QMD Session Sync Status Report — March 22, 2026

qmd-session-sync-status-report.md

QMD Session Sync Status Report

March 22, 2026 — artbird

Server Health

Component	Status	Details
QMD Bun server (PID 949)	Running but broken	CWD is (deleted), health endpoint crashes with ENOENT
QMD MCP node (PID 1054437, port 8181)	Running (orphan)	Should have been removed — no longer part of the architecture
watchctl (PID 965)	Running	Publishing Syncthing disk events every ~30s
qmdctl venv	Broken	/opt/qmdctl-venv/bin/qmdctl → ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'qmdctl'

Session Transcripts

Metric	Value
Total session transcripts on disk	38,009
Project collections	119 (all registered in QMD index)
Largest collection	arthack: 7,717 sessions
Latest file sync	Mar 22, 15:49 UTC (real-time via Syncthing)

Top 10 Collections by Size

Count	Project
16,266	arthack
6,844	arthack-marketplace
3,912	jobsearch
1,476	claudehooks
1,246	dotfiles
1,160	plans
912	codebench
666	codectl
514	music
384	linux-browser-farm

Indexing Pipeline

The pipeline should be: Syncthing → watchctl → qmdctl watch-collections → qmd update + qmd embed

Syncthing → watchctl: WORKING. watchctl is actively watching Syncthing disk events and publishing changed paths. Logs show continuous activity: "published 4 path(s) for folder content-sessions" every ~30 seconds.

watch-collections → qmd: LIKELY STUCK. The sync-collections-state.yaml shows last_run_at: 2026-03-11T21:28:56 — 11 days ago. The deployed qmdctl venv is broken (ModuleNotFoundError), which means the watch-collections daemon may not be able to invoke qmd update/qmd embed.

SQLite Database

File	Size	Last Modified
index.sqlite	3.3 GB	Mar 22, 15:39
index.sqlite-wal	2.7 GB	Mar 22, 15:49
index.sqlite-shm	5.4 MB	Mar 22, 15:44

The 2.7 GB WAL suggests either:

• Active embedding work that hasn't checkpointed
• A stale WAL from the March 11 run that was never checkpointed

The large WAL is likely causing search timeouts (claudectl semantic-search timed out at 60s during testing).

Search Verification

Search Type	Topic	Result
Lex (BM25)	claude-code	Works, good scores
Vec (vector)	claude-code	Works, good scores
Hybrid + rerank	claude-code	Works
Session search (fast)	all projects	Works
Session search (exact name)	arthack	Timed out (60s)

Claude Code Docs Topic

Metric	Value
Source (llms.txt)	67 docs
On disk (collections)	61 docs
In QMD index	61 docs
Missing	6 recently-added pages

HTTP/MCP Remnants (should not exist)

Still running on artbird:

• qmdctl-ui.service (Bun server, port 8182) — PID 949, broken CWD
• qmdctl.service (MCP server, port 8181) — PID 1054437
• qmdctl-socat.service — IPv4-to-IPv6 forwarder
• qmdctl-iptables.service — DNAT rules for ports 8181/8182

These are all dead infrastructure. QMD access is SSH-only via qmdctl.api. A brief has been sent to The Secretary to remove these.

Remaining Code References

Still in the codebase referencing the dead HTTP/MCP infrastructure:

• apps/qmdctl/qmdctl/transports.py — BunHttpTransport class
• apps/qmdctl/qmdctl/run_check_health.py — UI_PORT = 8182
• apps/qmdctl/qmdctl/run_check_service.py — port 8182 checks, service name refs
• apps/qmdctl/qmdctl/run_benchmark_performance.py — HTTP base_url
• apps/qmdctl/README.md — outdated architecture docs

Summary

1. File sync is working — 38K session transcripts syncing in real-time via Syncthing
2. Indexing/embedding is likely 11 days behind — broken qmdctl venv, last sync Mar 11
3. Search works but may be slow — 2.7 GB un-checkpointed WAL causing timeouts
4. HTTP/MCP remnants still running — brief sent to The Secretary for cleanup
5. 6 new claude-code docs need syncing — llms.txt has 67, index has 61