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      "Title": "Use MCP elicitation for scoped process-capture session grants",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nDynamic and filesystem-backed REA capabilities currently require policy to be configured through startup environment variables. This is a strong ceiling, but first use is cumbersome: users must edit MCP configuration and restart the client even when they want a narrow grant for the current workspace and session.\n\nThe problem is broader than process capture. The same ceremony affects evidence import/export, investigation inputs/workspaces, persistent snapshots, native DMG mounting, co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/96",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-13T11:28:43.000Z",
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      "Title": "Make trace_feature operation-budget limits discoverable and errors actionable",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`trace_feature` rejects `max_operations` values above 100, but the effective\nceiling is not visible on at least one real MCP host tool surface, and the\nvalidation failure does not provide a structured repair path.\n\nObserved with REA 1.7.0 through Codex MCP:\n\n```text\nrea.trace_feature({\n  \"query\": \"Finding useful first work\",\n  \"case_sensitive\": true,\n  \"limit\": 50,\n  \"max_operations\": 300\n})\nInput validation error: Invalid arguments for tool trace_feature:\nmax_operations: Too big: ex",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/261",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T08:32:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "Make MCP tool discovery capability- and policy-aware",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nMake REA's MCP discovery and workflow guidance reflect negotiated client features, installed providers, active target state, operator/session policy, and operation-specific limits.\n\nAccurate static annotations have shipped. The remaining work is dynamic availability, truthful routing, and schema-visible constraints.\n\n## Current problem\n\nAgents still often discover only after invocation that:\n\n- a provider or target does not support the operation;\n- no target is open;\n- process/eviden",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/101",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-13T11:33:18.000Z",
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      "Title": "Complete Hopper function dossiers with real references and CFG edges",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`analyze_function` is honest but incomplete: callers/callees and references are weakly typed, comments are entry-only, strings/names are unavailable, and CFG successors are not populated.\n\n## Outcome\n\nReturn a complete bounded dossier using Hopper's public APIs without guessing unavailable reference kinds.\n\n## Scope\n\n- Independent pseudocode, assembly, and collection offsets.\n- Typed procedure identity, signature, and parsed locals.\n- Typed caller/callee identities.\n- Procedure-wide ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/54",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-12T11:51:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "Support MCP Tasks for long-running analysis operations",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nAdd a provider-neutral asynchronous job model and expose eligible long-running REA operations through capability-negotiated MCP Tasks. Preserve synchronous tool calls for clients that do not support Tasks.\n\nMCP Tasks are experimental. REA's core execution model must not depend directly on unstable SDK APIs; the MCP Tasks adapter should sit over an internal operation abstraction with explicit ownership, status, cancellation, retention, and result identity.\n\n## Current state in REA 1.3",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/97",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-13T11:33:09.000Z",
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      "Title": "Doctor should detect broken and ambiguous Node runtime installations",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\n`rea doctor` can report the active Node runtime as healthy while another\ninstalled Node/npm toolchain that an agent or REA-adjacent workflow can resolve\nis dynamically broken. The resulting failure looks like an analysis/build\nfailure even though it is host-runtime drift.\n\nObserved while running a local reconstruction verifier:\n\n```text\ndyld: Library not loaded: /opt/homebrew/opt/simdjson/lib/libsimdjson.29.dylib\n  Referenced from: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/25.2.1/bin/node\n  Reason: ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/262",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T08:38:55.000Z",
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      "Title": "Build a Playwright/CDP differential recorder",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nStatic bundle inspection cannot establish the complete interactive state machine of a browser or hosted renderer.\n\n## Outcome\n\nAdd an approval-gated `capture_browser_scenario` provider using Playwright and CDP.\n\n## Contract\n\nScenarios declare browser/connect mode, start URL, permitted origins, viewport/locale/timezone/theme, deterministic actions, timeouts, storage seeds, request replay, secret declarations, redaction, and capture limits.\n\nStep-indexed output includes screenshots, DO",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/63",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-12T11:52:29.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add protocol and distributed-client investigation workflows",
      "Excerpt": "## Goal\n\nReverse engineer how desktop, mobile, browser, and CLI clients communicate with services while preserving a reproducible evidence trail.\n\n## Scope\n\n- HTTP and REST\n- WebSocket and Server-Sent Events\n- GraphQL\n- JSON-RPC and MessagePack\n- gRPC and Protocol Buffers\n- custom TCP and UDP framing\n- local IPC, Unix sockets, named pipes, and XPC\n- authentication flows and token lifecycle metadata with secret redaction\n\n## Capabilities\n\n- capture_protocol_session\n- infer_message_schema\n- correl",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/40",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-12T11:00:28.000Z",
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      "Title": "Publish REA as a discoverable MCP server in the MCP Registry",
      "Excerpt": "## Current limitation\n\nREA exposes an MCP server through its npm distribution, but the repository does not currently publish MCP Registry metadata or an automated registry release path. Users therefore cannot discover the server through the official MCP Registry and may need to configure it manually.\n\n## Desired outcome\n\nPublish REA under the registry name `io.github.morluto/rea`, with:\n\n- an `mcpName` ownership marker in the npm package;\n- a checked-in `server.json` describing the npm package, ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/460",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-01T21:01:49.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Bug] MCP cold start exhausts Codex startup deadline",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug Description\n\nREA's MCP process can exhaust the 30-second Codex startup deadline that `rea setup` configures. On a cold launch, importing the production entrypoint consumed about 20 seconds before the server could answer MCP `initialize`; modest client startup contention is therefore enough for Codex to report:\n\n```text\nMCP client for `rea` timed out after 30 seconds.\nMCP startup incomplete (failed: rea)\n```\n\nThis is also a package-validation gap. The current runtime and package smoke test",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/441",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-26T13:02:21.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Bug] Bare npx setup can again select a stale local REA release",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug Description\n\nREA's recommended setup command, `npx rea-agents setup`, can select an older project-local `rea-agents` dependency instead of the current npm release. The stale bootstrap then plans setup and version-pinned MCP registration using its own older product identity.\n\nThis behavior was previously reported in #291 and fixed by #292, which made `rea-agents@latest` canonical. PR #307 later restored the bare `npx rea-agents setup` entrypoint and the current `main` README recommends tha",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/439",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-26T06:06:44.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Add end-to-end agent reconstruction readiness conformance",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nREA has individual capabilities for artifact classification, provider analysis, Evidence v2, process/browser/Electron capture, differential comparison, residual unknowns, and reconstruction verification. Individual feature tests do not prove that an agent can traverse the complete workflow without discovering hidden limits, incompatible providers, stale servers, missing authority, broken host runtimes, or false equivalence only after invocation.\n\nSeveral previously separate failures ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/406",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-22T02:30:36.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Agent integration capability selection is unclear and can silently drop the bundled skill",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nThe **\"Agent integration (MCP + guided workflow)\"** capability bundles MCP client configuration and the REA reverse-engineering skill. However, the UI flow for selecting which agents to configure is unclear, and selecting the capability without selecting any agents can silently omit the skill installation.\n\n## Observed behavior\n\n1. The capability label says **\"MCP + guided workflow\"** but the second prompt **\"Which agents should use REA?\"** appears only after the capability is select",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/399",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-21T11:07:01.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "setup wizard defaults to cancellation at every step despite explicit setup intent",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nRunning `npx rea-agents setup` is an explicit statement that the user wants to set REA up. The current interactive wizard, however, starts every choice from a \"do nothing\" state and the final confirmation defaults to \"No, cancel\", which contradicts the intent of running the command.\n\n## Observed behavior\n\n1. The **\"What should REA set up?\"** capability picker starts with **nothing selected** (`src/cliSetup.ts`, `selectCapabilities`, lines 195-213). The installation docs explicitly do",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/398",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-21T11:06:56.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Add Node/Electron V8 inspector runtime observation provider",
      "Excerpt": "Add a focused Node/Electron runtime observation provider using the V8 inspector protocol (Node `--inspect`, Electron `--remote-debugging-port` with the Inspector domain, or an equivalent loopback transport).\n\nScope:\n- Launch or attach to an approved Node/Electron process with the V8 inspector enabled and an explicit administrator/policy approval.\n- Capture runtime module load/unload, require/import graph, event names, and IPC calls without evaluating arbitrary expressions or mutating the target.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/397",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T15:03:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Add target/policy-aware tool filtering and catalog tests",
      "Excerpt": "Integrate provider, target, host, and policy availability into tool discovery and add catalog tests covering client/provider/target/host matrices and list-change events.\n\nPart of #101.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Disabled tools have a stable machine-readable reason and remediation path.\n- Every public tool annotation is covered by a catalog-level contract test.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/393",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T14:34:12.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Implement dynamic MCP tool availability engine",
      "Excerpt": "Implement dynamic tool availability that recomputes based on client capabilities, installed providers, active target, host, and policy, and emits `tools/list_changed` when the visible catalog changes.\n\nPart of #101.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Tool discovery incorporates negotiated client capabilities.\n- REA advertises `tools.listChanged` when it may change the catalog.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/392",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T14:34:10.000Z",
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      "Title": "Add MCP Tasks conformance adapter",
      "Excerpt": "Add the MCP Tasks adapter that maps the retained-operation state machine to `tasks/get`, `tasks/result`, `tasks/list`, and `tasks/cancel`.\n\nPart of #97.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Long-running operations expose progress and cancellation.\n- Results retain Evidence v2 identity.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/391",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T14:34:08.000Z",
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      "Title": "Select and pin MCP Tasks extension revision and build retained-operation state machine",
      "Excerpt": "Select and pin an exact SEP-2663 MCP Tasks extension revision, then implement an SDK-independent retained-operation state machine with ownership, status, cancellation, retention, and result identity.\n\nPart of #97.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Core execution does not depend on unstable SDK APIs.\n- Synchronous tool calls are preserved for clients that do not support Tasks.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/390",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T14:34:06.000Z",
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      "Title": "Strengthen elicited grant signing and run real MCP client tamper/expiry proof",
      "Excerpt": "Add stronger persisted-state signing for elicited grants and run real modern MCP client tamper/expiry proof.\n\nPart of #96.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Tampered or expired grants fail closed.\n- Grant rollback on returned or thrown authorization failure is preserved.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/389",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-20T14:34:04.000Z",
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      "Title": "Persist MCP elicited grants with Windows handle/reparse/DACL semantics",
      "Excerpt": "Extend elicited process-capture grant persistence to use Windows handle/reparse/DACL authority once #289/#290 land.\n\nPart of #96.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Grants remain valid only within the admitted authority.\n- POSIX and Windows paths share a single policy model.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/388",
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      "Title": "Define out-of-tree provider SDK manifest and sample provider",
      "Excerpt": "Define the out-of-tree provider SDK manifest, compatibility/deprecation/distribution contract, and a sample external provider.\n\nPart of #45.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Providers cannot register undeclared operations.\n- Capability negotiation is deterministic and explainable.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/371",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/364",
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      "Excerpt": "Add `inspect_artifact` that returns observations, derived relationships, hypotheses, contradictions, unexplored branches, limitations, and next probes for one artifact.\n\nPart of #18.\n\nAcceptance:\n- Substeps and evidence IDs are inspectable.\n- Substep errors cannot become success.\n- Fan-out is bounded and cancellable.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/morluto/rea/issues/347",
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