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      "Title": "bug(datacite_get_citation): other-agency guidance suggests text/x-bibliography whatever format was requested",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\nOn an other-agency miss, `datacite_get_citation` always suggests `Accept: text/x-bibliography`, whatever format was requested. A caller who asked for BibTeX or CSL JSON and follows the guidance gets a formatted citation instead.\n\n### Steps to reproduce\n\n1. Call `datacite_get_citation` with…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/14",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_get_work): doiUrl is not percent-encoded, so a DOI containing # links to a different DOI",
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      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/13",
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      "Title": "bug(normalize): a DOI containing a literal percent-escape (%20) is decoded and rejected as invalid_doi",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\n`normalizeDoi` URI-decodes any DOI that contains `%`, so that `%2F`-encoded input is accepted. DataCite also holds DOIs whose suffix contains a literal percent-escape. Decoding turns `%20` into a space, the result fails the DOI shape check, and a DOI that `datacite_search_works` just returned cannot be…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/12",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:55:49.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_search_works): lexical query errors return a bare HTTP 400 instead of invalid_query",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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\nDataCite reports lexical errors (an unterminated quote or `/`) as HTTP 400 with a `token_mgr_error: Lexical error …` title. `isQueryParseError` (`src/services/datacite/datacite-service.ts`) matches only `parse_exception` and `failed to parse`, so these reach the caller as a bare 400 with no `reason` and no recovery. An…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/2",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:37:07.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_search_works): text or a creator/funder name containing \"/\" fails with HTTP 400",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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\nAny `text` value containing `/` fails with an upstream HTTP 400, although `text` is documented as never producing a syntax error. `escapeQueryText` (`src/services/datacite/query-builder.ts`, `RESERVED_RE`) escapes `/` as `\\/`, but DataCite escapes `/` itself: a raw `/` in `query` succeeds, while a pre-escaped `\\/` reproduces…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/1",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_trace_relations): fails on widely used GBIF datasets because the reverse-relation page is too large",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\n26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nstdio\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS\n\n### Description\n\n`datacite_trace_relations` fails every time on a GBIF dataset DOI that many GBIF downloads cite. The reverse lookup asks `/dois` for 100 records asserting a relation to the root, with `relatedIdentifiers` in `fields[dois]`. Each GBIF download record lists thousands of related identifiers, so that one page is enormous.\n\nMeasured…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/15",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T23:56:35.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_get_citation): formats DataCite cannot render return an empty success or a bare HTTP 400/500, never format_unavailable",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\nWhen DataCite cannot produce a format for a record, it does not answer 204, the status `format_unavailable` is keyed on. It answers 200 with an empty body, 400, or 500. `datacite_get_citation` returns the empty body as a success with `citation: \"\"`, and the 400 and 500 as bare errors with no reason or…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/11",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:55:48.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_get_citation): locales tl-PH and hy-AM render APA in US English and override the requested style",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\n\n### Runtime\n\nNode.js\n\n### Runtime version\n\nNode 26.5.0\n\n### Transport\n\nHTTP (Streamable HTTP)\n\n### OS\n\nmacOS 27.0\n\n### Description\n\nTwo locales in the bundled CSL list, `tl-PH` (Tagalog) and `hy-AM` (Armenian), are not supported by DataCite's renderer. DataCite answers them with its default APA en-US rendering, and `datacite_get_citation` returns that text labelled with the requested style and locale, with no notice. The other 61…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/10",
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      "Title": "feat(datacite_trace_relations): find reverse relations asserted through relatedItems",
      "Excerpt": "### Use case\n\n`datacite_trace_relations` finds reverse relations with one query, `relatedIdentifiers.relatedIdentifier:\"<doi>\"`. A record that asserts its relation only in `relatedItems` is never found. About 85,600 records carry a DOI-typed related item and no `relatedIdentifiers` at all (`relatedItems.relatedItemIdentifier.relatedItemIdentifierType:DOI AND NOT _exists_:relatedIdentifiers.relatedIdentifier`).\n\nFor `10.83213/entr-gt71`:\n\n| Reverse query | Records |\n|---|---|\n|…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/17",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-27T01:28:34.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_trace_relations): non-DataCite-root notice cites Event Data that was not read and calls unregistered DOIs another agency's",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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 DataCite holds no record for the root, the notice always says the edges include, \"from Event Data, the DataCite works its own reference list cites\", even with `include_event_data: false`, when Event Data was never read. It also opens with \"`<doi>` is not a DataCite DOI\" for a DOI that no agency registered, so a mistyped…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/9",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:42:26.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_trace_relations): relation_types misses relations the other side asserts, so HasPart finds no parts",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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`relation_types` matches only the type the edge's `from` record asserted. A part records `IsPartOf <root>`, so `relation_types: [\"HasPart\"]` sends `relationType:(HasPart)` on the reverse query and drops it. The call then says no relations were found, even though `rootCounts.partCount` is 1. The `relation_types` description…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/6",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:41:46.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_trace_relations): depth-2 reverse lookup drops records past the remaining node room without disclosure",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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\nAt depth 2, the reverse query for the frontier is sized to the room left under `max_nodes` (`Math.min(maxNodes - nodes.size, 100)` in `src/services/datacite/relation-graph.ts`), and records past that page are never counted in `available`. When the page fits, the call drops the rest with `truncated` unset and no notice.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/5",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:41:35.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_search_works): an ORCID URL with a trailing slash is rejected as a bad checksum",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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\nAn ORCID iD URL with a trailing slash is rejected as failing its checksum, although the checksum is valid. The ORCID normaliser (`src/services/datacite/normalize.ts`) strips the `orcid.org/` prefix but not a trailing `/`, so the check digit is read from the wrong character. The ROR normaliser already strips a trailing slash.…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/4",
      "PublishedAt": "2026-09-26T18:38:13.000Z",
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      "Title": "bug(datacite_search_works): a cursor walk ending on a full page returns a nextCursor to an empty page",
      "Excerpt": "### Server version\n\n0.1.0\n\n### mcp-ts-core version\n\n0.13.8\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\nIn a cursor walk whose total is an exact multiple of `limit`, the last full page still returns a `nextCursor`. Following it costs one more call and returns an empty page with no notice. The `nextCursor` description says it is \"absent on the last page\". DataCite sends a next link whenever a page is full, and the server passes…",
      "SourceUrl": "https://github.com/cyanheads/datacite-mcp-server/issues/3",
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