📋Prosthetic Tool

open_threads

Global view of unfinished business across all your cognitive domains. Surfaces questions you haven't resolved.

When to use this

Call open_threads at the end of a work day or start of a week to see what's dangling. Great for prioritization and making sure nothing falls through the cracks.

Quick Example

mcporter call brain.open_threads

Response

📋 Open Threads (across 8 active domains)

🧠 ai-dev (3 threads):
  🔥 "Embedding Pipeline v2" (crystallizing)
    ❓ Batch size vs memory tradeoff for M4 Max?
    ❓ Pre-filter noise before or after embedding?
  ⭐ "MCP Server Consolidation" (refining)
    ❓ Should prosthetic tools be a separate server?

🔍 frontend-dev (2 threads):
  ⭐ "Component Library Migration" (exploring)
    ❓ Build custom vs extend shadcn?
    ❓ Testing strategy for server components?

💬 backend-dev (2 threads):
  ⭐ "Auth Middleware" (executing)
    ❓ Rate limiting: per-user or per-IP?

📊 data-engineering (1 thread):
  📝 "Incremental Sync" (exploring)
    ❓ How to handle late-arriving messages?

Total: 12 open questions across 8 domains

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Default	Description
`limit_per_domain`	`integer`	No	`3`	Maximum open threads to show per domain
`max_domains`	`integer`	No	`10`	Maximum number of domains to include

Examples

Full view — all domains

mcporter call brain.open_threads

Focused — more threads, fewer domains

mcporter call brain.open_threads limit_per_domain=5 max_domains=3

dormant_contexts tunnel_state unfinished_threads