What it gives you
- Continuous indexing without opening the browser
- Editor saves and folder deletes are picked up without rescanning untouched files
- Reuses the same watch, sync, and embed runtime as gno serve
- Stateful Streamable HTTP MCP at 127.0.0.1:3000/mcp
- Saved Capsules are rechecked for freshness after indexing, without calling a model
- Several MCP clients can share the daemon and its loaded models; each session stays isolated
- Native --detach self-backgrounding, with no nohup, launchd, or systemd unit
- --status and --stop for first-class lifecycle control
- Persistent watch, sync, embed, and MCP service that unloads idle models
- If the model process fails, the request returns an error; send it again, because GNO does not retry it
- Shutdown finishes accepted work within a time limit; pending embeddings resume on the next run
- Background indexing gives way to CLI writes, so a CLI write while the daemon runs reports BUSY at worst, never database is locked
- A failing background embed pass backs off (30s, 60s, 120s, 240s) and parks after 5 failures in a row
- --status lists background issues: a failing, parked, or overrunning embed pass, or a resident that does not answer within 500ms
- --stop works even while another process is writing to the database
- Supports --no-sync-on-start for watcher-only startup
- Works with offline and manual download policy