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RE-call MCP Memory Server MCP Server

Agent memory on your own Postgres that flags superseded facts and abstains instead of guessing.

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

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Published as recall-rag on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

5 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own maintainers are excluded.

Most discussed

No authentication on the MCP transport (tenancy shipped in #21)

Structural gap for any multi-user deployment. There is one table, one DSN, no tenant_id, no row-level security, no auth on the transport, no rate limiting and no quota. Every client that can reach the server can read every memory in it and write to the same namespace.

Related concrete defects:

  • recall_index is client-callable and unbounded (recall_mcp/service.py:171). A client can point it at a large tree and burn arbitrary cloud-embedding spend. No size, file-count, or query-length

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 5 comments

No rate limiting or per-tenant quota on the MCP server

Split out of #9, which is otherwise closed. This is the one item from that issue's checklist that remains genuinely open.

What exists now

  • recall_index enforces per-call budgets: RECALL_INDEX_MAX_FILES (2000) and RECALL_INDEX_MAX_BYTES (20 MB), measured before anything is read or embedded (recall_mcp/service.py).
  • recall_search clamps k server-side via MAX_SEARCH_K.
  • Authentication now supplies the missing prerequisite: a principal and a tenant per request (`recall

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · closed · 1 comment

Security hardening: insecure default fails open, symlink escape on Python 3.11/3.12, no TLS

Insecure default fails open

warn_if_insecure_dsn (store.py:56-83) detects the built-in recall:recall credentials pointed at a non-local host, prints to stderr and returns — execution proceeds. recall_mcp/server.py:24 calls it purely for the side effect. For an enterprise posture this should refuse unless explicitly overridden (RECALL_ALLOW_INSECURE_DSN=1).

Index-root confinement is escapable on supported Python versions

recall_mcp/service.py:176-181 confines path to `R

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

No observability: 38 print() calls are the entire diagnostic surface

Zero logging usage anywhere in recall/ or recall_mcp/ — every diagnostic is print() to stdout/stderr (38 call sites), including silently-degrading paths: calibration.py:108,113, store.py:210 (connection lost), recall_mcp/server.py:42-45 (uncalibrated fallback).

Nothing emits the metrics an operator or a buyer will ask for: abstention rate, verdict distribution, gap-warning rate, retrieval latency percentiles, embedding spend. There is no health/readiness endpoint and no tracing.

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

MCP server has no concurrency: sync tools block the event loop, single unpooled connection

Event loop blocking

All three tools are registered as sync def (recall_mcp/server.py:76,120,140). In the MCP SDK, sync tools are awaited directly on the event loopmcp/server/fastmcp/utilities/func_metadata.py:93-95:

if fn_is_async:
    return await fn(**arguments_parsed_dict)
else:
    return fn(**arguments_parsed_dict)

There is no to_thread offload. So one recall_search (query embedding + 2 DB round-trips + optional cross-encoder forward pass) blocks every o

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · closed · 0 comments

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