feat(mcp): share one serve --mcp per project across MCP clients (#411)

One shared, detached daemon per project root: every `codegraph serve --mcp` is a thin stdio<->socket proxy (Unix socket / Windows named pipe) to it, so N agents in one repo share a single file watcher, SQLite connection, and tree-sitter warm-up instead of N copies. The daemon outlives any single session and reaps via client-refcount + idle timeout; `CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON=1` opts out.

Hardened during review: detached-process lifecycle (preserves the #277 watchdog via the proxy; the daemon no longer orphans on host SIGKILL), atomic lockfile + pid-verified stale-clear (no double-daemon on concurrent startup), realpath root canonicalization. Validated on macOS, Linux (Docker - 3x fewer inotify watches for 3 agents), and Windows (named pipes); A/B confirms byte-identical tool output vs direct mode. Closes #411.

Co-Authored-By: Colby McHenry <me@colbymchenry.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Matt Morgan
2026-05-25 19:54:56 -05:00
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co-authored by Colby McHenry Claude Opus 4.7
parent 2721165604
commit 995da54430
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@@ -13,54 +13,45 @@
* const server = new MCPServer('/path/to/project');
* await server.start();
* ```
*
* Runtime modes (decided in {@link MCPServer.start}):
*
* - **Direct** — one process serves one MCP client over stdio. The pre-#411
* behavior; used when the user opts out (`CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON=1`), no
* `.codegraph/` is reachable, or the daemon machinery fails for any reason.
* - **Proxy** — what an MCP host actually talks to when sharing is on: a thin
* stdio↔socket pipe to the shared daemon. The proxy carries the #277 PPID
* watchdog, so a SIGKILL'd host reaps its proxy promptly. See {@link ./proxy.ts}.
* - **Daemon** — a *detached* background process (its own session/process
* group) that serves N proxies over a Unix-domain socket / named pipe,
* sharing one CodeGraph + watcher + SQLite handle. Spawned on demand; never a
* child of any host, so it survives individual sessions and is reaped by
* client-refcount + idle timeout. See {@link ./daemon.ts} and issue #411.
*
* The detached-daemon + always-proxy split is the fix for the review finding
* that the original in-process daemon (a) was the first host's child, so closing
* that terminal severed every other client, and (b) disabled the PPID watchdog,
* regressing #277 (orphaned daemons on host SIGKILL).
*/
import * as fs from 'fs';
import * as path from 'path';
import CodeGraph, { findNearestCodeGraphRoot } from '../index';
import { watchDisabledReason } from '../sync';
import { StdioTransport, JsonRpcRequest, JsonRpcNotification, ErrorCodes } from './transport';
import { tools, ToolHandler } from './tools';
import { SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS } from './server-instructions';
import { spawn, StdioOptions } from 'child_process';
import { findNearestCodeGraphRoot } from '../index';
import { getCodeGraphDir } from '../directory';
import { StdioTransport } from './transport';
import { MCPEngine } from './engine';
import { MCPSession } from './session';
import {
Daemon,
clearStaleDaemonLock,
isProcessAlive,
tryAcquireDaemonLock,
} from './daemon';
import { runProxy } from './proxy';
import { getDaemonSocketPath } from './daemon-paths';
import { HOST_PPID_ENV } from '../extraction/wasm-runtime-flags';
/**
* Convert a file:// URI to a filesystem path.
* Handles URL encoding and Windows drive letter paths.
*/
function fileUriToPath(uri: string): string {
try {
const url = new URL(uri);
let filePath = decodeURIComponent(url.pathname);
// On Windows, file:///C:/path produces pathname /C:/path — strip leading /
if (process.platform === 'win32' && /^\/[a-zA-Z]:/.test(filePath)) {
filePath = filePath.slice(1);
}
return path.resolve(filePath);
} catch {
// Fallback for non-standard URIs
return uri.replace(/^file:\/\/\/?/, '');
}
}
/**
* MCP Server Info
*/
const SERVER_INFO = {
name: 'codegraph',
version: '0.1.0',
};
/**
* MCP Protocol Version
*/
const PROTOCOL_VERSION = '2024-11-05';
/**
* How long to wait for the client's `roots/list` response before giving up
* and falling back to the process cwd.
*/
const ROOTS_LIST_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
/**
* How often to poll `process.ppid` to detect parent process death (see #277).
* 5s is a deliberate trade-off: the failure mode being guarded against is rare
@@ -68,6 +59,32 @@ const ROOTS_LIST_TIMEOUT_MS = 5000;
*/
const DEFAULT_PPID_POLL_MS = 5000;
/**
* Env var that marks a process as the *detached daemon* itself (set by
* {@link spawnDetachedDaemon} when it re-invokes the CLI). Without it a
* `serve --mcp` invocation is a launcher that connects-or-spawns; with it, the
* process IS the daemon and must never try to spawn another (infinite spawn).
*/
const DAEMON_INTERNAL_ENV = 'CODEGRAPH_DAEMON_INTERNAL';
/**
* Retries for the detached daemon arbitrating the O_EXCL lock against a racing
* sibling. Tiny — the lock resolves on the first round in practice; the retries
* only cover clearing a genuinely stale (dead-pid) lockfile.
*/
const TAKEOVER_MAX_RETRIES = 5;
const TAKEOVER_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 100;
/**
* How long a launcher waits for a freshly-spawned daemon to bind its socket
* before giving up and running in-process. The daemon binds the socket *before*
* the (backgrounded) engine/grammar warm-up, so this only needs to cover node
* process startup. 60 × 100ms = 6s of headroom for a cold/slow box; on the
* common path the socket appears within a few rounds.
*/
const DAEMON_CONNECT_MAX_RETRIES = 60;
const DAEMON_CONNECT_RETRY_DELAY_MS = 100;
/**
* Resolve the PPID watchdog poll interval from an env override. A value of
* `0` disables the watchdog entirely (escape hatch for embedded scenarios
@@ -96,28 +113,84 @@ function parseHostPpid(raw: string | undefined): number | null {
return parsed;
}
/** True if a process with `pid` currently exists (signal-0 probe). */
function isProcessAlive(pid: number): boolean {
try {
process.kill(pid, 0);
return true;
} catch {
return false;
}
/** Whether `CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON` was set to a truthy value. */
function daemonOptOutSet(): boolean {
const raw = process.env.CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON;
if (!raw) return false;
return raw !== '0' && raw.toLowerCase() !== 'false';
}
/** Whether this process was spawned to BE the detached daemon. */
function daemonInternalSet(): boolean {
const raw = process.env[DAEMON_INTERNAL_ENV];
return !!raw && raw !== '0' && raw.toLowerCase() !== 'false';
}
/**
* Extract the first usable filesystem path from a `roots/list` result.
* Shape per MCP spec: `{ roots: [{ uri: "file:///path", name?: string }] }`.
* Returns null if the result is empty or malformed.
* Resolve the project root the daemon machinery should key on. Returns
* `null` when no `.codegraph/` is reachable from the candidate path — in
* that case the caller must run in direct mode, since the daemon lockfile
* and socket both live under `.codegraph/`.
*
* The result is canonicalized with `realpathSync` so every client converges on
* the same socket/lock path regardless of how it expressed the path: a client
* launched with cwd under a symlink (e.g. macOS `/var` → `/private/var`, where
* spawned `process.cwd()` is already realpath'd) and one that passed a
* symlinked `rootUri` would otherwise hash to different sockets and silently
* fail to share the daemon.
*/
function firstRootPath(result: unknown): string | null {
if (!result || typeof result !== 'object') return null;
const roots = (result as { roots?: unknown }).roots;
if (!Array.isArray(roots) || roots.length === 0) return null;
const first = roots[0] as { uri?: unknown };
if (typeof first?.uri !== 'string') return null;
return fileUriToPath(first.uri);
function resolveDaemonRoot(explicitPath: string | null): string | null {
const candidate = explicitPath ?? process.cwd();
const root = findNearestCodeGraphRoot(candidate);
if (!root) return null;
try { return fs.realpathSync(root); } catch { return root; }
}
/**
* Spawn the shared daemon as a fully detached background process: its own
* session/process group (so a SIGHUP/SIGINT to the launcher's terminal can't
* reach it) with stdio decoupled from the launcher (logs to
* `.codegraph/daemon.log`). Re-invokes the *same* CLI faithfully across dev and
* bundled launches by reusing `process.argv[0]` (the right node), the current
* `process.execArgv` (carries `--liftoff-only`, so the daemon never re-execs)
* and `process.argv[1]` (this script). The spawned process self-arbitrates the
* O_EXCL lock, so racing launchers may each spawn one — losers exit and every
* launcher proxies through the single winner.
*/
function spawnDetachedDaemon(root: string): void {
const scriptPath = process.argv[1];
if (!scriptPath) {
// No resolvable CLI entry point to re-invoke — let the caller fall back to
// direct mode rather than spawn something broken.
throw new Error('cannot resolve CLI script path to spawn the daemon');
}
let logFd: number | null = null;
let stdio: StdioOptions = 'ignore';
try {
logFd = fs.openSync(path.join(getCodeGraphDir(root), 'daemon.log'), 'a');
stdio = ['ignore', logFd, logFd];
} catch {
stdio = 'ignore'; // no log file — discard daemon output rather than fail
}
try {
const child = spawn(
process.execPath,
[...process.execArgv, scriptPath, 'serve', '--mcp', '--path', root],
{
detached: true,
stdio,
windowsHide: true,
env: { ...process.env, [DAEMON_INTERNAL_ENV]: '1' },
},
);
child.unref();
} finally {
// The child holds its own dup of the log fd now; the launcher doesn't need it.
if (logFd !== null) {
try { fs.closeSync(logFd); } catch { /* ignore */ }
}
}
}
/**
@@ -125,281 +198,88 @@ function firstRootPath(result: unknown): string | null {
*
* Implements the Model Context Protocol to expose CodeGraph
* functionality as tools that can be called by AI assistants.
*
* Backwards-compatible constructor and `start()` signature with the
* pre-issue-#411 implementation: callers continue to do
* `new MCPServer(path).start()`. Internally we now pick from direct / proxy /
* daemon at start time.
*/
export class MCPServer {
private transport: StdioTransport;
private cg: CodeGraph | null = null;
private toolHandler: ToolHandler;
private projectPath: string | null;
// In-flight background init kicked off from handleInitialize. Tracked so the
// sync retry path doesn't race against it (double-opening the SQLite file).
private initPromise: Promise<void> | null = null;
// Whether the client advertised the MCP `roots` capability during initialize.
// If so, and no explicit project path was given, we ask it for the workspace
// root via roots/list rather than guessing from the (often wrong) cwd.
private clientSupportsRoots = false;
// Guards the one-shot deferred resolution (roots/list or cwd) so we don't
// re-issue roots/list on every tool call.
private rootsAttempted = false;
// PPID watchdog — see start(). Captured at construction so we always have a
// Direct-mode-only state. In daemon mode the per-connection sessions live
// inside the Daemon class; in proxy mode there is no session at all.
private session: MCPSession | null = null;
private engine: MCPEngine | null = null;
private daemon: Daemon | null = null;
private ppidWatchdog: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null = null;
// PPID watchdog baseline — captured at construction so we always have a
// baseline, even if start() runs after a fork-style reparent.
private originalPpid: number = process.ppid;
// The MCP host's PID, propagated across the `--liftoff-only` re-exec (see
// HOST_PPID_ENV). When set, the watchdog polls it directly: the re-exec
// inserts an intermediate process whose *death* — not just our reparenting —
// is what we'd otherwise miss. null on the direct (bundled) launch path.
private hostPpid: number | null = parseHostPpid(process.env[HOST_PPID_ENV]);
private ppidWatchdog: ReturnType<typeof setInterval> | null = null;
// Idempotency guard for stop(). Without it, the watchdog can race with the
// stdin `end`/`close` handlers (or SIGTERM/SIGINT) and double-close cg and
// the transport before process.exit() lands.
// Idempotency guard for stop().
private stopped = false;
private mode: 'unstarted' | 'direct' | 'proxy' | 'daemon' = 'unstarted';
constructor(projectPath?: string) {
this.projectPath = projectPath || null;
this.transport = new StdioTransport();
// Create ToolHandler eagerly — cross-project queries work even without a default project
this.toolHandler = new ToolHandler(null);
}
/**
* Start the MCP server
* Start the MCP server.
*
* Note: CodeGraph initialization is deferred until the initialize request
* is received, which includes the rootUri from the client.
* Decision order:
* 1. `CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON=1` → direct mode (unchanged pre-#411 behavior).
* 2. `CODEGRAPH_DAEMON_INTERNAL=1` → we ARE the detached daemon; listen.
* 3. No `.codegraph/` reachable → direct mode (the daemon's lockfile and
* socket both live under `.codegraph/`).
* 4. Otherwise connect to (or spawn) the shared daemon and proxy to it.
*
* On any unexpected failure in step 4 we transparently fall back to direct
* mode — a misbehaving daemon must never block a session from starting.
*/
async start(): Promise<void> {
// Start listening for messages immediately - don't check initialization yet
// We'll get the project path from the initialize request's rootUri
this.transport.start(this.handleMessage.bind(this));
// Keep the process running
process.on('SIGINT', () => this.stop());
process.on('SIGTERM', () => this.stop());
// When the parent process (Claude Code) exits, stdin closes.
// Detect this and shut down gracefully to prevent orphaned processes.
process.stdin.on('end', () => this.stop());
process.stdin.on('close', () => this.stop());
// PPID watchdog (#277). Linux doesn't propagate parent death to children,
// so when the MCP host (Claude Code, opencode, …) is SIGKILL'd by the OOM
// killer / a force-quit / a container teardown, the child is reparented to
// init/systemd and the stdin `end`/`close` events don't always fire. The
// server would then linger indefinitely, holding inotify watches, file
// descriptors, and the SQLite WAL. Poll `process.ppid` and shut down the
// moment it changes from what we observed at startup. Cross-platform:
// reparenting changes ppid on Linux *and* macOS; on Windows the value can
// also drop to 0 once the parent is gone. When the CLI re-execs itself for
// `--liftoff-only`, an intermediate process sits between us and the host and
// outlives it, so our own ppid wouldn't change — in that case we poll the
// host PID (propagated via HOST_PPID_ENV) for liveness instead. The watchdog
// is `.unref()`'d so it never holds the event loop open on its own.
const pollMs = parsePpidPollMs(process.env.CODEGRAPH_PPID_POLL_MS);
if (pollMs > 0) {
this.ppidWatchdog = setInterval(() => {
const current = process.ppid;
const ppidChanged = current !== this.originalPpid;
const hostGone = this.hostPpid !== null && !isProcessAlive(this.hostPpid);
if (ppidChanged || hostGone) {
const reason = ppidChanged
? `ppid ${this.originalPpid} -> ${current}`
: `host pid ${this.hostPpid} exited`;
process.stderr.write(
`[CodeGraph MCP] Parent process exited (${reason}); shutting down.\n`
);
this.stop();
}
}, pollMs);
this.ppidWatchdog.unref();
}
}
/**
* Try to initialize CodeGraph for the default project.
*
* Walks up parent directories to find the nearest .codegraph/ folder,
* similar to how git finds .git/ directories.
*
* If initialization fails, the error is recorded but the server continues
* to work — cross-project queries and retries on subsequent tool calls
* are still possible.
*/
private async tryInitializeDefault(projectPath: string): Promise<void> {
// Record where we searched so a later "not initialized" error can name it.
this.toolHandler.setDefaultProjectHint(projectPath);
// Walk up parent directories to find nearest .codegraph/
const resolvedRoot = findNearestCodeGraphRoot(projectPath);
if (!resolvedRoot) {
this.projectPath = projectPath;
return;
// The detached daemon process itself. Checked before the opt-out so the
// daemon honors the same env it was spawned with (it never sets NO_DAEMON).
if (daemonInternalSet()) {
return this.startDaemonProcess();
}
this.projectPath = resolvedRoot;
// Direct mode if the user opted out. Setting the env var is sufficient to
// get the pre-#411 single-process behavior.
if (daemonOptOutSet()) {
return this.startDirect('CODEGRAPH_NO_DAEMON set');
}
const root = resolveDaemonRoot(this.projectPath);
if (!root) {
// No initialized project found — daemon mode has nowhere to put its
// socket. The fresh-checkout / outside-project case; behave as before.
return this.startDirect('no .codegraph/ root found');
}
try {
this.cg = await CodeGraph.open(resolvedRoot);
this.toolHandler.setDefaultCodeGraph(this.cg);
this.startWatching();
this.catchUpSync();
} catch (err) {
// Log the error so transient failures are diagnosable (see issue #47)
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Failed to open project at ${resolvedRoot}: ${msg}\n`);
}
}
/**
* Retry initialization of the default project if it previously failed.
* Called lazily on tool calls that need the default project.
* Re-walks parent directories each time so it picks up projects
* initialized after the MCP server started.
*
* Awaits any in-flight background init (kicked off by handleInitialize) so
* we never open the SQLite file twice concurrently.
*/
private async retryInitIfNeeded(): Promise<void> {
// Wait for the background init started during handleInitialize, if any.
if (this.initPromise) {
try { await this.initPromise; } catch { /* errored init falls through to retry */ }
}
// Already initialized successfully
if (this.toolHandler.hasDefaultCodeGraph()) return;
// No explicit path was given at initialize. Resolve it now, exactly once:
// ask the client via roots/list (if it advertised roots), else use cwd.
// Deferring to here lets a roots answer override the wrong cwd, and the
// one-shot guard means we never re-issue roots/list per tool call.
if (!this.projectPath && !this.rootsAttempted) {
this.rootsAttempted = true;
this.initPromise = (
this.clientSupportsRoots
? this.initFromRoots()
: this.tryInitializeDefault(process.cwd())
).finally(() => { this.initPromise = null; });
try { await this.initPromise; } catch { /* fall through to last-resort below */ }
if (this.toolHandler.hasDefaultCodeGraph()) return;
}
// Last resort: re-walk from the best candidate we have. Picks up projects
// initialized after the server started, and covers clients that sent no
// usable initialize signal at all.
const candidate = this.projectPath ?? process.cwd();
this.toolHandler.setDefaultProjectHint(candidate);
const resolvedRoot = findNearestCodeGraphRoot(candidate);
if (!resolvedRoot) return;
try {
// Close any previously failed instance to avoid leaking resources
if (this.cg) {
try { this.cg.close(); } catch { /* ignore */ }
this.cg = null;
const mode = await this.connectOrSpawnDaemon(root);
if (mode === 'fallback') {
return this.startDirect('daemon unavailable; fallback to direct');
}
this.cg = CodeGraph.openSync(resolvedRoot);
this.projectPath = resolvedRoot;
this.toolHandler.setDefaultCodeGraph(this.cg);
this.startWatching();
this.catchUpSync();
} catch {
// Still failing — will retry on next tool call
}
}
/**
* Resolve the project root via the MCP `roots/list` request and initialize
* from the first root the client reports. Falls back to the process cwd if
* the client returns no usable root or doesn't answer in time. See issue #196.
*/
private async initFromRoots(): Promise<void> {
let target = process.cwd();
try {
const result = await this.transport.request('roots/list', undefined, ROOTS_LIST_TIMEOUT_MS);
const rootPath = firstRootPath(result);
if (rootPath) {
target = rootPath;
} else {
process.stderr.write('[CodeGraph MCP] Client returned no workspace roots; falling back to process cwd.\n');
}
} catch (err) {
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] roots/list request failed (${msg}); falling back to process cwd.\n`);
}
await this.tryInitializeDefault(target);
}
/**
* Start file watching on the active CodeGraph instance.
* Logs sync activity to stderr for diagnostics.
*/
private startWatching(): void {
if (!this.cg) return;
// When the watcher is intentionally disabled (e.g. WSL2 /mnt drives, or
// CODEGRAPH_NO_WATCH=1), say so explicitly and tell the user how to keep
// the graph fresh — otherwise the silent staleness is hard to diagnose.
const disabledReason = watchDisabledReason(this.projectPath ?? process.cwd());
if (disabledReason) {
process.stderr.write(
`[CodeGraph MCP] File watcher disabled — ${disabledReason}. ` +
`The graph will not auto-update; run \`codegraph sync\` (or install the git sync hooks via \`codegraph init\`) to refresh.\n`
);
// 'proxy': connectOrSpawnDaemon ran the stdio↔socket pipe to completion
// (it only returns once the host disconnected). The process is now
// expected to terminate naturally — the proxy installed its own watchdog.
this.mode = 'proxy';
return;
}
const started = this.cg.watch({
onSyncComplete: (result) => {
if (result.filesChanged > 0) {
process.stderr.write(
`[CodeGraph MCP] Auto-synced ${result.filesChanged} file(s) in ${result.durationMs}ms\n`
);
}
},
onSyncError: (err) => {
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Auto-sync error: ${err.message}\n`);
},
});
if (started) {
process.stderr.write('[CodeGraph MCP] File watcher active — graph will auto-sync on changes\n');
} else {
// start() can also return false when recursive fs.watch isn't supported.
process.stderr.write(
'[CodeGraph MCP] File watcher unavailable on this platform — run `codegraph sync` to refresh the graph after changes.\n'
);
} catch (err) {
// Belt-and-braces: if anything throws inside the daemon machinery,
// never wedge the user — fall back to a working direct-mode session.
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Daemon path failed (${msg}); falling back to direct mode.\n`);
return this.startDirect('daemon path threw');
}
}
/**
* Reconcile the index with the current filesystem once, right after connect —
* catches edits, adds, deletes, and `git pull`/`checkout` changes made while
* no watcher was running. Runs in the background so it never delays the
* `initialize` response; `sync()` is incremental (a stat pre-filter skips
* unchanged files) and mutex-guarded, so it can't collide with the live
* watcher or a git-hook sync. Runs even when the watcher is unavailable
* (e.g. WSL2 /mnt drives), where catch-up matters most.
*/
private catchUpSync(): void {
const cg = this.cg;
if (!cg) return;
void cg
.sync()
.then((result) => {
const changed = result.filesAdded + result.filesModified + result.filesRemoved;
if (changed > 0) {
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Caught up ${changed} file(s) changed since last run\n`);
}
})
.catch((err) => {
const msg = err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err);
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Catch-up sync failed: ${msg}\n`);
});
}
/**
* Stop the server
* Stop the server. In daemon mode this triggers graceful shutdown of every
* connected session; in direct mode it mirrors the pre-#411 behavior (close
* cg, exit). Proxy mode never routes through here — the proxy exits itself.
*/
stop(): void {
if (this.stopped) return;
@@ -408,181 +288,166 @@ export class MCPServer {
clearInterval(this.ppidWatchdog);
this.ppidWatchdog = null;
}
// Close all cached cross-project connections first
this.toolHandler.closeAll();
// Close the main CodeGraph instance
if (this.cg) {
this.cg.close();
this.cg = null;
if (this.daemon) {
void this.daemon.stop('stop()');
// Daemon.stop calls process.exit; nothing else to do.
return;
}
this.transport.stop();
if (this.session) {
this.session.stop();
this.session = null;
}
if (this.engine) {
this.engine.stop();
this.engine = null;
}
process.exit(0);
}
/** Single-process stdio MCP session — the pre-issue-#411 code path. */
private async startDirect(reason: string): Promise<void> {
if (reason && process.env.CODEGRAPH_MCP_DEBUG) {
process.stderr.write(`[CodeGraph MCP] Direct mode: ${reason}.\n`);
}
this.engine = new MCPEngine();
const transport = new StdioTransport();
this.session = new MCPSession(transport, this.engine, {
explicitProjectPath: this.projectPath,
});
if (this.projectPath) {
// Background init so the initialize response stays fast (#172).
void this.engine.ensureInitialized(this.projectPath);
}
this.session.start();
// Detect parent-process death — same logic as pre-refactor. When stdin
// closes we go through StdioTransport's `process.exit(0)` already, but
// SIGKILL of the parent doesn't reliably close stdin on Linux (#277).
process.stdin.on('end', () => this.stop());
process.stdin.on('close', () => this.stop());
this.mode = 'direct';
this.installSignalHandlers();
this.installPpidWatchdog();
}
/**
* Run as the detached shared daemon (process spawned with
* `CODEGRAPH_DAEMON_INTERNAL=1`). Arbitrate the O_EXCL lock, then either
* become the daemon (bind the socket, serve forever) or — if a live daemon
* already holds the lock — exit so we don't leak a redundant process.
*
* No PPID watchdog and no stdin handlers: the daemon is detached on purpose
* and reaps itself via client-refcount + idle timeout (see {@link Daemon}).
*/
private async startDaemonProcess(): Promise<void> {
const root = resolveDaemonRoot(this.projectPath) ?? this.projectPath ?? process.cwd();
for (let attempt = 0; attempt < TAKEOVER_MAX_RETRIES; attempt++) {
const lock = tryAcquireDaemonLock(root);
if (lock.kind === 'acquired') {
const daemon = new Daemon(root);
await daemon.start();
this.daemon = daemon;
this.mode = 'daemon';
return; // the net.Server keeps the process alive
}
// Taken. If the holder is alive, another daemon already serves (or is
// binding) — we're redundant; exit cleanly so the launcher proxies to it.
const existing = lock.existing;
if (existing && existing.pid > 0 && isProcessAlive(existing.pid)) {
process.stderr.write(
`[CodeGraph daemon] Another daemon (pid ${existing.pid}) already holds the lock; exiting.\n`
);
process.exit(0);
}
// Holder is dead (or the record is unreadable) — clear it (pid-verified,
// so we never delete a live daemon's lock) and retry the acquire.
clearStaleDaemonLock(lock.pidPath, existing?.pid);
await sleep(TAKEOVER_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
}
process.stderr.write('[CodeGraph daemon] Could not acquire the daemon lock; exiting.\n');
process.exit(0);
}
/**
* Handle incoming JSON-RPC messages
* Become a proxy to the shared daemon, spawning the daemon first if none is
* reachable. Returns 'proxy' once the proxied session has run to completion
* (the host disconnected), or 'fallback' if the caller should run in-process.
*/
private async handleMessage(message: JsonRpcRequest | JsonRpcNotification): Promise<void> {
// Check if it's a request (has id) or notification (no id)
const isRequest = 'id' in message;
private async connectOrSpawnDaemon(root: string): Promise<'proxy' | 'fallback'> {
const socketPath = getDaemonSocketPath(root);
switch (message.method) {
case 'initialize':
if (isRequest) {
await this.handleInitialize(message as JsonRpcRequest);
}
break;
// Fast path: a daemon may already be listening. On success runProxy pipes
// stdio until the host disconnects, so a 'proxied' outcome means this
// process has finished its entire job.
let probe = await runProxy(socketPath);
if (probe.outcome === 'proxied') return 'proxy';
if (probe.reason === 'version mismatch') return 'fallback';
case 'initialized':
// Notification that client has finished initialization
// No action needed - the client is ready
break;
// No reachable daemon — spawn one (detached) and wait for it to bind.
spawnDetachedDaemon(root);
case 'tools/list':
if (isRequest) {
await this.handleToolsList(message as JsonRpcRequest);
}
break;
case 'tools/call':
if (isRequest) {
await this.handleToolsCall(message as JsonRpcRequest);
}
break;
case 'ping':
if (isRequest) {
this.transport.sendResult((message as JsonRpcRequest).id, {});
}
break;
default:
if (isRequest) {
this.transport.sendError(
(message as JsonRpcRequest).id,
ErrorCodes.MethodNotFound,
`Method not found: ${message.method}`
);
}
for (let attempt = 0; attempt < DAEMON_CONNECT_MAX_RETRIES; attempt++) {
await sleep(DAEMON_CONNECT_RETRY_DELAY_MS);
probe = await runProxy(socketPath);
if (probe.outcome === 'proxied') return 'proxy';
if (probe.reason === 'version mismatch') return 'fallback';
}
// Daemon never came up in time — run in-process so the user is never blocked.
return 'fallback';
}
/** Standard SIGINT/SIGTERM handlers that route to our `stop()` (direct mode). */
private installSignalHandlers(): void {
process.on('SIGINT', () => this.stop());
process.on('SIGTERM', () => this.stop());
}
/**
* Handle initialize request
* PPID watchdog (#277) — direct mode only. Daemon mode is detached on purpose
* and reaps via idle timeout; proxy mode installs its own watchdog inside
* {@link runProxy}. So this only ever runs for an in-process direct session.
*/
private async handleInitialize(request: JsonRpcRequest): Promise<void> {
const params = request.params as {
rootUri?: string;
workspaceFolders?: Array<{ uri: string; name: string }>;
capabilities?: { roots?: unknown };
} | undefined;
// Does the client support the MCP `roots` protocol? If so, and we have no
// explicit path, we ask it for the workspace root after the handshake
// instead of falling back to the (frequently wrong) cwd. See issue #196.
this.clientSupportsRoots = !!params?.capabilities?.roots;
// Explicit project signal, strongest first: a client-provided rootUri /
// workspaceFolders (LSP-style, non-standard but some clients send it), else
// the --path the server was launched with. cwd is NOT used here — we defer
// it so a roots/list answer can win over it.
let explicitPath: string | null = null;
if (params?.rootUri) {
explicitPath = fileUriToPath(params.rootUri);
} else if (params?.workspaceFolders?.[0]?.uri) {
explicitPath = fileUriToPath(params.workspaceFolders[0].uri);
} else if (this.projectPath) {
explicitPath = this.projectPath;
}
// Respond to the handshake BEFORE doing any heavy initialization. Loading
// the SQLite DB and the tree-sitter WASM runtime can take many seconds on
// slow filesystems (Docker Desktop VirtioFS on macOS, WSL2). Clients like
// Claude Code time out the handshake at ~30s, which manifested as
// "MCP tools never appear" — the child was alive and had received the
// initialize but was still awaiting initGrammars(). See issue #172.
//
// We accept the client's protocol version but respond with our supported
// version. The `instructions` field is surfaced by MCP clients in the
// agent's system prompt automatically — it's the right place for the
// universal tool-selection playbook, ahead of individual tool descriptions.
this.transport.sendResult(request.id, {
protocolVersion: PROTOCOL_VERSION,
capabilities: {
tools: {},
},
serverInfo: SERVER_INFO,
instructions: SERVER_INSTRUCTIONS,
});
// If we know the project dir, kick off init in the background now. Tool
// calls that arrive before it finishes fall through to `retryInitIfNeeded`,
// which waits for this promise rather than racing it with a second open.
//
// If we DON'T know it (no rootUri, no --path), defer: the first tool call
// resolves it via roots/list (when the client supports roots) or cwd. This
// is the fix for issue #196 — clients that launch the server outside the
// project and don't pass a rootUri previously got a misleading "not
// initialized" error on every call.
if (explicitPath) {
this.initPromise = this.tryInitializeDefault(explicitPath).finally(() => {
this.initPromise = null;
});
}
private installPpidWatchdog(): void {
if (this.mode !== 'direct') return;
const pollMs = parsePpidPollMs(process.env.CODEGRAPH_PPID_POLL_MS);
if (pollMs <= 0) return;
this.ppidWatchdog = setInterval(() => {
const current = process.ppid;
const ppidChanged = current !== this.originalPpid;
const hostGone = this.hostPpid !== null && !isProcessAlive(this.hostPpid);
if (ppidChanged || hostGone) {
const reason = ppidChanged
? `ppid ${this.originalPpid} -> ${current}`
: `host pid ${this.hostPpid} exited`;
process.stderr.write(
`[CodeGraph MCP] Parent process exited (${reason}); shutting down.\n`
);
this.stop();
}
}, pollMs);
this.ppidWatchdog.unref();
}
}
/**
* Handle tools/list request
*/
private async handleToolsList(request: JsonRpcRequest): Promise<void> {
await this.retryInitIfNeeded();
this.transport.sendResult(request.id, {
tools: this.toolHandler.getTools(),
});
}
/**
* Handle tools/call request
*/
private async handleToolsCall(request: JsonRpcRequest): Promise<void> {
const params = request.params as {
name: string;
arguments?: Record<string, unknown>;
};
if (!params || !params.name) {
this.transport.sendError(
request.id,
ErrorCodes.InvalidParams,
'Missing tool name'
);
return;
}
const toolName = params.name;
const toolArgs = params.arguments || {};
// Validate tool exists
const tool = tools.find(t => t.name === toolName);
if (!tool) {
this.transport.sendError(
request.id,
ErrorCodes.InvalidParams,
`Unknown tool: ${toolName}`
);
return;
}
// If the default project isn't initialized yet, retry in case it was
// initialized after the MCP server started (e.g. user ran codegraph init)
await this.retryInitIfNeeded();
const result = await this.toolHandler.execute(toolName, toolArgs);
this.transport.sendResult(request.id, result);
}
function sleep(ms: number): Promise<void> {
// Deliberately NOT unref'd. During the daemon connect/takeover retry loop we
// may be between processes — no socket bound yet, no transport, no listener
// pinning the event loop. An unref'd timer would let Node drain the loop and
// exit silently before we get a chance to try again.
return new Promise((resolve) => { setTimeout(resolve, ms); });
}
// Export for use in CLI
export { StdioTransport } from './transport';
export { tools, ToolHandler } from './tools';
// Surface a few daemon-mode bits for tests + diagnostics.
export { Daemon } from './daemon';
export { CodeGraphPackageVersion } from './version';