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witness MCP Server

Distills your sessions or any text corpus into a dated history of how its subject changed.

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Published as @witness-ai/opencode on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

6 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 5.

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OpenCode install on Windows (plugin spawns the bash shim; needs exec-form + %LOCALAPPDATA% like PR #9)

Summary

witness install claude now works on Windows (PR #9: exec-form hooks, %LOCALAPPDATA% copy, PATH, embedded prompts). witness install opencode does not yet — it's still tied to the bash shim, which Windows has no guaranteed shell to run. This issue scopes the fix so it's ready to pick up.

Deferred deliberately: the OpenCode-on-Windows user population is currently ~0 (maintainer uses Claude Code; v0.1.0 had no downloads). Build when a real user or the OpenCode owner needs it.

Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 4 comments

Full-history distillation is slow (serial mining) + heavy CPU/memory; add parallel mining + one-shot backfill

Problem

A user wanting "valid observations on day 1" must distill their whole backlog at once, and it's slow + resource-heavy. Root cause, measured:

  • Backfill cost is dominated by SERIAL LLM calls. The mine loop (internal/distill/worker.go:113) is a plain nested for session { for lens { mine() } } with zero parallelism. Benchmarked on the CC path (this Bedrock account, representative ~3.2K-token session):
    • Haiku 4.5: ~33s/session · **Bedrock default (Opus-tier): ~57–85s/

Read the thread · 2026-07-12 · closed · 3 comments

security: harden the ingestion + MCP-serve path for UNTRUSTED input (defense-in-depth; deferred, feature-first)

Tracking issue for the security hardening witness needs once #44 ingests untrusted third-party record streams (library/service mode). Deliberately DEFERRED — building the feature first, security as a fast-follow. Filed so the research (below) isn't lost.

The load-bearing truth

Indirect prompt injection is UNSOLVED — inherent to how LLMs work (Microsoft MSRC Jul-2025; OWASP LLM01:2025, both explicit). So every control here is risk-reduction + impact-containment, never prevention.

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment

test: strengthen MCP fake-store assertions from #73-C1 (get_profile content + record/delete/search coverage)

Two minor test-quality findings from the #96 (#73-C1) adversarial review. Not defects — the refactor is behavior-preserving (79/79 methods + every SQL query verbatim, verified) — just weak new tests worth tightening. ~10 lines.

Both in internal/mcp/fakestore_test.go:

  1. get_profile assertion is partially vacuous (minor). TestServerRunsAgainstFakeStore's only content check is !ok || tc.Text == "", which ALSO passes on the server's not-found fallback branch (server.go returns a

Read the thread · 2026-07-18 · closed · 1 comment

Standalone Unix install (download-and-run, no checkout) via extract-in-place — leverage the #9 embed

Summary

The embed work in #9 (//go:embed prompts + bundle.Dir exe-relative asset resolution) already makes a built witness binary self-contained on every platform — a bare binary + the model runs doctor, capture, profile, mcp, and distillation with no checkout, no shim, and no env vars (verified on macOS: doctor/lens list from an unrelated cwd with only the binary + a sibling assets/).

The one thing still missing on Unix: **witness install claude from a standalone bi

Read the thread · 2026-07-05 · closed · 1 comment

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