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ContextPact

Any agent. Same approved context.

ContextPact is a local-first context and coordination layer for people who move between AI tools or run several agents in parallel. It is designed to keep durable knowledge, current decisions, task ownership and handoffs outside any one AI product.

Project status

ContextPact is under active pre-release development. The repository currently contains the approved v1 specification, architecture, repository foundation and an experimental workspace bootstrap. It is not yet a production-ready context system and has not been released to npm.

Implemented and tested in the current foundation:

  • TypeScript build and test pipeline.

  • Context item and workspace contracts.

  • Local workspace layout creation.

  • SQLite schema bootstrap with WAL and FTS5.

  • Complete knowledge lifecycle, context-pack retrieval, and supersession.

  • Single-machine task leases, conflict handling, and structured handoffs.

  • Transport-independent core with 1:1 parity between CLI commands and MCP tools across bootstrap, context, decisions, tasks, and handoffs.

  • Guided MCP client configuration adapters (connect claude, connect codex, connect cursor) and generic MCP block generator.

  • Stdio connection self-check (contextpact connect --check) validating live server bootstrap and tool invocation.

  • Profile-based tool exposure ensuring default agent profiles never see approval tools.

  • Parity test suite enforcing zero undocumented gaps across interfaces.

  • Dual-store workspace backup and point-in-time restore covering both Markdown vault and SQLite database.

  • Portable workspace export and import with deterministic ID collision policies (skip, replace, error).

  • Workspace doctor diagnosing layout, schema versions, index freshness, orphaned files, expired leases, missing provenance, and rebuilt database state.

Planned for v1.0 and not yet advertised as supported:

  • Clean-machine recorded release evidence for Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor host integrations.

  • Obsidian edit reconciliation workflow and packaging.

  • Cross-platform clean-install and end-to-end proof.

Related MCP server: 50 First Tapes MCP Server

Intended experience

contextpact init
contextpact connect claude
contextpact connect codex
contextpact connect --check
contextpact status

Host connection status

ContextPact provides guided configuration adapters for supported hosts and generic output for other MCP clients:

Host Client

Adapter Status

Host Evidence Status

Configuration Target

Claude Code

experimental

planned

~/.claude.json

Codex

experimental

planned

~/.codex/config.toml

Cursor

experimental

planned

~/.cursor/mcp.json

Generic MCP

experimental

planned

Standard stdio block

Every host adapter merges ContextPact MCP server settings without modifying unrelated keys, remains strictly idempotent across repeated runs, and fails without writes on malformed configurations. Host verification remains planned until clean-machine release evidence is recorded.

Command and tool surface

ContextPact exposes its command surface identically through CLI commands and MCP tools over one transport-independent core:

Category

CLI Command

MCP Tool

Description

Bootstrap

contextpact status

context_status

Inspect workspace initialization and storage health

Context

contextpact propose

context_propose

Propose durable context or record operational notes

Context

contextpact get <id>

context_get

Retrieve context item by ID across lifecycle states

Context

contextpact search <query>

context_search

FTS5 full-text search with BM25 ranking

Context

contextpact pack

context_pack

Retrieve deterministic token-budgeted context pack

Context

contextpact archive <id>

context_archive

Archive approved context item

Context

contextpact approve <id>

context_approve

Approve proposed context (elevated/human profiles only)

Decisions

contextpact decision propose

decision_propose

Propose architectural or product decision

Tasks

contextpact task create

task_create

Create coordination task with declared scopes

Tasks

contextpact task claim <taskId>

task_claim

Claim, renew, or takeover single-machine task lease

Tasks

contextpact task release <taskId>

task_release

Release task lease with terminal status

Tasks

contextpact task get <taskId>

task_get

Inspect task and active lease state

Handoffs

contextpact handoff create

handoff_create

Record evidence-bearing structured handoff

Handoffs

contextpact handoff get <id>

handoff_get

Retrieve handoff narrative and evidence by ID

Handoffs

contextpact resume <id>

handoff_resume

Resume task from handoff and claim lease

Profile-based tool exposure

Default agent profiles connecting via MCP hold execution leases and propose knowledge, but cannot see or invoke approval tools. The context_approve tool is registered only for elevated reviewer or human operator profiles.

Documented interface differences

Ten CLI maintenance and runner commands have no MCP counterpart:

  1. init: Workspace filesystem initialization executed from the terminal before agent processes launch.

  2. connect: Host client configuration utility for writing MCP server definitions into external host configs (Claude, Codex, Cursor) or printing generic MCP blocks.

  3. mcp: CLI transport launcher running the MCP server over stdio.

  4. reindex: Offline administrative tool to rebuild SQLite FTS5 search indexes from disk.

  5. reconcile: Offline administrative tool to reconcile external Markdown knowledge edits with SQLite state.

  6. export: Offline administrative tool extracting Markdown vault and SQLite operational state into a structured archive.

  7. import: Offline administrative tool importing external archives with deterministic collision policies.

  8. backup: Offline administrative tool creating dual-store point-in-time snapshots covering both Markdown vault and SQLite database.

  9. restore: Offline administrative recovery tool restoring snapshots covering both Markdown vault and SQLite database.

  10. doctor: Diagnostic health check identifying damage, index staleness, schema drift, and rebuilt database state.

Architecture

  • Markdown owns human-readable knowledge, rules, goals, decisions and handoff narratives.

  • SQLite owns agents, sessions, tasks, leases, policies, versions and audit events.

  • FTS5 is a rebuildable search index; semantic retrieval is optional future work.

  • CLI and MCP call the same transport-independent core.

  • Obsidian may edit the Markdown layer but is never required.

See the product specification, architecture, roadmap, native modules and release checklist.

Development

Requires Node.js 22.14 or newer.

npm install
npm run check
npm run dev -- init ./scratch-workspace
npm run dev -- status ./scratch-workspace

Licence

MIT. See LICENSE.

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