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      "Title": "bug(bls-api-service): mixed all-empty batch reports series_not_found and hides the no-data advisories",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #22\n\nWhen every requested series comes back with zero observations, `throwSeriesFailure` selects `series_not_found` as soon as any one advisory carries that reason, and its message lists only the invalid IDs. A batch mixing an invalid SeriesID with a valid series that has no data in the requested window therefore fails…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/59",
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      "Title": "bug(bls-observations): ingester drops the BLS \"-\" sentinel row, so mirror-served series lose the period and its footnote",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/58",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_search_series): long or repetitive queries block the event loop for seconds",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`BlsCatalogService.search` builds its FTS `OR` match and its rescore loop from every query token, repeats included, and the `query` input has no length bound. Search runs synchronously against SQLite, so a long query holds the event loop for its whole duration and every other request on the process waits.\n\n### Steps to reproduce…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/92",
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      "Title": "bug(bls-api-service): a failed live fallback discards the series the mirror already resolved",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #73, #81\n\nWith the mirror ready and live fallback on, a request mixing mirrored and unmirrored SeriesIDs fails outright when the fallback fails: `fetchSeries` awaits `fetchSeriesLive` before `alignToRequestOrder` runs, so the throw discards the mirrored series. A network failure arrives as a bare `-32603` with no…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/80",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T17:20:09.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_dataframe_query): registered schemas report every column as VARCHAR",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n^0.12.3\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`bls_dataframe_describe` reports every column of a table registered through `bls_dataframe_query` `register_as` as `VARCHAR`. `CanvasBridge.query()` builds the stored `columnSchema` from the result's column names and hardcodes `type: 'VARCHAR'`, `nullable: true`; the framework's `QueryResult` carries names only. The table itself…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/71",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_dataframe_drop): an invalid dataframe name fails with an internal storage-key message",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`bls_dataframe_describe` and `bls_dataframe_drop` pass `name` straight into a tenant-state key. A name with characters the storage layer rejects fails with the framework's storage-key message, which describes an internal key rather than the table-name rule the caller broke.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n```json…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/99",
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      "Title": "bug(bls-observations): mirror-served series ignore calculations=true while calculationsApplied reports true",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #80\n\nWith the observations mirror ready, `bls_get_series` serves mirrored series from the mirror even when `calculations: true`. The `fetchSeries` mirror branch never forwards `options.calculations`, and mirror rows carry no net or percent changes, so a mirror-served series comes back without calculation fields while…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/96",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_search_series): rescore counts query tokens inside other words — unrelated headlines outrank real matches",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe `search()` rescore scores each query token with `titleLower.includes(token)` (likewise area, item, and SeriesID), so a token counts when it appears inside another word. Any positive score then earns a `COMMON_SERIES` headline its +8 boost. For `annual average all items`, the token `all` matches inside \"seasonally\", which lifts…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/91",
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      "Title": "feat(bls_search_series): return each series' coverage (start year, end year, end period)",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`bls_search_series` gives no sign that a series has ended, so a caller can pick a discontinued SeriesID and learn it only from what `bls_get_series` returns. On the 2026-09-23 LABSTAT files, 69 of the 500 top-10 rows for a 50-query PPI sample end before 2026, and 34 of the 50 queries return at least one. Coverage is also what separates most rows that no returned field tells apart: it cuts those groups from 294 to 72 in PC, 806 to 476 in WP, and 362 to 27 in LN.\n\nRelated: #85…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/90",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_search_series): concept aliases match inside words — \"shopping\" and \"happiness\" trigger the PPI boost",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.4\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\nBun 1.4.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`BlsCatalogService.search` matches `CONCEPT_ALIASES` phrases with `query.includes(phrase)`, so a phrase fires inside unrelated words and boosts its surveys. `ppi` matches \"happiness\" and \"shopping\", so `happiness` returns the PPI headline `WPUFD49104` and `grocery shopping` ranks PPI rows first. `cpi` has the same exposure, and any…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/89",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T03:20:53.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(bls-catalog): index current ECEC (CM) and ECI (CI); compensation aliases route to the discontinued EC",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nThe offline catalog's only compensation-cost survey is `EC`, the SIC-basis Employment Cost Index, whose 851 series all end in 2005. The current Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (`CM`) and Employment Cost Index (`CI`) are not indexed, yet `CONCEPT_ALIASES` routes \"compensation\" and \"employer cost\" to `EC`. A search for current compensation costs ranks a discontinued survey first, and no current ECEC or ECI series can be found by concept.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nAppend `cm`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/86",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T01:37:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(bls-catalog): distinguish same-title series that differ only in publication frequency (CU, CW, LN)",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nSurveys that publish one series at several frequencies ship the same upstream `series_title` for every variant, so `bls_search_series` returns rows that differ only in SeriesID. In the 2026-09-23 LABSTAT files, CU has 8,104 series and 4,237 distinct titles, and CW has 7,868 and 4,089. Every duplicate is a monthly/semiannual pair (3,867 CU, 3,779 CW). LN has 68,630 series and 49,151 distinct title + seasonal pairs; `unemployment rate` interleaves `LNS14000000` with its quarterly…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/85",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-24T01:37:06.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(bls-api-service): an invalid SeriesID intermittently draws BLS's generic rejection when catalog metadata is requested, losing the valid series",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #59, #80\n\nBoth live calls request catalog metadata (`catalog: true` on the batch POST, `catalog=true` on the latest GET). With it on, BLS answers a request holding a nonexistent SeriesID, malformed or well-formed, sometimes per-series and sometimes with `REQUEST_FAILED`, its generic message, and `Results: null`. That…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/81",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-22T17:20:11.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(bls_get_series): start_year alone resolves to a 20-year window that overflows the inline budget with canvas off",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nRelated: #76\n\nWhen `bls_get_series` receives `start_year` alone it resolves `end_year` to the full 20-year window, which for a monthly series is 240 rows — over the inline budget. With DataCanvas disabled (the default) the call fails with `canvas_unavailable`, and the error tells the caller to narrow `start_year`/`end_year`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/79",
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      "Title": "bug(bls-observations): ingester reads {abbr}.readme, which no survey serves — 8 of 13 surveys never enter the mirror",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.5.2\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.6\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.x\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nThe observations ingester discovers a survey's data files by fetching `{abbr}.readme` from LABSTAT, but no survey serves that file — the index every survey publishes is `{abbr}.txt`. With no index the ingester falls back to `{abbr}.data.1.AllData`, which exists for only 5 of the 13 harvested surveys, so CU, CW, AP, CE, LA, PC,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/78",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/76",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/75",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/bls-labor-mcp-server/issues/74",
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