Windows v0.10.8 installer fails while configuring multiple agents

[thaingocthienlong]

Version

codebase-memory-mcp 0.10.8

Platform

Windows (x64)

Install channel

GitHub release archive / install.sh / install.ps1

Binary variant

standard

What happened, and what did you expect?

Summary

The installer successfully downloads, verifies, extracts, and installs the CBM binary, but fails during automatic agent configuration.

The same install run reports failures for:

• Claude Code — mcp_install
• Claude Code — hook_register
• Codex CLI — hook_preflight, reason=command_render
• Gemini CLI — instructions_install
• VS Code — mcp_install

The binary is kept, but installation exits with code 1.

Relevant output

Installed binary -> %LOCALAPPDATA%/Programs/codebase-memory-mcp/codebase-memory-mcp.exe

Claude Code:
error: agent_config agent=Claude Code op=mcp_install path=%USERPROFILE%/.claude.json (target: regular file, 5430 bytes)

error: agent_config agent=Claude Code op=hook_register path=%USERPROFILE%/.claude/settings.json (target: regular file, 10147 bytes)

Codex CLI:
error: agent_config agent=Codex CLI op=hook_preflight path=%USERPROFILE%/.codex/config.toml reason=command_render (target: regular file, 12768 bytes)

Gemini CLI:
error: agent_config agent=Gemini CLI op=instructions_install path=%USERPROFILE%/.gemini/GEMINI.md (target: regular file, 11513 bytes)

VS Code:
error: agent_config agent=VS Code op=mcp_install path=%APPDATA%/Code/User/mcp.json (target: regular file, 192 bytes)

error: one or more agent configurations failed
error: activation stopped after one or more agent configuration or cleanup operations failed
error: installation failed (exit code 1)

Expected behavior

The installer should either:

• update valid existing agent configs successfully, or
• report the actual parse/render/write error for each failed config operation.

(target: regular file, N bytes) does not currently explain why the operation failed.

It would also be useful if failure of one optional agent integration did not abort activation for all others.

Notes

Other detected integrations configure successfully during the same run, so the CBM binary itself appears to install correctly.

The failures span JSON, TOML, and Markdown files, so this may be broader than a single config parser issue.

Related issues:

• Windows installation issue #1720
• Codex CLI: op=hook_preflight failure new in v0.10.4, and the section header stopped printing #1633

I opened this separately because this case affects multiple agent integrations in the same install run. If the root cause is identical, feel free to close as duplicate.

Workaround

.\install.ps1 --skip-config

then configure the required MCP clients manually.

Reproduction

Reproduction

.\install.ps1

with existing configs for Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and VS Code.

Logs

Diagnostics trajectory (memory / performance / leak issues)

Project scale (if relevant)

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Confirmations

• I searched existing issues and this is not a duplicate.
• My reproduction uses shareable code (a dummy snippet or a public OSS repository), not proprietary code.