mcpctl hung on prompt-reading whenever the LLM misbehaved (thinking model =
minutes; drifted model = silent failure). Root cause: the gate's begin_session
prompt-selection called the LLM with no timeout, its fallback only fired on
error and was silent, and it forced the project's vLLM model onto the anthropic
heavy provider (so selection failed silently every time).
- New withTimeout(run, ms, label): Promise.race + AbortSignal (fetch-based
providers cancel). CompletionOptions.signal threaded into anthropic/openai.
- Gate begin_session: LLM selection is time-bounded (MCPCTL_GATE_LLM_TIMEOUT_MS,
8s); on timeout/error it falls back to deterministic tag matching, logs
[gate] loudly, prepends a ⚠ degraded note to the response, and sets
degraded/degradedReason on the audit gate_decision.
- Gate selector no longer forces the project vLLM model — uses the heavy
provider's own model (fixes the always-silent-fail bug).
- Pagination smart-index is time-bounded too (falls back to byte-range pages).
- Chat (LLM-essential) surfaces the upstream status+body (names model+reason)
instead of "Adapter returned no choice".
- docs/reliability.md documents the principle.
Tests: with-timeout unit tests; gate degradation test (error → visible ⚠ +
deterministic prompts, no hang). mcplocal 737 + mcpd 945 green; tsc clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implements the full gated session flow and prompt intelligence system:
- Prisma schema: add gated, priority, summary, chapters, linkTarget fields
- Session gate: state machine (gated → begin_session → ungated) with LLM-powered
tool selection based on prompt index
- Tag matcher: intelligent prompt-to-tool matching with project/server/action tags
- LLM selector: tiered provider selection (fast for gating, heavy for complex tasks)
- Link resolver: cross-project MCP resource references (project/server:uri format)
- Prompt summary service: LLM-generated summaries and chapter extraction
- System project bootstrap: ensures default project exists on startup
- Structural link health checks: enrichWithLinkStatus on prompt GET endpoints
- CLI: create prompt --priority/--link, create project --gated/--no-gated,
describe project shows prompts section, get prompts shows PRI/LINK/STATUS
- Apply/edit: priority, linkTarget, gated fields supported
- Shell completions: fish updated with new flags
- 1,253 tests passing across all packages
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
