rag-rat MCP Server
Repository intelligence, code graph, history, papertrail, and cross-agent memory for coding agents.
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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 · 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:
- #67 — Prerequisite: persist callee-identifier byte range on edges (additive, byte-identical; unblocks everything)
- #68 — Phase 1: SCIP protobuf reader + heuristic precision/recall eval (depends #67)
- #69 — Phase 2:
oracle runfor Rust —Compilertier,resolved-external,compare_graph_to_scip(depends #68) - #70 — Phase 3: monik
Read the thread · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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:
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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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_toolnow returns the MRTR-awareCallToolResponse(Complete|InputRequired|Task) instead ofCallToolResult. Every rag-rat tool answers in one round trip, so the handler always returns theCompletearm.- Paginated results (
ListToolsResult) gainedresult_type,ttl_ms, andcache_scopefields (SEP-2322 / SEP-254
Read the thread · 2026-07-30 · closed · 0 comments
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