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Selvedge MCP Server

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

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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.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 2026-08-06 · open · 0 comments

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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

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