# Selvedge MCP Server

Decision provenance for AI-coded codebases: the why, and what was already tried and rejected.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `selvedge` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**11 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 8.

### Most discussed

### Assorted confirmed defects too small to warrant their own issue

## Summary

Confirmed during the 2026-08-01 code-quality review, each verified adversarially, each too small to justify a dedicated issue. Grouped so none of them get lost.

### The telemetry heartbeat almost never actually sends

`_run_ping` writes the 24h `last_ping_epoch` rate-limit stamp **before** `_send`, and `ping_async`'s daemon thread is killed at interpreter exit long before `urlopen` reaches the socket on a short CLI run.

Measured over 20 runs of `selvedge status` with a fresh `$HOME

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/28) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### importers: entity identity is wrong for schema-qualified DDL and inconsistent for indexes

## Summary

Two entity-identity defects in the SQL importer. Both produce silently wrong or missing history rather than errors.

## Schema-qualified DDL attributes the event to the schema

`public.users` is the default spelling in Postgres migration dumps.

```
_parse_sql_text("CREATE TABLE public.users (id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, email TEXT NOT NULL);")
-> ONE event, entity_path="public", entity_type="table"
```

The table is recorded under the wrong entity and **both column events are lost** — `_e

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/27) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### packaging: three distribution surfaces have no test and have drifted

## Summary

Packaging is solid where CI can see it — a real CPython 3.10.20 runs the full suite green, the `[semantic]` extra boundary holds under a genuine no-extra install, wheel contents are clean, and version sync across all eight surfaces is both correct and well-tested. The gaps are all in hand-run release steps that no test asserts.

## 1. A production 3.10 install silently ignores `.selvedge/config.toml`

`tomllib` is 3.11+ and the `tomli` fallback is **not a declared dependency**. Verif

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/25) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### security: harden the release workflow and the published composite action

## Summary

Two supply-chain gaps, both in code that runs with credentials.

## 1. `publish.yml` runs an unpinned third-party binary in a job holding OIDC `id-token: write`

`mcp-publisher` is fetched from a `releases/latest` URL with no version pin and no checksum, then executed as `./mcp-publisher login github-oidc` in a job that mints an OIDC token for the `io.github.masondelan/*` MCP Registry namespace. This fires automatically on every `git push --tags`, with no human between the download a

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/24) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 1 comment

### selvedge supersede: missing --diff and --revisit-after (parity with the log command's supersede branch)

`selvedge supersede` is the documented, guided way to re-open a reverted decision, but it exposes only `--reasoning/--constraint/--stale-when/--supersedes` (plus attribution flags). It has no `--diff` and no `--revisit-after`.

The storage layer underneath (`SelvedgeStorage.log_supersede`) accepts and persists both fields, and v0.3.10 specifically fixed `log_change` dropping `revisit_after`/`constraint`/`stale_when` and `diff` on the supersede branch (#21) — so the raw path can record the re-app

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/31) · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

### Most recent

### log_change validates then silently discards revisit_after, constraint, stale_when on rename and supersede

## Summary

`log_change` accepts `revisit_after`, `constraint` and `stale_when` on every change type, validates them, and then throws them away on two of the three branches. `diff` is dropped on `supersede` as well. No warning, no error — the call returns `{"status": "logged", "warnings": []}`.

Reproduced on both surfaces:

```
log_change(entity_path="src/new.py::f", change_type="rename",
           rename_from="src/old.py::f", revisit_after="90d",
           constraint="must stay one module",

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/21) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

### perf: the PreToolUse hook costs 34.6ms per gated tool call, 98% of it import cost

## Summary

The hook runs on every `Edit`/`Write`/`MultiEdit`/`NotebookEdit`/`Bash` call and spawns a fresh Python process each time. Measured p50 on the allow path — the ~99% case in a real session — is **34.6 ms**, of which the hook's own logic is **0.58 ms**.

Decomposition (M4 Max, Python 3.14.4, n=120, interleaved case order, 10k-event store):

| stage | Δ p50 | share |
|---|---|---|
| process spawn | 1.96 ms | 5.7% |
| CPython startup | +13.33 ms | 38.5% |
| `selvedge/__init__.py` import c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/20) · 2026-08-01 · closed · 0 comments

### feat: `selvedge init --client {claude,cursor,windsurf,codex,gemini}` to write per-client MCP config

## Summary

Add `selvedge init --client {claude,cursor,windsurf,codex,gemini}` that writes the correct MCP-server config file for a single client, as a lightweight alternative to the full `selvedge setup` wizard.

Config shapes (each verified against the client's current official docs, 2026-07):

| Client | File | Format |
|--------|------|--------|
| Claude Code | project `.mcp.json` (or `claude mcp add selvedge -- selvedge-server`) | JSON `mcpServers` |
| Cursor | `.cursor/mcp.json` / `~/.curs

[Read the thread](https://github.com/masondelan/selvedge/issues/18) · 2026-07-13 · open · 0 comments

[See all 11 reports Pod holds for Selvedge](/mcp/selvedge/issues).

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