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sverklo MCP Server

Local-first MCP code intelligence: 37 tools — hybrid search, blast-radius, diff review, memory.

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Published as sverklo on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

10 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 7.

Most discussed

sverklo init --global: one-time setup with memory import, skip per-project boilerplate

Summary

There is no way to get the benefit of sverklo's memory import without running the full sverklo init kitchen sink per project. Users who want a global-instructions workflow (one-time machine setup, then per-project: just register) are stuck.

importExistingMemories() (scans CLAUDE.md, ADRs, .cursorrules, etc.) is called only from initProject(). There's no CLI subcommand for it, the Indexer doesn't call it, and sverklo register doesn't call it. So there is no manual workaro

Read the thread · 2026-05-25 · closed · external user · 3 comments

MCP tool names double-prefixed (sverklo_sverklo_*) when server registered under 'sverklo' key

Summary

All MCP tools are named with a sverklo_ prefix (e.g. sverklo_impact, sverklo_lookup, sverklo_search). This collides with the MCP client convention of prefixing tools with the server name, producing sverklo_sverklo_impact when the server is registered under key "sverklo".

Root Cause

The tool definitions in src/server/tools/*.ts all carry a sverklo_ prefix in their name: field:

// src/server/tools/impact.ts
export const impactTool = {
  name: "sverklo_impa

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sverklo/sverklo/issues/71) · 2026-05-25 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### v0.25.1: Ollama reindex still stores 384d vectors despite 1024d config; Windows index lock may still persist after Claude Code exit

# v0.25.1: Ollama reindex still stores 384d vectors despite 1024d config; Windows index lock may still persist after Claude Code exit

Thanks for the fixes in the recent release. The MCP-related errors I previously reported appear to be resolved in `sverklo v0.25.1`: `doctor` now reports a successful MCP handshake, tools/list, and tools/call round-trip.

However, I’m still seeing one major indexing/provider issue after a full reindex: the project is configured for Ollama with 1024-dimensional em

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sverklo/sverklo/issues/66) · 2026-05-23 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### `reindex --force` reports success after EBUSY and appears to reuse stale index on Windows

# `reindex --force` reports success after EBUSY and appears to reuse stale index on Windows

Thanks for the continued work on sverklo and the recent Windows/MCP fixes. While testing v0.23.1 on Windows with MCP clients, I hit a lock-handling issue where `reindex --force` logs EBUSY errors, appears not to rebuild the index, but still exits with a success-style “Done” message.

## Summary

On Windows, if the MCP server or a related process holds `index.db` open, `sverklo reindex --force --timing` f

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sverklo/sverklo/issues/58) · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### MCP still failing on Windows in v0.23.0

# MCP still failing on Windows in v0.23.0

Thanks for the continued work on sverklo and for the quick turnaround on the recent Windows/MCP fixes. I’ve been testing sverklo in a real Windows project with a moderately large documentation tree and multiple CLI integrations, and I’m filing this as a focused follow-up because MCP still appears to fail on v0.23.0.

## Summary

Despite the fixes in v0.22.2 and v0.23.0 for the Windows `spawn EINVAL` issue in #47, MCP integration still fails for me on Wi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sverklo/sverklo/issues/53) · 2026-05-21 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### Most recent

### Add setup docs / `sverklo init` support for Codex and GitHub Copilot CLI

Hi! First off, thanks for building Sverklo.

I have successfully enabled Sverklo with Claude Code, and it works well there. I would like to understand what is needed to enable the same workflow for OpenAI Codex and GitHub Copilot CLI.

From what I can tell:

- Sverklo already works as an MCP server.
- `sverklo init` currently auto-detects and configures clients like Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and Zed.
- Codex supports MCP servers through `~/.codex/config.toml` or project-level `.codex/config

[Read the thread](https://github.com/sverklo/sverklo/issues/50) · 2026-05-19 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Improve "Not connected" error with actionable hint

## Problem

When the MCP server is running but the project has not been registered/indexed, calling `sverklo_status` returns only:

Not connected


This is misleading — the MCP server **is** connected, but there's no index for the current project. The user is left guessing whether the server is down, the config is wrong, or something else is broken.

## Suggestion

Add a hint when the project directory has no registered index. Something like:

Not connected — no index found for this p

Read the thread · 2026-05-14 · closed · external user · 1 comment

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