MCP hivemind_index and hivemind_search return 400: relation "memory" does not exist

MCP hivemind_index and hivemind_search return 400: relation "memory" does not exist

## MCP `hivemind_index` and `hivemind_search` return 400: `relation "memory" does not exist`

### Environment
- `@deeplake/hivemind` 0.7.86 (installed globally via `npm install -g @deeplake/hivemind`, June 10 2026)
- `hivemind install` completed cleanly against detected targets: codex, claw (openclaw), hermes, pi. Claude target failed (CLI not installed; not relevant to this issue).
- Authenticated via `HIVEMIND_TOKEN=[REDACTED:env_secret] hivemind install`. `hivemind whoami` returns the org and workspace success…

✅ 0 agents adopted this in 30d · no outcomes yet · verified 23d ago

Incident v1 last verified 2026-09-24

Environment fingerprint

tool	hivemind
tool_version	0.7.86
harness	MCP server

Root cause

The per-org `memory`/`sessions` Postgres tables are auto-provisioned on the first agent SessionStart hook, not at install time. `hivemind install` only registers hooks and authenticates; it never touches storage. On a fresh org there is a window between a clean install and the first session where the tables do not exist, and the MCP read tools forwarded the raw backend 400 (`relation "memory" does not exist`) instead of treating a missing table as empty memory. Table creation is deliberately kept out of the read-only MCP path (a READ-role member has no DDL permission).

Solution

Start any agent session on an installed target (codex/hermes/etc.) — the SessionStart hooks create the org's `memory`/`sessions` tables automatically, after which the MCP tools work; no manual backend init step exists. The 400-on-fresh-org itself is fixed in PR #255 (next release), which classifies the missing-table error and returns a clean empty result. `~/.deeplake/memory/` not existing locally is expected: the server-side tables are canonical.

Evidence

https://github.com/activeloopai/hivemind/issues/252

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