# Vouch MCP Server

Git-native, review-gated knowledge base for LLM agents. Cited retrieval, audited writes.

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `vouch-kb` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**15 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

### fix(list): kb.list_pages / vouch pages include archived pages

## What happened

`kb.list_pages` (MCP), `kb.list_pages` (JSONL), and `vouch pages` all pass `store.list_pages()` through `filter_pages` with no `PageStatus.ARCHIVED` filter. Archived pages remain in the agent-facing live listing. MCP/CLI payloads also omit `status`, so an archived page is indistinguishable from a live one.

This is the same live-set leak class as wiki/neighbors/compile/session-split (#695–#713), on the listing surface those fixes did not cover.

## Expected

Listing surfaces ex

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/728) · 2026-07-31 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### feat(config): typed `Config` model + validation for `.vouch/config.yaml`

**What you're trying to do**

`.vouch/config.yaml` is currently parsed as an untyped `dict` (`yaml.safe_load`)
and read defensively at each call site — e.g. `storage.py` writes the starter
config as a literal dict, and `proposals.py` re-reads it with nested `.get()` +
`isinstance` guards and a silent `except Exception` fallback to `{}` for
`review.approver_role`. As more features grow config keys (`retrieval.backends`,
`retrieval.reflex`, `mcp.publish_skills`, `page_kinds`, …) this pattern sprea

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/243) · 2026-06-17 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### Graph-aware retrieval: kb.neighbors and --expand-graph for context packs

## What you're trying to do

When I'm working with a vouch KB that has entities, relations, and linked claims/pages, I want retrieval to follow the graph — not just text similarity — because related knowledge often lives one hop away from a search hit.

Example: An agent runs vouch context "auth service". Search returns a claim about JWT, but misses:

- the entity auth-service linked via references
- a depends_on decision on the same subsystem
- the page that includes_claim for that fact

Today,

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/184) · 2026-06-09 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### critical: Agent transport allows cross-agent approval

## Summary

The review-gate docs say agents do not have an approve tool, but the JSONL/MCP tool surface exposes `kb.approve` to agents. The self-approval guard blocks the same `VOUCH_AGENT`, but a second agent identity can approve another agent’s proposal through `vouch serve --transport jsonl`, landing durable claims without any human CLI review.

## Reproduction Steps
1. Initialize a KB and add a source.
2. Propose a claim through JSONL as `VOUCH_AGENT=alice`.
3. Try approving as `alice` to co

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/168) · 2026-06-05 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### [Bug] Bundle import can overwrite the audit log

## Summary

`vouch import-apply --on-conflict overwrite` accepts a bundle containing `audit.log.jsonl` and overwrites the KB’s append-only audit log. The bundle format documents safety flags for “no proposed/, no state.db, no audit.log”, but import does not enforce those flags or block forbidden paths.

## Reproduction Steps

1. Create a fresh KB:
   ```bash
   tmp=$(mktemp -d)
   cd "$tmp"
   vouch init
   ```
2. Create a bundle whose manifest includes `audit.log.jsonl`.
3. Run:
   ```bash
   v

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/166) · 2026-06-05 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Most recent

### expose health.fsck() as kb.fsck on MCP/JSONL/capabilities (roadmap 1.5)

## What you're trying to do

ROADMAP.md's 1.5 milestone: "`vouch fsck` — deeper consistency checks than
`doctor`." That check already exists (`health.fsck()`, wired as the `vouch
fsck` CLI command) — but it's the one diagnostic sweep with no agent-facing
path: no MCP tool, no JSONL handler, not in `capabilities.METHODS`. An
agent can call `kb.lint` and `kb.doctor` but has no way to run the deepest
check (`kb.fsck`'s own checks: orphaned embeddings, dangling
supersede/contradict chains, decided-p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/738) · 2026-07-31 · open · outside contributor · 0 comments

### kb.neighbors leaks edges pointing to excluded (superseded/archived/redacted/missing) nodes

## What happened

`find_neighbors()` in `src/vouch/graph.py` records an edge into the
response before checking whether the edge's other endpoint passes the
same retrievability/existence gate that decides node inclusion:

```python
# src/vouch/graph.py (before fix)
for edge in _edges_from_node(store, current, rel_types=rel_filter):
    other = edge.target if edge.source == current else edge.source
    ekey = (edge.source, edge.target, edge.relation)
    if ekey not in seen_edges:
        seen_edg

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/716) · 2026-07-31 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### security: kb.detect_themes leaks claim and session ids the viewer cannot retrieve

## what

`themes.detect_themes` scans `store.list_claims()` and filters on status
(`archived` / `superseded` / `redacted`) and `approved_by`, but never on
`ArtifactScope`. Every other read surface — `kb.search`, `kb.context`,
`kb.recall`, the salience sidebar, `kb.explain_ranking` — passes its claims
through `scoping.is_visible` first. themes does not.

A `ThemeCluster` carries `claim_ids` and `session_ids`, so an unfiltered scan
hands a caller the ids of private or cross-project claims it canno

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/657) · 2026-07-30 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat(server): cursor pagination for `kb.list_*` methods

**What you're trying to do**

The read-side `kb.list_*` methods (`kb.list_pages`, `kb.list_claims`,
`kb.list_entities`, `kb.list_relations`, `kb.list_sources`, `kb.list_pending`)
return the *entire* collection in one shot. Under the hood `storage.list_*`
reads and parses every YAML file in the directory, and the JSONL/MCP handlers
hand back the full list with no `limit`/`offset`/`cursor`. On a KB with tens of
thousands of claims this is unbounded memory on the server and an unbounded
payload ove

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/245) · 2026-06-17 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### validation gap: artifact ids accept path-traversal strings and reach filesystem paths unsanitised in storage operations

## Problem

Every non-Source artifact model — `Claim`, `Page`, `Entity`, `Relation`, `Evidence`, `Session`, `Proposal` — declares `id: str` with no validator. `Source.id` is locked to a hex sha256 by `_id_is_hex_sha256` (`src/vouch/models.py:148-153`); nothing similar exists for the others (`src/vouch/models.py:179, 225, 238, 254, 163, 290, 318` — all bare `id: str`).

The storage layer turns those ids straight into filesystem paths with no containment check:

```python
# src/vouch/storage.py:22

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/149) · 2026-06-02 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### feat: Add `--json` output to `vouch pending`

## What you're trying to do

When I’m reviewing proposals in a multi-agent repo, I want to inspect pending proposals in a machine-readable format so I can group them by agent, count noisy proposal sources, or wire the review queue into shell scripts and CI checks.

The docs already suggest this workflow:

```bash
vouch pending --json | jq -r '.[] | "\(.proposed_by)\t\(.id)"' | sort | uniq -c
```
but vouch pending --json does not appear to exist yet.

## What you've tried
vouch status --json give

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/88) · 2026-05-26 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

### fix(cli): approve and reject commands don't catch ProposalError — raw traceback

The CLI `approve` and `reject` commands catch `(ArtifactNotFoundError, ValueError)` but `proposals.approve()` and `proposals.reject()` raise `ProposalError(RuntimeError)` for validation failures. This causes users to see raw Python tracebacks instead of clean error messages.

### Bug
- **File:** `src/vouch/cli.py:192-196` (approve) and `src/vouch/cli.py:204-209` (reject)
- **Buggy code (approve):**
```python
@cli.command()
@click.argument("proposal_id")
@click.option("--reason", default=None)
de

[Read the thread](https://github.com/vouchdev/vouch/issues/29) · 2026-05-19 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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