Add --readonly CLI flag to prevent all write operations#30
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When the server is started with --readonly, write tools (write_query, create_table, alter_table, drop_table, append_insight) are hidden from the AI agent's tool list and rejected with a clear error if called directly. This provides a hard safety toggle for connecting to production databases. Also fixes SQLite path parsing to handle flags in any position (previously args[0] broke if --readonly came before the db path). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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--readonlyCLI flag that acts as a hard safety toggle to prevent all write operations when connecting to databases--readonly /path/to/dbpreviously broke becauseargs[0]picked up the flag instead of the path)Motivation
AI agents using this MCP server can execute arbitrary write operations (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE/ALTER/DROP TABLE). When connecting to production or shared databases, users need a hard guarantee that no writes can occur regardless of what the
agent attempts.
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