the design below is the reference. Slices, in dependency order:

- [x] #67 — Prerequisite: persist callee-identifier byte range on edges (additive, byte-identical; unblocks everything)
- [x] #68 — Phase 1: SCIP protobuf reader + heuristic precision/recall eval *(depends #67)*
- [x] #69 — Phase 2: `oracle run` for Rust — `Compiler` tier, `resolved-external`, `compare_graph_to_scip` *(depends #68)*
- [x] #70 — Phase 3: monik

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/61) · 2026-06-11 · open · 4 comments

### opencode plugin bundle (MCP + hooks)

## Context

The repo ships a shared plugin bundle under `plugin/` that serves **Claude Code** (`.claude-plugin/plugin.json` + `hooks/hooks.json`) and **Codex** (`.codex-plugin/plugin.json` + `.mcp.json`), with a single shared launcher (`plugin/scripts/launch.js`), shared skills (`plugin/skills/`), and the harness-neutral `rag-rat agent-hook` stdin/stdout handler. Both harnesses use the same hook contract: stdin JSON `hook_event_name` / `tool_name` / `tool_input` → stdout `hookSpecificOutput.addi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/784) · 2026-07-19 · closed · 3 comments

### chunk_fts (contentless FTS5) docsize corruption is invisible to every integrity check and breaks memory_search via bm25; needs detection + self-heal

### Symptom

The `repo_memory_fts` FTS5 index (memory search) got corrupted on the shared/consolidated DB. `memory_search` (MCP) returned `MCP error -32603: database disk image is malformed` on every call, while `index_status` (MCP) and `rag-rat memory list` (CLI, fresh connection) worked fine.

The on-disk DB was **not** structurally corrupt — only the FTS5 shadow index was, which `PRAGMA integrity_check` doesn't fully validate.

### What fixed the disk, and what didn't fix the server

Repairin

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/582) · 2026-07-10 · closed · 3 comments

### fleet hot-upgrade: CLI-won worktree election must carry fleet_bin (auto-trigger shipped in #510)

Observed live: after `cargo install --path crates/rag-rat-cli` replaced the installed binary (new inode confirmed), two armed long-lived `rag-rat mcp` servers (RAG_RAT_UPGRADE_BIN present in environ) were never signaled — well past FLEET_DEBOUNCE/FLEET_MAX_LATENCY (0.5s/2s) and across multiple request boundaries. A manual `kill -USR1` re-exec'd both immediately, so the arming and the re-exec path work; the trigger side didn't fire.

Likely cause to verify: the per-worktree watcher election can b

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/499) · 2026-07-08 · open · 3 comments

### Most recent

### sync: demote stale synced anchors in memories_for_* surfaces

The staleness rider for #1180, separable from the rest of the train and shippable independently.

`source_text_hash` rides the `node_anchors` op; the drain stamps it onto the synced `repo_memories` row, which is inserted NULL today. On this carrier neither an `anchors/1` spec bump nor its backfill is needed — the two costs the `/5` route would have incurred.

**Policy, settled:** on hash divergence, demote to a marked stale-style presentation, **never hide**. Exact-text hashing cannot distinguis

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1213) · 2026-08-18 · open · 1 comment

### feat(mcp): declare the per-request worktree parameter in tool schemas

Per-request worktree scoping is implemented but undiscoverable. `call_tool_for_config` (`crates/rag-rat-mcp/src/tools/mod.rs`) reads a common `worktree` field from the request and calls `use_worktree_scope`; the fallback (`worktree_arg`) is the MCP server process's own cwd. But `worktree` is declared in no tool's JSON schema — the schemas are generated from the per-tool arg structs, none of which carry it — so a client scoping reads to a linked worktree has no way to learn the parameter exists, 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1201) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 0 comments

### is_pascal_case treats a SCREAMING_CONST with a method chain as PascalCase, so classify_call returns Wrapper

## Description

`is_pascal_case` cannot distinguish a `SCREAMING_CONST` followed by a method chain from a genuine `PascalCase` variant, so `classify_call` returns `Wrapper` for a call whose head is a constant.

Concrete case, at `crates/rag-rat-mcp/src/server/service.rs:43`:

```rust
crate::tools::TOOL_NAMES.iter().map(|name| { … })
```

The head segment here is `TOOL_NAMES.iter().map(…)`. `is_pascal_case` sees a leading `T` plus the lowercase characters contributed by the appended method names 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1124) · 2026-08-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### sync: /5 table-stream transport with bounded scoped manifest

## Goal

Expose the transport-independent table-sync engine over iroh without registering a production table yet.

Part of #892. Follows #1049 / #1095.

## Scope

- add a dedicated table-sync ALPN and endpoint dispatch alongside account and content sync;
- exchange a bounded canonical manifest of supported `(repo_id, incarnation_ref, scope_id, stream_id)` streams after mutual account authorization;
- derive and verify each advertised stream against local current-incarnation authority; the manife

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1096) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

### Rotate the discovery tag so a removed device cannot enumerate hosts

Split out of #1080, which now covers sealing announcement payloads and the service-side eviction change. This issue is the half those do not close.

## The gap

The discovery tag is `sha256(domain || account genesis entry hash)`. The genesis hash is immutable and already sits in every enrolled device's database, so a device removed from the roster can compute the tag forever. Sealing the payloads (#1080) stops it reading the node ids of hosts that begin advertising after its removal, but it can 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1081) · 2026-07-31 · open · 0 comments

### Skill sources and their shipped plugin copies can drift silently

`.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` and `plugin/skills/<name>/SKILL.md` are byte-identical copies of the same document, and nothing checks that they stay that way.

`.claude/skills/` and `.codex/skills/` are symlinks to the `.agents` source, so those three always agree. The `plugin/` copy is a real file — it is what ships to users who install the plugin — and it is maintained by hand. Editing one and not the other produces no build failure, no test failure, and no lint: the repo's guidance and the 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1075) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments

### Upgrade rmcp to 3.0 (MCP 2026-07-28 support)

rmcp 3.0 is out and adds support for MCP protocol version 2026-07-28. The MCP server currently pins rmcp 2.2.

## What the major bump requires

- `ServerHandler::call_tool` now returns the MRTR-aware `CallToolResponse` (`Complete` | `InputRequired` | `Task`) instead of `CallToolResult`. Every rag-rat tool answers in one round trip, so the handler always returns the `Complete` arm.
- Paginated results (`ListToolsResult`) gained `result_type`, `ttl_ms`, and `cache_scope` fields (SEP-2322 / SEP-254

[Read the thread](https://github.com/cq27-dev/rag-rat/issues/1070) · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments

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