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Git-versioned markdown memory for AI agents: save, search, compact, lint, and audit.

The current version, v0.20.0, was published to the official MCP registry on 2026-09-13. It is distributed as palinode on PyPI, filed under Search by this index, and declares 7 environment variables. Removals and unreachable sources are measured across every server this index tracks, contract drift across the servers that answer in consecutive snapshots; the index's current counts put this record in context.

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Trust verdict · v1 advisory · method
REVIEWstatus: PARTIALfresh until 2026-09-21 00:14 UTC
screened 2026-07-06tier: scannedgranularity: description-levelsource: registry

Semantic screen found no manipulation pattern in the description. Conformance probe not yet run.

mcpindex.integrity.descriptionpassINFO

evidence“No malicious instructions found”via static_description

Limits of this verdict
  • - Semantic screen only - the deterministic conformance probe has not run on this server
  • - Confidence is reported but not yet calibrated (v1)
  • - Screen reads the tool description, not the live behavior
  • - advisory
  • - registry description only no input schema
  • - screen model 8b
  • - Still current: the description we screened is unchanged, re-checked against the registry
  • - The registry listing (version, packages, links) changed after this screen ran - the description we assessed did not

Semantic screen: an LLM judge reads the tool description for hidden instructions (status PARTIAL). A pass means the description is not lying, not that the tool is safe: a high-capability tool with an honest description still warrants caution. The deterministic conformance probe has not been run on this server yet, so the screen here is semantic-only. Posture: advisory. Confidences are reported but not yet calibrated (calibrated=false at v1). Full verdict history is not shown on this page.

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That verdict was true at screening time (snapshot 2026-09-14).

Contracts can change after screening, with no version bump. The gate pins Palinode’s tool contracts on first sight and holds any silent change before your agent acts - the check that keeps being true on Tuesday.

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Related: how to trust an MCP server · screen before install · silent contract drift

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Environment variables
PALINODE_DIR
required

Path to the markdown-memory directory (e.g. ~/.palinode). Created if missing.

PALINODE_API_HOST

Host where the back-end palinode-api process is reachable

PALINODE_API_PORT

Port for palinode-api

PALINODE_API_TOKEN
secret

Optional bearer token enforced on every palinode-api request other than /health. Required when PALINODE_API_BIND_INTENT=public. Generate with: python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))'.

PALINODE_API_TOKEN_FILE
secret

Path to a file containing the bearer token (alternative to PALINODE_API_TOKEN; for docker-secrets style deployments)

PALINODE_DIR
required

Path to the markdown-memory directory

PALINODE_MCP_HTTP_HOST

Bind host for the MCP HTTP server. Defaults to loopback; set to 0.0.0.0 only with intentional network exposure (paired with PALINODE_API_BIND_INTENT=public on the back-end).

PALINODE_MCP_HTTP_PORT

Port for the MCP HTTP server

PALINODE_API_HOST

Host where the back-end palinode-api is reachable

PALINODE_API_PORT

Port for palinode-api

PALINODE_API_TOKEN
secret

Bearer token enforced by palinode-api. Required when binding non-loopback. Generate with: python -c 'import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))'.

PALINODE_API_TOKEN_FILE
secret

Path to a file containing the bearer token (alternative to PALINODE_API_TOKEN)

MCP quality score · maturity, not trust · methodology
freshness
25
completeness
20
installability
25
documentation
15
stability
5
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