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shelbymcp MCP Server

Knowledge-graph memory server for AI tools via MCP

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Published as shelbymcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

37 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 12.

Most discussed

Memory: repair/back-fill CLI + Forage hygiene pass for project_identifier

Goal

A one-shot shelbymcp repair-projects (dry-run default) and a recurring Forage hygiene pass that populates project_identifier on existing null/path rows and flags leaks. This is the validation harness for the whole fix — run it against the current messy DB and confirm get_brief/Essentials de-pollute.

Inference order (per thought, highest confidence first)

  1. existing project path basename → known-repo map (also normalize the absolute-path values from the 2026-06-08 partial

Read the thread · 2026-06-09 · closed · 3 comments

HMC-04B: Mirror curated live briefs in TypeScript

Parent: Studio-Moser/Shelby-Docs#445

Goal

Mirror the canonical deterministic curated get_brief policy in Shelby-MCP.

Done when

TypeScript matches Swift fixtures and output semantics for scope, trust, consolidation/refutation/sensitivity, explicit roles, deduplication, token trimming, structured items, and diagnostics; contract tests pass.

Dependencies

HMC-00 and HMC-03. Coordinate with HMC-04A; neither twin merges without the other in flight.

Source of truth

  • `docs/specs/2026-

Read the thread · 2026-07-17 · closed · 2 comments

Read tools don't auto-default scope to cwd project — search/list/get_brief leak all projects unless explicitly scoped

Capture auto-resolves project_identifier from cwd (#8), but READ tools (search_thoughts/list_thoughts/get_brief) only scope when project_identifier is explicitly passed — no cwd default. So an agent calling search/get_brief without the slug gets EVERY project's memory (contamination by default); the capture schema even says 'auto-resolved from cwd if omitted' — reads should match. Fix: server-layer default that resolves cwd→slug + applies it (with include_shared) when the caller omits

Read the thread · 2026-06-10 · closed · 2 comments

Memory: search_thoughts ignores project scope (list honors it) + re-tag read lag

Problem

Observed during audit: list_thoughts honors project = @project but search_thoughts (hybrid/vector) returns cross-project results even when scoped. Separately, re-tagging 16 thoughts' project reflected in only ~7 scoped reads — read-after-write / FTS-index lag.

Fix

  • Apply the same project scope filter on the vector/hybrid path as the FTS/list path.
  • Investigate the re-tag lag (FTS5 external-content rebuild / cache invalidation after update_thought changes project).

Pla

Read the thread · 2026-06-09 · closed · 2 comments

Enforce caller-based trust assignment

Description

Restrict which callers can claim trusted and prevent external records from becoming trusted silently. Map caller identity to a maximum assignable trust level so trust_level functions as an enforced write boundary rather than an advisory label.

Triage-review verdict: Verified: trust_level is caller-supplied, defaults trusted — memory-poisoning bypass

Source

  • Report: Research/deep-dives/2026-08-10-nate-power-of-the-harness.md
  • Section: Action Items > Security

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · open · 1 comment

Most recent

MH-04: Bench experiment — does the injected brief earn its tokens?

What

On top of the MH-01 bench, build and run the experiment that measures whether the injected get_brief earns its tokens: do sessions actually reference injected brief items, and at what token cost — especially on the 4096-token on-device AFM path. Report the data plus a go/no-go recommendation on gating or scoping brief injection by session type.

Why

The deep-dive: "when the task fits in context, memory adds no capability, only cost." Shelby injects a brief every session — curren

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · open · 0 comments

MH-02: Fold ledger signals into search_thoughts re-ranking

What

Fold decisions-ledger signals into search_thoughts re-ranking, or add an explicit "ranked" mode.

src/tools/search.ts (hybrid path ~line 206) ranks results purely by Reciprocal Rank Fusion (K=60) of FTS + vector rank. It never consults reinforcement_count, last_confirmed_at, or briefRole — the exact signals brief-policy.ts already uses to build the (validated) ranked brief.

Why

The deep-dive's core result: a ranked ledger beats vector/RRF similarity on long-horizon recall

Read the thread · 2026-08-18 · open · 0 comments

Reconciliation candidate width differs across engines (TS 20 vs Swift 5) — last parity gap after §§6b–6g

Flagged by the cross-engine parity re-review during the #54/#290 memory-contract sprint. Pre-existing (predates these PRs), tracked here so it isn't lost.

The asymmetry

Reconciliation considers a different number of FTS candidates per engine:

  • MCP (TS): up to 20 FTS candidates
  • macOS (Swift): up to 5

So a duplicate/reversal that FTS ranks low (6th–20th) can reconcile (noop / merge / supersede) in MCP but be treated as a brand-new thought in macOS — a silent behavioral

Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

Resolve migration-number sharing contract: MCP v12–v17 gap is a landmine iff DB files are shared with macOS

Surfaced by the cross-engine parity review during the #54/#290 memory-contract sprint.

The hazard

Both engines advance to migration v18 for the topic-canonicalization backfill, but MCP (TypeScript) has no migrations for v12–v17 — it jumps 11 → 18. macOS occupies v12–v17 (including v17's thought_edges.metadata, which claim-scoped refutation queries depend on).

This is only a problem if a single physical SQLite database file is ever opened by both engines. If so:

  • A DB that M

Read the thread · 2026-08-17 · open · 0 comments

Bring the MCP memory engine into revised-ADR-0001 compliance

Goal

Bring the TypeScript memory engine into compliance with the revised ADR 0001 (six decisions, 2026-08-15). Parity sibling: the macOS compliance issue. Contract source: the ADR-revision issue.

Chunks (each = one decision, each independently testable)

  1. Correction supersedes on reversal — src/db/reconciliation.ts reconcile() (:37), jaccard() (:31), NOOP_THRESHOLD (:55). A NOOP must now require high token-set Jaccard and high ordered-sequence similarity (normalized edi

Read the thread · 2026-08-15 · closed · 0 comments

ShelbyMCP skills: adopt fast-path / lazy-reference / parallel-subagent patterns

Description

Adopt Graphify's skill-authoring patterns in shelby-forage/shelby-onboard: (a) fast-path gate at top ('if memory exists and this is recall, search first'); (b) lean always-loaded body + lazily-loaded references/*.md; (c) parallel-subagent hard-rules (dispatch all in one message, use a writable subagent type not read-only Explore, on-disk file = success signal, chunk by locality, cache-check before dispatch). Independent.

Source

  • Report: `Research/deep-dives/graphify-tec

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · open · 0 comments

Design Shelby-MCP documentation for agent consumption

Local backlog ID: #185 Section: AI Memory Source: research Found: 2026-04-28

Item

Design Shelby-MCP documentation for agent consumption (Agentic Relations pattern) — when an AI agent generates a broken Shelby integration, the developer debugs silently or abandons. No support ticket. Traditional DevRel metrics miss this. Audit Shelby-MCP README, tool descriptions, and error messages for agent-parseable structure (explicit parameter types, example JSON, structured error codes)

Read the thread · 2026-08-14 · open · 0 comments

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