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CellarTracker MCP Server

Read-only access to your CellarTracker wine cellar: inventory, drinking windows, purchases, notes.

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Published as cellartracker-mcp on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

33 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

Most discussed

MCP surface modernization: tool annotations, structured output, pagination

Context (2026-07-11 audit) - backlog, split before implementing

The server predates several MCP surface conventions:

  1. Tool annotations: no readOnlyHint/openWorldHint hints. All 8 data tools are read-only - annotating lets clients display trust signals. Cheap.
  2. Structured output: all tools return preformatted text only. Adding structuredContent with output schemas would let clients compute over results instead of re-parsing prose. Consider the SDK's registerTool API (titl

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 5 comments

Docs sync: skill tool names, missing tools, README wishlist ratings claim

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

Documentation drifted from the implementation:

  1. skills/cellartracker-data/SKILL.md lists tools with underscores (search_cellar, drinking_recommendations, ...) but the server registers hyphens (search-cellar).
  2. The same skill's tool list omits consumption-history and tasting-notes (added in PR #10).
  3. The skill says CSVs are "UTF-8 encoded (converted from windows-1252 by export script)" - a reference to the retired Python-era export script

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 2 comments

Small robustness batch: scoped cache deletion, score rounding, date-parse warning

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

Three small independent fixes, batched for one session:

(a) Scoped cache deletion. clearUserData() (src/config.ts:150-167) unlinks every file in the cache dir. If a user points CT_CACHE_DIR at a shared directory, clear-user-data wipes unrelated files. Restrict deletion to known table CSVs (<Table>_*.csv for the 8 table prefixes, timestamped + _latest).

(b) Score rounding. formatScores() (src/server.ts:35) emits raw floats - live output inc

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 2 comments

Add .mcpb Desktop Extension for Claude Desktop

The plugin currently only works in Claude Code (via the marketplace). Claude Desktop uses a separate extension system based on .mcpb bundles — a ZIP archive containing a manifest, server implementation, and bundled dependencies.

Goal

Package the MCP server as a .mcpb Desktop Extension so Claude Desktop users can install with one click.

What .mcpb requires

  • manifest.json — extension metadata, server config, env var prompts
  • Bundled server code + dependencies (self-contained, no

Read the thread · 2026-03-13 · closed · 2 comments

recent-deliveries: hint most-recent delivery when the default window is empty

Problem

recent-deliveries defaults to the last 30 days. When nothing arrived recently it returns "No deliveries in this window." — which reads as "broken" on first run. (Live-verified: newest delivery on this account is 2026-04-26, so the no-arg call returns empty today.)

Proposal

When the window is empty, surface the most-recent delivery date so the user knows to widen the range:

No deliveries in the last 30 days. Most recent delivery was 2026-04-26 — pass date_from to widen the

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

Add food-pairing tool backed by the FoodTags table

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

FoodTags is one of the 12 documented xlquery export tables (verified against the official export doc and the reference Python client) but is not fetched. Food pairing is a natural conversational query ("what should I open with roast chicken?") that currently has no data path.

Fix

  • Add FoodTags to TABLES in src/exporter.ts (params: Table: "FoodTag" - note the Python client uses singular FoodTag; verify the exact value with one authenticated pull).

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · open · 1 comment

Add bottle-level tool over the Bottles table

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

The Bottles table (raw per-bottle view including BottleState) is fetched on every refresh but no tool exposes it - pure fetch cost today. Per-bottle queries (size/format, barcode, state, bin-level detail) currently have no answer path.

Fix

Add a tool (e.g. bottle-details) over the already-cached Bottles table: filter by wine name, location/bin, size, BottleState; sensible result cap consistent with other tools.

Notes

  • ~~Sequencing: review/mer

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Diacritic-insensitive search: 'rhone' should match 'Rhône'

Context (2026-07-11 audit, live-confirmed)

search-cellar region="rhone" returns no results; region="Rhône" returns 3 wines. Wine data is saturated with diacritics (Côte, Rhône, Grüner, Châteauneuf) and US keyboards do not produce them - so the most natural queries silently miss.

Cause: search() (src/query.ts:44-55) compares with plain .toLowerCase().includes(). Same issue in the region geo-field filter inside search-cellar (src/server.ts:139-145) and the get-wishlist query f

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Add retry with backoff to fetchTable

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

fetchTable() (src/exporter.ts:45) makes a single attempt with a 60s timeout. Any transient network hiccup or 5xx surfaces immediately as a tool error, and with 8 tables fetched in parallel the odds of one transient failure per refresh are non-trivial (see also the partial-refresh staleness issue, which this compounds).

Fix

  • Retry network errors and HTTP 5xx: 2 retries with jittered exponential backoff (e.g. ~1s, ~3s).
  • Never retry AuthError (or 4xx).
  • K

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Auth-failure detection: match CellarTracker's not-logged-in marker instead of any-HTML sniff

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

fetchTable() (src/exporter.ts:97) throws AuthError whenever the response body starts with <. CellarTracker also returns HTML for maintenance pages and server errors - so an outage tells users their password is wrong, which is misleading and may cause them to churn credentials.

Platform research confirmed the actual auth-failure signature: the returned HTML contains the literal string:

You are currently not logged into CellarTracker.

This is what the re

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Dedupe concurrent cache refreshes (in-flight promise)

Context (2026-07-11 audit, code-level)

Every tool handler starts with getFreshPaths() (src/server.ts:25). MCP clients (Claude) routinely issue tool calls in parallel. On a cold or expired cache, N concurrent tool calls each trigger their own exportAll() - up to 8×N simultaneous credentialed GETs against CellarTracker, a small operation whose rate-limit/lockout policy is undocumented (research could not verify any published limits; their ToS page blocks automated reading).

Fix

Mo

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

Surface server version in refresh-data output

Context (2026-07-11 audit)

No user-visible way exists to see which version/build is actually running. The stale-dist defect (see the build-staleness issue) went unnoticed for ~4 months partly because nothing in tool output reveals the running version. The MCP initialize handshake carries the version but users never see it.

Fix

src/server.ts already loads version from package.json via createRequire. Append a line to the refresh-data tool output, e.g. `Server: cellartracker-mcp

Read the thread · 2026-07-11 · closed · 1 comment

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