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      "Title": "feat(cern_inspire_search_authors): flag name results where no candidate carries the queried surname",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nINSPIRE's free-text author search matches name parts as initials. A misspelled or unknown surname in `cern_inspire_search_authors` therefore still returns hundreds of thousands of unrelated profiles, and none of them carries the surname. The tool's zero-hit name notice (\"Try \"Last, First\", fewer name parts…\") never fires. The only guidance is \"raise limit\", so a caller can take an unrelated namesake-by-initial for the person it asked about.\n\nRepro (server 0.1.0, mcp-ts-core…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/3",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_inspire_get_paper): truncation notice says to raise max_authors when it is already at the 500 maximum",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nWhen `max_authors` is already at its maximum (500), the truncation notice in `cern_inspire_get_paper` still says to raise it. A retry with a higher value then fails validation (`max_authors: Too big: expected number to be <=500`). The notice should only point at `max_authors` while there is headroom. At the cap, it should…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T09:31:14.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_inspire_search_experiments): reports \"Ongoing: no\" for active experiments with no completion date",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`cern_inspire_search_experiments` reports `ongoing: false` and renders `**Ongoing:** no` for any experiment whose INSPIRE record has no `date_completed`. INSPIRE leaves that field out for many active experiments, so DUNE and EUCLID are reported as not ongoing. `ongoing` is only known when the record carries the `\"9999\"`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/1",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T09:31:03.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_inspire_get_paper): a merged recid returns paper_not_found instead of the record INSPIRE redirects to",
      "Excerpt": "`cern_inspire_get_paper` looks a recid up with a `recid:N` search. INSPIRE drops a merged record from search results but keeps its ID as a redirect, so an old recid fails as `paper_not_found` even though INSPIRE still serves the paper.\n\nRepro (2026-10-02):\n\n- `GET https://inspirehep.net/api/literature?q=recid:2829718` → `hits.total: 0`\n- `GET https://inspirehep.net/api/literature/2829718` → `301` to `/api/literature/1797621`\n- `cern_inspire_get_paper` with `paper: \"2829718\"` or `\"ins2829718\"` →…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/13",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-02T15:35:04.000Z",
      "State": "closed",
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      "Title": "bug(notices): angle-bracket query placeholders vanish when content[] renders as HTML",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nSeveral notices and recovery hints the server writes itself spell query placeholders with angle brackets: `\"t <words>\"`, `\"a <name>\"`, `collaborations.value:<name>`, `\"collaboration:<name>\"`, `\"a <BAI or name>\"`. These reach `content[]` as written. CommonMark reads each as an inline raw-HTML open tag (`<BAI or name>` is tag `BAI` with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-02T00:29:08.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(inputs): advertised inputSchema rejects paper and facet spellings the descriptions document",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`paperInput`, `documentTypesInput`, and `subjectsInput` normalize in a `z.preprocess`, but `inputSchema` advertises only the normalized form. `paper`'s `pattern` rejects every prefixed, versioned, URL, and `ins<recid>` spelling its description lists; `document_types` and `subjects` (`cern_inspire_search_literature`,…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(cern_inspire_get_citation_summary): add citations per year from INSPIRE's citations-by-year facet",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`cern_inspire_get_citation_summary` returns totals but no trajectory. Whether a paper is still being cited, or an author's citations per year for a tenure or grant dossier, takes one literature search per year today. INSPIRE serves the per-year series from the `/api/literature/facets` endpoint this tool already calls (`facet_name=citations-by-year`).\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nRequest `facet_name=citations-by-year` in parallel with `citation-summary`, with the same `q`, and return…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:38.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(cern_inspire_list_reference): document affiliation queries and point institution recids at them",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nNo documented path leads to \"papers from an institution\" or \"an institution's citation summary.\" `cern_inspire_get_citation_summary` lists an institution as a valid `query`. `cern_inspire_search_authors` (`institutionRecid`) and `cern_inspire_search_experiments` (`institutions[].recid`) return institution recids, but nothing says which query takes them, and `search_syntax` lists no affiliation operator.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\n- `search_syntax` entries for `aff NAME` (the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:31.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat(cern_inspire_export_citations): add page so citation sets over 50 entries can be exported in full",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nA paper's reference list or citing set often exceeds `cern_inspire_export_citations`' 50-entry `size` cap, and the tool takes no `page`: `citedby:recid:1124337` (the references of the ATLAS Higgs observation) matched 138 papers on 2026-10-01, and only the first 50 can be exported. The workaround is paging `cern_inspire_search_literature` and re-exporting the recids in OR batches.\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nAdd `page` (1-based, default 1; `page × size ≤ 10,000`, else…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/8",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:23.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(normalize): titles and abstracts keep publisher HTML/MathML markup and undecoded entities",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\nINSPIRE stores many publisher titles and abstracts as HTML, JATS, or MathML, and HEPData abstracts entity-escaped (`&lt;`). `normalize.ts` copies them verbatim: `structuredContent` carries the markup, `content[]` renders it escaped, and `abstractSnippet` is cut from the raw string. As of 2026-10-01, `titles.title:mrow` matches 5,971…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/7",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:15.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(normalize): hepdataUrl can open a different HEPData record than the DOI and table count it reports",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.10\n\n### Runtime\n\nBun\n\n### Runtime version\n\n1.4.2\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### Description\n\n`cern_inspire_get_paper` and `cern_inspire_search_hepdata` build `hepdataUrl` as `https://www.hepdata.net/record/ins<paper recid>`. hepdata.net resolves `ins<N>` by the INSPIRE ID stored on the HEPData record, which stays on the old recid when INSPIRE merges that paper into another and re-links the data. The link can then open a…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:17:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "feat: read HEPData table values once hepdata.net admits the server",
      "Excerpt": "Add the two tools that read HEPData table values from hepdata.net: `cern_inspire_list_hepdata_tables` (a record's tables, with names, descriptions, keywords and download formats) and `cern_inspire_get_hepdata_table` (one table's headers, qualifiers, values and uncertainties). Their specification is in `docs/design.md` under *Deferred: HEPData-direct tools*.\n\n**Blocked on access.** hepdata.net serves a Cloudflare managed challenge (`403`, `cf-mitigated: challenge`) to the server's own…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-inspire-mcp-server/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T11:16:34.000Z",
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