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    {
      "Title": "Security as an intelligence layer, not a byproduct — scoping check before we build",
      "Excerpt": "## Where this comes from\n\nWe run repowise across a workspace of TypeScript/Next.js repos. Digging into the\nsecurity surface, we found the plumbing is genuinely good and the analysis\nbehind it is thin. Before we spend weeks on it, we would like to know which\nparts of the following you would take, and which you would rather we keep in a\nfork.\n\n## What already exists (and works well)\n\n- `SecurityScanner` + the `security_findings` table, idempotent across re-runs\n  via the `(repository_id, file_path",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1935",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-27T12:53:27.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "[Feature] prevent premature timeout during long-running distill/cmake builds",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen executing long-running compilation commands (such as running cmake via distill on large repositories for the first time), the agent incorrectly assumes the process is stuck. As a result, it prematurely terminates the execution before the build can finish.\n\n## Proposed Solution\nTo prevent the agent from prematurely terminating long-running compilation processes, we propose introducing a tracking mechanism via a unique reference ID and an Model Context Protocol (MCP) command.\n\n## ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1781",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-21T01:09:27.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "[Bug] --host makes the MCP server unreachable — 421 Misdirected Request",
      "Excerpt": "## Describe the Bug\n\n`repowise mcp --transport streamable-http --host <non-loopback>` (also reproduces on\n`--transport sse`) binds successfully and logs the correct address, but every client request is\nrejected with `421 Misdirected Request` before reaching any tool. The server logs `Invalid Host\nheader: ...`. This happens for any non-default `--host` value (a LAN IP, a hostname, or\n`0.0.0.0`) — the connection cannot be used at all, regardless of what `--host` is actually set to.\n\n## Steps to Re",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1736",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-19T11:09:30.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Semantic search silently returns zero on first query: cold vector-search path exceeds 8s _safe_vector timeout and the exception is swallowed",
      "Excerpt": "### Summary\n`repowise search \"<prose>\" --mode semantic` returns **zero results** for the first query in a fresh process, even when the vector index is healthy (reindex OK, doctor drift 0.0%). The vector leg silently degrades to FTS/symbol-only. Warm follow-up queries return results instantly. This mirrors the failure mode described in #1495 (silent degradation, exit 0, no error) but the root cause here is a **cold-path timeout**, not the ollama build failure.\n\n### Version\n- repowise 0.43.0 (inst",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1678",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T19:04:36.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 2,
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    {
      "Title": "[Bug] Write with AI documentation page 404",
      "Excerpt": "## Describe the Bug\n\nIn workspace mode, the **Write with AI** action for a documentation page fails with `404 Page not found`.\n\nThe page itself can be opened successfully in the frontend, but regenerating it fails because the regenerate request does not include `repo_id`. In workspace mode, `repo_id` is required to route the database session to the correct repository database.\n\nA manual regenerate request with `repo_id` added succeeds with `202 Accepted`.\n\n## Steps to Reproduce\n\n1. Start Repowis",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1665",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-17T11:48:51.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 3,
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      "Title": "[Bug] init writes project-local .mcp.json / .vscode files with no opt-out, and reformats unrelated entries in a tracked file",
      "Excerpt": "## Describe the Bug\n\n`repowise init` writes project-local editor files — including **`.mcp.json`, which is a tracked file in many repos** — and there is no flag that opts out of it. `--no-editor-setup` and `REPOWISE_SKIP_EDITOR_SETUP=1` both cover only machine-wide registration; `--no-claude-md` and `--no-codex` cover their own files. Nothing covers `.mcp.json` or `.vscode/`.\n\nTwo distinct problems:\n\n1. **Unrequested writes to a tracked file.** `.mcp.json` is modified and `.vscode/mcp.json` + `.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1603",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-15T14:04:16.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 6,
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      "Title": "get_answer never passes the configured reasoning mode to the provider, so REPOWISE_REASONING=off has no effect on synthesis",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`REPOWISE_REASONING=off` does not reach `get_answer` synthesis. The resolved mode is\ndropped at the call site, so the provider default `\"auto\"` always wins and a\nthinking-capable model is free to reason. Because synthesis is capped at 1024 output\ntokens, a model that reasons at any length can consume the whole budget and return no\nprose, leaving only retrieval hits and this note:\n\n```\nDEGRADED: the model used its entire 1024-token budget without emitting an answer\n(provider=ollama, m",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1560",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-14T13:03:05.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 5,
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      "Title": "[Feature] claude_cli provider: generate pages with a Claude Code subscription instead of an API key",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nRepowise can already run page generation off a coding-agent subscription rather than a metered API key — `codex_cli` does it for Codex, `opencode` for OpenCode. There is no equivalent for Claude Code, even though `anthropic` is a first-class provider.\n\nSo a user with a Claude subscription (Pro / Max / Team / Enterprise) has no keyless path. They see:\n\n```\nNo provider configured. Use --provider, set REPOWISE_PROVIDER, or set\nANTHROPIC_API_KEY / ... Use REPOWISE_PROVIDER=codex_cli to u",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1513",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-13T23:45:32.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Critical: /api/repos/{id}/file-content reads arbitrary repo files incl. .repowise/.env (API key exfiltration)",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`GET /api/repos/{repo_id}/file-content?file_path=...` returns the raw contents of **any** file under the registered repo — there is no restriction to source files, tracked files, or indexed paths. `.repowise/.env` (which stores the user's LLM provider API keys) and `.git/config` are freely readable. Combined with #1391 the read is unauthenticated on any network-exposed server; a caller can even register an arbitrary on-disk git repo via `POST /api/repos` and read inside it.\n\n## Affec",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1393",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-10T10:37:12.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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      "Title": "Critical: auth fails open when binding to 0.0.0.0 via --host — REPOWISE_HOST never reflects the bind address",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`verify_api_key` decides \"loopback vs network-exposed\" from the `REPOWISE_HOST` **environment variable** (default `127.0.0.1`), not from the address the server is actually bound to. The documented CLI flag `repowise serve --host 0.0.0.0` never sets `REPOWISE_HOST`, so starting the server network-exposed without a key keeps every endpoint **unauthenticated**, and the intended fail-closed branch is dead code.\n\n## Affected code\n\n- `packages/server/src/repowise/server/deps.py:26` — `_REP",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1391",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-10T10:35:52.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "v0.37.0 get_risk returns hotspot_score=0, primary_owner=null despite data in wiki.db — column name mismatch",
      "Excerpt": "Version: 0.37.0\nRepo type: Azure DevOps, .NET/C# monorepo\n\nIssue: get_risk MCP tool returns hotspot_score=0, primary_owner=null, co_change_partners=[], trend=\"unknown\", and risk_summary=\"no git metadata available\" for files with rich behavioral data in wiki.db.\n\nRoot cause (confirmed via schema inspection): The MCP layer queries legacy column names that no longer exist in the v0.37.0 git_metadata table:\n\nMCP queries\tActual column name\nhotspot_score\ttemporal_hotspot_score\nprimary_owner\tprimary_ow",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1279",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-03T22:14:42.000Z",
      "State": "open",
      "Comments": 2,
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    {
      "Title": "OpenAI embedder ignores REPOWISE_EMBEDDING_DIMS for models outside its built-in table",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe OpenAI embedder derives its output width from a three-entry table of OpenAI's own models (`text-embedding-3-small`, `text-embedding-3-large`, `text-embedding-ada-002`) and defaults to **1536** for anything else. It never reads the `REPOWISE_EMBEDDING_DIMS` setting.\n\nSo when Repowise is pointed at an OpenAI-*compatible* endpoint — a self-hosted or third-party model whose width is not 1536 — the vector store is silently created at 1536 while the endpoint returns vectors of a differ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1253",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-08-02T15:00:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 0,
      "Reporter": "Contributor",
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      "Title": "[Bug] `get_answer` retrieval succeeds but synthesis always times out (~30s) — returns empty answer with `degraded: synthesis-failed`",
      "Excerpt": "Below is an LLM-generated bug report after several fails of attempting to utilize Repowise MCP `get_answer` tool:\n\n`get_answer` consistently fails during **answer synthesis** with `TimeoutError` (wall clock ~30–31s). **Retrieval appears healthy** (relevant `fallback_targets`, snippets, `key_symbols`), but `answer` is always empty:\n\n- `confidence: \"low\"`\n- `degraded: \"synthesis-failed\"`\n- note: `DEGRADED: LLM synthesis failed (TimeoutError). Read the listed files to answer.`\n\nNarrowing the questi",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1119",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T10:37:28.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 5,
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      "Title": "[Bug] init always writes project-local .mcp.json / .vscode/mcp.json, even with --no-editor-setup",
      "Excerpt": "## Describe the Bug\n\n`repowise init` always merges a `repowise` entry into the repo-root `.mcp.json` and writes `.vscode/mcp.json`, with no way to opt out. `--index-only`, all `--no-*` flags, `REPOWISE_SKIP_EDITOR_SETUP=1`, and even the new `--no-editor-setup` (#1086) don't stop it — that flag only gates the machine-wide `register_editor_clients` path, while `write_editor_project_files()` still runs unconditionally in `init_cmd/command.py`.\n\nThis breaks running `init` as an automated setup step ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1117",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-27T08:42:02.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 4,
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      "Title": "Eleven implementations of \"is this path a test?\" disagree on 5 of 11 paths, and none reads the is_test the ingestion already stored",
      "Excerpt": "Nineteen places decide \"is this path a test?\" from the path string, under six different names, over seventeen separate pattern definitions. They disagree with each other, three of them classify production code as tests, and sixteen of them re-derive an answer the ingestion already computed and stored.\n\nThis is not a tidiness issue: three call sites return wrong answers for real paths, and two of the disagreements change what the health engine and the search rank.\n\n**Version:** 0.36.0, verified a",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/1103",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-26T12:12:02.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Workspace mode: Chat tools (`get_overview` / `search_codebase`) fail with `LookupError: Repository not found` even for the primary repo",
      "Excerpt": "## Body\n\n### Environment\n\n- repowise version: `0.34.0`\n- Install method: `pip install \"repowise[litellm]\"`\n- OS: CentOS Stream 9 (RHEL 9 family)\n- Deployment: `repowise serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 7337 --no-ui`, workspace mode with 2 repos\n- LLM provider: `litellm`, model `openai/MiniMax-M3` (confirmed unrelated to this bug — see below)\n- Embedder: `mock`\n\n### Description\n\nIn a multi-repo workspace, the Chat UI can successfully call the LLM and stream a response, but any tool call that resolves ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/970",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-21T10:09:01.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 3,
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      "Title": "get_health: \"Repository not found\" for any workspace alias that differs from the directory basename",
      "Excerpt": "### Summary\n\nIn workspace mode, `get_health` fails with `Repository not found: <alias>` for any repo whose **workspace alias differs from its directory basename** — even though `list_repos` advertises that exact alias and every other workspace tool (`get_answer`, `get_dead_code`, `search_codebase`) accepts it.\n\nVersion: **repowise 0.31.0** (workspace mode, stdio transport).\n\n### Reproduce\n\nRegister two repos in a workspace where the alias does not equal the folder name:\n\n| alias | directory | `g",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/repowise-dev/repowise/issues/855",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-16T02:55:55.000Z",
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