ai-raccoon-live-probe

Find the process with pgrep -fl "ai-raccoon", then run lsof -p <pid> and grep for .db to reveal the memory.db path, whose parent directory is the data root. The bearer token sits at <data-root>/mcp-token, and the macOS default is ~/.ai-raccoon.

Run checks in order: verify the process and listening port 7721, POST an MCP initialize request, run ai-raccoon doctor for schema status, then call memory_stats and a short memory_search to confirm hybrid retrieval works end-to-end.

Every response is an SSE frame, even non-streaming ones, so a parser expecting bare JSON fails. Collect lines starting with data:, take the last one, and json.loads it; tools/call payloads are additionally JSON strings inside content[0].text requiring a second parse.

Yes, a plain sqlite3 open works; use PRAGMA query_only=1 or a ?mode=ro URI for safety on someone else's bank. Note that vec0 virtual tables are unreadable to system sqlite, so read the vec_entries_vector_chunks00 shadow table instead.

On pre-1.33.8 binaries the sync_tombstones repair only ran when the schema digest mismatched, leaving a permanent mismatch. Since 1.33.8 the repair runs as ladder step v11 on any older bank, so starting the server once and re-running doctor clears it.

Start a scratch server with ai-raccoon --data-root <scratch-dir> serve --port 0 and read the bound port from its own log output. Never bind port 7721 or use --restart, since the user's live server owns it.