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      "Title": "feat(cern_opendata_search_records): category, keyword and LHCb magnet-polarity/stripping filters",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nThe portal classifies 66,345 datasets, nearly all simulated (CMS, DELPHI, ATLAS), by physics process in `categories` (`Higgs Physics` › `Standard Model`, `Exotica` › `Dark Matter`, ...) and tags LHCb datasets with magnet polarity and stripping stream and version. `cern_opendata_search_records` exposes none of them: `query` reaches them only through unlisted field forms (`categories.secondary:\"Top physics\"`), and the tool drops their facets, so a caller can neither discover the…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/12",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_get_records): citation drops the authors when no collaboration is set",
      "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`citation.text` takes its creator from `collaboration.name` only, so a record that names authors but no collaboration gets a citation with no creator, opening with a bare `(2014).`. The portal's own \"Cite as\" for the same record lists the authors. Affects `cern_opendata_get_records` and the `cern-opendata://record/{recid}`…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/3",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_list_files): on-demand records report \"This record has no files\"",
      "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\nFor records whose availability is `ondemand`, the portal's record API returns no `_files`, `files` or `_file_indices`, though `distribution.number_files` and `distribution.size` are set. `cern_opendata_list_files` then answers \"This record has no files.\", which reads as an empty dataset rather than one whose files sit on…",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_list_files): indexed files without a key make the whole record unreadable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`cern_opendata_list_files` rejects a whole record when one indexed file has no `key`. Every file in `atlas-160006`'s eight file indexes (309 files, the JetSet2 release) carries only `availability`, `checksum`, `filename`, `size` and `uri`, and the index entries state no `number_files` and an empty `availability`. `toCompactFile` requires…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/17",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_get_validated_runs): a CMS collision dataset with no list is told lists exist for CMS collision data only",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`cern_opendata_get_validated_runs` explains every dataset that links no good-run list the same way: lists \"exist for CMS collision data only, so simulated, non-CMS and non-collision records have none\". For a CMS collision dataset that is false. Record 93950 (`/ZeroBias/Run2017E-v1/RAW`) is CMS collision data and has no list because no…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/16",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_search_trigger_paths): paths without the HLT_ prefix (AlCa_, DST_, output modules) are unreachable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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\nstdio\n\n### Description\n\n`cern_opendata_search_trigger_paths` prepends `HLT_` to every `path` and its input pattern requires the prefix, but 365 of the portal's 4,135 CMS trigger path records (as of 2026-10-01) are named otherwise: 79 `AlCa_` and 52 `DST_` paths, 4 `DQM_`, 214 output modules (`…Output`), and 16 others such as `HLTriggerFinalPath`. None of them can…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/15",
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      "Title": "bug(htmlToText): a bare < in portal HTML drops text up to the next >",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/14",
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      "Title": "feat(cern_opendata_get_records): return variable dictionaries, physics categories, pile-up and LHCb run conditions",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`cern_opendata_get_records` and `cern-opendata://record/{recid}` drop record metadata that answers common questions directly: what the variables in a derived ML sample mean, which physics process a simulated sample belongs to, which pile-up sample it was mixed with, and which magnet polarity and stripping an LHCb dataset uses.\n\nRelated: #11, #12\n\n### Proposed behavior\n\nAdd these Record fields from the search hits the lookup already reads, as received and absent when the record…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/13",
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      "Title": "feat(cern_opendata_get_records): cache lookup hits so deferred and body_offset walks don't re-read the portal",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\nRelated: #11\n\nWith the 64,000-byte response budget, a `cern_opendata_get_records` call returns what fits and lists the rest under `deferred`, and a long documentation body is read in 30,000-character slices with `body_offset`. Every follow-up call looks its ids up again, so the walk re-downloads hits the previous call already read:\n\n| Walk | Calls | Upstream bytes |\n|:--|--:|--:|\n| 20 `stripping21-bhadron-*beauty2charmline` slugs, following `deferred` to the end | 20 | ~9.5 MB…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/18",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_get_records): no response budget across records, and doc bodies past 30,000 characters are unreachable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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_opendata_get_records` cuts each documentation body at 30,000 characters but never bounds the response: 20 long LHCb stripping pages return 628,420 bytes of structuredContent and 622,551 of content[] text, and ordinary records add up too (a CMS collision dataset costs a median 8 KB). The rest of a cut body is…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:25:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_list_files): records with the largest manifests cannot be listed within the call budget",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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_opendata_list_files` reads the whole record (`GET /api/records/{recid}`) even when `index` names one file index, and cuts each attempt at 30 s within the 50 s call budget. Record 24464 is 16.3 MB (70 indexes, 32,618 files); once the portal needs over 30 s to send it, the retry restarts the download with about 19 s left…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/10",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:25:05.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_search_records): malformed query answered with portal 500 surfaces as a generic upstream error",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.1\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\nThe portal answers some malformed `query` strings with HTTP 500 instead of its 400 `The syntax of the search query is invalid.`, varying per request: `(foo` drew 500 on 6 of 12 identical requests, `title:(` on 5 of 8. The service retries a 500, so when all three attempts get one the caller receives a generic…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-10-01T22:25:02.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_search_trigger_paths): titles naming several datasets leave the suffix in path; notices ignore year",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/8",
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      "Title": "bug(cern_opendata_search_records): sort mostrecent returns oldest first, title_desc returns A-Z",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/7",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/cern-opendata-mcp-server/issues/6",
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