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Summary

A second stdio client using the same data directory can hit the single-instance lock and exit with code 75. The README and troubleshooting guide now point users to the existing shared-server setup with Streamable HTTP.

Fixes #223
Ref #217

Changes

• Add a working shared-server command and distinguish local HTTP clients from Claude's cloud-based custom connectors.
• Document a public HTTPS /mcp endpoint, the current connector navigation, and the Authorization: Bearer <your-token> request header.
• Compare client capacity, shared process/index, lazy-loaded model memory, process management, and startup/first-query latency across stdio, SSE, and Streamable HTTP.
• Link the code-75 troubleshooting entry and README section to the original discussion in fix(preflight,server): stop reindex loop on Windows stdio MCP (#216) #217, retaining bearer-token and TLS guidance.

Validation

Checked the table's columns, the README heading anchor, affected relative links, and the external references. git diff --check passes. Transport behavior was checked against the implementation and connector instructions against Anthropic's current documentation.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added guidance for sharing one HTTP server and index across multiple clients, including transport comparisons and client connection instructions.
  • Clarified that HTTP transports use automatic single-instance locking and that remote Claude connectors require suitable network access, authentication, and public or tunneled HTTPS.
  • Expanded troubleshooting guidance on running multiple stdio processes against the same data directory and connecting clients through a shared HTTP server.

Latest review follow-up

The README now scopes client-owned process management to stdio and explicitly permits one manually managed shared HTTP server. The public connector guidance documents the upstream Host requirement, including 127.0.0.1:8179 for the default configuration, while retaining HTTPS and bearer authentication.

This follow-up changes README.md only. git diff --check and focused read-only documentation checks passed in a network-disabled container: fenced examples are unchanged, relative documentation links exist, and source inspection confirms config.server_host is passed into the HTTP app factory. No live proxy, connector, integration suite, or full pre-commit run was performed for this follow-up; the earlier verification above belongs to the preceding revision. Upstream CI requires maintainer approval. Prepared and reviewed with Codex assistance.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The README describes how to share one knowledge-rag server over Streamable HTTP, including client connection and transport details. The troubleshooting guide explains the stdio single-instance limitation and describes connecting clients to the shared server.

Changes

Multi-client setup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared server setup and troubleshooting README.md, docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md	The README describes the Streamable HTTP endpoint, client setup, transport comparisons, and authentication requirements. The troubleshooting guide explains when a second stdio process may exit with code 75 and gives the shared-server command and endpoint.

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Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4571e

The shared-server and troubleshooting guidance is consistent with the verified repository behavior. No concrete issue currently warrants blocking the documentation change.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4571e

The new guidance retains bearer authentication and HTTPS requirements for network access. No security weakening was established, but public deployment safety depends on correct operator configuration, and concurrent-client recovery behavior was not fully verified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The evidenced authority boundary is the shared server and its configured corpus, not separate client tenants. Holders of the shared credential reach tools that read documents, initiate reindexing, and request document removal, including file deletion. This shared authority existed before the PR.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If an operator publishes a reachable endpoint without configuring a token, unauthenticated network requests can reach the MCP application. This is an existing conditional exposure, not an established PR-introduced weakness: the new guidance requires authentication and TLS, and no deployed configuration was supplied.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Untrusted Authorization headers are parsed for a nonempty Bearer credential and compared using hmac.compare_digest. Missing, malformed, or unequal credentials are rejected before MCP HTTP dispatch when authentication is installed. Health paths are handled separately; successful authentication does not create a per-client identity or permission context.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Shared orchestrator construction is lock-protected, incremental indexing uses an instance lock released in finally, and background reindex records errors and clears its active flag on completion. These bounded controls do not prove isolation or atomic recovery across every shared-state operation, SDK session, or forced termination.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	⚠️ Warning	Issue #223’s shared-server command, transport trade-off table, code-75 troubleshooting, and #217 reference are present in README.md and docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md. The README gives Claude Custom Connecto…	Add a valid full client configuration example for the shared-server setup, or revise issue #223’s acceptance criterion to reflect the supported Claude Custom Connector workflow.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to README and troubleshooting guidance for issue #223. The comparison table, Streamable HTTP setup, Claude connector security and proxy guidance, process-ownership clarificatio…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: documenting a shared Streamable HTTP setup for multiple clients.

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Explanation

Issue #223’s shared-server command, transport trade-off table, code-75 troubleshooting, and #217 reference are present in README.md and docs/TROUBLESHOOTING.md. The README gives Claude Custom Connector setup steps, but it does not provide the required full Claude Desktop JSON client configuration. It instead states that claude_desktop_config.json does not support remote HTTP endpoints. The README’s existing local stdio configuration guidance does not configure the shared HTTP server.

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- Line 203: Update the Claude Desktop guidance in README.md at line 203 to
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I've expanded the transport table to cover RAM, process management, and startup latency, added the links to #217, and made the HTTPS endpoint and auth setup more concrete. The Claude instructions follow Anthropic's current connector docs rather than putting a remote URL in claude_desktop_config.json.

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- Line 196: Update the operating-model warning in the README to limit the
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I've addressed the two latest review comments in the README:

• The client-owned process warning now applies explicitly to stdio. One manually managed HTTP server is the supported shared-server workflow; the warning against a second writer and the single-instance safety net remain.
• The connector guidance now explains the upstream Host requirement and gives 127.0.0.1:8179 for the default loopback configuration, while retaining HTTPS and bearer authentication.

git diff --check and focused documentation checks passed in an isolated, network-disabled container. Fenced examples are unchanged, and the current source passes config.server_host into the HTTP app factory. This update changes only README.md; no proxy deployment or full integration suite was run. GitHub workflows still need maintainer approval.