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MCP Tools Reference

Detailed parameter schemas for all 30 MCP tools.

Palace — Read Tools

mempalace_status

Palace overview: total drawers, wing and room counts, AAAK spec, and memory protocol.

Parameters: None

Returns: { total_drawers, wings, rooms, protocol, aaak_dialect }

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mempalace_list_wings

List all wings with drawer counts.

Parameters: None

Returns: { wings: { "wing_name": count } }

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mempalace_list_rooms

List rooms within a wing (or all rooms if no wing given).

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing	string	No	Wing to list rooms for

Returns: { wing, rooms: { "room_name": count } }

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mempalace_get_taxonomy

Full wing → room → drawer count tree.

Parameters: None

Returns: { taxonomy: { "wing": { "room": count } } }

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mempalace_search

Semantic search. Returns verbatim drawer content with similarity scores.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	Yes	What to search for
limit	integer	No	Max results (default: 5)
wing	string	No	Filter by wing
room	string	No	Filter by room

Returns: { query, filters, results: [{ text, wing, room, source_file, similarity }] }

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mempalace_check_duplicate

Check if content already exists in the palace before filing.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
content	string	Yes	Content to check
threshold	number	No	Similarity threshold 0–1 (default: 0.85–0.87)

Returns: { is_duplicate, matches: [{ id, wing, room, similarity, content }] }

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mempalace_get_aaak_spec

Returns the AAAK dialect specification.

Parameters: None

Returns: { aaak_spec: "..." }

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Palace — Write Tools

mempalace_add_drawer

File verbatim content into the palace. Identical content (same deterministic drawer ID) is silently skipped. For similarity-based duplicate detection before filing, use mempalace_check_duplicate.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing	string	Yes	Wing (project name)
room	string	Yes	Room (aspect: backend, decisions, etc.)
content	string	Yes	Verbatim content to store
source_file	string	No	Where this came from
added_by	string	No	Who is filing (default: "mcp")

Returns: { success, drawer_id, wing, room }

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mempalace_delete_drawer

Delete a drawer by ID. Irreversible.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
drawer_id	string	Yes	ID of the drawer to delete

Returns: { success, drawer_id }

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mempalace_sync

Prune drawers whose source files are gitignored, deleted, or moved. Returns a dry-run report by default; pass apply=true to commit deletions.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
project_dir	string	No	Project root to scope the sync (auto-detected from drawer metadata if omitted)
wing	string	No	Limit to one wing
apply	boolean	No	Actually delete drawers; default is dry-run preview

Returns: { scanned, kept, gitignored, missing, no_source, out_of_scope, removed_drawers, removed_closets, dry_run, by_source }

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mempalace_get_drawer

Fetch a single drawer by ID — returns full content and metadata.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
drawer_id	string	Yes	ID of the drawer to fetch

Returns: { drawer_id, content, wing, room, metadata } where metadata.source_file, when present, is the basename only — the absolute path written by the miners is reduced before the dict is returned to MCP clients.

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mempalace_list_drawers

List drawers with pagination. Optional wing/room filter. Returns IDs, wings, rooms, and content previews.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing	string	No	Filter by wing
room	string	No	Filter by room
limit	integer	No	Max results per page (default 20, max 100)
offset	integer	No	Offset for pagination (default 0)

Returns: { drawers: [...], total, limit, offset }

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mempalace_update_drawer

Update an existing drawer's content and/or metadata (wing, room). Fetches the existing drawer first; returns an error if not found.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
drawer_id	string	Yes	ID of the drawer to update
content	string	No	New content (omit to keep existing)
wing	string	No	New wing (omit to keep existing)
room	string	No	New room (omit to keep existing)

Returns: { success, drawer_id, updated_fields }

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Knowledge Graph Tools

mempalace_kg_query

Query entity relationships with time filtering.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
entity	string	Yes	Entity to query (e.g. "Max", "MyProject")
as_of	string	No	Date filter — only facts valid at this date (YYYY-MM-DD)
direction	string	No	outgoing, incoming, or both (default: both)

Returns: { entity, as_of, facts: [{ direction, subject, predicate, object, valid_from, valid_to, current }], count }

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mempalace_kg_add

Add a fact to the knowledge graph.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
subject	string	Yes	The entity doing/being something
predicate	string	Yes	Relationship type (e.g. "loves", "works_on")
object	string	Yes	The entity being connected to
valid_from	string	No	When this became true (YYYY-MM-DD)
source_closet	string	No	Closet ID where this fact appears

Returns: { success, triple_id, fact }

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mempalace_kg_invalidate

Mark a fact as no longer true.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
subject	string	Yes	Entity
predicate	string	Yes	Relationship
object	string	Yes	Connected entity
ended	string	No	When it stopped being true (default: today)

Returns: { success, fact, ended }

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mempalace_kg_timeline

Chronological timeline of facts.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
entity	string	No	Entity to get timeline for (omit for full timeline)

Returns: { entity, timeline: [{ subject, predicate, object, valid_from, valid_to, current }], count }

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mempalace_kg_stats

Knowledge graph overview.

Parameters: None

Returns: { entities, triples, current_facts, expired_facts, relationship_types }

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Navigation Tools

mempalace_traverse

Walk the palace graph from a room. Find connected ideas across wings.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
start_room	string	Yes	Room to start from
max_hops	integer	No	How many connections to follow (default: 2)

Returns: [{ room, wings, halls, count, hop, connected_via }]

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mempalace_find_tunnels

Find rooms that bridge two wings.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing_a	string	No	First wing
wing_b	string	No	Second wing

Returns: [{ room, wings, halls, count, recent }]

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mempalace_graph_stats

Palace graph overview: nodes, tunnels, edges, connectivity.

Parameters: None

Returns: { total_rooms, tunnel_rooms, total_edges, rooms_per_wing, top_tunnels }

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mempalace_create_tunnel

Create a cross-wing tunnel linking two palace locations. Use when content in one project relates to another — e.g., an API design in project_api connects to a database schema in project_database.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
source_wing	string	Yes	Wing of the source
source_room	string	Yes	Room in the source wing
target_wing	string	Yes	Wing of the target
target_room	string	Yes	Room in the target wing
label	string	No	Description of the connection
source_drawer_id	string	No	Specific source drawer ID
target_drawer_id	string	No	Specific target drawer ID

Returns: { success, tunnel_id, source, target }

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mempalace_list_tunnels

List all explicit cross-wing tunnels. Optionally filter by wing.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing	string	No	Filter tunnels by wing (source or target)

Returns: { tunnels: [...], count }

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mempalace_delete_tunnel

Delete an explicit tunnel by its ID.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
tunnel_id	string	Yes	Tunnel ID to delete

Returns: { success, tunnel_id }

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mempalace_follow_tunnels

Follow tunnels from a room to see what it connects to in other wings. Returns connected rooms with drawer previews.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
wing	string	Yes	Wing to start from
room	string	Yes	Room to follow tunnels from

Returns: [{ wing, room, label, previews }]

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Agent Diary Tools

mempalace_diary_write

Write to your personal agent diary.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
agent_name	string	Yes	Your name — each agent gets its own wing
entry	string	Yes	Diary entry (in AAAK format recommended)
topic	string	No	Topic tag (default: "general")

Returns: { success, entry_id, agent, topic, timestamp }

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mempalace_diary_read

Read recent diary entries.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
agent_name	string	Yes	Your name
last_n	integer	No	Number of recent entries (default: 10)

Returns: { agent, entries: [{ date, timestamp, topic, content }], total, showing }

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System Tools

mempalace_hook_settings

Get or set auto-save hook behaviour. silent_save=true saves directly without MCP-level clutter; silent_save=false uses the legacy blocking path. desktop_toast=true surfaces a desktop notification when a save completes. Call with no arguments to view the current settings.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
silent_save	boolean	No	true = silent direct save, false = blocking MCP calls
desktop_toast	boolean	No	true = show desktop toast via notify-send

Returns: { silent_save, desktop_toast }

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mempalace_memories_filed_away

Check whether a recent palace checkpoint was saved. Returns message count and timestamp of the last save.

Parameters: None

Returns: { filed, message_count, timestamp }

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mempalace_reconnect

Force a reconnect to the palace database. Use this after external scripts or CLI commands modified the palace directly, which can leave the in-memory HNSW index stale.

Parameters: None

Returns: { success, message, drawers, vector_disabled[, vector_disabled_reason] } (on no-palace: { success: false, message, drawers, vector_disabled }; on exception: { success: false, error })