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    {
      "Title": "Memory leak: shodh-memory-server grows to 2GB+ RAM over 24 hours",
      "Excerpt": "## Description\n\nThe `shodh-memory-server` binary (v0.1.74) exhibits a significant memory leak when running as a persistent backend across multiple Claude Code sessions.\n\n## Observed Behavior\n\n- **Fresh start**: ~23MB RSS\n- **After ~25 hours**: ~2GB RSS (2,046,876 KB)\n- **System impact**: On a 7.7GB RAM machine, the server consumed 25% of total memory\n- **Symptom**: MCP tool calls start failing with \"Failed after 3 attempts: This operation was aborted\" (timeouts)\n\n## Environment\n\n- **OS**: Linux ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/90",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-04T06:52:45.000Z",
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      "Title": "Server relibility",
      "Excerpt": "As I am running a long single CC session the shodh server keeps failing with CC returning `Error: Failed after 3 attempts: API error 500: {\"code\":\"INTERNAL_ERROR\",\"message\":\"Internal error: Failed to initialize memory system for user 'claude-code'\"`.\n\nI can just do `/mcp` -> find shodh and select reconnect, which restarts the server. But Claude can't do this himself and these failures makes shodh practically useless since when Claude wants to recall a memory the server is not available and he ju",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/114",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-19T12:55:00.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "proactive_context returns empty while recall finds exact memory at 0.95",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nIn practice, `proactive_context` has never surfaced useful memories for my workflows across projects/chats. I am reporting this specific reproducible case because it shows the pattern clearly: the same memory is returned by `/api/recall` at high confidence, but `/api/proactive_context` returns no results.\n\n## Environment\n\n- Shodh backend: `0.2.0`\n- Package: `@shodh/memory-mcp@0.2.0`\n- Backend health: `{\"status\":\"healthy\",\"version\":\"0.2.0\"}`\n- Index verification: healthy, `12491` memo",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/283",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-05-17T19:41:11.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "[Feature request] A flag to return complete memories contents on proactive_context and recall tools calls",
      "Excerpt": "This is a feature request that came from my daily shodh usage over a long period.\n\nI was sometimes looking at tool call returns and assumed that the truncated/summary-like text I saw was just a display thing - that agents were actually receiving the full memory content. This turned out not to be true. `recall` and `proactive_context` tools return only a short fragment per memory - with no indication (or mention in the sparse docs) that the content IS actually incomplete. However, this is fully o",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/396",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-14T13:16:40.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "MCP server processes accumulate when sessions end — orphaned child processes cause RocksDB lock errors",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nWhen using shodh-memory-mcp with clients that manage sessions via stdio (e.g., kiro-cli), ending a session does not reliably clean up the spawned `shodh-memory-server` child process. After multiple sessions over ~24h, ~25 orphaned processes accumulate, causing:\n\n```\nFailed to initialize memory system for user 'karl' (500 INTERNAL_ERROR)\n```\n\nThis is RocksDB LOCK file contention — only one process can hold the lock on a given storage directory.\n\n## Root Cause\n\nThree compounding issues",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/216",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-04-09T07:38:27.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "docs: Installation guides, multi-instance setup, and service configuration",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\nFrom [discussion #103](https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/discussions/103) — users are asking for clear installation and operational documentation. Currently this information is scattered or missing entirely.\n\n## What needs documenting\n\n### Installation Guide\n- **Docker** — single command with volume mounts, environment variables, port mapping\n- **Pre-built binaries** — download links per platform (Linux x64, macOS ARM64/x64, Windows x64), extraction, PATH setup\n- **Cargo i",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/104",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-11T08:11:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "Improve MCP client setup documentation",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe README doesn't clearly explain that a standalone server must be running before the MCP client will work, or that API keys are locally generated.\n\n## Environment\n\n- Any platform\n- @shodh/memory-mcp (npm package)\n- Claude Code CLI\n\n## Current Behavior\n\nRunning `claude mcp add @shodh/memory-mcp` installs the client, but users get \"connection refused\" errors with no guidance.\n\n## Expected Behavior\n\nDocumentation clearly explains the server requirement, API key generation, and provide",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-01-18T18:42:25.000Z",
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      "Title": "Windows: spawn EINVAL + truncated UUIDs break forget/read_memory",
      "Excerpt": "## Bug 1: `spawn EINVAL` on Windows — server fails to auto-start\n\n### Problem\nOn Windows, `ensureServerRunning()` calls `spawn(binaryPath, [], { detached: true, ... })`. The `getBinaryPath()` function prefers `shodh-memory.bat` over `shodh-memory-server.exe`. Node.js `spawn()` with `detached: true` **cannot spawn `.bat` files on Windows** — it throws `EINVAL`.\n\n```\nError: spawn EINVAL\n    at ChildProcess.spawn (node:internal/child_process:421:11)\n    at ensureServerRunning (dist/index.js:7969:19",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/98",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-09T02:04:43.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
      "Comments": 1,
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    {
      "Title": "Roadmap: Rust-native MCP endpoint (Streamable-HTTP/SSE) — collapse the stdio shim into the backend",
      "Excerpt": "## Idea\nExpose an MCP-compatible Streamable-HTTP/SSE endpoint directly from the Rust backend (e.g. `http://127.0.0.1:3030/mcp`), so hosts (Claude Desktop, etc.) connect over HTTP instead of spawning the Node stdio shim. Eliminates the entire class of stdio-lifecycle bugs (thread-switch stdin EOF kills, in-flight abandonment — see #405, #218) rather than patching each one, and reduces the Node dependency toward a single sovereign Rust process.\n\nProposed by @devklepacki in #405.\n\n## Direction / co",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/406",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-15T10:40:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "IPC v2: SHODH_IPC_REQUIRED default for sovereign profile + cross-impl auth test",
      "Excerpt": "Follow-up from #399. (1) Server bind-failure default is log-and-continue-HTTP-only; a squatter can force HTTP. Make SHODH_IPC_REQUIRED=true the documented requirement/default for the sovereign profile. (2) Rust-server<->TS-client parity is inspection-only; add a real cross-impl auth test (tamper/replay/stale-nonce).",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/403",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-15T09:40:05.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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    {
      "Title": "IPC v2: HKDF-derive an IPC-only subkey (probe MAC is a chosen-challenge oracle over the raw API key)",
      "Excerpt": "Follow-up from #399 re-review. The v2 probe/request MACs use the raw SHODH_API_KEY directly as the HMAC key, so a same-user (even low-integrity) peer that passes the pipe peer-check can treat the probe as a chosen-challenge MAC oracle and offline-brute-force a weak key (and we ship local-dev-key). Fix: HKDF-derive an IPC-only subkey; enforce a key-entropy floor; stop documenting trivially-guessable dev keys. Same-user-only, hardening for the sovereign/defence profile.",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/401",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-15T09:40:02.000Z",
      "State": "open",
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      "Title": "Server version seems to be hardcoded to version \"0.1.90\"",
      "Excerpt": "Hello, basically issue is as written in the title. I didn't dig much into this, but:\n\n```\ncurl -X GET http://localhost:3030/health\n{ \"status\":\"healthy\",\"version\":\"0.2.0\", ... }\n```\n\nwhile at the exact same time logs shows:\n\n```\n[Stream] WebSocket connected to ws://127.0.0.1:3030/api/stream\n...\n[shodh-memory] Backend server started successfully\nShodh-Memory MCP server v0.1.90 running\nConnecting to: http://127.0.0.1:3030\n```\n\nand `grep`ping for string \"0.1.90\" returns 2 matches:\n\n```\n ~ % grep -c ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/360",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-07-02T22:51:48.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "Cannot use remote (production) server",
      "Excerpt": "Steps to repro:\n\n1. Initialize named volume shodh-data on remote server\n2. Initialize shodh-memory on remote server\n3. Intitialize reverse proxy pointing to port 5910 \n4. Use curl to retrieve health endpoint to verify connectivity\n5. Update mcp settings for Claude Code\n6. Launch Claude code with debug flag\n7. check /mcp to verify Claude thinks it is connected\n8. test the shodh-memory MCP server with: shodh-memory - memory_stats() (MCP)\n\n\n----------\n\n> ● I'll test the shodh-memory MCP server by c",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/193",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-31T18:49:51.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "FIX-05/FIX-07: auto-ingest quality gap — context: None, credibility dead for majority of memories",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nAuto-ingested memories (from `proactive_context` and hooks) lack `RichContext`, making credibility, emotional, and episode scoring paths dead for the majority of stored memories.\n\n## FIX-05: Auto-Ingest Missing Context\n- `recall.rs:1608,1668`: both auto-ingest paths use `..Default::default()` → `context: None`\n- Path A (assistant response): no episode grouping, no source type differentiation\n- Path B (user context): same problem\n- Should set: `source_type: AiGenerated` (assistant) / ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/151",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-29T06:15:43.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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    {
      "Title": "Feedback loop: disconnected weight learning, off-by-one user_followup, noisy previous_response",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\nThe implicit feedback circuit has multiple wiring gaps. Adaptive weight learning never updates, user_followup semantics are wrong, and previous_response carries formatting noise.\n\n## Bugs\n\n### LearnedWeights Never Updated\n- `RelevanceEngine::apply_feedback` (relevance.rs:663) exists and connects to `LearnedWeights::apply_feedback` (relevance.rs:427)\n- Uses `WEIGHT_LEARNING_RATE = 0.05` gradient descent on 7-dimensional weight vector\n- **Never called** from the `proactive_context` fee",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/146",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-29T06:14:17.000Z",
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      "Title": "Hook enrichment: emotional, episodic, credibility, and structured capture signals never sent",
      "Excerpt": "## Summary\n\n`hooks/memory-hook.ts` is the primary auto-ingestion path for Claude Code but sends bare-minimum payloads. The entire enrichment infrastructure in the Rust backend is numerically inert for hook-originated memories.\n\n## Missing Signals\n\n### Emotional Dimension\n- No `classifyEmotion()` function exists — hook never sends `emotional_valence`, `emotional_arousal`, or `emotion`\n- All hook-stored memories have `{valence: 0.0, arousal: 0.0, emotion: None}`\n- This makes arousal boosts (Layer ",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/143",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-29T06:13:12.000Z",
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    {
      "Title": "Importance field missing from RememberRequest — all automated writes have zero importance",
      "Excerpt": "## Problem\n\nNeither `RememberRequest` nor `UpsertRequest` expose an optional `importance` field. The Rust binary auto-calculates importance server-side, but hooks never provide an override. This means 100% of automated (hook-written) memories get generic importance scores, neutralizing importance-weighted eviction and salience ranking.\n\n## Impact\n\n- **MEDIUM** — importance affects cache eviction priority and display salience\n- All hook memories have identical eviction priority (no differentiatio",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/131",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-25T13:40:40.000Z",
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      "Title": "SHODH_API_KEY in mcp client and SHODH_API_KEYS in server/TUI mismatch",
      "Excerpt": "The server is accepting the dev API key fine. So the issue is between the MCP npm\n  package (@shodh/memory-mcp) and the shodh server. Let me check how the MCP package is\n  configured and what key it's actually sending.\n\n  Searched for 1 pattern, read 3 files (ctrl+o to expand)\n\n⏺ There it is. The MCP package reads SHODH_API_KEY (singular), but your env has\n  SHODH_API_KEYS (plural) and SHODH_DEV_API_KEY. Since SHODH_API_KEY isn't set, it\n  auto-generates a random key which doesn't match the serv",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/115",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-19T15:00:39.000Z",
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      "Title": "test: Set up Vitest for MCP server and add comprehensive tests",
      "Excerpt": "## Context\n\nThe MCP server (`mcp-server/index.ts`) is a 3867+ line monolithic file with 45 tools and zero tests. As we continue to add features and fix bugs, we need a testing framework in place.\n\n## Setup\n\n- **Framework:** Vitest (fast, native TypeScript, zero-config)\n- **Location:** `mcp-server/__tests__/` or `mcp-server/tests/`\n\n## Test coverage needed\n\n### Unit tests\n- Tool input validation and parameter parsing\n- `stripSystemNoise()` and other utility functions\n- `ensureServerRunning()` ser",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/varun29ankuS/shodh-memory/issues/105",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-03-11T11:09:59.000Z",
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