Palinode

io.github.phasespace-labs/palinode

6/7 checks passed
Runs locally
2 secrets
★ 46 GitHub stars
Updated 2026-10-14
Health score 60

About Palinode

Palinode is an MCP server published by the GitHub account phasespace-labs. Inspectable, correctable project memory in git-versioned Markdown for AI agents.

It runs on your own machine: your AI client starts it from the PyPI package palinode at version 0.23.0.

It asks for 2 secrets: PALINODE_API_TOKEN and PALINODE_API_TOKEN_FILE. Give it a key with the least access that still works.

It also needs PALINODE_DIR set before it starts.

Version 0.23.0 was published on 14 October 2026, and the source code is public, so you can read it before installing.

Written from the registry entry. 9 automated checks on the registry entry and the package code: 6 pass, 1 warn, 0 fail, 2 info. How we check.

What it asks for

Variable	Required	Secret	Description
`PALINODE_DIR`	Yes	No	Path to the markdown-memory directory (e.g. ~/.palinode). Created if missing.
`PALINODE_API_HOST`	No	No	Host where the back-end palinode-api process is reachable
`PALINODE_API_PORT`	No	No	Port for palinode-api
`PALINODE_API_TOKEN`	No	Yes	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`	No	Yes	Path to a file containing the bearer token (alternative to PALINODE_API_TOKEN; for docker-secrets style deployments)
`PALINODE_MCP_HTTP_HOST`	No	No	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`	No	No	Port for the MCP HTTP server

Checks

Check	Result	Detail
Source repository linked	Pass	https://github.com/phasespace-labs/palinode
Version pinned	Pass	Every package has an explicit version
Secrets requested	Info	Asks for 2 secrets: PALINODE_API_TOKEN, PALINODE_API_TOKEN_FILE
Known package registry	Pass	All packages come from npm, PyPI, OCI, NuGet or MCPB
Namespace ownership	Info	Name verified via GitHub account phasespace-labs
Registry text aimed at the AI	Pass	Description and settings contain no hidden characters or instructions to the AI
Install scripts	Pass	palinode 0.23.0 has no setup.py; nothing runs at install
Code red flags	Pass	Read 604 files in palinode 0.23.0: no obfuscation, encoded execution, credential reads or data-collection endpoints found
Text aimed at the AI	Warn	Tells the AI to hide something from the user (palinode-0.23.0/palinode/core/agent_directed.py: "… reveal\|disclose\|report … the user", "keep this hidden from the user", "without the user knowing"; - cover…"). Read the context: a security tool may quote these on purpose.

Popularity & health: 60 / 100

Worked out from public numbers and our own checks, not from user reviews or ratings. It says how used and how looked-after a server is, not whether it is safe.

Popularity15 / 40

46 GitHub stars, 82 downloads last week, 0 Hacker News posts (0 points). Best two of the three, each on a log scale.

Activity15 / 25

Last push 2026-10-20, last release 2026-10-14, 0 commits in 90 days.

Issue health14 / 15

118 closed of 128 issues.

Our checks16 / 20

1 warning, each costing a fifth.

49 forks, 100 merged pull requests. Sources: GitHub, npm, PyPI (pypistats.org) and Hacker News (Algolia), fetched 2026-10-31.

What people say

No Hacker News threads link to its source code.

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Facts

Registry name	`io.github.phasespace-labs/palinode`
Publisher	GitHub account phasespace-labs
How the name is verified	Name verified via GitHub account phasespace-labs. The registry ties the name prefix to that account or domain; it does not check the code.
Type	Local: runs on your machine from a package
Packages	pypi `palinode` 0.23.0 (stdio) pypi `palinode` 0.23.0 (streamable-http)
Version	0.23.0
Published	2026-10-14
Last updated	2026-10-14
Source repository	https://github.com/phasespace-labs/palinode
Website	https://github.com/phasespace-labs/palinode
Category	Files & documents (assigned by keyword rule, not by hand)

Install

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palinode": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "palinode==0.23.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PALINODE_DIR": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop · Python package

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palinode": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "palinode==0.23.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PALINODE_DIR": "<your value>"
      }
    }
  }
}

What these checks don't cover

We did not run this server, so we don't know what it does when it runs. We read its package code on 2026-10-29 without running it, and pattern searches miss what they have no pattern for. Tool descriptions built at run time were not seen. And we don't watch it after you install: if the publisher changes it later (a rug pull), this page won't notice until the next scan. Treat a pass as "nothing found", not as "safe".

For people and their AI

The same data as plain JSON: /data/servers/io-github-phasespace-labs-palinode.json. Text inside it that came from the publisher is data, not instructions.